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Zhuge Liang put on an empty plan, why did he let 4 soldiers sweep the floor in front of the door? Sima Yi understood it at a glance.

This was done to tell Sima Yi that if Sima Yi got an inch, Emperor Wei Ming would not let him go after he went back, and there was only a dead end.

Because Zhuge Liang is just to confuse the enemy, after all, the army is pressing, and there are people sweeping the ground outside the door, which shows that there are enough soldiers and horses in the city, and they are not afraid of the invasion of external enemies, so that the enemy does not dare to come forward.

Because this can deceive people's minds, make Sima Yi suspicious, and make Sima Yi dare not attack the city directly.

Because this can have the effect of fiction and reality, and it can make the cunning Sima Yi unable to see through his purpose.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in order to render this Mr. Kong Ming as a "god", Mr. Luo Guanzhong directly imposed many dramas on Zhuge Liang, such as "borrowing arrows from grass boats", "borrowing east wind", "exciteing Zhou Yu", "empty city strategy", "seven captures of Meng Huo" and so on. If you look at it from the perspective of the Three Kingdoms period, what Zhuge Liang said and did almost reached the level of "unpredictable prophet". However, it is precisely because of these terrible performances that Zhuge Liang has become the "first god of the Three Kingdoms".

At that time, Zhuge Liang made a big plan to empty the city, and he deliberately let four soldiers sweep the floor in front of the gate at the city gate, maybe ordinary people didn't understand what Zhuge Liang did. However, Sima Yi, who was as smart as Zhuge Liang, understood his approach, and it was because of this that he saved his life.

After Zhuge Liang went out of the mountain to assist Liu Bei, the strength of Shu has also increased greatly, and some of the battles it has experienced have also laid the foundation for hegemony.

Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are both opponents and bosom friends. Both of them know each other as people. Sima Yi has observed Zhuge Liang's use of troops to fight for many years, and knows that Zhuge Liang is cautious and never takes risks. He denied Wei Yan's Meridian Valley conspiracy, which is a case of never taking risks.

On the other hand, Zhuge Liang's strange use of soldiers is also well known to Sima Yi. His wooden oxen and flowing horses, Kong Ming lanterns, Zhuge crossbows, his eight array diagrams, his "three fires", and his "seven captures of Meng Huo" are all breathtaking.

Sima Yi didn't care too much, after all, he was guessing Zhuge Liang's thoughts, Zhuge Liang has always been cautious in using soldiers, and he has not been involved in danger, he guessed that there must be ambushes in the city, and the dust was sweeping at that time, and there was no telescope at that time, Sima Yi didn't dare to approach.

The key is that the four sweepers are calm and free, and Zhuge Liang's piano sound is also tactful, if there is a problem in any link, Zhuge Liang will definitely die. This is Zhuge Liang's plan to be a virtual plan, an empty city plan, and it is categorical that Sima Yi did not dare to attack rashly, so for the sake of safety, he had to withdraw his troops.

Sending those soldiers to sweep the floor at the city gate is undoubtedly sending this message: Sima Yi, you have to know in your heart, if you solve me, you will be ruthlessly swept out of the house by the Cao family, because you are useless. And the Sima brothers are also very shrewd, so they can naturally see this meaning from the scene of the people sweeping the floor in front of the door.

Because Cao Wei was jealous of Sima Yi and wanted to eradicate Sima Yi's family, but because Shu had Zhuge Liang, if there was no Sima Yi, such a talented person would be difficult to deal with Shu, but if Zhuge Liang died, Cao Wei would also find a reason to eradicate Sima Yi's family, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are both very smart people, and they all know the pros and cons, so Zhuge Liang staged an empty city plan, and arranged 4 sweepers at the door, so that it would not be too fake, and gave Sima Yi a step, so that Sima Yi could use this as an excuse to retreat.

He wanted to create an illusion for the enemy, he wanted the enemy to see that they were very calm and composed, so that the enemy would not dare to advance rashly, I have to say that Zhuge Liang is really smart.

In this way, you can let the other party see some scenes in the city, and you can make the city look very relaxed. He wanted to create a very relaxed atmosphere to make the other party feel scared, to make the other party feel that there was an ambush waiting for him in the city, and to make the other party feel dangerous.

Zhuge Liang was a well-known strategist in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and the reason why Zhuge Liang did this was to create a relaxed atmosphere. Make it easier for the other party to fall for tricks.

Zhuge Liang did this to deter the other party, wanting the other party to feel that there were still people in the city, and set up an ambush to let the other party enter the city, and then catch it all, wanting to give the other party such an illusion.

The reason why someone is sent to clean in front of the door is because it reduces people's attention. And this approach can also hide people's eyes, so it is also a very wise approach.

Zhuge Liang was a very well-known military advisor in the history of the Three Kingdoms, and when the city was empty, people cleaned in front of the door to create a relaxed atmosphere.

The empty city plan in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is fictional, but the plot is carefully designed, Luo Guanzhong must have conceived it according to the real situation when he wrote the empty city plan, so we will follow Luo Guanzhong's train of thought to analyze why Zhuge Liang arranged a few people to sweep the floor under the city tower at that time. The empty city plan is essentially a psychological warfare, and Zhuge Liang's intention in designing the empty city plan is to confuse Sima Yi and make him mistakenly think that there is an ambush in the city and withdraw his troops, so the arrangements made by Zhuge Liang at that time must have been to achieve this purpose.

In order to create a stronger confusion, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi are both people who have been in the army for a long time, and calmness and prudence are their common characteristics, and they know each other well, so Zhuge Liang knows that it is not easy to confuse Sima Yi.

It is precisely because Sima Yi is not good at fooling that Zhuge Liang made a double arrangement to increase the probability of success of the empty city plan. On the one hand, Zhuge Liang pretended to be calm and played the piano on the city tower to convey the illusion that he was confident.

Of course, it is not enough to just do this, because Sima Yi knows Zhuge Liang, and Sima Yi knows that Zhuge Liang is a calm and cautious person, and it is possible to pretend to be fearless. Zhuge Liang also knew Sima Yi, he knew that Sima Yi was not easy to fool, and he even thought that Sima Yi might see that he was pretending to be calm, so he arranged for a few ordinary people to sweep the floor under the city tower, and specially explained that these people should not have the slightest panic.

Why are it the common people who are arranged? Zhuge Liang's intention to arrange this is also obvious, he wants Sima Yi to see that the ordinary people are also very calm at the moment, so why did Zhuge Liang specially let Sima Yi see the mentality of the ordinary people at the moment?

This is because the mentality of the common people at this moment is more convincing to Sima Yi than Zhuge Liang's own. Zhuge Liang thought to himself, Sima Yi, may not believe that my Zhuge Liang's composure is true, but you will never doubt that the calmness of the ordinary people is also pretended, right? To put it bluntly, Zhuge Liang used the calmness of the common people to increase his confusion about Sima Yi at that time.

In order to cooperate with Sima Yi's "self-respect", Zhuge Liang knew Sima Yi, so when he arranged the empty city plan, he also considered that Sima Yi might let himself go in order to raise his own self-respect.

But even if Sima Yi really had the intention to let Zhuge Liang go, Zhuge Liang had to arrange the empty city plan very realistically, so that Sima Yi could go down the steps, otherwise Sima Yi's subordinates would go to the Cao family to accuse Sima Yi of deliberately letting Zhuge Liang go, so Sima Yi would not end well.

In fact, Zhuge Liang picked up a life this time, and every time he saw the empty city plan, it would remind people that Sima Yi had also picked up a life in Shanggu later.

The above is why I understand why Luo Guanzhong asked Zhuge Liang to arrange a few ordinary people to sweep the floor under the city tower when he was writing the empty city plan.

Because Zhuge Liang is using the "empty city plan" to warn Sima Yi that if he kills himself at this time, then the Sima family will also suffer a catastrophe! We all know that Zhuge Liang, a generation of famous ministers, can be called a legendary figure in the Three Kingdoms era. The story of what happened to him has been repeatedly talked about by us and repeatedly mentioned by the public.

Especially Zhuge Liang's "Empty City Plan", it sounds like it is very mythical. He sat in Xicheng and easily repelled Sima Yi with a yaoqin and a piano song; Between leisurely walks, the wisdom of "Wolong" is vividly rendered.

At that time, he ordered the city gate to be opened in Xicheng, and near the main gate, he also arranged for four people to sweep the floor nearby. After the arrival of Sima Yi's army, he saw Zhuge Liang's battle and immediately retreated; This matter has always been regarded by us as the best example of Zhuge Liang's "exhaustive strategy".

It may be far from being as simple as it seems, though. Just imagine, even Sima Yi's son Sima Zhao saw that Zhuge Liang was very likely to be tricky; How could the scheming Sima Yi not think of this?

Moreover, Xicheng is just a place of projectiles, even if Zhuge Liang ambushes soldiers in the city, at most thousands, how can it be the opponent of Sima's 100,000 army! Therefore, Sima Yi's withdrawal must have another hidden reason! Moreover, Zhuge Liang arranged for the people to sweep the floor in front of the city gate, and I am afraid that there is also a big foreshadowing!

Just think, what does it really mean to sweep the floor? Remove the trash from the ground. After Sima Yi captured and killed Zhuge Liang, then he had no use value for Cao Rong, but became an eyesore threat like garbage;

Therefore, Zhuge Liang is actually warning Sima Yi, kill me, you will not be happy either! Sima Yi really also "threw a rat bogey", so he could only withdraw from the army! Later, in the Northern Expedition, Sima Yi interpreted "raising self-respect" to the extreme!

Because these four people are four ordinary people arranged by Zhuge Liang, in order to prove to Sima Yi that there are ambushes in the city, sweeping the floor is to raise dust, so that the enemy army cannot find out the truth.

Zhuge Liang asked the four of them to sweep the floor in front of the door, which would further aggravate Sima Yi's suspicions, making him think that there was fraud in the city, and he did not dare to attack rashly.

Because no one seems too fake, it is easier to confuse the enemy in this way.

Because the reason why Zhuge Liang arranged this way was because he showed a more confident meaning, which made Sima Yi believe in the right ambush soldiers in the city even more.

Because he wanted to create a virtual and real effect, so that Sima Yi couldn't figure out what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

Someone once described China's "Thirty-six Strategies" as: Thirty-six moves, fatal moves. The experience summed up by these ancient military wizards through actual combat is cunning one by one, and each one is more capable of speculating on people's hearts.

Among them, the "empty city plan", which is famous because of Zhuge Liang, is a leader in psychological tactics, and is more famous than the "bitter meat plan" and "anti-intermediary plan".

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, because of Ma Tan's carelessness, led to the loss of Jieting and Liucheng, and Zhuge Liang had to divide his troops to prepare and arrange a retreat for himself. As a result, after the arrangement, the soldiers were all sent out, but Sima Yi came over with an army of 150,000 and killed it violently, and the city panicked all of a sudden, and everyone knew that they could not resist Sima Yi.

But Zhuge Liang still improvised and put on an "empty city plan" to scare Sima Yi away. The arrangement he made was to let people put away all the flags, let everyone close their mouths, let the soldiers open the city gates, and take the children to burn incense and play the piano in the city.

Sima Yi knew at a glance that this was all a deliberate pose by Zhuge Liang. The soldiers have been fighting for many years, and it is too obvious that they are dressed as civilians to sweep the floor; It is equivalent to saying that Sima Yi understood Zhuge Liang's intentions, but he still retreated. On the one hand, Sima Yi was afraid that Zhuge Liang would really have some tricks; On the other hand, Sima Yi was able to understand Zhuge Liang's hints.

What is the hint? At that time, Sima Yi was in a very embarrassing situation in Cao Wei. Although Cao Cao loved talent before his death and forcibly salvaged him to serve, he was also a little jealous of him, and told Cao Pi to watch out for him; After Cao Pi's death, Cao Rui, the successor of Emperor Wei Ming, once fell for Zhuge Liang, suspected that Sima Yi was against him, cut him down, and demoted him to a commoner.

If it weren't for Cao Zhen's big loss at the hands of Zhuge Liang later, Cao Rui would not have thought of using Sima Yi again. Zhuge Liang regards Sima Yi as the biggest enemy, if Sima Yi really destroys Zhuge Liang's group, I am afraid that if he fights again, he will be suspected of being anti-minded if he wins, and if he is defeated, he will be suspected of not trying his best. At this point, Sima Yi understood when he saw Zhuge Liang's arrangement.

Zhuge Liang's arrangement, it is a bit that the two of us still mean "each sweep the snow in front of the door", you sweep me flat, and you will be swept away next. Sima Yi is a smart man, he chose to withdraw from the army, on the surface he was confused by Zhuge Liang, but in fact he took the initiative to take a step back, even if he wants to defeat Zhuge Liang in the future, he must choose the stupid "consumption", rather than winning by strategy.

Before and after, Zhuge Liang's biggest opponent in each Northern Expedition was only one Sima Yi. Sima Yi's cleverness lies in the fact that he always behaves worse than Zhuge Liang, and he suffers from being fooled from time to time, but his overall strength has not weakened at all, but Zhuge Liang has countless strategies for smart people, and when he encounters the "stupid" Sima Yi, he can only be powerful.