imperial psychologist

Chapter 360 A Brilliant Strategy
The curtain that had always been hanging down in the Hall of Mental Cultivation had been completely lifted at this time, and the entire hall showed a strange light.

Everyone bowed down and saluted together, and then the four members of the cabinet got up and stood on both sides, leaving only Zheng Mi still kneeling on the ground.

Emperor Jianxi had already changed into a Taoist robe and tied up his long hair.

"Tell me." Emperor Jianxi said in a somewhat casual voice, "What was the result?"

"Return to the Holy One," Zheng Mi slowly held up a memorandum from his arms, "There are a total of 230 refugees in the northern camp in the south of the city. After investigation, there are 37 suspected gold thieves. All of them have been imprisoned and await trial. The rest of the refugees are still resettled." In the camp south of the city, awaiting further screening."

"Screening for what?"

"Screen whether there is any suspicion of collaborating with the enemy." Zheng Mi raised his head, "I have written all the things to be done in the follow-up book, please look at the emperor!"

Huang Chongde stepped forward slowly, took Zheng Mi's memorial with both hands, and slowly handed it to Emperor Jianxi.

Emperor Jianxi didn't reach out to pick it up.

"These 37 gold thief suspects..." Emperor Jianxi leaned forward slightly, "How did you find out?"

At this moment, the eyes of Song Bozong and his son also fell on Zheng Mi at the same time, and they waited almost breathlessly for Zheng Mi's answer.

Zheng Mi raised his head, "These 37 people are proficient in Jinren characters!"

For a moment, everyone was stunned.

Since the early days of Tianqi in the previous dynasty, Dazhou and the eight Jinren tribes have all severed diplomatic relations, and the control of non-governmental exchanges has also been extremely strict-many Zhou people in the northern border could also speak the Jinren dialect, but in the Jianxi period, they would speak the Jinren There will be fewer words.

Except for a few areas that have been infested all year round, few Zhou people who are located slightly to the south can still understand the language of the Jin people.

But even before the apocalypse, when many frontier Zhou people could speak Jin Ren dialect fluently, there were still very few people who could write Jin Ren characters.

The reason is very simple, the Jin people themselves do not care about education, except for a very small number of nobles who have been taught by their masters since childhood, most of the Jin people only know their own names throughout their lives-and these illiterate Jin people are also It is the main group of people who communicate with the people of Dazhou on a daily basis.

Therefore, in the territory of Dazhou, except for a few translators and envoys with important documents, almost no one could master the Jinren's writing.

This point is also important information disclosed by Shen Jichuan to Boling yesterday.

"How does Mr. Zheng know that these thirty or so refugees are proficient in Jin people's script?" Song Bozong frowned, "Such a secret matter, they will not confess it themselves?"

"Of course they won't admit it!" Zheng Mi said in a loud voice, "We have already entered the information of all the refugees in the city the day before yesterday, and one of them was whether they would have contact with the Jin people in the past. The answer is yes, because they have been militiamen on the northern border for several years, and no one has admitted otherwise."

"...So it was fraudulent?" Song Bozong asked again.

"Yes, and no." Zheng Mi looked at Song Bozong, "Mr. Ge, can you listen to me first?"

Song Bozong remained silent for the time being.

Zheng Mi said again, "General Shen said before that the reason for suspecting that these refugees are related to the Jin people is that apart from the bizarre cases in the past half a month, some people found unburned shredded paper in the city, with There are strange symbols, at that time, some people thought that someone was raising Gu in the city to cause trouble, but they sent it to the yamen for a look—”

"I don't need to talk about this paragraph anymore," Huang Chongde, who was on the side, looked at Emperor Jianxi's face, and interrupted softly, "General Shen has told the emperor about the discovery of the paper with golden characters in the city before, so the emperor just said it." A secret decree will be issued to General Shen to assist Lord Zheng in his errands."

Zheng Mi was taken aback for a moment, and quickly returned to his previous demeanor.

"In short, we speculate from it that this group of Jin spies who sneaked in among the refugees must not be ordinary people - they can use the language and characters of Jin people and Zhou people fluently, and they can also do it when they are in Pingjing. If it is not recognized, it must be an intruder vigorously cultivated by Jin Ting."

Emperor Jianxi was already a little impatient. In fact, he didn't care about these reasonings at all. Like Song Bozong, he only wanted to know how these 37 people knew how to find out the bronze inscriptions.

It is absolutely impossible for a carefully cultivated intruder to expose his flaws in inscriptions to the enemy!

No matter what you show him or listen to, he just pretends not to understand.

If Zheng Mi wants to use some specious evidence today to confuse the public, then he doesn't need to wear this black hat anymore.

"As for how we found out that these people know bronze inscriptions, I can't explain clearly. I can demonstrate it to the emperor. You just need to—"

"Master Zheng, let's start." Huang Chongde reminded in a low voice.

At this time, he still has to play tricks, this Zheng Mi simply thinks that his life is too long.

Zheng Mi nodded, and pulled out a stack of blank papers from his bosom.

He unfolded the roll of white paper and spread it flat in front of everyone.

There are different large characters written on it with various paints-"green" written in cinnabar, "blue" written in ink, "white" written in red gold, and "black" written in brown. "Words, and so on, and so on.

Zhang Shouzhong, who was standing by the side, glanced at it, and almost immediately exclaimed, "This is... the Sichupu effect!"

The few people around couldn't hear it clearly, only Zheng Mi's eyes lit up, and he immediately raised his head and said, "Master Zhang, have you heard of the 'Sichupu Effect'?"

Emperor Jianxi frowned suspiciously, "Si... what?"

Zhang Shouzhong stood up, bowed his hands to the emperor, and said softly, "Return to Your Majesty, this is an experiment mentioned by Bai Siyao in "Psychological Handouts". What you see is said, but what you get out of it is two sets of cognitions - so when people see words with different meanings than colors, there will be contradictions between the two."

"That's right! That's what Bo Siyao said!" Zheng Mi nodded repeatedly, "But anyway, to put it bluntly - if I can't read, then I can easily tell the color of the words on these pieces of paper, but If I know which color the words themselves refer to, for example, when I see the word 'green' in red, I can easily blurt out 'green'.

"Last night, Bai Siyao asked a general under General Shen's account who knew the inscriptions to help, and wrote many color words in the inscriptions with different pigments.

"Our people don't understand bronze inscriptions, and they can quickly report the correct color when they see these ghost-like characters;
"But those spies who understand bronze inscriptions will be disturbed by the meaning of the words when they read these words, and it is easy to make mistakes!"

Having said this, Zheng Mi took a deep breath, "These 37 spies were exposed like this!"

Zhang Shouzhong clapped hands almost immediately.

Wonderful! !Wonderful! !
When he was watching the Schupp effect, why did he never expect that it could have such a wonderful effect! !
On the other side, Song Bozong and Song Na froze there on the spot - what kind of tricky method is this...

This... how to participate in this?
Huang Chongde handed the colored papers to Emperor Jianxi.

Emperor Jianxi looked at them one by one, his eyes became clearer and brighter, and a faint smile slowly appeared.

interesting.

It's really... interesting.

……

It was past noon, and in the tent of the refugee camp, Bo Ling had already woken up.

There were refugees in the camp with diarrhea, and Bai Shijun ran out again in the spirit of a doctor's benevolence, glowing and feverish, and there were only two brothers and sisters left in the tent.

Bo Ling ate the porridge that Bai Yi had warmed, and also told the exact things he did last night.

Bai Yi was terrified when he heard it, and at the end, he finally asked a little anxiously, "How do you know that the Stroop effect will definitely work?"

"Why doesn't it work?" Bo Ling rubbed his sleepy eyes, and scraped off the last bit of porridge from the bottom of the bowl, "When we were freshmen in Puxin, the teacher said that the United States began to use it during the Cold War. The Stroop effect caught Soviet spies, one at a time."

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