Watching the fire from across the bank. Sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. The snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman wins. When two tigers fight, the smaller one dies and the larger one is injured.
"Yi Kun Xiang": "When dragons fight in the wild, their way is exhausted."
Explanation: Two dragons fight in the wild. The dragon is neither in the sky nor in the water. If there is no support for both sides, both sides will lose, and the third party will benefit.
"Sun Tzu·Military Struggle": "Wait for chaos with governance, and wait for uproar with calmness." The snipe and clam fight, and the fisherman benefits. "Warring States Policy·Yan Ce": "The clam is exposed, and the snipe is exposed." The snipe pecks at its flesh, and the clam closes its beak. The snipe says: If it doesn't rain today, it means there will be dead clams. The clam also says to the snipe: If it doesn't come out today, it means there will be dead snipe. If they give each other up, the fishermen will catch them together. "Snipe is a kind of water bird. Since crane is also a water bird, people often change it to "crane and clam quarreling" for the convenience of pronouncing it, which has the same meaning. When two tigers fight each other, the smaller one dies and the larger one is injured. "Warring States Policy·Qin Policy" states: "When two tigers were fighting against someone, Guan Zhuangzi stabbed them. Guan Yu stopped them and said: 'Tiger's are violent insects. Human beings. It's sweet bait. Now when two tigers fight against each other, the smaller one will die and the bigger one will be injured. If the tiger stabs the tiger when it is injured, it is like killing two tigers in one move without stabbing one tiger. The name of tiger. '" 戾, music official, means cruel and brutal.
Also "Historical Records·Biography of Zhang Yi": "(Bian) Zhuangzi wanted to stab the tiger, but Guan Shuzi stopped him, saying: Two tigers are eating cattle. If they eat something sweet, they will fight. If they fight, they will fight. If they fight, they will fight. The big one is injured, and the small one dies; if he stabs him, he will be called two tigers. Bian Zhuangzi thinks so, and he waits for a while. "Stab the injured person, and you will have the power of two tigers."
"Historical Records" quotes this allusion to talk about King Qin Hui's attitude towards the war between Han and Wei, and he initially wanted to mediate between them. When someone told the above fable of two tigers fighting, they adopted the strategy of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, causing both Korea and Wei to lose. Both countries were weakened, Wei was damaged, Korea failed, and Qin sent troops to attack Wei again. , achieved a great victory. The origin of the name of the plan: During the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei watched the fire from across the bank. It is synonymous with such tactics as sitting on a mountain and watching tigers fight, snipe and clams fighting, and reaping the benefits of fishermen. Just because it was famous throughout the ages in the Battle of Chibi in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it became the name of this plan.
Zhuge Liang helped Zhou Yu and planned a fire attack on Cao Cao's navy. Pang Tong also offered Cao Cao a chain plan to connect the warships with iron chains. Huang Gai used the bitter meat plan to pretend to surrender to Cao Cao and get close to Cao Cao's army. The water stronghold launched a fire attack.
What about Liu Bei? In Chapter 49, Zhuge Liang said to Liu Bei: "My lord, you can station troops at Fankou and watch from a high place. You can sit and watch Zhou Lang achieve great success tonight." This is the ceremony of watching the fire from the other side. of origin.
To say that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang used the "sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight" strategy, it was not to watch Zhou Yu defeat Cao Cao from the other side of the bank, but after Zhou Yu attacked Nanjun, and both Cao Ren and Liu Bei were hurt. Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang really reaped the benefits of the fishermen. .
After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei's troops stationed themselves at the mouth of the Youjiang River, very close to Nanjun. Zhou Yu led troops to see Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang secretly offered a response. Zhou Yu asked Liu Bei: Could it be that he wanted to take Nanjun? Liu Bei said: If Zhou Lang wants to take Nanjun, I will help him. If Zhou Lang cannot capture it, I will take it. Zhou Yu was thinking that our army had a new victory and it would be easy to take over Nanjun. He might as well do it as a favor and said, "Okay, if I can't defeat it, you go ahead and fight it!" Zhuge Liang said, "Lu Su is here to testify." Later, Zhou Yu attacked Nanjun and was defeated by Cao Ren for the first time. So Zhou Yu attacked Yiling instead. Cao Ren used a trick to abandon Yiling and let Zhou Yu's general Gan Ning occupy the city. Then, Cao Ren besieged Yiling with soldiers from Nanjun and Yiling garrison (Cao Hong was the chief general). Zhou Yu was shocked, sent troops to rescue, and defeated Cao Hong's army. On the way back, they met Cao Ren and his army to meet him again, and they fought for a while. Zhou Yu and Chen sent troops to Nanjun to prepare to attack the city. Cao Ren used the secret plan left by Cao Cao and used a false evacuation plan. Zhou Yu's soldiers broke through the city gate, fell into a trap, and Zhou Yu himself was poisoned by an arrow. Later, Zhou Yu used the poisoning trick to fake death to trick Cao Ren into robbing the stronghold, but this time he really beat Cao Ren away. But when Zhou Yu went to collect the ripe empty city of Nanjun, Zhuge Liang had already ordered Zhao Zilong to occupy Nanjun. This is the story of Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu. It is really a standard example of sitting on a mountain and watching the tiger fight, waiting for both sides to lose, and reaping the benefits of the fishermen. It seems that no one has cited this example before.
When foreign enemies wait, internal strife arises on its own: if you are anxious, you will save each other, if you are slow, you will fight. Chapter 32 of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", before Yuan Shao died of illness, he appointed his youngest son Yuan Shang to succeed him. Cao Cao led an army to attack the Yuan brothers, and the Yuan family joined forces to defend. At this time, counselor Guo Jia came up with a plan: "The Yuan family has abolished the elders and established younger ones, and the brothers have shared power and established their own factions. If they are in a hurry, they will save each other, if they are slow, they will fight. It is better to send troops south to Jingzhou to conquer Liu Biao. Waiting for the Yuan brothers to change, and then attacking them, it can be decided in one fell swoop." Cao Cao agreed to withdraw his troops. Sure enough, the eldest son Yuan Tan and the youngest son Yuan Shang went to war over the inheritance. Yuan Tan couldn't win, so he asked Cao Cao for help. Cao Cao sent troops to kill Yuan Tan, defeated Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, and occupied Hebei. The Yuan brothers fled to Liaodong and joined Gongsun Kang. Xia Houchun persuaded Cao Cao to take advantage of the victory and pursue him. Cao Cao said: "Don't worry about the power of the tiger. A few days later, Gongsun Kang sent the heads of the two Yuans." Sure enough, within a few days, Gongsun Kang killed the two Yuans and sent their heads. The generals were puzzled. Cao Cao said: "When Yuan Shao was alive, he wanted to annex Gongsun Kang for a long time, but he was afraid that Cao's army would attack me, so he wanted to use the power of the two Yuans to resist me. If I didn't attack, Gongsun would prevent the two Yuans from attacking him and seize Liaodong as a new base. . So Gongsun Kang would kill the two Yuans first to give me a favor and prevent me from attacking him."
These two times, he used to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, so that Cao Cao could enjoy the success.
I didn’t expect that Wang Xifeng would also use this strategy. Chapter 69 of "Dream of Red Mansions": "Although Sister Feng hates Qiu Tong, she likes to use her to get rid of the second sister (You Er Jie) first, and uses the method of 'borrowing a knife to kill people', 'sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight', and waits for Qiu Tong to kill You. Second sister, kill Qiutong yourself." Mao Zedong commented on Britain, the United States and France "sitting on a mountain and watching the fight between tigers"
In 1945, Mao Zedong accused Chiang Kai-shek of being passive in the war of resistance against Japan and "disregarding the war." The heavy burden was placed on the battlefield in the liberated areas, allowing the Japanese invaders to launch a massive attack on the liberated areas, while he himself "sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers."" Talking about the situation on the European battlefield in 1939, Mao Zedong accused Britain and France of "consistently executing a policy against the aggression of the German, Italian, and Japanese fascists. This is a reactionary policy, the so-called 'non-intervention' policy... Britain and France adopted a 'non-intervention' stance, condoning the aggression of Germany, Japan and Italy, and watching from the sidelines. Its purpose was to make both sides of the war consume each other, and then intervene on their own. ...It is a policy of 'sitting on a mountain and watching the fight between tigers'." (Collected Volume of "Mao Zedong's Selected Works", pp. 569, 570) In 1939, Mao Zedong said again: "The plan of Britain, the United States, and France is to promote the German offensive. The Soviet Union "sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers". After the Soviet Union and Germany were exhausted from fighting, they came out to clean up the situation... condoned aggression, instigated wars, made others snipe and clam, and became fishermen themselves. They euphemistically called it "nothing" Intervention' is actually 'sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers'." (ibid., pp. 584, 585) The last player to play sat on the sidelines and watched. In World War II, the United States had to fight on both the east and west fronts. Fighting at the same time, in order to get rid of the passive situation, the United States formulated its own strategies and tactics that were in line with its own interests.
In January 1943, Roosevelt made the United States' intentions very clear in a conversation with his son. He said: "Currently we know only two things: the Chinese are killing the Japanese and the Russians are killing the Germans. Before our own navy and army are fully equipped and capable to help them, we must make them To be able to continue the current mission, I must try to give them a thousand times more supplies than they have ever received from us... You can compare it (war) to an English football match, we are like. They are the reserve team, sitting on the bench and watching others first. Russia and China form the first team to play. To a certain extent, Britain can also be said to be the first team members... When the game progresses, we When the vanguard members are about to tire, we should make the last move to determine the overall victory."
In World War I, the two major military groups in Europe - the Allies and the Central Powers. In the war, the United States was beaten to death and bruised, but the United States on the other side of the Atlantic sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, indifferent for a long time, and reaped huge benefits from it. However, in the later stages of the war, it realized that Germany would not be able to withstand the war without its participation, so it sent a large army to the European continent. After the war, it became a victorious country and reaped political and economic fruits. It took advantage of all the advantages, and a latecomer squeezed into the ranks of the world's great powers.
The United States has unique natural geographical conditions. It is protected by two oceans. No one can drag you into a war unless you join the war. After the war began, the United States declared neutrality. U.S. President Wilson believed that a complete victory for any warring party would be detrimental to the United States. The United States would rather let Europe split into two irreconcilable groups. Whether Germany takes the lead or Britain, France, and Russia succeed, it is not a good omen for the American ruling group. "If the Allies win, it will eventually become a disaster for us," because it will make Germany not only a unique hegemon in Europe but even most of the Old World, posing a huge threat to the United States.
Therefore, the United States decided to adopt the strategy of watching from afar and conduct trade with both warring parties in the name of "neutrality." Not only could it make huge profits, but neither warring party could completely defeat the other. When the two major European military groups are both in danger, it is time for the United States to reap the benefits.
In the early days of the war, the United States took the opportunity to seize foreign markets, exports increased significantly, and domestic industry developed rapidly. The United States also took advantage of the two major groups fighting in Europe to actively expand into Latin America and conduct armed intervention in some countries to consolidate its own backyard. In the early days when the outcome of the war was hard to determine, President Wilson continued to make calls for peace, and even sent his personal adviser House to visit Europe to initiate a peace conference. The purpose was to prevent Germany from gaining an advantage and maintain two competing and evenly matched groups in Europe. So that the United States can profit from it. As the war situation changed, the United States adjusted its foreign policy.
From the second year of the war, Britain began to impose a naval blockade on Germany. The ties between Germany and the United States gradually weakened, while the ties between Britain, France and other Allied countries and the United States continued to strengthen. The fate of the United States and the Allies were tightly tied together. At the same time, Germany implemented "unrestricted submarine warfare", causing heavy losses to American merchant ships and pushing the United States to adopt an anti-German stance. After the February Revolution in Russia in 1917, the United States was worried that Russia and Germany would make separate peace. If the Allies were defeated, the tens of billions of dollars in loans the United States had lent to the Allies would go to waste. In addition, the war is coming to an end and both sides are exhausted. The United States will definitely win if it joins the war, and it can also participate in sharing the spoils after the war. Therefore, the Wilson administration declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Business War Watcher: I keep my eyes open to see you blindly expand your business rivals. For example, there are two airlines in the United States, one is called "People Express" and the other is called "Texas".
"People's Express" worked hard to develop and grow, while "Texas" was stable and unhurried, because he saw that "People's Express" had become arrogant after its success, so he sat back and waited for its internal A conflict occurs. "People Express" soon expanded blindly, failed to acquire Frontier Airlines, and was heavily in debt, so the boss of "Texas" smiled and began negotiations to acquire the property rights of "People Express".