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Chapter 21 crushing defeat

60 idiom stories 579Words 2018-03-20
During the Qin Dynasty, the magistrate of Peixian County asked Liu Bang, the head of the pavilion of Sishui, to escort a group of ordinary people to Lishan to do hard work; unexpectedly, halfway along the way, many escaped one after another. Liu Bang thought: If this continues, he will definitely escape before reaching Lishan Guang, he would inevitably be punished, he thought it over, and he simply released all those who did not escape, and hid himself and some people who did not want to leave in the mountains at the junction of Mang and Yang counties. In the first year of Qin II, Chen She rebelled against Qin in Daze Township and proclaimed himself King of Chu.The county magistrate of Pei wanted to join him, and his subordinates Xiao He and Cao Shen suggested: "You are the county magistrate of the Qin Dynasty. If you betray the Qin Dynasty now, some people may not accept it. You'd better call Liu Bang back and coerce those who do not accept it. That will be easy. "The county magistrate of Pei immediately asked Fan Lu to invite Liu Bang.But when Liu Bang came back, the county magistrate Pei saw that he had nearly a hundred people, fearing that he would disobey his command, and regretted it again.So he ordered the gates of the city to be closed tightly to prevent Liu Bang from entering the city.Liu Bang wrote a letter outside the city, tied it to Captain Jian and sent it to the elders in the city, telling the elders of Pei County to kill the county magistrate together and fight against Qin to protect their families.The elders really killed the county magistrate, opened the city gate, welcomed Liu Bang into Peixian County, and invited him to be the county magistrate.Liu Bang said modestly: "The situation in the world is very tense. If the county magistrate is not properly arranged, it will be regarded as a "lost defeat". Please choose someone else later!"

But in the end, Liu Bang became the county magistrate, called Peigong. "Falling to the ground" originally meant that once it was ruined, it was necessary to smear the brains on the ground.But later generations have been using it to explain the unmanageable situation after failure.For example, a businessman blindly sells inferior goods because he is greedy for short-term profits, but consumers are not fooled. As a result, the businessman's goods are stagnant and turnover is not effective, and he "fails to the ground" and cannot be dealt with.Another example is a team, because the players do not cooperate closely, and when encountering setbacks, they are even more in a hurry, so that "a complete defeat" is out of control.

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