Using circuitous skills to deal with unreasonable demands from people who can't be offended

In real life, don't rush to make a positive counterattack against the problems or unreasonable demands put forward by some people who can't be offended. We can take circuitous techniques to avoid direct conflict with the other side, and then fight back quietly on the premise of seizing the other side's loopholes, so as to turn defeat into victory. For example:

Once, Emperor Qianlong wanted to make a joke to test Ji Xiaolan's eloquence. He asked Ji Xiaolan, "Ji Aiqing, what's the explanation for the word" loyalty and filial piety "

Ji Xiaolan replied: "if you want to die, you have to die for loyalty; if the father wants to die, you have to die for filial piety."

Qianlong immediately said, "well, I want you to die now. What do you do? "

It's really a difficult question to answer. If you don't answer it, it's against the edict: it's unjust to answer it. How to answer? Ji Xiaolan had an idea and said, "I'll take the order!"

"How are you going to die?"

"Jump in the river."

"All right!" Of course, Qianlong knew that Ji Xiaolan could not die, so he watched the change. After a while, Ji Xiaolan returned to Qianlong. Qianlong said with a smile, "why didn't Ji Qing die?"

"I met Qu Yuan. He won't let me die." Ji Xiaolan replied.

"How do you say that?"

"When I went to the river and was about to jump down, Qu Yuan came up to me from the water and said," Xiaolan, you made a big mistake! When the king of Chu was fatuous, I had to die, but now the emperor is so holy, why do you want to die? You should first go back and ask the emperor if he is a Hun Jun. if the emperor says that he is a Hun Jun like the king of Chu, it's not too late for you to die! "

After hearing this, Qianlong burst out laughing and praised again and again: "what a reed tongue!"

Here, Qianlong asked him to die according to Ji Xiaolan's theory that "the king wanted his minister to die, but he had to die. It was for the sake of loyalty". This made it natural that Ji Xiaolan could not give any answer. So he wisely adopted a circuitous attack method. In the end, he left the problem to the emperor. Of course, Qianlong could not admit that he was a fatuous king, so Ji Xiaolan naturally freed himself from "death". This move not only did not damage Qianlong's face, but also pointed out his irrationality and won the emperor's praise.