Borrowing a knife to kill people is literally not coming forward and borrowing the hands of others to harm people. This is a strategy that cleverly uses contradictions in order to preserve its own strength. In terms of military application, its trick is that when the signs of the enemy have been exposed and another force is expanding and is about to participate in the activity, it is necessary to try to use this power to defeat the enemy in order to help save itself.
Let's look at the allusions first. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Qi sent an army into Wenshang, which was about to launch a major attack on the State of Lu. In order to save his country, Confucius deliberately sent his most powerful student Zigong out to lobby the princes of various countries. Zigong was good at rhetoric, first persuading the commander of the Qi army to move the army attacking Lu to the state of Wu, and then rushed to the state of Wu in the night of the stars, persuading the king of Wu to agree to send troops to rescue Lu and attack Qi. After the war between Wu and Qi, Zigong rushed to the Jin state and persuaded the king of Jin to reorganize his army to prevent the state of Wu. Soon, the Jin and Wu countries fought, and the Jin state defeated the Wu state. At this point, Zigong took advantage of the contradictions of the princes and cleverly borrowed the strength of other countries to chaos, break Wu, and strengthen Jin, thus achieving the purpose of Cunlu. This plan is called "borrowing a knife to kill people."
The famous successful case of murder with a knife in history
There are many cases in history of killing people with knives, and killing people with knives is basically the use of the suspicion of others, so that others can get rid of the people you want to get rid of because of your little bit of false evidence or words. For example, in the Battle of Chibi during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhou Yu used Jiang Gan to steal books to let Cao Cao kill the Cai Mao brothers, so that cao's army did not have a general who was proficient in water warfare, thus laying a good foundation for the victory of the Chibi War in the future.
On the eve of the Chibi War, Zhou Yu wanted to get rid of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, who were familiar with water warfare, so he planned a wonderful murder with a knife, Zhou Yu first put on a feast, warmly received his long-lost old classmate Jiang Gan, and used the excuse that Jiang Gan was Cao Cao's subordinate, in order not to hurt his feelings, he only talked about personal affairs and drinking, and then pretended to be drunk and asked to sleep with Jiang Gan, and then deliberately let Jiang Gan steal the forged documents written by Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to Zhou Yu to plan to assassinate Cao Cao, and then sure enough, as Zhou Yu expected, Jiang Gan was calculated. He stole the fake documents and reported the incident to Cao Cao, who saw that the evidence was present and immediately executed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.
It can be seen that Zhou Yu's one-handed knife killing is used so well, if there is no Zhou Yu's strategy of killing people with a knife, the outcome of the Battle of Chibi may be rewritten.
A modern business case of killing people with a knife
"WN" is a new type of laundry detergent developed and produced by a daily chemical company in a city in Hubei Province, which has been popular in the Hong Kong market, but it has not been able to open the sales channels in the mainland market. In order to quickly open up the mainland market, the company has taken three bold steps in promotion.
The first step is to fund the "WN Cup" football tournament in a city stadium. Several famous football teams in the country gathered in a city stadium to compete, and people from a certain city who had never had the opportunity to watch such a wonderful ball game flocked to buy tickets to watch. The stadium, which was almost paralyzed by a lack of funds, was revived, and the expected promotional purpose of the company was successfully achieved.
The second step, in order to continue to expand the influence of the daily chemical company, they funded the contract of the Hubei Provincial Football Team, and the treatment of the players was exactly the same as that of the company's employees, which shocked the entire Hubei Province. The company has stepped out of a small city and set its sights on Wuhan and the whole of Hubei Province.
The third step is to let the Hubei provincial football team return to the provincial capital of Wuhan to meet the Dutch national football team. The name of the company went global for the first time. In order to expand the impact, all those who watched this game gave each free package of "WN" ultra-concentrated non-foaming laundry detergent, which immediately made the whole of Wuhan boil, and "WN" became a news hotspot.
Three big steps out, "WN" reputation is greatly enhanced. A small daily chemical enterprise raised in a small city that is not known to the people in the deep, after the marriage with football, the popularity of the rapid increase, not only the enterprise has created significant economic benefits, but also the popularity of the product has been widely disseminated throughout the country.
In this case, Nichihua succeeded in using the strategy of killing people with a knife. Borrowing a knife to kill people is also often used in modern commerce, in order to borrow people, things, and things other than oneself to achieve one's own goals. Negotiators are always good at taking advantage of all available opportunities and conditions, or borrowing social forces (public opinion, etc.) to exert pressure on the other side, or using legal provisions or financial system regulations to refute the unreasonable demands of the other party, to safeguard their legitimate interests, or to use the words of others to further bargain with the other party to achieve the ultimate goal of successful negotiations.
Use the "knife to kill" scheme in interpersonal communication
In the normal process of interpersonal communication, upright people should never have the sinister idea of killing people with a knife, unless they have to rise up in self-defense in the extraordinary circumstances of sudden encounter with a strong enemy. However, with the help of others and even the strength of the other party, to persuade the other party to accept their own ideas, it is precisely the use of the "killing with a knife" scheme in daily interpersonal interactions.
For example, people want to discipline criminals to change from evil to righteousness, and in addition to policy attacks, they often let the relatives and friends of criminals painstakingly admonish and let other criminals who have repented appear to speak up, in order to urge criminals to change their past wrongs. These people can be said to be the "third force" located outside the disciplined and the disciplined, and they have not directly intervened in the contradiction and conflict between the disciplined and the disciplined, and with the help of their strength to educate the criminals, they will generally play a role in influencing the criminals simply by the correctional personnel directly educating the criminals. According to this revelation, when we persuade others to accept our own ascension, we may wish to mobilize the relatives and friends of the other party to participate in the persuasion, so as to smoothly dismantle the psychological barrier of the other party's refusal to persuade.
In addition, we can consciously guide the other person to convince ourselves in the process of convincing others. When the conversation between the two sides tends to be harmonious, we can deliberately retreat from the preacher to the position of the doubter, and ask various questions around the content of persuasion: "Actually, I am not very clear about these issues, what do you think? "This can easily push the other person into the position of becoming a persuader in a hypothetical situation." He will state his own views, and you will continue to add, revise and guide, providing the other party with a valid reason for persuasion and accepting the stakes of persuasion or not, so that they understand the benefits of accepting persuasion, and finally agree with your opinion.
The use of the "killing with a knife" is aimed at using external forces to overcome the obstacles in front of us and turn unfavorable factors into favorable factors. In particular, it should be noted that in equal and friendly interpersonal communication, this plan, as a way of dealing with the world, can only be taken as a way - "borrowing a knife", not "killing". We can "borrow a knife" to persuade others, save others, help ourselves, and defend ourselves, but we must not rumor, frame, or even use sharp weapons to harm or hurt people. Otherwise, good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil, and it is oneself who suffers.
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