Zizhi Tongjian: Zheng Hun to control chaos, this is a clever plan!

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao's subordinates had a man named Zheng Hun, who was said to be the grandson of zheng zhong, a great confucian, and his skills were not small. At that time, there was a bandit leader in the State of Wei named Liang Xing, who often led his brothers to plunder Feng Yi County.

At that time, the county governors were very frightened, and unanimously proposed that the county capital be transferred to the county seat, and some even thought that it should be moved to a more dangerous place to defend.

Zuo Feng Yijun Shou Zhenghun said:

"The bandit leader Liang Xing's men have basically been scattered, some of them have fled to the high mountains and deep valleys to hide, although there are still people following him, but I believe most of them were coerced by him."

Now is the time to open the way for them to surrender, to proclaim the prestige of the court, and not to defend ourselves on the basis of danger. Because this practice of defending oneself according to risks is to show weakness to the opponent. ”

Therefore, Zheng Hun recruited officials and people, repaired the city, strictly guarded, recruited the people to attack the rebels, obtained the rebels' property and women, and rewarded the takers with seven-tenths of the rewards.

The people were overjoyed and willing to hunt down the rebels. The rebels who had lost their wives all returned to ask for surrender, and Zheng Hun ordered them to send the other women captured by the rebels before returning them to their wives.

As a result, these rebels attacked each other, and Liang Xing's henchmen scattered.

Zheng Hun also sent prestigious officials and ordinary people to the valley to publicize the will of the imperial court, and there was an endless stream of people who came out to surrender.

Zheng Hun then ordered the officials of the counties to move the county capital back to the local area to appease the people and the rebels who surrendered.

Liang Xing and others were terrified, and led the remnants to gather in the city, and Cao Cao sent Xiahou Yuan to lead an army to assist Zheng Hun in the conquest, so he beheaded Liang Xing and all the remaining parties were pacified.

Refer to the Zizhi Tongjian

comments

Zheng Hun's technique is really clever! The best way to eliminate an opponent is to use the opponent's people to capture their own people. In this way, not only is it effortless, but also consumes less, it can be said that with the least amount of effort, the maximum effect is achieved!

Such a clever technique is really admirable! Ordinary people, in the face of a group of opponents who do not know where to hide, in addition to the big head, are really helpless.

Zheng Hun's approach provides us with a good reference case, that is, at any time, in the face of a difficult opponent, we can consider dismantling their alliances and organizations from within the opponent.

What do you think about this?