Fifty-three, with the king (II)
"Good group is about uniting the power that can be united around the group, and the reason why the political family can do things that other professions can't do is because the essence of the political family lies in unity and using the power of the group. A person who is not good at the group is destined to not go far in officialdom. But this kind of unity has a bottom line, not everyone is in the unity, if there is no bottom line of unity, it will become a drift with the crowd, and what you do will become meaningless. Han Tiefang continued to explain.
"What should we do if we seek progress while maintaining stability?" Shi Qingya asked. "The human heart is always fixed and not confused, therefore, a stable dìng overwhelms a qiē, and a region without a stable dìng can never really develop. The people will not live in peace either. Therefore, when administering the government, we should first seek stability, and then seek progress, stability is the foundation, progress is the end, if we seek stability by progress, it is to abandon the original and chase the end, and there will be chaos. In our old saying, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. "What does it mean to be law-abiding and fearless?"
Han Tie said: "Since ancient times, the beginning of the corruption of the rule of officials is a sign of troubled times, and when the majesty of the law disappears, it is the beginning of troubled times. Therefore, rectifying the rule of officials and using the rule of law has become the premise of governance, and without a clean and honest governance team, it is impossible for any policy to be truly implemented. The fact that the resistance to the rectification of the rule of officials is the strongest, and the fact tells us that the resistance of officialdom often comes from the upper echelons or the elites, and the pressure exerted by them is enormous. If an official is afraid of the powerful and does not dare to govern the officials, then the official will never want to do a good job, and he can only follow the crowd to be a dumb official. Only fearless of the pressure of the powerful, do not bow your head in the face of pressure. Intransigence. Adhere to the rule of law. Only by letting everyone know that the law is sacrosanct, and that violating the law will cost blood, then your policy can be implemented. ”
Yang Xing Yinhe asked: "What does the teaching of wealth mean?" This word comes from the classic "Analects of the Yan and Huang Clans: The Thirteenth of Zilu". This sentence is mainly aimed at ordinary people, being officials. First of all, we must make the people rich, and our ancestors had a saying, 'Poverty is not socialism.' In other words, if a country continues to be poor, then the country will be in chaos. The people are pragmatic, and they can only talk about other things after satisfying the most basic material needs, and if they can't even meet their basic material needs, they can't even survive, then. There was only one result, a popular uprising. Seek a chance to survive. ”
Han Tiefang continued: "If the government is on the right path and the officials are clear, it is not too difficult for a country to become rich, and it only takes a short time for the people to meet their basic survival needs." But what happens when the basic needs of the people are satisfied? Replaced by spiritual needs, this one needs to educate the people, let them know what is right and what is wrong, what can be done and what cannot be done, what to do to make their lives better, how to make their lives more stable, more peaceful, happier, and so on, this is what Confucius called education. The essence of indoctrination is to cultivate and improve the moral level of the people, and if they are rich but not virtuous, the consequences will still be a tragedy, even worse than when they are poor. ”
Shi Qingya asked with great interest: "What if the education is not understood?" The law is the product of the collapse of morality, and if it is not taught well, the law can only be used to make him understand what morality is. If ordinary punishment is not enough for him to understand, then he will have to endure even more severe punishment, even the death penalty in the end. The law is the final bottom line. ”
Shi Qingya thought for a while and said: "This 24-character mantra is not only your father to teach you how to be an official, but also to teach you how to be a man." "Yes, this is actually the purpose of being a human being, it's just that when my dad speaks, it's easy, but when I do it, it's very difficult, I've worked hard, but I still haven't been able to meet this requirement." "Nonsense, it's not easy for anyone to do this, no, it should be said that few people can do it.
Shi Qingya said with a fragrant tongue: "Does my uncle want to build you into a moral pacesetter? It's really hard for you to still learn from it, but if you change me, I can't stand it in the morning. "That's just the requirement of being a man, the requirements are higher, and the promotion force for people is a little more, take it from above, get it, take it from it, get it from it, get it from it, and be a man is better to have higher requirements for yourself." ”
Yang Xing Yinhe smiled and said: "Husband, I am very interested in hearing why you chose such an ambition, it is a good thing to be ambitious, but you will not have such an ambition on the first day of birth, right?" "How is this possible? I am not a natural saint, when I was born, I was just an ordinary little doll, and I was not born to speak and think. The reason why I have such an idea is because of the result of my father's teaching, since I was three years old, my father taught me to read Tang and Song poems, at that time I just knew how to memorize, but I didn't know why, until I grew up a little bit to understand the meaning of the poems, and then I had the idea of helping others. It was only when I grew older and learned that this idea was established. ”
Letting go of the two girls, Han Tiefang walked to the string window, looked at the starry sky with nothing outside, saw the silent stars, and said for a while: "Life in the world, I'm afraid that anyone has asked a question: 'What do people live for?' Simply put, what kind of way do people live, I asked my father, but my father didn't answer, just let me think for myself, and ask him when I can't figure it out." For this problem, I thought about it for more than half a year, but I still couldn't figure it out, and finally my father told me that you can live how you want, no one forces you to live how you want, and no one forces you to do it, but to be a man, at least you must be worthy of the responsibility on your shoulders. Being a son, being a husband, and being a father are the three stages that every man must go through, so what do you have to bear at each stage? How should you do it? Everyone has their own answer, and there is no standard answer to this answer from ancient times to the present, only you know what you want and what you want to do. ”
Shi Qingya asked, "Therefore." Are you determined to help others?" Afterward. I read a lot of books, and I thought that I was also poisoned by books, so this idea became firm. The ancients wrote a poem: 'I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood', born as a person of the Yanhuang tribe, and died as a ghost of the Yanhuang tribe, it is not an exaggeration to do something for his fellow people. The ancient sages, there is a poem that says: 'Fight 100,000 skulls and blood.' It is necessary to turn the power back. 'When the country and the nation are in danger, we need to stand up and do something for our race, and women can still do this, not to mention that we are men with eyebrows, if we only seek our own safety, it will not be humiliating.' ”
Shi Qingya disagreed, from ancient times to the present, it is not as good as a woman in the sea. "Life in the world, if you are not successful in cultivation. In just a few thousand years, it is just a white horse. Who will remember who you are? If you have no ambition, who does not want to leave your name in the history books? After a thousand years, let future generations remember you. This is a kind of pursuit of life. I also have ambitions, of course, it is one thing to have ambitions, and it is another thing to have the ability to do so. But since I have the ambition to do this, I naturally have to do my best to do it, even if in the end, I don't reach my ideals, but it is not in vain to go through this world. ”
People's ambition is a wonderful thing, no one can say what it is, obviously, Han Tiefang's ambition is to be deeply influenced by the history books of the Yanhuang tribe, and is determined to leave his name in the history books. "Husband, since you have the ambition to become an official and be an excellent politician, your father is a mayor, and you are born with an advantage over ordinary people, why don't you start as a petty official under your father?" Shi Qingya asked a little curiously. Yes, why should Han Tiefang go far?
Han Tiefang smiled bitterly and said: "My father has been the mayor for more than ten years, and there have been three ups and downs, three dismissals and three re-entry as officials. At first, I didn't understand, but my father said, "Obeying the law and being fearless is the most difficult thing to be an official, and being an official can ignore the pressure brought by the powerful, but you can't resist this pressure, because you don't have such strength." Yes, without strength, if you want to be a good official, how easy is it, then, if you want to be a good official, you must first have your own strength, in the eyes of my generation of monks, there are only two real strengths, your own cultivation and your own allies. Cultivation, what can grow faster than on the battlefield? Allies, how many allies can compare to the brothers of life and death who come out of the battlefield? For example, if a master like the Divine Power King becomes an official, what kind of powerful person would dare to bite his teeth?"
In the world of normal people, money and power are the most powerful strengths, but in the world of monks, in the Yanhuang clan, one's own cultivation is the most powerful strength, which Han Tiefang can see very clearly, without strong strength, let alone being a good official, I am afraid that I will not even be able to save my own life.
"So, if you want to be a soldier, if you want to be a soldier, if you want to be selected for the elite army, you have to improve your cultivation, so you have to be a little security guard? Shi Qingya finally understood that Han Tiefang's actions were all planned, but unfortunately, for the sake of Yang Xing Yinhe, his plans were all messed up.
Yang Xing Yinhe said a little apologetically: "Husband, I'm sorry, because I ......" "Nonsense, have I ever blamed you? The plan of life is a plan, if everything is completed according to my plan, then I am a god." Besides, if I were to watch you be humiliated by Sun Mingli, would I still be considered a human being? What is the use of my ambitions? Aren't you worthy of my help?" "I ......" "Since you are determined to marry me, then don't mention this kind of thing again in the future, it is meaningless, between husband and wife, who can say who owes whom? Who can say who is right and who is wrong, on the issue of non-principle. ”
Shi Qingya said: "Husband, do you mean to use the Sun family to temper yourself?" "It's really easy to say that you want to be fearless of the powerful, but if I can resist the pursuit of the Sun family, then I believe that if I have the opportunity to be an official, I will definitely not be afraid of any powerful people anymore." "Nonsense, you are not even afraid of the strongest magnate of the Yanhuang clan, who are you afraid of?
Regarding the question asked by Yang Xing Yinhe, Han Tiefang smiled and said: "I don't have a plan now, I can only see the walk, I want to see what moves his Sun family can make." According to my estimate, they should have sent big men to the Dianhu River system by now, and mobilized the defenders of our Yanhuang clan in the Dianhu River system as soon as possible, and used the most powerful forces of the Dianhu River system to deal with me. The next thing we have to face is the pursuit of the military, and our biggest problem is how to avoid the military's intelligence network, therefore, we must leave the Dianhu River system as quickly as possible, otherwise, once they block the border with all their might, we can only be trapped in the Dianhu River system, and then, they will search with all their strength and shrink the encirclement, and we will be found out by them sooner or later. (To be continued......)