In 239 A.D., Cao Rui, the Ming Emperor of Wei, died of illness. Sima Yi and Cao Shuang*** helped Cao Fang, the crown prince, to assume the throne. Cao Fang was only 8 years old, and Sima Yi and Cao Shuang accepted the posthumous edict to assist him in his political affairs.
Cao Shuang, a relative of the Emperor, had been in and out of the palace since he was a child, and was a prudent person, well liked by Emperor Ming of Wei, but he had no political and military talent. Since he and Sima Yi had been working together, the two men were at odds with each other. Cao Shuang asked the emperor to promote Sima Yi to the position of the Imperial Minister. Although the status of the minister was high, he was only in charge of the civil officials and had no military power. So this is a promotion in disguise.
After Cao Shuang took control of the military, he appointed his own brother to be a military officer, in charge of the central guards, controlling a part of the troops; at the same time, he also appointed his own close friends to be high-ranking officials, in charge of the government. Cao Shuang's military and political power was so great that he lived a life of luxury and pleasure with his cronies every day.
Under these circumstances, Sima Yi was forced to retire and live at home. His two sons, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, also resigned with him.
Sima Yi, although living at home, had been secretly spying on the time. Cao Shuang was also worried about Sima Yi, so he took advantage of the promotion of his close friend Li Sheng to the post of assassin of Jingzhou to ask him to resign from his post, so that he could check out his strengths and weaknesses.
When Sima Yi heard that Li Sheng had come, he said to his two sons, "It is Cao Shuang who has sent him to find out the truth about the illness I have." So he took off his hat, spread his hair, mounted his bed and couch, and sat down with his blanket, and had his two favorites support him before he invited Li Sheng in.
After Li Sheng arrived at the bed and saluted, he said, "It has been a long time since I have seen Tai Fu, and I did not expect you to be so ill. Now that the emperor has asked me to become the assassin of Jingzhou, I have come here to bid you farewell." Sima Yi pretended to reply, "That place in Jingzhou is close to the Hu people, so you have to pay attention to guarding it! Li Sheng said, "I'm going to be the assassin of Jingzhou, not to annexation." Sima Yi laughed: "You just came from annex state?"
Li Sheng said, "It's Jingzhou." Sima Yi laughed and said, "You originally came from Jingzhou."
Li Sheng said, "Why is Tai Fu so sick." The man beside Sima Yi said, "Taifu's ears are deaf."
Li Sheng said, "Please lend me a pen and paper." In this way, Sima Yi pretended to understand and said with a smile, "I am deaf. You are going to Jingzhou, take care of yourself."
Saying this, he pointed his finger at his mouth. The serving concubine brought soup, and Sima Yi drank it with his mouth, spilling it onto his lapel.
Sima Yi said, "I am senile and very sick, and will soon meet the King of Hell. My two sons are talentless and I hope you educate them. If you see Great General Cao, please ask him to take care of my two sons."
Li Sheng went back and told Cao Shuang all he had seen. Cao Shuang was very happy and said, "If that old man dies, I will have no worries."
After Li Sheng left, Sima Yi said to his two sons, "When Li Sheng goes back, he will tell Cao Shuang everything he has seen, and Cao Shuang will surely not be wary of me anymore. When he goes out of the city to hunt, we will strike."
Soon the emperor was to visit the tomb of Emperor Ming of Wei outside the city, and Cao Shuang and his men escorted him there. Seeing that the time had come, Sima Yi immediately launched an uprising and quickly took control of the capital city. He coerced the Empress Dowager to induce Cao Shuang to surrender his military power. In the end, Cao Shuang's gang was eliminated in one fell swoop, and Sima's father and son became the sole rulers of the military and government.
Shi Ma Yi's return to military power was based on the art of "mud fish".
The mud fish is one of the ancient legends in China. Mud fish know the secret of opening and closing, so they can meet great difficulties without dying. Fish can not be separated from water, so when the drought, many fish died because of the loss of water. But the mud fish is different, it does not panic to find a piece of mud that is not easy to dry up, the whole body into the mud, and then like hibernating animals do not move, which is the strategy of the animal. In this way, the mud fish does not lose moisture in its body and is able to survive.
With time, the wet moment came. Heavy rain pours down and the river surges. That's when the mudfish adopted the strategy of sucking up water, slowly burrowing out of the mud and living a leisurely life in the water. The other fish were long dead and their bodies became food for the mudfish. The mudfish got to reproduce quickly and became the rulers of the river.
This is exactly what Sima Yi did. When Cao Shuang was in the ascendant and hot, he was "closed": he retired in time and pretended to be sick; but when the time came, he was "open": he seized the power of the army and got rid of his rivals in a lightning fast speed.
The "mud fish" technique used by Sima Yi is still a revelation today. When the situation is unfavorable, don't mess up, use the strategy of mud fish to protect yourself, with tenacious will, firm conviction to tide over the difficulties; with the change of the external situation, the arrival of their own golden age, and then show their strength.
Split the true and false "muddled"
There are two kinds of muddled, one is really muddled, such as meandering ideas, what do not think clearly, do not forget three, sloppy; one is a fake muddled, that is, to pretend to understand the muddled, only to distinguish between these two kinds of people can be correctly interacted with. I have a colleague is a well-known "big confusion", confusion to what extent, for example, once the company held a general meeting, written on the notice is a school auditorium, others are not late, but only after an hour she arrived at the venue. Asked to know, she thought the meeting in the unit, run the unit to go, a look at the whole building only sweeping sister, only to understand that they went to the wrong place. So tossed, not only late, but also spent a lot of taxi money. Similar incidents have happened to her more than once. Let's put it this way, wherever she can be confused, she will never be sober, forget to take the material at work, that is often the case, others rest she went to work, that is not surprising.
According to her husband, the home has been issued countless times water, the reason is that she always forgets to turn off the faucet; the key with countless, of course, were all lost by her. Her confusion has caused her husband and children to suffer a lot, and they worry about her every day, fearing that she will lose herself one day. As a colleague, we do not think her confusion is a big mistake, but a look at her husband and children, really think that such a woman should not. Once I went to help her clean up her room, packed out a lot of old shoes, she was happy, all sold to the rag collectors. Soon, her son came back, a room said, mom, my feet are frozen, you find me a pair of cotton shoes. When she heard that, she said, bad, I sold all your cotton shoes. As a mother, cold days do not know to find a pair of cotton shoes for the child to wear, but to cover themselves warm, every day in front of the office mirror left and right. I realized after a long time that she was not really a confused person, but just pretended to be confused so that she could ignore others and only think of herself. In her own words, she is a person who only knows the rotation and does not know the rotation, that is to say, she is a selfish person. And her confusion is just enough to cover up her selfish nature, just as some people with great wisdom use stupidity to cover up their wisdom. It's just that those who are wise but foolish are praiseworthy, while those who pretend to be confused are despised, because she doesn't even care about her nearest and dearest, and outsiders can't expect to be favored by her.
Saying that she is not a really confused person, because she is confused about some insignificant small things, in the big things, without you reminding her never confused, even more than anyone else understand! In the unit, she never talks about anything but how difficult her job is, how much hard work she puts in, and how little she always gets paid, even though she doesn't get paid a lot.
One other benefit her confusion could give her was to get away with certain accusations. For example, every time she reports her grades at the end of the month, she always finds a way to report one more overtime and one more workload ...... If someone points out that she's reporting inaccuracies, she'll say, "Look, I'm confused." And then report it as it is, so what can you do to her, you say?
She has cheated a lot of people by pretending to be confused. In the unit, we all think that she such a person who often forgets who they are, on the words of others may not necessarily remember clear, so when you speak do not avoid her, and even put their own heart with her, but I did not expect her to have a chat with you at that time, seemingly inadvertently, in fact, your words are remembered in the heart, and maybe when take out to sell you, you're still helping her to bury their own it!
I have been sold once. That time a colleague had a birthday, I came up with a trick to make him happy, bought a bouquet of flowers, wrote a poem, pretended to be a crush on him for a long time, and let the florist deliver it. Everyone was really excited about it for a long time, and they helped the coworker guess who the flower delivery person was. She also went up to look at it for a while, and then concluded that such a childish poem could have been written in the fifth grade. Later, when she found out that I had written it, she said, as if nothing had happened, that it was really well written! It's really good! It was obvious at first glance that it was written by someone with literary skills! The two comments before and after contradicted each other. I don't know if she was really confused or pretending to be confused. Anyway, I was confused by her.
There must be more than one person around you who is pretending to be confused. If you don't want to expose their true colors, follow a piece of pretend to be confused, but the heart to be far away, don't be stupid to be their appearance of blindness, and finally got into the way of others still don't know. Because of the family background, cultural level, interests and concepts of the differences in ideas, we have encountered people will be all kinds of colors, all kinds of people. If you understand which type of person the other person belongs to, then you will be able to treat the symptoms and act accordingly, and it will be much easier to communicate with them.
This type of person is a bit schizophrenic, with poor concentration, low memory, and a lack of comprehension. Such people, like slow movers, are not ideal ****ing partners. But making friends, this person is very personable and seems casual and generous.