Chapter 3: Adjust the mentality and remix the officialdom

Yuan Xiaosheng, who asked a few words from his grandfather, was speechless, but his grandfather did not mean to give up, and continued to ask: "Since you talked about Zhang Juzheng, you should know something about Zhang Juzheng." Zhang Juzheng went from a small editor to a scholar of Dongge University, and then to an intermediate scholar of the palace, who was in charge of the power of the imperial court, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, how do you think he did it? ”

Yuan Xiaosheng didn't think about it, and said casually: "Do you still need to ask, Zhang Juzheng has been smart since he was a child, he became famous in the town at the age of twelve, he was promoted at the age of sixteen, and the title of the gold list at the age of twenty-two, of course, he got it by his ability." Of course, the situation creates heroes is also an aspect. ”

"Hey-hey-hey-" Grandpa sneered exaggeratedly, "The times make heroes? That's a good statement, of course. But don't forget, there is another sentence behind the times that make heroes, and heroes are also timely. During the Ming Dynasty, there were tens of millions of people in China, why didn't they create others, but created a Zhang Juzheng? If you want to say that Zhang Juzheng was a genius when he was a child, then among so many people in China, is Zhang Juzheng the only one who is a genius and a figure who knows how to govern the country? If Zhang Juzheng didn't know how to drill camps and be an official, it is estimated that he would not have started to implement his 'one whip law' to deal with maladministration, and he would have been completely organized by the ministers around him, and he would have died without a place to be buried. ”

Although my grandfather said it roughly, it was reasonable, and Yuan Xiaosheng was speechless, so he could only remain silent.

Grandpa continued: "Your grandfather and I are a rough man, I have run a horse gang, been a bandit, I have also participated in the anti-Japanese war, I have studied private school for a few years, and I can understand some words, which cannot be compared with you as a college student. But there's one thing you have to learn from your grandfather – respect the facts, be informal. Books are made up by people, and he writes as much as he likes. There is an old saying, although vulgar, but it is also true: the mouth is two pieces of skin, and the top and bottom will shift. That is to say, the mouth of man is the most untrustworthy. If what is said is not credible, is it credible to write it? Especially the history, it was written by the people around the emperor, and there were a few people who could cut off their eggs like Sima Qian, and they could not change their shape. I have been idle at home all these years, and I often look through these books, and I think that what is said in the history books -- son, you can believe five points, but the truth in it -- son, who is right and wrong, it is good to have one point of believability. What did you just say, Zhang Juzheng was a 12-year-old famous town, a 16-year-old middle school, a 22-year-old gold list title, rectified the rule of officials, and strengthened border defense, have you ever seen those messy things? It was all 1,800 years ago, you must not have seen it, you only read it in the books written by those historians or in the wild history, how do you know that they are not to maintain the royal authority, distort the facts, and make up nonsense. How do you know that they are not happy for their own poverty, nonsense. ”

Speaking of this, my grandfather paused slightly, took a sip of water, and continued, "Let's talk about this official." I haven't been an official, but I've been a big brother in the horse gang and a bandit. But I know how to be human. To be a man is to be square inside and outside, have a rod and scale in your heart, know what to do and what not to do, but at the same time, you must also distinguish between good and evil, move at the right time, use the means on the good people to call it evil, and use the means on the wicked people is good. Just like when I robbed the house back then, if I robbed the property of the poor, it is estimated that the land reform would be killed, and the people would not let me go sooner or later, and I focused on those landlords who were unkind to the rich, and the people said that I was a hero. I think it's the same for being an official, as long as you always have us people in your heart, even if you are dismissed from office in the future, you will feel at ease. Do you understand? ”

Yuan Xiaosheng nodded, smiled slyly, and his mind was already on those books, and said, "Grandpa, I understand all the truths you said. However, I am still a small civil servant in the township, and I can't talk about this step yet. I'll take the book back and study it first, and then I'll talk about it if it's really useful. It's not early, I'll go back first. Regardless of whether my grandfather agreed or not, he rolled up the books, got up to say hello to the grandmother in the house, and walked out. Grandpa screamed twice and said, "I haven't agreed to you taking my book away." Xiaosheng smiled at his grandfather while walking out: "Those who achieve great things are not informal, this is an expedient measure, please forgive grandpa." A few broken books, grandma naturally wanted to give them to her grandson, so she pushed Yuan Xiaosheng out. Grandpa had to sigh in the back: "You kid learns really fast, and you just learned a little bit and used it on your grandfather." "It doesn't have to be recovered, it was taken by Yuan Xiaosheng.

"Why didn't you stay at your grandfather's house for the night?" When the mother saw that Yuan Xiaosheng was back, a smile bloomed on her face, and she knew that her son's heart knot had been untied by the old father, so she asked very casually.

"I have to go to work tomorrow, my grandfather's house is a little far away from the township political axe, and I am afraid that I will come back if I delay work." Yuan Xiaosheng answered his mother's question, looked at his father who was sitting under the eaves drinking tea, and didn't say anything, he called out and walked to his house.

The relationship between Yuan Xiaosheng and his father, like most father-son relationships, does not know how to communicate, and there are always very few words, the key is that the father has never talked much, and the son does not know what to say.

After entering the house, Yuan Xiaosheng couldn't wait to carefully take out one of the few books given by his grandfather and gently put it on the table. The books were so worn out that they seemed to crumble with every turn of the page.

Flipping through the book cover, the words "The First Volume of the Thief" were written on it.

The word stealing the official still made Yuan Xiaosheng a little puzzled, could it be that the official was stolen? But after reading the title page, I will roughly understand.

"Officials, the pillars of the country, the foundation of the society, so those who are officials must have the talent to learn and be rich, and the ability to turn things around...... However, the well-educated people, the world's capable people, much disdain to drill the camp strategy, high and arrogant, and unwilling to be with the villain, but do not know that the water to the clear is no fish, people to the clear then there are no friends, and the government and the opposition officialdom, the most is a mixture of fish and dragons, good and bad, flies camp dogs, flatterers, mixed among them, or for profit, or for the sake of fame, inferior means, with ill intentions, for their own selfishness and disaster to the country and the people There are many people, such as Qin Hui, Yan Song, etc., such as Qin Hui, Yan Song, etc, Ouyang Xiu of Song, and Tao Yuanming of Jin all abandoned the official angrily for this reason...... Therefore, those who want to make a difference for the official must first cultivate the mentality of a thief, the courage of a thief, and the means of a thief, so that they can maneuver around the officialdom, meet the source left and right, and then be promoted and then seek benefits for the people......"

Although he does not have the talent to learn from the rich and the five cars and turn things around, but in the work of the township axe, it is inevitable that there are too many things that he is not used to, and occasionally he scratches two sentences and points out the practices of some leaders. I didn't think much of it at the time, but now that I think about it, those who listen to themselves in order to curry favor with the leader will inevitably go to the leader to inform, and curry favor. Of course, those leaders will not question themselves face-to-face, but they can put on small shoes for themselves, but they are sure. Isn't it a good proof that a deputy stock has not been promoted? It seems that there is really a big problem with my work mentality.

Yuan Xiaosheng analyzed the twelve words of "the mentality of a thief, the courage of a thief, and the means of a thief". What is the mentality of a thief stealing from others? Before stealing, of course, you have peace of mind, if you don't steal, you don't steal, you steal if you can't steal, you can't run away if you can't steal, and after stealing, you can't go around publicizing, you must keep it secret, or you will be arrested by the police sooner or later. This kind of mentality in the officialdom, in fact, is very suitable, take their own promotion, the deputy stock quota, there will definitely be competition, if you look left and right, both afraid of offending people, and afraid of people gossip, you will definitely not work hard enough, this I have to admit that if I go to Zhao Xuedong a few more times, to visit the leader, this deputy stock is estimated to be ironclad, where will this idleness. On the contrary, he always wants to save face and suffer crimes, and he is unwilling to visit the leader, so that he first loses at the starting line, and finally it becomes a matter of course that he is not promoted. To put it bluntly, the mentality of a thief is to have a thick skin, and if the skin is not thick enough, don't want to steal anything. If you don't have a thick skin, don't think about becoming an official.

The second is the courage of a thief. People often say that thieves are gallant, thieves are the most two-faced, when stealing things, you must be bold and careful, and if you are discovered, you must be as timid as a mouse, and flee in time. Therefore, the thief's gall is able to be big and small, as the saying goes: being able to be big and small is a dragon, and being big or not small is a worm. Although this is a bit extreme, it is also a true portrayal of officialdom. Knowing how to advance and retreat, in order to become a great tool, knowing how to advance and not retreating, sooner or later one day will die halfway, but you still have to complain about the heavens and others, insult the injustice of the world, and can only end up with others as a laughing stock. Wouldn't it be even more ridiculous?

Let's talk about the thief's methods. In order to steal, the thief can be said to be a means of no compromise, taking the sheep by the hand, entering the house, reversing black and white, digging holes, doing everything, and doing everything. And there is only one purpose, that is, to steal people's money and take it for yourself. In the officialdom, although there is no such upright and honest behavior, there is not much difference, and there are a few high-ranking officials and nobles who are not stepping on the shoulders of others. Of course, we need to use my grandfather's words to distinguish between good and evil, stepping on the shoulders of the wicked, it doesn't matter if the wicked are trampled to death, stepping on the shoulders of the good guys, you will commit a taboo in officialdom, and one day you will be in prison and come to the end of the road.

The more Yuan Xiaosheng thought about it, the more he felt that the truth was really wonderful. Flipping through the books and looking through the books until it was almost twelve o'clock in the evening, the mother asked Yuan Xiaosheng to go to bed quickly, so she put the books away, and lay on the bed and thought about it again and again for half a night, and a plan to make a big show in the officialdom gradually became clear in her mind. If you want to rise step by step in the future, then start with the mentality of these three thieves.

The next time he went to work, Yuan Xiaosheng walked into the office early as usual and cleaned it first. Knowing that his immediate boss Chen Yongnian had the habit of drinking tea in the morning, he deliberately washed Chen Yongnian's teacup, put tea leaves, poured the tea, and put it in its original position. At the same time, Liu Hongmei also dried a cup of boiled water. Then I arranged the work I needed to do today and wrote it down on a piece of paper. Although these jobs are often done in the past, they are also done to please Chen Yongnian and Liu Hongmei, but there is also an essential difference. In the past, I did it very reluctantly, but now I do it willingly, even happily. The result is the same, but the impression is completely different, and the effect will definitely be very different.

After doing all this, Chen Yongnian and Liu Hongmei also entered the office one after the other. At this time in the past, Yuan Xiaosheng would bury his head in work, feeling that his work had been done, so there was no need to please Chen Yongnian anymore. What's more, Chen Yongnian's pair of dead fish eyes also made Yuan Xiaosheng feel that it was really awkward.

As soon as Chen Yongnian's front foot stepped into the office, Yuan Xiaosheng immediately greeted him, and said with a vibrant smile on his face: "Director Chen is early, Director Chen looks good today." Yuan Xiaosheng took the initiative to greet Chen Yongnian affectionately, and handed the tea he had just brewed to Chen Yongnian's hand, "This is the tea I just made for you." I can probably drink it already. ”

Chen Yongnian, who has always pouted like eighty thousand, even grinned embarrassedly and said, "Thank you Xiaosheng, this time is okay, right?" "This is simply a boring nonsense, if in the past, Yuan Xiaosheng couldn't help but sneer, and thought in his heart, Lao Tzu is working under you, and you haven't counted it in your own heart. But he didn't think so today, although he also felt that Chen Yongnian's question was really ridiculous, he still endured it, took the work arrangement he had prepared just now with a smile, and respectfully handed it to Chen Yongnian and said: "It's okay, although it's a little busy, but the busier you are, the more you can get exercise, it's better to be busy." This is my work plan for today, and I would like to ask Director Chen to take a look at it and see if there is anything missing. ”

Since Yuan Xiaosheng joined the work, he has always maintained a good habit of arranging work in the morning, but he has never let Chen Yongnian see it. Because most of those jobs were arranged by Chen Yongnian the day before, Yuan Xiaosheng felt that letting Chen Yongnian see it was like taking off his pants and farting. Now he doesn't think so anymore, whether Chen Yongnian changes it or not, this is also a procedural issue. After going through this procedure, Chen Yongnian will definitely feel that he respects him, if he doesn't go through this procedure, Chen Yongnian can't say what he thinks in his heart, maybe he will say that this kid is empty-eyed and has no leader in his eyes. After doing the work, you must let the leader know, this is the minimum rule of officialdom.

"Well, it's good, I didn't expect Xiaosheng's work arrangement to be so detailed." Chen Yongnian roughly read it, and Yuan Xiaosheng hadn't done any of the things written on it, so he was appreciated by Chen Yongnian. What is called doing more with less, this is called doing more with less. Yuan Xiaosheng couldn't help but feel a little proud, and hurriedly said modestly: "Director Chen has won the award." If it's okay, I'll go and do it. ”

"Okay," Chen Yongnian's face was filled with a smile that was rare for Yuan Xiaosheng.

Chen Yongnian almost didn't ask Yuan Xiaosheng to do those miscellaneous things all day, sometimes Liu Hongmei asked Yuan Xiaosheng to run errands, and Chen Yongnian would also say a word for Yuan Xiaosheng: "Xiaosheng still has a lot of work to do, try not to disturb Xiaosheng if you can do it yourself." Liu Hongmei's face was puzzled, but he also began to feel that Yuan Xiaosheng's performance today was indeed very different, as if this child's heart was more delicate, and his speech became more ear-catching. Of course, Yuan Xiaosheng will still work tirelessly, and try to help Liu Hongmei do what he can do.