If the officials are like tigers, then the officials will be their minions. When a tiger eats people, its minions will always attack first. But a very strange thing is that since ancient times, people have hated officials far more than they have hated petty officials.
The reason is also very simple. The petty officials believe in being superior to the bureaucracy. They have their own set of survival philosophy. This set of philosophical theories did not fall out of thin air, but was developed bit by bit in the bloody struggle of the officialdom for thousands of years. accumulated.
Li Tuo is the representative figure of this class and the leader among them.
He has 108 ways to carry out secret corruption without being discovered by superior officials and common people, and he has 18 ways to control his greed within a range that is acceptable to the court and the people.
He is proficient in the law of concealment. He can hide himself behind the official curtain and carefully absorb nutrients without being discovered. They are good at figuring out the hatred in the hearts of the emperor and the people. They must learn to seek good fortune and avoid harm. basic courses.
Xiao Letian has a very unique understanding of this kind of people. According to the game-playing model of later generations, the emperor, the court, officials, and minor officials are actually just an expedition team in the game dungeon.
There are countless elite mobs and bosses in the huge dungeon. If judged based on the entire strength value, the overall strength of all the monsters in the dungeon is far greater than the sum of the members of the expedition team.
But what is very strange is that in this game, the party with the fewest people is often the party that wins in the end. Team after team of explorers fight from the door to the end, taking away rich treasures and trophies, which are the history books of human history. Their great achievements are recorded in it.
In fact, the dungeon is a country, and those endless monsters are hundreds of millions of people, and the professional division of labor in the expedition team is like the top level of a country's governance.
The hatred value runs through the entire game and is the core of everything. If the expedition team wants to avoid being destroyed, it must find ways to balance the various hatred values.
The issuance of a political order, as long as it absorbs the interests of the people, is regarded as a damage output by the expedition team to the boss group of the people. If there is damage, there must be a counterattack. Just like Newton said, power is relative.
When you punch a wall, there must be a relative force fed back to your fist. This is the essence of physics. Of course, it is also one of the rules for the operation of human society.
When the public boss starts to fight back and hundreds of millions of people are filled with resentment, the pressure the expedition team will face will be extremely high. At this time, division of labor is needed.
Warriors, commonly known as human shields, must use various taunts to attract hatred, and the various output professions hidden behind the human shields must quickly respond to the various attacks of the public bosses, and try to maximize their effectiveness. Optimize output and suppress counterattack.
Of course, various health-increasing professions are also needed to continuously replenish the blood of the warriors, so that the human shield standing in the front desk and constantly mocking the people can live in pain and happiness.
China's bureaucratic culture, among which the culture of petty officials, is an anomaly in this game. If divided according to game professions, they are thieves in the output profession.
The human shield is carried in the front, as if the emperor and those high-ranking officials are on the front line, while the priests are drawing blood in the back, as if countless upright officials and heroes are using their own sacrifices to increase the people's confidence in the court. .
This is a game that requires balance. The adventure team needs human shields to taunt the public boss, because the ultimate goal of the adventure team is to find treasures in the dungeon. They want to extract benefits from the people, and the simplest one is taxation.
If you just brush hatred without adding blood, your human shield will be quickly crushed by the anger of the people. The priest's holy light actually allows those people to see the hope of happiness.
When people talk about the imperial court after dinner, they can always cite 10,000 bad and bad governance, and at the same time, they can cite 5,000 inspiring examples of good governance. You can find corrupt officials who can be reviled, but you can also find wise and upright officials who are inexplicably admirable.
Good and evil, black and white, right and wrong... In the thought of binary opposition, the big boss was finally confused. As long as the balanced game can be perfect, then even if the big boss of this generation is drained of blood and falls to the ground, he will die. Their counterattack was ultimately unable to eliminate that squad.
However, there are many extreme examples in history. When this balance game is broken, the people are pushed to the crater by a large amount of hatred, and at that time, all the priest's ultimate skills to increase blood have been used up.
Maybe at that moment, the ultimate move that the boss can unleash will come to the world. That is the final shuffle, that is revolution.
Of course, all this has nothing to do with Li Tuo and others, or they don't care at all. What kind of people are the petty officials? They are thieves in the output profession. They hide behind human shields and constantly attack the boss. They can take money from the enemy's pockets anytime and anywhere and stuff it into their own money bags.
So what if the expedition team is wiped out? A strong concealment can disappear into the darkness, and then retreat calmly. As for the human shields, priests and other people's corpses lying on the ground... they will not have the slightest mercy.
Just change the expedition team and continue to grind the dungeon. Perhaps some thieves exposed their identities due to poor academic skills, and were mercilessly crushed by monsters.
But it doesn't matter. If you are not good at studying and are not good at life, then you can't blame others. How can the world be so big and there are still some unjust ghosts?
This is the bureaucratic culture that Li Tuo and others believe in, and this is the survival philosophy of the petty officials. They are present in the Qing Dynasty, and they are still present in the Ming Dynasty. In the Yuan and Song Dynasties, including the Sui, Tang and Han Dynasties, these people will live forever. .
As Yang Zhi listened to Li Tuo's unspoken secrets, his mouth gradually grew bigger and bigger, and there was even glistening drool about to flow out from the corners of his mouth without him realizing it.
This is a world that is completely unfamiliar to him. This is a way of survival that he has never thought of. He suddenly feels that the first half of his life has been completely in vain.
"Wrong, I was indeed wrong! According to your explanation, I was completely wrong in every aspect. I exposed myself prematurely, and I took the initiative to jump to the front line of the conflict between the court and Xiao Letian... I obviously You are a weak ant, but you think you can benefit from the fight between a lion and a tiger?"
"I was even stupid enough to throw away all the information without leaving any options behind. This turned a good card into a bad one..."
Li Tuo sighed and shook his head, "Yes! I have been trying my best to teach you these principles. What is the purpose? I just want you to understand the way to survive. It is not easy to survive in the imperial court. Things, you are inexperienced and yet you are not willing to listen to my strategies, you are heading towards a dead end!"
