Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 524: Divorce tactics, taking advantage of people’s suspicions and conflicts
Chapter 524: Divorce tactics, taking advantage of people’s suspicions and conflicts
Qin Dan replied without hesitation: "Don't worry about this. Just find a few reliable people to go to Jixian to send a secret letter to Cheng Xi."
Du De nodded and said: "However, the content of the letter must be drafted by Da Sima himself, and then written down by him himself, so that the people of Wei can be more convinced that Cheng Xi has rebelled against Wei."
Qin Dan pondered for a moment and said with emotion: "Da Sima's divorce plan is very good. If it can be successful, it will definitely save a lot of energy for Jiangdong Province.
After all, since ancient times, most of the strong fortresses have been broken from the inside. The Zhou Dynasty, Xiang Yu, and Dong Zhuo all fell to this strategy. It has been tried and true!"
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou Dynasty began to split into the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasties, and the two countries often attacked each other.
A doctor named Chang from the Western Zhou Dynasty suddenly surrendered to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty for some reasons, and also told the Eastern Zhou monarch about the national affairs and military secrets of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
The monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was very happy and favored him very much, providing him with fine clothes and food. When the monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty found out about this, he felt that Chang had leaked the secrets of his country to the enemy and put his country at a disadvantage. He was extremely angry and wanted to get rid of Chang.
, to vent the resentment in his heart and warn those who come after him, but he doesn’t know how to start.
At this time, another official of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Feng Dan, understood the monarch's intention and knew that he wanted to kill the rebellious Chang, but had no way to deal with it, so he admonished the monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty: "I have a way to kill Chang, but I need three
You can only take action if you need ten taels of gold." The monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty was naturally very happy after hearing this, and asked someone to immediately bring thirty taels of gold to Feng Dan.
Feng Dan sent someone to take the gold and a letter and secretly went to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to find Chang. The letter wrote: "Chang Jingqi: If there is hope of success, just try your best to complete it. If there is really no hope, just do it."
Escape back as soon as possible! If things are delayed for too long, flaws will easily be revealed, and doing so will lead to your own death, so remember!"
Before Feng Dan sent the man with thirty taels of gold to deliver the message, he had already sent another person to tell the officials guarding the city gate in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "One night, there may be spies sneaking into the city, so we need to pay more attention."
As expected, the officials guarding the city gates of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty searched everyone who entered the city very closely. They immediately caught the person sent by Feng Dan to deliver the letter, and reported it to the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty along with the letter and thirty taels of gold.
The king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty thought that Chang was a spy sent by the Western Zhou Dynasty. Chang couldn't explain what he said, so he was killed.
Feng Dan cleverly tried to create a wedge here, using the power of the enemy's monarch to arouse his suspicion and use his hands to kill the rebellious ministers. Although it seems that the method was a bit rough now, the victory was that he had chosen the right time and hit the great luck. The prediction was accurate.
The timing was that Dr. Chang had just surrendered to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Western Zhou monarchs did not trust him very much;
Hitting the great luck means that the Western Zhou Dynasty monarch happened to be a careless and willful master. If not, Feng Dan's plan of Shi Lijian to borrow a knife to kill people would definitely not succeed.
Feng Dan's trick of "killing with a borrowed knife" is probably the earliest alienation tactic. The focus of this tactic is to fake the power of others, cleverly use the internal contradictions of the opponent, kill the enemy with the enemy, and defeat the enemy by borrowing the power of others.
Feng Dan's technique of borrowing wisdom can be described as crude, and can only be completed by a letter, but in the end he is able to defeat the enemy, making people have to take advantage of the power of time.
When Xiang Yu besieged Liu Bang in Xingyang, Xiang Yu sent an envoy to see Liu Bang, and Liu Bang prepared a meal of "Tailao" level to entertain him.
However, when he saw the envoy, he was shocked and said, "I thought it was Yafu (Fan Zeng)'s envoy, but it turned out to be King Xiang's envoy."
So the good wine and meat were removed and replaced with food like "evil grass".
The envoy was very unhappy. When he went back and told King Xiang, Xiang Yu seriously suspected that Fan Zeng was secretly colluding with Liu Bang.
Seeing this, everyone may think that something is wrong. Even if Xiang Yu thinks about it with his toes, he will understand that this is Liu Bang's counterintuitive plan. Fan Zeng will never collude secretly with Liu Bang.
Why? Because if there is really a secret collusion, Xiang Yu must not be allowed to know.
Collusion can only succeed if Xiang Yu doesn't know, and doing this now is blatantly telling Xiang Yu that we are colluding with Yafu.
Isn't Chen Ping worried that this move will be seen by Xiang Yu and the result will be counterproductive? Not only will Xiang Yu no longer doubt Fan Zeng, but will the monarch and his ministers be of the same mind?
In fact, Xiang Yu no longer wanted to see Fan Zeng and wanted to expel Fan Zeng, but Chen Ping just gave him a reason.
What Xiang Yu lacks most is filial piety.
Why do you say that? First, he was raised by his uncle Xiang Liang, and Xiang Liang gave him his skills. However, after Xiang Liang was killed by Zhang Han, he actually made Zhang Han King Yong (completely
Not much necessary).
Secondly, when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted, they all used the banner of his grandfather Xiang Yan.
And after he became the overlord of Western Chu, he had never heard of such a thing as pursuing Xiang Yan.
Thirdly, Fan Zeng was his "sub-father", but this "sub-father" was not one he recognized willingly, but one Xiang Liang asked him to recognize, and he actually did not recognize this.
Xiang Yu is not a filial person, but Fan Zeng showed "father" to him many times and acted like a "real father".
At the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Yu refused to listen to Fan Zeng and refused to kill Liu Bang.
Maybe Xiang Yu would have killed Liu Bang if Fan Zeng hadn't repeatedly reminded Xiang Yu to kill Liu Bang ("Fan Zeng counted the kings of Xiang and held up the jade ornaments he wore to show three of them, but the king of Xiang didn't respond silently").
Xiang Yu never took life seriously and never took others seriously. The fact that he killed 200,000 Qin Dynasty surrendered soldiers is proof of this.
Therefore, Xiang Yu wanted to kill Liu Bang with just a thought.
But because Fan Zeng kept saying it again and again, Xiang Yu felt a little disgusted with Fan Zeng, so in the end he simply refused to listen to Fan Zeng and refused to kill him.
For another example, after the Hongmen Banquet, Fan Zeng not only chopped up the jade bucket given by Zhang Liang, but also scolded Xiang Yu: "Alas, a straight son is not enough! The one who wins the king of the world must be Pei Gong. I am now a prisoner of it!"
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Although Fan Zeng is called "Yafu", he is actually still a minister.
In ancient times, King Wu of Zhou called Jiang Taigong "Father Shang", King Yingzheng of Qin called Lu Buwei "Father Zhong", and Duke Huan of Qi called Guan Zhong "Father Zhong".
A few years ago, Liu Chan called Zhuge Liang "Xiangfu" and so on.
But no matter how they are called, these people are all ministers after all.
If you are a minister, you must act like a minister. However, Fan Zeng was so patronizing in front of Xiang Yu and even called him a "straight son". How could Xiang Yu have no objection in his heart?
Chen Ping could see that Xiang Yu had serious objections to Fan Zeng, so he chose such a low-level counterintuitive plan to give Xiang Yu an excuse to drive Fan Zeng away.
In the end, Xiang Yu really drove Fan Zeng away as Chen Ping hoped.
Fan Zeng loudly demanded to resign, saying that he was too old to work, so he turned around and walked out. Xiang Yu did not hold him back.
At this point, Fan Zeng finally despaired. He headed eastward, thinking that he had always wanted to be Chu, but he had ended up like this, and he couldn't help but feel frustrated and sad.
How could a seventy-year-old man endure such a blow? He fell ill and died on the road before he could return to his hometown. Taking advantage of people's suspicions and conflicts, no matter how resourceful or strong a person is, he would be a little careless.