Chapter 38 up and down

The twenty-sixth year of King Xiang of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period.Chu State sent troops to invade Zheng State.At that time, Chu State was so powerful, and Zheng State was so weak that it was really unable to resist. As a result, Zheng State encountered the bad luck of defeat, and even Zheng Wangjie was captured by Chu general Chuan Fengxu.After the battle, Prince Wei, younger brother of the King of Chu, wanted to claim credit for capturing Zheng Jie in the Chu army, saying that he had captured Zheng Wangjie, so Chuanfengxu and Gong Ziwei had a dispute, and neither side would give in. There was no way to solve it for a while.Later, they asked Boli to be a just man to judge whose credit it was.

Bo Zhouli's method of resolving the dispute was very fair. He suggested that to know whose credit it was, it was best to ask the captured King Zheng.So he ordered someone to bring Zheng Wangjie, and Bozhouli explained to him the whole story, then stretched out two fingers, using the upper finger to represent Chu Wang's younger brother Gong Ziwei, and the lower finger to represent Chu general Chu Fengxu, and then asked who captured him .Because Zheng Wangjie was captured by Chuanfengxu, he hated him very much, so he pointed his upper finger to show that he was captured by Gongziwei.Therefore, Bo Zhouli judged that it was Gong Ziwei's contribution. The idiom "up and down" comes from this story; it means cheating in the game and turning right and wrong.

In today's society, this kind of situation often happens: For example, someone has done something illegal, knowing that he deserved it, and he will not escape the bad luck of being punished; so he secretly bribes, or asks his relatives and friends to go around to plead for mercy and cover, and the result is a big disaster If it is reduced to a small size, and a trivial matter is reduced to nothing, it will still get away with it.People like this kind of people involved in this matter, who perverted the law and cheated, can be said to be "hands-on".