Chapter 87 Section 7 Sometimes a shortcut is a detour

After another court discussion, Lai Ai and Lu Buwei still insisted on choosing candidates for their doctor, and refused to give in to each other. The result could only be another unhappy breakup. So, Li Si's time has come, and Li Si, as the middleman, is about to start his performance of both sides. Everyone probably has the experience of being a middleman, or helping to deliver notes, or trying to persuade a fight, or being a peacemaker, or being a light bulb, or being a third party, and so on.There is attraction and repulsion among all things. In human beings, such attraction and repulsion are called interpersonal relationships.The role of the intermediary is to change the existing interpersonal relationship, making it closer or alienating.

Ying Zhenggui is a king, except when he is having fun with his concubines, at other times, he will inevitably need a middleman, even more than ordinary people.There are many things that it is not convenient for him to come forward in person.Because he is the king, he is the bottom line of the entire empire, he is the last wall.The words he said and the decisions he made, whether right or wrong, there is no room for change.But when he sent a middleman to come forward, he retreated behind the scenes, giving himself buffer time and room for correction. Before setting off to visit Lai Ai and Lu Buwei, Li Si went through his mind carefully to recognize the role he was going to play and what goal he was going to achieve.

Li Si, the middleman, is the middleman in three aspects.He is not only the middleman between Yingzheng and Lu Buwei, but also the middleman between Yingzheng and Lao Ai, and the middleman between Lao Ai and Lu Buwei.Of course, he, the middleman, has tendencies. He is called the middleman, but he is actually Ying Zheng's spokesperson.In other words, what he pulled was sideways.His purpose is to persuade Lai Ai and Lu Buwei to take back their respective candidates for the doctor, and to accept Wang Wan as the new doctor. At the same time, let Lao Ai and Lu Buwei blame each other for the failure of their hopes, instead of targeting Ying Zheng. .

Power is tough, but politics should be soft.Li Si wants to convince Lao Ai and Lu Buwei that politics is the art of compromise, and they are both talented artists. It would be a pity if their artistic talents were wasted. In order to achieve the goal faster, sometimes it is necessary to compromise, or even go backwards.Not just because of haste.Among them, there are other particularities. We know that a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points, because space-time is not flat but curved.Therefore, it is not the fastest way to go from one point to another.The real shortest path is likely to be an extremely weird arc.When moving forward along this arc, the person concerned may be confused, am I going further and further away?Am I not walking back?In fact, you can go forward boldly with confidence, because you are on the right path.As the saying goes, go your own way and let others talk.

Therefore, don't be afraid of taking detours. Sometimes detours are necessary, and it is more likely that they are shortcuts.Furthermore, who can guarantee that they must take a straight path?When we encounter setbacks in life, or even feel retrogressed, we may wish to think this way occasionally, maybe our mood will be different. From this point of view, nature is the work of creation, a wordless book left by creation to human beings, embodying the will and thought of creation.All the philosophies are already hidden in nature.Therefore, Lao Tzu said, man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature.Therefore, the sage takes the heaven and the earth as his form, and studies things to gain knowledge.Therefore, the way of a gentleman is to observe the heaven and the earth.Things that are often heard can be used as a mirror, and things that are familiar can be discovered by the foot.