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Showdown for An Empty Town |
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软实力的威力!
不战而屈人之兵，
名不正则军不顺。
One day Cao Cao (曹操), the Secretary of State of Wei Kingdom
(魏国) and Jiang Gan (蒋干), the Secretary of Defence of Wei Kingdom,
set out to conquer the Shu Kingdom (蜀国).
Shu was a relatively weak
state in today's Sichuan Province led by I Ching master Zhuge Liang,
while Wei had the most powerful military capability and
the puppet emperor, the head of the United Han within Nation,
under its control. But Wei army lost the battle before
the great wall of the city that is almost empty. Why? Because
their leaders had bad names, literary. When Zhuge Liang
kept reminding them their bad names, the morale of their
troops dropped to minus 200 degree .... the rest you can
imagine.
The moral of the story:
Don't underestimate the soft power of tongue and intangible
power of words. When you find your attackers have bad names, do the name calling, loudly and persistently
until they can stand no longer and fall from their high
ground, whether made of concrete or moral!
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Chinese Classics
Confucius, The
Rites (孔子·《礼记》):
In a time of peace, the
sovereign should exercise benevolence and maintain justice
in the kingdom; during the time of crisis, the sovereign
must not hesitate to use state powers to crash the enemies
of the nation. Only when a kingdom is harmonious among
its people and invincible to its foe, it can then be called
an age of prosperity.
天下无事则用之于礼义，天下有事则用之于战胜，用之于战胜则无敌，用之于礼义则顺治，外无敌，内顺治，此之谓盛德。
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