Use when facing coordinated disinformation or slander campaigns targeting your reputation. Identifies warning signs of bribery and planted criticism, and outlines defensive measures including transparent communication and alliance-building.
Use when persuading a powerful adversary to change their military or political course of action. Employs historical analogies, risk analysis, and alternative alliance proposals to redirect an opponent's strategy.
Use when extracting a VIP from hostile territory under surveillance. Covers disguise preparation, cover stories, timing extraction with legitimate travel, and the facilitator's willingness to accept consequences.
Use when an effective enemy commander has political vulnerabilities exploitable through disinformation. Plants rumors of rebellion or disloyalty to trigger the commander's replacement by a less competent successor.
Use when defending a besieged city with limited forces against a superior enemy. Combines divine legitimacy, psychological manipulation, feigned weakness, and surprise attack (e.g., Tian Dan's fire cattle) to shatter enemy morale.
Use when negotiating with a stronger adversary who may act in bad faith. Covers establishing baselines, demonstrating resolve through credible threats, demanding reciprocal formality, and preparing escape routes.
Use when facing a superior mobile enemy force, especially nomadic cavalry like the Xiongnu. Builds long-term deception through feigned cowardice, resource stockpiling, and a devastating ambush when the enemy grows overconfident.
Use when advising a powerful figure to change course or retire gracefully. Systematically presents cautionary and positive historical examples to illustrate the wisdom of timely withdrawal before success reverses.
Use when arguing against appeasement of an aggressive power demanding supremacy. Frames submission as total loss of sovereignty, cites historical precedents of destruction through capitulation, and proposes coalition resistance.
Use when you need to deliver sensitive political counsel to a new or distrustful leader. Builds trust gradually through demonstrated competence, acknowledged risk, and escalating from safe topics to dangerous internal politics.
Use when persuading powerful figures by appealing to their long-term self-interest. Analyzes the target's vulnerabilities (aging, lack of heirs, fading influence), formulates warnings, and presents solutions that create mutual benefit.
Use when planning to gain close access to a heavily guarded target through diplomatic channels. Based on Jing Ke's approach to the Qin King, covers intelligence gathering, asset acquisition, intermediary cultivation, and access execution.
Use when defending against accusations of disloyalty or treason. Employs a rhetorical framework of family service records, historical precedents of wrongful execution (Bigan, Wu Zixu), and principle-based appeals to preserve reputation.
A Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnostic method that combines observation, listening and smelling, questions, and pulse-taking to identify a treatment pattern.
Use when persuading officials or leaders by aligning your proposal with their self-interest. Demonstrated by Kuai Tong and Li Yiji, this technique researches the target's fears, frames problems objectively, and presents solutions that benefit the listener.
Use when facing overwhelming opposition and deciding between fighting, retreating, or surrendering. Provides a decision matrix based on force balance, time pressure, and strategic value, with implementation steps for each option.
Use when facing a powerful enemy dependent on long supply lines. Based on Deng Duwei's advice during the Seven States Rebellion, employs fortified defense, allied distraction, and mobile forces to cut supply routes and starve the enemy into defeat.
Use when commanding infantry-heavy forces against cavalry on flat terrain. Prioritizes speed over siege warfare, bypasses fortified cities, and seizes strategic objectives (armories like Luoyang武库, granaries like Ao) to neutralize cavalry advantages.
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