Chapter 074 Follow Zheng Zhuanggong's old affairs

"It's rare to go back to Beijing to study, just take a break, why are you still sad? Laugh well! Ye Yiling walked to Xiao Chen's side, bent down, stretched out his green onion finger and twisted it lightly on his face, and said with a smile, looking like that, it was like teasing a child.

Xiao Chen glared at her, but unfortunately it was useless, so he reached out and patted her on the tún: "Dare to take advantage of my husband's advantage?" ”

Ye Yiling slapped him half-shyly and half-annoyed, and sat down beside him: "Is there something troubled at work?" ”

Xiao Chen nodded, thought for a moment, and shook his head again.

Ye yù Lingqi said: "In the end or not?" ”

Xiao Chen smiled bitterly and looked depressed: "It's really hard to say whether it's a matter of work or not, but the worry is certain." ”

"Why is that?" Ye Yiling was a little incomprehensible: "Is it a matter of work, what is wrong with this?" ”

Xiao Chen sighed, thinking that it would be okay to tell her, so he said: "Since Cheng Zigao was appointed as the secretary of the Langliu Municipal Party Committee a few years ago, several people on Langliu's side have sued me for his complaint during this time. ”

"Cheng Zigao......" Ye Yiling thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes widened: "Is it the one you said last time, the deputy secretary of the Yuezhou Municipal Party Committee who is very close to Liu Meng?" ”

At the mention of Liu Men G, Xiao Chen's face sank, nodded, his face was slightly cold, and explained: "After I was transferred to Wucheng, he acted as Mayor Langliu, and according to the deployment of the provincial party committee, he was elected secretary of the municipal party committee at the plenary party congress a year ago. ”

Ye Yiling was stunned for a moment, and said with some displeasure: "This kind of person can also be promoted, your Uncle Xu...... What do you think? ”

Xiao Chen frowned slightly, closed his eyes and leaned back on the sofa, and said quietly: "A deputy secretary can't be determined." ”

When watching officialdom on TV, the pace is always highly consistent, and a high degree of consensus will always be reached no matter what the issue. In fact, the idea of being the number one has been implemented. There is an old saying in China that "it is better to be a jī head than a phoenix tail". Since the implementation of the practice of the party and government shouldering the responsibility and examining and approving with one pen, the difference between the deputy post and the principal post is not in quantity but in qualitative change; there is only one number one, and the deputy post is insignificant, and there are even more than a dozen deputy posts in some units, but they are all as deaf as CPPCC members. The relationship between jī head and phoenix tail is more and more in line with the dialectic of reality, a county section level leader, even more real power than a deputy department level in the province, the only measure of the standard depends on the economic strength of the unit, the same number one leader in different units in the society treatment will be very different.

Regarding the subtle relationship between the principal position and the deputy position, Qian Zhongshu once made a vivid analogy with it in "The Siege of the City": if the main position is compared to the wife of a rich family in the past, the deputy position is like an aunt's wife. There can only be one wife, and there is no limit to the number of aunts. If a "girl" has a sī relationship with the master, the master will generally "give her a name" and let her be his aunt's wife. The treatment of wives and aunts is naturally different, otherwise there would not be so many aunts and wives who want to "straighten out" in every possible way.

Ye Yiling sighed: "What did this Cheng Zigao do to make Langliu's people sue you, can you still take care of Langliu's affairs now?" ”

Xiao Chen shook his head and sighed slightly: "It's nothing more than being arrogant, arbitrary, and conniving at his family and relatives to take advantage of his name, but he has gone too far, and the cadres I promoted in Langliu can't stand him doing this now, but there is no place to sue, so I have to call me and talk to me...... Actually, how can I manage Lang Liu's affairs at this time? Even if Cheng Zigao really did these things, it would not be my turn to make a move, otherwise it would be a break of some 'rules', and I would be hated by others, although I am not afraid, but I am afraid of those who come to me to complain because they believe in me, I am afraid that they will be implicated......"

Ye Yiling raised his eyebrows: "Then, now that you have been transferred, can you really beat Cheng Zigao?" ”

Xiao Chen didn't know what she meant by asking, he glanced at her with some surprise, pondered for a moment, and said, "As long as he really did those things, I will fight against him because of the possibility of being jealous of some people and disappointed in me from above...... There are still seven or eight points certain. ”

Ye Yiling didn't actually mean anything else, he was just a little curious about how strong Xiao Chen's power was in Langliu. How did she know that Xiao Chen's original cadres, even if Xiao Chen left, they had gradually formed a force in Langliu. Zheng Zhipeng has been appointed as the executive vice mayor of Langliu City, Lin Chengnan has become the head of the organization, Liu Wenjun has been promoted from the chief prosecutor of the procuratorate to the secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Gu Le has also become the director of the municipal public security bureau, but he has not concurrently served as the secretary of the municipal legal committee for the time being, and is currently the deputy secretary of the political and legal committee. But even so, Xiao Chen's "four protectors" in Dingqing District, in addition to Li Yunxin's transfer to Wucheng and now serving as the secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, the other three have also become members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee in Langliu, and Gu Le, who is slightly less qualified, is only one step away from the Standing Committee. And this is just Xiao Chen's Dingqing faction, is there less cadres he promoted and reused in the executive deputy mayor and mayoral office? Therefore, if Xiao Chen really wants to move Cheng Zigao, Lang Liu's leader, even if he is thousands of miles away, he is just as sure, but the price of this move is too great, even Xiao Chen does not dare to break the rules so easily.

This made Xiao Chen can't help but think of the word "reverse elimination".

The so-called "reverse elimination" or elite elimination, refers to the phenomenon that in the political and academic fields, those who have real talent and real learning and moral integrity are coldly treated, excluded and attacked, suppressed, and even eliminated first. The accompanying phenomenon is that some mediocre or even bad people who lack talents, have mediocre abilities, have low realms, and have poor moral character, or even bad people, on the contrary, they have become the victors of the competition in officialdom and survived tenaciously because they are good at speculation and drilling. Su Zhe of the Chinese Song Dynasty once vividly called this phenomenon the phenomenon of "a gentleman can't fight a villain" in Chinese officialdom. As for this phenomenon of officialdom in China's feudal society, why does it still occur repeatedly and commonplace after China enters the republic? Xiao Chen has always believed that this should be found in the bureaucratic and political life of China to find the deep institutional causes.

As we all know, in the Chinese bureaucratic political tradition, there is a legacy that has been passed down from generation to generation, and that is the system of appointing officials at all levels. In mainland China, except for village officials, who are actually elected by the villagers (this does not include the party branch secretary who really has the final say in the village), officials at all levels are not elected by the people, but are discovered and appointed by the superiors. In today's China, all the election of officials at and above the village official level, including the so-called differential election, is actually arranged by the superiors, and the electors are just raising their hands, drawing circles, and making appearances in accordance with the intentions of the superiors. Occasionally, the phenomenon of a non-candidate being elected in the election of an institution at or above the county level will be big news in the local area and even in China, and this is an abnormal phenomenon of officialdom that does not have institutional significance.

In fact, since the appointment mechanism of officials is controlled by superiors, since the Cultural Revolution, in recent decades after the disillusionment of ideals and the decline of faith, officials in Chinese officialdom, in order to run for a good future, their foothold and starting point for entering the officialdom is obviously not to serve the noble cause as the purpose of being an official, but to serve their own superiors or superiors as the core task. Anyone who has spent some time in Chinese officialdom can feel that the most successful officials in Chinese officialdom who can call the wind and rain are the most salient characteristics of being "people" rather than doing things. Of course, there are real-life examples of successful officials who can do things and be people, but this is definitely not the mainstream among the most successful officials. Officials who can only do things but not people are hopeless for promotion. This is because the evaluation, appointment, and dismissal of officials do not mainly depend on how many achievements they can make, but on how closely they have a relationship with their superiors. Those who can manipulate their superiors can soar and wear stable black yarns, while those who are estranged from their superiors have few opportunities for promotion. Those who can be like a fish in water in the circle of leadership life will be promoted and reused, but they are limited to tossing in the circle of leadership work, and there are few opportunities for promotion.

Cheng Zigao, as a typical local cadre in Xiaonan, was very normal to be attached to Governor Liu at the beginning, and judging from Governor Liu's attitude towards him, his ability to be a person and an official is obviously good.

Since those who are engaged in the superiors will be able to soar and prosper, and they will be able to wear a stable black veil, while those who are estranged from their superiors will rarely have the opportunity to be promoted. As a result, "reporting good news but not bad news," flattering when dealing with superiors, and treating subordinates with contempt, has become the norm for officials at all levels in Chinese officialdom to get along and intersect.

It is precisely this characteristic of the system, characterized by personal dependence, that leads to the fact that the subordinates are only responsible to the superiors, and the subordinates are absolutely subordinate to the superiors, rather than to the people they govern, which inevitably leads to the elimination of the reverse elite that defies the common sense anti-Darwinian rules.

The system of survival of the fittest was originally the most effective mechanism for human society to select talents, that is, to select the outstanding and eliminate the mediocre through certain competition rules. The "reverse elimination" is not, it is to eliminate the outstanding top-notch talents, but to provide opportunities for the survival and development of those who are good at sycophancy. Although Huaxia has now begun to openly select officials from some low-level institutions, this kind of selection is not yet the main channel for officials to be promoted, and its appeal to officials is not as great as some of the organizers of the selection examination think.

From the human being, the reason for this is that the mechanism of "reverse elimination" is actually hidden in human nature. Because in human nature, there is a weakness that everyone has, that is, they all like to listen to pleasant good words, and like others to flatter and pat on the back. The elites often rely on their talents and high status to disdain speculation, and the mediocre people do not rely on the horses to meet but cannot survive. This determines that the latter will inevitably use all his talents to cater to his superiors and entrap them. In the officialdom pattern characterized by personal dependence, the ten leaders obviously appreciate the latter's performance more. This undoubtedly provides more opportunities for promotion for mediocre people who devote their talents and energy to pandering to their superiors and entrap them. The result of such a gradual elimination is bound to be a complete victory for the mediocre.

The real political life uses many living facts to tell people that in a society where officials are superior, the process of eliminating elites is actually one of the main contents of daily political life. When many maverick elites are eliminated and stifled, the whole society will inevitably gradually move towards a situation where all horses are in unison, and the vitality and tension of the system will be slowly suffocated.

With the institutional arrangement of officials and superiors, coupled with the state's monopoly on the supply of major interests, China's officialdom has been a huge black hole that absorbs and destroys top talents since ancient times. It not only attracts all the world's elites to it, but also, through the state's violent and cultural monopoly, makes it impossible for talents to have a better way out than to be dependent on the state. Back then, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, watched the scholars from all over the country enter the field to take the exam, and he once said happily: "The heroes of the world are in my middle school." In a society where the vast number of intellectuals are officials and superiors, the only way to get ahead is to become officials.

When countless talent elites are crowded on the only single-plank bridge to become an official, you compete for me, deceive me, and even see the bayonet red, and the competition is naturally cruel. In this kind of struggle for survival without a bottom line, generally only the thick black wins, and those who abide by the lofty morality cào guards, if they do not conform to the officialdom culture and the prevailing unspoken rules with the attitude of "outer circle and inner square", there are few who are not eliminated. As a result, it is always seen that people with high personality often lose at the hands of people with low personality; Those with a high level of education often lose out at the hands of those with a low level of education; Those who tell the truth are often defeated by those who tell lies.

This is the fundamental reason why "reverse elimination" or elite elimination can be so popular in Chinese officialdom.

The Chinese people have always had the old tradition of exhausting their national elite through fighting in the nest, and the bloody cruelty of the struggle in the nest and the large-scale destruction of the top talents of their own nation are only seen in the world. Usually people tend to simply attribute it to the inferior nature of the nation, and there is a well-known saying: "China has a population of 600 million, don't you fight"? Why has the fight in the nest been endless for thousands of years in China, and why do Chinese people have the weird thinking of "fighting with others for endless fun"?

The only answer is "system". There are only inferior systems in the world, and there are no inferior peoples.

China has historically been a large agricultural country. With a large population, few industries, and fewer opportunities to make a fortune, everyone lives miserably on the quasi-starvation line, demanding the means of subsistence from limited resources. In the social sequence of agriculture and industry, it is often said that "peers are enemies", and it is indeed a truth in a society where the success of others is the "zero-sum game" of one's own failure. If each of the 100 people had a different opportunity to make a fortune or develop, then because of the diverse division of labor, they would be at peace with each other, and they would be mutually beneficial; And if a hundred people have only one chance to make a fortune or develop, they will inevitably have to go into battle shirtless and fight for it. The folk image is said to be "no pig arch pig in the trough". Under the condition that the stock of social wealth is fixed, the more people participate in the distribution, the more fierce the competition, and this is the fundamental crux of the tragic social and political struggle in China from ancient times to the present, the uncontrollable official skills of the eunuchs, the restless social cycle, and the poverty and ignorance of the people. Looking at the current national policy orientation from this perspective, it is easy to understand what is going on with the driving force behind all levels of government at all levels of the country, without exception, pursuing the rate of economic growth.

The institutional consequences of personal control and personal dependence have left individuals with neither independent political nor economic status, and even the material benefits they once obtained are unstable and can be wiped out at any time in the face of the state's violent apparatus.

In the long history of China, people like Han Xin, Bai Qi, Wu Zixu, Wen Chong, etc., are all familiar with famous generals or ministers, and the emperors they are loyal to have made great contributions, however, their endings are very tragic, and they have no right to survive despite the world. This kind of tragedy of "those who cover the world is not rewarded, and those who bravely shake the master are in danger" are full of Chinese history and have always been with the traditional Chinese society. Why can't they escape the tragic fate of "rabbits dead and dogs cooking"? The answer is that the institutional arrangements of physical dependence make all people vulnerable. Without personal liberty guaranteed by law, without sacrosanct property rights, no one could be a free person except the emperor in the past history of China. In fact, as far as the definition of contemporary political science is concerned, the emperors of China were not free people in the modern sense.

Even in today's China, people always complain about the lack of character and character of intellectuals. The so-called "if the skin does not exist, máo will be attached", it refers to the thousand-year-old disease and thousand-year-old pain of Chinese intellectuals. In the final analysis, the main culprit that led the Chinese intellectuals to play this tragic role forever was the institutional arrangement in which the officials and the state monopolized the supply of benefits.

Since Qin Shi Huang unified China, Chinese intellectuals have become "máo" attached to the ** regime. In a society where the government is the sole employer, once a person is blacklisted by the government, he can only be left to his disposal without resistance. Therefore, in this kind of society, the so-called independent personality of scholars, the so-called freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and personal freedom can only be a fool's dream.

There is no room for a legitimate opposition in China, let alone the so-called "shadow cabinet" of Western countries that can take over the government at any time, and when a major crisis occurs in society, it is impossible to have a ready-made substitute (autonomous body or organization) to replace the original provider of order, so as to maintain order, achieve a peaceful transfer of power, and a smooth transition and replacement of government, but only to smash the existing state apparatus and rebuild social order after paying a high price. China's modern state system is actually a system without a brake device, and once the destruction mechanism is activated by the most violent people, it will eventually be irreversibly destroyed.

American economist Douglas. From the standpoint of the institutional school, North once put forward the theory of "path dependence" of institutional change. North argues that there is a mechanism of increasing returns and self-reinforcement in institutional change. This mechanism makes institutional change, once it embarks on a certain path, it will be constantly self-reinforcing in the subsequent development. North said, "History shows that the choices people have made in the past determine the choices they may make now". The established system will do everything possible to maintain its existence, and it is easy to choose a certain system, but it is difficult to give it up. This is also the fundamental reason why countless Chinese people on the mainland cannot understand the so-called "luàn elephant" that occurs in the process of social system transformation of the Chinese people on the treasure island.

Path dependencies have different directions. One situation is that after a certain initial system is selected, it has the effect of increasing returns and promotes economic development; Other relevant institutional arrangements work in the same direction, leading to further institutional changes in favour of economic growth. This is a benign path dependency. On the other hand, after the trajectory of the evolution of a certain system is formed, the efficiency of the initial system decreases, and even begins to hinder the vitality of social and economic activities, and those organizations and individuals who co-prosper with and benefit from this system will do their best to maintain it for their own vested interests. At this time, the society falls into a state of institutional failure, and the development of the whole society comes to a standstill, which is the so-called vicious path dependence.

If we use North's "increasing return-path dependence model" to analyze the political process in China, we can find that there are also the phenomena of increasing returns, self-reinforcement and path dependence in Chinese politics.

In fact, political activities in both China and abroad are collective and have their own operating costs, but some of them have high costs and some have low costs. Political activities are often and strongly constrained by the system, and its dependence on the system is self-evident, which leads to the tendency of individuals and organizations to strengthen the existing system. In China, the complexity and low transparency of politics make it difficult to predict the consequences of political change from the top down, so it is unwise for anyone in power to initiate institutional change in a situation where there is no expectation of institutional change. It is precisely in order to avoid the high costs of institutional change that the decision-makers in China have historically preferred to maintain the existing system, even if it is already inefficient, which is the safest option they prefer. This is why the reckless Gorbachev, who led to the collapse of the former Soviet Union, is not respected in the decision-making hierarchy in China.

In China, the difficulty of political change is also manifested in the fact that it is very difficult to change concepts in the political process. Once the Chinese people are high-ranking officials and dignitaries in temples or green forest heroes walking in the jungle and grass, once their understanding of society, system, and morality is formed, it is very difficult to change it, and the reason is that the reconstruction of the world view and values of a giant society like Huaxia with a population of 1.3 billion is very expensive. It is extremely difficult for such a super-large ethnic group as the Chinese nation to try to change some basic views on politics and systems, from ideology to certain basic policies of politics, or once their attitudes toward political groups and political parties are formalized.

An examination of Chinese history shows that no matter who becomes the ruler of a country, when formulating systems and policies, he always hopes to limit and curb his potential successors from changing what he believes in after inheriting the great unification. This is the reason why the preamble of the Chinese constitution is getting longer and longer, and no matter which top leader likes to say that the system he loves will not change for 100 or 50 years. Because any politician with a modicum of historical consciousness will always worry when he is in power that the gravediggers of his policies will change the statecraft he has formulated when he comes to power in the future. He is just to protect his reputation in history, and he will also design the system to make it difficult to change the existing system. Therefore, it is easy to talk about the reform of the system, but it is actually very difficult to do it. This characteristic of Chinese politics makes it particularly difficult for the Chinese state system to get rid of a path that has been formed. The so-called system is stronger than people and the situation is stronger than people, and this is what they want to express.

In China, it is especially important that the distribution of political power is extremely unequal among the members of society, and when some people occupy a position of domination over others, they are all inclined to use the power they hold to strengthen their position. In China's recorded history, we can all see that it is a "zero-sum game", that is, if you win, it means that I am completely finished, and the result is "winner takes all". For any player in the political game, it's all or all, there's no other option. This characteristic of China's political game makes those in power tend to go all out to defend their vested interests, and the result is the self-reinforcement of the system. It is an indisputable historical fact that the phenomenon of path dependence in the evolution of China's political system is still the norm in Chinese history.

It is very unfortunate that in the history of China, the so-called historical curse of "all reformers do not end well" is the truth of history. If you want to be a reformer of the Chinese system, unless you dare to act like Zheng Nanxun and Chiang Ching-kuo, you will not dare to talk lightly about the reform of the political system. Xiao Chen sometimes thinks about the historical fact that Zheng Lao once again corrected the trend of Chinese society in 92: if Zheng Lao could live for another 20 years with a clear mind, would he restart and complete the political reform, instead of entering history with that distorted image. Chiang Ching-kuo on the other side of the strait washed away his life's tyranny in only two years of atonement, and was unanimously respected by the blue and green parties after his death. Unfortunately, however, the history of China cannot be assumed. In the future, I don't know who will complete the great unfinished business of China's political system for thousands of years.

The contradiction in Xiao Chen's heart, Ye Yiling can also understand, after all, Lang Liu's good situation can be said to have been created by him, and now he knows that the person who "ascended the throne" is a loser, it would be strange if he was not annoyed in his heart.

"Actually, do you think that Secretary Yue is better than Secretary Peng?" Ye Yiling asked cautiously.

Xiao Chen laughed: "There's nothing good or bad, if you can be the secretary of the provincial party committee, who is a person who has no ability?" It's just that Secretary Yue and Secretary Peng have different styles and different 'butts'. ”

"Ass?" Ye Yiling frowned slightly, obviously not liking such rude words.

Xiao Chen smiled and nodded, seeing that Ye Yiling was still a little suspicious, he asked, "You said, why was the illiterate Wei Zhongxian able to eliminate everyone Zuo Guangdou?" ”

Ye Yiling was slightly stunned, and suddenly twisted him angrily: "You know that these things are not what I am good at, and you still come to ask me!" Say it! Why? ”

Xiao Chen laughed and said: "One is an illiterate person who doesn't know a big word, and the other is a well-educated person who has been proficient in poetry and books since he was a child, but the big illiterate person easily eliminated the big intellectuals, this is a vivid reverse elimination game starring Wei Zhongxian in the late Ming Dynasty." ”

Xiao Chen gently hugged Ye Yiling's slender waist and said, "Zhu Yuanzhang stipulates that eunuchs are not allowed to read and write, but this does not affect their participation in politics. Wei Zhongxian started as the emperor's playmate, but he relied on more than just carpentry work. A man with a crippled body climbed from under 10,000 people to above 10,000 people, in addition to the carpenter work that hit off with Emperor Zhu Youxiao, there was also a stomach of 'miscellaneous'. As the first playmate of Ming Xizong, Wei Zhongxian eliminated Zuo Guangdou, the minister of the humerus at that time, and he was not fighting for carpenter's work, nor the Four Books and Five Classics, but the crooked talents of 'pro-jun', and the source of these crooked talents is fundamentally the position under his ass.

In terms of 'pro-king' and playing with people, this illiterate person is quite 'talented'. Wei Zhongxian is a slave who knows the pulse of his master clearly, so he can exercise imperial power on his behalf. He knew that Ming Xizong liked games, so he spared no effort to help the fun. When Zhu Youxiao's plaything was demoralized, his agency opportunities increased sharply. He was ingenious in scandalizing the leaders of his rival Donglin Party, and sat down with the Liangshan characters in "Water Margin", such as Qian Qianyi, Yang Lian, and Zuo Guangdou, the blue-faced beast.

And everyone's Zuo Guangdou's talent is the 'right talent' in governing the country, and in terms of rectification, Wei Zhongxian is definitely not crooked. In the duel with Wei Zhongxian, he miscalculated first, from underestimating the enemy to having illusions about the opponent, resulting in the final defeat of 'Zhengcai' to 'Crooked Cai'. When Zuo Guangdou was framed and tortured by the eunuchs, he was beaten to death in order to avoid the suffering of Pi Ròu, and he thought that if he did, he would be fine, and when it came to the 'legal procedure', he would still have the opportunity to confess. Who knows that the opponent is by no means an idle person in terms of playing, and does not play cards according to common sense at all. After recruiting, he will kill people in prison, leaving no chance.

Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou's ally and leader of the Donglin Party, was also defeated by Wei Zhongxian. When he knew that he would die, he once issued the last words of 'stop studying, take me as a warning', which was not only a despair of academic inferiority, but also a grievance against the talented self who lost to an illiterate person with a mutilated corpse. However, Zuo Guangdou didn't think so, and when he died, he urged his brother to say: "Lead all your children to read, don't take me as a warning, but say that you can't do good." This embodies admirable rigidity, but omits the reflection of being eliminated.

Zuo Guangdou, who is honest and upright, reads the books of the sages tirelessly, but in reality he is not good at 'organizing' work, not only being rigid and inactive in 'pro-monarch', but also failing to unite all the forces that can be united, which is the shortcoming of all great intellectuals and the weakness of the Donglin Party, so that the emperor and the centrist have run to the enemy camp.

The emperor is the root of the eunuchs, Wei Zhongxian pk left Guangdou, and the final referee is the emperor. Wei Zhongxian firmly grasped the root of Zhu Youxiao, and naturally had the best chance of winning. Wei Zhongxian and Zuo Guangdou, it is self-evident who is closer to Zhu Youxiao. No matter how talented Zuo Guangdou is, it is not as good as the zero distance between Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youxiao. In the end, it was not the contestants Wei Zhongxian and Zuo Guangdou who finally decided the result of this knockout match, but Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong. In the end, what decided Zhu Youxiao's 'whistle' was not the ratio of the talents of the two sides of the competition, but who was closest to the top leader. This is a typical reverse elimination game of Huaxia Shitu, and the winner does not rely on merit and talent, but on the distance from the leader.

To get close to the Emperor, reach zero distance. Then first of all, you must get close to the people who are already zero distance from the emperor. Wei Zhongxian's success lies in the fact that he leveled the emperor's mother. Wei Zhongxian and Ming Xizong's mother are as close as a family, and Emperor Zhu Youxiao's love is like a mother, and Wei Zhongxian's father is like a rǔ father in front of the emperor. Such an intimate 'family portrait', can Zuo Guangdou, who rigidly maintains the courtesy of a monarch and a minister with Zhu Youxiao, reach?

In fact, Zuo Guangdou was not far from the emperor, Wei Zhongxian was Zhu Youxiao's playmate, Zuo Guangdou was originally Zhu Youxiao's father Ming Guangzong's companion, after the death of Emperor Guangzong, he adhered to the 'orthodoxy', and the big intellectual group (Donglin Party) together supported Guangzong's eldest son Zhu Youxiao as the emperor, and defeated the successor of the Hou Party, but he never expected that it was this small successor he supported that finally became his gravedigger.

It can be seen that it is better to play with reading. Reading partner Zuo Guangdou is far inferior to his playmate Wei Zhongxian in terms of grasping the pulse of the leader and getting closer to the leader. Originally, Zhu Youxiao, the short-lived emperor, was not worthy of heavy attention, but this young leader who took the throne at the age of 16 and died at the age of 23, in his mind, what is the standard of talent, is very intriguing.

Looking through Zhu Youxiao's 7 years of work, this is not so much a young leader as the biggest player in the palace. In the eyes of the player, of course, playmates and minions are the most amiable and approachable, while the talents of the country's pillars may just be a concept, and it is not fun at all. Zuo Guangdou didn't understand until he died, the successor he supported, the emperor Zhu Youxiao, until his death, did not 'break rǔ', Zhu Youxiao's brain has always grown on someone else's neck, before the succession was his mother Li Changshì, after the succession was rǔ mother Keshi and 'rǔ father' Wei Zhongxian, Zuo Guangdou and the emperor's 'acting head' fight, it is tantamount to a direct fight with the emperor, and it is destined to be eliminated.

Loyal and upright intellectuals, they are disciplined in their dealings, but they lack flexibility. Politics is the art of compromise, and only those who have both right and wrong can become great statesmen. Judging from the style of the Donglin Party and Zuo Guangdou, they are still more bookish. The crooked talents of the inner palace may not be able to fight against big politicians, but it is more than enough to deal with straightforward scholars.

Therefore, the illiterate Wei Zhongxian eliminated everyone Zuo Guangdou, which has nothing to do with knowledge, it has to do with the butt, and it is completely a question of whose ass can sit with the 'referee'. Although the result of this kind of knockout is deeply sad, although it is a reverse elimination, it is also 'reasonable' in that era. ”

Xiao Chen's words were very clear, and Ye Yiling suddenly realized: "What do you mean is that Secretary Yue is sitting next to Vice Chairman Gu, and Secretary Peng is next to ......."

Xiao Chen coughed lightly: "I don't mean anything." ”

Ye Yiling glanced at him and said angrily: "In this villa in Quanshan, there is absolutely no eavesdropping. ”

Xiao Chen smiled, but did not answer.

Ye Yiling had no choice but not to care about this problem, and just asked, "Then what are you going to do now?" Secretary Peng sat next to the general secretary, and now Cheng Zigao has already abandoned Liu Zhong and sometimes sat next to Secretary Peng Cheng, you also said that if you manage it, the consequences will be worrying. But if you don't care, yours people will be unstable. ”

Xiao Chen snorted and said lightly: "So you still have to take care of it, but you must not go directly to Chā's hand, you have to use other methods." ”

Ye Yiling was curious: "What way?" ”

Xiao Chen smiled slightly: "Zheng Zhuanggong's law." ”

Ye Yiling glared at him: "Here we go again!" ”

Xiao Chen laughed and said, "Yù Ling, I know that you are a master among masters in information technology, but reading history can not only be wise, but also make people more urban, you can also see more when you have time." ”

Ye Yiling snorted lightly: "What do I want to do in such a deep city?" "Having said that, I still made up my mind to read more history books.

Xiao Chen didn't care about her, and explained: ""Zuo Chuan. The first year of the Yin Dynasty records: Zheng Zhuang Gong two brothers, mother Wu Jiang because of the birth of Zhuang Gong dystocia, so disgusted with him, named 'Kou Sheng', on the contrary, his younger brother Uncle Duan is pampered in every way. According to the ancient system, Kou Sheng is the eldest and naturally inherited the throne and became the monarch of Zheng State. Mother Wu Jiang was even more dissatisfied, and did everything possible to cultivate Shu Duan's power in order to replace Zhuang Gong when he became stronger. So she asked for a fief for Shu Duan and wanted to make a fief, but Zhuang Gong disagreed, and Wu Jiang asked Zhuang Gong to seal Shu Duan to Jingxiang City, and Zhuang Gong agreed. After Shu Duan arrived in Beijing, he called Uncle Duan, recruited troops, built city walls, and prepared to rebel. When the priest found out, he told Zhuang Gong, and Zhuang Gong said, "As long as my mother Wu Jiang is willing, what does it matter." The priest said, "When Wu Jiang is not satisfied, it is better to place them in a suitable place as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with." Zhuang Gong said, "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself." Wait and see!' In the twenty-second year of Zheng Zhuang Gong (722 BC), Shu Duan thought that the time was ripe, so he discussed the date of rebellion with his mother. At this time, Zheng Zhuanggong had already discovered their plot and intercepted the secret letter. After getting the evidence, Zheng Zhuang Gong immediately sent Gongsun Lu to lead 200 military vehicles to surround Jingxiang City, Shu Duan was caught off guard and fled to Yanling, and was chased and killed by Zhuang Gong and was forced to flee to Gongcheng and commit suicide. ”

Ye Yiling remembered at this time: "This is the origin of 'digging the ground to see the mother', right?" ”

Xiao Chen nodded.

Ye Yiling suddenly blocked Xiōng with both hands and dodged backwards, looking at Xiao Chen with a look of strict guard. Xiao Chenqi said: "What are you doing here?" ”

Ye yù pretended to be frightened: "You are too dangerous, I'm so scared of ......"

Xiao Chen was angry and funny, grabbed Ye Yù Ling and put it horizontally, and slapped her elastic warped tún, "snap", accompanied by Ye Yù Ling's half-truthful exclamation, and an ambiguous aura suddenly arose in the three-story yù Quanshan villa.