Counselors are self-aware, but that doesn't mean they will be highly confident, because they need to be hard while the iron is hot. Even if they have clear self-knowledge, they have no ink in their stomachs, no wisdom in their heads, and no self-confidence. So where does the counselor's confidence come from?
Bamboo slips used to record the words and deeds of ancient counselors
Judging from the remarkable effect of super-high strategy and his own political activities, as Liu Xiang said in the above quotation, a counselor should be able to come out? Strange idea? And do it? Turn from danger to safety, from death to life? .
Super high strategy.
From the political activities of counselors in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, we can easily find that their wisdom is very profound, especially in the aspect of vertical and horizontal strategies. Diplomacy? Event strategists and strategists who strategize and win thousands of miles away often show an overwhelming demeanor.
They have an optimistic attitude and are used to sticking to their own opinions. In order to put their ideas into practice, they travel around the world to be tested by practice. Although they sometimes hit the wall everywhere, they can rub repeatedly. Although their political plans were not all accepted by the princes, they also made these monarchs feel refreshed.
From now on, these counselors were forward-looking at that time, and they walked to the forefront of the times with their own wisdom, so on the whole, the counselors' grasp of social laws was relatively accurate.
Statue of Fan Ju
Whether they bring it up. King? 、? Overbearing? Or? Humane? , or? Book one? , in a certain period of time has played a big role, especially Fan Ju's proposal: Far attack is better than near attack, one inch is the inch of the king, and one foot is also the ruler of the king (from the Warring States Policy? Qin ce), but also to promote the division of China towards unity, which once again understand the counselor's high strategy.
The remarkable effect of political activities.
If the counselor's strategy is the first step of their self-confidence, then their remarkable effects and great social repercussions in political activities have further stimulated their self-confidence psychology. In the present words, their efforts have been rewarded, which will naturally inspire people to move forward.
Warring States policy? In Qin Ce, when talking about Su Qin's strategy of uniting Lian Heng, he once said: The size of the world, the people of all nations, the power of governors and the right of counselors all want to decide Su Qin's strategy, and then he proposed? Is the husband wise and the world smooth? The paper "Mencius? Teng Wengong Summer also records: Aren't Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi heroes? Anger and fear of princes, peace and extinction, shows that counselors play a great role in political activities.
Counselors in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in Film and Television
What we are talking about here is not the power in the hands of counselors, but the power transformed by ingenuity that scares the people and even the monarch. From now on, it is not an exaggeration to call them the embodiment of wisdom.
In addition, the results of the activities carried out by the counselors not only prompted the society to move from division to unity, but also prompted changes in the social system, such as economic taxation, such as the county system in politics and the contention of a hundred schools of thought in culture. It is the remarkable political effect of this column that makes this group exude unstoppable self-confidence.