"Ahem! That was a great scientific experiment, an effort for the benefit of mankind. Remember to tell the historian." Fang Zhengyi corrected.
Li Yuanzhao glanced at him sideways and curled his lips disdainfully.
"Your Highness, have you ever thought about what will happen even if you really kill them?"
"Of course the people applauded." Li Yuanzhao said expressionlessly.
"Wrong! Only a very small part of the people can applaud!"
"Only a small number of merchants and vendors are being extorted by them. Most people have a very good impression of the health team. If they are killed rashly, the people will complain and it will bring a bad name to His Highness! This is something no one wants. Saw it.”
"Moreover, those people are not really guilty of this. The most they can do is to be punished and fired from the health team. Killing is a last resort. Killing people rashly will not convince the public!"
Li Yuanzhao sighed again: "I know Lao Fang, I was just saying angry words. You are now very much like those masters in Zhan Shifu."
Fang Zheng licked his lips and couldn't help but touch his chin.
Is it? Feeling like dad?
"Ahem! Your Highness just needs to properly handle the health team. I won't interfere too much. What about the rest of the preparations?"
Li Yuanzhao thought for a while and said: "I am going to abolish the previous management methods and return everything to the way it was before."
"For those businesses that have been damaged, I am willing to pay compensation and publish an apology in the newspaper... What do you think?"
Fang Zhengyi immediately shook his head: "You can restore it to the original state, but you absolutely cannot apologize or compensate!"
"Your Highness represents the imperial court. How can the imperial court make mistakes? The imperial court is always wise. It is impossible to make mistakes, and it is absolutely impossible to apologize!"
Li Yuanzhao immediately retorted: "Old Fang, why are you talking nonsense! Didn't the imperial court make too many mistakes? Didn't there too many emperors in history issue edicts to punish themselves?"
"Of course there are many, but has your Highness ever seen the court admit its mistakes? There are indeed emperors in history who issued edicts to sin against themselves, but that was just a means!"
"The people are the most forgetful. You must wait until the matter is properly resolved and the people forget before you can issue the edict of sin. At that time, the people will be grateful to the emperor. This is the purpose of the edict of sin."
"Now that Your Highness has to admit his mistakes in advance before the matter is resolved, what will others think of you? Everyone will say that you are a confused prince who troubles the people! If you make trouble in front of His Majesty, His Majesty will not be able to live with it!"
Li Yuanzhao's eyes widened and he said angrily: "Just scold me! I made a mistake and I admit it! What does it have to do with my father? You just have too many tricks, I am not as shameless as you!"
Fang Zheng was so angry that smoke came out of his nostrils.
Am I shameless? Who the hell am I doing for! White-eyed wolf!
Li Yuanzhao was still chattering: "Oh! Just now you were afraid that the people would complain if I killed someone. Are you sure that now that you insist on admitting your mistake, the people will have no complaints?"
"Of course not!" Fang Zhengyi vowed: "I just told His Highness that the common people are the most forgetful. If you take away the things they already have and return them to them after a while, then they will feel that Your Highness Wise! These are all given by His Highness. Not only do they not resent you, but they are also grateful to you!"
Hearing this, Li Yuanzhao's features were squeezed together, and his face was full of tangles: "Old Fang, you are so shameless. I cannot do such a thing."
"But the imperial court has always done this! Have you spent any less of the money earned by the imperial court?" Fang Zhengyi looked unhappy.
"Means! Methods! There is no shamelessness or not, only when you use it correctly, you will be righteous, and when you use it evil, you will be evil! What we pursue is the best result."
"It saves trouble to be straightforward, but if you apologize, the people and courtiers will lose their trust in you. If you do anything in the future, whether it is good or bad, the resistance will increase!"
"In this matter, you only need to punish the health team members openly, fairly and justly, and there is no need to do the rest!"
Li Yuanzhao lowered his head and pondered, and Fang Zhengyi didn't bother him much.
After a while, he raised his head and said: "You...what you said makes sense, but can't I pay compensation to the people who were harmed?"
"Of course not!"
"If His Highness opens this hole, he will be in trouble. As long as the people are willing, they can always blame the imperial court for the failure. Will His Highness have to pay compensation one by one? How much money will be enough to compensate?"
"If we don't compensate, His Highness's reputation will be damaged again! Therefore, we absolutely cannot compensate!"
Li Yuanzhao was visibly disappointed: "So... everything happened because of me, everyone's losses happened because of me, but I can't make up for it, right?"
"Yes! Making mistakes is making mistakes! Some mistakes are irreparable." Fang Zhengyi gradually said seriously: "Your Highness is the crown prince, and one mistake of yours may kill many people! Every order you approve may change the lives of countless people. Destiny, and there’s no regret pill to take.”
Li Yuanzhao lowered his head and kept swallowing, looking extremely uncomfortable.
Fang Zhengyi's tone couldn't help but soften: "But everyone grows up from mistakes. This is true for me, and it is true for everyone in the world... Your Highness, there is no need to be discouraged. It is a good thing to learn a lesson. After all, we all have no money." Fingers, they always make mistakes.”
Li Yuanzhao raised his head, with tears already in his eyes, and said in a low voice: "What is a golden finger?"
"Uh... just think of him as something that makes people feel good! This is just a metaphor!"
The golden finger of successful people
