Jiang Gan Steals a Letter
This is an episode from the Three Kingdoms. Cao cao sent a letter to Zhou Yu to summon him to surrender. Zhou Yu tore Cao's letter to pieces. Zhou Yu's classmate， Jiang Gan， was working for Cao Cao as an adviser， Jiang offered to travel to Wu to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender. One day while Zhou Yu was discussing with his subordinates how to defeat Cao Cao， he was told that Jiang Gan had come to see him. Zhou immediately figured out that Jiang must have come to persuade him to surrender. Zhou Yu devised a clever plan to thwart his efforts and enlisted the help of his subordinate to carry it out. Then he went to meet Jiang Gan all smiles. Zhou Yu took Jiang Gan's hands and marshaled him into his tent and treated him to a banquet. When all his generals and subordinates came for dinner， Zhou Yu told those around the table： 「This is an old friend or mine. Though he came from the Cao Cao camp， he did not come to persuade me to surrender. Please do not suspect him.」 After the banquet， Zhou Yu pretended that he had too much and invited Jiang Gan to his bedroom for a rest. Zhou Yu soon pretended to have fallen asleep. Jiang Gan took this chance to thumb through Zhou Yu's documents. He was shocked to find a letter from Cai Mao and Zhang Yun， two generals of the Cao camp， who had written Zhou Yu to surrender. Jiang hid letter of surrender in his pocket and returned to the bed， pretending that he was sill asleep.
After midnight， someone sneaked into Zhou Yu's tent and woke him up， telling him 「A messenger came from the Cao camp to say that Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were not yet a position to carry out their plan.」 After he heard the news， Zhou Yu went back to sleep. Jiang Gan got up again silently and snuck out of Zhou Yu's camp. He crossed the river immediately and handed the letter of surrender to Cao Cao. Cao was enraged and he had Cai Mao and Zhang Yun executed.
When the news spread to Wu， Zhou Yu burst into laughter and said， 「Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were the two generals I feared most. Now I fear no one.」 Before long， Cao cao realized that he was cheated by Zhou Yu's stratagem of sowing distrust in Cao's camp.
蔣幹盜書
曹操給周瑜下了一道降書，周瑜見書，撕得粉碎。周瑜的老同學蔣幹在曹操手下當謀士，他自告奮勇去東吳勸降周瑜。這天，周瑜和部下商議破曹計策，有人報告蔣幹來了。周瑜一聽，就知道蔣幹來作說客，眉頭一皺，向部下說出了自己的妙計，然後笑著出帳迎客。周瑜挽著蔣幹的手進帳，並設宴招待。待眾將到齊後，周瑜對大家說：「這是我的老朋友，雖然從曹操那裡來，但不是來當說客的，大家不要懷疑。」宴畢，周瑜假裝喝醉，挽蔣幹同榻休息，不一會，周瑜佯裝睡著。蔣幹輕輕起身，翻看周瑜的案卷，得知曹軍中的蔡瑁、張允二將軍給周瑜寫了降書，大為吃驚，急忙藏起降書，輕輕躺回床上，假裝睡著。後半夜，有人進帳叫醒周瑜說：「曹營有人來了，蔡瑁、張允說現在還不能下手……」周瑜聽罷，躺下又睡。蔣幹偷偷起來，徑直出營，過江把信交給曹操。曹操大怒，殺了蔡瑁，張允。消息傳到東吳，周瑜哈哈大笑說：「我所擔心的就是這兩個人，現在我什麼都不怕了。」事後，曹操醒悟，知道中了周瑜的反間計。
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