Tian Ji, the general of Qi State, likes horse racing very much. On one occasion, he and Qi Weiwang agreed to compete. Every horse can be divided into upper, middle and lower classes. During the competition, Qi Weiwang always used his own horse, Tian Ji's horse, the middle horse against the middle horse, and dismounted against the horse. Because the horses of the King of Qi were better than those of Tian Ji, Tian Ji failed in several races.
On one occasion, Tian Ji failed again and felt very disappointed. Before the end of the race, he left the racecourse in frustration. At this moment, Tian Ji looked up, and there was a man in the crowd who turned out to be his good friend Sun Bin. Sun Bin called Tian Ji, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I just watched the horse race. Wang Wei's horse is not much faster than yours. " Before Sun Bin finished, Tian Ji glared at him: "I didn't expect you to dig at me!" Sun Bin said, "I'm not being sarcastic. I mean, if you compete with him again, I can definitely let you beat him. " Tian Ji looked at Sun Bin doubtfully. "You mean another horse?" Sun Bin shook his head and said, "You don't even have to change a horse." Tian Ji said confidently, "That's different!" Sun Bin said confidently, "Just do it according to my arrangement." Qi Weiwang won many battles, and when he was proudly boasting about his horse, he saw Tian Ji and Sun Bin coming head-on, stood up and said sarcastically, "Why, are you still unconvinced?" Tian Ji said: "Of course not, let's play again!" Say, "Hua", poured a lot of money on the table, as his bet. Qi Weiwang chuckled when he saw it, so he told his men to bring all the money he had won several times before, and added 1,200 gold, which was also put on the table. Qi Weiwang said contemptuously, "Let's start!" Gong sounded and the game began. Sun Bin played the bad horse against the good horse in Qi Weiwang, and Tian Ji lost the first game. Qi Weiwang stood up and said, "I didn't expect the famous Mr. Sun Bin to come up with such a clumsy countermeasure." Sun Bin ignored him. Then the second scene. Sun Bin took the first-class horse to compete with the middle-class horse in Qi Weiwang and won a race. Qi Weiwang was a little flustered. In the third game, Sun Bin took China and Malaysia against Qi Weiwang's inferior horse and won another game. This time, Qi Weiwang was dumbfounded. As a result, Tian Ji won two out of three games and Qi Weiwang. The same horse, because it changes its appearance order in the race, will get the result of turning defeat into victory.
Tian Ji horse racing original:
The emissary of Qi was like a beam, and Sun Bin regarded it as a criminal, saying that it was an envoy of Qi. Make it strange and steal it. Qi will treat Tian Ji well and treat him warmly. Avoid the number and be the son of Qi. Grandson sees that his horses are not far apart, and there are three generations of horses. So the grandson said to Tian Ji, "If your brother shoots again, I can let you win." Tian Ji, with the king and his sons, shot at his daughter. Talking about quality, Sun Tzu said, "Now, you should be better than each other, better than each other, better than each other." Three generations later, Tian Ji won again. He won Wang Qianjin. Therefore, avoid entering Sun Wang. Wang Wei asked the art of war and thought he was a teacher. -Tian Ji horse racing by Sima Qian in Han Dynasty.
Implication and enlightenment of horse racing in Tian Ji;
Moral:
Tian Ji horse racing tells people to find advantages in disadvantages, make good use of their own advantages to deal with their opponents' shortcomings, and know how to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses in order to win. You can try new ideas when you meet something, there is no need to stick to the rules. At the same time, the story of horse racing in Tian Ji also shows that the qualitative change of things can be caused not only by the increase or decrease of quantity, but also by adjusting the internal arrangement and combination under the condition of constant quantity.
In the process of the development and change of things, the change of the arrangement order of the components of things will also cause the qualitative change of things, which is another form of qualitative change caused by quantitative change.
Inspire:
1, find advantages in disadvantages. It is not that there are no good horses in the world, but that there is a lack of bole. I believe I always have my own unique advantages.
2. Learn to choose. If you want everything, you often get nothing. Giving up the ego and achieving the big ego is the best policy.
3. attack the enemy's shortcomings with your own strengths. We should make good use of our strengths to deal with our opponents' shortcomings, so as to win in the competition.
4. Seek first, then fight, and strategy first can get twice the result with half the effort.
5. It is in the local area, never winning with weakness, and strength is always the basis for winning;
6. Know your opponent and hide yourself. Too much premature exposure can only be passively beaten, and knowing yourself and yourself can be invincible.
The origin of horse racing in Tian Ji;
Tian Ji horse racing comes from Historical Records, Volume 65: Biography of Sun Tzu Wuqi. ?
Introduction to Sun Bin:
Sun Bin, born in Juancheng, Shandong Province, was a military strategist with an unknown date of birth and death. He was a representative figure in the early Warring States period in China. Sun Bin, whose original name was unknown, was named Sun Bin because he was flogged. He is a disciple of Guiguzi Wang Xu and a disciple of Pang Juan. In Tang Dezong, 64 famous martial arts masters such as Sun Bin were enshrined in Wu Wang Chengsi, known as the sixty-four generals of Wu Wang Chengsi. Song Huizong addressed Sun Bin as Wu Qingbo, one of the seventy-two generals of Wu Song Temple.
Family background:
Sun Bin's ancestor was Chen Wan, the son of Chen Guo, and Chen Wuyu, the great-grandson of Chen Wan, had a son, who was given the surname Sun, changed his name to Sun Shu, and named Le 'an as a food city. He was the ancestor of your surname. The descendants of Sun Shu gave birth to Sun Wu, who escaped from the chaos of the four clans of Chen, Bao, Gao and Guo in Qi, and had three sons, enemies of Sun Chi, Sun Zi and Sun Zi. The second son Sun Ming has descendants, Sun Shun has descendants, and Ji Sun has descendants. Cao Sun is Sun Bin's father. However, in the Tang Dynasty, Sun's inscription described his family lineage, and Sun Bin was a descendant of Wei Wugong.
Sun Bin's life story:
Sun Bin and Pang Juan are classmates. They study together. After Pang Juan became a general in Wei Huiwang, he thought that his talent was inferior to that of Sun Bin, so he fabricated charges to make Sun Bin suffer, cut off his feet and carved words on his face. Sun Bin secretly visited the emissary of Qi as a criminal, moved him with words, and secretly drove him back to Qi. Sun Bin, who fled to Qi, was appreciated by Tian Ji, so he lived under Tian Ji as a doorman. And won the equestrian competition with Qi Weiwang under the guidance of Tian Ji. Tian Ji recommended Sun Bin to Qi Weiwang, and Qi Weiwang asked him about the art of war and made him his own art teacher.
In 354 BC, Zhao attacked Wei, an ally of Wei, and captured Qi Guohe. The following year, Zhao sent messengers to Qi and Chu for help. Qi Weiwang adopted Duan He's suggestion and divided his troops into two ways. Qi troops besieged Wei Xiangling all the way, and Tian Ji and Sun Bin rescued Zhao all the way.
In 353 BC, the Qi army was divided into two ways, all the way to meet the enemy of the Song Dynasty and the troops led by the defending country, Gongsun Cang, and besieged the Xiangling of Wei State. Lead Tian Ji and Sun Bin all the way to save Zhao. So Tian Ji was appointed as the general commander and Sun Bin as the strategist, and they sat in the car and made suggestions. Sun Bin adopted the tactics of besieging the state of Wei to save Zhao, and Tian Ji followed Sun Bin's advice and marched into Ping Ling. At the end of Ping Ling, Sun Bin suggested to Tian Ji that Dr. Linzi and Dr. Gaotang led the troops to attack Ping Ling directly to attract the main force of Wei Jun. Sun Bin asked Tian Ji to send light chariots to the suburbs of Wei Jingliang to anger Pang Juan and force him to lead the army to Huiyuan. On the one hand, let Tian Ji send some troops to pretend to be at war with Pang Juan's troops, so as to defeat the strong with the weak and despise the enemy. Tian Ji did it one by one, and Pang Juan hurried back to save the girder. Sun Bin led the main ambush and captured Pang Juan alive. Before 35 1, Wei Huiwang and Zhao Chenghou formed an alliance by the Zhanghe River and withdrew from Handan, the capital of Zhao State. At about this time, Qi released Pang Juan and let him return to Wei as a general.
In 342 BC, Wei defeated the Han army in Nanliang and Huo, and sent messengers to Qi for help. In the evening, Tian Ji offered a plan to save Korea. When Korea and Wei were defeated repeatedly, they asked Qi for help again. Qi Weiwang sent Tian Ji and Tian Geng as generals, Tian Ying as lieutenant, Sun Bin as strategist, and led troops to aid South Korea. Sun Bin once again used the tactics of besieging the state of Wei to save Zhao, capturing the girder of the capital of Wei, and Pang Juan withdrew from Korea and returned to Wei. At this time, Bin Sun used the tactics of luring the enemy in depth to trick Pang Juan into leaving the infantry, and only led the elite cavalry to pursue the Qi army day and night. Finally, Pang Juan drew his sword and committed suicide in Maling.
Sun Bin once put forward a plan to Tian Ji, to leave the sick soldiers guarding the main field, otherwise the general may not be able to return safely, but Tian Ji didn't listen, and was finally framed by Zou Ji and forced to flee to Chu, and Bin Sun followed him to Chu.
Sun Bin's evaluation:
As an excellent strategist, Sun Bin defeated Wei twice, helped Qi achieve the goal of hegemony, and wrote Sun Bin's Art of War, which left an important military theory for later generations. Sun Bin has been highly praised by all previous dynasties. Sun Bin was framed by Pang Juan, lost his feet and was physically disabled, but he didn't give up on himself. In the end, he defeated Pang Juan twice and got revenge. Sun Bin's spirit of being physically disabled and determined is praised by later generations. Although Sun Bin has made brilliant achievements in the military field, Ban Gu and Ceng Gong still criticized him for encouraging war, which eventually led to the overthrow and destruction of the country.
Introduction to Tian Ji:
China was a famous soldier of Qi during the Warring States Period, and his date of birth and death is unknown. Gui's surname, Tian (also known as Chen), whose name is taboo, and the word period, also known as Chen, was sealed in Xuzhou (now Tengzhou South, Shandong Province), so it was also called Xuzhou. About 340 BC, Sun Bin fled to Qi, and Tian Ji appreciated Sun Bin's talent and accepted him as a public guest. He commanded two famous battles. About 340 BC, in a horse race, Sun Bin proposed to Tian Ji the following horse-to-horse, horse-to-horse, horse-to-horse and horse-to-horse Tian Ji horse racing method. In 354 BC, Sun Bin won a great victory with the art of war of "encircling Wei to save Zhao". In 34 1 year BC, Sun Bin still marched straight into Dewey's beam, and let Pang Juan, the general of Wei Jun, underestimate his enemy with his "cutting the stove". As a result, Pang Juan was killed and Qi won. In the same year, Tian Ji was framed by Qi Xiang Zou Ji and fled to Chu, which could not be clarified. It was not until Qi Xuanwang acceded to the throne that he returned to Qi.
Tian Ji evaluation:
Tian Ji is not only outstanding in military affairs, but also a Bole who knows people well and is good at discovering and recommending talents.
Life story:
He found his strategist Sun Bin during the horse race. It turns out that Sun Bin was framed by Pang Juan in Wei, and he is already a basket case. He came to Qi with a half-life and wanted to try his luck, just to survive. He was just an unknown public figure at first, because his physical disability was ignored. Until one time, because of his contribution to Tian Ji, he helped Tian Ji win the horse race, was appreciated by Tian Ji, and Sun Bin was reused in Qi. Since then, Tian Ji and Sun Bin have cooperated tacitly and defeated Wei in the Battle of Guiling and the Battle of Maling. Wei's national strength was greatly damaged, and Qi took the opportunity to gain the dominance of the East. Sun Bin expected that Tian Ji would be suspected by the villains because of his high work, fearing that he would be framed. However, although Tian Ji is a good soldier militarily, he is not mature enough politically. He can't use tricks, and he didn't expect others to harm him with intrigues. As Sun Bin expected, Tian Ji was framed by Zou Ji, the prime minister, shortly after his return to China, and was forced to flee to Chu. Finally, Qi Xuanwang acceded to the throne, realized that Tian Ji had been framed, took him back to Qi, and restored his original post.