"So...all the current rumors and public opinions about the Seventh Prince between the government and the public are all secretly promoted by Zhou Shangjing?"
At the same time that Yang Xun appeared in the "Yungui Guild Hall", in the study room of Zhao Mansion, Zhao Junchen was listening to Xu Qingyan's report.
As Xu Qingyan gradually grows up, he has taken on more and more tasks, and they are mainly related to public opinion, rumors, and intelligence collection.
After hearing Zhao Junchen's inquiry, Xu Qingyan immediately nodded and said: "It must be Zhou Shangjing. Although he is very hidden and it took me a lot of effort to find the source of these public opinions, but now it is certain that he is secretly pushing everything.
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Zhao Junchen chuckled and said: "Actually, I also guessed that such a method of destroying people invisible is exactly the style of our Zhou Chief Assistant... I have always been interested in learning his skills, but so far I have only learned a few things.
It’s just fur.”
Hearing Zhao Junchen's comments, Xu Qingyan looked a little confused.
In Xu Qingyan's view, the current public opinion trend is all talking good about the seventh prince Zhu Hejian. Why does Zhao Junchen think that such public opinion is destroying the seventh prince Zhu Hejian invisibly?
Seeing Xu Qingyan's confused expression, Zhao Junchen explained to him in detail the viciousness of these public opinions. The content was similar to what Yang Xun explained to his two disciples.
“Since the Qin Dynasty, the territory of the Han people has become larger and larger, but transportation is inconvenient, so there is an increasing need for centralization of power, and the people are more inclined to have a wise and promising emperor to govern them, otherwise the country will be unstable...
If the seventh prince is just a person with no independent opinions and no responsibility in the eyes of the world from now on, even Emperor Deqing will have doubts. Even if he successfully ascends to the position of prince, he will not be as good as Zhu Heyu before.
The position is more stable!”
Speaking of this, Zhao Junchen's eyes flashed with a look of deep thought.
He vaguely felt that Zhou Shangjing's promotion of such public opinion was obviously to force the seventh prince Zhu Hejian to do something to prove his responsibility and opinion.
However, all of this is most likely a trap set by Zhou Shangjing.
Zhou Shangjing is the best at serial schemes. Once Zhu Hejian is forced to jump into the trap, he will definitely have to face waves of difficult choices.
"It's a pity that Zhou Shangjing has always been a little distant and wary of me. Although we occasionally cooperate, he will never tell me the truth about such an important plan. Otherwise, I can step in and work hand in hand with him."
, give him a helping hand.”
And while Zhao Junchen was thinking about it, Xu Qingyan finally figured it out and suddenly realized: "So that's it! The role of such public opinion is not its own content, but to guide the world's thinking and thinking.
idea!
Just like the rumors that Jianzhou Jurchens used to slander the young master, saying that the young master is a descendant of the royal family of the Song Dynasty and wants to restore the country. Everyone can see the absurdity of these rumors, but it will lead people to think about another thing.
That is whether you, young master, have the ability to rebel. This is the real effect of those rumors!
The same is true for these current public opinions related to the Seventh Prince, which are meant to guide people's thoughts and make people think that the Seventh Prince is not a good candidate to inherit the throne."
After Zhao Junchen pondered for a moment, he slowly said: "It's not exactly the same. The viciousness of the rumors designed by Jianzhou Jurchen is to guide people's thoughts and draw the conclusions they want to see. And the rumors promoted by Zhou Shangjing
These public opinions are to ingrain a concept and image in the hearts of the world... In comparison, Zhou Shangjing's method is more sophisticated."
While talking, Zhang Yu'er entered the study with Yang Xun's name card.
Due to lack of knowledge, Zhang Yuer did not know the importance of this famous post. After seeing Zhao Junchen giving a "lecture" to Xu Qingyan, he sat aside and planned to wait until Zhao Junchen's lecture was over before giving this famous post.
Leave it to Zhao Junchen.
When Zhao Junchen saw Zhang Yuer's behavior, he thought that Zhang Yuer came to see him for nothing important, so he continued to express his opinions to Xu Qingyan.
As people close to Zhao Junchen, Xu Qingyan and Zhang Yuer have long discovered that Zhao Junchen does not like food and wine, and he does not have much obsession with beauty and treasures. His biggest hobby is "becoming a teacher", and he often
Showed up inadvertently.
Just listen to Zhao Junchen continue to say: "Actually, in this world, the purpose of people with good intentions to promote public opinion and create rumors is nothing more than these two. One is to guide people to draw a conclusion they want to see, and the other is to turn someone into a person."
These concepts are deeply rooted in people’s minds!
And the reason why I say the latter is more clever is because the conclusion can be overturned, no matter how bad it is, it can cover up the facts, or divert the world's attention like we did, but once certain concepts are rooted
In people's hearts, it will be difficult to overthrow it in the future, as if a steel stamp has been stamped on their minds!
At the same time, to achieve these two goals, deliberately distorting facts and creating malicious slanderous rumors are just second-rate means. The most ingenious means is to set preconditions and provide generalized information and statistics.
And these three types of causality!"
Hearing this, Xu Qingyan and Zhang Yuer both looked confused.
"Set prerequisites, provide generalized information and statistics, and confuse cause and effect? Master, I don't understand these!"
Xu Qingyan felt dizzy and couldn't help asking questions again.
Zhao Junchen also knew that what he was talking about was too advanced for people of this era, so he patiently explained: "In this case, let's give an example to facilitate your understanding! Let me first talk about setting the prerequisites, and let me ask
You, everyone knows that Qingliu people are always stuck to various moral standards, which can be said to be out of touch. However, several powerful ministers in the court do things that are more in line with the actual situation, so the court should put more emphasis on powerful ministers and completely abandon those who have high ambitions and low abilities.
Qingliu, do you agree with this point of view?"
Xu Qingyan was stunned again. As Zhao Junchen's confidant, he naturally looked down on the clean people in the court. He believed that powerful ministers like Zhao Junchen had done more practical things for the country and the people, but after all, he still had some normal rights and wrongs in his heart.
concept, so I cannot agree with the view that the imperial court should completely abandon Qingliu.
Therefore, Xu Qingyan hesitated for a moment and finally replied: "Master, although the Qingliu are useless, it seems a little inappropriate if the court completely abandons them, right?..."
Hearing Xu Qingyan's answer, Zhao Junchen smiled and said: "You see, this is the so-called 'setting preconditions'. My inquiry just now seems to be to discuss with you whether the court should abandon Qingliu."
question, but in fact, it secretly sets the precondition that "Qingliu is not as good as the powerful minister". Once you fall into such a debate, it is equivalent to acquiescing that Qingliu is not as good as the powerful minister, and the related concepts will be rooted in your heart...
But what is the reality? There are many officials in history who can do practical things, and there are also many powerful ministers who cannot do practical things!"
Seeing that both Xu Qingyan and Zhang Yu'er suddenly realized, Zhao Junchen continued: "There are many similar examples... For example, there are too many Han people and they eat too much food, so they burn forests to open up wasteland every year, destroying a small number of people.
The living environment of ethnic groups, so should we stop burning forests to open up wasteland and leave living space for ethnic minorities in remote areas? Once we fall into such a debate, it is equivalent to acknowledging that the problem of food and clothing for the Han people is the original sin of benefiting ourselves at the expense of others!
For another example, we all know that eating seafood is bad for the body and can cause symptoms such as gout, so should we stop eating seafood? You see, once we start discussing this issue, we are equivalent to acquiescing to eating seafood.
It’s a bad concept. In fact, many people eating seafood is good for their health!
And these examples are the means of secretly setting preconditions. These preconditions will deeply implant certain misconceptions in people's hearts, which will be enough to affect many things in the future!"
After a pause, Zhao Junchen continued: "Besides 'providing generalized information and statistics', let me give you an example to let you understand... For example, we all know that the existence of the inner court and factory guards hangs on the heads of hundreds of officials.
A sharp sword on the throne has been secretly monitoring all parties in the government and the opposition. Countless officials and common people have been persecuted to death by factory guards for hundreds of years, so we should abandon the inner court and factory guards. Is this right?"
Xu Qingyan fell into a misunderstanding and couldn't turn around, saying: "The prerequisites this time are not wrong!"
Zhang Yuer said: "But this time, the master is providing people with generalized information and statistical methods to complain and create rumors... Therefore, this question also has a trap, that is, it only describes
The disadvantages of the inner court and the factory guards were even exaggerated, exploiting people's fear of the factory guards to resonate, and making people only pay attention to these disadvantages, but did not describe the necessity of the inner court and the factory guards in stabilizing the government and the opposition at all.
sex!"
Zhao Junchen smiled and nodded again, deeply pleased with Zhang Yuer's understanding, and said: "That's right! This is to provide information and statistics based on generalizations! When using this method, telling stories is often more effective than reasoning.
Effect!
For example, we can tell a story about a small vendor who was struggling to make a living and set up a stall on the street to sell goods. However, he was expelled and suppressed by the government officials, and the goods in the stall of the small vendor were confiscated.
A small trader has lost his source of livelihood and is likely to starve to death in the future... Do you think this small trader is pitiful and those government servants are hateful?"
Seeing that Xu Qingyan and Zhang Yu'er were at a loss again and just nodded in agreement, Zhao Junchen shook his head and sighed: "This is the benefit of telling stories. After hearing this story, people sympathize with the plight of small traders and hate them."
In addition to being domineering, the government officials will also ignore the most basic situation, that is...whether the place where this small vendor sets up his stall complies with the court regulations! The court does not allow stalls to be set up in the middle of the street, otherwise it will cause damage to the road.
Congestion brings inconvenience to more people, but because of this story, everyone will completely ignore this point. This is the benefit of telling stories. It limits people's perspectives and can further achieve the goal of generalizing.
Purpose!"
Xu Qingyan and Zhang Yuer suddenly understood again and felt that they had benefited a lot.
After Zhao Junchen took a sip of tea, he continued: "Let's talk about the last method, which is to confuse the relationship between cause and effect. Let's give an example. Because this method is difficult to understand, I will first give you an example with the most obvious flaw to let you understand.
!
Take spiders as an example. We catch a spider and beat the gongs and drums next to the spider. The spider will immediately be frightened and run away. Then we pull out all eight legs of the spider and beat the gongs and drums again, but this time the spider
It was motionless. Because of this phenomenon, can we think that... because the spider's ears are on its legs, it does not respond to the sound of gongs and drums?"
This time, even Xu Qingyan understood what Zhao Junchen meant and shook his head repeatedly: "Of course not. Even if the spider hears the sound of gongs and drums, how can it run without legs?"
Zhao Junchen still nodded and said: "Yes, this is the simplest example of confusing cause and effect... Let me give you a more advanced example..."
Having said this, Zhao Junchen pondered for a moment, and after seeing the tea cup in his hand, he asked: "Take tea as an example. We can find that people who drink tea generally live longer than people who do not drink tea."
Longer, people who drink good tea generally live longer than people who drink ordinary tea, so can we conclude that drinking tea, especially drinking good tea, can help extend life?"
This time, both Xu Qingyan and Zhang Yu'er knew that the example Zhao Junchen gave was by no means simple, and that it must contain some hidden thinking traps, but they couldn't figure it out for a while, so they both remained silent.
Zhao Junchen immediately gave the answer, saying: "In fact, this statement also confuses the relationship between cause and effect! The fact is that poor people cannot afford tea, ordinary people can only drink ordinary tea, and only dignitaries can
They drink those expensive teas, so their life spans are different, not because of the different grades of tea they drink, but because their level of wealth determines their different living standards!"
After a pause, Zhao Junchen continued: "There are many similar examples. Because a general always only defends but does not attack when fighting, he is a coward; because there is banditry under an official, so this
An official is a cruel official who forces the people to rebel... These causal relationships may seem reasonable, but in fact they have nothing to do with the actual situation!"
Having said this, Zhao Junchen thought of some situations in later generations and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, then said: "So, when creating public opinions and rumors, set prerequisites, provide generalized information and statistics, and mix things up.
In terms of cause and effect, these three methods have been tried and tested, and there is a smarter way, which is to use these three methods at the same time!
For another example, we all know that court regulations restricted the vitality of merchants, and the prices of some commodities remained high because of this. So should the court allow merchants to determine market supply and demand on their own?
In this example, not only does it secretly set up the premise that "it is a bad thing for the imperial laws and regulations to restrict the activities of merchants", but it also completely fails to mention the necessity of the imperial laws and regulations to restrain the activities of merchants, and it also confuses the causal relationship.
The high prices of some commodities are linked to the imperial court's restrictions on merchant activities. But in fact, if the imperial court gave merchants complete autonomy, would commodity prices definitely drop? I'm afraid merchants would just hoard them, right?
"
Having said this, Zhao Junchen felt thirsty again and wanted to drink tea again, but found that he had already drank all the tea in the tea cup.
Therefore, Zhao Junchen ended the teaching and just concluded: "Qingyan, Yu'er, your future tasks are all related to rumors, public opinion, and intelligence. When you want to promote public opinion and create rumors in the future,
At this time, we must make good use of these three means, that is, setting prerequisites, providing partial information and statistics, and confusing causal relationships, which will inevitably be detrimental; at the same time, you will hear some things in the future
When dealing with public opinions and rumors, you must also be careful to prevent yourself from being guided by these three methods, or from being secretly implanted with certain misconceptions!"
From this teaching, Zhao Junchen was naturally interested in "becoming a teacher", and Xu Qingyan and Zhang Yu'er also benefited a lot. They just felt that they were enlightened and would benefit a lot when doing things in the future.
After seeing that Zhao Junchen no longer planned to continue "teaching", Zhang Yu'er also stood up again and first poured another cup of tea for Zhao Junchen.
After Zhao Junchen drank tea to quench his thirst, Zhang Yuer finally got down to business and handed Yang Xun's name card to Zhao Junchen and said: "Master, a great scholar named Yang Xun sent the name card. I originally
I don’t care about this matter, after all, there are too many people who want to see the master every day, but several staff in the government were very excited after hearing the news, so you must pay attention to this matter!”
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Second update! A total of 12,000 words have been updated today.
I feel that I haven't fully entered the rhythm yet, and today's chapter is a bit rushed, so Bugs will not update two chapters stably in the future, but it will update at least one chapter every day. If the status is good, it will burst out with double updates again.