"Han'er, if you really think so, do you still need to come in person?"
He slowly crossed his legs and leaned on the chair.
"That's damn good." I looked at him with a smile and responded, "Then tell me what I think."
"You want to meet the real king!"
He thought of me as a high-end person, and he thought of me as the kind of person with hands and eyes that know everything.
He felt that I already knew the identities of this group of people before coming, but the last words still touched me.
"You just took over the power. In addition to being excited, are you also a little confused?"
"With your status, after climbing to where you are today, after finally no longer having to obey orders to do things, do you not know what to do first and what to do next?"
"From birth, the first ability a person shows is to imitate, and this ability should be consistent throughout life. Now, you need to find another benchmark in life."
"In other words, after you move from Lao Qiao's class to society, you still need a master to teach you how to become a king."
I didn't answer, but asked instead: "Do people become more talkative as they get older?"
He turned his head and looked out the window again.
"I heard that just after you ascended the throne, you increased the salaries of your subordinates and started to enfeoff the lords?"
"We have also built a school in Menneng and even plan to build a hospital. We want to improve these infrastructures, right?"
He turned his head, looked at me and said: "I understand that you are demanding yourself according to the standards of the emperors who ascended the throne in history. You are imitating the behavior of others. You want a 'generous' reputation. In this way It’s also easy to manage.”
"But this creates a problem, a very serious problem."
"Doubled salary and promoted official position, the time to satisfy people is extremely limited, but people's desires are endless. Next time, what will you use to satisfy these subordinates? What about the next time?"
He looked at me without blinking.
"With your generous reputation, you get smiling faces one after another. If in this situation, there is a disagreement between you, what do you rely on to make them obey?"
"Have you ever thought about these? Master Xu."
His word 'Master Xu' is like a mockery, reserved for a down-and-out manager who looks at someone who doesn't know shit and comes to power. From the moment the other person sits on the throne, he already knows that sooner or later, this situation that he has tried his best to maintain will come to an end. collapse.
My stretched finances and management without blood connections were about to come true under his words. The world that I thought I had settled was actually full of dangers, and I didn't know it yet.
There can be no chaos.
I pretended to be calm and asked again: "What do you think we should do about this situation?"
"The Prince says that the rewards given by a stingy monarch are the most cherished. So between stinginess and generosity, how do you choose?"
I laughed.
This is called standing and talking without back pain!
I am surrounded by crises, with Bangkang and Mengmao caught in the middle, and I will soon be besieged on all sides. Are you talking to me about "The Prince"?
The most important thing is, what the hell is that!
I turned to look at Sincerity: "Everyone, get out."
Everyone present was taken out of the room, and when it was just the two of us left in the room: "Do you know what I'm facing?"
He nodded.
"You bought mercenaries on the Zhao family's ship and have been using them to this day."
"But a true king would never use other people's soldiers."
"This means that you have no one available."
"With Meng Neng taken down, the former police chief was appointed as the director of the Judicial Committee. You let your own people take over the police station, and then you replaced the nine admirals after taking office. It shows that you have no one you can trust."
"No one is available and no one can be trusted, but they are throwing away money."
"Isn't the situation obvious yet?"
He said solemnly: "Old Qiao's chair is burning your butt. You can't sit still anymore."
Every word he said spoke to my heart, leaving me unable to open my mouth.
I looked at him, opened my upper and lower teeth and said, "Old Qiao told me that you have returned to Guokang."
"I went back and was kicked out again."
"Of the more than a hundred people who followed me, only the dozen closest to me were left."
"Master Xu, we are exactly the opposite."
"I am capable but have no place to stand;"
"You are unable to do anything, eat nothing, and yet you have just ascended the throne."
"I'm already a lost dog."
"But I can still teach you how to be a king."
"You have the power and the soldiers, but you just can't do it without me."
He smiled too.
The smile was like a spark of fire after a prairie fire started.
On the grassland that belongs to him, this wildfire has burned out, and I am the only forest next to it.
"Do you still want to ask what should be done next, but you are too embarrassed to open your mouth?"
I finally said, "I don't need anyone to tell me what the problem is."
"So I brought the answer."
"It's okay, I'll tell you, listen."
"Solve the military's problems first."
"Northern Myanmar, especially Kokang, is an area with problematic historical legacy, but I can still defeat the army. Why?"
"Because I never make a fuss about culture, let alone loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, I am good at defending success but not good at attacking. This is just the right way to deal with the situation of overwhelming strength."
"The first thing you have to do is not to spend so much money to distribute it equally, but to tell the soldiers that you repay me with the courage of your life, and I will live up to it!"
"Set an example, give such a large amount of money to one person, and create a powerful upstart."
I thought of Lao Qiao. The way he held me up made everyone else envious, and then he used the climbing mentality created by their envy to do things for himself.
"Secondly, all rewards end here."
"So much for all the unrealistic planning."
"What you have to do is to keep an eye on who can contribute to you after this model is established, and to contribute without you providing resources for them."
"Creating something from nothing is the essence of development that a monarch needs most. In other words, the generosity of a monarch is only effective for typical people;"
"But the cruelty of the monarch is effective for everyone!"
"The next step is to make them fear you."
"Kindness to the people is cruelty to oneself."
"Kindness will only allow vicious and cunning people to rise, making society full of fraud, corruption, and chaos."
"Your cruelty is to make evil people fear punishment;"
"This is the time to be kind, but kindness is not a reward, or in other words, the reward is not money."
"You have to know that the best reward in the hands of a monarch is always reputation, because this thing does not harm the fundamentals and can promise many things."
"Do you remember the big red flowers when you were a kid?"
"Do you remember the current 'Moving the Nation'?"
“Kindness comes after cruelty.”
"Yes, kindness can make the people love the monarch, but love comes from what the people give; fear, however, comes from the monarch's demands."
"Love is always in the hands of others, which means that water can carry and capsize a boat; fear is in your hands, so that if I want it, you dare not deny it!"
"If you were in a peaceful area, of course I would advise you to choose water, which can carry or capsize a boat, but in northern Myanmar, hahahaha, it's your choice."
I'm like...
It was like someone slapped you in the face, then held up your ears and asked, "Why are you so stupid?"
I have seen everything he said!
I've seen it with the big brothers in prison, I've seen it with Lao Qiao, I've seen it with Big Boss and Ah Da, but after seeing it, I still don't know how to use it.
It turns out that whether a person can succeed really has nothing to do with vision.
"Tomorrow, let the boss Peng come to see me at the Judicial Committee." I waved the 'Gabala' in my hand at the old man: "I will return this to him then."
Maybe I'm still too green when it comes to seeking a country, but can I be careful? Boss Peng, how can you, the person who controls the big picture, know what the details are?
The old man was stunned for a moment.
I pointed to his ear: "The thing in your ear is flashing with blue light. Although I don't know why this headset has no wire, the real boss Peng will never act like a second-rate guy. How can so many people come and die?"
After that, I got up and left. (End of chapter)
