Fourth Brother Xiaode [Day 215]: Sima Xi's cleverness?

1. The Yin Ji of the Zhongshan Kingdom competes with other concubines to become the queen. So he found Sima Xi, the prime minister, to find a way. Sima Xi also wanted to profit from it, so he had a plan in mind and wrote to Zhongshan Jun, requesting that he send an envoy to the Zhao state and seek a way to strengthen the country.

2. Sima Xi saw the King of Zhao and said, I heard that the Zhao Kingdom is a country rich in beautiful women in the world, but when I walked through the city and looked carefully, I did not see the beautiful women of the country. Speaking of beautiful women, I have never seen a beautiful woman like Yin Ji of Zhongshan Kingdom, which is really a fall of the country, with a closed moon and flowers, a sinking fish and a goose. When King Zhao heard this, his eyes lit up, and he was bent on getting Yin Ji, so he entrusted Sima Xi to ask for it.

3. Subsequently, Sima Xi returned to report to Zhongshan Jun, saying that King Zhao had been pursuing obscene beauty all day, and had heard that he was still bent on getting Yin Ji. After Zhongshan Jun listened, his face changed drastically and he frowned.

4. Therefore, Sima Xi went on to say that the Zhao kingdom was a powerful country, and if the king did not agree, then the country would be in danger, and if he gave Yin Ji to him, he would inevitably be ridiculed by the princes. Instead, the Great King set up Yin Ji as the queen, thus breaking the thoughts of King Zhao.

5. Therefore, after Zhongshan Jun established Yin Ji as the queen, King Zhao therefore stopped mentioning Yin Ji.

6. In this story, we can see that Sima Xi is a person who is exquisite in all aspects, but has wisdom and strategy. On the surface, the two sides of the catered to, grasping people's psychology of seeking benefits and avoiding harm. In fact, Sima Xi was a master of layout and planning, in other words, he created a bureau out of thin air, and the object of this bureau was the monarch of the two countries, the dragon and phoenix among the people, and in the end, the bureau was very successful. This is exactly the way of oniguzi, the strategy of oniguzi, in reality, a clever use and evidence.