During the Hongwu years, Guo Decheng, who was under Zhu Yuanzhang's command of the Horse Riders, was his brother-in-law, Guo Decheng's sister Guo Shi, was named Feng Ningfei very favored, his two brothers were also made marquises, and Guo Decheng in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's several rewards to himself, he used the reason for his poor health to postpone, Zhu Yuanzhang was very unhappy, Guo Decheng knew very well, rabbit dead dog cooking birds to hide the truth, think of Zhu Yuanzhang's people, Guo Decheng's achievements are chilling, as a relative of the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang's brother-in-law, He knew Zhu Yuanzhang too well as a person, Zhu Yuanzhang's mind was meticulous, he worked seriously, his heart hated him, his heart and eyes were particularly small, he would repay with hatred, and he would do whatever it took, so Guo Decheng was cautious and trembling in front of him, afraid of saying the wrong thing and doing the wrong thing, and it was like this that he almost got into trouble, because once he talked nonsense after drinking, touching Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-scale thing of being a monk, and angered Zhu Yuanzhang, zhu Yuanzhang was murderous.
One day, after summoning Guo Decheng into the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang took out two ingots of gold and stuffed them into his sleeves, and said to him; "After you go back, don't tell others", facing the grace of the emperor. Guo Decheng respectfully thanked The Grace and hid the gold in the barrel of his boots, but when Guo Decheng walked to the palace gate, he had a different look. Only to see him turned from side to side. As if drunk, when he was about to go out, he sat on the threshold again and took off his boots, and the gold in the boots was naturally exposed. As soon as the gatekeeper saw Guo Decheng, there was gold hidden in the boots, and immediately reported to Zhu Yuanzhang, who saw that the gatekeeper was so surprised and pretended to say, that I rewarded him, and some people rebuked Guo Decheng for this; the emperor favored you for rewarding you with gold, but asked you not to tell others, but when you got well, you deliberately exposed it and made a lot of trouble in the city. Guo Decheng has his own high opinion on this, if you want people to know, unless you have nothing to do, you think. The palace is so tight, and there is gold hidden, and there is no reason why others do not know it, and others know it, and do not say that I stole it from the palace? At that time, I am afraid that my mouth will be full and I will not be able to speak clearly, and besides, my sister is serving the emperor in the palace, and I am in and out of nowhere, how do I know if the emperor will try me with this?
Now it seems that when Guo Decheng was about to leave the palace, he deliberately exposed gold, which was indeed a clever move, and then Guo Decheng was very clever, and he retreated bravely, chose to become a monk and escaped a disaster, and could not help but praise his wisdom, and a large number of ministers and generals in the later period, such as Blue Jade Hu Weiyong and other extremely intelligent figures, were killed, which shows the tightness of the wind, Guo Decheng's clever deeds, just as he himself said, are indeed difficult to argue at that time, and from Zhu Yuanzhang's view of people, such tentative things are not impossible to happen. This method of pretending to be stupid and wise and foolish enabled itself to escape the scourge of killing and escaping a disaster. This kind of wisdom is worth learning from our descendants.
Conclusion; From another point of view, what Guo Decheng did was not a clever means of survival; on the one hand, he took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's psychology of first bounty and then observing his performance, seizing the opportunity to cure his sins, he cleverly pretended to be stupid and deliberately took off his boots and sprinkled gold; on the other hand, he cleverly answered the questions of others, and these words reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, Zhu Yuanzhang also admired Guo Decheng as a person, Guo Decheng finally relied on his own wisdom to turn danger into ruin, and successfully enjoyed his old age...
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