Horse racing story in Tian Ji

Tian Ji, the general of Qi State, likes horse racing very much. On one occasion, he and Qi Weiwang agreed to compete. Every horse can be divided into upper, middle and lower classes. During the competition, Qi Weiwang always used his own horse, Tian Ji's horse, the middle horse against the middle horse, and dismounted against the horse. Because the horses of the King of Qi were better than those of Tian Ji, Tian Ji failed in several races.

On one occasion, Tian Ji failed again and felt very disappointed. Before the end of the race, he left the racecourse in frustration. At this moment, Tian Ji looked up, and there was a man in the crowd who turned out to be his good friend Sun Bin. Sun Bin called Tian Ji, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I just watched the horse race. Wang Wei's horse is not much faster than yours. " ?

Before Sun Bin finished, Tian Ji glared at him: "I didn't expect you to dig at me!" Sun Bin said, "I'm not being sarcastic. I mean, if you compete with him again, I can definitely let you beat him. " Tian Ji looked at Sun Bin doubtfully. "You mean another horse?" Sun Bin shook his head and said, "You don't even have to change a horse." ?

Tian Ji said confidently, "That's different!" Sun Bin said confidently, "Just do it according to my arrangement." ? Qi Weiwang won many battles, and when he was proudly boasting about his horse, he saw Tian Ji and Sun Bin coming head-on, stood up and said sarcastically, "Why, are you still unconvinced?"

Tian Ji said: "Of course not, let's play again!" Say, "Hua", poured a lot of money on the table, as his bet. Qi Weiwang chuckled when he saw it, so he told his men to bring all the money he had won several times before, and added 1,200 gold, which was also put on the table.

Qi Weiwang said contemptuously, "Let's start!" Gong sounded and the game began. Sun Bin played the bad horse against the good horse in Qi Weiwang, and Tian Ji lost the first game. Qi Weiwang stood up and said, "I didn't expect the famous Mr. Sun Bin to come up with such a clumsy countermeasure." Sun Bin ignored him. Then the second scene.

Sun Bin took the first-class horse to compete with the middle-class horse in Qi Weiwang and won a race. Qi Weiwang was a little flustered. In the third game, Sun Bin took China and Malaysia against Qi Weiwang's inferior horse and won another game. This time, Qi Weiwang was dumbfounded. As a result, Tian Ji won two out of three games and Qi Weiwang. The same horse, because it changes the order of appearance in the race, will get the result of turning defeat into victory.

This story tells us that as the combination changes, the quality of things will also change. In the process of the development and change of things, the change of the arrangement order of the components of things will also lead to the qualitative change of things. This is another form of qualitative change caused by quantitative change.

Extended data:

1, background introduction:

Tian Ji Horse Racing is from Historical Records (Volume 65: Biography of Sun Tzu Wu Qi). The protagonists of the story are Tian Ji, Sun Bin and Qi Weiwang. Tian Ji was a famous war general of Qi in the early Warring States Period.

He led the troops to defeat Wei Jun in Guiling and Maling, and was sealed in Xuzhou, which was deeply trusted and loved by Qi Weiwang. He and Sun Bin are military partners and good friends who care about each other in life.

Sun Bin was a strategist in China during the Warring States Period and a descendant of Sun Wu. After learning the Art of War from Pang Juan, Pang Juan became a general, tricked Sun Bin into Wei and suffocated him (that is, removed his kneecap). After being secretly rescued by the emissary of Qi State, he was appointed as a strategist.

2. Character introduction

Tian Ji, whose birth and death year is unknown, is named Gui Tian (also known as Chen), whose name is taboo, word period and word period, was sealed in Xuzhou (now Tengzhou South, Shandong Province), so it is also called Xuzhou. During the Warring States Period, the State of Qi was a great soldier.

About 340 BC, Sun Bin fled to Qi, and Tian Ji appreciated Sun Bin's talent and accepted him as a public guest. At a horse race, Sun Bin proposed to Tian Ji the following horse-to-horse, horse-to-horse, horse-to-horse and horse-to-horse Tian Ji horse racing method.

In 354 BC, the Battle of Guiling took place. Wei attacked Zhao, Qi sent troops to help, Tian Ji was the main general, and Sun Bin was the staff officer. As a result, Sun Bin won a great victory in the art of war.

In 34 1 BC, the Battle of Maling took place, Wei attacked South Korea, and Qi sent troops to help. Tian Ji is still the general, Sun Bin is the staff officer, and Sun Bin is still marching into Dewey, using the "plan to reduce the stove" to make Wei Jun general Pang Juan underestimate his enemy. As a result, Pang Juan was killed and the State of Qi won a great victory. In the same year, Tian Ji was framed by Qi Xiang Zou Ji and fled to Chu, which could not be clarified. It was not until Qi Xuanwang acceded to the throne that he returned to Qi.

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