战国时期，楚国有一个大将名叫昭奚恤，他的威名远播四方。
有一天，楚宣王问朝中的大臣们：“我听说北方的诸侯都害怕昭奚恤，这是真的吗？”
但是没有人回答他。
只有江一大臣站出来，说：“让我给您讲个故事吧。”
从前，有一只老虎经常捕杀各种动物来吃。
有一次，它捉到了一只狐狸。
狐狸对老虎说：“你不能吃我。天帝派我来做百兽之王，如果你吃了我，就违背了天帝的命令。如果你不相信我，我可以走在前面，你跟在我后面，看看其他动物看到我会不会逃跑。”
老虎信以为真，就跟着狐狸走了。
所有的动物看到他们，都吓得纷纷逃跑了。
老虎并不知道动物们是害怕自己才逃跑的，而以为它们是怕狐狸。
现在，大王您的领土有五千里，大军百万，却由昭奚恤掌管兵权。
所以，北方的诸侯并不是害怕昭奚恤，而是害怕您的军队，就像动物们害怕老虎一样。
这个故事记载在《战国策》里，成语“狐假虎威”也是从这个故事演变而来。
这个成语的意思是比喻凭借权威者的势力而对人欺压或作威作福。
During the Warring States period, there was a great general in Chu named Zhao Xiuxiu. His fame spread far and wide.
One day, King Xuan of Chu asked the officials in his court, "I have heard that the princes in the north are afraid of Zhao Xiuxiu. Is this true?"
But no one answered him.
Only Jiang Yidachen stepped forward and said, "Let me tell you a story."
Once upon a time, there was a tiger that often hunted animals to eat.
One day, it caught a fox.
The fox said to the tiger, "You cannot eat me. The God of Heaven sent me to be the king of all animals. If you eat me, you will be disobeying the command of the God of Heaven. If you don't believe me, I can walk in front of you, and you follow behind me. See if the other animals run away when they see me."
The tiger believed the fox and followed it.
All the animals saw them and fled in fear.
The tiger did not know that the animals were running away because they were afraid of it, but thought they were afraid of the fox.
Now, Your Majesty's territory is 5,000 miles wide and your army numbers in the millions, yet General Zhao Xiuxiu holds the power of the military.
So, the princes in the north are not afraid of Zhao Xiuxiu, but of your army, just as the animals were afraid of the tiger.
This story is recorded in the 'Strategies of the Warring States' and the idiom 'The fox borrows the tiger's ferocity' also comes from this story.
The idiom means to bully or domineer by relying on the power of an authority figure.
