Chapter 10: Asking for Words
His desire to do a job can't be realized at all, every day is a mess of not going up or down, not being high or low, not being a donkey or a horse.
Sometimes Fan Li doesn't know himself anymore, in a popular phrase: I have lived as I don't like the most! The last thing I want to be!
This is what Fan Li really thinks in his heart, it is indeed quite tragic, such a big official, deputy minister, everyone, not only an ornament, but also a small ornament. It's not just a knick-knack, it's a useless knick-knack! It's like a bald person, a comb at home, it's useless at all!
What does he do every day? Punch in, sign autographs, stay and drink tea, chat, eat lunch, punch in, sign autographs, stay and drink tea, chatter, and go home from work...... It's the same thing every day, and it's not fun at all.
Usually it's nothing for you, and when it's time for you to raise your hand, you raise your hand. When you shouldn't raise your hand, you dare to raise your hand, your hand will be chopped off!
Although Fan Li is a second-class official, he does this every day, and it has nothing to do with national affairs and people's livelihoods!
The depression in my heart, depressed, depressed, except for wanting to drink some, I don't know what to do, and it's useless to drink it!
Sometimes the mood is so bad that Fan Li even thinks: I'm simply, I'm retiring, I'm not in the court anymore, there's no point in living here, I might as well go home and farm. In Fan Li's heart, he felt that this second-grade official, this deputy ministerial-level official, was a small broken official.
In fact, no matter how uncomfortable Fan Li felt in his heart, the court at that time was like this, it was already in a state of a sick person, and it was already very corrupt inside and outside.
Let's talk about the inside first: Fan Li's action of borrowing money from customers everywhere before taking office, that kind of legal behavior, shows that the officialdom in the court is already very corrupt!
Let's talk about the outside: the imperial court at that time was faced with continuous foreign insults and invasions, and these barbarians made the court scramble, and these ministers in the court were quite happy, eating and drinking tea there every day (Zi means silver taels, because it costs money to fight, and these big officials are waiting for this opportunity to embezzle), every day several people compare together, saying that what kind of bracelet are you wearing, I am wearing a string of beads, I get a better one than you, and I rub the string there every day!
Therefore, Fan Li felt that the concept of these ministers kowtowing more and talking less, taking more money and doing less things without causing trouble was completely inconsistent with the state that he wanted to do a career in his thirties, and could not match.
Every day is the same work, boring to the extreme, plus I want to change, I want to say something, the emperor doesn't dare to say it, his teachers don't let him say it, including these colleagues around him don't want to say it, Fan Li can't tell them about his ambitions, and he wants to make a contribution!
I can't say,! What kind of attitude did Fan Li have towards these colleagues around him at that time? said that these people are treating the leaders with a lenient and sad face, and they are good at acting in front of the emperor, which can be called perfect.
But what about the people below, things, things don't do! Just play the round, just be a good person, and the whole thing will become a state of being in a state of neither pain nor itching.
So Fan Liang is a little unbearable, but he hasn't recruited yet! The teacher is like this, these ministers and colleagues around him are like this, and the emperor is a little self-deceiving, staying in the palace all day long, not seeing the situation outside, just waiting for these ministers to report good news or bad news, and he is happy to accept it.
After the new emperor took office, although he did something and got rid of Mu Shangzhi, everything else remained the same.
But the new emperor is just in his early twenties at this time, and his blood is strong, he still wants to do something, the so-called new official has three fires, not to mention that he is still the emperor!
So the new emperor directly issued an edict: beg for words!
What words? Whatever you want, you will give me whatever you want, tell me what problems exist in our country and our court, we want to change, we want to rise! We have to fight!
But how? How to fight? How? How? Let's talk about it!
The new emperor's edict made the world happy, and many people said: The emperor is good, the emperor is wonderful, and the emperor is croaking! It's so nice, we're all saying something nice, oh no! We're all going to say something useful.
But as a result, there are no people who are really useful! But excluding Fan Li, he went to a book in a stirring mood, called: Ying Zhao Lieyan Book!
That means: Your Majesty, you don't want me to say, then the buddy is not polite, saying: The common problem of Beijing officials is withdrawal and triviality, and foreign officials are perfunctory and brutal.
What does that mean? Those who retreat will push each other with the officials, refuse to complain, ask for orders at every turn, and refuse to take responsibility and admit blame!
said that everyone didn't work, and blamed each other to kick the ball, saying: What are you doing here? Now, do it to you!
The ball was kicked over, and the next person said, "Why did I do this?" It's none of my business.
The person in front of me said: I did all this for you, and it has nothing to do with me now if it's none of your business, understand?
The man who caught the balloon wondered in his heart: I'll go! Why is this none of your business, I didn't even say to take it, you just said it's none of your business, it's less than 10 seconds before and after, how did it become my business.
Anyway, that's what it means, it's a retreat!
What about triviality, that is, the Beijing officials don't care about the general situation, they care about everything, and they don't have the overall situation at all! Foreign officials just don't mean what they say, they can't get to the point, it's all nonsense!
Perfunctory is: everything is made small, and everything is small, or it is always delayed, procrastinated, and in the end, everyone simply forgets!
Brutality is: brutal, messy, blind and busy, in the end nothing was done!
Fan Li said here that the Beijing officials have these problems, and the foreign officials have those problems, what should I do? It's all come to this point, you have to take it seriously. Your Majesty, our officialdom is indeed terminally ill, and it's time to rectify it. (Please add WeChat ID: SKSM44)
Therefore, Your Majesty, I suggest that you hold a daily lecture, which is to give lectures to the ministers, strengthen cultural and spiritual education, convey positive energy to them, cheer them up, and reverse the wind of officialdom. It is also necessary to reform the selection method of officials, so that those enterprising officials have the opportunity to stand out!
This is what Fan Li wrote in the book of edicts, it is very well written, and the emperor is willing to read it, so when he looks at it and thinks about it carefully, it feels like what Fan Li said, when he was the prince, he already felt it and saw these problems.