Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Official Trap III: Lack of Value Judgment Ability

The so-called value judgment ability refers to the value judgment of a specific job.Of course, in officialdom, any job has its value, but the value it brings to the parties is completely different. There is a kind of work that pays very low cost and requires very little labor, but the benefits of the parties are huge.For example, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang wanted to usurp the government, but he had no excuses. This political trend was immediately caught by a guy named Ai Zhang. He immediately cast a large copper box, made two labels, and wrote on it together: " The picture of the golden cabinet of the emperor's Xingxi"; the other wrote: "The red emperor's Xingxi passed on to the Yellow Emperor's golden policy book".Then he forged the "Golden Policy Book", which said: "Wang Mang is the true son of heaven, and all people in the world should honor him." With the names of two people, a total of eleven people were gathered.Then he carried the copper box and sent it to the Taimiao.When Wang Mang heard the news, he was overjoyed, and immediately moved the copper box to the court, announcing in a sad tone: "My virtue is not good, but God insists on making me the emperor. I really can't help it. God is the biggest... ..." So Wang Mang ascended the throne, Ai Zhang also put on official clothes logically, and became a minister of the auxiliary government.

There are so many opportunistic people in the officialdom, racking their brains every day to find such opportunities.Especially in times of political turmoil, such low-cost, low-labor, but surprisingly high-yielding jobs are usually created in large numbers. In the era of Wu Zetian, a man named Hu Yanqing in Jizhou caught a big tortoise, and wrote "Long Live the Son of Heaven" on the belly of the tortoise with red paint, and then presented it to the imperial court.Unexpectedly, the courtiers hated this kind of sycophants the most, so they immediately picked the turtle's belly with their fingers, and the red paint was removed.Then all the ministers said in unison: "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, Hu Yanqing deceived the emperor and should be executed according to the law." Wu Zetian shook his head slowly and said: "You are too much, this Hu Yanqing is also loyal to the emperor and patriotic. It’s just that the method is a bit wrong, let’s forget about it.”

So, why did Wu Zetian refuse to punish Hu Yanqing who practiced deceit? This is because what those in power want to hear most is good news that is beneficial to them.All jobs that are related to good news have the characteristics of low cost, low effort and high income. On the contrary, any news that is unfavorable to those in power, news that they don't like, and news that they don't want to hear, all of this type of work have the characteristics of high cost, heavy labor, low income or even negative income. For example, during the Jingkang period, the Jin soldiers approached Bianliang, the imperial capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. Song Qinzong succumbed to the military pressure of the Jin soldiers and was forced to send envoys to seek peace.So there was a decree in the holy order, Wang Yu, Prime Minister Zuo Yu, was ordered to escort King Kang Zhao Gou to the Jinbing camp for negotiations.This job is a completely low-value job. It is an extremely pessimistic question whether you can keep your own life after entering the Jinbing camp.Even if you are lucky and come back alive, no matter how well you do this kind of thing, you will not get the slightest reward. Instead, it will make people suspect that you are in collusion with Jin Bing.So Prime Minister Zuo Wang Yu received the imperial decree and immediately took off his official uniform: If you have the ability, you will kill me, and I will not do this job...

Song Qinzong was so angry that he was about to demote Wang Yu.Then he passed the decree, ordering Feng Xie, a member of the Privy Council, to take Kang Wang Zhao Gou to the Jinbing Camp.Feng Xie was also a smart person, knowing that Song Qinzong was on fire at this time, he didn't dare to disobey, so he took Kang Wang Zhao Gou out of the city. slipped back. But how could Song Qinzong forget about the golden soldiers and iron hooves?Finding that Feng Xie was too cunning, Song Qinzong was furious, and immediately dismissed Feng Xie from office.Then Wang Yun, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment, and Zhao Gou, king of Kang, were sent out of the city.

If you say that Wang Yun's brain is really not enough, fortunately he is still the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Wang Yu and Feng Xie are not willing to do such an unlucky job. You, Wang Yun, don't have a heart, and quickly take off your official uniform Running away?But Wang Yun was short-sighted, and really took Zhao Gou to the Jinbing camp. On the way, he encountered patriotic masses and was called a traitor by the masses.In the end, the crowd rushed forward, punched and kicked, and even beat Wang Yun to death. In this world, there are many people who died unjustly, but no one died more unjustly than Wang Yun.Others died unjustly, and at least there is still a desire to be rehabilitated, but Wang Yun not only has no hope of rehabilitating, but also his family members have been accused of being inexplicable traitors for generations.

The same thing happened endlessly during the Northern Song Dynasty.As Jin soldiers repeatedly went south and forced the Northern Song Dynasty to cede the three towns of Taiyuan, Emperor Qinzong of Song Dynasty held an imperial meeting to discuss this matter. Do not surrender the land to others. Li Gang's suggestion is good and patriotic, but when he put forward this suggestion, he immediately put himself in a desperate situation. He only heard the unanimous support of Li Gang to defend Taiyuan.Now Li Gang was in a hurry, argued with reason, and repeatedly explained that he was a civil servant and could not do the job of guarding the soil.Since you can't do it, why are you yelling?In the end, Li Gang was squeezed out of the court by the joint efforts of the officials, and the three towns of Taiyuan were finally taken away by the Jinren.

Li Gang was a famous minister in vain, and his mistake was that he didn't take himself into consideration when considering issues, and only wanted to seize the commanding heights of morality and put forward high-sounding political goals.But I don't want to do this, it is tantamount to creating a difficult and low-value job for the court.Looking at the entire Northern Song Dynasty at that time, it was impossible to find generals who could resist the Jin soldiers, so the work created by Li Gang could only be undertaken by himself in the end. When young people who are new to the officialdom are thinking about problems, they are most likely to make mistakes like Li Gang's. They only consider the overall benefit structure, but they don't think about every detail of the work. They inadvertently create difficult and low-value jobs. It's like digging a trap for yourself, and the result of being squeezed out by your colleagues to invite you into the urn is unavoidable.

Therefore, when young people first enter the workplace, they must take into account two factors when considering work.One is whether the news is what those in power want to hear.If it is, it’s okay to say a few more words; if not, then be careful, otherwise you will step on the tiger’s tail, which is extremely dangerous. The second factor that young people need to consider is every detail in the work process. For all low-value work, there is a feature that sounds simple, but the details are extremely cumbersome and troublesome.Neglecting this point is bound to bind hands and feet, even if you put in a hundred times of hard work, the result will be demerits but no merit.