The rise of the prince

Chapter 470 Gathering Hearts

By the end of November, more than 100 officials, large and small, gathered in Jiangzhou along the Beijing North Road, and were invited by Wang Tong to meet in the mansion.

This high-end banquet can also be regarded as soothing. After all, 23 people were arrested in Guangjiang Prefecture, and many people were implicated. It is inevitable that people will panic.

If you hit a big stick, you will give a sweet date. Li Xingzhou knows this truth.

Jiangzhou's government office must continue to operate, and it must rely on all officials and people's hearts to unite to defend against foreign enemies. Therefore, this banquet is necessary and he also signaled it.

With the royal family's financial resources, such a banquet is naturally not a problem. During the banquet, Li Xingzhou, as Wang Tong's son-in-law, Beijing North Transit Envoy, and court prince, sat at the big table in the main hall, and there were dozens of tables in the outer courtyard. It is very lively to entertain the accompanying servants.

The banquet was noisy and full of people, from the lobby of the Wang family mansion to the courtyard outside.

The crowd is full of people, but there is no atmosphere of drinking and singing, drunk and feasting. Humans are animals that like to communicate and discuss. If two mouths are put together, they can chatter endlessly, and three people can quarrel a nest of flies, let alone hundreds of people.

However, the hundreds of people sitting there could only whisper, and could hear whispers from time to time, but there was no atmosphere of a banquet.

Li Xingzhou understood why.

He shook his head and stood up from his seat in the lobby.

One movement moves the whole body, and when he moves, many eyes meet, light and shadow accompany him, and when he walks out of the six-open mahogany door, the yard is completely quiet, he is like a mainstay, standing there, standing still in the torrent, No more waves.

These people have all experienced this shock, and there was no clash of swords and soldiers. Dozens of court officials were imprisoned and exiled in the north and south. Most of them belonged to Shenping Nanwang.

But when the blinding cloud and smoke dissipated, the people in the game could finally see the final situation clearly. The last one stood was the young King Pingnan, stepping on the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood under his feet. The tombstone is amazing, the Ministry of War judges the Ministry of Affairs, Zhongshu Sheren, the Commander of the Guards and the Infantry, who is not a famous figure
A bunch of big figures did not overwhelm the young man, nor did the memorials of several ships.

It wasn't until this time that people suddenly realized how much power this young Pingnan King, who has been sweeping the ground since coming to Jiangzhou, has.

These things that are often heard only in storytelling and review articles are now alive in front of our eyes. Adding them to a child who is only 16 years old, it is not an exaggeration to double the legendary level.
After clearing the clouds and seeing the sun, many people gradually realized that they had provoked the wrong person!

The trend has come!This is simply not something they can compete with.

The reason for resisting Pingnan King is actually simple. In Jiangzhou, 23 people have been investigated. Who can guarantee that they will not be the next one?

They are afraid that they will end up like this.

Li Xingzhou glanced at the crowd, all the officials were silent and did not dare to speak, he raised his glass and stepped forward to the main courtyard, because the weather was cold, there were many braziers around, and the light was soft and abundant.

He raised his wine glass: "My king does have something to say tonight. At the beginning, I prepared to drink for three rounds, and after the dishes, I will talk about it slowly. Looking at it now, if I don't say it at this time, you will feel uneasy. The wine and dishes are tasteless. Take it easy."

Many people smiled awkwardly and did not dare to speak, even though there was only a young boy in front of them.

Li Xingzhou simply poured the wine: "This first glass of wine is toasted to the dead."

As soon as the word "dead man" was uttered, the air became colder.

Li Xingzhou didn't care. While walking under the eaves, facing many gazes calmly, he said: "The emperor has a letter from his family. Yu Cheng'an, who was formerly an adviser to political affairs, was escorted out of Beijing yesterday and exiled to the north."

As he spoke, he rubbed his hands: "Everyone knows how cold Jiangzhou is, and how cold it is going thousands of miles north, you can think about it, so this cup is to respect him, and I wish our former deputy prime minister the best of luck."

Many people below gasped.

Their eyes were trembling, mixed with fear, their pupils were dilated, and their heart rate was accelerating, causing shortness of breath and causing their chests to rise and fall. With just one glance, Li Xingzhou had a panoramic view of all the details.

He is not a perfect politician, in fact, he is not even as good as poetry when it comes to relying on experience and the gift of exquisite mind to observe people.

But he knows how to make up for those deficiencies, that is knowledge, how to master the psychology of others is a huge learning.

There are all kinds of information conveyed by micro-expressions, as well as the need to always be on guard against the over-limit effect and the bitter consequences of scattered responsibilities. Ordinary people rely on intuition and talent, such as poetry, and she is a genius in this area.

But Li Xingzhou relies on knowledge!
Observing the expressions of these people roughly, he judged that the heat was not enough.

So he stretched out his hand and asked Wang Ke, who is now the magistrate of Ningjiang Mansion, to pour another cup for him. He still didn't drink this cup, and just spilled it on the ground again, with a calm and cold tone: "This cup also respects the dead, but it's a lot. dead.

From the imperial court to Jiangzhou, big and small, thirty or forty. "He understated, pretending not to care.

"There are hundreds of people behind these people, and dozens of people are few. The average is at least one or two thousand. They will be displaced, their families will be destroyed, their old people will have nothing to support, and their children will have nothing to support. Many people will not survive this winter, and many people will die.

Do you feel that the king is guilty? "

He asked, then glanced at the crowd, and said loudly: "To tell you the truth, not at all. Don't talk about so many people. If there is such a thing, even if you kill thousands or even ten thousand people, this king will not hesitate!" He said loudly .

As soon as these words came out, many officials fell silent, while Li Xingzhou observed the expressions of these people and estimated their psychological limits.

In the field of psychology, there is such a famous little story.

According to legend, Mark Twain listened to the pastor's speech again, and felt that the pastor's speech was too good, so he was going to get up and donate money.

But the pastor was still talking, so he had to sit down and wait for 10 minutes.

Finding that the pastor was still indifferent and impassioned, he was a little impatient and planned to donate only some change.

After another 10 minutes of waiting, the pastor was still talking. He was in a bad mood and decided not to donate.

After nearly an hour of the pastor's speech, when the fund-raising began, the angry Mark Twain stole two dollars from the fund-raising box while not donating a penny.
Although it is a humorous little story, it has great significance in psychology. It is a good example that shows that people's patience and motivation to do things are very limited. If it is too long, it will lead to a rebellious psychology that backfires.

Some excellent leaders can grasp this point by relying on their charisma and natural intuition, but most people can't grasp it well, often resulting in the result that things go against each other.

Humorous stories are like this, and severe admonitions are even more so.

This is one of the main reasons why many contemporary conflicts between parents and children have intensified.

One wrong thing, if you say it once or twice, the child will feel guilty and wake up; if you say it three times or four times, the child will feel bored; if you say it five times or six times, it will cause the child to rebel. contradiction.

These officials are children who have made mistakes. Li Xingzhou is always observing their performance. Once they reach that point, they must change so as to achieve the best effect of uniting people's hearts.

Li Xingzhou knew it was almost over when he saw someone with a wrinkled forehead and trembling lips with his downcast eyes.

In the midst of his coldness, he suddenly changed the subject: "Many of you are going to be the king of Ben Shenben, and the emperor has attached the list to his family letter." He took out a piece of paper full of words from his sleeve and waved it.

Many people suddenly became tense.

(End of this chapter)