Vendathir stared at Li Ang closely, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter.
But she finally controlled her temper and said, "Lord Li Ang, if we lose the tradition and pride of elves, then we will no longer be Noldo Elves!"
Great!
Li Ang wanted to get this response. He was originally worried that these arrogant Noldor would ignore him, so he deliberately used such fierce words just to get a response.
"What is your tradition? Don't forget that you once lived in the center of the continent, in the largest city, instead of hiding in the forest and struggling to survive!"
"What are you proud of? It comes from the glorious civilization that once ruled the entire continent in ancient times!"
"But what are you like now? Even Gatu people and Misty Mountain people dare to attack you! Your traditions have changed long ago, and your pride is only the memory of the past... Are you really still Noldo Elves?"
The lord no longer smiled, his expression was serious and serious. "Think about it, if you always treat humans as inferior creatures, then you will never get out of this forest - then, what will your tradition become in the end? What will your pride become? You will only slowly become a barbaric tribe hiding in the woods, gradually disappear, and finally be forgotten by the world..."
"Only by walking out of the forest, returning to the sun, re-building the glorious elven kingdom in the center of the earth, using your rich knowledge to create more breathtaking craft miracles, so that other races will willingly recognize your greatness..."
"Only such a group can be called noble elves!"
Every word the lord said seemed to be criticism, but it also seemed to be encouragement.
But at least, being able to say such words definitely means that Li Ang has no ill intentions, and the elves will definitely listen and listen very carefully.
Vendathir was silent.
The lord was indeed deliberately belittling Noldo Elves before.
His words may sound like deliberate criticism, but they are actually an effective psychological suggestion. Noldo Elves may be angry after hearing these words, but he will definitely care about these criticisms, and thus he will care about every word Li Ang says next.
Moreover, the more proud a person is, the more he will care about such criticism.
Because these are objective facts and do not involve any racial discrimination or personal attacks. They are just 'evaluations' from a neutral third party perspective.
But this kind of evaluation is actually unfair, because only mentioning the shortcomings and not the advantages is deliberately belittling the other party.
This is a brainwashing method that is rarely mentioned but is often seen in daily life - defective thought control.
That is to use the criticism that the other party cares about to reversely induce the other party to act according to one's own wishes.
Yes, what Li Ang wants is to control part of the Noldor as a superior, not to find an ancestor for himself.
Therefore, he will not treat Noldo Elves as a friend, and he does not have that much time to make friends with a race with a lifespan of thousands of years - people have been friends with each other for hundreds of years, how many years can you get along with them?
A human with a lifespan of only a few decades is just a passerby for a brief moment in the long years of the elves, and is not worth mentioning at all.
From Li Ang's point of view, every adult Noldo is older than his or her grandfather. If he uses conventional methods to win favor, he will only end up with a group of old men who rely on their elders and will not listen to his orders.
Which centenarian would be willing to obey the arrangements of a twenty-year-old boy?
After putting in a lot of effort, he can only win the favor of the other party, but cannot make the Noldor obey his orders - what's the use of that?
The Lord Lord doesn't care at all whether the Noldor like him or hate him. What he cares about is whether the skilled Noldor warriors can obey his orders, and whether the Noldor's enchanted equipment and Elf Horse can be used by him.
Moreover, it is difficult for him to establish any real friendship in a short period of time - the hatred between races cannot be eliminated by meeting and saying a few words. The Twilight Knight in the racecourse who is hostile to humans is the normal state of the Noldor.
Li Ang Individuals may be able to gain some favor from the Noldor by continuously supporting the Noldor, but this is just a favor. The Noldor will neither be willing to sacrifice their blood for humanity nor listen to the command of a junior.
In fact, to Noldo Elves, humans are probably like some animals that live for more than ten years - such as kittens and puppies.
No matter how much a person likes cats, he will at most treat them as family and friends, but he will never die for a cat...
The Noldor place themselves in a higher position than all species in the world.
Therefore, Li Ang needs to change the method.
If you want people to obey, sometimes you don't need a good impression.
Moreover, it is actually much easier to wait until the other party has obeyed, and then use your superior status to gain favor.
In fact, most people must have experienced this situation: someone you don't know well suddenly makes some very unkind criticisms about a flaw in something you particularly care about.
There are many things that you care about, such as your career, studies, hobbies, etc. that you have put a lot of effort into.
The person criticizing you may be a new teacher or student, a new colleague (not necessarily a leader, but also a peer or subordinate), or a strange teammate you just met on the field.
When encountering this situation, if you are a proud person, your first reaction is often 'I want to protect myself', so you will be angry - anger is actually a protective emotion that is basically not controlled by the brain.
If he is a reckless person, his first reaction is, 'No matter what he says is right or not, I am unhappy anyway and I want to fight him' or just beat him up.
But as long as the other person says something that you particularly care about, you will definitely be affected because you are 'unwilling to give in'.
If a familiar person, such as a close friend, says this, it doesn't matter because you won't be angry. When there is no protective emotion like anger, you will feel that it is not a big deal and you will no longer care.
If it is a relatively unfamiliar person, you will subconsciously fall into complex emotions of unwillingness - because that is something or a career that you care about.
No matter how open-minded a person is, they will subconsciously care about other people's evaluations, but some people will show it and some won't.
Because you know that what the other party said is actually an objective and neutral evaluation.
But this kind of evaluation is deliberate and incomplete. It is a pure evaluation of defects without mentioning any advantages - this kind of evaluation is not good for you!
However, you can neither hide your flaws nor refute on the spot, because what the other person says is all true.
In addition, you are not familiar with the other party, and you can't even change the topic to reverse the embarrassment...
At this time, your instinct will drive you to pay attention to every word that the unfamiliar person says.
Because after someone is criticized, your subconscious mind will drive you to 'find loopholes in the other person's point of view to prove that he is wrong'!
But in fact, it is difficult for you to find the other party's loopholes on the spot, because you will be uneasy, anxious, and in a bad mood - when their emotions are affected by others, it is difficult for most people to stay calm and think.
Moreover, you have unknowingly put your posture in an equivalent position.
You will no longer ignore the other party, but will regard the other party as an 'opponent' - this has actually formed the basis for negotiation.
Even if you originally thought that the other person's identity was not comparable to yours, even if you didn't originally want to talk to him.
More importantly, you will deliberately hide your flaws, or find ways to correct them... but not to improve yourself, but to no longer be seen.
At this time, if the other party gives you some positive incentives through the flaws that were just criticized, this is actually the beginning of control.
Because you will feel that the other party understands you and is not maliciously slandering you. You will not be resentful of the other party's "looking down" attitude, but you will consider the other party's words extremely seriously.
This is actually pulling on your mentality, keeping you in a "shallow anger" state where you can understand what the other person is saying, but your thoughts are complicated and difficult to fully think about.
Then, the other party will definitely propose a methodology.
You will definitely pay careful attention to this methodology, and you will use an 'examination' method to try to find the untenable aspects of the methodology - your subconscious is controlling your behavior. You will try this method and try to find the flaws of the other party.
Maybe you can finally find a loophole in the other party's methodology and use it as a medium to make yourself open-minded again; maybe you haven't found it, and in the end it is time that repairs your angry and unwilling mentality.
But whether you find it or not, your behavior has begun to be controlled by others.
--Because you will try the method he proposes.
The other party's methodology is designed to let you find loopholes. If you don't implement this method for a period of time, how will you know if there are loopholes?
Of course the other party knows that you will be unhappy and that you may hate him, but the other party doesn't care about this at all.
Moreover, the other party doesn't care about your flaws.
What the other person cares about is actually getting you to act in the way he designed.
In fact, this method is the most effective and widely used method of psychological guidance.
Especially suitable for when you have just met but belong to the cooperative camp - supporting manufacturers and brand companies, new employees or new leaders taking office, brainwashing marketing...
This situation occurs very often in real life.
This is also the simplest method of defective thinking control, but there are still very few people who can use it well.
Because most people who use this method do not understand the core of this control method - in order to achieve effective control, in the end they need to come up with a contradiction for this methodology, or call it an 'opportunity to release control'.
The vast majority of people who try to do defect control don't get to the last step.
If you want to effectively control others, the methodology you propose must be full of contradictions, and preferably even have a 'loophole'.
A good methodology must have loopholes, just like the people the king trusts must have leverage in the king's hands.
Because there are only two things that the controlled person is most concerned about, one is how to hide his own flaws, and the other is to find the loopholes in your plan - this loophole will actually be executed 100%.
Therefore, the methodology must be designed into a contradictory solution - the vulnerability must be designed into the desired control goal.
When the controlled person executes and finds this vulnerability, the controller's purpose is achieved.
And if this loophole is not implemented, it will never be proven that "the controller is wrong", and then you will always be anxious and worried.
Under this contradiction, almost no one can escape. The only way to escape control is to lie completely flat - but that means that the person no longer cares about this flaw.
Everyone cares about their own shortcomings, the company boss cares about the company's shortcomings, and the leader of a group cares most about the shortcomings faced by the entire group.
Of course, what Felgornsal cares most about is the survival of the race. His Fenway Family doesn't have many people anymore, so he must care about the flaws that really exist in the Noldor race.
"Lord Li Ang, you said before that you want to connect the interests of humans and elves. How do you want to connect them?"
Felgornsal Didn't use the term 'child' this time.
"Let me give you a hypothetical plan, Your Majesty. I can open my territory for your people to move in, and your people can sell Noldor goods to exchange for a large amount of living materials for the entire clan. This will make my territory richer, and also allow the entire Noldor clan to have a better life. This is the first and easiest way to bundle interests, trade."
"If we cooperate more deeply, I will issue a decree to ensure that everyone in my territory is treated equally. Humans and Noldo Elves are both territorial citizens. As long as they abide by the laws of my territory. All my troops come from the territory's citizens, and they will naturally protect all the territory's citizens. Safety will also protect the families of the people. In other words, my troops will naturally provide protection for the entire Noldor community. If someone enslaves the Noldor again, my troops will of course spontaneously save their relatives. Of course, this requires the Noldor to obey my recruitment and military orders."
"If all this goes smoothly, then as my territory expands, the more places the Noldor can set foot, your family will be more prosperous, and your tribe will be safer - in this way, we will have more common goals and interests."
"In order to protect the interests of the Noldor, you can send some people to my territory. I will make these people lords and let Noldo Elves manage the Noldo Elves who live in my territory. This will also continue to maintain your cultural traditions."
"Is this a reasonable assumption? In fact, my territory has a law that treats everyone equally, and as you can see, Risadiran has been fighting side by side with me; and I did lead my troops to help the Noldor repel the enemy, and we shed blood and sacrificed for this, and we have no complaints."
Li Ang gave his plan, a plan that looks normal and is operable...
It's just that it leaves a point that can be easily seen.
Sure enough, Vendathir immediately began to retort, "How can we trust you? Human beings are too fickle, and they are constantly launching wars! I think you just want my people to help you fight!"
This is an obvious loophole - Li Ang really wants Noldo to fight for him. From this perspective, the starting point of Li Ang's plan seems very suspicious.
But Li Ang feels that Vendathir is really too cooperative. This plan originally hopes that you will doubt...
"You don't need to believe me. In fact, you can hold me hostage... Madam, your name is Vendathir, right? I believe that with your skills, I can't defeat you in three moves... And you should always be suspicious of me, right? Then, I suggest that you follow me and go to my territory to serve as the lord of the Noldor. If I break my promise, or I plan to let the Noldor die, or I have no good intentions... Anyway, as long as I am harming Noldo Elves, you will kill me with your own hands! You can rest assured, right?"
The lord's smile deepened, and he even asked Vendathir: "If I guess correctly, Risadiran is probably your student, right?"
In fact, this is very obvious - Risadiran meets Vendathir like a mouse meets a cat. It seems that he is more respectful to Vendathir than to Elf King.
Li Ang is very familiar with this situation. If he saw the teacher who was the harshest to him back then, he would probably look like this...
Vendathir glared at Risadiran, and then stared into Li Ang's eyes with extremely sharp eyes.
But she no longer refuted, and she also felt that there was nothing wrong with Li Ang's statement. If she was the one who 'hijacked' Li Ang, then what should she be afraid of?
In fact, this is the contradiction left by the lord - if Vendathir leads people to stay in Li Ang's territory, then cooperation between the two parties has been formed according to Li Ang's plan.
But if not, how can the problem be solved?
And Vendathir can indeed focus on this most suspicious point.
A simple thought control was completed, and the thoughts and actions of the elves were directed to "how to ensure the reliability of Li Ang."
However, if you want to confirm this, you can only follow Li Ang first...
"Lord Li Ang, although your previous words sounded very rude, I admit that what you said makes sense, and I am willing to believe that you are well-intentioned. But I cannot believe other humans, including your territorial citizens, for the time being... So I must consider your plan. But you are right about one thing, we really should get out of the forest..."
Felgornsal's temperament is obviously gentler and calmer, and he is less affected by it.
But in fact, his thinking was also guided in the direction that Li Ang wanted - as long as the Noldor planned to leave the forest, they could only settle in Li Ang's territory, and there was no other possibility.
As long as the Noldor survive in the territory of Li Ang, then the lord will have achieved his goal...
"Of course, Your Majesty, I'm just giving my suggestions. Look at what's going on right now, your people have been captured, and Ms. Vendathir probably has to lead her troops out of the forest to pursue the enemy. In this case, I will lead the troops and Fight side by side with Vendathir to save your people. This can not only prove the goodwill of my subordinates towards Noldo Elves, but also allow Ms. Vendathir to observe the outside world and see how to lead the people out of the forest better..."
Li Ang volunteered to take over the 'rescue' job. It seems that Vendathir cannot escape the fate of being abducted.
Vendathir was a little confused. "Do you know where the enemy is?"
Li Ang looked at Vendathir and smiled, "I don't know, but I can at least guess where the enemy will take those girl rangers after they capture them..."