[How strong are the minds of the people in the deep city government?] The leader is impetuous and always wants to defeat the opponent quickly, but this matter is in a hurry, the task falls on your head, how do you help the leader defeat the opponent, but also make the leader have patience? After reading this story, your thinking believes that there will be a qualitative leap. At the beginning of the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, Ji Jing, was relatively wise, and he appointed a group of sages such as Mu Gong, Yin Jifu, Zhongshan Fu, Cheng Boxiu's father, Yu Wengong, Shen Bo, Han Hou, Xianfu, Still Uncle, and Zhang Zhong to assist the imperial government, so that the national strength of Western Zhou was briefly restored, and the history was called "King Xuan's Zhongxing".
However, after King Xuan of Zhou achieved success, in his later years, he became a great achievement, and successively used troops to the outside world, resulting in the decline of the Western Zhou state again, the national treasury was empty, and the people were not happy. In 789 BC, King Xuan of Zhou once again led an army in a fierce battle with Jiang Rong in Qianmu, but suffered defeat and heavy losses. King Xuan of Zhou disregarded the poverty of the people and the lack of national strength, and in order to quickly expand his troops to fight Jiang Rong again, he ordered that the elderly people and underage boys be summoned into the ranks. At this time, the chancellor Zhongshan Fu tried his best to advise, but King Xuan of Zhou did not listen, and in order to dissuade King Xuan of Zhou, Zhongshan Fu came up with an idea, intending to use this to enlighten King Xuan of Zhou and understand the truth that if you want to be fast, you can't reach it. At that time, there was a game called cockfighting, which was not only popular among the folk, but also among the nobles of the various princely states at that time, and the emperors and generals of the princely states often used cockfighting to kill time when they had nothing to do after drinking and eating. King Xuan of Zhou was also particularly obsessed with cockfighting, so he had the eunuchs raise a lot of strong and athletic roosters, often fighting cocks with the ministers after retiring from the dynasty. However, no matter which brave and aggressive rooster King Zhou Xuan chose, none of them could become a "general who always won", and after winning a few rounds, the rooster slowly lost. King Xuanwang of Zhou was always nervous about this, and he always wanted to train a rooster that could always win and be undefeated. Zhongshan Fu wanted to make a fuss about training chickens, in order to inspire King Xuan of Zhou to be patient in doing things, Zhongshan Fu inquired and heard that there was a person named Ji Xiangzi in the State of Qi, who was not only a master of chicken training, but also a person with great wisdom and foolishness, so he recommended it to King Xuan of Zhou. King Xuan of Zhou sent someone to invite Ji Yuzi to the capital and pay him a lot of money, asking Ji Yuzi to help him train an invincible fighting as soon as possible. Ji Xiangzi picked a high-crowned chicken with golden claws and color feathers from the flock, and before he was locked up in the house to train the chicken, he specifically instructed King Xuan of Zhou not to let people interfere with him, training chickens requires meditation and patience, and King Xuan of Zhou nodded in agreement.
Ji Xiangzi replied, "Not yet, now this chicken has no skills, but it is very conceited, too proud, and always wants to try." Ten days later, King Xuan of Zhou came again and asked, "How is it now?" The training was successful, right? Ji Yuzi replied, "Still not, this chicken is now too affected by external factors, as soon as it hears the cries of other chickens and sees the shadows of other chickens, it reacts quickly." Ji Guzi said: "The rapid response shows that it is eager to win, not calm enough, easy to be found weakness by other chickens, and consumes physical strength too quickly, resulting in failure." Ten days later, King Xuan of Zhou asked Ji Xiangzi again, "Is it always okay now?" Ji Xiangzi said slowly, "Now this chicken is almost trained, even if there is a chicken barking, it has no reaction, it looks like a wooden chicken, with all the characteristics of cockfighting." When other chickens saw it looking at it, they didn't know its bottom line, so no chicken dared to fight with it, and when they saw it, they could only turn around and run away. So, now this fighting is invincible in the world. King Xuan of Zhou brought this cockfighting to the cockfighting arena, and sure enough, he won every fight and became the "victorious general" in the cockfighting. This story, borrowed from the chicken metaphor, is philosophical, and enlightens us that sometimes the more eager we are to win, the more unsuccessful we are; if we want to make a career, we must not only have patience, but also practice the mind and pattern of putting victory and defeat, gains and losses aside, and understand the wisdom of great wisdom and foolishness.
In fact, Ji Yuzi's philosophy of training cockfighting is also applicable in dealing with people, interpersonal communication, and shopping mall games. Being a person and doing things, the more you don't ask for anything, the more invincible you are, the more skilled you are, the more people can't figure out the details, and the more people who look like "wooden chickens", the more often they have the city government. This trick, which is called "soldiers who are not tired of deception" in the art of war, and "great wisdom and foolishness" in the philosophy of life, are the highest realms of wisdom.
Wisdom is the most scarce thing in the world, but also the most precious thing, it can not only save ourselves, but also help us solve life problems, solve doubts, but also can be used in the battlefield, shopping malls, business fields, applied to all corners of our lives, so, our life a little more wisdom, more than a calculation, the pattern is a higher level.
Reading historical wisdom stories is a good way to grow wisdom, so we should read more historical stories. Such a wise story as Ji Xiangzi's cockfighting, the Chinese strange book "The Complete Collection of Wisdom Tanks" collects more than 1200 articles, including political, military, and diplomatic strategies, as well as the ingenuity and wit of small people such as soldiers, servants, monks, and farmers. There are not only stories of teaching people how to do things and be people, but also stories of teaching people how to do business, seek jobs, and cope with emergencies, and after reading these wisdom stories, there is a sense of sudden enlightenment, enlightenment, and great benefits.