If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will not be in danger in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemy and know yourself, you will lose one battle; if you do not know your enemy and do not know yourself, you will be in danger in every battle. –Sun Tzu – The Book of Strategies and Attacks
The scene that is being shown on the scene of the Chen Dynasty at the moment is a vivid example.
Zhao Dajing, under Zhu Pingan’s pressing questions, his face was red, dumbfounded, gritting his teeth but unable to do anything about it.
All along, Zhao Da Ying had used the scar on his back as a good bargaining chip to present his case, and was even more emboldened after climbing up to Yan’s house and getting a promise. As a military man, he had forgotten the important art of war, “Know the enemy and know yourself, and you will not be in danger in a hundred battles”.
This was not the case with Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan had already started preparing for this trial after receiving the news of the Ministry of Justice’s trial in Xihe Village, and the collection of information on Zhao Dajing had always been the focus. Especially after arriving at the capital, he has been secretly inquiring and collecting relevant information about Zhao Dajing, from his personal preferences, clothing, food, housing and transport to his growth, friendships and positions, etc. He has been collecting and researching the information, which can be said to be more understanding of Zhao Dajing than Zhao Dajing himself. The fact that Zhao Dajing liked to show off his back scars with his bare bladder had long been known to Zhu Pingan. So how could Zhao Da Ying, who liked to show off his back scar, not show it off at the scene of his love?
Therefore, after Zhu Pingan had learnt about this preference of Zhao Daeyeong, he had already prepared a targeted response plan.
Therefore, the scene at the scene was far beyond Zhao Daeyeong’s expectation, but it was within Zhu Pingan’s expectation.
Zhao Dajing’s dilemma of being questioned by Zhu Pingan was naturally seen by the crowd, and basically, the crowd already had an answer in their hearts to the question of whether Zhao Dajing was a brave general or a deserter.
Same Scars
What used to be the capital to show off in the past was now like a thorn in the back.
Looking at Zhu Pingan’s teasing smile, Zhao Dajing’s mouthful of blood caught in his throat in shame and anger, and then swallowed it back.
“Zhu Pingan, strong words, what’s wrong with a back injury, my arse was even shot by a Tartar dog on the battlefield last time!”
“That’s right, who stipulates that a general can’t be wounded in the back if he goes into battle! What kind of bullshit logic is this.”
“Zhu Pingan, you’re a sourpuss who hasn’t been to war and can’t lift a hand or shoulder, what qualifications do you have to tell generals what to do!”
“Who do you think you are, reading two books and a few books on the art of war and you think you’re a fool for reading.”
“Your hair hasn’t even grown back yet, what do you know!”
Zhao Dajing’s embarrassment was seen by the military officials in the gallery, and many of them rose in solidarity with Zhao Dajing and verbally attacked Zhu Pingan.
They did not care whether Zhao Dajing was a fierce general or a deserter, as long as Zhao Dajing was a military official, as long as Zhao Dajing was a popular person in the Yan Palace, they had enough reasons to support Zhao Dajing, this was where the interests lay, and this was also their position.
However, good intentions did not necessarily do good things.
The words of these military officials were very vulgar, not like a debate but more like a quarrel, especially the insulting names for the literati such as sour scholars, which made the clerical officials present sound harsh to the ears, and pushed some neutral officials with self-judgment towards Zhu Pingan’s side.
Of course, as for the civil officials on the Yan Party’s side, although they had a lot of contempt for these military officials in their hearts, they still spoke up for Zhao Dajing on the field. The civil officials were much more advanced than the military officials, and their logic and regulations were much clearer.
However, after the first civil official had just finished his solidarity, he was interrupted by Zhu Pingan.
“Thank you all for your insights, but Ping An still wants to ask Lord Zhao to clear up his confusion.”
The reaction of the people on the field was also largely within Zhu Pingan’s expectations, Zhu Pingan slightly hooked his lips and made a distant bow to the people on the sidelines, interrupting the Yan Party’s civil official side’s solidarity with Zhao Dajing before turning around and continuing to ask Zhao Dajing again.
This is the reasoning taught by Chairman Mao, “It is appropriate to pursue the poor enemy, not to learn the name of the king”, to take advantage of your illness to kill you, to seize the opportunity will expand the results of the war, and completely nail Zhao Dae-yang on the cross of shame.
You are finished?
Zhao Dajing glared fiercely at Zhu Pingan, his mouth opened and closed, wanting to open his mouth to defend Zhu Pingan to the point of being imperfect and disgraced, but he didn’t know how to open his mouth……
The only sound heard at the scene was a gagging sound brought about by the opening and closing of the mouth.
It could be described as
embarrassing.
Even without raising his head, he could imagine the looks of the crowd at this moment, Zhao Dajing felt a fishy sweetness in his throat and his hatred for Zhu Pingan deepened.
“Snap!”
A shocking sound from the public hall relieved Zhao Dajing.
“Enough, the time is almost noon, let’s not waste time on these side issues, and the scar on Zhao Dajing’s back has nothing to do with this plea, the public hall will no longer question it, if there is any interest, you can discuss it after the public hall plea is over.”Wang Xueyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice in the public hall, terminated the debate on Zhao Dajing’s scar with the issue of time.
Ridiculous.
This issue was started by you guys, at the beginning when Zhao Dajing revealed his scars to gain sympathetic support, why didn’t you guys say that wasting time as well as the scars had nothing to do with this plea? When you didn’t take advantage of the case and got into trouble, you said that it had nothing to do with the case, huh, it’s really laughable.
However, although there were some regrets, the purpose had been achieved. Zhao Dajing wanted to use the scars to prove his bravery, to prove that he Zhao Dajing was relying on his own bravery to obtain merit, and did not need to borrow the head of the people to refute Zhu Pingan’s impeachment of his own report.
Zhao Dajing thought well.
As a result, not only did he fail to prove his bravery, but also made a mistake and left an impression of cowardice and desertion in the hearts of the people.
Having generally achieved his goal, and with the public hall favouring Zhao Dajing procedurally, Zhu Pingan arched his hand towards the public hall and smiled faintly.
Zhao Dajing once again glared hard at Zhu Pingan, damn, this time he was careless, by Zhu Pingan this kid even caught his own handle! He would definitely not make the same mistake again.
Hmph.
Zhu Pingan, do you think that you are sure to win just because you won a single stroke by fluke?
Childish!
I’ll let you be happy for a while, but you’ll have time to cry next, I won’t give you another chance.
What if you prove that I’m a deserter? Like Lord Wang said, it has nothing to do with this case. If you want to prove that I’ve killed a good man and risked my life, you can do it, bring me proof!
What evidence do you have?
Can you let those dead people speak against me?
You think I don’t know what you’re up to? Oh, it’s just the right time to get rid of them all!
In the end, you’ll still end up with a false accusation!
If you can’t prove that I killed Liang and risked my life, then according to the false accusation, you’ll be guilty of killing Liang and risking your life. This is an unforgivable felony, at that time, not to mention your reputation, that is, you can not keep your head, you are too late to regret.
Thinking of this, Zhao Dajing looked at Zhu Pingan again.
When Zhao Da Ying looked at Zhu Pingan again, it was like looking at a dead person, much smoother, and smiled grimly.
