At the beginning of the battle, the king led the army to the front. In the battle, an unexpected misfortune happened. His horse suddenly lost a horseshoe, and the king fell to the ground, and the frightened horse ran away. The king's misfortune demoralized the soldiers, who turned around and ran away. The count's army surrounded the king. In despair, the king waved his sword and sighed, "Oh, my God, my country was destroyed on this horse!" " "
After the war, there was a folk song: a nail was missing and a horseshoe was lost. I lost a horseshoe and a horse. Lose a horse, lose a battle. Losing a battle ruined a dynasty.
This story tells us that small things can also affect history. Some seemingly detailed things can't be ignored, and sometimes details can determine the success or failure of things. Paying attention to the study of butterfly effect can help us find that many details have great influence on the survival of enterprises. The collapse of the once famous Zhu San Group is a typical failure.
Details determine success or failure. Su Shi's "Understanding People by Poetry"
Su Shi's wife, Wang Fu, is good at "knowing people behind the scenes". When Su Dongpo talks with the guests, Wang Fu stands behind the scenes, and can often judge whether the guests are worthy of communication and what kind of people they are, with high accuracy. It can be described as a model of knowing people.
Compared with his wife, Su Shi, who is broad-minded, is obviously much more careless, but he is also good at knowing people. It is nothing new to say that "details determine success or failure" now. Su Shi, for example, is very good at seeing a person's quality from details.
Here are a few examples.
Xie and Su Shi used to have a good relationship. Once, when they were walking in the suburbs, an injured bird fell from the tree. Xie Wenjing raised her leg and kicked the bird to one side. His seemingly casual behavior made Su Shi feel cold: this must be a person who belittles himself and harms others, so he can't be intimate. Xie's sister is Wang Anshi's sister-in-law, so she is highly valued by Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi promoted him to assistant of imperial history and miscellaneous knowledge. Seeing that Wang Anshi was at odds with Su Shi, he harmed Su Shi in order to please Wang Anshi and framed Su Shi for selling illicit salt in an attempt to convict Su Shi.
There is also a man named Zhang Dun, who was very close to Su Shi in his early years and talked about everything. An anecdote about their meeting is recorded in the notes of Song Dynasty, which shows that Su Shi can see through Zhang Dun's wisdom from the details.
Su Shi
Ren Fengxiang is the referee of our festival, Zhang Dun is the order of Shangzhou, and they are playing on the mountain. When they swam to Xianyou Lake, there was a cliff in front of them, and only a wooden bridge connected them. The abyss under the wooden bridge towering into the sky. Zhang Dun suggested that Su Shi should cross the bridge and leave ink on the cliff, but Su Shi did not dare. Walk leisurely, tie the rope to the tree, and write the words "Su Mou came here to visit" on the steep cliff with acrobatic and difficult techniques. Su Shi couldn't help but caress his back and sigh: "Only those who can fight for themselves can kill people!" Zhang Dun said with a smile: Su Shi believes that if a person does not cherish his own life, he will not cherish the lives of others. It was this Zhang Dun who later became the prime minister, was in power, and resolutely purged political opponents. He even offered to dig up Sima Guang's grave and severely whip his body. Because of his disagreement with Su Shi's political views, he also attacked Su Shi and relegated him to a remote Huizhou. Su Shi took pleasure in suffering in Huizhou and wrote a poem saying: "In order to report that the poet got enough sleep in spring, the Taoist priest knocked for five minutes." When this poem reached Beijing, Zhang Dun couldn't sleep. He didn't expect Su Shi to be so happy in adversity, so he was demoted to Danzhou (now Hainan), a more remote place. It is said that banishing Hainan Island in the Song Dynasty was only one step less than copying others' sins, which shows the cruelty of Zhang Dun. "History of Song Dynasty" takes Zhang Dun as the biography of treacherous court official, which shows that he is despised by people.
These are two negative examples. Of course, Su Shi also has a good side. For example, when Su Shi 1085 was an official in Dengzhou, a master book was particularly verbose every time he came to report things, and Su Shi was very annoyed. On one occasion, the master book
Su Shi was tired of a long speech, so he perfunctory him and said, "Come in the evening." In the evening, the main book came alone, and Su Shi reluctantly came out to see him. When Su Shi was reading Du Fu's poems, he deliberately asked, "There are many Bai Niao in rivers and lakes, and there are blue flies in heaven and earth." What does this "Bai Niao" mean? You mean birds like gulls? "The main book immediately replied:" Bai Niao is not a seagull or heron, but an insect like a gnat. This is a metaphor for a corrupt official who sucks human blood. There are too few gentlemen and too many villains in today's world! " Su Shi originally wanted to ridicule the main book with Bai Niao. Talking is as annoying as gnats. I didn't expect the master book to be not only knowledgeable, but also honest. From then on, he showed special respect and treated him well.
From this trivial matter of "knowing people by poetry", we can also see Su Shi's character of correcting mistakes when he knows them. Su Shi knows people by details, and most of them are correct, which is inseparable from his own words and deeds.