Chapter 40 The Seventh and Fifth Techniques: Skills of Winning with Stupidity

Stupid, that is stupid.The ignorance mentioned here refers to the ignorance with quotation marks, which is deliberately pretending to be stupid in order to deceive the other party. Ordinary people always like to show off their talents and show their sharpness, but the other party has long grasped this weakness and formulated a set of countermeasures, which ended up costing Qingqing's life.Why don't we take precautions and come to a fool to win? Late one night, the famous comedy master Chaplin brought home a sum of money.When passing through a remote path, a robber who blocked the road suddenly jumped out of the grass, holding a pistol, and forced him to hand over his belongings.

Facing the black muzzle of the gun, Chaplin turned his head, and immediately pretended to be trembling all over, and said tremblingly: I have a lot of money with me, but it's all the boss's, please do me a favor!Shoot my hat twice, I'll give you the money, and I'll have an explanation when I get back. Of course the robber said nothing, so he took his hat and shot it twice. Chaplin begged the robber to shoot him two more times in the trouser leg, saying: This will make it more realistic, and the boss will not believe it. The robber cursed: You coward! Immediately, he impatiently pulled up Chaplin's trousers and fired two shots in a row, but only one shot was heard.

Chaplin saw that the robber's pistol was out of bullets, so he ran away with agility. The robber regretted it too late. This story shows that in the face of a robber with a gun, it is useless to resist or run away. Only by successfully using the strategy of defeating the enemy by foolishness can one get rid of the robber and save himself. There is also a story about Yang Zi asking Lao Tzu for advice: During the Warring States period, a man named Yang Zi among the philosophers wanted to ask Lao Tzu for advice. He heard that Lao Tzu was lobbying in Qin State, so he waited for Lao Tzu in Daliang.

One day, Lao Tzu went back to Daliang, and Yang Zi immediately went to the suburbs to meet him.Seeing Yang Zi's posture, Lao Tzu looked up to the sky and sighed: I used to think that you are a very promising person, but now it seems that you can't, you can't! Yang Zi was reprimanded face to face by Lao Tzu, but he didn't say anything.After welcoming Lao Tzu to the inn, Yang Zi respectfully knelt down in front of Lao Tzu and asked him for advice: Just now I wanted to ask you for advice immediately, but seeing that you were in a hurry, I didn't dare to speak.Seeing that you are free now, I would like to ask you to clarify, what is wrong with me?

Lao Tzu replied: Then I will not be polite.Usually you might as well pretend to be a little confused, but you have to maintain a leisurely attitude.Your style of being strong and not willing to lag behind is not acceptable.A person whose heart is truly pure and innocent looks a little stupid. Yang Zi suddenly became enlightened, and thanked Lao Tzu again and again: Thank you for your advice, I will definitely follow your instructions in the future. Since then, Yang Zi has learned the strategy of winning with foolishness.When Yang Zi lived in the inn, he put on an arrogant air. The owner of the inn was respectful, and other guests also looked at him differently.When Yang Zi left the inn, they already regarded him as an ordinary guest.

Deliberately pretending to be stupid, telling some straightforward truths or seemingly sincere irony in public, can not only express one's own thoughts, emotions and dissatisfaction, but also deceive the other party, change passiveness into activeness, and get rid of difficult dangers, which is also rare eloquence.