Liu Wang Tao yi

King Wu asked Taigong, "A king must have wings of thighs and arms to command a teacher to become a great power. What can he do? " Taigong said, "Anyone who sends troops takes the general as his life, and his life depends on him, and he does not keep a skill; Because you can get employment, you can learn from each other and change at any time. Therefore, there will be seventy-two people with arms and legs to cope with heaven. Prepare numbers like the law, carefully understand numerology, and each has its own skills, and everything will be over. "

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Life: refers to the person who gives orders. Now he is called the commander.

Seventy-two people should meet the sky: in ancient times, seventy-two were numbers related to the sky, and the number of days in a week was 360 degrees. Divided by five lines, you get seventy-two.

"Spring and Autumn Dew" and "Five Elements of Water Control": "From the winter solstice to the seventy-second day, wood is used, and its gas is dry and turbid; Seventy-two days of fire, its gas is miserable and red; After seventy-two days of soil use, its gas is wet and turbid; Seventy-two days of gold use, its gas bleak white; Water is used for seventy-two days, and its gas is cold and black. " A year is 360 days.

The article "History of the Old Five Dynasties". The calendar tells that 72 daily necessities are real: "The way to establish heaven is that there are sunny yin and sunny yin, and the number of yang is different. If the two are combined, it will become a reality. Yang's strategy is thirty-six, Yin's strategy is twenty-four, even and odd fate, two yang and three yin are both seventy-two, and both are yin and yang numbers. Seventy-two people, and their number became it. " Take seventy-two as the least common multiple of Yang Ce 36 and Yin Ce 24. Therefore, seventy-two is the number of heaven.

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King Wu asked Taigong, "When a king commands an army, he must have effective assistance to produce great power. What should he do? " Taigong said: whoever sends troops to command the army must be the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief lies in understanding, not just keeping a skill; He entrusts his subordinates with responsibilities according to their abilities, takes their own advantages and changes them as rules and regulations at any time.

Therefore, the general's effective assistance to 72 people should be heaven. With the number of qualified people, detailed understanding, reasonable appointment and giving full play to their specialties, everything will be completed. "