Sun Bin is another great strategist in China after Sun Wu. At the beginning of the Warring States Period, he pretended to be crazy, left Wei for Qi, and lived in the home of general Tian Ji, "to avoid being honored as a guest of honor". When Qi Weiwang has no time, he often gambles with the family's son on horse racing. "Tian Ji's horsepower is not as good as it is, and it has repeatedly lost money." On one occasion, Tian Ji led Sun Bin to watch a horse race. Sun Bin saw that the horsepower difference was not very far, while Tian Ji lost all three games. So he advised Tian Ji: "I can use your inferior horse to compete with my son's superior horse, your superior horse to compete with your son's middle horse, and your middle horse to compete with your son's inferior horse, so that you can win." Tian Ji acted according to the plan and won five thousand gold for Qi Huangong with two wins and one loss. After telling this story, Feng Menglong immediately quoted Tang Taizong as saying: "I have understood the importance of using troops since I was a child. Every time you look at the enemy's array, you know its strength. We often regard our weaknesses as its strengths and our strengths as its weaknesses. He took advantage of my weakness and couldn't rush; If you take advantage of its weakness and attack it, you will be defeated. " And pointed out that this is the tactic of horse racing in Sun Bin.
There is a story in "The Warring States Policy and Qi Ce" that is worth pondering: Meng Changjun wants to drive away the guests, but Lu Lian exhorts: "If the apes and macaques are wrong, they are not fish and turtles; It is better to take risks than to take advantage of dangers. Cao Mo's three-foot sword, an army can not stop; Let Cao Mo release his three-foot sword, but Cao Zhong lives in an acre of land with a farmer, so he is not a farmer. So things are different, Yao is not as good as it is. It is immoral to make people unable today; Teach people without being clumsy. All thumbs, just give up. If you are greedy, you will abandon it, and people will abandon their differences. Those who come to repay their gratitude are not the first teachers in the world. " If you are a fish in the water, don't envy the birds in the sky; If you have the ability of a swift horse, why are you in the same trough with the donkey and cow? "Huayi Boxing can't be eaten as a meal, and the donkey can get the spring breeze", which is the sorrow of the wise and the sorrow of the times.