Liu Xiu knows very well that whether it is fighting the world or sitting in the world, it is not the work of one person, and it is not the work of a few people, so he always attaches importance to talents, and no matter when and under what conditions, he always puts the construction of the cadre contingent in an extremely important position, and uses a lot of thought and energy to grasp it.

Of course, in different sections of his road to the world, his specific methods are different according to the changes in the situation and the needs of his career.

For the sake of narrative convenience, let's say separately that, in fact, there are no strict time boundaries between the methods he takes and the stories that take place.

Generally speaking, Liu Xiu attaches great importance to talents, that is, 6 words: favor, talent, and courtesy.

First of all, the so-called "preferential treatment" is not simply a salary increase and more bonuses.

In his rebellion from 22 A.D., to the throne as a brother in 25 A.D., until 36 A.D. to pacify the Gongsun Shu of Bashu and achieve national unification, there were about 15 years, Liu Xiu relied on his head and his fists, knocked down one opponent after another, controlled one place after another, and basically spent it in the golden iron horse and bloody rain.

During this period, a large number of apprentices, fans and rebels gathered around him.

We can't help but admit that among these buddies, there are certainly many hot-blooded young people who are determined to serve the country and govern the world and save the people, but just as Geng Chun said, many people follow suit, trying to lift the boat high, climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, and glorify the ancestors.

Liu Xiu understands that it depends on these buddies to fight the world, so he treats them extremely well and rewards them for their merits.

He fully trusted everyone politically and let go of power; Do your best to give benefits financially, and give generous rewards; Give enough face in terms of reputation, and let the work and meritorious service be glorified.

In this regard, Liu Xiu obviously behaved much more generously and generously than his ancestor Liu Bang.

When Liu Bang and Xiang Yu competed for power, Ding Gong betrayed Xiang Yu and showed mercy to Liu Bang's subordinates, after Liu Bang ascended the throne, not only did he not thank Lao Ding, but simply cut him down.

Liu Bang wants to use practical actions to publicly show that people must be loyal and righteous first, and those who are disloyal and unrighteous are life-saving to me, and I will not forgive!

And for the same thing, Liu Xiu has a diametrically opposite way of dealing with it: when Peng Pet's house slave Zimi cut off Lao Peng's head and came to defect, Liu Xiu sealed Zimi as "Unrighteous Hou", which means that although I don't approve of slaves killing their masters, I will not forget anyone's merits.

For his subordinates who served the battlefield, Liu Xiu generously granted them various high-ranking military ranks, giving them various powers to work creatively on the battlefield.

In the past ten years of war, he has only awarded dozens of titles of various generals and generals, and more than 100 titles of marquis. Whoever contributes his life, sheds blood and sweat on the field, he must give different rewards according to his ability and achievements.

If he had plenty of money, or if he got booty, tribute, etc., he always did not hesitate to share it with everyone.

And if anyone is disabled or hung on the battlefield, he will be a great gift, or personally arrange a funeral, or generously compensate the family, or give praise beyond the standard, so that the person concerned and his family feel honored.

As we said earlier, on the front line of the crusade against Kui Huan, Lai She and Cen Peng were assassinated in the Battle of Pacifying Bashu, and Liu Xiu personally arranged the funeral, personally served the funeral and condolences, and personally deployed various rewards for the aftermath with great sincerity and high courtesy.

In those days, he treated his closest relatives like that.

The bereaved families of the cadres have a bumper harvest in terms of both inside and face, and they have received great ideological and emotional comfort.

Here, although Liu Xiu wants to express his love for the heroes in a high-profile manner, it is by no means a show, he does pay his true feelings for this.

Although he is extremely calm in his heart, very principled and measured, Liu Xiu never puts on the emperor's stand in front of his apprentices and fans most of the time, is gentle and elegant, and sometimes makes jokes and allusions, which makes the monarch and the ministers happy.

We have already introduced the story of him drinking and joking with Ma Wu and others, and it is also very interesting to watch his dialogue with the other two buddies.

Feng Yi's excellence, loyalty and great achievements, we also said earlier, he once leaned in Guanzhong, and many people were suspicious of this and wrote to Liu Xiu, but Liu Xiu always trusted him as before.

In the spring of 30 AD, Feng Yi returned to Luoyang to report to work, and Liu Xiu's trust and love for him was not only seen in action, but also overflowing.

Liu Xiu arranged for him to meet with the senior cadres, and when he met them, he said that this was the secretary (chief bookkeeper) when I first started the army, and now he is overcoming obstacles and stabilizing Guanzhong for me.

After staying in Luoyang for more than 10 days, when he was about to say goodbye, Liu Xiu arranged for the staff around him to reward Feng Yi with a large number of treasures, clothes, and money.

At the same time, in the edict dedicated to him for encouragement and guidance, Liu Xiu also said affectionately: "Back then, in Hebei, the situation was critical and rushed, Aiqing ate bean porridge in Wupu Pavilion and wheat rice by the Hutuo River, this deep friendship really can't be repaid!" ”

Feng Yi hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, and replied with emotion and philosophy: "The minister now hopes that His Majesty will never forget the difficulties of Hebei, and the minister will never forget the grace of the towel car back then!" ”

Back then in Hebei, in Wang Lang's pursuit, Liu Xiu took dozens of fans and apprentices to run for their lives, hungry and cold, Feng Yi brought a little bean porridge and wheat rice to save the emergency, so that Liu Xiu could not thank him enough, and remembered it deeply in his heart.

And 8 years ago (22 AD), Feng Yi was still Wang Mang's cadre, responsible for defending the city to resist Liu Xiu, and was captured alive by Liu Xiu in his father's city of Jinche Township, Liu Xiu not only did not harm him, but also let him go. Feng said that the grace of the saint who did not kill the towel car back then was unforgettable.

In fact, this is the deep friendship that Liu Xiu and Feng Yi formed in the bloody rain back then, and no one will forget it lightly!

There is also Zhu You, everyone should also be familiar with him, he is Liu Xiu's hometown, college classmate, relative, when he was in college in Chang'an, the two brothers came together, studied together, lived together, and sometimes got sick, and the brothers also bought white honey together to dispense medicine by themselves.

Later, Zhu You followed Liu Xiu to fight the world, and he made a lot of contributions to his heart, birth and death, and was also regarded by Liu Xiu as a hardcore confidant and gave extreme trust.

He successively served as a protector, a partial general, a general of Jianyi, and a marquis, and was a typical Confucian general.

Later, Liu Xiu let the heroes retreat to the second line and enjoy their old age in peace, and Lao Zhu also handed over military power and served as "invited by the court" in Beijing, but he was invited to come out to discuss and discuss major events in the court.

Liu Xiu often visited him in Lao Zhu's mansion and rewarded him with something, and the two brothers reminisced, chatted, and laughed.

Once, Liu Xiu came to Zhu's Mansion again. This time, he gave Lao Zhu a stone of white honey.

Liu Xiu asked Lao Zhu with a smile: "Compared with the honey we bought together in Chang'an back then, which one is better?" ”

In this way, whether it is a senior cadre who holds a lot of power or an "old comrade" who has retired, Liu Xiu is very preferential, very generous, and very generous, and what is especially rare is that in addition to giving everyone abundant materials and sufficient face, he also let everyone see the affection from the heart.

In the end of his reign, Liu Xiu never crossed the river to tear down bridges, unload mills and kill donkeys.

Secondly, Liu Xiu attaches great importance to talents, which is also reflected in his use of talents, in today's words, that is, to select talents and make the best use of their talents.

Liu Xiu treats these apprentices and fans who have followed him for a long time and crisscrossed the field with sincerity, which everyone has seen.

With the stabilization of the regime and the implementation of the measures of "retiring meritorious officials and entering civil servants", he began to train and use learning, knowledge, and scholarly cadres on a large scale.

Liu Xiu himself was born as a student, and after he started the army, he also relied on horses to write poems, export articles, and talk about the Tao, and his mouth was like a river, and his personality and temperament were very elegant, as a great man said, he was the emperor with the highest education.

Now, he calmly and soberly sees that these apprentices and fans around him have made great contributions to fight the world with their fists, and it is time for them to enjoy their old age in peace; And ruling the world depends on the brain, these apprentices and fans around me are not long, it's time for cultural people to stand out and show their talents!

Therefore, after the great cause of reunification was basically completed, Liu Xiu determined the strategic thinking of "governing the country in judo" and put his main energy on the building of the contingent of cadres with "civil servants" as the main body.

Therefore, this great man said with great emotion that after the correct line is established, the cadres will decide everything.

Let's first talk about Liu Xiu's "judo governance", and then let's take a look at how he uses people, which can be understood more profoundly.

Let's talk about the story of how many times he returned to his hometown, because the concept of "judo governing the country" ran through his reign, and the only time he said it clearly was when he returned to his hometown to meet with his fellow villagers.

Liu Xiu's favorite places in his life are 3 places: first, Chang'an, the capital of the former Han Dynasty, which is the birthplace of the Liu Han Emperor's reign, with 11 imperial tombs of the previous dynasty, of course, he went there to show the royal blood; The second is Qufu, which is the hometown of Confucius, and he went there to worship Confucius in order to demonstrate his political philosophy of advocating Confucianism, attaching importance to education, and respecting talents; The third is the hometown of Nanyang County, Caiyang Houguo, Chungling Township.

As mentioned earlier, Liu Xiu was born in Jiyang and lived in Nanton as a child, where his father was the county magistrate; He studied in Xiao County, where his uncle was the county magistrate; And he finished his studies from Taixue and returned to his hometown as an educated youth, or in his hometown of Chungling, where he formed his own outlook on life, values, worldview, ways and methods, and officially grew up.

Because he is too busy, it is impossible for Liu Xiu to return to his hometown every year, and the limited number of times is recorded very clearly and clearly in history.

In 27 A.D., three years after his accession to the throne, he felt that he had complete control over the world, although the war to encircle and suppress the separatist forces in various places continued to rage.

So, in October of that year, he said that the emperor returned to his hometown for the first time after ascending the throne, worshiped the ancestral temple, and held a banquet in the old house to entertain his hometown fathers.

(Ancestral Temple, because of the old house of wine, the old people of the conference.) ）

This time, of course, Liu Xiu returned to his hometown, which caused a great shock among the villagers!

Back then, that diligent and polite country boy hadn't seen him for a few years, and now he is the emperor who is majestic and responsive!

Of course, Liu Xiu not only gave great glory to the people of his hometown, but also immediately and successively solved some practical problems: upgrading Chungling Township to Zhangling County, naming it with the name of his ancestral tomb "Zhangling", which was in line with the former Han Emperor's Mausoleum and showed his royal bloodline; At the same time, he ordered to follow the practice of Liu Bang, the former Han Gaozu of Peixian, and exempt his hometown from taxes and servitude.

These are all special treatments that are exclusive to the emperor and cannot be obtained in other places.

By the way, Liu Xiu also ordered the exemption of Jiyang County from 2 years of forced labor, which was also a reward for his birthplace.

In March 35 AD, Liu Xiu's campaign against Bashu entered a stalemate, and he returned to his hometown for the second time in his busy schedule, mainly to worship his ancestral tomb.

In 41 AD, the large-scale war in the country ended, the country and the people were safe, and the situation was very good.

In April, when the spring flowers were blooming, Liu Xiu took a group of sons such as the crown prince Liu Yi and Liu Yang, the duke of the East China Sea, to the south, inspecting the work and hunting at the same time, and returned to his hometown for the third time.

At this time, the state situation is very good, but Liu Xiu's family affairs are constantly troubled: Empress Guo Shengtong is running out of his patience, and he has already made up his mind and decided to change the queen and the prince as soon as possible.

Therefore, Liu Xiu brought his sons out this time, and he also had the intention of observing and inspecting them.

Therefore, Liu Xiu returned to his hometown this time, full of worries and hurried.

However, 6 months later, in October of that year, Liu Xiu returned to his hometown for the fourth time, and he was in a completely different mood!

A few days ago, he successfully deposed the queen Guo Shengtong as the empress dowager of Zhongshan, and established the noble Yin Lihua as the queen.

Although he did not immediately abolish Liu Yi and establish Liu Yang (later renamed Liu Zhuang), even the people on earth knew about the two brothers changing positions, and it was only a matter of time.

The political forces and interests of the relatives centered on the adjustment of the queen's choice have been decided, and the whole family affairs are much easier.

Therefore, Liu Xiu was in a very comfortable mood when he returned to his hometown this time: he lived in his hometown for 2 months, and he had a close reunion with the old and young masters in his hometown!

During this time, Liu Xiu mainly did 3 things:

The first is the building, the new construction and renovation of the old residence and ancestral hall, so that the relatives and neighbors in the past can enjoy the royal sunshine and rain; the second is a reward, more or less, to meet and share, so that the old and young masters in their hometown can stick a little royal light and get some benefits; The third is to drink, often set up banquets to entertain the old folks, everyone drinks happily, and happily reminisce about the time of the previous years.

It can be said that Liu Xiu was very happy and reckless during this time, he put down the shelf of the emperor's ninety-five honor, put down his mask, and rested, relaxed, and thoroughly happy like a wanderer returning to the arms of his mother.

One day, Liu Xiu feasted the elders of the family again, and everyone laughed with wine without any taboos.

I don't know how many rounds of wine have passed, anyway, it's time for the wine to be hot, and a few aunts and aunts directly called Liu Xiu's nickname, launched a sigh and discussion, and said:

"Uncle Wen was cautious and honest when he was a child, loyal and kind, he was good anywhere, but his temperament was a little gentle, I didn't expect to be able to mix like today!"

(Uncle Wen was faithful when he was young, and he didn't make any tunes with others, but he was straight and soft-eared; This is what it can be! ）

Liu Xiu laughed when he heard this, and replied:

"I rule the world, and I want to use judo!"

(I care about the world, and I want to do it with judo.) ）

In this way, under the guidance of the strategic thinking of judo governing the country, in order to promote better and faster economic and social development, Liu Xiu spent great energy on the building of the contingent of cadres, worked hard to create a political environment in which people are appointed on the basis of merit and made the best use of their talents, and a large number of clerical and followers were trained and employed, and the results were very good.

In this way, we have to say a little more.

Employing people is the core power of those in power, the core business of a regime, and the key factor that determines how far a regime and its rulers can go.

Of course, employing people has also become a key factor in measuring the health, humanistic quality, and civilization index of a regime and its rulers.

It should be said that the principles of employing people such as "appointing people on the basis of merit" and "making the best use of their talents" have been tested by thousands of years of history, and they are necessary, easy to use, and can be used in different regimes.

The crux of the problem lies in the fact that in reality, these principles of employing people are all used by people, and those in power often take interests as the center and their own personal needs as the radius to draw a circle, and in some people, these principles that are originally very good have become tablecloths, which can be wiped when they are needed, and thrown away when they are not needed.