Chapter 324: The Best Way to Persuade Evil to Change
For the next three days, Zhuangzi ate and lived in a local farmhouse and solved problems on the spot. It only took him three days to settle the matter of reclaiming wasteland in the lacquer garden. Of course! It will take some time to implement it and develop it in practice.
But! That's none of his business.
How to implement it is up to the farmers themselves to negotiate and solve it. If you are willing to cooperate, you will work together to find a solution. If you are not willing to cooperate, you can opt out.
Zhuangzi put his words there, and on the question of the taxation of the newly reclaimed land, he promised that no tax would be collected for three years, and that it would be reduced or reduced within five years, and that the tax would be lower than that of the cooked land in the future. If the Song side forcibly increased its income, everyone could choose not to farm. And also! Breaking his promise, he was willing to compensate the peasants for the extra taxes.
What the peasants wanted was a promise from Zhuangzi, and as for how to develop the wasteland in partnership, where did he have to worry about it. If everything is done, even if Zhuangzi is on the scene every day, he will be busy with endless things.
After dealing with the idle wasteland inside the lacquer garden, Zhuangzi planned to go to the valley mouth on both sides to discuss with the landlords outside the valley mouth and let the people of the lacquer garden develop the matter.
At this time, several other villains in Qiyuan, seeing that Zhuangzi was dedicated to the people, and the stability of the people's hearts was also beneficial to them, the bully landlords, decided to get close to Zhuangzi. Give gifts to Zhuangzi and invite Zhuangzi to dinner.
Zhuangzi did not refuse, accepted the gifts and closeness of the wicked, went to the house of the wicked to eat, and took this opportunity to persuade them to abandon evil and turn to good.
He told the wicked: Actually! The desire of the poor is not high, as long as you give them a bite to eat, give them hope to live, and give them respect, they will not be fine. Person! They all want to live. It is the natural instinct of human beings to want to live. Person! Not only want to live, but also! I want to live better! It's as simple as that. If you let others live, respect others, and give others hope to live, others will be grateful to you! It's as simple as that.
It's that simple to manage society!
No matter how rich your country is, no matter how good the living conditions of the people are, but the people have no freedom and respect, they will still rebel.
Freedom is divided into external and internal causes. Needless to say, external causes depend on a person's outlook on life and a person's ideological concepts. Unhealthy ideas and concepts will make people bind themselves and have no freedom.
It's the same with respect, there are external and internal causes. Needless to say, external causes depend on a person's outlook on life and a person's ideological concepts. Unhealthy ideologies will make people pursue the respect of others. A healthy outlook on life and ideology is not affected by external factors and respects oneself.
Freedom and respect are not raised by the improvement of material living conditions, but! It all depends on one's state of mind.
Zhuangzi is not the kind of strong demand for the wicked to give up doing evil and how to do good, and he does not spread positive energy and carry forward the main theme. But! While persuading the wicked to give up doing evil, they also teach the wicked how to better rule over others.
If you blindly speak the opposite tune, you will inevitably arouse the disgust and hostility of the wicked.
Tell them: selflessness is the means, selfishness is the end!
You are kind to others and give the poor a way to live, and the poor are willing to follow you, beg for a bite to eat from you, and beg to live. Only the more poor people you rule, the more value they create for your labor.
This is: selflessness is the means, selfishness is the end!
You don't give others a way to live, no one under you creates value for you, where do you get your value, and you don't want to do coolies yourself, right?
Therefore, selflessness is the means, selfishness is the end!
You can't be selfish unless you are selfless first. Your selfishness has become autism! I closed my way to death.
Zhuangzi accepted the invitation of the wicked, and! Quite pleasantly with the wicked. Other wicked people were not willing to be lonely, and they came to ask Zhuangzi to "preach". Zhuangzi did the same and explained the same principle to them. Moreover! According to the problems they are facing, they propose solutions.
Zhuangzi soaked in the house of the great evil man all day long, which inevitably made the poor people in Qiyuan unbearable and did not understand, and they all thought that Zhuangzi was greedy for money and worried that the Zhuangzi in their minds would become bad.
In fact, it is indeed like that, the wicked people give Zhuangzi money, and he will take as much as he wants, and those who come will not refuse. Don't be in vain! I'll give you ideas, and it's what I deserve for my labor.
Outcome! After a few days, everyone knew that Zhuangzi had gone to preach. Under Zhuangzi's preaching, the attitude of the great evil man changed, and he was much better to his hired farmers. Wages and remuneration have increased, and agricultural taxes have been reduced.
What everyone didn't expect was that there were a few big evil people who still used practical actions to express themselves, sending food, property, and other places to people with practical difficulties.
Of course! It is given to the poor who have a relationship with their family, and the poor who have nothing to do with their family have no share.
But! Under the leadership of a few great evildoers, other wicked people have followed suit in order to show themselves.
Such! The poor people in the lacquer garden, the vast number of people in the lacquer garden, looked at Zhuangzi differently. If it weren't for Zhuangzi maneuvering around it, the great evil man would not have done this.
In fact! They didn't know what Zhuangzi had said to those great wicked people. If you know that Zhuangzi said that "selflessness is for selfishness", and that being good to the poor is to buy people's hearts, I don't know how you feel?
After a few days of contact with the great evildoers, Zhuangzi not only persuaded the wicked, but also gained the trust of the wicked. When the wicked people heard that Zhuangzi was going to develop the wasteland outside the valley mouth on both sides, they were willing to become lobbyists and help Zhuangzi.
Furthermore! They also believe that the population inside the lacquer garden is too dense, and it will be more beneficial for the lacquer garden to move some people out.
With the help of these people, the reclamation of the land outside the valley mouth on both sides went very smoothly. It took Zhuangzi only four days to settle the matter of reclaiming the land outside the valley mouth on both sides.
In fact! It only took him two days. To be more specific, he just met with the other party, and the matter was done.
The rest of the time, he was preaching to the landowners outside the valley. The method is still the same, teach them how to deal with the poor people under their control, and teach them how to raise more poor people to create value for them.
When I came back from the valley on both sides, it was already the height of summer.
It has been almost a month since Zhuangzi came to the lacquer garden. He once boasted about Haikou, saying that he could manage the lacquer garden well in only about a month. Outcome! He did it! After solving the land problem of the Qiyuan people and persuading the wicked people not to do evil anymore, he has already completed his merits.
Originally! He was going to find a way to get rid of all the wicked. Theoretically, all the wicked should be eliminated. But with the help of the black-clothed senior brother, he killed the two villains, and the security in the paint garden was changed.
When he got home, he suddenly found that he had gained a lot of weight and whiter. He found out! Mai'er was born a rich life, no matter how difficult life is, her body shape and posture are so rich.
And he! But he was much darker and thinner. There are also a few more beards on both sides of the face, and a few more beards on the upper jaw.
Zhuangzi's beard is very sparse, and it can only be seen when it is long. For a short time, you don't see a beard at all.