Chapter 21 How did the leader of the beggar gang come into being?

Huang Rong, the leader of the Beggar Gang, inherited the idle Han Hong Qigong as the leader of the gang for decades, but I don’t know whether it is luck or misfortune. The glory and decline of the Beggar Gang were all completed during the tenure of CEO Huang. .Huang Rong's martial arts is not bad, and she has unparalleled ingenuity. She can come up with thousands of strategies with just a turn of her eyes. The right time, the right place, and the right people.The top martial arts masters at that time were basically all related to her.And under her management, the beggar gang is naturally well-organized, and its development is on track.But Huang Rong has been the head of the gang for too long, and she has forgotten that although the beggars' gang is a private enterprise, it is not a family business like Taohua Island.However, Huang Rong's leadership has been arbitrary for decades, and the power of the elders has been greatly weakened, so the beggar gang has become Huang Rong's monopoly.In the end, the beggar gang can live without Huang Rong, but can Huang Rong live without the beggar gang?

I'm not here to slander Huang Rong as a power lover.As the largest gang in the early days of Jin Yong's martial arts works, the beggar gang had a strict organizational structure at the beginning.Let’s look at the early Northern Song Dynasty, Qiao Feng, the leader of the beggar gang, encountered a crisis of rebellion in the apricot forest outside the city of Suzhou.At that time, Quan Guanqing, the rudder master of the Dazhi sub-rudder, united with the four elders, wanted to abolish Qiao Feng's position as the gang leader, and first captured the other rudder masters and elders.From here, we can vaguely see that the organizational structure of the beggar gang was still very orderly.There are sixteen elders under the clan leader, among the elders there are rankings and responsibilities assigned, there are two elders who teach and enforce the law, and the status of the elders is detached, they have the power to monitor the clan leader implicitly, Xiao Feng respects the opinions of the elders very much Elder Xu said that he was not allowed to read the gang's secret report, so he immediately clenched his fist and stopped looking at it.

Another tradition of the beggar gang is the democratic election system.At that time, the succession of the leader of the beggar gang was not a hereditary system, nor was it a system of abdication, but after the appointment of the leader of the gang, the approval of the elders was especially required.It was not easy for Xiao Feng to get the position of gang leader, the old gang leader gave him three difficult problems, and he completed seven tasks before he ascended to the position of gang leader.Xiao Feng didn't designate a clan leader after that, the Beggar Clan held a martial arts competition and wanted to elect a clan leader publicly, but who knew that Quan Guanqing played tricks and found You Tanzhi, a martial arts expert, to take this position.But at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain, You Tanzhi's performance was too bad, he lost the face of the Beggars' Clan, and the Beggars' Clan immediately rejected this fake leader.

Huang Rong said that she had been the head of the beggar gang for so many years, and Lu Youjiao took care of everything in the gang, so it was appropriate to pass on the position of head of the beggar gang to Lu Youjiao.But when Huang Rong was the gang leader, Lu Youjiao was already a middle-aged beggar, and when Huang Rong herself reached middle age, Lu Youjiao was no longer a man of the prime of life.Lu Youjiao has contributed to the beggar gang, but Huang Rong can't see that Lu Youjiao's martial arts can't be put on the table, and he doesn't have much leadership ability. He can't even learn a dog-beating stick over and over again. Candidate, why did Huang Rong insist on passing the position to him?There is only one reason, Lu Youjiao is loyal, he listens to Huang Rong.

At this time, besides Huang Rong, the leader of the Beggar Clan, the elder Lu Youjiao is the only one.Don't say that the elders have the ability to restrain the gang leader. Elder Jian is dead, Elder Liang has been ill, and Elder Peng has escaped. Even the organizational system of the four elders has been abolished in Huang Rong's hands. For decades, he just couldn't resist. Promote new elders.Now that Huang Rong said that Lu Youjiao should be the leader of the gang, is there anyone who is qualified to raise a little objection?So there is such a unique phenomenon in which a young man passes the throne to an old man.

Lu Youjiao worked hard in the beggar gang all his life, and at the end of the day he finally became the leader of the gang, but he didn't seem to have the slightest idea as the leader of the gang. From the book, he followed wherever Huang Rong went, even though he and Guo Xiang The affection between them was quite touching, but to put it bluntly, how could it feel that Lu Youjiao was like a retainer of Huang Rong's family, rather than the two generations of gang leaders who were equal to Huang Rong. The elder Lu's gang leader was not good enough and was killed by Huo Dou.Huang Rong finally remembered the traditions of the Beggars' Clan, and called the disciples of the Beggars' Clan to compete for the position of leader.She herself put forward a candidate, her son-in-law Yeluqi, who had no qualifications to run for the election.Yeluqi was only the son-in-law of the former leader of the Beggar Gang, not a member of the Beggar Gang. Huang Rong had already thought about this issue in advance, so she proposed that this election should be won by martial arts, only based on martial arts, not on sect background. Solved this problem.But there is a more important problem that her good son-in-law is Mongolian.Back then, Xiao Feng was ruthlessly expelled from the Beggar Clan because of his Khitan blood, and he was cast aside by the entire Central Plains martial arts, still vivid in his memory.However, because Yeluqi married Huang Rong's daughter, the brothers of the Beggar Clan tacitly avoided this question.Even when Huo Dou raised this question on the spot, Yeluqi said that he was already a person who had an enmity with Mongolia, so he answered this question evasively.It seems that nepotism is still an iron relationship at a critical moment.

Although the book repeatedly emphasizes that Yeluqi is a young talent of the generation, it is obvious that his martial arts are ordinary and tight. He wore a soft hedgehog armor to compete on stage. Fighting contests, don't know how to end.Everyone present at that time thought that Yang Guo should be the leader of this gang of beggars.Originally, Yang Guo, Hong Qigong, and Huang Rong were quite close, and they knew how to beat dogs with sticks. Revenge, if he comes to be the leader of the beggar gang, it will only benefit the beggar gang and not harm it.But Yang Guo was the first to say, "Uncle Yelu, both civil and military, wise and benevolent, is my old friend and close friend. If he is the leader of the noble clan, he will definitely inherit the great cause of the three clan leaders Hong, Huang, and Lu."

Huang Rong was listening, but didn't say anything, maybe she was secretly happy when she heard Yang Guo's words.At this time, Yang Guo has completely disliked Guo Jing and his wife, and he also admires Guo Jing's righteousness in defending Xiangyang. If Huang Rong and Guo Jing help the court fight against Mongolia with the beggar gang at this time, it needs a wise and powerful person like him to lead it. , Yang Guo may not be so difficult to speak, just turn around and leave.But Huang Rong didn't open his mouth, and Guo Jing didn't open his mouth either, so the Beggar Gang was handed over to a so-called young talent who couldn't even learn the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.This incident greatly violated the workplace promotion principle that we often say "being a direct descendant is not cheap". The reason is that the female boss Huang Rong has selfish intentions, and she doesn't want to avoid suspicion when things come to an end.

Huang Rong's series of actions on the issue of successors reflect the common faults of the most typical women in the issue of employment and power transfer.No matter how smart and capable Huang Rong is, she still can't get rid of women's narrow-mindedness and management limitations, such as how to control the power already in her hands?Huang Rong is like many heroines, she doesn't have enough confidence in her abilities, so they select talents according to a standard they think is safe, which is loyalty.Huang Rong could see Lu Youjiao's loyalty, so she played a fake abdication trick with confidence.Once Lu Youjiao died, Huang Rong, an outsider, couldn't believe it, so he staged a fake campaign trick. The essence was nepotism, so what if Yang Guo surprised everyone?So what if Yang Guo meets the standard of being the leader of the gang with the highest martial arts mentioned before this martial arts competition, or the standard of regaining the dog-beating stick and avenging the old gang leader?He is not Huang Rong's confidant, he will never be loyal to Huang Rong, such a person cannot be used.

In fact, as far as I am writing, I always feel deeply that Huang Rong, who is in the martial arts world, is especially like a real female CEO Xiaoqin Cixi Empress Dowager Yehenala who once existed in history. Cixi has been in charge of the government for forty years, and during her term of office, she can be counted as one of the most famous ministers. Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and Ronglu, these people, although the merits and demerits of these people have been evaluated differently in history, it is undeniable that they are all outstanding. Operators with good administrative and operational skills.Being able to unite these powerful characters around her and each have their own performances, Cixi is definitely not the old temptress who only knows how to be arrogant and extravagant as portrayed in previous movies.However, in the era when internationalization has begun, Cixi has a fatal weakness, that is, her diplomacy is not clever, and she admits defeat after shouting and killing, and she obviously has no diplomatic acumen.In addition, Cixi's biggest mistake, like Huang Rong's, was that she had a lot of trouble with the successor.

Empress Dowager Cixi's personal fate influenced the ups and downs of the late Qing Dynasty.In the age of emperors ruled by man, politics has very high requirements for the ruler personally. Whether it is intentional or pushed to the edge by the wheel of fate, Cixi has to pursue power all her life when she embarks on the road of politics. struggle to maintain and expand power.On this point, he and Huang Rong share the same shadow of fate. An important function of the empress dowager in the Qing Dynasty was to cultivate successors for the royal family. Many things Cixi did, whether good or bad, historians seem to have completely different opinions, but on the issue of heirs, Cixi failed miserably, and Huang Rong can be regarded as a pair of difficult sisters.On the contrary, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who also had a huge influence on the government at one time, did a far better job than Cixi.There is no need for historians to remind us that the overwhelming number of novels, film and television works are repeating the same truth. As a ruler, Shunzhi and Kangxi are more accomplished than Guangxu and Xuantong.Cixi loves power and position, and she doesn't know how to educate. She has always been too selfish in the work of cultivating the next generation, and only cares about the world.Her criteria for choosing the successor of the royal family is only to consider whether the candidate can help her continue to hold power. The successor only needs to be obedient, and she doesn't care about her level.Xiaozhuang's education of Shunzhi is not too successful, but it is not a loss. The education of Kangxi is really admirable, and all her interventions in the political situation as the empress dowager are only aimed at consolidating the rule of the grandson status, rather than allowing oneself to grasp the power.In contrast, Huang Rong, who is smart for a while, and Cixi, who is politically sophisticated, are about to bow down in this regard. The issue of heirs has to be faced by gangs in the rivers and lakes, and the rulers of feudal dynasties have to face it. The century-old foundation of Modern Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. also cannot escape this threshold.Guo Guangchang, the founder of Fosun Group, a private enterprise with a scale of tens of billions of dollars, which grew rapidly in Shanghai, summed up his greatest experience in employing people. He said, "We must learn to use people who are stronger than ourselves. We must learn to use Your teacher - everyone who is better than me is a teacher; learn to use people who are better than yourself in a certain field - these people are often experts." He also admitted very honestly, "The process of an entrepreneur , in fact, it is a process of constantly finding teachers; Fosun has been able to develop rapidly to today, that is to say, it has found many teachers and can find them accurately.” Guo Guangchang understands that whether he can find the best people and whether he has the vision to find the best people is related to the success or failure of the enterprise.The biggest investment mistake does not lie in the gain or loss of a project, but in finding the wrong person. The United States "Chief Executives" magazine once launched the "Top 20 Companies for Leaders in the United States", and IBM and Johnson & Johnson tied for the first place.Regardless of the firm's strategy, CEOs recognize that developing senior leaders is critical to their firm's ability to compete, the journal noted. Although neither Huang Rong nor Cixi can see this magazine, we might as well ponder the truth in it. Similar to the fact that the coaches of the German national football team are rarely changed, one of the characteristics of Johnson & Johnson is the iron-clad top management.This company with sales revenue of 36.3 billion US dollars and 108,300 employees has developed to this day, and it has only changed 6 chairman, and all of them were promoted from within the company. Weldon, 54, was named chairman and CEO in April 2002.As a male chairman, he is not like Huang Rong Cixi, who is entangled in the issue of successors. He does not face up to it unless he has to. When he faces it, he selectively narrows it down, considering his own interests more than the interests of the group. Weldon is different. He even enjoys the feeling of selecting successors very much, and always regards the selection of successors as his main contribution to the company.So his empress dowager is of Xiaozhuang type rather than Cixi type.He recalls, "My son once asked me, what is the problem that gives me the most headaches that keep me awake at night? My answer is, that is the future leadership of the company. Who will take my place after I leave ? You should start thinking about it on your first day as CEO.” Although the current CEO of IBM, Samuel Palmisano, is not as famous as his predecessors, it is said that Gerstner, who dances like an elephant, is as famous as Gerstner, but he is convinced that if the cultivation of leadership cannot be combined with the company's development strategy would be meaningless."We can't separate our strategy from our leadership," he says. Palmisano's focus is on a 300-person senior management team.He said that IBM, the blue giant, can evolve into a company that provides customers with more seamless solutions, not by its technology or capital, but by its talents. People in the world are called "neutron bombs", and their methods are equivalent to Welch's "Iron Lock Hengjiang" Qi Changfa. He worked for GM for 20 years, and in the last few years he lost his head on the issue of choosing an heir. It is also an eloquent "Lying Corpse Sword Art", which is worth learning. GE is rich in great presidents. There was the neutron bomb Welch before, and Immelt is the new president. In fact, the two of them are just a drop in the ocean of masterpieces born on the "assembly line" of GE's talents.According to statistics, among the "Fortune" 500 companies, 168 chief executive officers (CEOs) have worked for General Electric, and the benign mechanism of Tongdian Electric for cultivating senior management talents has also given it the "U.S. Known as the Harvard of the corporate world. According to the summary, the secrets of this heir training base are actually very simple, because they have set up a "Queen Dowager" for themselves to specialize in training the next generation, because GE not only has a CEO, COO, and CFO , and a Chief Education Officer that no other company has.Specialize in cultivating outstanding talents who may point out the direction for the company's development and growth in the future. These outstanding talents were always assumed by the princes and grandchildren in the feudal dynasty because of their blood relationship.It is said that being a prince and grandson is also quite hard work. It is not as glamorous as everyone imagines, but every day before dawn, the eunuchs get up before sleep and go to the study to listen to the masters' lectures.And the education they receive is a hundred times more difficult and complicated than that of ordinary school-age children because it is to cultivate the next generation of successors for the country.General Electric's chief education officer Corcoran also said that the system of cultivating entrepreneurs is more important than cultivating entrepreneurship.The success of many professional managers stems from a very good company system.In many cases, even if an entrepreneur has good ideas and excellent technologies, it is difficult for him to scale these ideas and technologies due to the lack of professional knowledge necessary for professional managers, such as financial management and human resource management. Expansion, open up their own market. GM has a little experience, which can be called golden experience, that is, the best way to teach leadership is to be taught by the leaders of the company themselves, rather than to invite university professors to be teachers.Because only a battle-hardened business leader can teach real experience and lessons.Of course, this principle has been proved to be quite feasible by the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang hundreds of years ago, and it is worth promoting. As for Huang Rong and Cixi, they are all human beings, and they are especially capable of making earth-shattering noises, but their struggles on the issue of successors have dimmed their previous great achievements.In today's enterprises, whether you are the CEO or the employees below, you have to consider the heir. One is to make great efforts to consider the heir, and the other is to strive to be the heir of your boss.This is a good thing for others and oneself.Therefore, looking back, the sentence that a soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier is quite in line with the current context of choosing an heir.