Chapter 46 Chapter 46

All the people in the officialdom are like a stove, don't look at the desertedness now, there might be a raging firework burning at any time.If you light a fire before the stove burns, that is, when someone is in trouble, you help him, then when he gains power, he will naturally not forget you. In the late Qing Dynasty, there was an old farmer in the village who was a believer in this cold stove philosophy.But this old man was out of luck, and lived his whole life, but he was just a rich man in the countryside, and he never got the chance to enter the officialdom.But Old Man Fei, despite his age, never changed his infatuation. He often taught his family members at home to pay attention to the movement of officials far and near. , Seeing a leaky black awning boat, the people on board were half submerged in the water, looking like officials, their skins, hands and feet were bruised from the cold, the daughter-in-law hurried home and told old man Fei about it.

Old man Fei immediately rushed to the river, and after asking, he found out that the person who leaked the boat was also surnamed Fei. He was a governor.So old man Fei took Governor Fei home, had good tea, good food, wine and food, and after entertaining him for many days, he gave him enough money and reluctantly sent Governor Fei to take up his post. After Governor Fei took office, after thinking about it, he became more and more grateful for the old man Fei's help, so he caught a few robbers, put them in prison, and forced the robbers to confess that Old Man Fei was their accomplice. Old man Fei caught him and sent him to prison.Then Governor Fei would visit Old Man Fei in the prison every once in a while, sit and drink with Old Man Fei, and promised to help Old Man Fei clear his name.Old man Fei was very grateful, so he ordered his family to send more money to Governor Fei so that he could take care of things.After a whole year of tossing around like this, almost all of old man Fei's wealth was moved to Governor Fei's house, and then Governor Fei let old man Fei go.

Although the family wealth was spent, at least one life was saved.Old man Fei was very grateful to Governor Fei.It's just that I don't know those robbers before, why do they talk about me?So old man Fei prepared food and wine, went to visit the robbers in the prison, asked each other nicely, and the robbers finally told the truth.Knowing that it was the governor Fei whom he regarded as his benefactor who instigated behind the scenes and framed him, the old man Fei returned home as if struck by lightning, and yelled at his daughter-in-law. things, the family will not fall to this point.The daughter-in-law was scolded for no reason, and in grief and indignation, she hanged herself.Seeing his daughter-in-law died, the son was also filled with grief and indignation, and hung the corpse beside his wife.It's a good thing for a family to fall into this kind of situation, old man Fei felt disheartened and died by hanging himself.Before he died, he left a handwritten letter, in which he complained in detail about how he got into trouble by becoming an official, and this matter spread.

From the case of old man Fei, we understand the following truth: There is an inherent law of heating a cold stove. If it is not cooked properly, not only will there be no good luck, but it will also cause burns. So, what is the right way to burn the cold stove? First, what you burn must be a cold stove, not a poisonous fire stove.In other words, you must at least understand the situation of the other party and know the character of the other party.For example, old man Fei, who doesn't even know the other party's character and disposition, just flatters the other party indiscriminately, which will inevitably make the other party suspicious and suspicious of old man Fei's motives.

Second, you must have a good reason.Cold stoves are not something everyone can afford. When you try to curry favor with a down-and-out man for no reason, he will first doubt your IQ—you suddenly come to curry favor with him, what bad idea do you want?Then he will compare you with him, and once he comes to the conclusion that you have a lower IQ but more money than him, it will trigger resentment and murderous intentions in his heart. Third, you must be strong enough to let the other party feel that you are appreciating him, instead of being too careless or having too much money at home to spend.This one is the top priority of burning cold stoves.A bowl of rice feeds a benefactor, and a liter of rice feeds an enemy. If you have spent a lot of money but failed to burn the gratitude of the other party, then this cold stove does not matter.

Burning a cold stove means taking the initiative to make friends with down-and-out people, but if you burn the wrong people and the wrong number of ways, you won't be able to achieve an ideal effect.Then, if you burn a cold stove, not only will the people being burned not be grateful to you, but it will arouse the hatred of the political opponents of the people being burned, causing trouble to the upper body for no reason. This is a bad deal. Speaking of burning cold stoves, Du Yuesheng, a famous Shanghai celebrity during the Republic of China, was a good hand at this job. Speaking of Du Yuesheng, he came to Shanghai alone when he was a teenager, and relying on his loyalty in the world, he started from scratch and became a big shot on the beach in Shanghai.Tracing back to this person's successful mentality, he has a unique method and know-how for burning cold stoves.

When Du Yuesheng was on the rise in Shanghai and was attracting everyone's attention, suddenly a down-and-out man came to his door and asked Du Yuesheng to borrow a large sum of money.The visitors were strangers, so they opened their mouths when they met, which aroused the anger of the brothers of the Qing Gang.But Du Yuesheng took a closer look at the person, saw that this person had an extraordinary appearance, and knew that this person was no one in the pool, so he offered the money without saying a word. But within a few days, that person squandered all of Du Yuesheng's money and came back again to borrow more money than last time.Du Yuesheng still paid as much as he wanted, and after the visitor took the money and left, he sent his brother to chase after him with another sum of money, fearing that this weird person would not be enough to spend this time, so he simply gave more.

This time, after getting the money, this person did not squander it anymore, but left Shanghai Beach.A few years later, when he came back, he was already the leader of the Kuomintang military command.This person is the famous Dai Li.Afterwards, Dai Li and Du Yuesheng exchanged posts, worshiped as brothers, and took care of each other, which further expanded Du Yuesheng's influence. Du Yuesheng's success in burning cold stoves does not lie in his wealth, power and background, but in his good insight into people.His eyes not only can see through a person's future achievements, but also can see through a person's character.The latter, however, is more important than the former.

Such is the art of burning a cold stove, if you know how to burn it wrong, then you will avoid the wrong way; and if you know how to burn it right, you will find the law of it.