Chapter 69 Chapter 69 Being an Official Is the Responsibility of an Honest Person

In the late Qing Dynasty, a teacher was teaching children to read.He first called up a child and asked, "What is your ideal in life?" Let’s face it, if someone asks you about your ideals in life, you can answer like this: ‘Contribute to the country and relieve the people’s worries’, do you hear me clearly?” On the second day, the teacher asked again: "What is your ideal in life?" The child replied loudly: "Contribute to the country and relieve the people's worries." The teacher was overjoyed: "Then what are you going to do?" The child replied : "Get ahead and become a high-ranking official." The teacher was angry: "Why do you want to be a high-ranking official again?" The child replied straightforwardly: "If you don't become a high-ranking official, how can you contribute to the country and solve the worries of the people?"

Although this was just a joke, it truly revealed the truth of the world.Generally, a person, no matter whether he has ideals and ambitions to save the country and the people, will always enter the officialdom and work hard.Some people work hard for their own interests, and some people work hard with the will to serve the country.However, the officialdom follows its fixed rules and regulations, and it will never be different because of your different moral values. This means that if many people who are ambitious and dedicated to serving the country and the people are not familiar with the laws and regulations of the officialdom, then their ambitions and ambitions are nothing but a dream.

In the same way, a person may have very low character and very shallow ambitions, but if he understands the rules and regulations in the officialdom, then he can go smoothly and rise to the top.Laws and rules are quite objective, and being objective means being cruel and independent of human will. This is what all people who are interested in the country must be clear about. In human history, the scariest thing is that bad money drives out good money, and villains drive out gentlemen. What does it mean that bad money drives out good money, and villains drive out gentlemen? That is to say, those people who are dedicated to serving the country and the people, although full of talent and loyalty, but because they only have good wishes, they don't know anything about the relevant laws of the officialdom, and as a result they are eliminated in the officialdom game.The result of the elimination of the upright people is that the interests of the general public have been greatly damaged, because only the upright people are willing to speak out for the suffering of the people.

Since a person is dedicated to serving the country and the people, his character must be upright, especially when encountering the dirt and uncleanness in the officialdom, righteous people often have a strong cleanliness addiction, unwilling to bend their waists for five buckets of rice, and unwilling to join forces with others, so they often Hang the crown and go.For example, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty had just ascended the throne, and when he heard of Wei Huan's virtuous name from Anyang, he issued an edict ordering him to enter Beijing.People in the neighborhood came to congratulate them one after another, but Wei Huan said to everyone: "If I accept the salary from the imperial court, then the purpose is to realize my political ideals and aspirations. But I want to ask you all, is there anyone in the harem now? There are thousands of beauties, after I become an official in the court, can I reduce the number of maids in the harem?" The neighbors shook their heads and said: "No." Wei Huan asked again: "Now there are tens of thousands of fine horses in the imperial stables of the palace. , if I become an official, can it be reduced?" All the neighbors shook their heads and said, "No."

Wei Huan sighed and said, "If that's the case, why should I go?" So he lived in seclusion. Wei Huanjie took care of herself, what would be the consequences? The result is that those villains who chase after fame and fortune take the opportunity to sneak in.Just because an upright person like Wei Huan refused to be an official, Emperor Han Huan was besieged by a group of villains, who confused Emperor Han Huan with all kinds of bad temptations, and finally made Emperor Han Huan act mischievously, which finally led to chaos in the world and the displacement of the people. There is no way out.

Similarly, once an upright person enters the officialdom, he should have strong wisdom and ingenious strategies to fight against evil forces.If you don't pay attention to strategy, you are also easy to be slandered by shameless villains. The final result is that you fall into the tricks of villains and make unnecessary sacrifices. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xizong was obsessed with carpentry craftsmanship, and hid in the carpenter's room every day to plan and saw. The great eunuch Wei Zhongxian took the opportunity to mess up the government.He deliberately chose when Emperor Xi Zong was busy with carpentry work when he reported the matter. At this time, Ming Xi Zong would wave his hand impatiently: "Don't bother me, you can figure it out..." The dignified Ming regime, that's it It fell into the hands of Wei Zhongxian.

The scholar-bureaucrats in the court couldn't bear it, so they attacked the eunuch party recklessly, and kept writing memorials, slamming Wei Zhongxian's disorderly government.So Wei Zhongxian took these memorials and went in to ask for instructions while Ming Xizong was busy. As a result of the request, Wei Zhongxian got the privilege of massacring scholar-bureaucrats.So he blatantly put many upright scholar-bureaucrats in the court into prison and executed them by torture. As a result, the vitality of the scholar-officials was severely injured, the upright scholar-bureaucrats were wiped out, and finally the Ming Dynasty was completely overthrown.

What we want to say is that no matter whether it is the Eastern Han Dynasty or the late Ming Dynasty, at any time, once a faint monarch appears in the government, honest people must bear at least half of the responsibility.They either cared more about their own reputation than the people in the world, or they were self-willed and didn't pay attention to fighting strategies. They only knew to collide head-on with the evil forces. In the end, while hurting themselves, they also made the people lose their protection. . Therefore, if a person really has a grand ambition to serve the country and the people, then Hou Heideng Longshu is a course that you must learn.Remember, just because the benefits brought by power are too huge, for thousands of years, power has always been the goal of deliberately seized by villains who harm the country and the people.If a righteous person is not familiar with the law of power and lets power fall into the hands of a villain, it means that a righteous person is irresponsible.

Lin Zexu once said: "If a country benefits from life and death, do you avoid it because of misfortune and good fortune?" Now we want to say, if a country benefits from life and death, why do you avoid it because of darkness?For the sake of the country and the people, let us now open the thick and dark door of power, master the art of ascending the dragon in officialdom, be familiar with the rules and laws of officialdom, firmly hold power in our own hands, and never tolerate shameless villains getting a little bit of it Side, this is our greatest contribution to the country and the nation.