2. A blockbuster: According to legend, Chu Zhuangwang (also known as Qi Weiwang) spent three years in politics, playing all day and turning a blind eye to state affairs. A courtier said to Zhuang Wang, "I heard that there is a big bird in the countryside that doesn't fly for three years and doesn't sing for three years. What's wrong? " Zhuang Wang said: "This bird can fly without flying, and it will soar in the sky;" It will be a blockbuster if you don't sing. " Then, we will rectify state affairs, enrich Qiang Bing, and form a situation of great governance in just a few years.
3. Be brave: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, defeated and captured Gou Jian, the king of Yue. Gou Jian fed the horse for three years and was tortured. After returning home, he decided to take revenge and rejuvenate the country. He asked Fan Li to help train the army, hire talents, take part in labor by himself, and insist on sleeping on firewood. He tasted courage before every meal, and finally destroyed Wu.
4. An old horse knows the way: In the Spring and Autumn Period, at the request of Yan State, Qi Huangong led troops to repel the invasion of Shan Rongguo; The Milu, the king of Shanrong, fled to the lonely bamboo country to ask for reinforcements, and Guan Zhong followed Qi Huangong to defeat the reinforcements of the lonely bamboo country. On the way back to China, Qi Jun was trapped by a fake guide's agency. Guan Zhong suggested using an old horse to lead the way to save the day.
5. Apologize for your mistake: During the Warring States Period, Zhao had two important ministers, Lian Po and Lin Xiangru. Because of Lin Xiangru's many meritorious deeds, Wang Zhao made him Prime Minister, but Lian Po was unconvinced and thought that his martial arts had overshadowed him. Lin Xiangru avoided Lian Po many times for the sake of the country. Lian Po was ashamed when he learned of his good intentions, so he went to Lin Xiangru's house to confess secretly. From then on, the two made up and became friends with each other.
6. On paper: During the Warring States Period, Zhao Kuo, the son of Zhao She, a famous Warring States soldier, was proficient in and could speak the art of war. Even his father can't beat him, and he thinks he is invincible. Zhao She thinks that he is an armchair strategist and doesn't understand traffic. Later, when Zhao She died, Zhao Kuo took Lian Po's place. Lin Xiangru and others strongly opposed it. Zhao Wang insisted that Zhao Kuo lost 400,000 troops in the battle of Changping.
7. Three orders and five applications: Sun Wuliu lived in the State of Wu, and the King of Wu wanted to test Sun Wu's military ability, so he handed over 180 young ladies-in-waiting to Sun Wu for practice. Sun Wu divided the ladies-in-waiting into two teams and made the prince's favorite concubine the captain. After Sun Wu confessed the password to the ladies-in-waiting, he drummed and commanded. The ladies-in-waiting burst into laughter and the team was in chaos. Sun Wu gave another order, but the ladies-in-waiting just thought it was fun and didn't listen at all. Sun Wu said that since he had understood the order and didn't listen, it was the crime of the leader and ordered the two captains to be put to death. The prince of Wu hurriedly ordered that the princess should not be killed, but Sun Wu killed two princesses. Then, Sun Wu rehearsed the ladies-in-waiting, and this time no one dared not listen to orders.
8. Encircling Wei to save Zhao: During the Warring States Period, Wei Jun besieged Handan, the capital of Zhao. Zhao asked Qi for help and sent Tian Ji as the general and Sun Bin as the strategist to send troops to save Zhao. Tian Ji wanted to directly lead troops to save Zhao Handan, while Sun Bin advocated that troops should besiege the capital girder of Wei, and Wei would return to the army to save himself. This will not only lift the siege of Zhao, but also consume Wei Jun. Tian Ji adopted Sun Bin's strategy and led his troops to take the lead. When Wei Jun heard the news, he quickly withdrew the troops besieging Handan and returned to the army to rescue the girder overnight. Going to Guiling, the Qi army will meet Wei Jun earlier and earlier. Wei Jun was defeated, almost completely annihilated.
9. Khufu Riding and Shooting: During the Warring States Period, King Wu Ling, the monarch of Zhao, was determined to change his plan. King Wuling saw that the Hu people (ethnic minorities) were dressed in short-sleeved plain clothes, riding horses, shooting arrows while running, and their actions were agile and flexible, so he decided to learn from the Hu people, reform soldiers' clothing and develop cavalry. In less than a year, Zhao had a powerful cavalry. After fighting in the south and north, Zhao became one of the great powers at that time.
10. Stupid
Ji was an expert in training cockfighting in the Spring and Autumn Period. Because of his reputation, the King of Qi also recruited him to train cockfighting.
Ten days later, the King of Qi asked him, "How is the cockfighting training now? Ji Xunzi replied: "The chicken is arrogant, but the time has not yet arrived. Ten days later, the King of Qi came to ask him again: "Is it time to train cockfighting?" ? Ji Xunzi replied: "No, it can't hold its breath yet. A month later, the king of Qi was impatient, but Ji Xiezi shook his head and saidno. Ten days later, Ji Xiezi told the king that cockfighting was well trained. Cockfighting is so powerful that other chickens are stiff when they see it. It can be seen that it is really a world-beater cockfighting!
1 1. Stealing symbols to save Zhao: During the Warring States Period, Qin sent troops to besiege Handan, the capital of Zhao. Zhao asked Wei for help, and Wei sent troops to save Zhao. When Qin heard that Wei sent troops to save Zhao, he sent people to Wei to threaten Wang Wei. Wang Wei gave in to Qin and ordered those who went to save Zhao to stay where they were. So he wrote to Xin, the son of Wei State, for help. Xinlingjun once avenged Wang Wei's favorite concubine, such as Ji, for killing his father. Xinlingjun let Ruji steal the art of war from Wang Wei, thus seizing the military power, leading tens of thousands of soldiers to Handan, defeating Qin Jun and solving the siege of Handan.
12. Fraud
Twenty-six years of King Xiang of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. Chu invaded Zheng. At that time, Zheng, as strong and weak as Chu, was really unable to resist. As a result, Zheng was defeated, and even Zheng's was captured by Chu. After the war, the Chu army was surrounded by the son of the younger brother of the king of Chu, and wanted to take the credit for Zheng Jiezhi's capture as his own, saying that Zheng Jiezhi was captured by him. So the two men had an argument, and there was no way to solve it at the moment. Later, they asked Li Bo to be a fair person and decided who was responsible for it.
Bozhou Tiangang Company's solution to the dispute is fair. He insisted that if you want to know whose credit this is, you'd better ask the captured King Zheng. So he ordered someone to take Zheng to Bozhou Plough and explain what had happened to him. Then he held out two fingers, one for King Chu and the other for General Chu, and then asked him who he had captured. Zheng hates his guts, because he was captured by someone who wore a seal, so he pointed to his upper finger and said that he was captured by Gong Ziwei. Therefore, Bozhou Plough decided that this was due to outside the childe.
13. An incorrigible person
There was a nobleman named KATTO in the Zhou Dynasty. KATTO is not only talented in poetry, but also good at managing state affairs. Later, he was by Zhou Liwang's side to help handle state affairs. However, Zhou Liwang is arrogant and misinterprets the law. Treacherous court officials try their best to please. KATTO bluntly advised him and listed the disadvantages of state affairs, but the treacherous court official spoke ill of him in Zhou Liwang's ear. Zhou Liwang is very tired of KATTO. Since then, treacherous court officials have gone in and out, ignoring KATTO. KATTO was very angry and wrote a poem, which was later included in The Book of Songs. In the poem, he attacked the traitor and said, "There is no cure for evil!"
14. Buy a gift and return it to the pearl.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a businessman in the State of Chu who specialized in selling jewelry. On one occasion, he went to Qi State to sell jewelry.
Well, in order to sell jewelry, many small boxes are made of precious wood. The boxes are beautifully carved and decorated.
Look, let the box smell, and then put the jewelry in the box.
A man from Zheng saw the box containing the orb exquisite and beautiful. After asking the price, he bought one and opened the box.
Son, take out the treasure inside and return it to the jeweler.
15. Smith (last name)
During the Warring States period, when Chu was at its strongest, he was afraid of his general Zhao for the sake of the northern country at that time.
Xi's t-shirt, and feel strange. So he asked the North Korean minister why.
At that time, a minister named Jiang Yi told him the following story:
"Once upon a time, there was a tiger in a cave. Because he was hungry, he ran outside to look for food. When he came to a place,
When I was in the dense forest, I suddenly saw a fox walking in front of me. He thinks this is a golden opportunity.
Yes, he jumped over and caught him effortlessly.
But when it opened its mouth to eat the fox, the sly fox suddenly spoke:
Hum! Don't think that you are the king of beasts and dare to swallow me; You know, heaven and earth ordered me to be king.
Your Majesty, whoever eats me will be severely punished by heaven and earth. The tiger listened to the fox with a grain of salt.
However, when he tilted his head and saw the fox's arrogant and calm appearance, he was shocked. The original arrogance.
And I don't know when most of them disappeared. Even so, he thought to himself: I am one hundred.
The king of beasts, so any beast in the world will be afraid to see me. And he, it turned out, was ordered by Emperor Fengtian to rule us!
At this time, the fox saw the tiger hesitate to eat, and knew that he had already believed him a little.
So he stood proudly, then pointed to the tiger's nose and said,' What, don't you believe what I said?
Really? Then come with me now, walk behind me and see if all the wild animals are scared out of their wits when they see me.
Running around. The tiger thought it was a good idea and did it.
So the fox swaggered ahead and the tiger followed carefully. They didn't leave much.
For a long time, I vaguely saw the depths of the forest, where many small animals were fighting for food, but when they found themselves walking behind the fox.
The tiger was in front of him, and he couldn't help but be frightened to disgrace and ran away.
At this moment, the fox turned to look at the tiger proudly. Seeing this situation, the tiger can't help but feel a little scared.
But he didn't know that wild animals were afraid of themselves, and he thought they were really afraid of foxes!
The cunning fox's plan succeeded, but his strength was entirely due to the tiger's disguise, which enabled him to threaten in a favorable situation at this moment.
Threatening the beast and the poor tiger to be fooled and not knowing it!
Therefore, the people in the north are afraid of Zhao Xi's shirt simply because the king's soldiers are in his hands, that is to say.
Say, what they are afraid of is actually the power of the king! "
From the above story, we can know that anyone oppresses others by virtue of the power of authority or the power of position.
Anyone who acts arrogantly can be described as "Smith".
16. Worry is unfounded.
Once upon a time in the state of Qi, there was a man who was timid and a little neurotic. He often thinks of some strange questions, but
It makes people feel inexplicable.
One day after dinner, he sat at the door with a big cattail leaf fan and assessed his future, saying to himself:
"If one day, the sky falls, what should I do? We have no way out, we will only be crushed to death alive.
Is it too wrong to die? "
Since then, he has been worried about this problem almost every day, and his friends have seen him in a trance all day long and his face is haggard.
Worried about him, but when everyone knew the reason, they all came to persuade him to say:
"Dude! Why bother yourself about it? How can the sky fall? Said that even if it did fall,
That can't be solved by you alone. Relax! "
However, no matter what others say, he doesn't believe it, and he will always worry about this unnecessary problem.
Later, according to the above story, people extended the idiom "worrying about the sky", whose main meaning is to wake people up.
Children should not worry about some unrealistic things. It has roughly the same meaning as "much ado about nothing"
17. Better late than never
This story comes from the Warring States Policy. During the Warring States Period, there was a minister in the State of Chu named Zhuang Xin. One day, he said to King Chu Xiang:
"When you are in the palace, state affairs are on the left and Xiahou is on the right; When you went out, Yan Lingjun and Shou Jing Jun followed you all the time.
Youyou and these four people pay special attention to luxury and debauchery. Regardless of state affairs, Ying (Chu capital, in the north of jiangling county, Hubei Province) is one of them.
It must be dangerous! "
Wang Xiang was very dissatisfied and scolded angrily, "Are you crazy? Deliberately saying these insidious words to confuse people? "
Zhuang Xin replied unhurriedly: "I really feel that things must come to this, and I dare not deliberately say anything about Chu."
Unfortunately. If you always cherish this man, Chu will surely perish. Since you don't believe me, please allow me to find Zhao.
Hide and see what happens. "
Zhuang Xin lived in Zhao Guocai for five months, and the State of Qin invaded Chu, and Wang Xiang was forced into exile in Yangcheng (now Xixian County, Henan Province).
North). Only then did I feel that Zhuang Xin's words were good, so I quickly sent someone to get Zhuang Xin back and asked him what he could do. ZhuangXin very sincerely say:
"I heard that it's not too late to see rabbit teeth and think of hounds; It's not too late to mend the sheepfold after the sheep have run away. ……"
This is a very meaningful story. You only know how to have fun, not how to do things. The result must be a painful loss.
There is no doubt about failure.
The idiom "Better late than never" is based on the above two sentences, expressing that after handling things wrong,
If you hurry to save it, it's not too late. For example, a career criminal misjudges the development of things and takes risks lightly.
Fall into a state of failure. But he was not discouraged. He patiently reconsidered things and learned from this mistake.
Training, I feel that "better late than never", it is not too late to start from scratch!
18. One violence and ten cold
During the Warring States period, a hundred schools of thought contended and lobbied vigorously. The average lobbyist is not only knowledgeable, but also has profound and vivid metaphors to satirize and persuade the rulers, which is the most prominent. Mencius was also a famous debater. In the first article of Mencius, Gao Zi, there is such a record:
Mencius was dissatisfied with Qi Wang's fatuity, lack of perseverance, and credulous adulterer's slanderers, so he said to him rudely, "Qi Wang is so unwise. Although there are living creatures in the world, you exposed them to the sun for a day, but frozen them in a cold place for ten days. How do they survive there? " My time with the king is very short. Even if the king has a little determination to be good, as soon as I leave you, those traitors will come to trick you and you will listen to them. What should I do? Based on this, he made a vivid analogy: "Playing chess seems trivial, but if you don't concentrate, you won't learn well and you won't win. Qiu Yi is the best chess player in the country. He taught two apprentices, one devoted himself to listening to Qiu Yi's guidance everywhere; The other is always afraid that a big swan will come and prepare to shoot the goose with an arrow. Both apprentices were taught by a master and studied together, but the latter's grades were far from each other. This is not the difference of their intelligence, but the difference of their concentration. "This is a very instructive story. If we want to learn something and do it well, we must concentrate on it and work hard. If you do something today, forget it and do it for ten days the next day, how can you do it well? Success in learning and doing things is also one of the decisive factors, so people later simplified what Mencius said as "one day's violence, ten days' cold" to the idiom "one day's violence, ten days' cold", which was used to describe the lack of perseverance in learning and doing things and giving up halfway. For example, a classmate is very casual about learning, so he has less time to study and more time to waste. So we say: What can he learn from this self-destructive approach?
19. Three people make a tiger
During the Warring States period, when attacking each other, in order to make everyone really keep their promises, countries usually gave their princes to each other as hostages. The Warring States Policy; "Wei Ce" has this record:
Pang Cong, minister of Wei, will accompany Wang Wei to Zhao as a hostage. Before he left, he said to Wang Wei:
"Now there is a person who says there are tigers in the market. Can you believe it? "
Wei Wangdao: "I don't believe it."
Pang Cong said, "If a second person says there are tigers in the market, can your majesty believe it?"
Wei Wangdao: "I have some doubts."
Pang cong added, "if a third person says there are tigers in the market, will your majesty believe it?"
Wei Wangdao: "Of course I will believe it."
Pang Cong said: "It is clear that there will be no tigers in the market, but after three people said it, it seems that there really are tigers." Now Handan, the capital of Zhao, is far away from the capital of Wei, much farther than the market here, and there are more than three people who say that I am. I hope the king can see clearly. "
Wei Wangdao: "I know everything myself."
Pang Cong accompanied the prince back to China, but Wang Wei didn't summon him again.
Cities are places where population is concentrated. Of course there will be no tigers. It is obviously a rumor and deception to say that there are tigers in the market, but many people will often believe it if they don't look at the problem from the truth.
This story was originally intended to satirize Wei Huiwang's ignorance, but later it was extended to the idiom "Three people make a tiger", which is a borrowed metaphor, meaning that sometimes rumors can cover up the truth. For example, to judge whether a thing is true or false, we must carefully examine and think, and we can't hear it from hearsay. Otherwise, "three men become tigers" sometimes mistake rumors for true retreat: shed: in ancient times, three miles was used as a tent for marching. Take the initiative to retreat 90 miles. Metaphor concession and avoidance, avoid conflict.
20. The opposite is true.
When the king of Wei wanted to attack Zhao, Liang Ji persuaded him to say, "I met a man at the foot of Taihang Mountain. He drove north and said to me,' I'm going to Chu. I asked him,' You want to go to Chu, why do you want to go north? He said,' My horse is fine. I said,' Your horse is good, but this is not the way to Chu! He added, "I have enough money to travel. I said,' Although your travelling expenses are high, this is not the way to Chu! He also said that the person driving my car is very capable. He didn't know the direction was wrong. The better the tourist conditions, the farther away from Chu. Now the king always wants to dominate the princes, and everything he does wants to win the trust of the world. Relying on a powerful country and an elite army, he attacked Handan in order to expand his territory and improve his prestige. Don't you know that the more you do this, the farther away you are from the goal of unifying the world as king, which is like going north to Chu! "