Seek Sun Tzu Art of War Therefore, the wise will serve food to the enemy, eat the enemy a bell, when I twenty bells; Jealous of the rod a stone, when I twenty stone. This Cao Cao note of the literary language? Interpretation Therefore, a wise general, make sure to replenish food in the enemy country, because eating 1 bell of food from the enemy country is equivalent to transporting 20 bells of food from your own country; collecting 1 stone of fodder in the enemy country is equivalent to transporting 20 stones of fodder from your own country.

① bell, the ancient unit of capacity, 1 bell is 64 buckets.

② ji culm (pi gan): forage, ji (pi ), the same as 箕, bean stems; culm (gan), grain stems.

Commentary

War depends on economics.

A famous Austrian general famously said, "The first element of combat is money, the second element is money, and the third element is still money." Zhuge Liang six out of Qishan, repeated defeats, repeated defeats, an important reason for its failure, is because the supply of food and grass is not good. Throughout the ancient history of famous battles, the generals do not regard the logistical supplies (especially food and grass) as the source of life, the basis of victory. Napoleon's expedition to Moscow, the Russians, the Russians, Napoleon, in the food, warm, cold, no clothes, forced to return to the bitter defeat. Modern wars, such as the Vietnam War, the United States spent nearly one hundred billion dollars, greatly injuring the country's vitality, had to end in failure.

Sun Tzu, in order to solve the contradiction between the rear supply and the battlefield needs, put forward the measures of "taking materials from the local area, and using the war to feed the war" - as the logistic supply is solved locally in the enemy's country, which greatly reduces the country's financial expenditure and the burden of the people, so that the war can be carried out according to their own intentions, and the war goes on smoothly.

Sun Tzu's idea of "war by war" has been widely used in business, politics, and other industries. For example, many shrewd entrepreneurs have opened branch after branch "all over the world - with equipment, labor, and even capital originating locally, while they simply provide the technology".

It should be noted that, in our country, there is a "strange phenomenon": "wall blooming outside the wall", some departments would rather pay a lot of money to the outside sector to hire (or the introduction of) a number of non-first-class talent (or technology), resulting in the loss of this sector's outstanding talent (or technology), which is really a kind of sadness.