782: The third set of offensive strategies in "Thirty-six Strategies".

The thirteenth plan is to scare the snake

Doubt to knock on the truth, observe and then move; The restorer, the medium of yin.

"If there is any suspicion, it is necessary to reconnoitre, and then act when the situation is fully grasped. Repeated reconnaissance is a condition for discovering a hidden enemy.

The meaning of 'striking the grass and startling the snake' is different from 'creating something out of nothing'. 'Making something out of nothing' is to create rumors or incidents out of thin air: 'Striking at the grass and startling the snake' is a matter that has already existed, and everyone has not paid attention to it and neglected it, but has made it prominent, appalling, creating a chaotic situation, making it frightened, and further achieving the purpose of 'taking advantage of the fire to rob', which is the same as the purpose of 'creating something out of nothing', which is the idea of 'fearing that the world will not be chaotic', which refers to the 'heroic' behavior that has not taken advantage. The country is peaceful in the world, heroes are useless, the world is chaotic, the social order will be shaken, the so-called 'Central Plains deer' autumn, that is, the people who "cherish the words and paper" will also "throw the pen and expose the rod", not to mention the chaotic people? This is a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

During the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang once used such a small plan, so that 'Zhou Yu's clever plan to settle the world, and he lost his wife and soldiers'. During the Warring States Period, Sima Xi's clever plan to establish Yin Ji as the queen of Zhongshan was really amazing, but Zhang Yi used the trick of 'making something out of nothing' to tease King Chu Huai and his two concubines Zheng Sleeve and Nanhou. But Sima Xi used the strategy of 'striking the grass and scaring the snake' to stabilize himself. ”

The fourteenth plan is to borrow the corpse to return the soul

It is not a pity to be useful; If you can't use it, ask for it. Borrow what you can't use and use it, I beg Tong Meng, Tong Meng beg me.

"Whatever is done, and which is difficult to control and control, must not be used; Those who do not do anything often have to rely on others to stand up, and they will come to me for help. To take advantage of what I have not done and to control it is not that I am dominated by others, but that I am dominated by others.

The phrase 'resurrecting the soul through the corpse' is based on myths and legends. It is said that there is a Tie Guan Li among the Eight Immortals, who is a young man, erudite and strong, surnamed Li Mingxuan, because of his good fantasy, he is intoxicated with immortals, worships Taishang Laojun as a teacher, and learns a set of immortal skills. One day, he instructed his disciples, saying, 'I will immediately ask God to leave his body and travel into space with his master's soul, and you should keep it well, don't leave half a step, and keep it until the seventh day.' If my soul is repaid, it will be because I have become an immortal, and I can incinerate my body! With that, he meditated and wandered away. The apprentice guarded the corpse, guarded it, and worked tirelessly day and night. On the sixth day, suddenly his family came in a hurry and urged him to go home, saying that his mother was very sick and in danger, and that he must hurry home to see him for the last time. When the apprentice heard this, he began to cry and said, 'My mother is critically ill, and the teacher's soul is returned, if I go back, who will guard the teacher's corpse; If you don't go home, it's hard for your mother to look away. His family urged him, saying that the righteousness of master and apprentice is not as good as the love of his parents. In addition, if a person dies for six days and his internal organs have rotted, how can there be a reason to restore his soul? So he joined hands to incinerate Li Xuan's body and rushed home. On the seventh day, Li Xuan's soul returned, but there was no corpse to cast, and he became an ownerless and lonely soul, shouting to the sky day and night, and suddenly saw a beggar's dead body on the side of the road, and suddenly remembered what Taishang Laojun said when he was leaving: 'Bigu is not Bigu, the car is light and the road is familiar, and if you want to get the old form, you are meeting a new face' and sighed: "That's it!" Since the catastrophe is inevitable, the limit has been set, and it cannot be strengthened. If you don't choose the road in a panic, your soul is helpless, so it's better to make a mistake! He rose up with the corpse of a beggar, and became an unkempt, lame man who had to walk on crutches. The soul is Li Xuan's, and the form is a beggar's, so it is called 'borrowing the corpse to return the soul'. The meaning of this sentence is that after one's failure, one should rely on or use some kind of strength to make a comeback. Relying on new power is 'borrowing the corpse', and making a comeback is 'resurrection'.

This phenomenon is very common in shopping malls. It is used in the military, political, the era of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, more colorful, at that time the moral atmosphere was very strong, the so-called help of the weak country, the succession of peerless feats, abound: such as Song Xiang fair chaos, the establishment of the son of Zhao as the king; Qin Mugong supported his heavy ears, and Shen Baoxu cried Qin Ting. This is the great one. Since the Qin Dynasty, moral giving has become a loan for interests, Liu Beiqiang borrowed Jingzhou to return his soul, and his relatives turned over and met each other; There are even more things that are borrowed and not repaid.

It can be seen from this that 'corpses' will not be borrowed in vain nor can they be borrowed indiscriminately, beware of 'zombies entering the house', making their own homes restless, and many people in the world take advantage of the danger of others to take advantage of the fire to rob. The so-called 'it is easy to call a snake and it is difficult to send a snake' and 'luring a wolf into the house' are all things that should be taken as a warning. The exercise of this plan of 'borrowing the corpse to return the soul' must be carefully considered. For example, 'Tian Zichun plotted to get Lu, and Liu Ze, the king of Qi, turned against Shandong' is a beautiful example; but 'Liu Zhang borrowed his strength to reject Zhang Lu, and Liu Bei took the opportunity to enter' is a corroboration of 'borrowing the corpse and it is difficult to return', which forced Liu Zhang's country to ruin and his family to ruin. ”

The fifteenth plan is to divert the tiger from the mountain

Wait for the sky to be trapped, use people to lure it, and go back and forth.

The meaning of this phrase is to wait for the natural conditions to be unfavorable to the enemy before besieging it, and to deceive it with artificial illusions. If it's dangerous to attack forward, then find a way to get the enemy to come back and attack me.

There are two explanations for 'diverting the tiger from the mountain': one is to lure the tiger out of the mountains, drive him down Pingyang, and then shoot him (it), and the other is to drive the tiger away, and then slowly clean up the foxes on the mountain that usually run rampant and domineering. What is inflicted on the human body is: to lead the main dangerous person out of his deep-rooted (earthly) entrenched territory, so that he loses the means of resistance, and slowly reorganizes him; Or get rid of the dangerous people around him, weaken his strength, and then gradually clean him up.

Han Feizi said: 'The reason why the husband and tiger obey the dog is also the minions. If the tiger releases its claws and makes the dog use it, the tiger will obey the dog. That's a good illustration. This strategy is used the most in the struggle for power, and it can be said that it has been used since ancient times, and it is a martyr today, with one generation winning another, wave after wave, and becoming more and more deified. Fighting for power is the means of profit, and profit is the purpose of fighting for power, there is never a fool who does not fight for power for profit, nor does he see that there is no power to maintain the 'profit' will last for a long time, to display his ambitions, he must grasp the power in his hands! If there is no power to exert and prestige to be displayed, even if the chest is hidden in the armor, there is no place for it, and there is no way to vomit in anger?

Jiang Taigong has the power to behead the gods, and if he has no power, he is a salt seller, so cautious: 'Yao is a puppet, and he can't make his neighbor, and when he goes to the south and the king, he will be forbidden.'" 'There are a few ordinary people in the world, who have the power to change their feathers into arrows, and countless heroes and heroes, frustrated and swords as butchers' knives! Therefore, everyone fights for power, competes with interests in everything, intrigues, deceives each other, and pours each other into each other, until everyone is a tiger and everyone is a hunter.

'Diverting the tiger away from the mountain' is one of the strategies to fight the tiger, the purpose is to weaken the opponent's resistance and reduce one's own danger. In history, the most outstanding person who exercised the strategy of 'diverting the tiger from the mountain' was Chen Ping, and among the six miraculous schemes he gave Liu Bang, they were all 'diverting the tiger from the mountain' method. The six strategies are: first, the reversal of gold, leaving Zhong Lifu, the important minister of the overlord of Chu, etc., to weaken its power; Second, enter Chu with evil grass tools, go away with fan, and isolate the overlord of Chu; 3. There were 2,000 women who went out at night and relieved Liu Bang's siege of Xingyang; Fourth, persuade Liu Bang to seal Han Xin as the king of Qi and use him to fight the country; Fifth, call Liu Bang to fake Yunmeng and capture Han Xin; Sixth, relieve the siege of Baideng of the Xiongnu King Maotun and save Liu Bang's life. The ingenuity of the technique is breathtaking!

used this scheme to eliminate treachery and eradicate evil, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, there were two things that were more famous, that is: Zheng Zhuang pretended to be deaf and dumb to capture the uncle; Paraffin wax design to remove tyrants and rebels. This is the evidence of the blood color of history. ”

The sixteenth plan is to capture the aunt

Forcing is counter-soldiering; If you go, you will lose momentum. Follow closely, exhaust its strength, eliminate its fighting spirit, scatter and then capture, and the soldiers are not bloody. Yes, there are captives, light.

This means that if the enemy has no way out, it will fight back, and if it is allowed to flee, it will reduce the enemy's momentum. When pursuing, follow the enemy and don't push it too much, so as to consume its physical strength and break its fighting spirit, and when the enemy's morale is depressed and the army is broken, capture it again to avoid bloodshed. According to the principle of the hexagram "I Ching: Need", when the enemy is completely psychologically defeated and convinced, you can win a bright ending of the war.

If you want to capture your aunt, it is also said that you want to capture the old and indulge, and you want to capture the first indulgence. Its explanation, the elegant point is, 'If you want to suppress it, you must first open it; If you want to catch it, you must first indulge it'; the vulgar word is 'fatten the pig and then open the knife'. The meaning of this is: Whoever wants to control others, when the situation permits, must choose to satisfy their desires, pride their ambitions, cultivate their contradictions, and hasten their demise. To put it in political terms, it is 'to retreat as advance, and to suppress the desire to fight first.'" Therefore, it is close to wanting to take and be anxious. Those who exercise this plan must have far-sightedness and extraordinary patience, and those who are calculating and making a little profit will never be able to do it.

When it comes to 'wanting to capture first', many people will naturally think of the story of 'Zhuge Liang captured Meng Shu, the king of the south'. Zhuge Liang won seven battles and seven victories, captured Meng Shu seven times and seven verticals, and finally subdued Meng Shu, the king of the South, which can be said to pacify Nantian. However, with Zhuge Liang's cleverness, it is okay to deal with a brave and unscrupulous Meng Shu; With the absolute military superiority of Shu Han at that time, it was not a problem to deal with the rabble of brute soldiers. But is it okay to use it to deal with Zhou Yu, who is both civil and military? Not to mention Sima Yi, who is willing to wear a woman's shirt when he encounters an old treacherous and slippery, nectar.

Therefore, special attention should be paid to the use of the strategy of 'wanting to catch first', and it is necessary to apply it selectively. Otherwise, in a sharp and complex battle scene, if you catch it and let it go, isn't that the same as letting the dragon return to the sea and the tiger to the mountain? Its danger will be self-defeating.

Xiang Yu let Liu Bang go at the Hongmen banquet, but was later forced to death by Liu Bang in Wujiang! This surnamed Liu is too bad for buddy righteousness! This is the story of history and blood.

In fact, Liu Bei's invitation to Zhuge was nothing more than Zhuge Liang's plan to 'capture first'. When Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion in Nanyang, watched the development of the situation, and waited for the main thing, it had developed to the point that almost no military group could have the opportunity to be the chief of staff, and had to catch up with Liu Bei, who was desperate and had a little bit of the smell of Wang Sun. At the same time, he also saw that Liu Bei, the 'fish' who had slipped through the net, was looking for 'water' everywhere, and his 'water' was indeed quite quite, so he came up with a 'want to capture the first indulgence' plan, and arranged a situation, first by his old friend Xu Shu to 'recommend Zhuge ', followed by 'Mr. Shuijing on celebrities', in order to lead the wandering Liu Bei to Wollongong and come to the whole region to mobilize again. After a series of praises, Liu Bei's heart of seeking talent was firmly grasped, and then he performed a ghost trick of 'three visits and three invitations', before 'reluctantly going down the mountain'. This is Zhuge Liang's capture technique for Liu Bei, which is nothing more than the method of 'waiting for the price and selling, hanging up and selling', in fact, it is a high-price auction.

And when Liu Bei failed in the conquest of Wu and was forced to chase by Lu Xun to the point of being frightened, ashamed and sick in the White Emperor City, the capture technique he used in Zhuge Liang was even sharper. He first attacked with tears, regretting that he did not listen to the advice of the prime minister, and brought defeat to himself, and now he regrets that he is sick and dies, and regrets that his heir Adou is weak, and he has to trust him with great things. This move really touched Zhuge Liang's heart. Subsequently, Liu Bei held Zhuge Liang's hand and said to him, the prime minister's talent is better than Cao Pi and Sun Quan's ten thousand times, and he will be able to stabilize the country and eventually achieve great things. It doesn't matter what he said, Zhuge Liang is even more loyal and dead. He and his subordinates were 'grateful for the grace of Emperor Longyu', and never had the slightest intention of seizing the throne, and maintained it until Adou surrendered to Cao Pi and 'couldn't think about it'.

The 'Zheng Wugong's clever plan to destroy Hu Bang' in the far away weekend and the 'Hun King Maodun Zhiwei Donghu Kingdom' in the early Han Dynasty are all clever uses of the strategy of 'wanting to capture the first indulgence', and finally kill the opponent without leaving a piece of armor. It can be seen that the exercise of this plan must have extraordinary endurance, determination to sacrifice at any cost, and do it neatly on the surface, but in the bones it is necessary to sharpen the knife! ”

The seventeenth plan is to throw bricks and lead jade

Similar to lure it, hit it also.

This means to confuse the enemy with something very similar, to make the enemy ignorant.

There is a cloud in the Book of Poetry: 'Vote for me with papaya, repay it with Yaoqiong, repay the bandits, and always think it is good.'" This is an expression of the affection of courtesy between people, and there is no malice. If it is applied to the strategy of competing interests, but on the contrary, this sentence should be changed to 'Cast the other side with papaya, you must repay me with Yaoqiong, if you don't report it, take it, you can't take it, and take it by force.' This is the most practical explanation of 'throwing bricks and stones', and its means is to fish the way, with the aim of making small things bigger. People are selfish, and heroes are the most selfish of selfishness. They say the most generous, do the smallest; The lips are the most beautiful, and the hearts are the dirtiest. They are always concerned about personal gains and losses, and often give small favors and small favors to win sympathy, and their attempts are nothing more than to grab greater benefits; pretending to have a compassionate face is actually the fake compassion of a cat crying mouse.

'Throwing bricks' is to take advantage of the weakness of human greed and cheapness, give a little sweetness first, tempt people to be deceived, and slowly attract 'jade'. It's like catching a big fish, sacrificing an earthworm and catching a big carp. On the surface, it is true that 'the angler bears the fish, and the fish does not lose the fish', but in fact, if the angler does not bear the fish, then where can the delicacies of braised or steamed carp be listed in front of the feast? In other words, since ancient times, which hero has lived up to the people? Which hero didn't make the people's blood and tears into delicacies and seafood, and sit on the ground to share fertilizer? Whether it is sanctimonious, taste and chew; Or with a white cloth covered with a green face and burning teeth, pursing his lips and snickering, this feast has been placed from Xia Yu's eldest grandson to the present, for thousands of years, all of them have taken the people as fish and meat, and the people's fat as soy sauce. Among them, Cao Cao said the most frank and straightforward, he said, 'I'd rather bear others, and no one bears me'. This is a good hint and explanation, heroes are heroes after all, everything they see is like this, and what they do can't get out of the scope of this negative self. This meter has the widest range of use, is not limited by time and space, and has a small effect and a large effect. Used in the people, money can be exchanged for beauties; Used in officialdom, a silver ticket can get a knighthood; Merchants can use it to make money; Politicians use it to deceive the masses with a beautiful lie; A military soldier can buy a fortress commander of the enemy army for 2,000 taels of gold or 5,000 taels of silver! All of this is to blame for money! All of them are the peerless true skills of the plan of 'throwing bricks and attracting jade'!

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, first set the world, he was full of internal worries and frequent external troubles; The Xiongnu invaded the border, and they couldn't guard against it, especially after receiving the 'siege of Baideng' in Maudun, they were even more worried, so they summoned Liu Jing, the marquis of Guannei, to discuss the border defense. As a result, Liu Jing used the tactics of 'Li Dai Tao Zhuang' and 'throwing bricks to attract jade' to persuade Gaozu to choose a beautiful woman in the palace to pretend to be a princess and marry the Xiongnu King Mao Dun to make peace and turn enemies into friends; This is a typical example.

From this, it can be seen that the plan of 'throwing bricks and attracting jade' lies in eating small losses, and the so-called "small losses do not eat, big losses will follow", and they will eventually lose big because of small losses. However, when it comes to the Warring States Period, 'Wei General Mangmao is foolish and Zhao Wang' doesn't even need to throw a brick, and he deceived the 'jade' with a few words, which can be said to have used this strategy to the place of deification. Speaking of the story of Xiao Yizhi's 'Lanting Sticker' of the old monk in the imperial history of Tang Taizong, it is even more comical in the world, angry and angry, Xiao Yi upgraded. Tang Taizong was happy, but also rewarded the debate talent and wealth, and added a third-level pagoda. But what's the use? Biancai lost the treasure of 'Lanting Tie', the blow was too great, he became depressed, and returned to the Western Pure Land in the rest of the year. Is it worth it? Aren't all money and treasures brought with you in life and not in death? However, when Tang Taizong died, Lan Tingjiao made a funeral offering and buried it underground. Since then, the authentic works of Lanting stickers will never be in the world. If the tomb of this old Li is excavated, maybe the real work will be reproduced in the world! ”

The eighteenth plan is to capture the thief and capture the king

Destroy its strength, seize its leader, and disintegrate its body. The dragon fights in the wild, and its way is poor.

The meaning of this phrase is: destroy the enemy's main force, seize its leader, and disintegrate its overall power. It's like a dragon going out to the sea to fight on land and facing a desperate situation.

The phrase "capture the thief and capture the king" comes from Du Fu's poem: Hold the bow when you are strong, and use the arrow when you use the long. Shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and capture the thief first and capture the king. This means that if it is used in doing things, it must be done concisely and fundamentally; However, when it comes to intrigue, it is said that in a duel, the focus of the attack should be on the enemy leader or his headquarters, and as long as the leader can be knocked down, his organization will become a group of dragons without a leader, and the pace will be disordered, like a crab pouring down. The so-called leader refers to a person who holds actual power and has extensive influence, and without such conditions, no matter how high his status is, it is useless. Like Liu Adou, the mediocre queen who only knew how to drink and play with women during the Three Kingdoms, what was the use of coming? If you get it, you have to eat the rice money and increase the burden, but it's better to kill him! On the contrary, it is not as good as his subordinate Zhuge Liang, who is concerned about the safety of the country and has always become the object of jealousy of the enemy country.

As the saying goes, 'hit the snake and hit the seven inches', which means that when hitting the snake, you should attack its vital point, and a stick will kill it, if you don't hit its vital point, the snake will go up with the stick, and it will cause a bite back. The leader is the unifying core of an organization, a pivot in collective action, and can 'capture the king', which can disrupt its organization, destroy its activity system, or at least make its internal changes. There are many ways to 'capture the king', which are ever-changing, whether it is to take the power or to calculate wisely, under the principle of 'seeking the goal', it is naturally 'unscrupulous', which can be hijacked, like the bed of Hua Yuan Dengzi in the Spring and Autumn Period, Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and it can also be coerced, such as the king of Zhou imprisoned the king of Zhou in Jiangli. This is all a flexible use of strategy, and there is no dogma, and the so-called 'drama will change people, and the ingenuity is different'.

In short, the goal is to 'capture the king', and do everything possible to achieve it, no matter what tricks are played and what process is passed. 'Capture the king' can be said to be a principle, how to 'capture', you have to use other tricks, with 'hide from the sky and cross the sea', 'divert the tiger from the mountain', 'throw bricks and lead jade' or 'beauty strategy', etc., in short, it is because of the person, and look at the situation. Treat a heroic figure who is a 'king', the bomb is as effective as the hydrangea, vanity and profit are equally important, especially the 'meat bullet' is more powerful than the 'cannonball', and the 'pillow gossip array' is better than the 'Longmen Golden Lock Array', the so-called 'heroes since ancient times are lustful, if they are not lustful non-heroes', it is indeed experience. For example, Fan Li wants to capture Wu Wangfu and use Xi Shi to confuse him; Li Yuan wanted to seize the power of Chu Chun Shenjun and instigated his sister Li Yan to be a concubine. This is a kind of indirect soft grappling technique, its function is to capture the mind, the purpose is to make it sink and corrupt, and it is mostly used in politics, and in the military to 'capture the king', but it must be hard work. Speaking of the story of Wei Wenhou's Yedu ordering Ximen Leopard to severely punish the evil squire and the old witch during the Warring States Period, it is indeed a good example of 'capturing the thief and capturing the king', so that the witch wind heresy was eliminated, water conservancy was built, and the people were able to live and work in peace and contentment. ”