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"This is both simple and complicated, but am I really the mouse that a blind cat ran into?"

"Oh, didn't Brother Sheng say that?"

"He said yes, but anyone with a little IQ knows that although salt is a necessity, the amount used by the family is only that. How can it be fried?"

"Yeah, the imported sea salt was fried so fiercely a few days ago. Didn't people find out that it was actually a lie? What came from the sunny beach, dried in pure and non-polluted air, and had the fresh smell of the ocean, it's all bragging."

"That's why I say that Brother Sheng is amazing. There will be a crisis when there is a downturn. It is precisely because people's demand for salt has increased that the country has opened up salt control and imported salt at a high price. Unfortunately, they have all gone the wrong way. "

"Yes!" I nodded.

Thinking of those sea salts that sold for hundreds of yuan a few days ago, I was really terrified. The batch of fried salt was miserable.

"But at this moment, Brother Sheng told us that the demand for salt will increase. Who would believe it? I was the only one who went all out to please him and bought some from him."

"As a result, the salt has really increased?" I thought about it suspiciously, "I don't think the salt is expensive recently."

"It's not because it's expensive, but because it's sold more. Xiaofei, tell me how much salt our family has consumed in the past month."

"It's more than before," I tried to recall. "Before, it was less than one bag a month ago, but now I can use two bags."

As I said that, I became angry, and I don’t know where my mother heard about it. Nowadays, vegetables and fruits are not clean, so they can only be eaten after soaking them in salt water to disinfect them.

"That's right. People used to listen to health-preserving programs a lot, and they all had less salt and less salt. The demand for salt dropped. They had no choice but to speculate on high-priced salt."

"It can be seen through."

"Well, that's why there's nothing wrong with it, so I can see how powerful Brother Sheng is."

"What did Brother Sheng do?" I wondered, "Could Brother Sheng still make people use more salt?"

"Yeah, don't you use more?"

I broke out in a cold sweat, yes, shouldn't I use more?

Why do I use more?

Seeing Brother Gao's sly smile, I slammed on the brakes and said in fear, "Could it be that the rumor of using salt water for disinfection is a rumor made by Brother Sheng?"

"Xiao Fei, what are you talking about? Salt water can't be disinfected?"

"Yes?"

"That's it, what kind of rumors are you making? Is it wrong to ask people to disinfect and eat?"

"That's right, that's right," I said stubbornly, "But before people didn't use salt water to wash things, wasn't it all right? Clear water can also wash things clean."

"Needs, you want to understand people's needs?" Brother Gao said with an expression of your tenderness, "The mobile phone can be used without a film, but people are worried that the screen will be damaged, so they put a film on it, which is not safe. They made another shell, these things were not needed at first, but just because someone guided them, they became a big industry, you don’t know.”

"Yeah, when it was the hottest period, those who put on films could earn [-] yuan a month, let alone those who sold mobile phone cases."

"That's the reason. Business opportunities are there. The key is whether you can discover them and guide them."

"So you wash things with salt water?"

"A few experts said something casually, as long as it can hit the fear in people's hearts, it will be successful. This is called public opinion guidance, and the Western term is more appropriate, it is called control of speech."

My heart is cold and cold. I thought I was very smart, but in the end I was still led.

I thought I could control my own thoughts, but I didn't expect to be controlled by others.

"Is there no one to care about?"

"What's in charge?" Brother Gao seemed to have found something funny, and he leaned back and forth with a smile, "Who is in charge, Brother Sheng and the others are the ones in charge, they are the ones who make the rules, you let them take care of themselves, it's not them It counts."

All of a sudden I was a little disheartened.

Even though I worked so hard, I didn't expect that in the end I would give my life to others. That's fine, but in the end everything is under the control of others, and even the behavior is done according to their requirements, which makes me a little painful.

"What's the matter, Xiao Fei, feeling uncomfortable, cynical, wanting to leave this man-eating country?"

"kindness."

I nodded angrily.

"Be more mature, Xiao Fei, do you think foreign countries are heaven, and the moon in foreign countries is rounder than in China?"

"At least they have their own freedom of speech?"

"Wake up, it's the upper echelon that makes them feel free," Gao said with an angry smile and punched me. "You think China is like this, but in fact, every country is like this. They use public opinion to guide and control the people." You think they are free, they are democratic, they are good, but they are the same everywhere, a country is like people, the more developed they are, the less they are afraid of anything, the more open they are, and vice versa.”

"Impossible, the Internet says—"

"The Internet is still saying that the Fang family will be able to take over this time?" Brother Gao drank his saliva contemptuously, and comforted me, "Online speech is also guided by people. You think online speech is free, but on the contrary, the more free the place, the more free people will be." It’s hard to get real news, isn’t there a well-known saying—[Suddenly arrived in a free place, the free people don’t know what to say?], foreign countries are using freedom to control freedom, in the name of freedom Confining freedom makes you feel that you are free, but your freedom has long been unknowingly controlled within their acceptable range, this is a master!"

I was awkward and ignored Brother Gao. Although I knew what he said was right, I just didn't want to admit it.

"Xiao Fei, it's okay if you don't admit it. Anyway, we low-level ordinary people are useless. This is not the era of cold weapons. Anyone who wants to can rise up and rebel. In the era of thermonuclear weapons, the success rate of public rebellion is 0, totally impossible."

"It's nonsense, there are no successful non-resistance movements in foreign countries."

"If you say that Xiao Fei is too naive, you also believe in those things." Brother Gao pampered me and patiently explained, "Those are just actors performing on the front stage, and no one supports them behind and provides resources. , some low-level people, what do they know, where do they spend their money, where do they eat, where do their funds come from, who ordered the army not to shoot, and who ordered them to shoot, these are hidden behind the scenes Talent is the final decision-maker, the actor in front is just an actor, at most he will become an actor in the future, but the one who actually controls all this is the boss behind the scenes."

"It was never us who promoted the progress of history."

I looked at Brother Gao in shock, staring straight at him as he said the last sentence.

The words that smashed the hopes of all civilians.