Thirty six strategies for making something out of nothing

"Making something out of nothing" belongs to the "enemy battle plan" among the 36 plans. Early Qi Cave

Something out of nothing, the seventh of the thirty-six plans, the first of the enemy's stupid plans. To make something out of nothing is to use an illusion to deceive the other party, but not all of it is false, but to make the other person take the illusion as the truth. This is to skillfully use the principle of yin and yang transformation, to develop small illusions into big illusions, and then to adopt real actions after extreme falsehoods.

Making something out of nothing is a suspicious tactic to deceive the enemy and make the enemy believe it. This strategy cannot be used for a long time, because sooner or later there will be a time when it is fake, and sometimes it will be necessary to make a decision early. Avoid being noticed by your opponents.

The magic of the "out of nothing" strategy

Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period used this strategy. When uniting Sun Quan to fight against Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang used Cao Cao's poem to provoke Zhou Yu, and there is a sentence in Cao Cao's "Tongquetai Fu": "Take the 'second bridge' in the southeast and west, and enjoy the day and night."

Zhuge Liang replaced the "second bridge" with "second Qiao". These two Qiao refer to the two beauties of Dongwu, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, of which Da Qiao is Sun Ce's wife and Xiao Qiao is Zhou Yu's wife.

Zhuge Liang pretended not to know the identities of these two, meaning that Dongwu could let Cao Cao withdraw by offering these two beauties, and at the same time said some vicious words, and finally Zhou Yu was furious and was inseparable from Cao Thief, and the Sun-Liu alliance was formed.

There is a seventh plan of the thirty-six measures out of nothing. The so-called "creating something out of nothing" refers to insisting that there is something that was not originally there, which is what people often say nowadays is fabricated out of thin air. "Making something out of nothing" is the application of the principle of fiction and reality in Sun Tzu's Art of War, what is true is false, what is false is wild and true, true and false, false and true.

Make it difficult for the enemy to understand our true intentions, and then, when the enemy is unprepared, strike suddenly and win the victory.

The Thirty-six Strategies or Thirty-six Strategies refer to the thirty-six strategies of the art of war in ancient China, which originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and were written in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is a military book based on ancient Chinese military thought and rich experience in struggle, and is one of the long-standing intangible cultural heritages of the Chinese nation. "Thirty-six Strategies" is arranged according to the name, a total of six sets, each set contains six counts, a total of thirty-six counts:

That is, the strategy of victory, the battle of the enemy, the plan of attack, the plan of melee, the plan of battle, and the plan of defeat.

Making something out of nothing is the seventh plan in the "Thirty-six Strategies".

The original text is: "It is not a stool, but it is also true." Less yin, too yin, sun.

It means using a false image to deceive the other party, but not to the end, but to make the other person take the deceived illusion as the truth. This means that there is no original, but it is insisted that there is. Now the description is fabricated out of thin air.

"Making something out of nothing" belongs to the seventh plan in Sun Wu's "Thirty-six Destruction Strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War".

1. The original text is: "It is not a mistake, it is not a fact." Less yin, too yin, sun.

The original Gao Ke translates as: through various virtual illusions or actions to confuse the other party's wheel of thoughts, but it is not all illusions, just to let the other party take these deceptive illusions as the truth.

2. That is, to cover the actual truth with all kinds of false and false, false and real illusions, and finally achieve the purpose of hiding the truth.

b.Enemy battle tactics.

Making something out of nothing: The seventh plan in "Thirty-six Strategies", the original text is:"Yes, not yes, it's true. Less yin, too yin, sun. "This means that there is no original, but it is insisted that there is. Now the description is fabricated out of thin air.

This sentence comes from the 40th chapter of the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher (also known as Bingjia)."Everything in the world is born from being, and some are born from nothing"。Lao Tzu revealed the law of interdependence and mutual change between the existence and non-existence of all things.

The ancient Chinese military strategist Wei Zhenzi applied Lao Tzu's dialectical thought to military affairs, and further analyzed the relationship between nothingness and reality.