Chapter 44 Chapter 44

Just because the officialdom is not a holy land, there are many strange things that ordinary people can't imagine, so young people who are new to the officialdom are all faced with huge opportunities for promotion.If young people can grasp it, their official careers will flourish from now on, and it has never been a problem. However, although young people are ambitious and full of confidence, if they do not have insight into people's hearts, are not familiar with the game in the officialdom, and do not have a grasp of the promotion rules for young people, they will often miss opportunities and become a stepping stone in the officialdom , From then on, he was depressed and depressed.

Above the officialdom, there is a secret promotion rule for newcomers, which can be briefly expressed as follows: Rule one, only new talents have the possibility of promotion. Rule 2: Newcomers to the officialdom who get the chance to be promoted will go straight to the highest point. Rule number three, if you don't get a promotion when you're a rookie, you never will. These three rules describe a situation where, above the officialdom, only newcomers are likely to be promoted, and once promoted, they will unstoppably rise to the highest level.In the ancient imperial court, the newcomer would be promoted to the level of prime minister or bachelor without any trouble. In modern society, the newcomer would be promoted to the position next to the highest authority.But if the newcomer is not promoted in the first three years of entering the officialdom, he will lose the possibility of being promoted to the top position. If he is not promoted in the first five years, he will never be promoted.

So, is there any basis for these three rules? Let's look at the first one first, only new talents have the possibility of promotion.What this sentence means is that in a limited officialdom, veteran employees and courtiers fight openly and covertly in order to compete for promotion opportunities, and each uses their own scheming, often to the point of being in the same situation. The struggle in the officialdom and official career is extremely strange, and its methods are as straight as the horns of antelopes, and there is no trace to be found.For example, during the Xianfeng period, Sun Yuwen, the grandson of the university scholar Sun Yuting, was extremely talented and determined to win the first Enke champion, and he did not want to be second.Only Weng Tonghe, the son of Weng Xincun, who is also a bachelor, is Sun Yuwen's strongest opponent in the examination room.Everyone understands that this competition for the scientific examination is actually a battle for future bachelors, and whoever wins the first prize will win the future bachelor's position.Therefore, the Sun and Weng families did not dare to take it lightly.

Sun Yuting and Weng Xincun are both bachelors, so their residences are not far from each other.The night before the scientific examination, Sun Yuting suddenly sent someone to invite Weng Tonghe. Weng Tonghe was a junior and dared not refuse to go.After going there, I saw that Sun Yuting had already set up a small banquet, and had a good talk with Weng Tonghe until the middle of the night, and then let his family help Weng Tonghe to rest in the guest room. As soon as Weng Tonghe's head hit the pillow, he heard the earth-shattering sound of firecrackers outside the door up.The firecrackers went off all night, and Weng Tonghe was also kept awake all night by the noise.

After entering the examination room the next day, Weng Tonghe felt sleepy when he picked up his pen, wishing he could lie down on the desk and fall asleep.It wasn't until this time that he woke up. It turned out that he had been fooled by Sun Yuting. The firecrackers at the feast last night were all a trap carefully set up by the Sun family. The purpose was to make Weng Tonghe perform abnormally on the spot so that his grandson Sun Yuwen won the first prize, and then won the title of Grand Bachelor. Although he hated the Sun family to the bone, Weng Tonghe had made a mistake and was extremely sleepy, so what could he do?In a fit of anger, he touched his pocket with his hand, and suddenly touched two ginsengs that his family put in his pocket. He hurriedly took out the ginseng, put it in his mouth, and the juice flowed through him. Overwhelmed Sun Yuwen and won the first prize as he wished.

Since then, Weng Tonghe has had a nickname: Ginseng Champion.As for the Sun and Weng families, they also completely tore their faces because of this incident, and they criticized endlessly.The government also quickly split into two parties, Sun and Weng.If Xianfeng wanted to reuse members of Sun Dang, Weng Dang would try his best to stop him.If Xianfeng wanted to appoint members of the Weng party, the members of the Sun party would risk their lives to remonstrate without hesitation. In officialdom at all times, openly or secretly, there are party struggles similar to Sun and Weng, and some even have more than two factions.The final result of the struggle for power is that under the power of the power holder, a delicate dynamic balance is finally formed. This balance marks the influence of two or more parties, just like a crab in a cage. You catch me I hold you, entangled with each other, no one will allow the other to climb up.Under this situation of game balance, the two parties in the dispute no longer consider the possibility of their own promotion, and only one thought in their minds is to prevent the other party's people from being promoted.

In this case, the only ones who can get the chance to be promoted are the newcomers in the officialdom. Because the newcomer entered the officialdom for the first time, he did not get involved in any form of factional disputes, and he carried little historical burden on him, so he did not have the slightest resentment with everyone in the officialdom.In fact, in the officialdom throughout the ages, promoting newcomers has always been the only way to resolve disputes between officialdom factions. Moreover, if a newcomer has insight into the morals of the world and is familiar with the rules of official games, he will know why he can get the chance to be promoted.At this time, if you can be good at dancing with long sleeves, manage in the middle, take advantage of the fighting opportunities of different factions in the officialdom, command and use freely, you will soar into the sky without hindrance, and directly reach the highest point of your life and career.

For example, Su Dongpo, a talented scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty.He took part in the imperial examination and easily won the rank of Jinshi, so he was appointed by the Ministry of Officials as the director of Fuchang County, Henan Province, but Su Dongpo refused to take the post.His teacher Ouyang Xiu asked him why, and Su Dongpo replied: "The position of the master book is a small official position, with complicated affairs, high difficulty, and many troubles. It is an errand with no merit. If I do this errand, my official career will be completely ruined." lost, so I would rather give up than take up the post.”

Ouyang Xiu was overjoyed to see that Su Dongpo was extremely intelligent and well aware of the secrets of officialdom, so he strongly recommended Su Dongpo to take the secret court examination, also known as the imperial examination, presided over by the emperor himself.Su Dongpo easily got the third grade, which was the highest grade since the Song Dynasty. Looking at the entire Northern Song Dynasty, only Su Dongpo and Prime Minister Wu Yu had won this ranking. Emperor Song Yingzong was overjoyed at that time, and he wanted to appoint Su Dongpo as a Hanlin scholar.If this appointment is approved, Su Dongpo's life and official career will be completely complete.But unexpectedly, the emperor's nomination was rejected by Prime Minister Han Qi.Han Qi's opinion is that Su Dongpo is talented and talented, but lacks practical work experience, and his status in the officialdom should be obtained by doing, not just by a few poems.

Prime Minister Han Qi's words were reasonable, and what's more, he didn't intentionally embarrass Su Dongpo, but out of consideration for national interests. Even Emperor Yingzong couldn't refute it, so he had to take a step back and appoint Su Dongpo as his personal secretary.But Han Qi still disagreed, and Han Qi suggested that Su Dongpo should stay with the emperor. As for the official position, after Su Dongpo performed well in the future, would he still be worried about his official position? In this way, the young Su Dongpo finally got his wish and walked to the emperor's side because of his insight into the rules of the official game. This is something that countless officials in the ancient officialdom could not do in a lifetime.

However, after the second law of newcomer promotion takes effect, the third law will come into effect immediately.In other words, if Su Dongpo could not quickly achieve the position of prime minister, then he would never have a chance.The development of history is indeed not in the slightest.No one expected that the Emperor Yingzong who appreciated Su Dongpo the most would be short-lived. Before Su Dongpo could find a chance to perform, Yingzong died. So the new emperor Shenzong appeared on the stage, but in the blink of an eye, Su Dongpo had already become an old senior in the officialdom, and the newcomer now was Wang Anshi, who had just been promoted from the grassroots.Sure enough, Wang Anshi took over the position of Prime Minister with lightning speed.The rules for the promotion of newcomers in the officialdom were repeated on Wang Anshi, leaving only the third rule for the promotion of newcomers in the officialdom to Su Dongpo. The third rule is: If you don't get promoted first, you lose the opportunity forever.What Su Dongpo lost was not only the opportunity, but also his official position, and even his personal freedom.Wang Anshi carried out the reform, but Sima Guang, an old courtier, was determined to oppose it.Because Su Dongpo's attitude against the reform was not firm enough, he was regarded as a reformer by the conservatives, and because Su Dongpo did not agree with Wang Anshi's reform, he was also regarded as a conservative by the reformers.After that, Su Dongpo was first punished by a series of demotions, and later encountered the Wutai poetry case, and was sent to prison, almost losing his life. Su Dongpo's experience, while embodying the rules of promotion for newcomers in the officialdom, also tells us one thing: newcomers in the officialdom must never lose at the starting line.