At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the Three Kingdoms competed for hegemony, Sun Quan wanted to get Jingzhou back, and Zhou Yu offered a plan of "fake relatives and taking hostages". Zhuge Liang saw through it and arranged for Zhao Yun to accompany him. He first visited Zhou Yu's father-in-law, Gong Qiao, who persuaded Wu Guotai to meet in Kanluoji, and Wu Guotai really married Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei. Sun Quan and Zhou Yu were ridiculed as "Zhou Lang's brilliant plan to secure the world, losing his wife and losing his soldiers".
Explanation:
Compensation: discount (zhé); Discount (zhé): loss and impairment. Metaphor wants to take advantage, but both lose.
Extended data:
The sentence "losing his wife and losing his soldiers" tells the story of Sun Quan marrying his sister in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I wanted to take advantage of some things through various means, but I suffered multiple losses, which was not worth the loss.
Among them, Madam refers to Sun Quan's sister Sun Shangxiang, while Zhou Yu's Soochow soldiers are losers. The final winners are Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. Although there is no official history, this sentence is widely circulated among the people.
After Zhuge Liang sent Liu Bei to Wudong, he publicized that he was coming to get married, and took the initiative to visit the noble family in Wu Dong. Sun Quan is going to secretly lure Liu Bei over and lock him up directly. But now the whole Dongwu people think that Sun Quan really married his sister, and it is difficult for Sun Quan to ride a tiger.
What's more, Liu Bei went directly to Sun Quan's mother to report the good news. Sun Quan's mother, Zhang Er, was puzzled. Seeing that Liu Beiren was not bad and an uncle, he agreed. In order not to let her daughter be widowed, Sun Quan was not allowed to catch Liu Bei, which made Sun Quan laugh and cry. He was also forced to prepare a grand wedding for Liu Bei in Wu Dong.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu made another plan to put Liu Bei under house arrest with delicious food to make him "happy". Liu Bei has been sleeping in the wind for many years. If he falls into this gentle town, he will never get up again. Unexpectedly, Zhuge Liang was prepared, and a letter to Liu Bei said, "Cao Cao has raised 500 thousand troops and wants to attack Jingzhou. Please come back quickly." Although Liu Bei wanted to go back to Jingzhou at once, he was reluctant to part with his wife and hesitated.
Fortunately, Mrs. Sun was completely with Liu Bei at this time, and she made suggestions to help Liu Bei escape to Jingzhou together. But Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and others became angry from embarrassment and became cruel. They would rather kill their sisters than let Liu Bei escape! Send heavy troops to chase Liu Bei and others. Zhuge Liang had a clever plan, expecting this ending, so he sent someone to meet him by the river.
After everyone boarded the ship, Zhou Yu came to arrest Liu Bei and others with an overwhelming number of warships, and Zhuge Liang quickly abandoned the ship and went ashore. In pursuit of victory, he also ran to the shore to chase. As a result, Guan Yu led Wei Yan and Huang Zhong to fight together and stopped the way. Zhou Yu did not dare to move and returned to the river. Liu Xiaobing on the shore shouted in unison: "Zhou Lang's brilliant plan to secure the world has lost his wife and lost his soldiers!"
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