annex and absorb weak countries(jiān ruò gōng mèi)

annex and absorb weak countries

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ā NRU ò g ō NGM è I, which means annexing the weak and attacking the ignorant country. It's from the book of history, Zhonghui's Gao.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of history, Zhong Hui's Gao said, "to attack the barbarians at the same time, to take advantage of the chaos and invade the country."

Idiom usage

The way of Tang Wu is to annex a weak country and attack a country with political disorder. The 60th chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty

Idiom story

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the territory inherited from the Later Zhou Dynasty was only the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and there were many separatist regimes around it. Song Taizu had the ambition of unifying the world, but where to start? He thought day and night, exhausted his efforts, so he went to visit Zhao Pu on a snowy night. Zhao Pu put forward the strategy of "first South, then north, and attacking barbarians at the same time". After careful military preparation, song Taizu began the war of "first South, then north" in 962. First, they attacked Jingnan and Hunan, which were the weakest in the south, and won the victory. Then they destroyed houshu, Southern Han, Southern Tang and other countries. So far, the Song Dynasty completely unified the south. After the death of song Taizu, Song Taizong ascended the throne, realized the Northern Expedition plan that song Taizu failed to realize, and unified the whole country.

Chinese PinYin : jiān ruò gōng mèi