An allusion to the opposite

The King of Wei wanted to attack the State of Zhao, but Ji Liang advised him: "I met a man on the main road who was driving north and told me: 'I am going to the State of Chu. I asked him, 'You're going to the Chu Kingdom, why are you going north?' He said, 'My horse is good. '

I said, 'Your horse is good, but this is not the way to the Chu kingdom!' And he said, 'My travel expenses are sufficient. I said, 'Although your travel expenses are large, this is not the way to the Chu Kingdom!' And he said, 'The man who drives me is very skilled.' He didn't know that the direction was wrong, and the better the conditions for hurrying, the farther away he would be from the Chu kingdom.

Now the great king wants to dominate the princes at every turn, wants to gain the trust of the world in everything he does, relies on the strength of his own country and the elite army, and attacks Handan, and wants to expand his territory and raise his prestige, don't you know that the more you act like this, the farther away you are from the goal of unifying the world as king, just like the act of going to the Chu kingdom but going north?"

Therefore, it is very important to choose the direction, staying in the same place to guide the direction is wrong, you need to try the direction, to correct the deviation, and to be corrected by others, it is a big mistake, the direction is not right, your efforts are in vain!