"Tian Ji Horse Racing" is a classic story with educational significance, and although its story content is simple, it contains meanings that deserve people's deep consideration.
Therefore, I believe that most people have heard this story. Whether it is a parent or a person who has not yet established a family, they all have a certain understanding of this story.
This story takes place during the Warring States period, and the protagonists of the story are Tian Ji, Sun Zhen, and King Qi Wei.
The story is that the State of Qi sent an envoy to visit Daliang, and Sun Zhen, as a prisoner of the ranks, secretly visited him and talked to him. The envoys of the State of Qi felt that Sun Zhen was quite a good person, had great power, and was a strange person.
Therefore, he secretly brought Sun Zhen to the State of Qi. After Sun Bin arrived in the State of Qi, he became acquainted with the general Tian Ji, who was impressed by his talent and honored him as a guest of honor and treated him with three points of courtesy.
Sun Zhen is still a person with a good conscience, Tian Ji is good to him, and he also wants to find an opportunity to return the favor.
One day, Tian Ji invited many princes of the State of Qi to race horses and set up heavy money as a bet.
In this horse racing game, Sun Bin was also on the scene. He first observed the horses of these sons and found that there was still a gap in the foot strength of the horses, so these horses were sealed as upper, middle and lower.
Horses of the same level have almost the same foot strength, and it has a lot to do with luck to divide the victory and defeat.
Sun Bing felt that the probability of victory was too low compared to this. So he had a flash of inspiration and came up with a good countermeasure.
After he was sure in his heart, Sun Zhen said to Tian Ji: You just have to gamble a big one, and I will ensure that you win.
After a period of getting along, Tian Ji still believed in Sun Zhen more, and with Sun Zhen's words, he was very confident and gambled a lot.
Before the start of the race, Sun Zhi said to him: You first use inferior horses to their superior horses, in the second round you use superior horses to their inferior horses, and in the third round you use medium horses to their inferior horses.
Tian Ji did so, and in the end, he won the victory with 2 wins and 1 loss.
In this game, Tian Ji won the King of Qi Wei and won the appreciation of the King of Qi Wei.
Tian Ji felt that he could win such a face this time, and Sun Zhi helped him a lot, so he also repaid li with a peach and introduced Sun Zhi to the King of Qi Wei. Later, King Wei of Qi took Sun Zhen as a teacher and learned the art of war from him.
From this story, we can understand a truth: learn to be flexible, in another way, you can harvest different results.
This story has always been regarded as an educational story by everyone, believing that it has an enlightening effect.
However, a story recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian" gives a different conclusion, and this story tells everyone that in the Tian Ji horse race, Tian Ji won the victory, which is a stupid practice.
"Zou Ji Satirizes Qi Wang Na Zhi", I believe that this story is not unfamiliar to everyone, "I am familiar with Xu Gongmei in the north of the city", as soon as this sentence comes out, it will immediately awaken everyone's memory.
Therefore, Tian Ji and Zou Ji are two very famous people in history, although the two of them have similar names, but the relationship is quite poor, when they meet, they are like two high-spirited roosters, wanting to fight each other to the death.
In order to drive away Tian Ji, Zou Ji came up with a damage trick. He looked for someone to tell fortunes in the name of Tian Ji, and said to the fortune teller: I am Tian Ji's person, my family is very powerful in fighting, no matter who you fight, you can always win the war, such a powerful figure, naturally want to be the king himself, you say that he rebelled, can he win?
When this fortune teller heard, Tian Ji wanted to rebel? Isn't that a little too crazy? He was afraid of causing trouble, so he quickly reported to the King of Qi. After the King of Qi heard this, he was furious and immediately ordered someone to arrest Tian Ji, who saw that the sewage on his body could not be washed off, and really led people to attack the city in one breath, in order to force out Zou Ji and clear his own suspicions. However, he was defeated in the end, so he ran to the Chu state to ask for protection.
I believe that seeing this, everyone will be very confused, the bug of this story is also too big, right? This fortune teller is a commoner, how did he come into contact with the King of Qi, and can he still complain to the King of Qi? Moreover, the person he sued was still a great general, didn't the King of Qi doubt? If you don't check the right one, you will directly send someone to arrest Tian Ji? Moreover, Tian Ji was also too brainless, in order to prove his innocence, he actually led the army to force the palace, is this not a suicidal self-evidence method?
Therefore, this story does not make sense in any way.
However, this story is recorded in the Zizhi Tongjian, which shows that it is real and unreasonable, and that there is a secret behind it.
In fact, if you think about it from another angle, you can find that it is normal for this to happen.
What if, it was King Qi himself who wanted to get rid of Tian Ji? So does everything justify? Regardless of whether Tian Ji made a mistake or not, king Qi only used the excuse of his rebellion to get rid of him.
Why did King Qi want to get rid of Tian Ji?
This brings us to the field of the horse.
At that time, the person who joined hands with Sun Zhen and Tian Ji was the King of Qi Wei, that is, the later King of Qi, and the two were the King of Qi who was fiercely pit at that time, as a king with a somewhat narrow heart, this was a shame for him, could he bear it?
Being able to endure is also to endure for a while, and when the opportunity comes, he naturally wants to take revenge.
Therefore, the story of Tian Ji's horse racing not only reflects the wisdom of Sun Bin, but also reflects the stupidity of Tian Ji. With this competition, Sun Bin not only won the love of Tian Ji, but also won the recognition of King Qi Wei. But on the other hand, Tian Ji became Sun Zhen's shield and endured the anger of King Qi.
Tian Ji is really stupid, for the sake of face, offending the leader, which is obviously for the rhythm of sesame seeds throwing watermelons. You know, leaders usually have absolute control over their subordinates, and it is easy for them to wear small shoes for subordinates.
No, the King of Qi found an excuse and forced Tian Ji to leave his hometown and go to the State of Qi to make a living.
It was not until later, when King Qi Wei died and King Xuan of Qi ascended the throne, that he sent someone to invite Tian Ji back and restore his position as a general.
King Xuanwang's move is also very profound. Since he chose to summon Tian Ji back, it showed that he believed Tian Ji and believed that Tian Ji had been wronged in those years.
This move of his also reflected from the side that King Qi Wei really wanted to get rid of Tian Ji, otherwise, how could King Qi Wei not find out what King Qi Xuan could find?
King Xuan of Qi summoned Tian Ji back, believing that he was on the one hand, the most important thing was that he was optimistic about Tian Ji as a person, and at the same time wanted to sell Tian Ji a person, so that he would be grateful to himself and be more loyal to himself. This trick, the ancient emperors liked to use, first degraded and then promoted, so as to sell people well, and then they can better control this person.