There is a sentence in the "Pipa Book" of the late Yuan Dynasty: "No one asks under the window of ten years, and the world knows in one fell swoop", and the modern Zhang Ailing also said: "Fame should be early", who does not want to be famous in the world? But how do you take the first step?
Stills of Sima Yi in "Army-Master Alliance"
For the first step to fame, Sima Yi, a latent master in the Three Kingdoms period, had a deeper understanding.
Due to the relationship between his fathers, Sima Yi's father Sima Fang had recommended Cao Cao when he first took up the position of Jing Zhaoyin, which was more or less a betrayal of Cao Cao's affection. This is equivalent to the modern spelling daddy background.
In 201 AD, also when Sima Yi was 23 years old, an opportunity to make a name for himself was placed in front of Sima Lang's Sima Yi brothers: Cao Cao, at that time, at the recommendation of others, sent someone to send an invitation to Sima Lang Sima Yi's brothers and invited them to join them.
For Cao Cao's invitation, the two brothers made different answers:
1. The eldest brother Sima Lang immediately agreed and was ready to go on the road.
2, the second sima Yi pretended to be ill and refused this opportunity that others thought was a pie in the sky.
Is Sima Yi stupid? Head clipped to the door? Of course, we now know that Sima Yi is not a fool, so why did he pretend to be ill and refuse Cao Cao's invitation instead of directly refusing?
There are three main reasons for the analysis:
1. Sima Yi has ambitions to revitalize his family business, and he needs to see hope. At that time, Sima Yi visited a teacher named Hu Zhao, a contemporary famous teacher named Hu Zhao, and his thinking and knowledge were transformed from a new bone. Unfortunately, Teacher Hu was bent on being a hermit, and even Cao Cao's several invitations were rejected. However, Sima Yi did not want to be a hermit, and after his birth, he was said to have high hopes for his father Sima Fang, and the reality of the family's fall and the once glorious family history reminded the Sima brothers to revive the family business.
2. At that time, Cao Cao was surrounded by capable people like clouds, there was not much more Sima Yi, and there was not much less Sima Yi, which was a bit uncertain for Sima Yi.
3, in fact, Sima Yi is also well versed in the way of investment, that is, do not put eggs in the same basket, he knows more about the principle of selling at a price, he wants to know how much weight he has in Cao Cao's mind.
Sima Yi's pretending to be ill:
Resignation is paralyzed, and cannot live. Wei Wu sent people to the secret stab at night, and Emperor Jian lay still.
1. The cause of Sima Yi's feigned disease is rheumatism, that is, rheumatic bone disease. This disease is not an incurable disease, but a chronic disease that needs to be cured.
2. Sima Yi can be said to be very ill at any time, or it can be said that his illness has been alleviated, that is to say: the former can be used as a legitimate reason for leaving his post from illness, and the latter can become a reasonable excuse for returning to work. As long as he wants, as long as the timing is right, and can get better at any time.
For Sima Yi's feigned illness refusal, it is estimated that the clever Cao Cao also guessed this meaning. According to historical records, Cao Cao once sent someone to secretly visit Sima Yi to see if he was really sick or fake.
Sima Yi knew in advance that Cao Cao would send someone to check on him, was he really sick? So he lay on the bed all day and all night, and when it was late at night, the spyer quietly sneaked into Sima Yi's bedroom, and then saw him lying on the bed motionless, and the man was not at ease, and directly drew his sword to Sima Yi, and Sima Yi looked at the sharp knife that was cut in front of him, but his eyes did not blink, and his body did not move, so the agent believed that Sima Yi really had rheumatism, and then went back to report to Cao Cao.
Sima Yi's pretending to be a disease quoter:
1. Sima Yi used this illness as an excuse, obviously having different opinions, but more with the meaning of letting both sides have a step down at any time. From this point of view, Sima Yi's feigned illness seems to be a bit of an idea of putting a long line to catch big fish and sell at a cost. That is to say, I want to be "proud" and raise my own value.
2, because people often for the easy to get things are not cherished, the more rare, the more they will care, the more do not want to let go, talent is like a pearl, thirst for talent is the same reason, especially for Cao Cao, who loves talent is more attractive. Sima Yi was well versed in this.
3, just like Sima Yi's contemporaries another influential figure ~ Wolong Zhuge Liang. Why did Liu Bei have to invite Zhuge Liang with three Gu Maolu? In fact, Zhuge Liang just wanted to see how Liu Bei's belly was? See if he is thirsty for talent; look at his attitude toward doing things; and then gather information to see if he is worthy of his service. It's the equivalent of throwing stones to ask for directions.
Yi Wenjun said:
Sima Yi's feigned illness was actually to sell at a price, and he adopted the trick of wanting to promote the first to suppress, but he also left a room for maneuver between himself and the other party, otherwise, it would be easy to fight chickens and eggs, and the gains would not be worth the losses. In fact, sima yi and Cao Cao were tacit.
Many times, in order to get certain benefits, we need to negotiate with others, that is, negotiate conditions, and want the other party to accept their own conditions, whether it is active acceptance or passive acceptance, which requires certain skills and means to achieve.
Sima Yi's feigned illness tells us that if we want to negotiate conditions successfully, we must first make ourselves strong, either unique, or we are the most suitable choice for the other party, or we can use means to make the other party unable to make other choices.
Resources:
Book of Jin and The Chronicle of Emperor Xuan
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