I just paid my salary yesterday, and I paid off my car loan, housing loan, and credit card, and then paid the water, electricity, gas, and property management fees, and deducted the tuition, material fees, and living expenses of Dabao Erbao, and the money on the card was only double-digit, and it was not enough to buy food. The wife couldn't help but be a little angry: "It looks like a single dog with a salary of seven or eight thousand, and a single dog with a salary of two or three thousand is living chic." ”
I have to smile bitterly, the environment has been bad in the past few years, Dabao is in high school again, and Erbao is also a graduating class, it is the time to spend money, and life is tight. Helplessly, the fortune was like this, so I had to "make all the preparations" and wait for the opportunity.
As the saying goes, "a gentleman waits for the time to move", in the final analysis, life is waiting for an opportunity, and when the opportunity comes, it is not easy to turn over; If the time is not right, no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain.
The idiom "Fierce Soldiers and Horses" comes from "Zuo Chuan: The Thirty-third Year of the Emperor", which means sharpening weapons and feeding horses to the fullest, which is used to describe all preparations for battle.
The story also starts with the "Battle of Kun", in the spring of 627 BC, Qin Mugong felt that Zheng Mugong of Zheng State had just ascended the throne, and his foundation was unstable, so it was a good time to attack Zheng State.
It just so happened that Zheng Guo's gatekeeper "Qizi" was bought by Qin Guo, and wrote to Qin Mugong and said: "Zheng Guojun appointed me as the guard of the north gate, if you send an army to come secretly, I will open the door for you, and the gods will come to meet the inside and outside without knowing it, and Zheng Guo will be ours." ”
Qin Mugong was overjoyed: "My good girl, won't he come when he has the opportunity?" ”
So he appointed three commanders, Baili Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, and Bai Yibing, to lead the army to Zheng Guo.
When attacking Zheng Guo to pass through the territory of the Zhou Dynasty and passing by the gate of the Zhou Dynasty, the army of the Qin State did not inform Zhou Tianzi, and did not get off the car and walk slowly according to international practice, and did not even bother to get off the carriage, so he took off his hat and waved it casually on the car, even if a few got off the carriage, they hurriedly jumped up before they passed the city gate, and did not take Zhou Tianzi in their eyes at all.
At this time, Wang Sunman was still young, and said to King Zhou Xiang: "The Qin State will be defeated!" ”
Oh, how so! ”
Can an army that is arrogant and disrespectful to despise its opponents, who venture into dangerous places without planning, not suffer defeat? ”
King Zhou Xiang laughed out loud when he heard this, and he didn't take it seriously.
Soon the Qin army arrived in the small country of Huaguo, and by coincidence, Zheng's merchant Xiangao was ready to sell cattle to Zhou, and he also stopped in Huaguo. When he heard that Qin's army had arrived in the slippery country, he keenly sensed that things were not simple.
So he boldly took four cooked cowhides and twelve cows to reward Qin Jun: "When our monarch heard that you were coming, he ordered me to bring gifts to visit you, although there are not many things, but there are more gifts to be delivered later, the generals must not dislike it!" ”
Originally, he was just guessing, and he deliberately came to deceive Qin Jun, but he didn't expect Qin Jun to think that they were exposed, and he actually believed it.
Seeing that something was wrong, Xiangao stabilized the Qin army while hurriedly sending someone to inform Zheng Mugong. Zheng Mugong sent people to inspect the pavilion, and sure enough, he saw that Qizi led his entourage to wear armor, sharpen their swords and guns, and the horses were well fed, ready for battle.
So he sent Emperor Wuzi to say to them, "What, are you leaving, adults?" Oh, haven't you stayed here too long, and you've run out of grain, dried meat, and vegetables. This is my dereliction of duty, so let's do it, we have a garden in Zhengguo, although it is not as big as the garden of Qin, and there are not as many rare and exotic beasts as Qin, but it is also considered to have everything, adults and I will move to the garden with me and let the pavilion out, how about it? ”
Qizi was guarding the city gate, and knowing that the matter was exposed, he opened the city gate and fled to the Qi country overnight.
Baili Meng Mingshi said: "Zheng Guo is prepared, and there is no hope. I can't win by attacking Zheng Guo, and there is no backup to surround it, so I'd better go back. "When the country is destroyed, go back.
The Qin army must pass through the Kunshan Mountain of the Jin State on their return journey, and the ancestor of the Jin State said: "Qin Jun disobeyed Uncle Jian's words and mobilized the people because of greed, this is the opportunity given to us by God." 'Don't miss the time and never come again', the enemy can't let go. Let the enemy go, and woe will be; If it goes against the will of heaven, it is unlucky. Be sure to attack the Qin ** team. ”
On April 13 in the summer, the Jin State defeated the Qin ** team in Yinshan, and captured three commanders, Baili Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, and Bai Yibing.
Qin Mugong thought that he had picked up a big bargain, but he didn't expect to lose an army in vain.
Therefore, "life is waiting for an opportunity", when the opportunity comes, you always have to fight, as for whether you can succeed, leave it to God!
References: "Dictionary of Chinese Idioms", "Zuo Chuan: The Thirty-third Year of the Duke of Xu", "Check the Dictionary Poetry Network", "The Whole History: Zheng Mugong", "The Whole History: The String Gao Retreats from Qin", "The Whole History: The Battle of Kun".