鹬蚌相争sandpiper fight with mussel. Qin Shi
Huang was the first emperor who unified the China into one country by military power
only. Unlike the former emperor that unified this country by some other means
such as marriage and assign the local chiefs as noblemen also. At the time the aggressive
behaviour of Qin Shi Huang stimulated many kingdoms. Before his unification, one
year, the kingdom 赵
invaded kingdom 燕.
The kingdom 燕
sent an envoy 苏代
to kingdom
赵 trying to make peace between these two countries.
The envoy苏代
told to the king of kingdom
赵, “Your majesty, today, when I coming here, I past a river. I
saw an old mussel bask in the sun. Soon a sandpiper
came up and try to bite the flesh of it. The mussel closed its shells and that clamped
the sandpiper’s beak tightly. The sandpiper said, ‘Ha mussel, if today
no rain and tomorrow no rain, you will die for dry definitely. ’ The mussel
said , ‘Do you know if today you can’t get out and tomorrow you can’t get out
from my clamp, you will die no doubt.’ When both of them quarrelling, a
fisherman passing by and he got both of them. Now the strong Qin Shi Huang is
like the fisherman, he hopes us to fight each other. Your majesty before you
send troop to the 燕
kingdom, you
have to think carefully.” Then the king of 赵 stopped this invasion.
This is a widely used term, in politic issue such as in the
ww2, it meant that the Communist party fought with the Nationalism party in
China while the Japanese arm got the benefit. While during the Mao’s time the
Chinese fought with Soviet Union and the America got the benefit. In other time
perhaps the Russia fight with America and the Chinese get benefit.
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