Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 97 A Little Shame
Emperor Chongzhen didn't wait long. When the phone rang, he immediately pressed the "Connect" button excitedly, and asked impatiently, "How is it?"

He doesn't want to mess things up, the purpose of his efforts is to govern the country well!

However, regardless of the previous ones, this time, the result of hard work seems to be a mess!

This made Emperor Chongzhen feel frustrated, and he was eager to save the situation.

Upon hearing this, Liu Weichao smiled and said, "Let me tell you first!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he nodded quickly, and looked at his friend in the phone expectantly.

He believed that judging from Liu Weichao's face, there should be a solution.

I only heard Liu Weichao say to him: "In your situation, you definitely can't go head-on, and you can't just compromise like this. The result of head-on confrontation is that you can't do anything; and the consequence of compromise, when they encounter something next time, I will come up with this trick again to deal with you..."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded again and again, looking forward to Liu Weichao's follow-up.

But he is also curious in his heart, if he doesn't head-on, and doesn't compromise, what should he do?

"... Do you think it's good to do this?" Liu Weichao didn't use that tone of pointing the country, but said to Emperor Chongzhen as if he was discussing with a friend, "First, we must first stabilize the situation. You, as the emperor, can give amnesty to other universal crimes such as corruption. However, you cannot simply give amnesty. You must give them hope and make them feel that they have won. In other words, it is to make them dare not Do it again!"

At this point, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear it any longer, and quickly asked, "How about an amnesty?"

Amnesty has always existed in ancient times.For example, important matters such as the emperor ascending the throne, marrying the queen, and making a prince, etc., will be amnesty to the world.But there is also a premise that some crimes cannot be pardoned.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen was not surprised by the amnesty, but just curious about the amnesty law.

I only heard Liu Weichao say to him: "For example, those who have been arrested will not be amnesty; it can also be asked to hand over the money for corruption, and you will not be held accountable. Or after the amnesty, if there is another offender, then Settle the old and new accounts together, and increase the punishment! And so on, add conditions to your amnesty, so that they will not be afraid of having no way out, and will not feel that the emperor is easy to bully."

Speaking of this, he paused and added: "The specifics of what to do, you'd better consider the specific situation on your side, and you can discuss with Sun Chuanting and the others to get the best plan."

"Okay, okay, I think this method is good, not bad!" Emperor Chongzhen was very excited when he heard it, and quickly nodded his head.

This method is actually not special. In the final analysis, it is just knowing how to compromise in principle; as long as he is a capable emperor, he can usually figure it out by himself.

It's just a pity that Emperor Chongzhen still has a long way to go on this point.

If you can choose, then he is really not suitable for the career of emperor.It's just a pity that he has no choice but to adapt to the requirements of the position of emperor.

Of course, in the original history, he couldn't adapt to the position of emperor in the end, and eventually let the company go bankrupt, that is, let Ming Dynasty perish.

But this time, with Liu Weichao's training, it is equivalent to having a life mentor, so it will be different.

No, when Liu Weichao saw Emperor Chongzhen getting excited, he reminded him again: "By the way, after this incident, the fundamental way is not to slacken the crackdown on corruption. You can't control other places." Come on, at least manage the capital well. As the places you can control become bigger and bigger, expand the anti-corruption to other places.”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he nodded immediately, and replied seriously: "I understand, I know!"

After finishing speaking, this time, although he was also anxious, he didn't rush to hang up the phone, but asked Liu Weichao, "Is there anything else I need to pay attention to?"

After hearing this, Liu Weichao thought for a while, then smiled and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "But there is one thing, I have to remind you, you should raise the wages of your workers! It is to increase their salaries, otherwise, you The salary over there, the officials under you don’t just need to support themselves, but have a big family. You can’t let them starve to death, right?”

"..." Emperor Chongzhen was taken aback when he heard this. He had never thought about this.

"However, there must be a standard. How many people should the salary be enough to support?" Liu Weichao continued, "We can't let those officials have three wives and four concubines, and a lot of servants at home?"

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said solemnly: "I understand, is there anything else I should pay attention to?"

He didn't expect that Liu Weichao really had a lot of suggestions here, so he asked again.

Liu Weichao listened, thought for a while, and then asked Emperor Chongzhen: "How are you doing with regard to the control of public opinion? This time, the public opinion also needs to follow up!"

"Ah?" Emperor Chongzhen lost his voice when he heard it, "I forgot!"

After I finished speaking, I was a little ashamed.

As soon as Liu Weichao saw it, he knew that Emperor Chongzhen still didn't pay special attention to the guidance of public opinion, and he was a little neglected.

After thinking about this, he said to Emperor Chongzhen: "There is a good saying, if you don't occupy the position of public opinion, your enemy will occupy it. Don't say anything else, it's just your matter this time, if Let everyone understand that if you only want to punish some people, maybe it won't expand like this!"

"Oh, I understand!" Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen quickly replied, "Because of the panic, many people think that I will treat every corrupt person like Emperor Taizu, so everyone will treat everyone on their own. In danger, that's it. If someone with a heart says a few words about this matter, the situation will be difficult to deal with. And these are the so-called wars of public opinion, right?"

"Well!" Liu Weichao nodded after hearing this and said, "Actually, let me tell you that although public opinion wars are not bloody, they are actually very important. Sometimes, they are more dangerous than open swords and guns. The impact will be very large. I suggest you, in this regard, you should set up a special department, the Yamen, to control public opinion."

Although Emperor Chongzhen felt that he had already attached great importance to Liu Weichao's reminder.But unexpectedly, Liu Weichao suggested that he set up a special office to do this.

This level of emphasis still exceeded his expectations.

Seeing his expression, Liu Weichao knew what he was thinking, so he said seriously: "No matter how important it is, you can't take it too seriously. You don't want what you want to be misunderstood by someone with good intentions. A bad thing, cause the opposite effect, right?"

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind when he heard this, nodded quickly and said, "It's just a special yamen, I don't know how to do it well?"

Speaking of this, he asked expectantly: "Is there anything you can teach me?"

Emperor Chongzhen estimated that Liu Weichao must have learned lessons from history, and then told him so.Otherwise, at Liu Weichao's age and not in a high position, how could he have such experience and insight?
If there are examples to refer to, then he will be able to get twice the result with half the effort in setting up a new government office and controlling public opinion.

(End of this chapter)