Royal Gold Medal County Magistrate

Rallying the people's hearts? I have even less experience in that area! So, I still have to listen to your arrangements, right?

Suddenly feeling like he was still nothing, Ali Bai felt a sense of powerlessness rising in his heart.

"How do we rally them?"

Fang Zheng Yi paced with his hands behind his back, sighing as he looked at the corpses scattered around: "There are two things in this world that are hardest to move."

"What?"

Fang Zheng Yi said calmly, "The interests of the upper class, and the ideas of the lower class. But if you touch both at the same time, these seemingly indestructible things become easy to deal with." Fang Zheng Yi said slowly, "The interests of the upper class cannot be touched, so we take their lives. The ideas of the lower class cannot be changed, so we use the interests of the upper class to buy them off."

"Now you've already succeeded halfway. You can investigate and confiscate the homes of those dead officials. You can also buy off those small officials who are eager to act, and use force to threaten those who can't be bought or demand too high a price."

"As for how to buy off the common people, that's a technical skill, but it's precisely the area where your teacher excels!"

Fang Zheng Yi's area of expertise? This was the first time he had heard him talk about his own area of expertise.

Ali Bai exclaimed, "Please, teacher, enlighten me!"

"If it were you, what would you do?" Fang Zheng Yi asked instead of answering.

"Give silver to the people."

"Wrong, wrong, wrong. Zhang Biao understands this much better than you. Zhang Biao, you tell him what to do?" Fang Zheng Yi turned to look at Zhang Biao.

Zhang Biao tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said, "Build toilets?"

"Alright, you don't need to talk."

This blockhead! He's been by my side for so many years, and he hasn't made any progress in any area other than fighting!

My light of wisdom hasn't rubbed off on him at all! Damn it!

Fang Zheng Yi took a few breaths in anger, trying to calm down before saying, "If you want to please someone, the most important thing is to create a contrast, to give people a huge surprise, a performance that exceeds expectations, so that you can win the hearts of more people."

"Giving silver to the people right away is such an uncreative idea that anyone can come up with it."

"So, to stand out, you have to do the opposite. Not only can you not distribute silver, but you also have to suppress them! Suppress them until they can't breathe, suppress them until they are miserable. First, you have to use the silver in your hands to buy a large amount of grain on the market, control the market in the city, and drive up prices."

"Of course, you can't use your own name for this. Look at who's lying in this room who's suitable, just find someone. Do it outside in his name. When a single pancake can be sold for five taels of silver and the people can't stand it anymore, you jump out and give the money and grain in your hands to the people at extremely low prices or even for free."

"Before long, the whole city will remember your good name, Ali Bai."

"If we do this, won't they rebel?" Ali Bai worried.

Fang Zheng Yi shook his head.

The common people of ancient times are not like modern people. In the eyes of modern people, they are no different from slaves. If eating shit has nutritional value and they can live by eating shit, they won't think about pursuing their rights as human beings.

If someone sends them grain and money, then the people will praise you highly and be grateful to you in every way.

He had already learned this.

"Your teacher won't let the situation develop to that point. The only thing you need to pay attention to is that people with ulterior motives in the court will take advantage of the popular resentment to make trouble, so the scale of this needs to be precisely controlled. Your teacher will help you pay attention to this, so you don't have to worry."

"That's not all. The people will trust you, love you, but that's far from enough! What your teacher wants is to build you into a god, the only god in the hearts of the people, so that your position in Pantai City is unbreakable and no one dares to touch it."

"Before distributing money and grain, you must first buy off all the painters, printing houses, and theaters in the city to produce promotional materials and rehearse new plays in advance. The painters will draw your face into promotional posters and distribute them to the whole city for free, posting them on all the walls in the city."

"These promotional posters only need to write a few words, which the people will recognize in less than two days. These words must reflect your love for the people, diligence in government, and all other advantages. Then, coupled with new plays about your heroic deeds as the protagonist being performed for free throughout the city, I dare say that in less than a month, you will become the faith of the people, and your position will be unshakable."

Faith!

Ali Bai's heart was already extremely shocked.

A grand plan! A grand plan he had never heard of before. Painters and theaters can be used like this?

If this set of plans goes smoothly... I'm afraid even Father Khan's authority will be below me!!!

Thinking about it, Ali Bai showed an infatuated smile: "But I don't have any heroic deeds... How can I promote that?"

Fang Zheng Yi said sternly, "Whether or not you have them is not important. Our propaganda target is the bottom-level people in the city, so the arguments of the propaganda must be rough, clear, and powerful. The only purpose of propaganda is to conquer the people, and the basic principle of propaganda is to constantly repeat effective arguments. Lies, after being disguised and repeatedly spread, will make people believe them."

"These things are not over yet. There is still the most important link, which is that you must personally take the stage and give a public speech, so that tens of thousands of people can see you and hear you personally lead them into that ideal world. Your teacher is planning to arrange two to three speeches for you every day after the plan is implemented, touring all over the city."

"Ah... speech... I can't give a speech?" Ali Bai stammered.

Thinking about facing tens of thousands of people, he suddenly felt a little cowardly.

The corners of Fang Zheng Yi's mouth turned up, with a wicked smile; "Can't? Your teacher's internal materials also have tricks about speeches."

"《From Shy to Public Speaking Expert》, 《Seven-Day Public Speaking Crash Course》, 《Fang's Magic Speech》. Your teacher will teach you these secret techniques one by one later. Even if you don't learn them, you can still read the manuscript and speak, don't be afraid."

Fang Zheng Yi's mouth was dry from talking. He paused for a while to let Ali Bai continue to absorb it.

Seeing that he had thought about it almost enough, he continued, "With the army in hand and the hearts of the people won, your position is already unbreakable. If any group of people dares to oppose you again, then it will be very simple. You can fabricate charges at will, saying that these people are robbing the people and that the previous high prices were caused by them behind the scenes..., then continue to confiscate their homes, and then use the money from confiscating their homes to continue to subsidize the people and maintain your position."

"From then on, there will be only one voice, one thought, and one new emperor in Pantai City!" Fang Zheng Yi looked at Ali Bai with a smile that was not a smile, and asked, "Tell me who he is."

!!!

Ali Bai's pupils trembled violently: "He... He is me?"

"Who am I, and who is the emperor?!" Fang Zheng Yi stood in front of him, staring straight at him.

"Heh... Heh..." Ali Bai breathed extremely rapidly, swallowing hard as he stared at Fang Zheng Yi, his eyes filled with unprecedented excitement.

"It's Ali Bai... I... I am the emperor!!"

Fang Zheng Yi smiled with satisfaction, and the devil's whisper sounded again.

"Your Majesty, please begin the operation!"

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Zhou Tie was already dumbfounded on the side, feeling chills all over his body. He rubbed his arms twice, turned to look at Zhang Biao and whispered, "Damn, that's so freaking evil. Master is so scary today! What are you looking at?"

"Huh? I'm also hungry. Can I still eat the pancakes on the ground?"

"...."