stratagems 25-30: For Gaining Ground

	TOU LIANG HUAN ZHU Replace the beams and pillars with rotten timber.
	JIA CHI BU DIAN Play dumb, remain smart.
	ZHI SANG MA HUAI Point at the mulberry and curse the locust. Prov: Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
	SHANG WU CHOU TI Pull down the ladder after ascent. Cortez burnt his ships on arriving in Mexico to prevent his men from returning home. They then had two choices - conqure or perish. They conqured.
	SHU SHANG KAI HUA Deck the tree with bogus blossom. Emperor Yangdi orderd the populus to put false blossom on every tree in the land to impress visiting rich merchants. Today the media is the main tool of properganda.
	FAN KE WEI ZHU Make the guest and host change places. In Chinese millitary terms one who leaves his territory to fight is the guest.

The OE definition of "inscrutable" is: 'That cannot be penetrated. "The Art of War is preparing for Peace. The Art of Peace is preparing for War". Inscrutable!