The agreement between King Wu Qin and Gan Mao is an oath, but also a trust

History is a book. Every time you open a page, you can always read something and think about the present.

It happened in the seventh year of King Zhou (Guichou, 308 BC).

King Wu Qin sent Gan Mao to the Kingdom of Wei, planning to make an agreement with King Wei to attack Yiyang, South Korea. Wei Guo obeyed Gan Mao's strategy, but Gan Mao asked his assistant to report back to King Qin to Shou, hoping that King Qin would not attack Yiyang.

King Qin Wu was puzzled, and when he greeted Gan Mao in Xiyang, he asked him the reason.

Gan Mao explained: Although Yiyang is a county, its size and the number of people can actually be regarded as county-level. This shows that Yiyang is not a place that can be easily broken. Sending troops to attack Yiyang, which is thousands of miles away, in addition to facing the dangerous terrain, more importantly, it is easy to have trust issues between the king and the general, which will shake the military's mind.

Gan Mao | The image in "The Great Qin Empire"

Why do you say that?

Gan Mao gave two examples to King Qin Wu.

• once participated in the killing

Lu Kingdom There was a person with the same name and surname as who participated in and killed someone. A neighbor ran over to tell Zeng Shen's mother when she heard about it. Zeng Shen's mother was still weaving after hearing this, and was calm. When three people came to tell her the same thing, the kind mother believed that her son had killed someone, dropped the machine, jumped the wall and escaped.

• Leyang attacked Zhongshan Guo

In that year, the s Leyang Leyang attacked .It took three years to capture it. When he came back to discuss the merits and rewards, Wei Wenhou ordered the official in charge of the clerical staff to take out the letters from the officials in charge of accusing Le Yang, a full basket. After Le Yang watched it, he repeatedly bowed his head and saluted and said: "This is not my credit. I really owe it to the king's trust!" (" is not a courtier's credit, and the power of the king! ")

Gan Mao concluded: his virtuousness is not as good as Zeng Chan, and the king doesn't trust himself as much as Zeng Chan's mother, and there are far more than three people who are jealous of himself. I am afraid that the king will also leave the opportunity at that time. Besides, I am just a foreigner living in Qin State . If Lizi, Gongsun and others attack me with Korean affairs, the king will definitely listen to them. When the time comes, the strategy of attacking Yiyang will be abandoned, and the king will betray the agreement with the king of Wei, and he will be resented by the Koreans.

After King Wu Qin heard this, he and Gan Mao made an oath in Xiyang that they would not let others' admonition interfere with the strategy of attacking Yiyang.

So, Gan Mao led his troops to attack Yiyang, but after five months he had not conquered. and Gongsun really scrambled to admonish the king of Qin and blame Gan Mao. King Qin sent people to recall Gan Mao, wanting to stop the soldiers. Gan Mao only said: "Xiyang is still in the same place." King Wu Qin suddenly realized that, remembering the covenant of Xirang, he sent more troops to assist Gan Mao and finally captured Yiyang.

Similarly, the Qin State's ability to conquer Yiyang requires both Gan Mao's command on the front line and the Qin King's trust and support for Gan Mao. Compared with the heroic battles of Gan Mao and the soldiers on the front line, it is more important for the King of Qin to keep his pledge to fight the ground with Gan Mao. If King Qin listened to the accusations of Qi Lizi, Gongsun and others, and chose to stop his soldiers and return to the country, no matter how talented Gan Mao was and the determination of his soldiers, Yiyang would never be able to overcome it.

This just reflects an intangible key factor that determines success or failure in the workplace today-trust.

There are many inspirational articles on the market and on the Internet that tell the workplace how to gain the trust of others.But we can see from the stories of King Qin Wu and Gan Mao that trust is easily affected by external factors, and leaders are often more important to the success or failure of a decision. Therefore, the trust we are talking about here is from the perspective of the leader or decision maker.

First, the trust of the leader or decision maker in the person appointed.

At the beginning, Wei Wenhou maintained an unsuspecting attitude towards the admonishment who accused Leyang. Even though it took Leyang three years to complete his mission, Wei Wenhou did not abandon his trust in order to successfully conquer Zhongshan.

Second, the trust of the leader or decision maker in the decision made by himself.

When King Qin Wu was able to capture Yiyang, on the one hand, he kept the agreement with Gan Mao and did not choose to retreat because of the accusations of others against Gan Mao. On the other hand, King Qin Wu also insisted on his own decision. Because he decided to attack Yiyang. If he felt that his decision was a failure when he saw that Gan Mao had not conquered Yiyang for five months, he would choose to stop, regardless of whether he blamed Gan Mao or not. Therefore, sometimes it is the decision makers who need persistence and trust.

Of course, trust is two-way.

Gan Mao's trust in King Qin Wu must be reflected in his loyalty. At the beginning, Gan Mao dared to make a vow to settle the land with King Wu. The prerequisite was his loyalty to King Qin. Without this loyalty, the army he leads is fragile and not resilient. Let alone five months, he might have given up without breaking Yiyang in one or two months.

is not only the workplace, our lives also need trust. But now that frauds happen frequently, we believe that "the human heart is separated by the belly" and we must first protect ourselves. Trust seems to be a bit stupid and extravagant.

Trust is a double-edged sword.

Sometimes we choose to trust, but we are secretly "stabbed" by the other party, which makes people feel chilling; but when we are trusted by others, it will be like the sunshine in winter, making us feel warm and hopeful.

Trust, although there are only two words, the implication contained in it is not all in a few words.

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