The rise of the prince

Chapter 422 Broken Window (Two in One)

On October [-]th, the sky began to gradually clear up, and the air was filled with chills. Winter has come.

It has been a month since the famous King Ping'an came to Jiangzhou, but apart from sweeping the streets, rubbing walls, and collecting garbage every day, he is just doing nothing, wandering the streets with strangely dressed soldiers.

At first, some people came to see what the young hero King Pingnan looked like, but gradually, no one saw it, because everyone knew that this King Pingnan was only smart in fighting, so how could he rule the world?
This kind of example is not uncommon. Some people shook their heads and sighed, and some people laughed a few words. In short, it was not a good word.

Two days ago, because he didn't like it, he demolished two latrines on the side of the road and demolished an unsightly courtyard. Other than that, he did nothing.

Li Xingzhou, God of War in Suzhou, suddenly returned to the image of that fool. People also remembered his reputation as the villain in Kyoto before, and connected his actions at that time with the present, proving that he was indeed just fierce and violent, but actually had no intelligence. Many people agree.

Li Xingzhou didn't care what happened outside.

Anyway, he had nothing to do, and things had gone according to plan. He took He Qian around Jiangzhou City these few days, and asked her when she would go back, and she said that she had had enough fun, when would she play?have no idea.

But every time you go out, you have to bring five or six guards, because Jiangzhou is still very chaotic, petty theft, fights and fights can be seen everywhere, and there are many murders.

Every time he went out, people looked at him differently. On the surface, they were respectful, but as soon as they walked away, they began to whisper and occasionally laugh.

He Qian's face flushed with anger several times, and she was so angry that she looked like a little toad. If Li Xingzhou didn't stop her, she probably would have made a move.

He didn't care, it was all expected.

The situation in Jiangzhou has many similar examples in later generations. In Colombia, the Philippines, Detroit, etc., crime has become commonplace, and almost no city can get rid of this kind of crime chain.

But there are always exceptions.

He Qian's second brother, He Xu, will continue to go north after staying for two days. He has traveled for many years and has seen a lot, but he chatted with Li Xingzhou about some interesting things.

The most talked about is nothing more than the Mongolian tribes, because most of the time, he does business with the Mongolian tribes.

He said that the Mongolian tribes used to be under the rule of the Liao Kingdom, and they were considered peaceful, but now that the Liao Kingdom has been defeated by the Jurchen, several powerful tribes have begun to claim independence, and the Liao Kingdom Emperor can't control it.

And he also said that there are many ancient and barbaric customs in Mongolia, such as the custom of snatching relatives, exchanging children and others for cattle and sheep.

If you fancy a beautiful aristocratic woman, as long as you can defeat their relatives and friends, you can snatch them back as your wife, and if you fight, you will see blood to death.

Robbery, Li Xingzhou nodded.

Neither history nor things can be judged simply by right or wrong. Marriage snatching is indeed ancient and barbaric, but when it comes to snatching marriages, the rise, expansion, and growth of Mongolia. At its peak, it started from the Korean Peninsula in the east, reached Poland in the west, and reached the Arctic Ocean in the north. From the south to the Pacific Ocean and the Persian Gulf, it occupies almost all of Asia, including most of Europe. In the Arab world, only the Mamluk Kingdom survives.

And it all started with a robbery.
Speaking of these, Li Xingzhou couldn't help sighing. He didn't know what kind of posture the Mongolia of this world would show in front of him, but if it rose as usual, then how to deal with it would be a big problem.

Ancient wars are often unimaginable to modern people.

Because even large-scale wars that were relatively close to each other, such as the War of Resistance Against Japan, lasted only eight years, and the Korean War lasted three years.

Even like the Korean War, the war against the Allied Forces of the Sixteen Nations was only fought for three years. The big reason is related to the emergence of nuclear weapons. Under the nuclear deterrence of the two superpowers, a world war will not be fought.

It is precisely because of nuclear deterrence that wars after the 21st century will no longer have bottom-line wars.

But in ancient times, after the Spring and Autumn Period, when wars broke out, there was no bottom line.

For example, the Mongolian war against Xixia, after the war, the population of Xixia dropped by [-]%!

Even during the Anti-Japanese War, the war mobilization rate was only a little over [-]%.

It means that with a population of 100 million, there are more than 4 troops.In the most powerful Soviet Union, the war mobilization rate can only reach about 17.5%, with a population of 100 million and 17.5 troops. Such a war has been tragic to the point of heinous.

But in today's era when there are no hot weapons and flesh and blood are fighting each other, 85% of the population of Xixia has been killed, which shows how tragic the war is.

What was even more tragic was the war between the Song Dynasty and Mongolia.

In the process of Mongolia’s expansion, on the western battlefield, whether in Europe, Russia, or even the Arab world, almost all of them collapsed at the touch of a button. The war proceeded extremely quickly, and a large number of people died of the massacre after Mongolia broke the city.

Mongolia's three western expeditions destroyed and defeated countless countries and expanded a large area of ​​territory. It only took about 20 years.

But the war between Mongolia and the Song Dynasty lasted for a full 45 years.

Many people must be unimaginable, how did the people survive under the large-scale and high-intensity wars in the past 45 years?How ordinary people live.

Think about the Eight-Year War of Resistance Against Japan, and compare it with the 45-year War of Song and Yuan Dynasties, and you will understand how cruel ancient wars can be.

Unlike the large-scale population reduction on the Western Front due to massacres, most of the population died in the Song-Yuan War, be it the regular army, the militia, or the spontaneously organized rebel army.

In the later period of the war, the Yuan Dynasty also changed the old tradition of massacring the city. As long as the city surrendered voluntarily, the people in the city would be treated kindly to the defenders.

Because it’s not like this, I really can’t fight.There was a war of about ten generations back and forth, and until the end of the war, it was not what many people thought, the Song Dynasty was pressed to the ground and rubbed against the ground, but you took the land, and I took it back, and then took it again, and then snatch it back.

Long-term high-quality tug-of-war.

People don't live like human beings, with an average life expectancy of less than 40 years. Along the Yangtze River, in Xiangyang and Fancheng, corpses are everywhere, there are no chickens crowing for thousands of miles, and there is no human habitation for thousands of miles.

Li Xingzhou didn't even dare to think about that kind of high-bad war, nor did he want to see it.

But if Mongolia really rises, he can't stop it.

Because Mongolia first expanded westward, and the iron cavalry flattened Russia and Europe, then conquered the Arab world, destroyed Jin, Xixia, and the Korean Peninsula, and finally concentrated its main force against the Southern Song Dynasty.

By that time, Mongolia already had a super body that spanned Eurasia and conquered the Arab world.

How can he stop the Mongols from conquering the world?

The north is blocked by Xixia, Jin, and Liao, and the west is blocked by Dali, Baiyi, and the Himalayas.Furthermore, there are few horses in Jingguo. Without horses, it is impossible to run long distances. If others walk for a month, you can walk for a year.

Li Xingzhou thought about it, and couldn't help but sigh, life is not easy, why are there so many troubles?Jurchen hasn't finished dealing with it yet, and she wants to think about Mongolia again.
Afterwards, Li Xingzhou personally went to the ferry to bid farewell to He Xu, and even gave him 100 taels of silver.

At the same time, he asked him to inquire more about the Mongolian tribe and tell himself when he came back.

He Xu readily agreed, and then left to go north.

On the evening of October [-]th, the air was slightly cold. Li Xingzhou and He Qian ate hot pot in the small courtyard. The day was comfortable and comfortable. Because the little girl was there, he changed to fruit wine.

While cooking the mutton, He Qian said, "You are so free every day, aren't you afraid that the emperor will blame you?"

Li Xingzhou shook his head and smiled, "What are you worrying about? This is my business."

"I just love to worry about it! Can't I?"

"Okay, who can stop you, Miss He?"

"Hmph!" He Qian was proud, and then realized: "You haven't answered me yet."

"Don't worry, I've already taken countermeasures." Li Xingzhou said while eating meat.

"Countermeasures? You are so busy every day, how can there be any countermeasures." He Qian didn't believe it.

Li Xingzhou smiled: "You will know in a month, if you want to see it, you can stay here, anyway, there are many wing rooms in the villa."

"Okay, okay! If you beg me so much, then I will stay."

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"When did I beg you?"

It is said that there are exceptions to everything. In a chaotic city like Jiangzhou, there are really people who can manage it.

The famous representative is New York.

When it comes to country M, if you ask which city is in chaos, there must be many people who can give examples, such as Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis and so on.

But few people think of New York, or think that it used to be the most chaotic city in the United States. In the 90s and [-]s, New York was so chaotic that people were killed every day. Street robberies, fights, and petty theft were commonplace. Day does not kill.

The streets are dirty and messy, with garbage everywhere, and graffiti all over the walls.

A well-known scientist once took the subway home, but he was beaten with a sap inexplicably on the subway, causing blindness, and bid farewell to his research career.

In the 90s, New York, a city that was so chaotic, was almost hopeless. The government and the police were a headache, but there was nothing they could do.

Moreover, New York and Detroit are different. The chaos in Detroit is largely due to the fact that the government of country m is too lazy to manage it.

Because Detroit is bankrupt, there is no profit if it is managed, it will only waste money, and it is too poor to be lazy, so let it go.

New York is different. As the fourth largest city in the world, New York brings countless wealth to country M every year. How can such a city be left alone!If it continues to be chaotic, it will also be a huge blow to the entire M country.

Can't even think about it.
At this time, the New York Police Commissioner and government personnel thought of consulting psychologists, and finally worked out a plan to save New York's law and order.

The solution is to clean the streets, clean up graffiti, set up a large number of trash cans, and no littering or fare evasion is allowed.

It was shocking at the time and became a joke. Didn't the police arrest people for cleaning?
But slowly, something miraculous happened. A few months later, as the city became cleaner and tidier, the crime rate began to decline steadily, and order gradually returned.

Things are going astounding!

Then the police started catching people who did petty things, like skipping a subway ticket.

It turned out that one in seven fare evaders was a wanted criminal and one in twenty was armed.it's unbelievable
The efficiency of police arresting and arresting criminals has been greatly improved, and law and order have improved.

Under such governance, by the end of the twentieth century, New York had completely broken the criminal chain, making it impossible for the vicious circle to continue.The crime rate in New York has been declining year after year, and order has been restored again.

Many people were stunned, the chief of police was just cleaning up!But it is a serious cleaning, and finally save New York from the fire and water.

The reason is the governance strategy given by psychologists - the impact of powerful environmental hints on people's psychology.

There is a lot of research in psychology on this. "If a window is broken in a house and no one repairs it, other windows will be broken for no reason after a while;
On a wall, if there are some graffiti that are not cleaned off, the wall will soon be covered with messy and unsightly things;
In a very clean place, people are embarrassed to throw garbage, but once there is garbage on the ground, people will throw it without hesitation, without any shame. "

This is the "broken window effect".

Even a tiny signal of disorder—such as a broken window in a house.Both can contribute to a wider range of negative behavior because it conveys a sense of social norms.

Many famous psychologists have done many similar experiments to prove this theory.

For example, the classic one is to park an unlocked bicycle in an unguarded alley and observe the probability of the bicycle being stolen.The difference is that in the same alley, it is clean a few days ago, but in the next few days, there will be messy graffiti on the walls, and garbage will be thrown at the entrance of the alley.

The result of the experiment is that after the environment is dirty, the probability of the bicycle being stolen suddenly doubles several times.

Psychologists study this "tipping point". How dirty the ground must be for people to feel that it is so dirty anyway, and it doesn't matter how dirty it is, and how bad the situation must be before people will give up on themselves and let it rot to the end.

Any bad thing, if it is not stopped at the beginning and becomes a trend, it cannot be changed, just like a river embankment, if a small gap is not repaired in time, it can collapse the dam and cause millions of times of damage.

The influence of the environment on people's psychology is very important, far greater than what people imagine.

After years of research by psychologists, it has been shown that the orange-yellow environment can make people depressed, the cluttered environment can weaken people's perseverance and patience, and the indoor environment with higher ceilings can make people think more divergently and so on.

New York City’s approach has been criticized as being slow and urgent, “The ship is sinking and still cleaning the deck”, but New York City still starts by maintaining the cleanliness of subway cars, handcuffing people who don’t buy tickets for nothing, and publicly Proclaimed to the public the determination of the government to rectify, and it turned out to be very effective.

This is the case in Jiangzhou.

Most ordinary people definitely hope for order, so that their production and life will not be affected, otherwise Jiangzhou will not have the prosperity it had before.But the reality is that the lowest order has been lost, and the surrounding environment is so bad that it completely exceeds the "tipping point" of people's psychology.

When the ground is so dirty, people will think that it is so dirty anyway, and it doesn’t matter if it is a little more dirty, and then people will also think that it doesn’t matter if it’s already this messy, and it doesn’t matter if it’s so bad anyway, and it doesn’t matter if I have one more bad person .

These negative environmental elements will continue to amplify people's negative emotions.

What Li Xingzhou has to do is to eliminate those environmental elements that convey negative information.

Crime is the result of disorder, and if there is order in the general environment, then it needs to be rectified from the top down, because only a few people are disordered.This is also what Wang Ke, Xie Linjiang, and everyone else thought.

So they hoped that Li Xingzhou would act vigorously and resolutely, starting with cleaning up the officials and punishing the upper echelons.

But now Jiangzhou is different. Most people in Jiangzhou are out of order, so he needs to return to the bottom order from the bottom up. At that time, the high-level lawbreakers will naturally be isolated and exposed, and they will be wiped out. easy!
(End of this chapter)