781: The second set of "Thirty-six Strategies" Winning Strategy

Seventh, make something out of nothing

It's not crazy. Less yin, too yin, sun.

"To deceive the enemy with false situations, but not to the end, but to skillfully turn the false into the real, to cover up the real with all kinds of false appearances, to create the enemy's illusion, and to give surprise attacks.

Lao Tzu said in the moral chapter: 'All things in the world are born from being, and some are born from nothing. This is a simple yet profound philosophical view. But that's not what the stratagem says about making something out of nothing. Creating something out of nothing, simply put, 'nothing to rise and fall, nothing to cause, nothing to make a difference'. It is not the same as bluffing. Its motive is to fear that the world will not be chaotic, and its purpose is to fish in troubled waters, and its means is to spread rumors and cause trouble. It may seem easy to be a rumor-monger, but it is quite difficult to use rumors to achieve your goals. The quarrel between the market and the rumors are quick for a while, and it is great to slander and damage the enemy, but it must be good for oneself, and the real purpose of spreading rumors is to harm others and benefit oneself, and if you put aside your own interests, it is not a calculation. As the saying goes: 'Rumors stop at the wise'. It can be seen that without careful planning and the process of change, it is difficult to hide from the wise. On the other hand, the rumor-monger cannot be a genius, so it can also be said: 'Rumors originate from the wise'. The explanation of causing trouble is to deepen the contradictions and expand the wrongs of the incident by means of a question, but what is referred to here does not need to be based on facts, but creates an incident out of thin air.

Let's take puppet show as an example, from the audience, it seems that there are thousands of troops hidden in the scene, but when you look at the bottom of it, it's nothing more than a few dicks, a few puppets and a few strings? Rumors must cause trouble, and troubles must rely on rumors, and they are indispensable because of each other. Rumors are more terrible than anything else, they are invisible and visible; Right and wrong come from the mouth, and the soldiers are hidden in the heart. With a few words, people can be killed and heroes can be disarmed. If there is a so-called 'rumor offensive' in tactics, if you are good at using it, you can 'surrender without a fight'. If it is said that disturbance prevents the peace of the world, then rumors are the source of disturbance. A person who is good at spreading rumors is a master magician himself, he can make a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a big living person, and he can also make the audience blind, drowsy, and believe the truth. Rumors should be based on the environment, and they should be reasonable, just to 'get through the sea', and there is no need for long-term tests, the so-called 'believe it or not, face to face test, and the spirit will not be known until it is not effective'. By the time he revealed the bottom later, he was already a 'sea fairy'.

When Chen Sheng and Wu Guang unveiled the uprising, they used the ghost incident to stir up the people's hearts. He stuffed the silk cloth with 'Chen Shengwang' written on it into the belly of the fish to show the will of heaven, and asked people to pretend to be ghosts, and muttered 'Da Chuxing, Chen Shengwang' in the middle of the night, which attracted a group of superstitious people to participate in the uprising.

Liu Bang also spread rumors, saying that he beheaded the White Emperor, but still regarded himself as the 'Red Emperor', and said that he had yellow gas to cover the top and have the spirit of a king. In this way, the people at that time were deceived into the technique, and the momentum was huge, and he jumped from a scoundrel who was a lustful and drunkard to the Dragon Court. From this point of view, there is no doubt that Liu Bang started by rumors, and he was good at taking advantage of the customs and environment at that time to make 'true nothing' become 'true existence'.

There is also an unprecedented plan to make something out of nothing, that is, Liu Zhangyi teased King Chu Huai's penchant for beauty, saying that he was going to choose a beautiful woman from the Jin Kingdom for him, so King Chu gave him a lot of silver for travel expenses; When Nanhou and Zheng Sleeve heard the news released by Zhang Yi, they were afraid that they would fall out of favor in the future, so they sent two more silver to dredge Zhang Yi. So Zhang Yi scraped another handful of oil! At the farewell banquet, Zhang Yi played tricks again, saying that he deserved to die, and he had never seen the two heavenly national qualities of Nanhou and Zheng Sleeve beside the King of Chu, and the beauties of the Jin Kingdom were really far behind. This made King Chu Huai very happy, who in the world can compare to my two beauties? So he dispelled the idea of letting Zhang Yi go to the Jin Kingdom to pageant beauties. Of course, he won't ask Zhang Yi for the return fare! As a result, Zhang Yi dug a 'hole', drew a circle, and let them close it safely, and he won a big victory, which made King Chu Huai change his attitude towards him, and he was safe and sound from now on! ”

The eighth plan is to secretly cross Chen Cang

Show it to move, benefit its quiet and master, and benefit from movement and Xun.

"Deliberately exposing the operation, taking advantage of the enemy's entrenchment here, he quietly detoured there to sneak attack. This can take advantage of the situation and win by surprise. This is the so-called 'win with the right combination, win with the odd', 'surprise and attack the unprepared', and the good are also good.

The plan of secretly crossing Chencang is based on the historical story of 'Ming repairing the plank road and secretly crossing Chencang'. Among them, 'Ming Xiu' is positive, and 'Dark Crossing' is strange. What this means is that when the two sides are facing each other, they deliberately set up false targets, explicitly make attempts to attract the attention of the other side, and secretly actively carry out another offensive plan, and this kind of deployment is the tactic of 'taking them by surprise and attacking them unprepared'. According to the art of war, this is a tactic of strange and positive coexistence, 'the righteous one should be the enemy, and the strange soldier will be on the side, and he will be unprepared', in a practical war term, 'secretly crossing Chen Cang' is the use of 'sneak attack'. Another example is fast martial arts fighting, if you want to knock down the opponent as soon as possible, you must also use Zhengqi, light and dark, front and back, left and right, up and down, in which the bright, front, left, upper and all frontal enemy fights are positive; The dark, back, right, bottom and all the unexpected movements, that's strange. If this is the use of light and darkness in a fiery and real way, you can defeat the enemy as soon as possible and win without fail. There are many methods of sneak attack in war tactics, such as robbing camps in the dark and volleying in ambushes, but at the same time, it is also necessary to 'cultivate in the open' while 'secretly crossing', and its deployment is more complicated and the process is more tortuous, and its role is to divert the opponent's target, distract its attention, and relax its offensive and defensive preparations.

Sun Tzu said: 'Soldiers, treacherous ways, so can but show that they can't, use and show not to use, near and show far, far and show near, profit and temptation, chaos and take it, the real one prepares it, strong and avoids it.'" These words show that you must first weaken the opponent's power before you can reduce your own damage. 'Enlightenment' is the method of weakening, and 'Dark Crossing' is the progress of attacking the void. In other words, 'Ming Xiu' is the prelude to paving the road to victory for 'Dark Crossing'. People in the world have compared the phrase 'secretly crossing Chen Cang' to men and women cheating, which also shows that the surface is used to cover up the bottom set, which is nothing more than a trick to cover up. To truly understand and master the plan of 'secretly crossing Chen Cang', we must also know what is called 'Ming Xiu Plank Road'. The plank road is an exclusive interview on the mountain road, and the wooden road is a flint road or wooden bridge for passers. There are those built next to the mountains, and there are take-off bridges in the middle of the mountains, and this phenomenon is most common in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Guizhou and other regions. There are towering peaks, ancient trees towering to the sky, birds are difficult to fly, and beasts are afraid to climb. Li Bai once described it like this: 'The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky. …… There is a bird road in Xidang Taibai, which can cross the top of Emei. The earth collapsed and the mountain destroyed the strong man to death, and then the ladder stone stacks were hooked together. …… The flight of the yellow crane is not yet passable, and the ape wants to spend his sorrow and climb. …… Even the peaks go to the sky and do not exceed the feet, and the dead pines hang upside down against the cliffs. It can be seen that its danger is difficult, the value of the plank road, it is the only traffic artery of the dangerous peak.

'Chencang' is a place name, that is, in Baoji Mountain, Shaanxi. There was a story that is famous in history and enjoyed by future generations, that is, the 'Ming Xiu plank road and secretly crossing Chen Cang' used by Han Xin in the early Han Dynasty. The story goes that after Liu Bang escaped from Xiang Yu's control and led his troops into Hanzhong, his advisor Zhang Liang Zhang Zifang burned down the only traffic artery. In fact, Chen Ping resorted to the strategy of 'striking the east and attacking the west', asking Liu Bang to ask Xiang Yujuan to return to his hometown Fengpei Province, but his heart was to enter Hanzhong. In this, Zhang Liang and Liu Bang also sang a perfect double reed. said that he would rather send him to Hanzhong than let him go back to his hometown to get his family, so that someone would go to Fengpei to take his family members to Xianyang as a prisoner, so as to teach him to be honest and behave in a proper manner, and rest his delusions.

When Xiang Yu was in a dilemma, Chen Ping took the opportunity to start the performance again, and explained the stakes, so he persuaded Xiang Yu and allowed Liu Bang to enter Hanzhong. Speaking of which, this 'sound east and west' strategy is a blinding method, and Han Xin's use of 'Ming Xiu plank road, secretly crossing Chencang' is a blinding method, or 'sounding east and attacking west' is an ear-blocking method, which is similar to 'secretly crossing Chencang'.

But the reason why Xiang Yu fell into the plan was because Chen Ping also used the strategy of 'diverting the tiger from the mountain' in advance to send the strategist Fan Zeng to Pengcheng to urge King Chu Huai to move to Chenzhou, and did not listen to Fan Zeng's deployment explanation, nor did he see Liu Bang's plan of 'Yang Feng Yin disobeyed, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger', and would eventually release the Han King Liu Bang to return the tiger to the mountain. This series of schemes was used, Fan Zeng and Xiang Yu were recorded (calculated) one after another, and their situation could not be defeated?

Liu Bang and his generals were like dragons and tigers out of the cage, marching into Hanzhong in a mighty way. The so-called 'opportunity must not be lost, time will not come again', such a good opportunity to get out, Liu Bang is happier than his father! The reason why his adviser Zhang Liang took the measure of burning the plank road was to prevent Xiang Yu from pursuing on the one hand, and to show that he had no intention of returning to the east. On the eve of the counteroffensive, he sent hundreds of generals to rebuild the destroyed plank road, deliberately giving Xiang Yu's guard Zhang Han an illusion, and then secretly poured out his army, marched from the path of Chen Cang, took it by surprise, attacked it unprepared, and wiped out Zhang Han at once with lightning speed, followed step by step, swept Xiang Yu's territory, and finally fought in Xuzhou, Pengcheng, Xuzhou Jiuli Mountain, forced Xiang Yu to commit suicide in Wujiang, and fought for Liu Bang to fight the Han family.

This strategy of 'secretly crossing Chencang', Lü Meng Lü Ziming, the third governor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms, 'crossing the river in white clothes and skillfully seizing Jingzhou' is a good example! In detail, we also need to understand it.

The story is like this: Sun Quan 'borrowed' from Liu Bei to Jingzhou, Lao Liu Lai died and didn't pay it back, Sun Daxia was unwilling, he couldn't fight a lawsuit, where to reason? It must be solved by force! Therefore, Sun Quan did not want to recapture Jingzhou all the time, and the defender of Jingzhou at that time was Liu Bei's brother-in-law Guan Yu Guan Yunchang.

Sun Quan handed over the important task of seizing Jingzhou to Lü Meng, the new governor, and Lü Meng heard that Guan Yunchang suddenly stepped up his defense, set up beacon towers along the river, increased troops and garrisoned, and immediately pretended to be sick and resigned, and recommended the young man Lu Xun to succeed him, but he retreated behind the scenes to plan everything. Don't underestimate this young man Lu Xun (Xun) Lu Boyan, he is the fourth governor of Jiangdong Sun Quan, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called 'Xiao Zhoulang'!

The information of this change of general was passed on to Guan Yunchang, and sure enough, Guan Yunchang, who was arrogant and arrogant, had no children, and thought that Lu Xun was powerless, so he moved the defense army to the north to attack Cao Cao's Fancheng. Seeing that the time was ripe, Lü Meng chose to send a navy, some of which were ambushed in the bilge, and some of whom wore white robes, pretending to be merchants, rocking the boat and marching towards Jingzhou. In this way, the 'Taiwan' also collapsed, and the 'fire' could not be raised, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue, smashed the base camp, and successfully recaptured Jingzhou. Therefore, Guan Yunchang was cornered, and when he was attacking from two roads, he had to go to Maicheng at night and sacrifice his head. As the saying goes, 'carelessness loses Jingzhou' comes from this.

Throughout the whole process, the change of generals, pretending to be merchants, and hiding soldiers are nothing more than tricks, and they are also the different manifestations of 'secretly crossing Chencang', all for the purpose of sneaking up on Jingzhou. As a result, the plan was successful and a big victory. ”

The ninth plan is to watch the fire from the other side

Yang is chaotic, and yin is waiting for reverse. Violent and wanton, it is self-defeating. Conform to the movement, and follow the movement.

The meaning of this passage is that when the internal contradictions of the enemy tend to intensify and the order is chaotic, I will wait for it to riot. The enemy turns against him and is bound to bring about his own destruction. This is to sit back and wait for a pleasant result by means of suppleness.

However, this 'watching the fire from the other side' is different from 'killing two birds with one stone' or 'killing two birds with one stone', the former is to 'wait for a good result', and the latter is to 'move first and then be still'; and their similarity lies in the fact that in the process, they all have the form of 'sitting on the sidelines and watching the tiger fight', and they all want to get the result of 'the snipe and the mussel fighting, and the fisherman profit'. On the surface, this plan of 'watching the fire from the other side' has the meaning of 'nothing to do with oneself and hang high', but in essence, there is a desire to 'burn as big as possible', that is, 'gloating', hoping that in the end he can 'reap the benefits of the fisherman'. This may seem like a conspiracy, but for specific events, it depends on 'who uses it' and 'who uses it'! ”

The tenth plan is to hide a knife in a smile

Believe in it, and try to make it; Prepare before you move, don't make changes. Rigid in the soft outside also.

"The meaning of this is to make the enemy believe in our 'friendly sincerity' and be paralyzed and lax, and I will take the opportunity to plot secretly, actively prepare, and act at the right time, and never let it change. This is a strategy of double-faced, concealing murderous intentions, and showing reconciliation.

General Murong's 'Shi Le uses the room to win Wang Jun' is an excellent example of this plan.

And all the tactics of deception are nothing more than 'hiding a knife in a smile'. Its synonym is honey belly sword, which means that the mouth is as sweet as honey, and the heart is as poisonous as a snake. The person who plays this trick shows that he often opens his mouth with a smiling face, but behind him is sharpening his knife to the pig and sheep.

The most innocent human instinct is to laugh and cry, and because of the habit of treachery, this instinct has become degenerated and distorted. Crying and laughing, there are true and false, real crying or fake crying, at best, it is not to vent the inner depression or to win people's sympathy, but laughter is different, in addition to innocent laughter, smile to show joy, contrived laughter, prodigal laughter, cruel laughter, treacherous laughter, sneering, sneering, smiling, smirking, smirking and flattering, etc., are all attempts, either to fall in the face of others, to seek people's wealth, or to harm people's lives.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi felt something and chanted: 'The fish on the bottom of the sea are like birds in the sky, high can be shot and deep can be fished, but only people's hearts see the right time, and they can't be predicted at hand. You don't see Li Yifu's people smiling and Xinxin, there is a knife in the laughter to kill people, the yin and yang gods can be measured, and the laughter in the world is anger. There is also a saying that "bewitching beauties in the world can kill people with a smile". It is conceivable how complex and mysterious the laughter of the world is, how unfathomable it is. Because the image of crying is ugly, laughter is beautiful, and people love beauty because they hate ugliness, so there should be fewer people who cry and more people who laugh. That is, crying does not drown out heroes, laughter can bury heroes.

But sometimes, the cry can drown out the hero, but only a few. Take laughter as an enterprising weapon, change that is, the 'smiley offensive', and use it naturally, laugh at the right time, and laugh at the right time. Like Bao Xi, because she can't laugh at the time, she will make a 'Feng (Feng) fire drama princes and don't listen to the call', Mrs. Xiao laughed out of her mind, attracting the princes to besiege and die and destroy the country. On the contrary, Yang Guifei will 'look back and smile at Bai Meisheng, and the six palaces have no color'. These are just the effects of a woman's laughter, and if it is used for a scene of struggle in which blood and tears are seen, it is not limited to women, and it does not have to be laughing. In short, on the surface, he pretends to be humble and amiable, strives for sincerity with false sincerity, and exchanges false sympathy for true sympathy, so that the other party unknowingly falls into the trick. It is not difficult to imagine that there is the meaning of 'yang and yin' and 'pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger'.

Politicians have a creed called 'Overcome rigidity with softness', to catch flies, a grain of sugar is better than spraying insecticide. As the saying goes, 'It's not that the enemies don't get together, when will the enemies get together?' The explanation is that the more you love, the more you hate, the more you get closer to you, the more you hate, so you have the ring of 'gentlemen's friendship is as light as water, and villain's friendship is as sweet as honey'. Why do the closer you are, the more you hate, and the in-laws often become enemies? For no other reason, it's because of a conflict of interest. When there is a use, it is stammering to the wind, calling the father and calling the mother, once the time changes, the first thing to fight is the closest person. In history, Lu Pheasant in the early Han Dynasty was to Mrs. Qi, and the martial artists of the Tang Dynasty were to the queen and queen, how they were filial piety in the early days, and how ruthless they were later. The reason why Lu Pheasant and Wu Zetian succeeded in seizing power was that they hid a knife in their laughter, and the reason why Mrs. Qi and Queen Wang failed was that they had no knife in their laughter.

Liu Bang and Xiang Yu are righteous brothers, in order to fight for power and power, righteousness becomes resentment, Liu Bang will use the means of hiding a knife in a smile, so he can escape the bad luck of the Hongmen banquet, Xiang Yu does not know how to use this means, it is inevitable to kill himself in Wujiang.

Because there are too many people who are swordsmen and swords, and there are too many people who are in line with yin and yin, they are most wary of people who are smiling and smiling when they meet, shaking hands and making love. In the past, Li Linfu, the traitor beside Emperor Tang Ming, eliminated dissidents with a honey-bellied sword, and Zheng Sleeve, the beloved concubine of King Chu Huai, planned to eliminate Wei Meiren, all of which made good use of the strategy of 'hiding a knife in a smile'. Therefore, the wise and the good must be wary of the villain and the wicked! Remember! Remember! ”

The eleventh plan Li Dai Tao stiff

It is bound to be damaged, and the yin is damaged to benefit the yang.

The meaning of this phrase is: when the development of the war situation is bound to have losses, we must be willing to give up partial losses in exchange for overall victory.

The phrase "Li Dai Tao Stiff" is based on Yuefu's "Chicken Song", and the original poem is "The peach is born on the well, the plum tree is next to the peach, the insect comes to bite the peach root, the plum tree is the peach stiff, the tree itself is from generation to generation, and the brothers still forget each other." Later, this sentence was used as a metaphor, that is, to substitute it for the other, which simply said: A has caused trouble, and B will suffer as a substitute for the dead. It is absolutely different from 'stealing beams for columns', 'stealing the sky for changing the day', 'stealing beams for columns' and 'transferring flowers and trees', and they must not be confused. It is said that this substitution of sin is a substitute for death, and those who cause trouble are all people with great signs, and it is naturally his followers who are substituted for sin, at least those who look up to him.

In society, there are many leaders of the criminal department who hire stand-ins, that is, they hire people to preside over crimes and buy at high prices, and they hide behind the scenes to manipulate, and when they have nothing to do, their salaries are paid; In case of trouble, a stand-in will come forward, or fine, or go to prison, or even go to the execution ground, you can also measure the money and stir it up, so that he can die without complaint. It seems that there is a special relationship between the 'troublemakers' and the 'substitutes'. People cherish themselves, who is willing to sacrifice their interests in vain to fulfill others? Not to mention the international joke of taking life to the yin and yang world?

The ancients valued righteousness, and today's people value wealth, and there are also those who die for love, which can be regarded as a new formula that is unique. As far back as the Spring and Autumn Period, such a thing happened: crying could not be done, and it was difficult for the brother to go to righteousness; Li Dai Tao stiff, for the baby Zhao is orphaned. Both of these events are examples of substitutionary death, which can be described as singing and crying, and death is just after! But there are also people who use this as a plan to escape the law, and they can be described as fish who have escaped the net with impunity! ”

The twelfth plan is to take the sheep by the hand

The gap is in the must; Small profits must be gained. Less yin, less yang.

This means that even small loopholes must be exploited in a timely manner; If you find a small benefit, you should strive to obtain it. Turn a small negligence of the enemy into a small victory for our side.

The idiom "hand in hand" means that when you are on the road, you suddenly see a sheep on the side of the road, and take it back to the furniture (according to) as your own! This is an unexpected gain, as the saying goes, 'send it automatically, but it is disrespectful' and 'take advantage of the convenience, hold a hot steamed bun in your cold hand'. Things in the world are ever-changing, sometimes very subtle, often unintentionally get unexpected bargains, and some are forced by the situation, 'lose the east, harvest the mulberry.' On the surface, this coincidence seems to be lucky, but in fact, it is 'the dog has a way to go to the tile pit', and 'taking the sheep by the hand' has become a plan to seek others, and naturally it will not be so lofty as 'not my own, although I don't take anything', but to harm others and benefit myself!

There is no one who is not greedy for cheap, big people are greedy, and small people are greedy; Greed is the pursuit of life. The so-called 'non-greedy and unconscientious' is a kind of 'sour grapes' thinking when he can't meet the object of his heart. Take Tao Yuanming as an example, while he sang 'wealth is not my wish', he inadvertently revealed that it was because 'the emperor's hometown is unexpected', if the emperor's hometown can be expected, he may not be so high, he does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice and resign and return to his hometown, 'take a car' or 'boat' to plow the fields.

In fact, to put it bluntly, 'holding the sheep by the hand' is a natural expression of human nature, and it is to enrich one's life thoughts, and the way is to grab peacefully, which is slightly better and more clever than robbing while the fire is hot! After all, opportunities for 'peaceful grabbing' are rare, and heroes who want to create opportunities do not pin their hopes on peace. It can be seen that greed is human nature, and robbery is a heroic act, whether it is overt greed or covert greed, secret robbery and open robbery, the method is different, and its scheme to take the interests of others as its own is the same.

It would be a big mistake to regard the plan of 'taking the sheep by the hand' as a peace strategy, or as the luck of 'wealth forcing people to come', because there is only a lottery gamble in the world, and there is no ownerless fat sheep squatting on the side of the road waiting for someone to lead, not to mention that the heroic cause is created by itself, not by the empty days or fate, and the unexpected gain is nothing more than an accidental victory in the 'melee, encounter, and oolong war'. That is to say, when the main enemy is defeated, take advantage of the defeat and take the opportunity to destroy the secondary enemy, or if you can't beat the tiger while hunting, catch a monkey and come back to ask for merit.

There is such a joke: someone stole cattle and was taken to the government and accused him of stealing cattle, but he quibbled to the county magistrate: 'Where am I stealing cattle?' But there was a rope on the road, and by the way, I picked it up and went home, and the ox followed automatically! Although this is a joke, it can be regarded as a perfect example of 'holding a cow' in all kinds of situations in the world. As for this example of 'holding the sheep by hand', the incidents of 'Cui Shu planning to get rid of the Duke of Qi Zhuang' and 'King of Chu snatching Mrs. Xi' in the Spring and Autumn Period are not jealous and hand-holding sheep because of women? ”