The beauty disappeared and could not be found anywhere. The baby son had no choice but to blow the bone flute again to ask the ghost questions.

The baby son is not the only eyeliner for ghost question. In the palace of the Seven Kingdoms, the baby son is full of eyeliners. Through them, the ghost question learns the information of the Seven Kingdoms and helps Hei Lian cultivate anti-Western cultivators.

After hearing the baby's words after the ghost question, I didn't know how to answer. Among so many eyeliners, baby's son is excellent, but she is too loyal and really treats the King of Qi as her own, and does everything from the perspective of King of Qi.

"You will know the result when you go to Zhu Yun." Guiwen was too lazy to interfere, so he asked the baby son to go to Yunyao and let them discuss it themselves.

"Look for him?" The baby son never suspected that the kidnapping case would be related to this talented person in charge of the world.

Since it was the immortal in the bone flute that said, it must be true. I immediately took Pan'er and called a few guards to the courtyard.

It was a big topic outside, and the beauty disappeared for no reason. As the audience spread throughout the city, everyone had all kinds of speculations. Of course, the most suspicious one was the King of Qi. Everyone thought it was the King of Qi who hid the beauty.

Of course, there is also a more reliable saying, which means that the beauty is too beautiful and alarms the gods, and the gods bring the beauty to heaven. It is almost the same as the fact, but the motive is wrong.

"Master Zhu." The baby's son came, but she was not sure whether the guidance of ghost question was reliable. Although ghost questions had helped her solve the problem before, she was very nervous this time.

"Come in."

Everyone met in the yard.

Yunyao looked at the other party and had to admit that the baby's son was indeed loyal and had worked hard to recruit talents, but he shouldn't continue to waste time on her. So Yunyao said, "Some things should be explained clearly. No matter what you do, I can't serve Qi."

"Then which country are you going to?" The baby's face was not very good-looking. In her opinion, any country's appointment of Yun Yao was a threat to Qi.

"Why do I have to work for the monarch?" Yunyao found it very funny and said, "Can't I be a hermit?"

"Your talent can only be displayed in the court. I don't believe you will retire willingly." The baby son said with certainty.

"If you are too talented, you may not be able to be valued. Just like the Mo family, if the King of Qi can reuse the Mo family, you will naturally be able to strengthen Qi. However, the position of the monarch of the King of Qi may not be able to be maintained. The Mo family can strengthen Qi will threaten the monarch. Between protecting itself and protecting the country, I think the King of Qi will definitely choose to protect himself, even at the cost of the entire country." Yun Yao's words are true. Not to mention the current monarch, even in the dilemma of choosing to maintain imperial power or the dynasty, the emperors will choose to protect imperial power.

Because the emperor's enemies will kill him and the emperor's allies will kill him.

So after the emperor ascended the throne, all he could gain was the enemy, and all he could choose was the only way to protect himself.

"Your words are nonsense without any basis." The baby son frowned. She lived in her thirties and was used to the treacherous struggles of the palace. In fact, she knew better than anyone else that the interests of the King of Qi and the country were not unified. Now it seems that the King of Qi is enlightened and the State of Qi is prosperous, but it is only because the King of Qi needs to continue to expand control of the country and attack the ministers and officials. At the same time, the State of Qi also needs to be rectified, so the interests of the monarch are temporarily consistent with the interests of Qi.

But when King Qi is old and his control is reduced, he will fall into the contradiction between protecting himself or protecting the country. He has to shrink his strength to oppose some policies that are favorable to the state, because he must avoid the nobles and officials from making profits from these policies. He would rather not develop national strength than strengthen his enemies.

At the same time, because of weakening control, many allies will become enemies, so the elderly monarch usually reuses villains. The villain needs to borrow monarchs to grow, while the monarch needs to use the villain to suppress allies and enemies, so the monarch and the villain trade with each other.

In the end, if the monarch cannot even control the villain, he will starve to death.

Therefore, many times in history, monarchs who listen to slander and value treacherous are actually a means of self-protection. Because for monarchs, whether they are allies, enemies, or even Chinese people, they are all people who share their interests. When the monarch has no interests, they will be kicked away.

Therefore, what the monarch needs to think about is always the priority. If the national strength will be developed and the enemy will be strengthened and allies will be strengthened, then the monarch would rather choose not to develop, because the first threat to development is the monarch himself.

This is why not developing is better than development. If you don’t develop, you maintain the status quo, and you will have the most rights, suppress allies and enemies, and you will be the only one in your own right.

However, there are also disadvantages for not developing, that is, the upper limit of interests is limited, and the entire country is stagnant. In the end, internal struggles of interests are still inevitable. The monarchs still have to face the attacks of allies and enemies. Therefore, the monarchs usually use to pull one faction to fight one faction and maintain balance. Anyway, as long as they are not allowed to point their spearhead at the monarch themselves, they will no matter how the people below kill each other. Of course, they must also prevent allies from annexing the enemy and becoming stronger or the enemy annexing the allies and becoming stronger. The monarch needs allies and enemies to be alive.

This is the art of power and strategy. Yunyao's art of power and strategy is more explicit than the Legalists. The Legalists' power and strategy are mainly about rewards and punishments, allowing the monarch to make good use of these two points to control the country. Yunyao directly points to the composition of the country's power, which is the struggle of interest groups. Rewards and punishments are only ways to transfer resources, not the essence.

The monarch rewards a person and makes him stronger is to let him balance another person. The punishment is to weaken someone.

The Legalists simply believe that if you have merit, you will be rewarded and punished. The real art of power and strategy controls not rewards and punishments, but merits and demerits. If you have merits, you will be rewarded and punished. If you have merits, you will be rewarded and if you have merits, you will be punished.

Some people may say that this is not seeking death? How can you hide it from the eyes of all the people in the world?

There is no need to hide it. What the monarch needs is self-protection. If a reward based on merit will lead to someone who is more merit-worthy than the lord, then the monarch should not reward him, because one reward is to establish an enemy for himself. Even if someone is scolded, the person who scolds the monarch cannot immediately shake the monarch's position and scold him. The existence of a lord with more merits may threaten the monarch at any time and must not exist. Therefore, the monarch must operate it in a vain way, violate the rule that rewards the ruling if he has merit, and punishes him, restrain potential enemies and support favorable allies.

All schools of thought believe that the demise of a country is because the king does not follow the rules, so the ruler and his ministers fail to do things, which leads to the destruction of the country. But the problem is that the rules are not set by the monarch alone, and the rules are set by the monarch and the ministers. Doing things according to the rules may mean that the monarch does not make a profit, and only the ministers and officials make a profit. Faced with such a situation, the monarch will naturally not continue to do things according to the rules. If you do things without following the rules, you may not see the sun of tomorrow.

So Yunyao is right, being too talented may not necessarily be beneficial to the monarch.

"The King of Qi works hard to govern, and you are talented, why don't you reopen the hegemony of Qi?" Seeing that Yunyao didn't speak, the infant son was worried that Yunyao was afraid of angering the King of Qi, so he couldn't help but say good things to the King of Qi: "The King of Qi has the temperament of Duke Huan, and you have the talent of Guanzi, so you don't have to worry that your personal maverickness will cause punishment. The King of Qi is not such a stingy person."

Yun Yao said, "It's a pity that my talent is something that King Qi cannot accept."
Chapter completed!