At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao led his troops to fight, and encountered great difficulties on the way to March. That is, the soldiers were thirsty for hundreds of miles without water, and some weak soldiers were fainted by thirst. Cao Cao felt very difficult to see such a situation.

So, Cao Cao hurried to the top of the hill to see the situation ahead. When he reached the top of the hill, Cao Cao was disappointed. Looking around, there was still no human habitation. However, with a brainwave, Cao Cao thought of a way.

He turned around and said to the soldiers who were thirsty, "Soldiers, if you go over that mountain in front, there will be endless plums." When the soldiers heard the plum and remembered its sweet and sour taste, they couldn't help drooling, so they suddenly had the strength to move forward. Later, they finally reached the place where there was water, but found that there was no plum grove at all.

The story comes from Liu Yiqing's "Shi Shuo Xin Yu Fake Qian" in the Southern Song Dynasty: "? When Wei Wu went to war, he lost his way and the army was thirsty, so he said,' There was a great Meilin in front of him, so forgive him, and be sweet and sour to quench his thirst.' When the foot soldiers smell it, their mouths are full of water, so they can get to the front source. ”? Extended information

Shi Shuo Xin Yu Fake Pian is the 27th door of Shi Shuo Xin Yu by Liu Yiqing, with 14 stories. Falsehood refers to false fraud. The examples recorded in this article all use false means, or tell lies, or do false things to achieve certain goals.

Shi Shuo Xin Yu is a notebook novel which mainly narrates anecdotes of Wei and Jin dynasties, which was produced in China during the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasties (42-581). It was written by a group of writers organized by Liu Yiqing (43-444), king of Linchuan, the imperial clan of Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, with Liu Jun as a note. The original book has eight volumes, and Liu Jun's notes are divided into ten volumes. Today's biographies are all made into three volumes, which are divided into 36 branches, such as virtue, speech, politics, literature, founder, magnanimity, etc. The book has more than one thousand books, which describe the anecdotes of celebrities and nobles from the end of Han Dynasty to Liu Song Dynasty, mainly for the stories of relevant characters' comments, talks about metaphysics and witty response.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Fake.