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三十六计英文-Thirty-Six Stratagems 33. Use the enemy's spies to sow discord in the enemy's camp  三十六计

三十六计英文

Thirty-Six Stratagems

 (三十六计法语-Les 36 stratagèmes)

34. Inflict injury on oneself to win the enemy's trust
A strategy that has worked when a leader absolutely had to find out what his foes were thinking was to create an open disruption between himself and a trusted assistant. A king would openly accuse a general of treason. Or a general would openly accuse a lieutenant of insubordination or incompetence. The innocent accused, who was in on the deception, would be whipped, or branded, or beaten, and then banished or tossed into prison. A slightly different tactic would be for the trusted assistant to be deliberately overlooked for a promotion or reward that everybody had assumed he would get.

After several weeks of suffering, the "injured" person would likely be approached by anybody fomenting takeover plans or an assassination attempt. Or he might even seek out the enemies of his leader and offer to help them bring down the person who had treated him so unjustly. The ploy was believable because the suffering of the "injured" person was so convincing. The enemy, already nursing a grievance, would quickly trust a person who had seemingly suffered a similar injury.

The planted person could soon gather abundant information to return to his own superiors and hasten the end of those who were plotting an overthrow or coup.

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三十六计英文-Thirty-Six Stratagems 35. Interlocking stratagems  

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