Churchill’s wisdom in life is the only medicine to turn the enemy into a friend.

On July 16, 1917, Churchill officially served as the military minister of the British government. Within a few days of his appointment, the workers in several munitions factories along the Clyde River in Scotland jointly broke out a massive strike.

It turned out that the workers had been dissatisfied with the management of the government, that they did not receive the due remuneration, and that the demonstrations were organized beforehand, while Churchill’s predecessor took a tough response – the leader who dismissed the demonstration. Kirk Wood and his assistants, and they "evicted" Clyde, forced them to go into exile, to prevent them from coming back to continue to cause trouble, and eventually led to the general strike.

At this time, the United Kingdom is in the "World War I". The demand for shells in front is very large. If the strike continues, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Churchill immediately found Wood back from the "exile" and negotiated with him. What Wood didn't think was that Churchill had a smile on his face and shook his head, saying hello, there was no shelf on the top. And before the negotiations began, Churchill actually said to him: "Let's have a cup of tea and some snacks!"

After listening to Wood, he was very excited. In the UK, being invited to drink tea and eat snacks meant that the other person regarded himself as a friend. Previously, the British government has always regarded itself as an extremely dangerous "bad person."

What is more unexpected than Wood is that Churchill has also promised all the requests, not only for him and other "expelled" to return to work, but also to continue to serve as a key to the artillery factory, and also agreed to the employee bonus program.

The Financial Times was very dissatisfied with the situation and criticized Churchill’s practice. He believed that he was helping a group of turmoil and provocative elements in the labor sector to encourage these “bonfire murderers” who disregarded national interests to continue to boldly “make up”. "Go down."

But the fact is that Churchill not only ended the strike quickly, but also raised the annual output of the artillery factory to the highest in British history.

Do not put on the shelf, do not condescend, and do not teach and inculcate the "national interests first", but treat each other equally and respect their reasonable demands. "Don't always think about knocking down someone, unless it's for him to stand up better," Churchill said afterwards. "High pressure and coercion can only make things worse and worse, only respect is Turn the enemy into a friend's 'good medicine'!"