Three minutes to talk about culture
Today I would like to introduce to you the classic story of the fourth of the 36 strategies, "Waiting for work with ease".
Waiting for work" comes from "Sun Tzu. Fighting for the Army", Sun Tzu said: "Treat chaos with governance, and wait for the uproar" This person who governs the heart is also. "Treat the near and the far, and wait for the work with the easy", this ruler also originally said that with strict military discipline and waiting for the enemy's uproar, this will defeat the enemy psychologically, and with the fighting spirit of taking the initiative and calm, full of energy, to deal with the fatigue and passive enemy will definitely defeat him in terms of strength, so the intelligent combat commander always does everything possible to mobilize the enemy to fall into passive fatigue and never be mobilized by the enemy.
It is said that during the Three Kingdoms, Wu killed Guan Yu, Liu Bei was furious and grief-stricken, determined to avenge Guan Yu, and did not listen to the dissuasion of the military advisor Kong Ming. Personally led the army of 700,000 to attack Wu, at first, Liu Bei from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River downstream, because of the condescending, and the mourning soldiers, so the victory of more than ten battles, the momentum is like a bamboo, unstoppable, straight to Yiling, Yaoting area. It went deep into the hinterland of Wu for five or six hundred miles. Eastern Wu panicked, and when the peace could not be sued, Sun Quan ordered the young general Lu Xun to be the governor of the capital. Lu Xun correctly analyzed the situation and believed that Liu Bei was sharp and condescending, and it was difficult to attack for a while, so he implemented the tactic of "waiting for work at ease". The Wu army completely withdrew from the mountains and retreated to defend in order to see what happened, so that the Shu army could not find an opponent to attack in the mountainous area of five or six hundred miles, but was in a passive position. After holding each other for half a year, the fighting spirit of the Shu army was slack, the soldiers were tired, stretched for hundreds of miles, and it was difficult to take care of the end of the end, and they camped in the mountains and forests, committing a taboo in the soldiers. Lu Xun saw that the time was ripe, and ordered a comprehensive **, which caught the army by surprise and burned the company camp for 700 miles. The Shu army was in chaos, ** miserable, and retreated in a hurry. Lu Xun used the tactic of "waiting for work with leisure" to create a famous example in history of winning more with less and striking later.
"Waiting for work at ease" stresses that putting the enemy in a difficult situation does not necessarily mean that the offensive method is adopted, and the key lies in grasping the initiative, standing by the opportunity to move, using static braking, and responding to all changes with no change. It is necessary to actively mobilize the enemy, not to allow the enemy to mobilize himself, and to lead the enemy by the nose, so we must not understand the "waiting" of waiting for work at leisure as passive waiting.