means: market, buy; spend a thousand gold to buy the bones of a thousand-mile horse. It is a metaphor for using a lot of money to attract talents and seek talents as if they were eager to find talents.
is from the book " Warring States Strategy·Yan Ce 1 " records, "I heard that in ancient times, there was a king who asked for a thousand-mile horse with a thousand-mile horse... in March, the horse was dead, so I bought his head 500 gold, and instead paid the emperor."
According to legend, in during the Warring States period, there was a king who loved playing with horses. Although there were hundreds of horses, none of them was a thousand-mile horse. I was very upset about this and could be said to be a waste of food.
One day, someone gave him an idea and asked him to ask him to ask for a horse with a lot of money. Some people were puzzled. They only paid for a horse with a lot of money. I don’t know whether it was true or false, but no one dared to ask for it. After a long time of this, a person who had been living here heard about this, he asked to see the king and said that he could find the Qianlima. So the king thought about it for a long time before agreeing, afraid that he would come to cheat money, so he asked him to find the Qianlima and bring it back to get a thousand gold.
Sure enough, within half a year, he found a good horse that traveled thousands of miles a day. But when he obtained the consent of the king and took his daughter to buy the horse, the horse died unexpectedly. He thought for a long time, but he still spent 500 gold to buy the bones of the thousand-mile horse.
When he returned to the palace and reported to the king, the king said, "Where is my Thousand-mile horse?" "Here." He said, taking out the corpses of the Thousand-mile horse. Seeing these, he was very angry and scolded him: "What I want is the living Thousand-mile horse. What is the value of these corpses? These corpses are also worth 500 gold?" The man smiled and said, "Please calm down. Five hundred gold will not be paid for in vain. You are willing to buy a dead Thousand-mile horse. The news spread, and everyone knows that you really like good horses and keep your word. In this way, after a long time, someone will definitely come to offer the horse." Later, within half a year, the king really got several Thousand-mile horses offered by others.
