Chapter 39 The Twenty-fifth Strategies

Frequently change the formation, draw its neck brigade, wait for it to be self-defeated, and then take advantage of it and pull its wheel. Frequently change the enemy's formation, mobilize its elite main force, and when it is strong on the outside and weak on the inside, you can take the opportunity to crush it, drag the wheels, and the whole car will be useless. The formation has east, west, north, south orientations, and the front and rear facing parts are the beams of the formation; the earth axis runs through the central part, which is the pillar of the formation; the beams and pillars are guarded by the main force of the elite soldiers.Therefore, as long as you look at the enemy's formation, you can find out where the main force of his elite soldiers is.When attacking the enemy with friendly forces, not only must they cooperate with each other, but also the formation must be changed frequently, so as to secretly replace the main force of their elite soldiers, or even completely replace the original beams and columns. To defeat the enemy and annex its strength is to annex the enemy's strength.The primary tactic used to attack other enemies.

There is also the saying of "stealing the sky and changing the sun", which is one of the thirty-six strategies and tactics.The original meaning is to replace the real with the fake, which is a metaphor for secretly playing tricks and exchanging posts. It is used as a military strategy in Thirty-Six Strategies to elucidate.In fact, this strategy is more commonly used in the political field.It generally refers to replacing and changing the content of things in order to achieve the purpose of deception. It reflects the political tactics of intrigue and taking the opportunity to control others.

In 205 A.D., Prime Minister Zuo Han Xin was ordered to lead the army to attack Wei Wangbao, and he successfully used the strategy of stealing the beam and changing the post.Han Xin discovered that "the King of Wei Shengbing Puban", so he gathered ships on the west bank of Puban with great fanfare, pretending to prepare to attack the Yellow River, but secretly sent the main force north to Xiayang, collected wooden barrels, made simple tools for crossing the river, and stormed Wei Jun. Anyi at the rear.King Bao of Wei rushed to Anyi to fight, but was defeated and captured, and the state of Wei perished.

During the Warring States period, during the war of Qin State annexing the six countries, Qi State also successfully used the strategy of stealing beams and changing pillars. Qin Wangzheng saw that the prime minister of Qi State had real power, Hou Sheng, and sent people to send many valuables to Hou Sheng. After buying, Hou Sheng sent a large number of his subordinates to Qin State to train them as spies and then sent them back to Qi State according to the request of King Qin. The role of these spies was that no one in Qi resisted, Qi surrendered, and Qi State was destroyed. In the palace coup, the strategy of stealing the beam and changing the pillar was used even more brilliantly. Song Zhenzong's Donggong empress was barren, and her maidservant had a big belly, so she was made Concubine Chen. Gui, she was in the cold palace, so she came up with a trick, and she also stuffed a pillow in her abdomen, lying about her pregnancy, when Concubine Li Chen gave birth to a boy, the queen sent someone to bring a cat in to take the baby It was replaced and handed over to the queen, saying that she had given birth to a boy. Later, the boy was established as the prince and ascended the throne as Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty.

Back then, the Soviet authorities sent military advisers to their "allies" to cultivate pro-Soviet forces, and then sent troops to occupy them.In order to occupy Afghanistan and realize its dream of going south to the Indian Ocean, the Soviet Union has infiltrated Afghanistan from all aspects since the mid-1950s. After Taraki came to power, the Soviet Union dispatched more than 6,000 experts and consultants, gradually controlling the Afghan army, party and government. At the same time, they also used various spy methods to persecute dissidents and replaced them with pro-Soviet elements. It was precisely because the beams and pillars of the Afghan state and army were secretly stolen that the Soviet army's open invasion on December 27, 1979 , succeeded for a while.

In the winter of 202 BC, when Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang surrounded Xiang Yu's troops in Gaixia. In the camp of the Chu army, Xiang Yu was drinking, when a general came in and reported, "Your Majesty, the food and grass in our camp are gone. The soldiers haven't had a full meal for three days. The morale of the army is not stable!" The king of Chu asked, "Is there any news about the reinforcements coming?" The general replied: "There is no news of reinforcements at all. Now our army has no food and grass, and no reinforcements outside. Gaixia is not a place to stay for a long time!"

The King of Chu stood up, heaved a sigh of relief to Tian, ​​and said softly, "Tomorrow I will fight to the death with the King of Han to get out of this predicament." One day, the two armies faced each other, and the commander came out to meet him. The king of Chu said to Liu Bang: "The world has been in turmoil and turmoil for many years. It's all because of the two of us. Today, I am willing to fight alone with you. If I die, you will sit in the country. If you die , the world belongs to me, I am waiting now, you ride your horse and kill for a decisive battle." Liu Bang raised his whip and laughed loudly: "Now I have more soldiers than you, and I will have more troops than you. You are already in danger, so why do you compare with weapons? Today I will fight you wits, not strength. If you can fight me, I will let you escape. , if I can fight against you, this Jiangshan has the surname Liu."

Xiang Yu was very angry: "You mere villain, why are you so arrogant?" Liu Bang ignored Xiang Yu and announced Xiang Yu's "ten crimes" loudly in front of the two armies on horseback.The soldiers of the two armies listened attentively, and the battlefield was silent. Xiang Yu became angrier as he listened, and shouted loudly: "Young man Liu Bang, don't talk nonsense!" Immediately, he drew his bow and set up an arrow, and shot at Liu Bang. An arrow hit Liu Bang's chest, causing Liu Bang to be so painful that he couldn't stand upright. Liu Bang thought: This guy shot me in the chest, if I cover my chest, the whole army will be shocked, thinking that I will be seriously injured, the army's morale will be in chaos, and our army will definitely fail.

Thinking of this, Liu Bang became wise in a hurry, bent over and pinched his toes and yelled, "This evil slave shot my toe!" After saying this, he rode his horse back to the camp and did not fight Xiang Yu again. Xiang Yu had few major generals, and he didn't dare to rush into the camp rashly, so he had to beat the gong to withdraw his troops in a very disappointing manner. Liu Bang's wit stabilized the morale of the army, and the next day, he reluctantly comforted the soldiers from all walks of life.Liu Bang's army became more motivated, and finally defeated Xiang Yu and established the Western Han Dynasty.

Yongzheng is the son of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, and the fourth (fourth prince) is named Yinzhen.This fourth prince is very talented, and he is both civil and military, but he is mean and cruel by nature, ruthless and ungrateful. Emperor Kangxi had more than 30 sons. He thought about it carefully: there are only three who can become famous: the prince Yinqi, the fourth prince Yinzhen, and the eighth prince Yinsi.Therefore, the princes and ministers in the court were also divided into three factions, each of which protected its master. The prince faction was headed by Baozhi, the Yinzhen faction was secretly supported by Longkoduo and Nian Gengyao, and the leaders of the Yinsi faction were Tong Guowei and Ma Qi. .

Among the three factions, the eighth prince Yinsi has a gentle temperament, but the prince and Yinzhen are like incompatible water and fire, fighting openly and secretly, and fighting against each other.Yinzhen used his confidant lama monk to give the prince poisonous medicine in the name of offering medicine to the prince, which turned him into a lame man.Kangxi had no choice but to abolish the prince as a commoner, and hated that he would no longer register the prince. He also learned that the reason why the prince came here was the work of the fourth prince, and he hated Yinzhen even more. Battle reports came from the border, and it was reported that there were riots in Qinghai. Kangxi immediately ascended to the palace and asked: "The border is tight. I have been ill recently. Which prince will go out on my behalf?" The fourteenth prince's inscription said: "Father, the emperor's dragon body is important, and my son is willing to go to fight, so as to avoid future troubles." Kangxi was overjoyed.That is to say, the fourteenth prince was ordered to lead the troops to Qinghai. A few months later, the fourteenth prince suppressed the rebellion. Kangxi loved Yinti even more and made up his mind. When Kangxi was 68 years old, he was seriously ill and became more and more serious. He knew that he couldn't afford it, so he ordered Long Keduo and Nian Gengyao to enter the palace and entrusted him with the funeral. Kangxi said: "My health is getting weaker and I am afraid that I will die soon. Regarding the future, I have an edict here, and you must act according to my wishes." Long Kedo and Nian Gengyao kneeled and kowtowed: "May the dragon body have a good morning." Kangxi took out a yellow silk and said: "I have made up my mind, and you will follow suit." Long Kedo took the Huang Ling and took a look, and wrote on it with a Chinese ink brush: "If anything happens to me, I can pass on the throne to the fourteenth prince." After reading it, Longlado's face changed, and he knew that Yinzhen had no hope of succeeding to the throne. Kangxi noticed that Longkodo's expression was strange, so he retrieved the imperial edict and stuffed it under the pillow. After Longkodo came out of the palace, he came to the fourth prince overnight, and together with Nian Gengyao, reported to Yinzhen Bing the edict of Emperor Kangxi's inheritance. Yinzhen paced back and forth on the ground anxiously, "It's over now, when Yinti succeeds to the throne, we will all be over!" Longkodo narrowed his eyes: "If you can take out the edict and change it, wouldn't it be..." Nian Gengyao suggested: "If you add a horizontal line to the ten of the imperial edict passed on to the fourteenth prince, wouldn't it become passed on to the fourth prince?" Yinzhen said: "Okay, now, I don't care much about it." After the discussion was over, the three of them quickly entered the palace secretly and broke into the inner palace. At this time, Emperor Kangxi's life was approaching, and he was lying on the bed dying, his eyes closed. Yinzhen and Longkodo came under the dragon bed, and slowly pulled out the edict. With a slight movement, Kangxi woke up, saw Yinzhen standing beside the bed, and shouted: "Who taught you to enter!" Yinzhen hurriedly knelt down and said: "I came to the palace to see you at the order of my father and emperor." Kangxi asked loudly: "What is Yin's problem?" Longkodo hurried forward and said, "The Fourteenth Prince is on his way to Beijing." Kangxi was startled, and hurriedly turned under the pillow, but the imperial edict was gone. At this moment, Kangxi was in a hurry, and knocked down the Buddhist ball on his arm and threw it at Yinzhen. Yinzhen took it easily, and with the jade beads in his hand, he quickly knelt down and said, "Thank you, father, for setting up your son and minister for ascending the throne, and I take the jade beads as a gift." When Kangxi heard this, he stretched his legs in anger and went west. Longkodo hastily changed the cross on the edict to Yu, and then, he walked out of the inner palace and read out the edict to the princes: "Here is the edict of the late emperor, and the fourth elder brother is enthroned by the edict, as evidenced by the Buddha beads of the late emperor." So far, the fourth prince Yinzhen became the emperor for Yongzheng. On May 11, 1960, a U-2 high-altitude spy plane piloted by CIA pilot Francis Gary Powell was shot down over the Sverdlovsk Industrial Center in the Soviet Union. Powell was captured alive.This time, the wreckage of the spy plane, including cameras, tape recorders, radars and radios, was surprisingly intact and was publicly displayed in Moscow. Powell was also tried and imprisoned in the KGB's Ruby Changka prison. In 1965, a Soviet man walked into the CIA, expressed his surrender to the United States, and asked for political asylum. He was an important agent of the Soviet KGB, Alexander Nikolayevich Matoleski. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union did not yet have a fighter plane with a ceiling of 20,000, and the range of surface-to-air missiles was not enough. It was Khrushchev who used the KGB to use a trick to shoot down the U-2 plane of the United States. One late night in April 1960, the local Soviet leaders asked Khrushchev's personal adjutant Granitov to find Mariinsky, who was in charge of foreign intelligence in the Middle East. "Comrade Mariinsky, now I am announcing to you a central decision. Due to the needs of national defense science, we must try to get an American U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane. Therefore, the Ministry of National Defense is unable to complete the task. The central decision The intelligence agency (KGB) in charge of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran will complete this important task, please hurry up and arrange it." Mariinsky raised his hand and saluted Granitov, "Please report to Comrade Khrushchev, I promise to complete the task." The next day, Mariinsky flew to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and quickly met with a KGB spy chief, and secretly selected a Pathan pilot, Mohammad Jazik Khan.The pilot is the most respected and best fighter jet pilot in the Afghan Air Force. Two days later, Muhammad, who accepted the task, entered the city of Peshawar by bus from a village near Jibal, dressed in shabby clothes. In a coffee shop next to the US military airport, Muhammad found a friend of his. "Dear Bhutto, please help me find a job. For example, as a scavenger, a porter at the US military airport, or to replace someone's staff, I need a job." The fat Bhutto patted Muhammad's shoulder lightly and said: "Don't worry, my friend, there happened to be a scavenger at the airport who was sick. They asked me to find someone to replace him. I haven't found one yet. You Just come, after you drink coffee, I will take you there." Two hours later, Muhammad was taken into the outskirts of Peshawar, where he replaced a sick scavenger at the US military airport and sneaked into the Peshawar US military airport. In the US military airport, there is an apron and a huge hangar, and there are strict guards day and night. Because Muhammad is technically savvy, can speak English, is courageous and resourceful, and has been trained by Dakgeb, which created favorable conditions for him to work at the airport. The high-altitude spy flying Double Ten Squadron has already transferred from Turkey to Baisha Airport, and then found out the position of the plane and Captain Powell who flew the U-2 plane. Muhammad decided to take the risk himself. He knew that it was extremely dangerous, and if he made a mistake, he would lose his head. He observed carefully with a high-power infrared telescope and found that the guards changed every two hours. The changing of the guards was on the side of the plane, far away from the door. He waited until two o'clock at night, and sneaked into the plane barefoot while the guards were chatting. , quietly got into the cockpit. The cabin is full of instruments, and he quickly found the altimeter. There is a plastic cover on the outside of the altimeter, which is tightly screwed by 4 very small screws, one at each corner. He slowly unscrewed it by hand. He took out a screw in the upper right corner and replaced it with the same extremely strong magnet that he brought in advance.After finishing his work, he waited for another two hours without moving, and slipped out of the airport during the changing of the guard, disappearing into the dark night before dawn. The newly replaced screw, because of its strong magnetism, attracts the very thin pointer of the altimeter. The altimeter works on the aneroid principle, and the accurate altitude is calculated according to the pressure of the atmosphere. For some reason, this magnetic screw is affected. , the situation is not normal, when the plane takes off, the pointer starts to move, when the plane rises to the altitude of 10,000 meters, the pointer is attracted by the magnet, and it points to the maximum limit of 68,000 feet in advance.Wallet Will dare not continue to rise, but the actual height is only 10,000 feet. When Powell flew over Sverdlovsk, it happened to be within the range of the Soviet Army's air superiority. As a result, the Soviet Army easily lifted it It was shot down, and the cameras, tape recorders, radar and radio stations on the plane were surprisingly intact and exhibited in Moscow. At that time, Khrushchev took advantage of this and plausibly stated at the United Nations that the Soviet Union already possessed intercontinental missiles, which had terrorized the world for more than two years. In 1979, in the office of the general manager of "Cheung Kong Industrial Co., Ltd." in Hong Kong. "General manager, this is today's stock market quotations," the secretary said softly as he put the folder on the desk. "Okay, let's put it here." The general manager stopped the pen in his hand and raised his head. He is Mr. Li Ka-shing, chairman and general manager of Cheung Kong Industrial Co., Ltd., who owns 29 million square feet and is the largest land owner in Hong Kong besides the Hong Kong government.The suit he often wears is more than ten years old, and he always wears square-frame glasses with a refined look. Behind the lenses, there are a pair of reserved, sharp, deep and intelligent eyes. He picked up the stock market report, looked at it carefully, and calculated while looking at it. It took a long time before he straightened up from the desk.A cigarette is lit. Li Ka-shing started working as a wage earner in a teahouse at the age of 14 due to the difficult family life. Every day, he "goes to work with stars and moonlight, and comes home with lights in thousands of homes". At the age of 19, in a few dilapidated houses by a small stream, Li Ka-shing started the "Yangtze River Plastic Factory" with 7,000 Hong Kong dollars.After more than ten years of hard work, he has become the "King of Plastic Flowers" known to all women and children in Hong Kong.A new building replaced several dilapidated factory buildings in the past, and the brand of Changjiang Plastic Factory was changed to "Cheung Kong Industrial Co., Ltd." In the 1950s, Li Ka-shing resolutely invested in the real estate industry. Li Ka-shing exhaled a puff of smoke lightly. In the past more than ten years of hard work, he became a "plastic king". Now he has worked hard for more than 20 years and has finally become Hong Kong's number one "Land Lord".However, success is not the end of life, Li Ka-shing's heart will always be in the clouds. He looked out the window and thought to himself.Since 1977, the scale of "Cheung Kong" has grown larger and larger, and its business scope has gone beyond the real estate business, and it has begun to develop into diversification and integration. However, in this corner of Hong Kong, he seems to feel that he cannot leave. He began to dream of becoming a British-funded enterprise. Li Ka-shing knows that although there are many Chinese fortune-tellers in Hong Kong, he has not heard of anyone who dares to take the idea of ​​"Hutchison Whampoa" and other powerful British-funded groups. To break the blood, Li Ka-shing asked himself, behind these British-funded enterprises is the Hong Kong government, a big tree that can enjoy the shade. What is behind you, Li Ka-shing?Nothing, if anything, but a great ambition. Nothing is unachievable. Li Ka-shing quietly began to march into British companies. In 1978, Li Ka-shing quietly bought the stock of "Qingzhou Yingni", an old British resource sharing company in the stock market. When the stock reached 25%, he served as the director of the company, and when the share reached more than 40% At that time, he sat on the throne of the chairman of the company's board of directors. He knew very well that "Qingzhou Yingni" has hundreds of thousands of square meters of ground tigers in the Hongkanhai area, and it will have great achievements in the 1980s. Immediately afterwards, Li Ka-shing shifted his target to the Jardine Group, which is known as the "Kingdom of Foreign Firms", and took the "Wharf Warehouse", one of the main generals of Jardine, as the target of attack. He also bought stocks quietly and has After purchasing 20% ​​of the shares, he later learned that Mr. Bao Yugang had changed his mind to compete with the British capital for Wharf, so he transferred all the 10 million shares he received to his compatriots, and he also earned 59 million Hong Kong dollars earlier. Li Ka-shing secretly made a good idea again. The acquisition of "Qingzhou Yingni" and "Wharf" is just an attempt for him to attack British-funded companies. His eyes are always on "Hutchison Whampoa", which is controlled by HSBC. 40% of the shares The elephant, this elephant is the product of the merger of an old brand Hutchison & Co. and Huangpuwu. It operates large-scale real estate and other businesses. It has its name among the world's 1,000 largest companies and is the largest under the name of Hong Kong's top ten consortiums. As a listed company, its market value is 2.2 billion Hong Kong dollars more than that of "Cheung Kong". In September 1978, when "Hutchison" was not well managed and its profits were not good, when HSBC was actively looking for a competent boss behind the scenes, Li Ka-shing made another move. Success, his series of victories, HSBC has long seen in the eyes, that he is the most leadership method of businessmen.He is most capable of promoting the better development of "Hutchison", so HSBC transferred 22% of its common shares to Li Ka-shing, and Li Xicheng officially became the director of "Hutchison" on the 25th of the same month. 39%, he is the chairman of the board of directors of the British-funded group. Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd." also won the laurels of Ganjiang Group Company. Mr. Li Ka-shing successfully used the technique of "stealing the beam and changing the pillar" to successfully annex one British-funded enterprise after another.He has become a pivotal figure in Hong Kong, with a total property value of more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, ranking first in the top ten richest people in Hong Kong and Macau.