Theory and Practice

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It must be said, Wu Qingchen greatly underestimated how seriously Earth regarded these two cowherd assistants. After all, this was the very first batch of labor force that Wu Qingchen could directly command; these were livestock specialists from the Medieval World, fully certified in their skills; these were strategic-level talents, transferred across regions by the lord of the territory himself!

Long before Wu Qingchen signaled his intent—or more accurately, two days before in the Medieval World—when these two cowherd assistants were still just a verbal promise in Steward Eckli’s simple phrase, “two helpers will be arranged,” Earth had already assembled a massive, specialized team for these two high-quality human resources.

Wu Qingchen’s first meeting with the two cowherd assistants was under the intense scrutiny of this newly formed team.

Intense scrutiny often goes hand in hand with remarkable results.

Dean and Elmo exchanged a surprised glance, a fleeting understanding dawning between them, their tacit smile appearing on camera in the eighth minute.

Basic Modeling Team:

Anthropologists, biologists, historians, and sociologists analyzed the newness of the assistants’ clothing and the quantity of decorations to establish their families’ economic status. From the wear on their wooden clogs, the stitching on the patches, the grease at the elbows and cuffs, they deduced the degree of value accorded to each within their respective households. From there, basic personality models and stress response patterns were constructed.

Social Relations Team:

Next, etiquette scholars, religious leaders, and social engineering experts scrutinized the assistants’ gait, the formality of their bows, their focus and reaction speed toward strangers. From this, they inferred how often the assistants had encountered high-status villagers and the degree of superiority they showed to lower-status individuals, thereby calculating the upper and lower bounds of their efficiency in managing serfs and freemen.

Building on these models and data, the Psychological Analysis Office:

Micro-expression experts from M&A teams at major investment banks judged that these two prime human resources (a11, a12) felt no inner resistance to Wu Qingchen/Loss’s (a1) invitation to return home to fetch the cattle.

Top negotiation specialists from the Los Angeles Police Department determined the cowherd assistants (a11, a12) shared common psychological goals, intending to approach Wu Qingchen’s close kin (a2-a8) indirectly, with no current plans to extract gains directly from Wu Qingchen (a1).

A cadre of senior VIP room dealers from Las Vegas’s major casinos concluded: the cowherd assistants (a11, a12) were short on chips, hesitant to play bold, and ready at any moment to bluff.

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A panel of Oscar-winning actors and actresses judged that the cowherd assistants (a11, a12) lacked the capacity for deep planning; their behaviors before Wu Qingchen (a1) were clearly orchestrated by unseen directors and screenwriters.

And so on, and so forth...

With the collective wisdom of thousands of experts across disciplines, Dean and Elmo’s envy of cattle-tending techniques, their apprehension of Priest Eckli’s interference, their caution in approaching Wu Qingchen directly, and their nearly every other consideration about Wu Qingchen’s kin in the Medieval World had been thoroughly analyzed.

It was no easy feat to secure two laborers whom Wu Qingchen could largely direct, only to find that, due to various schemes, they intended to distance themselves from Wu Qingchen and sidle up to his other brothers...

How could this be permitted? How could this be allowed? How could such a situation be allowed to persist!

So they want to learn how to treat draft cattle? They want to bring some techniques home to report back? No problem—give it to them, give them everything! But before that, they must make outstanding contributions to the plenipotentiary representative of seven billion Earthlings—Mr. Wu Qingchen!

With a flourish, the Medieval World’s resource allocation decision-makers laid down the basic principles and key needs, then handed the next steps to the Action Plan Group.

Action Plan Group:

Led by HR directors from the Fortune 500, they broke down the techniques for treating draft cattle into a pyramid hierarchy according to order and importance. Each time the cowherd assistants gained a point, they would receive a corresponding level of technique.

Intelligence operatives of indeterminate nationality were charged with devising procedures to erode the assistants’ psychological defenses and orchestrate sudden events to showcase Wu Qingchen’s advantages, guiding them to actively gravitate toward him.

Senior con artists and pyramid scheme leaders crafted motivational dialogue templates to boost the cowherd assistants’ work enthusiasm.

Grassroots managers from Southeast Asian sweatshops drew up a meticulous point deduction chart, awarding different cattle-treatment techniques based on work attitude, efficiency, and initiative.

Finally, after comprehensive consideration of opinions from the Psychological Analysis Office, the Action Plan Group, the Phase Coordination Group, the Medieval World Resource Allocation Center, and the Emergency Planning Committee, a document titled “Draft Opinion on the Next Steps for the Medieval World’s Two Cowherd Assistants” was produced.

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In this document, management techniques formed the core, motivational templates the drive, and cattle-treatment skills the fuel. The two cowherd assistants were already being regarded, starkly and unreservedly, as labor machines endowed with a degree of autonomous intelligence.

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Of Earth’s series of responses and countermeasures toward the cowherd assistants, Wu Qingchen remained entirely unaware at this moment.

However, during his very first emergency training, the advisory team had already provided Wu Qingchen with a comprehensive theoretical framework for interacting with the natives of the Medieval World, along with corresponding action guidelines.

The theory: For now, and for the foreseeable future, there is virtually no fundamental conflict of interest or position between Wu Qingchen and the natives of the Medieval World.

The guiding principle: Never allow personal likes and dislikes, or short-term gains unrelated to survival, to create conflict with the natives. As long as the bottom line is not breached, unite every force that can be united!

In practical application, this meant that conflicts and disputes arising from subjective emotions or mood swings should be eradicated at their source whenever possible; negative consequences from interest distribution or class positions could be mitigated by conceding some interests or balancing positions as appropriate.

For conflicts that had already occurred, every effort should be made to recover losses, minimize negative impact, and restore relationships.

Such flexibility in tolerance and concession was, to a certain extent, due to Wu Qingchen’s importance to Earth and his relative vulnerability in the Medieval World.

But more importantly, in the advisory team’s plan, everything from Eckli’s village to the barony of Ackford had already been designated as Wu Qingchen’s sphere of influence; and according to the highly feasible action plan already in place, it would not take long for Wu Qingchen’s influence to encompass the entire region.

Therefore, nearly all the natives Wu Qingchen encountered—be they serfs, freemen, or nobles—were destined to become key human resources in the future.

Since they would sooner or later be his, of course they must be cherished. How could he allow them to be wasted in meaningless conflict?

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