Chapter 61 Chapter 61 The Realm of Failure of "Ming"

Clever and clever, with good ears and eyes. Let's leave the word "Cong" aside for the time being, but this clear word alone has been the biggest taboo in official circles since ancient times. What is Ming?That is, you can see it, you know it—at least you know it in your heart.See clearly, think clearly, this is called "understand".If you only see clearly but don't think clearly, the consequences will be serious. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang died on a tour, and his youngest son Hu Hai killed his brother and proclaimed himself emperor.Afterwards, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled against each other, and the guards from all over the country reported the news of the rebellion to the palace, but Qin II hated this kind of news, so he killed all those who reported the bad news.From then on, no one around Qin Ershi dared to tell the actual situation outside the palace, and Qin Ershi was intoxicated in the fantasy of world peace.Suddenly one day, there was a loud shout, and the rebels had entered the palace.At that time, Qin Ershi was very surprised, so he asked the attendant beside him: "What's going on?" The attendant replied: "This is a rebel. They have been rebelling for a long time, and now they are here to kill you." Annoyed: "Then why didn't you tell me?" The attendant replied: "It is because I didn't tell you that I am alive today. You have killed anyone who told you the bad news." Qin II was speechless, and finally Killed by rebels.

In this matter, the servant's answer revealed several layers of realms of Ming characters: The first level, knowing what is happening. The second level, knowing what happened, and knowing what impact these things will have. The third level, knowing what happened and the impact, but also knowing how things and results will change once you intervene. In the fourth level, one is aware of events and influences, and knows the results of one's own intervention, but can use one's own influence to push the situation in a direction that is beneficial to one's own. Among them, the first and second realms can be called enlightenment, while the third and fourth realms can be regarded as true understanding.Young people who have just entered the officialdom, due to lack of life experience, are mostly in the first and second realms, while most of the veterans and old guys in the officialdom have reached the third realm. It is possible to enter the fourth realm.

Let me talk about the first state first. This state is to know what happened, but why it happened, what is the reason, and how to deal with it. This is not clear.For example, in the era of Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian seized the Li family and made his relatives kings. Among them, one named Wu Yizong was also named the king of Hanoi.Soon thereafter, all of Li's forces were uprooted by Wu Zetian, and the world became Wu's.Wu Zetian was very pleased, and held a banquet in the palace, inviting his relatives to celebrate. Everyone was drinking happily, when suddenly Wu Yizong, the king of Hanoi County, stood up with tears streaming down his face, and cried: "I have an urgent matter to report to the monarch, and a son has an urgent matter to report to the father." He came over: "What's the matter? But someone surnamed Li wants to rebel?" Wu Yizong shook his head and said: "No, what I played by my ministers is related to my family's collection of taxes. My family used to collect from the people themselves, but Recently, His Majesty ordered the prefectures and counties to be responsible for the collection, but every time the prefectures and counties withhold money, the interests of my family have suffered great damage, I implore Your Majesty to uphold justice for my ministers."

After listening to Wu Yizong's words, Wu Ze's face turned purple from the weather, pointing at Wu Yizong's nose and yelling: "How did your mother raise you such an idiot? You made such a fuss just for three or two hundred catties of rice, just now you almost You didn't scare me to death, you are not worthy to be a king at all, you will be dragged down and beaten to death with sticks..." Seeing that Wu Zetian lost his temper, all the princes surnamed Wu were so frightened that they lay on the ground, pleading hard, explaining again and again that Wu Yizong's head was beaten and he was squeezed by the door.

This Wu Yizong looks silly, but it is the most typical of being in the first realm of Ming Dynasty. He only knows that his family's rice has been lost, but he doesn't think about him. In front of Wu Zetian.If you think he is stupid, then you are wrong.In fact, many young people who have just entered the officialdom, when they were wronged and couldn't bear to go to their superiors to ask for an explanation, they made the same stupid mistakes as Wu Yizong.They all only saw their own grievances, but they didn't expect that if they went to their boss with that trivial matter, they would only make the boss furious, and they would recognize you as an idiot from then on, and would never provide you with opportunities again.

When you reach the second level of enlightenment, you will understand a little bit more than the first step.That is to say, people in this realm not only won't embarrass their superiors with their own private affairs, but can even behave appropriately to win the appreciation and favor of their superiors. Also in the era of Wu Zetian, there was a man named Zhu Qianyi. According to history books, this man was "blunt and ignorant, and his appearance was extremely ugly".In other words, this person's thinking is shallow, dull and ignorant, and his appearance is extremely scary.Even so, he did not lose confidence, but bravely wrote a letter to Wu Zetian, saying: "I dreamed that your majesty lived to be eight hundred years old." The old minister strongly resisted, feeling that he was alone and alone, and suddenly seeing someone supporting him, he was overjoyed and immediately awarded Zhu Qianyi the official post of collecting relics.All the ministers objected, saying that Zhu Qianyi's intelligence was too low to be promoted.Wu Zetian became furious, and simply promoted Zhu Qianyi to be a doctor.The officials were afraid that if they continued to oppose, they would drive Wu Zetian into a hurry, and they simply appointed Zhu Qianyi, a careless person, as prime minister, so they dared not object any more.

However, Zhu Qianyi didn't know anything about government affairs. He just knew that as long as he wrote a letter to flatter the queen, there would be high-ranking officials available.So he continued to write, saying: "Last night, I dreamed that I came to Songshan Mountain. When I heard the response from the mountains, I shouted in unison, Long Live Your Majesty..." Wu Zetian was overjoyed when he read the book, and immediately gave him a scarlet fish bag as a token of gratitude. Pet. From then on, Zhu Qianyi wore a green official uniform and a big scarlet fish bag every day, and looked up solemnly.All the officials laughed out loud, but Zhu Qianyi believed that he had completely figured out the way in the officialdom, as long as he persisted, it would not be a problem to continue to be promoted.Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Khitan people to rebel, and the Great Zhou lacked military equipment and suffered consecutive defeats.Wu Zetian sent an edict to the officials, saying: "But whoever dedicates a horse to the army can get the rank of the fifth rank." Zhu Qian suspected that he was overjoyed when he saw the imperial decree, so he immediately borrowed money and bought a horse as a gift.Then he submitted a form and asked Wu Zetian to fulfill his promise immediately and make him a fifth-rank official.After Wu Zetian read his memorial, he was so angry that he was so angry that he immediately ordered: "Let this idiot get out, and return him to Qiuyuan immediately." The kind-hearted Zhu Qianyi was thus dismissed from his leadership and administrative positions, and sent home to raise pigs.Zhu Qianyi was startled and astonished, and puzzled.He couldn't understand, how could the Son of Heaven keep his promises without counting?He thought about it, but he couldn't figure it out no matter what, and soon he died of depression.

Zhu Qian's suspicion was that he was too naive and innocent.He only knows one, not the other.You know, the emperor keeps his promises, and such words are originally intended to fool the unintentional common people. If every word of the emperor counts, then he is not the emperor, but a fool.Take Wu Zetian as an example, this time she made an order in a hurry, and she had no intention of fulfilling it, and it was impossible to fulfill it.In this world, there are as many people who can afford horses as crucian carp crossing the river. If all of them were awarded fifth-rank officials, the world would be full of officials.Therefore, people who really understand will know that Wu Zetian has lost his head when they see this imperial decree, and they will not take this imperial decree seriously if they know that Wu Zetian will not fulfill his promise in the end.

That is to say, Zhu Qianyi, who is in the second realm of "Ming", only knows that the emperor will keep his word and will not lie to him.But he didn't know that if things went according to his way, Wu Zetian would be in an extremely embarrassing situation.So at this time, if he buys a horse letter and asks for a five-rank title, it is tantamount to pushing Wu Zetian into the mud pit of dishonesty. How could Wu Zetian be polite to him? We often say that young people are naive, and naivety is here.If they can go one step further and enter the realm of real understanding from the clear, they will avoid forcing their bosses to fight you to the death because of their ignorance and naivety, and the consequences will be really serious.

A person who has reached the third level knows not only what happened and its impact, but also what changes will occur after his intervention.For example, in this matter, all the officials knew that Wu Zetian's edict to confer the fifth rank on a horse was not feasible.If you run around and make a fuss, it is tantamount to trying to make a fool of Wu Zetian, and naturally you will not end well.To be able to know this is to be considered an understanding person. So what about those who don't understand? During the Tang Dynasty, Mo Lizhi, the king of Goryeo, constantly provoked the Tang Dynasty and refused to accept Wang Hua.The imperial court sent a man named Yuan Wanqing to be the manager of Liaodong Road.After Yuan Wanqing took office, he inspected the banks of the Yalu River and found a dangerous place on the opposite bank, but Koryo did not send a single soldier to defend it.Yuan Wanqing laughed when he saw it, and wrote a colorful article, mocking the stupidity of the Korean people for not knowing how to occupy a dangerous place.

The article spread quickly, and finally reached King Mo Lizhi of Goryeo. Mo Lizhi read the article and said gratefully: "Thank you Yuan Wanqing, I will respectfully follow your instructions." So he sent an order , dispatched elite soldiers to block the dangerous place on the other side of the Yalu River.When this incident was reported to the court, the courtiers were in an uproar, furious, and demanded that Yuan Wanqing, who thought he was smart, be severely punished.After a great discussion at the imperial meeting, it was finally decided to exile Yuan Wanqing to the southernmost Lingnan. The mistake Yuan Wanqing made here was precisely because he did not expect that his intervention would cause things to develop in a different direction.People who don't realize this point are only in a state of enlightenment, and only when they realize this point can they be considered to understand.Once you understand it, you can choose to escape or face it. Those who evade stay in the third realm, and only those who face it bravely can enter the fourth realm, and use their own wisdom to lead the situation in a direction that is beneficial to them. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, due to successive years of wars with the Xiongnu, the country's financial resources were exhausted and it was impossible to make ends meet.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty forced all the counties and states to pay tribute to the money and food, and encountered strong resistance from the counties and states.At this time, a person named Bu Shi stepped forward and broke the deadlock. Bu Shi was a commoner in Henan. When he learned that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was frowning because of the emptiness of the treasury, he kept writing to the court, requesting to donate all his family property to aid the frontier fortress.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suspected that this person wanted to show off, so he sent an envoy to ask, "Why did you do this?" Bu Shi replied loudly: "I think that if the emperor wants to fight, talented people should die on the battlefield. Those who have money should give all their money. Now I have no talent, only money, so I decided to donate all the money in my family.” After hearing this answer, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed, so he set up Bu Shi as an example and called on the people of the whole country to learn from him. After a few hectares of land, Bu Shi was soon promoted to be the Taifu of the King of Qi.Bu Shi wrote the letter because he saw that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in urgent need of a role model for everyone to learn from, so he actively promoted the development of things in this direction, and provided himself as a ready-made model to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.So he gained both fame and fortune, and easily won the favor of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Analyzing the four realms of clarity and understanding, we will find that it is not easy to enter the third realm and the fourth realm of understanding.Moreover, you know that others also know that if there is a slight difference, it will lose both people and money.What we are most concerned about now is the young people whose intellectual level is concentrated in the state of enlightenment. How should they use their intermediate state to win their own success in life?