——"Speech at the Provincial Party Committee Team Special Democratic Life Meeting in Hebei" and other articles

■Interpretation

Misfortunes often accumulate in small ways, and the same is true when it comes to employing people. In addition to quoting this ancient saying to illustrate the harm of unhealthy practices in employing people, Comrade Xi Jinping also quoted a Lu Xun exposition on Leifeng Pagoda: How did Leifeng Pagoda fall? It's because there are too many people who go to pick up bricks, you take one today, tomorrow he takes one, and finally the tower collapses. The fall is instantaneous, but the process is gradual. Some things always feel that they are not urgent, but they are just the gradual death. Therefore, for those who "have antennas" and "take antennas" to run for official positions, and select and employ people based on relationships and feelings, even if there are a very few examples, they cannot be taken lightly. Think about it: If people with mediocre political integrity and opportunism have been repeatedly promoted and reused, but cadres who work hard and do not run away have no opportunity to progress, who still has the heart to work in a down-to-earth manner?

■Original text

The ministers look at the prosperity of the previous generation, and win people; The death of the state is also caused by the loss of people. Gaining the right person and losing the other person is not overnight, and its origin is gradually disappearing. Heaven and earth cannot be cold and hot, but will gradually become spring and autumn; The king of men cannot rise and fall at once, but will gradually become good and evil. Good does not accumulate, and it cannot flourish; Evil does not accumulate, and it cannot die suddenly.

——(Tang) Bai Juyi, "Celin: The Reason for the Rise and Fall"

■Definition

"Celin" is a collection of current affairs essays prepared by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi in the first year of Yuan and the first year (806) before participating in the system examination, with a total of 75 articles. Proceeding from the politics of the times, "Celin" mainly discusses eight issues, including the way of being a king and holiness, the strategy of governing and transforming the people, the method of seeking talent and selecting talents, the method of purging officials, the art of provincial punishment and prudent punishment, and the key points of governing the army and the army.

The above passage is from the fourteenth chapter of "Tsering", "Distinguishing the Causes of Rise and Fall". It means: the prosperity of the country lies in the possession of talents; The country is dying because of the loss of talent. Whether it is winning or losing people, it is not caused overnight, but is the result of long-term development and change. The "gradual" of "its origin is gradual" is a process of quantitative change, but quantitative change will cause qualitative change. Bai Juyi warned that unhealthy tendencies in employing people have existed for a long time, and over time, they will inevitably lead to serious consequences.

China is the earliest country to produce the idea of talents. In the preface of Mao's poems in the Book of Songs: "If a gentleman can grow up to cultivate talents, the world will be happy." There are also verses in the "Book of Songs" that "Ji Ji Duoshi, King Wen Yining" and "The Four Kingdoms have no government, and they don't need to be good". Mencius believed that "respecting the virtuous" is the foundation of governing the country, and pointed out that the country "will die if it does not use the virtuous" and "if it does not believe in the virtuous, the country will be empty", and raised the ability to appoint virtuous talents to the height of the country's survival.