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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
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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