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Deception is an art naturally developed as one of the most important qualities of leadership. It permits you to remain alert to sudden changes in the domain as to who may be silently creating dissension. Should you determine any distractions that can keep you from attaining your goals, remove them. Awareness of conditions makes it easier to root out those who would usurp the shogunate for any reason.

The general population is easily maneuvered into thinking along the lines of those who are in power. Once the people are assuaged and under control, differences in policy can be easily implemented. There will be no confusion among the masses as to who is in charge. They will agree with the strongest, and they will do so out of fear— your benevolence notwithstanding.

There can be no lack of growth in the future development of the domain. The people must be kept busy or their idleness will degrade into irreverence. If this is allowed to happen they will develop fantasies of power that they do not know how to use. This will permit others with designs upon your position to gather the discontented to their side, creating additional difficulty for you. This cannot be permitted to happen and should be stopped the moment it is detected, without regard for the consequences visited upon those who created the problem.