Chapter 10 5. Follow the rules

Zhu Yuanzhang said in his autobiography that when his elder brother was hiding in Huangjue Temple, with his head hanging from the beam and his spine piercing, and studying hard, the war was approaching him far away. When he slept on the bed at night, he could often hear the sound of tragic fighting in the distance.The world is so big that he can no longer put down another book, he has to make a choice immediately. But how did he choose? He did fortune-telling and begged for enlightenment from the Buddha. In doing so, isn't he poisoned by feudal superstition too deeply?How can it be said that he has understood the law of success in life?However, the fact is exactly the opposite. It is precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang has thoroughly understood the rules and principles of success in life that he turned to the blessings of the gods.

Where did this come from?You must know that what is shown in the war is the will of the group. If a single person wants to start a war, it is relatively difficult.Not to mention ordinary people, even a high-ranking emperor, if he wants to start a war, he will often encounter fierce opposition from his courtiers.People who don't understand the laws of war think that the emperor can go to war as he wants as long as he kills those subjects who oppose the war, but this is not the case.What war needs is the cooperation of the whole society. Some people go to the battlefield, some do logistics, some are responsible for propaganda and conscription, and some are responsible for advance payment of food and grass... And those who are in charge of these tasks, once they oppose war, then no one will do these tasks. War Also can't fight.

Therefore, war is the will of the group. Once a sufficient number of people yearn for war and call for war, then over time, this kind of propaganda will subtly influence others, and more and more people will be involved.When war madness accounts for a certain proportion of the population, peace will end. So what kind of person would call for war? It is precisely those who are ignorant of the laws of life and who run into walls everywhere in real life.Precisely because these people keep encountering failures in life, they feel aggrieved about the reality, thinking that the reason why they suffer repeated setbacks is because others hinder them. Does the wind make the rain come?

Once this kind of thought breeds, it is like the weeds on the outskirts after the rain, it will grow rapidly in an instant, and quickly cover his entire world, making it difficult for him to shake off his desire for war. The reason why groups call for war is because groups believe that war is an opportunity to change their destiny. However, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think so. The war that Zhu Yuanzhang understood was closer to the laws of war itself.When a crowd is caught in the madness of war, it loses its reason and its grip on itself.In other words, what leads the war is irrational rage, which is unpredictable and destructive. Those involved in the war are forced to play a cruel game of life and death.No matter how many games you win, as long as you lose the last time, you will lose all your money including your own life.Simply put, just one sentence: no one can control war, and no one can benefit from war.

If Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think so, then he would have carried a kitchen knife, groaned and rushed out of the house, devoting himself to the business of slashing people and being slashed, and would never do such unskilled things as divination. live.The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang did divination was because he knew the laws of war and knew that the possibility of him benefiting from the war was close to zero, so he showed so little confidence. As Zhu Yuanzhang said in his personal autobiography, he used a plank for divination, trying to use the results of the divination to help him make a choice.However, the Buddha competed with this guy. Zhu Yuanzhang threw the chips on the ground, and the three chips were all upright, neither showing the yang on the front nor the yin on the back.

Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't believe that the Buddha was such a spoof, so he voted again, but the result was still the same, and the chip was still upright, deliberately teasing Zhu Yuanzhang. If you fail twice, try a third time. As a result of the third time, the chips were still standing, which can be called an impossible event in terms of probability.However, Zhu Yuanzhang encountered such an impossible event, and from this he came to a conclusion that in the face of war, the Buddha had nothing to do.Even the Buddha has nothing to do with it, so do I still need to bother thinking about it?

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang made up his mind, the situation is stronger than others, no matter how much he fears the war, but when this fear comes, he can only stand up, bite the bullet and meet it, whether it is life or death , resign yourself to fate. On the surface, Zhu Yuanzhang's choice is no different from the many people who got involved in the war without any thought.But in fact, his choice is a high-value-added choice, and the thoughts that run along with this choice will constitute his destiny that is completely different from others.