My failure will have a major impact on you (唇亡齒寒)
During the Warring States Period in China,
China was divided into many kingdoms, and one of the very powerful kingdoms was
the Jin Kingdom.
In the Jin Kingdom, there are four families
with the most powerful influence. These four families are the Zhi family, the
Zhao family, the Han family, and the Wei family.
Among these four families, the Zhi family is the most powerful.
The Zhi family often bullies the other
three families and extorts money and land from them.
One day, the Zhi family blackmailed the
other three families as usual.
The Han family and the Wei family accepted
as usual.
But the Zhao family couldn't stand it
anymore. This time they decided to resist, and they refused this unreasonable
request.
The Zhi family was very angry, and they
sent their army to attack the Zhao family.
They even forced the other two families to
send troops together, and the combined army of these three families surrounded
the Zhao family.
The Zhao family insisted on resisting. The
war lasted for two years. All the food of the Zhao family was exhausted, and
all the soldiers were exhausted. The war is about to be lost.
At this time, the patriarch of the Zhao
family sent a secret messenger to visit the patriarchs of the Wei and Han
families.
The name of this messenger is (Zhang
Mengtan).
When (Zhang Mengtan) saw the two patriarchs
of the Wei family and the Han family, he said.
Our Zhao family has resisted your coalition
army for two years, and we are about to lose this war.
If we are defeated, all the resources of
our Zhao family will be divided among your three families.
The patriarch of the Zhi family is very
greedy, so he will definitely ask to take away most of the resources.
He will only leave a few resources for your
two families.
There will be a bigger gap between the
power of the Zhi family and the power of your two families.
If you think about it, the least important
thing on a person's face may be the lips.
The lips are not like the eyes that can
see, nor are they like the nose that can smell.
But if a person loses his lips, his teeth
will be directly exposed.
Without the protection of his lips, these
teeth would directly face all kinds of dangers.
If the Zhao family are like soft lips, you
are like those strong teeth.
After we are defeated, the next target of
the Zhi family will be your two families.
After listening to (Zhang Mengtan)'s
analysis, the patriarchs of the Wei family and the Han family changed their
positions.
They decided not to obey the Zhi family
anymore.
They decided to unite with the Zhao family
to resist the oppression of the Zhi family.
This idiom is used to describe the failure
of one person will affect the other person.
Dear friend, what inspiration or thoughts
did you have after hearing this story.
When you see others fail, have you ever
thought that this result might affect you? If you were the head of the Wei
family or the Han family, what decision would you make?
I hope this story will give you some new
gains.
此圖片來自百度百科
唇亡齒寒(My failure will have a major impact
on you)
中國的戰國時代，中國分裂成許多王國，其中一個非常強大的王國是晉王國。
晉王國中，有四個家族的勢力最為龐大，這四個家族就是智家族、趙家族、韓家族、魏家族。
而這四個家族之中，又以(智)家族的勢力最大。
智家族常常欺負其他三個家族，而且還會向他們三個家族勒索金錢與土地。
有一天，智家族又照常向其他三個家族勒索。
韓家族與魏家族跟往常一樣接受。
但是趙家族受不了了，這一次他們決定反抗，他們拒絕了這個不合理的要求。
智家族非常的生氣，他們便派出他們的軍隊去攻打趙家族。
他們更強迫其他兩個家族一起出兵，這三個家族的聯合軍隊包圍了趙家族。
趙家族堅持抵抗，戰爭持續了兩年，趙家族所有的食物都吃完了，所有的戰士都疲累不堪。眼看就要輸了這場戰爭。
在這個時候，趙家族的族長，派出了一個祕密的使者，去拜訪魏家族與韓家族的族長。
這個使者名字叫做(張孟談)。
當(張孟談)見到魏家族與韓家族的兩個族長的時候，他說。
我們趙家族抵抗你們的聯合軍隊已經兩年了，我們即將輸了這場戰爭。
若是我們被打敗，我們趙家族的所有資源就會被你們這三個家族瓜分。
智家族的族長非常貪婪，所以他一定會要求拿走大部分的資源。
他只會留下少數資源給你們這兩個家族。
智家族的勢力跟你們兩個家族的勢力到時候會產生更大的落差。
你們想想看，一個人的臉上最不重要的可能就是嘴唇了。
嘴唇不像眼睛可以看東西，也不像鼻子可以聞味道。
但是若是一個人失去了嘴唇，他的牙齒就會直接暴露出來。
這個人的牙齒沒有了嘴唇的保護，那這些牙齒就會直接面對各式各樣的危險了。
假如趙家族就如同是柔軟的嘴唇，你們就如同是那強硬的牙齒。
我們戰敗之後，智家族的下一個攻打的目標就會是你們兩個家族啊。
魏家族與韓家族的族長聽完(張孟談)的分析，兩個人後來都改變立場。
他們決定不再聽從智家族。
他們決定聯合趙家族一起來抵抗智家族的欺壓。
這句成語被用來形容一的人失敗的結果會影響到另外一個人。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你看見別人失敗的時候，你是否想過，這個結果有可能會影響到你?若你是魏家族或韓家族的族長，你會做出甚麼決定呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。