During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, minister Cao Han was sent to Ruzhou for crimes. Cao Han was a very resourceful man. Since arriving in Ruzhou, he has been thinking about how to return to the capital and restore his official position.
One day, Song Taizong sent an envoy to Ruzhou for official business. Cao Han managed to find a way to see the envoy, and said with tears: "My sins are so serious that I will never be able to redeem them until my death. I really don't know how to repay the emperor for not killing him.
I repent here now, and one day I will repent. I will repay the emperor with my life. But my family has lost their livelihood and lacks food and clothing. Please take it back to the capital and give it to my family so that they can sell it and make a living." p>
When the envoy saw that the powerful officials at that time begged him like this, he agreed wholeheartedly. After returning to the capital, he reported the matter to Song Taizong. Song Taizong opened the painting and saw that it was "Down to the South of the Yangtze River" carefully drawn by Cao Han. The content was that Cao Han followed the order of Song Taizu.
The scene of Ren Xiangguan attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty. When Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty saw this painting, he immediately recalled Cao Han's achievements back then, and felt pity for him, so he ordered Cao Han to be recalled to the capital. In order to return to the capital, Cao Han used a painting as a tool to attract jade, and finally got his wish.
Extended information:
The Thirty-six Strategies are rated as a summary of ancient Chinese military strategies and a valuable legacy of military strategy. In order to make it easier for people to memorize these thirty-six strategies, A scholar took each word from the Thirty-Six Strategies and composed a poem in sequence: The public strategy of gold, jade and sandalwood is used to catch thieves. Fishes and snakes laugh in the sea. Sheep, tigers and peaches are separated by mulberry trees. Trees walk in the dark, and the cauldron is empty and suffers. A distant visitor, there is a beautiful corpse in the beam of the house, attacking Wei and attacking Guo.
Except for Tan Gong Ce, each word of the poem contains one of the thirty-six strategies, which are in order: to escape from the cicada's shell, to attract jade, to kill with a borrowed knife, to wait for work, to catch the thief and the king, to take advantage of the fire, to catch the thief behind closed doors, to fish in troubled waters, To scare the enemy, to hide the truth.
Countermeasures, hidden knives in smiles, plundering sheep by hand, diverting tigers away from mountains, standing for peach trees, pointing fingers at mulberry trees and scolding locust trees, watching the fire from the other side, blooming on the trees, crossing the old warehouse secretly, taking the lead, pretending to be crazy, playing hard to get, drawing firewood from the bottom of the cauldron, and empty city tactics.
Bitter meat scheme, distant befriending and close attack, turning against the guests, taking out the ladder from the house, stealing beams and replacing pillars, making something out of nothing, beauty trap, borrowing the corpse to revive the soul, claiming to the east and attacking the west, besieging Wei to save Zhao, chain strategy, and falsely attacking Guo.
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