In ancient times, there was a country called Zheng State , and there was a businessman who sold cattle in Zheng State called Xiangao. On that day, Xian Gao brought a dozen cows out of Zheng State and planned to sell them to another country.
On the way, Xian Gao kept complaining to the cows who were eating grass, "How can you eat so much? You have eaten all the grass along the way."
The cows who had not eaten grass were shouting at Xian Gao's Hum. After Xian Gao put down a cluster of grass in front of a cow, he stood up and shouted helplessly at the beeping cow, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'll feed you right away." Then he walked towards the other cow to grazed in the grass, and the cow that had not eaten the grass continued to shout at Xian Gao.
"Ah, no one is allowed to eat when you call me." Xian Gao stood up irritably and shouted at all the cows in anger. The cows stopped calling and looked at the string high in a daze.
"Oh" Xian Gao sighed. Suddenly Xian Gao found that the cows were all looking at the distance in surprise, and involuntarily turned around and looked back, while muttering, "Ah, what are you doing?"
"Wow, there are so many people." A group of soldiers slowly walked towards the distance, and the general was riding on the horse. At this time, the maid on the side ran to Xian Gao and said to him excitedly, "By the way, master, as long as you sell the cows to them, don't you have to run a long way?"
Xian Gao suddenly realized, and said, "Yes, you are such a genius." Then Xian Gao made a trumpet-shaped hand and shouted to the army in the distance, "Hey, don't miss it when you pass by, the top ox is sold for 10% off," said the ox. At this time, the leading general rode a horse in front of him. Xian Gao immediately looked happy and said to the general, "Do you want to come and have a look?"
"No, I'm in a hurry," the general replied.
"Then I should have a look." Xian Gao replied immediately.
"Huh?" The general looked at Xian Gao in confusion.
Xiangao pointed at the general and said, "Look, you are riding a horse, and the horse has only four legs, so you can only run so fast."
After hearing Xiangao's words, the general agreed, got off from the horse, looked at him and said, "Yes,"
Xiangao then fooled, "If you buy another cow, you add four legs, a total of eight legs, is it running fast with four legs or eight legs?"
General laughed and said, "You think I'm two? Of course, eight legs are running fast, eight is more than four." The general looked at Xiangao confidently.
"Well, you are a genius," Xian Gao gave a thumbs up to the general, then stretched out his right hand and said, "Then we... make a deal!"
General smiled, and also stretched out his right hand and held it together with the same string, saying "Trade!"
"Yes, you are such a cheerful person." He turned around and selected a cow from the herd and handed it to the general. The general raised the cow and placed it on the horse's back, and the horse immediately turned into eight legs.
"Oh, by the way, where are you from so anxious? Where are you going?" Xian Gao asked casually.
"Uh," the general paused and replied, "I came from the Tang Dynasty in the East and went to the West to worship Buddha and seek scriptures." As soon as the general finished speaking, a soldier looked at the general in confusion and said, "Ah, general, aren't we coming from Qin , to sneak attack Zheng?"
"Ah, stupid guy, who told you to leak military secrets casually," the general looked at the soldier in panic and said. Xian Gao and the maid next to
were surprised when they heard the soldiers' words. Xian Gao immediately whispered to the maid beside him, "Go back to Zheng State to report the news, I'll scare them." After watching the maid leave, Xian Gao turned around and said to the general, "General,".
"Well, I'm not a general." The general retreated three feet in panic and waved his hands quickly.
Xiangao thought to himself, "Small, pretend," and then spread his hands and said to him, "General, I'm going to tell you, I'm a businessman on the surface, but in fact I'm the special envoy of Zheng State, number 007,"
"Huh?" The general was shocked and pointed at Xiangao and said, "Zheng Guo, what do you want to do?"
Xiangao smiled and replied, "The king has known that you are going to beat us for a long time. I'm afraid you don't have the strength to fight, so I specially asked me to sell beef here for you to eat before I even arrived in Zheng State."
"Huh?" The general smiled and put his hand on his chin and said, "You king is very kind-hearted."
Xiangao laughed and gave a thumbs up, saying proudly, "That's right, please rest for a while, and wait for me to make braised beef for everyone to eat." Xiangao thought to himself, "When the meat is ready, Zheng Guo will be prepared long ago."
The general's eyes were lit up, and he fantasized about the braised beef that had been served on the plate, saying, "Hehe, I have eaten beef."
"General, you think they are two, this must be a conspiracy," the soldier on the side interrupted the general's imagination and said to the general.
"Well, yes," the general reacted, wrapped his hands around his chest and said, "I almost fell for it." "Hmph, I don't believe you," the general pointed at Xian Gao angrily.
"Ah?" Xian Gao looked at the general with a puzzled expression. He said to himself, "Don't I look like a special envoy?" "Hmph, you must have conspiracies. If you ask me to fight me, I won't fight. Please take care of me. Withdraw the troops." The general turned around and commanded the soldiers to turn around and leave.
Looking at the leaving army, Xian Gao scratched his head and said, "Ah, it's not so scary." Suddenly, Xian Gao beat his thigh and shouted to the distance, "Hey, wait a moment, you haven't paid for the money to buy cattle yet."
At this time, Xian Gao's maid was standing on the city wall with General Zheng State waiting for the Qin State's army.
"Hey, didn't you say that the Qin army is coming to attack us? It's been two days, where is the army?" The general guarding the city said to the maid.
"Well, it's almost done." The maid replied awkwardly.
The above story tells the 36th strategy, the 12th strategy, is to take action, and when doing something, you can discover opportunities carefully and get more benefits. To use this trick, you have to have some luck. On the way to sell cattle, the merchant Xian Gao accidentally discovered that the Qin army was about to sneak attack on Zheng State. He wanted to pretend to be the envoy of Zheng State who came to send cattle to delay for a while, but who knew that he would take the lead and scare the Qin army to retreat. This sheep is really big.
