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Chapter 83 Gathering Momentum Part 5
Take your chances and “assert yourself” when necessary

There is no way to control, the army does not attack, the city does not attack, the land does not fight, and the king's order is not accepted.

"The general is outside, and the king's order is not acceptable." Whether it is marching or fighting, or dealing with people, as long as you think that it is correct in your heart, you should implement it decisively and resolutely, and you don't have to be too much influenced by the external environment or secular conventions. Constraints and limitations.Sun Wu obviously understood this point, so he not only clearly stated in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" that "the road cannot be controlled, the army should not attack, the city should not be attacked, the land should not be contested, and the emperor's order should not be accepted." This has been proved by actions.

When Sun Wu left Qi and went to Wu, he was still an unknown young man.Under the recommendation of a friend, King Helu of Wu State read Sun Wu's Art of War, and summoned Sun Wu to the palace, asking for a maid to practice and verify the effectiveness of his art of war.

Sun Wu gladly accepted the challenge. He divided the court ladies into left and right teams, and appointed the two most beloved beauties of King Wu as the left and right captains.Then Sun Wu began to explain the essentials of the drill to the court ladies. After the explanation, Sun Wu asked all the court ladies if they understood, and they all understood.However, when Sun Wu really started to call the shots, the ladies in the palace were all laughing.

Sun Wu said: "If the soldiers did not follow the instructions due to unclear orders, then the general should be responsible for this." So he explained the rules again.Then he gave the order again, and the ladies were still laughing.At this time, Sun Wu said: "If the instructions have been explained clearly enough, but the result still fails, then the responsibility lies with the officers." He ordered the beheading of the two concubines appointed as the captain.

Upon seeing this, the King of Wu hurriedly said that he understood his intention and did not need to implement the military law.Sun Wu rejected King Wu's request, killed the two beauties, and appointed the other two maids as captains to continue training.When Sun Wu gave the order again, no one laughed anymore, and everyone practiced extremely neatly.At this time, King Wu was unwilling to watch the battle because he lost his concubine, so Sun Wu criticized King Wu: "Your Majesty only pays attention to verbal promises, but he doesn't have the courage to do what he says."

Through this incident, Sun Wu made a good comment on sticking to his own point of view.In the ever-changing era, facing opportunities, we must make decisive decisions and implement them, otherwise it is easy to miss the best opportunity for success.

Li En and his wife are both in their twenties. They have children, but their income is not much.The whole family lived in a small rented house with very little living space.The couple is eager to have a new house of their own.

One day, when Li En was paying next month's rent, he suddenly realized that the rent was about the same as the monthly installment payment for a new house.Li En said to his wife, "We're going to buy a new house next week, what do you think?"

"Why did you suddenly think of this?" she asked, "Just kidding! How can we afford it? Maybe we can't even pay the down payment."

But he has already made up his mind: "We must find a way to buy a house. Although I don't know how to raise the money yet, we must find a way."

In the second week, they found a flat they both liked, and the down payment was 5 yuan.The question now is how to make up enough 5 yuan.He knew that he could not borrow this money from the bank, because although it is possible to buy a house with a loan now, the procedures are too complicated, and not everyone can get a loan.

But Emperor Tian paid off, he suddenly had an inspiration, and went directly to talk to the developer, and borrowed private money from him.He really did.The developer was indifferent at first, but due to Li En's repeated insistence, he finally agreed.He agreed to Li En's loan of 5 yuan to repay 1000 yuan per month, and the interest would be calculated separately.

What he has to do now is to scrape together 1000 yuan every month.The couple tried their best to save 500 yuan a month, and there was another 500 yuan to be raised.

At this time, Li En thought of another idea.The next morning he explained it directly to his boss, who was also very happy that he was buying a house.Li En told his boss that he had to earn more money because he had to pay interest, and he wanted to see if the company had some work that could be done on weekends, so he could work overtime.His boss was moved by his sincerity and found many things for him to work overtime on weekends.In this way, Li En and his wife happily moved into the new house.

Li En made a decisive decision not to wait any longer, so he got his new house.If you want to succeed, you must attack decisively. Those who hesitate and look forward and backward will never have the possibility of breakthrough.Self-assertion is not all reckless and reckless. Many times, in the face of external voices and opinions, what we need is the courage and decisiveness of Sun Wu's "self-assertion" when facing the king of Wu.Some people may say: do less and make less mistakes, it is good not to do.Giving up the idea of ​​practice, although there is no chance of doing wrong things, but at the same time it also loses the chance of success.

(End of this chapter)