The third count is to kill people with a knife
Killing people with a knife is a clever use of contradictory strategies in order to preserve one's own strength. Borrowing a knife to kill people requires a high demand for a "knife": first of all, your allies have tangible interests involved between you and a third party, and your opponent's victory will pose a threat to the allies, or the two of them are originally sworn enemies. Without an actual stake, it's hard to drag him into the water to work for yourself. In addition, the knife should be sharp. If your ally is not strong enough, it is only you who confronts your opponent, because you really can't get any help from him, and the blunt knife can't kill people. In addition, it depends on your eloquence, and how to say that the other party is uninvited to help you is also a kind of learning.
This figure is from the Ming Dynasty drama "Three Blessings". The play tells that during the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan's political enemies plotted to let Fan Zhongyan, who had no combat experience, lead his troops to conquer Western Xia, with the purpose of borrowing the "knife" of the strong Western Xia army to eliminate Fan Zhongyan. In the "Hundred Words of the Bing Jing • Borrowing Words", it is said: "If it is difficult to force, we borrow the enemy's strength, and if it is difficult to curse, we borrow the enemy's blade." Borrowing the hand of others to get rid of the opponent, but not showing his own face, this indirect killing scheme is called "borrowing a knife to kill people."
The core meaning of "killing people with a knife" is: weakened by the power of a third party to eliminate the enemy If only from the literal meaning of the interpretation and the original book "according to the language", the strategy of "killing with a knife" is not very profound, it mainly means that it does not contribute to oneself, but weakens and destroys the enemy with the help of the power of the third party. However, in fact, the problem is not so simple. First of all, there is a question of whose power should be "borrowed" and how to "borrow". It is difficult to achieve the goal without insight into the stakes between the various factions and the situation, problems and attitudes they face.
Generally speaking, no one in the world wants to be a "knife" and be "borrowed" by others. But as Sima Qian said, "The world is bustling, and all are profitable; The whole world is in the same place for the sake of profit", as the proverb says: "There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests". Driven by interests, there will always be people who are willing to be "knives" and "borrowed" by others. Therefore, as long as we can accurately grasp the stakes between various forces, we will not worry about "borrowing" the "knife" of "killing people." This is the basis of reality that the "killing with a knife" strategy can be used repeatedly and successfully.
It should be pointed out that this "according to the word" only talks about how to use the power of a third party to strike the enemy, but does not talk about how to use the enemy's "knife" to "kill people." This is an omission in this "by-word" measure. In fact, "borrowing a knife to kill someone" also includes the meaning of "borrowing" the enemy's knife to "kill" the enemy, and in reality, there are not a few such examples. However, in this case, "killing people with a knife" has always been used in combination with counter-calculations. For example, the "Han Feizi Neichu Shuxia" records a story: during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Huangong planned to attack the State of Hao. He first inquired about the skilled civil and military ministers in the state of Hao, wrote down their names one by one, and announced that after the defeat of the kingdom, he would give them good land and reward them with official titles, and then he built an altar outside the city with great care, buried the list under the altar, and swore an oath to the Heavenly Covenant. When the emperor of the state of Hao heard this news, he thought that the ministers were about to start a rebellion, so he killed all the good generals on the list. As a result, Zheng Huan easily attacked and destroyed the State of Hao. This story is easily reminiscent of Hitler's use of anti-strategy to kill a large number of Soviet generals by Stalin's hand in the early days of World War II. It can be seen that the strategy of "killing people with a knife" has no shortage of successful cases, whether in China more than two thousand years ago or in foreign countries more than two thousand years later.
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