"You are an extremely selfish collector. You only bestow upon those around you the things you consider useless to keep yet too precious to throw away, acting as if you were terribly generous," Lu Mingfei said to Herzog. "Yet you never truly share the good things with anyone else."
"You give women underwear, stockings, and jewelry so that they can become sexy and please you; you give soldiers guns, ammunition, and swords so that they can protect your safety and be more loyal to you; you give boys and girls candy, soda, and warm bedtime stories so that they trust and admire you, making it easier for you to manipulate those immature minds," Lu Mingfei hit the nail on the head. "And what you hand out to others happens to be precisely what you do not need. Leaving those things in your hands would yield a lesser return than tossing them out as charity."
"Hearing you describe it, I sound just like a merchant," Herzog remarked with a sigh.
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