In the second Qin Dynasty, Zhao Gao, the prime minister, held the power of state affairs. He came up with an idea because he was afraid that some of his ministers would not obey. One day in the court, he took a sika deer and said to II, "Your Majesty, this is my famous horse. It can walk 1000 miles a day and 800 miles a night. " Junior laughed and said, "Shengsheng is obviously a deer, but you say it's a horse. Too wrong! " Zhao Gao said, "This is indeed a horse. How can your majesty say it is a deer? " The second doubt is for officials to judge. Everyone thinks that telling the truth will offend Cheng Xiang, and telling lies is afraid of deceiving your majesty, so they keep silent. At this time, Zhao Gao glared at the ministers, pointed to the deer and asked loudly, "Look, what round body, thin legs, thick ears and thick tail is this?" Everyone is afraid of Zhao Gao's influence. They don't say no, they just say it's a horse. Zhao Gao is very proud. The second is confusion. It's obviously a deer. Why does everyone say it's a horse? He thought he was crazy, and he became more and more confused. Everything in politics was completely manipulated by Zhao Gaolai.

Zhao Gao secretly killed the person who told the truth, and sent someone to kill II, which occupied the whole court and eventually led to the demise of the Qin Dynasty.

Smell the chicken dancing.

Zu Ti in Jin Dynasty was an open-minded and ambitious person. But he was a naughty boy when he was a child and didn't like reading. When he entered his youth, he realized his lack of knowledge and felt that he could not serve his country without studying, so he began to study hard. He read widely and studied history carefully, so he began to study hard. He read widely and studied history carefully, from which he learned a wealth of knowledge and made great progress. He has been in and out of Luoyang, Kyoto for many times, and people who have contacted him say that Zu Ti is a talented person who can assist the emperor in governing the country. When Zu Ti was 24 years old, he was recommended as a lawyer, but he didn't agree. He still studies tirelessly. Later, Zu Ti and his childhood friend Liu Kunyi became the main book of Sizhou. He and Liu Kun have deep feelings. They not only share the same bed, but also share the same lofty ideal: to make contributions, revitalize the state of Jin and become a pillar of the country.

Once, in the middle of the night, Zu Ti heard the cock crow in his sleep. He kicked Liu Kun awake and said to him, "Everyone else thinks it's unlucky to hear a rooster crow in the middle of the night. I don't think so. How about we get up and practice swords when we hear chickens crow in the future? " Liu Kun readily agreed. So every day after the rooster crows, he gets up to practice his sword, and the light of the sword flies and the sound of the sword is sonorous. Spring goes to winter, cold goes to summer, and it never stops. Many things happen. After long and arduous study and training, they finally became generalists who can write good articles and lead troops to win the battle. Zu Ti was named General Zhenxi, realizing his desire to serve the country. Liu Kun became the commander-in-chief in charge of military affairs in Hebei and Youzhou, and also gave full play to his literary talent and military talent.

3 Death of lips and cold teeth

"Cold lips and cold teeth" is an idiom story. This story tells that the State of Jin borrowed a road from the State of Yu to attack the State of Guo. Yu Wang coveted the jade horse given by the King of Jin and promised to lend the road to the State of Jin. Minister Yu advised King Yu with the principle of "cold lips and cold teeth", but he didn't listen, and let Jin go through Yu to destroy Guo. As a result, when the state of Jin destroyed Guo, it was destroyed conveniently.

Every grass and tree is a soldier.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Fu Jian, the former king of Qin in the north, wanted to conquer the Central Plains and unify the world.

In 383 AD, 900,000 troops were mobilized to March into the Huaihe River and attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The weak Eastern Jin Dynasty calmly dealt with the enemy. General Xie Shi and Xie Xuan led the troops to fight in Huaihe River.

Fu Jian, the former king of Qin, felt that he had millions of Qiang Bing and a mountain of grain and grass. It is easy to beat a weak Jin Dynasty. He should win the first battle and capture Shouyang in one fell swoop. Fu Jian was convinced that he would win, so he sent Zhu Xu, commander-in-chief of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, to Xie Ying to persuade him to surrender. However, when Zhu Xu arrived there, he told Xie Shi instead of persuading him to surrender: "Although Qin Jun boasted that there were millions of Qiang Bing, most people were still on the road. If Qin Jun doesn't arrive today, you can quickly fight and attack its pioneer, and the sound of the army will be weak. " So he immediately sent his subordinate Liu Jianjun to lead 50,000 chosen men to spend the night and surprise Qin Jun. As a result, Fu Jian's army was defeated.

Fu Jian flew into a rage when he was defeated. He boarded the tower and looked at the Jin army on the south bank of Feishui. He couldn't help shivering. Fu Jian saw from a distance that the Jin troops were neat and morale was high. Look again, the trees and grass on Bagong Mountain are swaying in the wind. He thought it was a soldier, and he was uneasy. He said to himself, "There are plenty of Jin soldiers."

Later, Qin Jun's morale was extremely low, and Fu Jian's command was weak. As a result, Qin Jun collapsed across the board, and Fu Jian fled back to Luoyang with an arrow, which made him "jittery and nervous" all the way.

Since then, the former Qin dynasty has gradually disintegrated.

5 looking at plums to quench thirst,

This idiom comes from Liu Yiqing's Drama in the Southern Dynasties.

One summer, Cao Cao led troops to fight. The soldiers walked for a long time without water and were very thirsty, but there was no water around. What shall we do? Cao Cao mused, thinking, this can't be done. So he stood in a very high place and said loudly to the soldiers, "I took this road." Not far ahead, there is a large area of merlin, with many big plums. Let's go there to eat plums. " In fact, there is no such thing at all, but after hearing what Cao Cao said, everyone immediately thought of the sour taste of plums, and everyone felt that saliva was flowing out of their mouths. Everyone stopped feeling thirsty at once and went forward actively, hoping to eat plums soon. Finally, everyone finally walked out of this wasteland and reached their destination.

This is the origin of the idiom "looking at plum to quench thirst", which is used to describe that a wish cannot be realized and you can only comfort yourself with fantasy or big talk. Similar idioms include painting cakes to satisfy hunger.