God-like existence "Guiguzi"

Guiguzi, a wizard for thousands of years, is said to have a black left hand and a white right hand. The warring States period is just a game of chess for him. His life had a great influence, but this influence was obtained through many of his disciples, including more than 500 disciples who worshipped Xiang. Each of them was a famous warrior and even influenced the course of history. This trader who can control the world pattern is Guiguzi.

Guiguzi lived in the famous axis era of world history. He was the founder of a hundred schools of thought and the strategist of oriental civilization. According to textual research, Guiguzi's real name is Wang, also known as Xuanweizi. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he was a singer of Wei State. Because he often went to Yunmeng Mountain to collect medicine and cultivate monks, he later lived in Qingxi Guiguzi, so he called himself Mr. Guiguzi.

Guiguzi was also the most mysterious person in the Warring States period. I've always heard of him in the Jianghu, but I haven't seen him. There is no record of his birth in the secular world. His main life time, from 390 BC to 320 BC, was self-taught, knowledgeable and unparalleled in wisdom. When it comes to mathematics, the sun and stars are like latitudes. In their hands, they occupy the past and look at the past. Everything is true. Second, the study of military strategists, six towers and three strategies, changes endlessly, forming soldiers, ghosts and gods; Third, learn from the text, remember and listen more, judge the situation rationally, and argue with words, and do everything possible; On the fourth day, I was born, cultivated my true temperament, cured my illness and extended my life, fed and guided me, and the ground soared.

His disciples are all over the world. Sun Bin and Pang Juan studied the art of war, understood martial arts and gossip, and made their debut at the earliest. Followed by Su Qin and Zhang Yi majoring in vertical and horizontal studies. Mao Sui and Xu Fu were disciples of Guiguzi in his later years. They learned the techniques of crossing the valley, qigong, cultivating immortals and martial arts. Other disciples Shang Yang, Li Si, Lv Buwei, Bai Qi, Li Mu, Wang Jian, Gan Mao, Le Yi, Zhao She and Li Kui. ......

Millennium wisdom

Guiguzi's vertical and horizontal strategy theory is obviously different from other schools. He paid attention to practical value, emphasized the supremacy of results according to the actual situation at that time, and could do whatever it took to achieve the goal and result. At this time, Confucianism has developed for more than 20 years, and both emperors and courtiers are advocates of Confucianism. They think that strategic theory only applies to troubled times. If you want long-term stability in the future, you still have to rely on benevolence, righteousness and morality. In the long history of China for thousands of years, the theory of strategy has been ups and downs, and most of it has been ruthlessly submerged by history, but the theory of ghost valley has been enduring and has been passed down to this day.

The wisdom of Guiguzi is more positive for today. Now social competition has become the main theme, the space between people is highly compressed, and the connection between people and society will reach every second. In such a complicated and changeable situation, the ghost valley theory has returned to people's field of vision. In military deployment and political diplomacy, as well as in workplace life, economy, finance and judicial proceedings, its strategic skills can not only enhance the survival and competitiveness of individuals, but also improve the political status of the country.

Axial age

On the earth, world civilization has an unprecedented prosperity in time and space, and many spiritual teachers of human civilization have been born, such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece, Sakyamuni in ancient India, Jewish prophet in Israel, Confucius, Laozi and a hundred schools of thought contend in ancient East. Their thought is the peak moment of the whole human thought, and this time and space is concentrated between 600 BC and the first 300 years, between 25 degrees and 35 degrees north latitude, which is the axis era of human civilization.

There are three important reasons for the birth of the Axis Age: First, it was in the troubled times of civilization, when human civilization entered the Iron Age, and material security laid the foundation for spiritual civilization. All the ancient civilizations have fallen into internal troubles and foreign invasion. The chaos of the war and the suffering of the people make advanced thinkers start to think about how to govern the country and care for the people. Secondly, in the era of freedom of speech, in order to survive, all countries urgently need quick and effective strategies, so thinkers become active. Third, the exploration of Tao, ancient Greece began philosophical speculation, exploring the truth of the development of things, and seeking long-term development. In ancient India, it directly developed into the theory of mind, exploring the ultimate concern of human beings, while China and Baijia paid more attention to efficiency and explored the way of governing the country and enriching the people.

Conspiracy and conspiracy

There are two strategies, conspiracy and conspiracy. If the apparent intention is consistent with the real intention, it is collusion, and vice versa. Guigu's theory focuses on "lobbying" and "strategy", and this strategy is the essence, lobbying is the form, and the theoretical construction comes from Laozi, while Laozi's Tao advocates women's thoughts very much, emphasizing both rigidity and flexibility, such as goodness as water. Guiguzi's strategy emphasizes that the basic starting point is to "know yourself and know yourself", and both sides should try their best to obtain each other's information, and at the same time keep their true intentions secret, and adopt the way of "taking it from the vagina".

According to Laozi's dialectical thought, everything in the world has its opposite. Observing things, we should observe both the positive side and the negative side. For example, everyone in the world knows that beauty is beauty and evil is evil. Guiguzi used this idea in lobbying and strategy. From the other side's point of view, lobbying and planning can often get unexpected results. Lao Tzu also believes that when things reach a certain limit, they will change in the opposite direction and even become its opposite. For example, extremes meet, and things will go round and round. Shuang Yutu of Yin and Yang written by Zhou Dunyi in the Northern Song Dynasty is also based on this.

A famous apprentice

In other words, Gui Guzi should be the greatest educator, and now he should be a professor in a famous university. Many disciples hold important positions in various countries, and the whole world has been turned upside down because of their wits and courage. The most famous of them are the Four Friends of Ghost Valley: Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin and Pang Juan. After these four disciples came out of the mountain, they set off a magnificent page in the history of the Warring States Period.

Su Qin six countries

Su ji zi, a native of Luoyang, Henan Province, was a famous strategist, diplomat and strategist during the Warring States Period. In his early years, he went to Qi to study, concentrated on guiguzi, learned vertical and horizontal techniques, and began to look for a job after graduation. Su Qin returned to Luoyang and sought audience with King Xian of Zhou, but the ministers around King Xian always knew Su Qin, so King Xian didn't trust him. So he went west to the state of Qin and lobbied King Hui of Qin to annex other countries and rule as an emperor. King Hui of Qin thought that the time was not ripe. Shang Yang, who had just implemented the failed political reform, was very disgusted with the adviser, so Su Qin failed again.

Su Qin went home down and out, his wife ignored her, and his sister-in-law cooked for him. Even his neighbors laughed at him. He felt that all his studies in vertical and horizontal surgery were useless, and his career failed and he had no position at home. Undaunted, Su Qin studied hard at home for Jiang Ziya's Yin Fu and began to travel around the world again. After tossing and turning, I came to Yan State. After waiting for more than a year, I met Hou and asked him to help me analyze the current geographical situation in Yan State. Yan and Zhao are interdependent, so they should form an alliance first, and then fight against Qin thousands of miles away. Qi Huangong appreciated Su Qin very much, gave him money for horses and chariots, and asked Su Qin to lobby Zhao for an alliance.

Su Qin analyzed the relationship between Zhao and other countries in detail, and put forward the idea of unity: Korea, Wei, Qi, Chu, Yan and Zhao should unite against Qin, so Qin would definitely not send troops from Hanguguan, and Zhao's hegemonic cause would be successful. With Zhao's support, Su Qin successfully lobbied with other four monarchs, and each country successfully signed an integration strategy, and Su Qin also successfully matched the seals of the six countries.

According to the political and military situation at that time, Su lobbied and formulated a strategy. In the early Warring States period, the Seven Chivalrous Men stood side by side, evenly matched and balanced each other. In the middle period, Qin began to reform, annexed Bashu, made the country strong and the people rich, and the situation of seven chivalrous men standing side by side was broken. It was Su Qin who saw this reality in time and put forward a vertical strategy to contain Qin and maintain the balance of the situation. Su Qin has two action plans. One is attack and defense, and the six countries jointly attacked the hinterland of Qin and broke through the Hangu Pass. Second, when any of the six countries is attacked by Qin, the six countries should support and cooperate with each other.

History has proved that the continuous vertical strategy at that time effectively curbed the eastward expansion of Qin State and maintained the balance of 15 years. Later, the six countries were annexed by Qin, which just showed that the six countries in Shandong did not consistently implement the strategy of integration and unification, and the narrow political vision and complicated interest relations of all countries led to the ultimate failure. Su Qin is the pioneer of geopolitics, taking geopolitics as the lobbying basis and alliance strategy as the coping means, with a broad vision and detailed analysis.

Qin Xiang Zhang Yi

Zhang Yiwei, a native of Zhangyi Village, Wangxian Township, Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, was a famous strategist, diplomat and strategist during the Warring States Period. After learning from Guiguzi, he initiated the diplomatic strategy of "Lian Heng", lobbied six countries to enter Qin, won the appreciation of King Hui of Qin, made him the prime minister, and was ordered to go abroad, breaking the "vertical" by "horizontal" and was named Wu Xinjun.

Just out of the mountain, Zhang Yi came to Chu, penniless. She stopped at the gate of Shaoyang, the prime minister of Chu. One day, Shaoyang held a big banquet. Just when everyone was drinking happily, a piece of beautiful jade in Shaoyang was inexplicably lost. Other guests suspected that it was Zhang Yigan. Shaoyang ordered Zhang Yi to be tortured, but Zhang Yi refused to admit it and had to let him go. Zhang Yi, who was humiliated, came home and asked his wife: Is my tongue still there? The wife smiled: Of course! Zhang Yi later became famous in the annals of the Warring States with his golden words and jade words.

Down and out, Zhang Yi came to Zhao, while Su Qin, a former classmate, was already the prime minister of Zhao, and he planned to make a living first. Who knows, I was cooled by Su Qin for a long time, just met with Yi Cheung, arranged Yi Cheung to sit in the seat next to me at the banquet, and humiliated Yi Cheung in public, so Yi Cheung left angrily and decided to leave Qin Zhao to get back at Su Qin. However, there is no travel expense. It happened that a businessman accompanied him, helped him all the way to the state of Qin, and escorted him to see Wang Hui of Qin. After talking with Zhang Yi, Qin honored you as a guest of honor. The businessman came to say goodbye and told Zhang Yi that everything was arranged by Su Qin. Yi Cheung sighed and vowed that Su Qin would not attack Zhao Shixiang.

At that time, the six countries kept Qin in Hangu Pass for more than ten years, and the strength of Qin gradually increased, and the heart of going east became stronger. If we want to move eastward, we must disintegrate the companies in the six countries and allocate 1,000 pounds skillfully by force. Wei is Zhang Yi's first goal and the first obstacle to the eastward advancement. Zhang Yi lobbied Wei, persuaded Qin Huiwang to return Puyang to Wei, and sent his son to Wei as a hostage, taking the opportunity to persuade Wang Wei to repay Qin's generosity to Wei. Therefore, Wei dedicated Shang Jun and Shaoliang fifteen counties to Qin, and King Hui of Qin appointed Zhang Yi as the photograph, ranking first among all officials.

As the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, Zhang Yi's first act was to send a letter to tell Chu that she was framed for stealing jade that day, and today the price is to annex the whole Chu State. This is a gentleman's revenge. Ten years later, Zhang Yi went to Chu State, and used 600 Li to lure him to break diplomatic relations with Qi State and form an alliance with Qin State. After returning home, Zhang Yi pretended to have a car accident and didn't go to court for three months. Without waiting for a response, the king of Chu thought that breaking diplomatic relations with Qi was not complete and sent someone to insult the king of Qi. At this point, Yi Cheung hurriedly visited King Hui of Qin and suggested secretly forming an alliance with Qi State to jointly attack Chu. Zhang Yi played Chu three times, playing with him in the palm of his hand, completely breaking the Qi-Chu alliance.

After that, Zhang Yi began to lobby other countries, with the intention of changing the alliance into Lian Heng's strategy of making friends with Qin. However, just as Zhang Yi was about to succeed to the throne, King Hui of Qin died and Qin Wuwang succeeded to the throne. Ministers believe that Zhang Yi broke her promise and betrayed the country in order to win the favor of the monarch. If Qin uses Zhang Yi again, I'm afraid he will be laughed at. When Zhang Yi was a prince, Qin Wuwang didn't like him. Zhang Yi knows that she is bored. I was afraid that he would follow in Shang Yang's footsteps, so he came to Wei as prime minister and died in Wei a year later.

Sun Bin and Pang Juan.

Sun Bin and Pang Juan are both excellent military strategists, both of whom studied under guiguzi. They often learn from each other and are good friends, but who is taller and who is lower has long been revealed. Once, Guiguzi wanted to test their intelligence and adaptability. Guiguzi sat in the room and said to Sun Bin and Pang Juan: Whoever can mobilize me from the room to the outside will go there.

Pang Juan answers first. He ran in in a panic and said, master, the Buddha has come to the beginning. Please come and hitch a ride! Guiguzi is indifferent. Pang Juan ran in for the second time and even a shoe ran away. He said breathlessly, master, Xuan Nv has been here for nine days. Come and look outside. Guiguzi moved and didn't get up. Pang Juan rushed in from the door for the third time and accidentally dropped a front tooth. He stammered, master, this is not good. Su Qin and Zhang Ge fought, and Zhang Ge killed Su Qin. Guiguzi stood up and looked at Pang Juan without going out.

Sun Bin, come up, master, no. Guiguzi feels a little strange. Sun Bin said, master, your old man knows astronomy, geography and everything for 500 years. How can I lie to you? Guiguzi was very proud after listening to it, and some were on cloud nine. Sun Bin went on to say: If your old man is outside the house, I can let you in, because if there is a day outside, you can work it out. If there is no day inside, you can't get out if you go out. Guiguzi doesn't believe in evil, so people use chairs to carry themselves outside. When Sun Bin saw Master coming out, he said with a smile, Master, you came out!

Chapter 11 of Ghost Valley

Guiguzi is also called "the strategy of making love". This is written by students in Silicon Valley according to Mr. Wang's words. This book focuses on tactics and debating skills. The book is rich in ideas, covering philosophy, politics, military science, psychology, sociology, literature, information science and other disciplines, and puts forward such viewpoints as harmony, reaction, internal struggle, harmony, speculation and friction.

Guiguzi, based on the theory of Yin and Yang and the philosophy of five elements, put forward an ideological system of weighing advantages and disadvantages, seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, and making everything in the world work for us. He is also a philosophy that studies relationships in social systems: relationships between people, people and things, and things and things. To study people, we must first study people's personality and thinking, so we must "go straight to the heart"; To study things, we must know the law of development and change of all things, see the clues and omens of things, and do things in a planned and directional way to achieve our goals.

The so-called folding is a switch, folding is an opening and closing, and yin and yang are combined. From beginning to end, everything should follow the principle of folding. In the process of lobbying, consistency is also the key to coping with change. Before lobbying, we must be prepared for all kinds of changes. The mouth is the entrance and exit of the soul, and the heart is the residence of the spirit. The will, thoughts and ingenuity generated by the heart are all spoken, so life and death depend on the alliance.

The so-called general trend of the world is the various forces that promote the general trend of the world. If we compare the world to the sea, the wind direction is timely, what moves with the wind is the trend, and grasping the current situation is to make waves. The times in the world are confusing and changing rapidly. Sages know the times. Because the rule of the world, treacherous court officials go against the times, so troubled times.

Chueh-hui measures people's hearts. If you are Chueh-hui, you should not only observe words and deeds, but also smell their voices and observe their actions, and then infer their true intentions. If we want to understand the world, we must see through the national conditions, see whether the material wealth is complete, how many people are there, whether the terrain is steep or plain, whether the military strength is strong or weak, whether the princes are talented or stupid, whether the weather is good or bad, and whether the people are backward, and then speculate whether the national luck is prosperous or declining.

If you devote yourself to the game, you can't play chess without chess pieces. If the chess pieces are kept in the box, they are dead. Only by putting them in the game can they be vivid. You have me and I have you. Before you act, you must make a decision before you act. If you make a mistake, you will lose your land, or you will lose the game.

There is no cure in the world, because people have no cure; People are hopeless because they want to shine. If you want to rule the world, you should first rule people's hearts and chaos. Everything in the world is due to choice, and it is also due to choice. This is the beauty of life. There are only two kinds of decisions, one is easy to decide and the other is difficult to decide. Easy things are things that can be broken in a moment, and most things in the world are like this. For example: things worth doing, noble and beautiful things, things for nothing, things that must be worked hard, things that seek good fortune and avoid evil. When it is difficult to choose, the two evils should be taken lightly, and the two benefits should be taken seriously.

If a person wants to control his own destiny, he must assess the situation and clear his own heart. If a person is not confident, how can others make you confident? People who have no self-confidence need to enlighten and cultivate their minds, and so do conceited people. The mountain is not high, the fairy is famous, the water is not deep, and the dragon is famous. Reading is not expensive, but your essence and your understanding, so that you can cultivate your own way.

Guiguzi never came out of the mountain in his life, but he planned world events, which can be described as the embodiment of the power beyond time and space and a truly enlightened person.