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8 Aug 2010
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A Showdown for An
Empty Town
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 minute 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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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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