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1. The emperor’s art is very magical.

The summarized emperor’s control art is not written by the emperor. It’s a lie. Not to mention the shortcomings of human eyes, even Han Feizi and Machiavelli, who are famous all over the world, have never been emperors. How can we understand the emperor's true methods and heart? (Don’t get me wrong, I respect these two great men very much)

Even if you have never done such common professions/identities as police, farmers, and models, you can easily acquire them through reading, interviews, experiences, etc. What it’s like to be a policeman, farmer, or model. If you are more talented, you can definitely write novels or scripts about policemen, farmers, or models, but that’s limited to fictional creations.

If a layman with no police experience wrote a police manual on how to be a police officer, no one would accept it. And it is completely impossible for you to experience being an emperor, and it is impossible to read or interview the emperor's true thoughts.

What about the emperor himself? Do you think the emperor would write a manual to tell the world what the real emperor's mental skills are and how to use them effectively?

First of all, its level of control may not be good enough (and it is difficult to have a fixed standard to measure it). Secondly, even if it is good enough and truly written, what use is it to you and me? Use the emperor's mind to guide daily interpersonal relationships?

Ordinary people are in a human network of family, friendship, and love, and in a mutually beneficial network of social division of labor and cooperation, the emperor is alone in dealing with the people of the world, and only has the emperor’s will from above that no one can talk to. , boundless loneliness.

The art of imperial control requires "no personal friendship between ministers". Can you and I use it?

The emperor embodies the essential core of everyone’s interests. Can you and I gather them together?

"The Analects of Confucius" says, "Those who govern with virtue are like Beichen, who lives in his place and is surrounded by stars." Can you and I be the North Star in all your relationships?

In this case, what is the use of reading, studying and believing in the emperor's manual? (Not to mention that there are no emperors in the modern political system.)

Useful. But I still can’t explain it vaguely. It should be within the scope of game theory. I will talk about it after I think it through.

2. Since humans did not have to worry about being eaten by wild beasts or killed by aliens while sleeping, humans have entered a civilization era that is very different from animals.

3. There are three types of signed books that I can think of.

One is given by the author to teachers and friends, with some blessings or honorific words written on it. Good.

The second type is the reader meeting, where the author communicates face-to-face with the readers and ends with a signing session. That's fine.

The third type is that the publisher sells two versions online, one is the normal version and the other is the author's signed version, in order to sell a few more dollars. Some are casual, and the signatures on the book are printed or signed by an assistant. Quite silly. Some are more serious, with the author signing each one personally. Also stupid. (However, if such a stupid thing happened to me, I would probably do it, but I just don’t have the chance yet, so I might as well say the sarcastic words first).

Readers, why do you want a signature? Star chasing? You don’t need to study so hard to chase stars.

On the author’s end, why bother? Hours and days have been spent just repeating mechanical movements to sign. Wouldn’t it be nice to save this little time to prepare the next book?

In the final analysis (I am guessing) this is a trick created by the publisher to make more profits and sell more books.

Well, I understand it after thinking about it again. There are probably not many publishers who are having a good time. Besides, this is a market economy, and other industries can use all kinds of marketing tricks. Why does the publishing industry have to stick to the old-fashioned and pedantic ways? That doesn't make sense. Although catering to market trends is not a high-level ambition or a first-class ambition, it is not wrong. It is also a qualified and hard-working market member. Only by surviving can you be qualified to talk about other things.

It always makes sense to live the life in front of you first.