"There is widespread agreement that the Yanzi Chunqiu (晏子春秋; The Spring and Autumn Annals of Minister Yan Ying) was an anthology of the writings of Jixia scholars.
This means "getting lucky" and refers to his joke that he would drink a single cup of wine with the emperor, but a cask if he was with courtesans and had sent off all the other guests.
[7] In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian describes an incident in which Chunyu Kun's quick wit allowed him to advise his ruler to change his foolish command without getting in trouble himself.
The king of Qi gave Chunyu Kun a hundred catties of gold and ten four-horse carriages, and told him to go to the neighboring state of Zhao to ask for help.
Chunyu Kun replied, "I saw... a man praying for a good harvest and offering one pig's trotter and one cup of wine.
The king then gave him "one thousand yi of gold, ten pairs of white jade discs and a hundred four-horse carriages."
Chunyu Kun took them and successfully arranged military aid from Zhao, which forced the troops of Chu to return home.