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Talk to people about the empty city plan while eating.
The empty city strategy is the thirty-second strategy of the thirty-six strategies. It is regarded as a beautiful talk by the world. It shows how wise the founder Zhuge Liang is.
There is a saying that the empty city plan does not actually exist in history, but a play created out of thin air by the author of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”.
Regardless of whether the empty city plan really exists, I personally think that with Sima Yi’s military talent, how could he not know that the city behind Zhuge Liang is actually an empty city? His prior pre-war investigations would not have been so sloppy.
And Zhuge Liang playing the piano on the city wall is even more bluffing – otherwise he would simply not show his face, making the city wall look more like an ambush, so as to confuse the real.
In the film and television drama, at the last moment of the dialogue between Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang even broke the strings of the piano, and the unexpected action of breaking the strings, coupled with the sweat on his face, obviously showed Zhuge Liang’s guilty conscience…
The real reason is more likely that Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang are in an alternate relationship. If Sima Yi killed Zhuge Liang, he himself has no value to be used by Cao Cao, and there is no need to exist. As the saying goes, when the birds are gone, the good bows are hidden; when the cunning rabbits die, the lackeys cook. They are each other’s enemies, but they are grasshoppers tied to a rope, and they are a necessary condition for each other’s existence.
Therefore, the real reason behind the empty city strategy is: Sima Yi did not dare to kill Zhuge Liang, so he would be blamed by Cao Cao for being overly careful and mistaken for the empty city strategy, but the crime would not kill him.
I remember that when I was working in a company, a leader told me: I can’t solve all the intractable diseases in my work, because after they are solved, I will have no value in existence and will no longer be needed. In his original words: You can’t fill all the holes. If you really want to fill them all, you have to dig a hole yourself and fill it slowly.
The filling hole here is probably the value of use by professionals. When there is no pit, you dig a hole to fill it yourself, in fact, there is no chance to be “needed”, then create the need and create the existence value.
I don’t know if this kind of workplace secret is correct, but when I was talking with my friends about the empty city plan, I think Sima Yi also thought of creating a need…
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