Chapter 40 The twenty-sixth strategy accuses Sang and scolds Huai

For those who are small and young, the police should penetrate them, stand upright in the middle, and follow the dangers. For the strong to subdue the weak, they must be ruled by precepts and warnings.If the majesty is appropriate, you will be convinced, willing to obey orders, and fight desperately. Lead an army that always obeys orders to fight against the enemy.When you command it, it still disobeys orders. If you use money to buy it at this time, it will make it more suspicious.In this case, you can intentionally create incidents or mistakes, blame and punish others for their mistakes, so as to warn people who imply disobedience.The so-called warning hints at it, which is to rule from another angle. This is to use the method of killing one to set an example to establish authority. It can also be said that this is a method of dispatching troops.

The original meaning of referring to mulberry and scolding Huai is to point at this and scold that. In military affairs, in order to establish their majesty in front of their subordinates, generals often use the tactics of "killing chickens and respecting monkeys, knocking mountains and shaking tigers". In history, Sun Wu beheaded the concubine of King Wu, and Tian Rangju beheaded Qi Jinggong's cronies, which shocked the rulers. The common characteristics of Sun Wu and Tian Rangju were strict military management and strict law enforcement. Those who violated military discipline were brought to justice. The role of killing one to warn others, King Wu defeated Chu in the west, Qi and Jin in the north, Qi Jinggong turned defeat into victory, shocked Jin and Yan, and Jiang restored the land.There is a direct relationship between the strict management of the army by one or two military leaders.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Bai Chongxi, and Huang Rui, Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan, held a secret meeting in Nanjing and decided to immediately block the Yangtze River and capture the Japanese fleet that was patrolling in Wuhan. I didn't know it at all, but the Japanese fleet got the information, sailed at night, and fled back to Shanghai from Han.Chiang Kai-shek was furious. Apparently someone in the group was collaborating with the enemy. He secretly ordered the commander of the gendarmerie to investigate and find out the traitor. Huang Rui, who was collaborating with the enemy and buying the country, was soon found out.In order to eliminate the internal traitors, Huang Rui was immediately executed. In this way, those "Japanese fear factions" who were shaken in their will would no longer dare to speak absurdly, and would no longer dare to act in collusion with the enemy.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Han Fuju, the chairman of Shandong, communicated with Japan and refused to listen to the command of the central government, which delayed the war opportunity and caused the loss of large areas of Shandong and Shanxi.Chiang Kai-shek personally approved and captured Han Fuju alive.Later, Han Fuju was captured in Kaifeng, Henan Province.He was taken to Wuhan to be interrogated by Lu Zhonglin, chief judge of the Military Judiciary Department of the Military Reporters Association, and executed publicly by shooting.This is the effect of the strategy of "killing the chicken to scare the monkey".

In the field of diplomacy, accusations often have unexpected results. On the United Nations Trusteeship Council, Sir Ford, the British representative, talked about the deeds of Britain's independence of its colonies. The Soviet representative poured cold water on him: "Everyone knows the countries of the British Commonwealth. Many of the prime ministers were former British prisons." "That's right!" Sir Forte replied, "it's better to turn a prisoner into a prime minister than your country to turn a prime minister into a prisoner." The Soviet representative was speechless.

What left the deepest impression on the world is the use of this conspiracy by the "Gang of Four". A typical example is when "criticizing Lin and Confucianism", "criticizing Duke Zhou" by pointing fingers and scolding Huai, that is, indirectly pointing the finger at Premier Zhou Enlai , This kind of unscrupulous political tricks is disgusted by the world. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Jin attacked the A and Juan regions of the State of Qi, and at the same time the State of Yan invaded the south bank of the Yellow River in the State of Qi, and the army of the State of Qi was defeated.For this reason, Qi Jinggong was very angry.

One morning, Qi Jinggong looked around at the ministers and said, "Can't all the ministers recommend me a talent for governing the country?" The doctor Yan Ying went forward and said: "I recommend Tian Rangju to the king. Although Tian Rangju was born of Tian Jun's concubine, his talent can convince everyone and his martial arts can make the enemy fear. If the king can appoint Tian Rangju, It will definitely keep the invading magistrates out of the country." Duke Jing of Qi was overjoyed, and sent Yan Ying to invite Tian Rangju into the palace the next day. Qi Jinggong discussed military politics with Tian Rangju, and Tian Rangju knew everything, and answered calmly, Wentao Wulue, Qi Jinggong was very satisfied.It is said that the purpose is to host a banquet in Jingyang Palace in honor of Tian Rangju. During the meeting, Qi Jinggong announced the appointment of General Tian Rangju to lead the Qi army to resist the invading enemies of Jin and Yan.

Tian Rangju went to the banquet and knelt down to thank the king, "Tian thanked the king for his kindness. I was originally a person of very low status. The king promoted me from the common people, and the lawsuit was above all the officials. I am afraid that the soldiers will not be convinced, and the people will not be convinced." Support, a person with a low status has no authority, I ask the king to appoint someone whom you favor and respected by the soldiers and people of the whole country to be my supervisor. Only in this way can I obey the appointment of the king and serve the country with all my heart."

Qi Jinggong nodded in agreement. The next day, Qi Jinggong was now in civil and military lawsuits, and appointed Tian Rangju as the general of Qi State, and appointed his favorite minister Zhuang Jia as the supervisor of the army. After going to court, Tian Rangju and Zhuang Jia agreed to meet at the gate of the military salesman at noon the next day to discuss the matter of dispatching troops. After Tian Rangju returned to the military palace, he set up the clock and clepsydra for timekeeping, waiting for Zhuang Jia's arrival. On the second day, Zhuang Jia's relatives and subordinates held a farewell banquet for him, and when it was almost noon, one of his subordinates reminded him: "Didn't the supervisor make an appointment with the general to discuss the use of troops in the afternoon, please ask the supervisor to consider it. "

At this time, Zhuang Jia was slightly drunk, "What kind of general is just a commoner, and he is in command of my army, discuss the use of troops, let him wait for a while!" Immediately, he raised his glass and drank wildly. At noon, General Tian Da, who was sitting in the tent of the Chinese army, asked his left and right: "Where is the supervisory army?" The left and right answered: "The supervising army has not entered the camp." "When is this time?" Left and right answered: "It's past noon." Immediately, General Tian ordered people to cut down the sun watch, pour out the water in the clepsydra, call gold to raise the account, and after the general was ordered, he promulgated military discipline to the three armies.

In the evening, Zhuang Jia drove a large number of envoys into the barracks by car, and came to Tian Rangju with a drunken face. Tian Rangju asked Zhuang Jia, "Why did you arrive after the appointed time?" Zhuang Jia replied: "My relatives are on a farewell trip for the supervising army, so there is a delay." Tian Rangju said: "A soldier must forget his home from the day he accepts the order, and all his relatives before the battle. After the battle begins, he must disregard life and death. Moreover, the enemy has invaded our territory. The people in the country are in turmoil. Fighting hard at the border, the king can't sleep, the people can't swallow, what are you doing for a farewell party!" Zhuang Jia shook his head: "So what about the farewell party?" Tian Rangju was furious: "Military judge, according to the military law, what should be done if someone arrives late without a reason within the specified time?" The military judge replied: "According to military law, he should be beheaded." Tian Rangju sprinted: "Order the army discipline, push the supervising army out of the gate and behead it!" At this time, Zhuang Jia had woken up from the wine, and loudly called the messenger to ask Jinggong for help. After Tian Rangju beheaded Zhuang Jia, he hoisted his head on the flagpole to warn the three armies, and the whole army was greatly shocked. After a while, the envoys sent by Qi Jinggong rushed to the military camp with the talisman festival to rescue Zhuang Jia.Tian Rang said: "The general is here to perform missions, and some of the king's orders may not be accepted. Zhuang Jia violated military discipline and has been punished." He asked the judge again: "Cars are not allowed in the barracks. How to deal with it according to military law?" The military judge replied: "It should be beheaded." The messenger was very frightened. Tian Rangju said: "The king's envoy cannot be killed." So he only ordered to kill the envoy's servant, cut off the wooden pole on the left side of the envoy's car, killed the horse driving on the right side, and warned the three armies. Drivers will be beheaded. From then on, the soldiers of the whole army never dared to despise Tian Rangju and violated military discipline. Because General Tian’s military orders are like mountains, and he was able to share joys and sorrows with the soldiers, the army was greatly boosted. He led the Qi army to successfully resist Jin and Yan, regained the lost land, and defended the country. This story can be described as the most vivid example of the strategy of pointing at Sang and scolding Huai. In the Spring and Autumn Period, when Sun Wu just arrived in the state of Wu, the king of Wu praised Sun Wu for presenting "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and said to Sun Wu: "Mr. Demonstrate the training method, let us feast our eyes." Sun Wu replied: "Your Majesty, this is not difficult, but I have one condition, the trainees must absolutely obey my orders, and anyone who violates them will be killed." King Wu said: "Of course, of course, I would like to ask, sir, is your method of training soldiers also applicable to women?" Sun Tzu replied: "Yes." So, King Wu gathered 180 court ladies and handed them over to Sun Wu for training. Sun Wu organized 180 court ladies into two teams, each holding a halberd, and the two most beloved concubines of King Wu served as the captains respectively. After standing in line, Sun Wu said to them: "Listen everyone, each of you must remember the front, back, left and right positions, understand?" The maids replied in unison: "Understood." After the deployment, Sun Wu set up an axe for enforcing military laws, and issued repeated orders and five early applications to enforce military discipline for those who did not carry out the orders. Sun Tzu beat the drum to deliver an order: "Right!" The court ladies laughed when they heard this, hitting and poking each other was not serious. Sun Wu immediately said to them sternly: "Everyone, be serious! You are not familiar with the military orders in the initial training. I am responsible. Please pay attention to the repeated orders to beat the drums. When the left is left, when the right is right, when the current is the front, when the rear is the right." After that, remember?" They still replied in unison: "Remember!" So, Sun Tzu made repeated orders, and then beat the drum to the left, but he didn't know that these court ladies were laughing and joking again. Seeing this situation, Sun Wu was very angry and criticized them loudly: "I have told you clearly just now, why didn't you do what I said? The military order is like a mountain, and the soldiers don't obey the command. The captain should be punished by military law! Come on, general The two captains proposed beheading to show the public." At this time, King Wu, who was watching the exercise from the viewing platform, saw that Sun Wu was going to kill his own concubine, panicked, and hurriedly sent someone down to say: "Your Majesty has seen that you can use troops. Please be merciful and forgive me, Your Majesty." My two favorite concubines." Sun Wu replied solemnly: "Since your majesty has ordered me to be a general and command me to train troops, I will speak first, and those who disobey the military order will be cut off. How can military orders be trifling? As the saying goes: If you are in the army, you will not accept your orders!" He ordered the beheading of the two captains. More than 100 court ladies were so frightened that they didn't even dare to breathe. Then, Sun Wu sent an order to continue the drill. Seeing that the military order was so strict, all the maids dared not laugh anymore. This time the team was neat and orderly, obeying the order and obeying the command. After the drill, Sun Wu reported to King Wu: "My lord, the soldiers have been trained, please review them." The very angry King Wu replied with a wry smile: "Okay, you can go to rest, I don't want to review the troops now." Sun Wu's ability to use soldiers has been paid special attention to by the king of Wu since then, and finally made the state of Wu continue to grow into a powerful country in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in the ancient capital of Luoyang, a group of the largest and powerful landlords of the Eastern Han Dynasty lived a debauched and corrupt parasitic life. The fertile fields that could not be seen at a glance became the gardens and hunting grounds of foreign relatives (the emperor's mother and wife families); Dozens of high-rise buildings are the luxurious mansions of the eunuchs. They enslave thousands of slaves and loot countless gold and silver treasures.The two major groups of powerful landlords, the relatives and the eunuchs, took turns to control the ruling power of the Eastern Han Dynasty and act as a domineering force. When the eleventh emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty—Lingdi, the eunuch group held the power alone.They relied on the power of the lawsuit to commit crimes and make a mess of Luoyang city, and the sky was dark. At that time, Luoyang City was divided into four ministries, east, west, north, and south, each of which had an official in charge of public security called Wei. In Luoyang City, this was just a small lawsuit. The yamen in the village has been in disrepair for a long time and is dilapidated. However, Luoyang Beiwei’s yamen was not quite the same day as usual. The two gates had just been painted with vermilion paint, and they looked brand new. On both sides of the vermilion gate, there were dozens of new five-color sticks hanging high on each side, as thick as wrists. Red, green, blue... very conspicuous. Passers-by here were very surprised to see this new sight. Gradually, more and more people gathered at the gate of the yamen. After a while, two soldiers took out a wooden sign and put it in the middle of the gate. The ban: "In order to maintain the law and order in the north of the city, nocturnal walking is prohibited. Anyone who violates the law will be severely punished with the five-color tribute, regardless of the common people." The signature below is "Luoyang Northern Weiling." After reading this ban, everyone couldn't help discussing in a low voice: "The new lieutenant came out with this ban just after he took office. It's a big deal!" "Hey, that's fine, those tyrants can no longer run rampant around at night." A peddler who had suffered from the tyrants said: "Look at these big sticks are really powerful, whoever hits them thirty or fifty times one by one will be finished." .” An old man next to him shook his head and smiled wryly, "I think it's just a new lawsuit and a bluff." At this time, someone hissed softly, "Stop talking, the new lieutenant has come out." Several petty officials walked out of the yamen slowly, hugging a young official.This official was about 20 years old, of medium height, with a solid body, with a calm and decisive expression on his brows, and nodded slightly to the left and right small officials to express his satisfaction. This young official is the new northern lieutenant Cao Cao. Cao Cao had known for a long time that the law and order in Luoyang was chaotic.He is ambitious.He was determined to strengthen laws and regulations in the northern part of the city and change the chaotic situation, especially the situation where the tyrants were doing evil in Luoyang City. Therefore, as soon as he took office, he ordered his subordinates to renovate the yamen, and asked the craftsmen to rush to build more than 20 five-color giants overnight. Sticks, hanging on both sides of the gate, and issued this "Night Ban". That night, Cao Cao sent another group of soldiers to patrol the night in the north of the city, specifically to search for those who violated the night ban, and ordered: as long as you encounter a night walker, no matter who it is, you should arrest him and interrogate him. In the middle of the night, the hall of Wei Yamen in the north was still brightly lit. Cao Cao was sitting beside a few desks, reading military books and waiting for the report from the night watch team. Three days later, the night watch soldiers came back and always said that there was nothing wrong outside. He felt that the situation was a bit suspicious. Could it be that with a ban, those tyrants who usually behaved mischievously at night would obediently disappear?Thinking of this, he stood up and said, "Tomorrow I will go on patrol." At this time, an old official in charge of documents said: "I don't think you need to go there in person, lieutenant. Their patrols are not the same. Besides, the former lieutenant never patrolled the night." Cao Cao said: "I don't care about the past. I made the "Night Ban". I want to check it myself." In the middle of the next night, the first quarter moon had already set, and in the north of Luoyang City, except for a few lights in the distance, it was already dark, and the surroundings were quiet, with the occasional sound of watchdogs and dogs barking. Outside the corner of the street, seven or eight figures flashed, two servants holding lanterns, and behind him was a man about 50 years old, dressed gorgeously, with a scorpion-like face and a fleshy face, riding on a horse.The man was drunk, talking loudly with several guests in his entourage: "What can Cao Cao do to me if he issued the "Night Ban"?" A guest next to him said flatteringly: "This kind of sesame-sized official also wants to control our lord Jian, hum! Those soldiers on night patrol, when they saw your shadow, they hid away a long time ago. " This person called Mr. Jian was the uncle of Si Jianshuo, the eunuch favored by Emperor Ling of Han, and most people called him Uncle Jian.Relying on his nephew's power in the imperial court, this old guy annexed the land, oppressed the people, ran amok, and did all kinds of evil. He was a well-known bully and local snake in northern Luoyang.It doesn't matter that he does bad things during the day, and often drinks enough wine at night, and leads a group of minions outside to rob women. The local people regard him like a plague god. That night, they wanted to break into a house and snatch the women. When they broke the door with knives, Cao Cao personally led the night watch team to arrive. Cao Cao was furious, and commanded the soldiers with his sword: "Catch these gangsters!" The sharp-eyed minions around Uncle Jian saw that the situation was not going well, and slipped away.The others were also pale with fright.Only Uncle Jian, relying on the strength of his wine, still didn't care, and kept cursing: "Where did you come from, you dare to find the master!" Several soldiers were stunned.Cao Cao shouted: "Arrest him!" More than 20 soldiers rushed forward and tied up the old guy. Department Wei Yamen.Although Uncle Jian was tied behind his back, he was still domineering, his eyes were rolling, and his withered lips were slanting. Seeing his arrogance, Cao Cao yelled, "You violated the night ban and broke into the houses?" Uncle Jian yelled viciously, "You are a mere captain, what right do you have to interrogate me?" Cao Cao suppressed the anger in his heart, sneered a few times and said: "It seems that you will not confess honestly." Then he ordered the soldiers: "Come here, take the five-color stick!" When the soldiers went to fetch the five-color sticks, the old officials nearby hurriedly approached Cao Cao. "Captain," the old official said softly, "this man is the uncle of the emperor's favorite minister Jian Shuo. If the captain wants to torture him, I'm afraid..." Cao Cao sneered: "Either the ban is not set, and since it is set, no one will be allowed to violate it casually. Even if he is a relative of the emperor, three princes and nine ministers, I will deal with it according to the law. I want to make an example today, so that these tyrants know the ban sharp!" With that said, he turned around and yelled at Uncle Jian: "What an uncle who is a minister in the court, since you deliberately violated the prohibition, I won't spare you!" When a dozen soldiers lined up one by one on both sides of the hall with five-colored sticks, Uncle Jian's arrogance was swept away immediately. His face was sallow, his legs were weak, and he fell to his knees. "For my nephew's sake, please forgive me!" Uncle Jian begged, his voice trembling. Cao Cao slapped the gavel: "You rely on your power and ignore the ban, you must be severely punished." Then he ordered the soldiers: "Hit me hard!" The soldiers are usually afraid of Jian Shuo's power, and dare not speak out when they are angry. Today, when the new captain gave an order, he immediately pushed Uncle Jian to the ground, waved a five-colored stick, and beat him hard. That evil Uncle Jian began to cry Barking, even the begging for mercy could not be heard when it reached 30 sticks. The next day, in the streets and alleys in the north of Luoyang, people spread the story of Bu Wei Bang killing Uncle Jian. Everyone applauded for the loss of a big bully in Luoyang City, especially those tyrants who relied on power on weekdays. Let's rein in their tyranny. Since then, the law and order in Luoyang City has gradually improved.