Sun Tzu’s Empty Fort Strategy [750x718 - 53KB]

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This parable was in regards to carefully guarding your reputation.

The man with the lute had a reputation as a masterful tactician, and that reputation is what scared off the general and his forces.

The moral of the story is that your reputation can become a powerful tool in it's own right.

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Zhuge Liang was the person who did the ruse you posted, and Cao Cao used it as well. Sun tzu may have but never wrote about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuge_Liang%27s_Northern_Expeditions

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Thanks. Where in the wiki is the ruse described?

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Ope, on another page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Fort_Strategy#Zhuge_Liang

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One of the best known examples of the use of the Empty Fort Strategy is a fictional incident in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticises historical events in the late Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. This event took place during the first of a series of campaigns – known as Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions

Shits fake bruh

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Thanks!

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I watched the Three Kingdoms TV series from China. The first time I thought Zhuge Liang actually fooled Sima Yi. The second time I watched the show I noticed that he didn't fool Sima Yi with it. What actually happened was Sima Yi knew that if he captured/killed Zhuge Liang he would no longer be useful. So he pretended to be fooled by it, so he wouldn't become useless and be removed from his position of power.

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Clever, I like it.

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Sima Yi was ridiculously on top of shit, and ultimately, the Sima family ended up taking control of China after taking power from the Cao family decades after the death of Cao Cao. So the novelist makes him extremely brilliant, because his family ends up winning in the end.