1、Jiang Gan Steals a LetterThis is an episode from the Three Kingdoms. Caocao sent a letter to Zhou Yu to summon him tosurrender. Zhou Yu tore Cao's letter to pieces. ZhouYu's classmate， Jiang Gan， was working for Cao Caoas an adviser， Jiang offered to travel to Wu topersuade Zhou Yu to
2、surrender. One day while ZhouYu was discussing with his subordinates how to defeatCao Cao， he was told that Jiang Gan had come to seehim. Zhou immediately figured out that Jiang must havecome to persuade him to surrender. Zhou Yu deviseda clever plan to thwart his efforts and enlisted
3、the help of his subordinate to carry it out. Then hewent to meet Jiang Gan all smiles. Zhou Yu took Jiang Gan's hands and marshaled him into his tentand treated him to a banquet. When all his generals and subordinates came for dinner， Zhou Yutold those around the table：“This is an old
4、friend or mine. Though he came from the Cao Caocamp， he did not come to persuade me to surrender. Please do not suspect him.” After thebanquet， Zhou Yu pretended that he had too much and invited Jiang Gan to his bedroom for arest. Zhou Yu soon pretended to have fallen asleep. Jiang Gan
5、 took this chance to thumb throughZhou Yu's documents. He was shocked to find a letter from Cai Mao and Zhang Yun， two generalsof the Cao camp， who had written Zhou Yu to surrender. Jiang hid letter of surrender in hispocket and returned to the bed， pretending that he was sill asleep.
6、 After midnight， someone sneaked into Zhou Yu's tent and woke him up， telling him “Amessenger came from the Cao camp to say that Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were not yet a positionto carry out their plan.” After he heard the news， Zhou Yu went back to sleep. Jiang Gan got upagain silently an
7、d snuck out of Zhou Yu's camp. He crossed the river immediately and handed theletter 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 ZhangYun were the two generals I feare
