Chapter 79 7. The wonder of pseudoscience

We always believe that Zhu Houcong's IQ has not dropped to an intolerable level - if it falls to this level, then 99% of him will become an evil tyrant who kills countless people, and he is indeed such a person For example, when killing the court lady who tried to strangle him, the means were extremely cruel. However, if an emperor wants to become a standard tyrant, his intelligence must be below the average level. Only such an emperor is not interested in metaphysical theories, but he is always surpassed in interpersonal relationships. He was played by many courtiers, and when the situation became unbearable, he was about to explode.

However, Zhu Houcong's IQ is just on the baseline of the average human IQ.Those above this line will focus on the construction of ideas and theories, and come up with a bunch of inexplicable and weird ideas.For example, there are many emperors in the West, but the IQ level of those emperors is above the average baseline of the public, so some Western emperors wrote books, and some engaged in scientific research.Augustus of the Roman Empire wrote this book, and Alfred the Great invented many strange things including the horn lamp.Turning our attention back to China, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Empire, produced many quotations such as this "Record of Ministers' Commandments", deliberately trying to make the people stupid.All in all, an emperor with a slightly higher IQ must come up with a set of ideas and theories, which are called laws.

An emperor whose IQ is above the public average baseline will write books to teach the masses to be obedient.The emperor whose IQ is below the average baseline of the public loves to kill people, because he cannot bear the cruel reality that everyone treats him like a fool.So, what kind of tricks will the emperor, whose IQ is not up or down, and who happens to be stuck in the average baseline of the public, do it? An emperor at this level, because his IQ is slightly higher than that of a tyrant, thinks highly of himself, and is unwilling to let others see him as an uneducated tyrant.But they can't deal with weird things like ideology, so they will, without exception, fall into the warm embrace of pseudoscience.

Now there is a rich system of pseudoscience, but in the era of the Ming Empire, the representative of pseudoscience was probably the alchemy of immortality. For example, Zhu Houcong is famous for taking lead and mercury poisons. What needs to be explained is that pseudoscience is completely different from science. Science has a simple starting point and is nothing more than a basic principle.But what is built on the basic principles is a solid logical system, which is by no means something that ordinary brains can fiddle with.But pseudoscience is different. Pseudoscience is anti-logic, which means that the entry threshold for pseudoscience is particularly low. Even an illiterate person can build a pseudoscience system with his eyes closed—anyway This thing does not need logic, you can say whatever you want, so compared to science, pseudoscience is more loved by the masses.Zhu Houcong couldn't play with logic in his head, so he fell headlong into the quagmire of pseudoscience that didn't need logic, and engaged in alchemy production in the palace.On the one hand, I hope to make a breakthrough in pseudoscience so that the world can see that I, Zhu Houcong, are really not stupid. You see, I can refine elixir. Are you convinced?On the other hand, he can also deliberately create a graceful and successful image to divert the public's attention from his IQ to his artistic image.

No way, just pretend, who made yourself too stupid? So Zhu Houcong pretended to be a flying fairy, and squatted in the backyard every day to refine the elixir.But the ministers still have to fool him for national affairs, and they all know that his IQ is not high.So when the minister played, he had already taken into account all his possible reactions. No matter how Zhu Houcong tried to change his tricks, he couldn't make a name for himself. then what should we do? Easy!Zhu Houcong simply created a cabinet.The so-called cabinet is a group of small associations where you can't live without each other, you can't live with each other, and you can't wait for you to eat me, and I can eat you.Zhu Houcong's move is also famous in management, called checks and balances.

Checks and balances mean that everyone eats in a trough, and what I can't eat, you can't eat either.What purpose do you want to achieve, I will not agree, and of course you will not allow me to achieve any purpose... Then everyone should just stop doing anything and just waste it here! This is the right way.As Lao Tzu said, governing a big country is like cooking a small fish.Governing a country is like cooking a small fish in a pot. You must never mess around. You can’t have a supreme directive today and a wise leader tomorrow—but in a country with a wise leader, the people will definitely have nothing to eat.People's survival is inherently difficult. If any wise leader joins your family, you have to firmly support him and revolve around him in everything. How can ordinary people have time to work on their own livelihood?

So once this cabinet is released, the Ming Empire will find a cure for its fatal illness. People with too low IQ will not be able to find this prescription. People with too high IQ can rely on their abilities alone. They don’t bother to create a platform for mediocre politics. Only those who are shrewd and not shrewd can get things done by chance. With the cabinet, the ministers were fighting fiercely, and Zhu Houcong finally felt relieved.So this stupid man ruled the world into a state of chaos beyond people's imagination. From the beauties in the harem to the officials in the cabinet, from the military rebellion in the north to the Japanese pirates in the coast, all the unstable factors in the empire were all in response. Zhu Houcong's stupid and timely outbreak, among them, the highest level of intrigue, the main battlefield that most reflects the deceitfulness of people's minds, is still in the cabinet.

Although the main battlefield of the intrigue is in the cabinet, the fruitful fruits it bears are on the battlefield-a generation of famous general Qi Jiguang!