Chapter 4164

Schiller said everything, what else can the Supreme Intelligence say?

If he continues to emphasize pushing forward environmental protection work slowly, he is preventing colleagues from making contributions and forcing them to be unable to shoulder the responsibility of building the interstellar society; if he continues to emphasize emotional problems, he may have to invite Schiller to be a psychologist; and if he agrees, this environmental protection work must be pushed forward whether he likes it or not. Moreover, as the Standing Secretary to the Speaker, he has to push it forward. Everyone knows he represents the three major empires. If he starts to do it, those fence-sitters will have to hang their heads on the beam and prick their thighs with awls, burying their heads and working hard?

Basically, all the roads that could find excuses were blocked by Schiller. Whether it is the rise of a great power or the dignity of the common people; whether it is the interstellar society or the Interstellar Council, it seems that no more excuses can be found to prevent the implementation of environmental protection work.

"Alright," the Supreme Intelligence said, "I will go and arrange the work."

After saying that, he left. Strange curled his lips somewhat disdainfully and said, "He only has this ability?"

Then he suddenly remembered that this plan might be a pit for himself, and he hammered the table with dissatisfaction and said, "He only has this ability?!"

"Do you think he will really go to work obediently?"

"What else can he do?" Strange asked, "Although I haven't engaged in politics, I also understand that he can use various methods to persuade me, or delay or perfunctory, but he cannot really confront me. Because in a sense, we are a community of interests. Just as he said, we are in the same department."

"The loss of power of the Speaker has no benefit to the Speaker's Standing Secretary, and the conflict between the Speaker and the Standing Secretary will greatly reduce the prestige of the Interstellar Council, which is also something the three major empires don't want to see. So no matter what, he has to make a gesture."

"This is the problem. How to push forward a work you don't want to push forward?" Schiller asked.

Strange really thought about it carefully and said, "I will delay as much as possible, and then delay until I can't delay anymore."

"But if you can't delay anymore, don't you still have to do it?"

"That's work after all," Strange said, "No matter how much I don't want to do it, I have to do it in the end. Maybe if I delay until there is not enough time, I can perfunctory it, which can be considered a small revenge on the person who forced me to do this work."

"Most people think this way," Schiller nodded and said, "Many people do this too. This is not bad, but there is a better way."

"For example?"

"The less you want to do something, the more you have to do it vigorously. Shout the slogan loudly until everyone is annoyed. This is to reduce everyone's sensitivity."

"Sensitivity?"

"Yes. When you hear a word for the first time, you will think about its meaning, but if you hear it too much, you will convert this word into a symbol. Its own source and the meaning it wants to express will be diluted, and it will become an image."

"I don't quite understand." Strange said.

"Have you used emojis?"

"Are you talking about memes?" Strange thought about it and said, "I generally only use small yellow face emojis, but my interns especially like to send those internet memes in the group. Recently, a cat is very popular. When I open the group, I thought it was a pet exchange group."

"Then do you know the name of this cat? Do you know who its owner is? Do you know why the owner took this photo?"

Strange shook his head and said, "Of course I don't know, I don't care about these."

"Alright, then do you remember the cat's posture? The general state? Is it long-haired or short-haired? What was it doing when the photo was taken?"

"Come on, those pictures have been edited messily. Some put helmets on that cat, others let it shoot lasers from its eyes, and others have a large circle of text spinning non-stop. How can I remember what the cat looks like?"

"This is what I said. After something is repeated in large quantities, people's sensitivity to it will weaken, and a specific symbol will be formed. Your impression of the cat meme is no longer the breed, appearance, personality, etc., that people care about most when they know a cat, but 'the recently popular meme cat', isn't it?"

"You mean the Supreme Intelligence will repeat environmental protection work repeatedly until people start to abandon its original meaning and treat this as a symbol?"

"That's right. If there are no accidents, he will also bind environmental protection work with you and promote this as the slogan of the Speaker's new official taking office. In this way, when people mention environmental protection work, they will only think of 'one of the three fires of the new Speaker', not why we want to engage in environmental protection work, and how to engage in environmental protection work."

Strange scratched his head and said, "Then what should we do?"

"Don't worry, this is just the first step. Just shouting slogans is not enough. After all, with the pressure we give him, actual work still needs to be carried out. And in actual work, the first thing to do is to drag everyone into the water."

"What do you mean?"

"For one thing, the more people involved, the wider the departments involved, and the more blurred the division of responsibilities, the less it can be pushed forward. So if you don't want to do this work, you must find more people to do it, and it is best to have a large number of unrelated people."

"For example, if it involves funding approval, you must drag everyone in charge of finance into the water, such as cashiers, accountants, finance; and as long as it involves money, there will definitely be problems with legitimacy and security, then you can go to the legal department and security department; after the money is withdrawn, go to the finance department personnel of other companies. Just in the financial sector, you can drag at least seven or eight departments and dozens of people into the water."

"In this case, even if everyone is very diligent and has no complaints, neither perfunctory because of fear of responsibility, nor deliberately making things difficult for you, and perfectly completed their work, the commotion caused by this will make people in other departments feel that it is making a mountain out of a molehill, and may even make the leaders of other departments feel that the leader who assigned you this work is sick."

"What if your leader comes to question you?"

"You are just doing your duty. After all, when it comes to money, you must be very cautious."

"I understand, isn't this just correcting a mistake by going too far?"

"No, correcting a mistake by going too far emphasizes depth, while doing this emphasizes breadth. If it is really correcting a mistake by going too far, then you should find a relationship household, and then use this work to harass him every day, forcing him to constantly deepen this work. When he is annoyed, he will naturally go to the leader."

"Fortunately, we don't have relationship households here," Strange said, "Then what next?"

"General work stops here. Involving so many departments and so many people, you look for me, I look for you, no one can manage anyone, but everyone can manage everyone. In the end, it is done messily and in a mess. And because the implementation is not good, if the leader comes hard, it will also lose his prestige, and most of them will stop there."

"What if we continue not to stop?"

"Then we have to make some chaos. Doing this is risky. After all, if something goes wrong, you may have to take responsibility, but if the completion of this work is more harmful to him, he will definitely do so."

Strange actually wanted the Supreme Intelligence to do this. After all, after such a set, delaying for a few days is not a problem. But since Schiller has seen through it now, he will definitely take measures and will not let the Supreme Intelligence rot. I am afraid it will not last long.

"Then what should we do?" Strange asked Schiller's response method sideways, so that he might be able to pass the questions to the Supreme Intelligence.

"We don't have to do anything," Schiller said.

Strange frowned, but he couldn't figure out why Schiller said that. Fortunately, Schiller explained it quickly.

"To be precise, we have already responded. Didn't you clearly express your dissatisfaction with the three major empires at the morning meeting and ask people to take sides?"

"Uh, is this the response?"

"Of course. Dragging everyone into the water and making things very chaotic is based on the premise that everyone is very unwilling to do such thankless work. But what if there are industrial thieves among them?"

"You mean..."

"You have clearly expressed your attitude of cutting off from the three major empires, and because you are the Sorcerer Supreme and the number one mage in the universe, someone will definitely choose to stand on your side. For those on the side of the three major empires and the Supreme Intelligence, work that they avoid is a good stage for them to make contributions."

"They need you and are eager to express their loyalty to you, but they are troubled by no opportunity to display it. And at this time, in order to prevent the work from being pushed forward, the Supreme Intelligence dragged everyone into the water, and even arranged a series of work for those marginal departments that have nothing to do with this, ensuring that no one who wants to express loyalty is missed - isn't this a god-given opportunity?"

"So those people will work well?"

"Not only that, they will not only do their best to complete their work, but also spontaneously form factions and then confront the three major empires' faction. Once the confrontation is generated, it will not be easy for the three major empires to rot, because these opponents of the three major empires will definitely report small reports, fiercely grasp their pigtails, pick faults, and make a mountain out of a molehill, just to hit the other side's prestige."

"And at this time, you can completely stand up and support them, because no matter what, not completing the work well is also wrong. As long as the evidence is strong enough, you can even kick away a few to kill the chicken to warn the monkey; and if you can catch their handle of making trouble, you can take the opportunity to announce the dark matter outbreak, and after causing public panic, let them see the ugly faces of the three major empires. After all, they consume the most cosmic resources, and now environmental protection work is what they are most unwilling to do; they don't clean up the mess they made themselves, and they have to drag the universe to be buried with them - no matter how you look at it, this is a bit shameless, right?"

Strange almost wanted to applaud Schiller. Although he understood that if this series of plans were executed, he might be the one to suffer, he still couldn't help but applaud this wonderful and smooth fighting method.

The method of pulling one faction and hitting one faction is classic, but it is still very easy to use. As a leader, you can know nothing, but you must know how to make vertical cuts to your subordinates, ensuring that there is always a faction in your hands, acting as the knife in your hands, helping you cut off the parts you don't want. If you can make everyone fight to be your knife, then even if you know nothing, you must be a successful leader.

Strange was thoughtful. In fact, he is a bit shaken now. Although letting Schiller continue might mean taking the blame, he can learn a lot from it.

Strange knows his biggest weakness, which is that he is not from a wealthy family. Although climbing up from the bottom gave him a firmer will and more life experience, it is inevitable that he lacks some high-level political vision and some fighting methods. And becoming the Speaker this time just happened to help him make up for these shortcomings.

Strange looked up and just met Schiller's gray eyes, like a snowy field under the moonlight, with a non-human, chilling coldness, as if he had seen through something long ago. He saw greed there, and he also saw his own greed.

Strange quickly looked away. He took a deep breath, lowered his head to look at the list Schiller had handed him before, and said, "I want to personally contact these people who have turned to me. Help me notify them."

"Yes, Sorcerer Supreme."