After Gao Mo made the recommendation, it was Gao Xiaozhuang's turn, but Gao Xiaozhuang only recommended one person, and his name was quite good, Gao Fu. Gao Jingshi's first reaction when he heard this name was: Oh, he's just not that handsome.
Coincidentally, Gao Xiaozhuang also did not shy away from family members, and this rich man was actually his third uncle.
Gao Xiaozhuang is a son of the Gao family, as is his third uncle Gao Fu. If you really think about it, after Gao Xiaozhuang's great-great-grandfather was killed, the entire family was born to the Gao family.
This relationship is a bit far-fetched: when Gao Xiaozhuang's great-grandfather was five years old, he was sold by his family because of poverty and disaster. At that time, Gao Xiaozhuang's great-grandfather Gao Kui was a doctor in the Ministry of Industry's Yu Heng Qing Li Division. , not too small to say the least, roughly equivalent to the director-general of a certain ministry in later generations. If he were posted outside, even if he was transferred at the same level, he would still be a prefect.
Although Mr. Gao Kui was a Beijing official at the time, he was also in charge of Jizhou Iron Smelting. Gao Xiaozhuang's great-grandfather was bought by Gao Kui by chance when he was supervising the official iron smelting in Jizhou. From then on, his family continued to bear the surname Gao for several generations and became the son of the Gao family.
Gao Fu was not familiar with Gao Pragmatic and could only be introduced by Gao Xiaozhuang. According to Gao Xiaozhuang, his third uncle was "handy". When he was young, he first learned carpentry and was good at carpentry work. Later, he learned to be a mason and performed well. It is also extremely outstanding - in March of the 45th year of Jiajing reign, after Gao Gong became the Minister of Rites and became the Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, he presided over the construction of the large ancestral hall rebuilt by the Gao family.
Simply put, this is engineering talent. The reason why Gao Xiaozhuang recommended him was: Since the eldest young master will open a mine in the future, and mining will inevitably involve digging holes, he will definitely need people like his third uncle Gao Fu.
This reason is very good. Gao Pragmatic always likes subordinates with professional expertise. As for Gao Fu's loyalty... several generations of family members have had children, and they can preside over the construction of the Gao family's ancestral temple. Do you still need to doubt it?
Gao Jingshi did some calculations in his mind. Gao Mo recommended three and Gao Xiaozhuang recommended one. Including the two of them, the "Gao Family Gang" under him would have seven people. Even if there were three The people on Shen Yuan's side were not enough to completely return to their hearts for the moment, and he was enough to control the situation.
Besides, Gao Mo will still have the basic weapons of the servant guards in his hand, so even if something happens here, he can completely control the situation.
Gao Pragmatic had worked as a leader in his previous life and had also been a small leader himself. He knew very well what the people below him were thinking. Sanshenyuan was originally considered an industry that had fallen from the world. It already had its own "organizational system", but now with Gao Pragmatic taking over, a new group of management will be added.
If they all "work" in the same place, the new management and the old management will naturally form two factions. This is a normal situation. Only those who are pragmatic will not be crazy and have to find ways to "unite" them. , that is a thankless task.
His way of dealing with it is to try to keep the two factions in a delicate balance: for example, the three original stewards of Sanshen Garden, because of their local advantages, their popularity in the local area is definitely not comparable to that of Gao Mo and Gao Xiaozhuang. , so Gao Pragmatic directly joined five new "Gaojiabang" management members, including even a serious young master of the Gaojia.
Although Gao Guoyan's father, Gao Guoyan's second uncle, Gao Du, joined the military, after all, Gao Guoyan was the legitimate "young master of the Gao family". When this name is put here, the identity of master and servant is clear at a glance. He himself is not a piece of dirt, and none of the three top managers in Sanshenyuan can even think of being able to control him.
The status gap in feudal society is often so difficult to make up for and equalize—unless you have the ability to pass the Jinshi exam and come back.
Gao Mo and Gao Xiaozhuang also assigned tasks and recommended talents. Gao Pragmatic asked them to go down and think about what they should do for the next errand. Tomorrow, one of the two people will be responsible for recruiting bodyguards, and the other will organize soap production. They both have to think about how to carry out the work. Of course Gao Pragmatic had a relatively complete idea in his mind, but after much deliberation, he decided not to talk about it yet, but to see what Gao Mo and Gao Xiaozhuang planned to do.
This is not because Gao is pragmatic and deliberately lazy. This is a little bit of the so-called leadership art he realized in his previous life: Don't give your subordinates clear instructions on what they should do, and let them just follow your baton. Succeed easily, otherwise even if this person is originally capable, sooner or later he will be destroyed by you as the leader.
On the contrary, as a leader, you must be able to fully delegate power and let your subordinates think and practice on their own. What the leader has to do is to clarify the general direction and help them hold the rudder in case they take a detour. , just reverse the direction. Only in this way can we train our subordinates to grow up - wasn't this the way to train cadres in organizations in previous lives most of the time?
After all, only Gao Pragmatic knows how extensive the industries he may be involved in in the future will be. If he does not train as many talents as possible from now on, will he have to personally manage so many industries while being an official in the future? He couldn't do it even if he was exhausted.
Although he wanted to save Ming, he did not intend to be like Zhuge Kongming who died young.
Of course, this does not mean that Zhuge Liang does not understand the importance of cultivating talents. Is it true that Zhuge Liang was unable to discover talents in history? Attendant Dong Yun, Chief Shi Fei Wei, Minister Yang Yi, and Ma Di, who joined the army, are all auxiliary materials of the country. The fact that Shu can exist as a weak country in the Three Kingdoms is itself a manifestation of its domestic stability and unity. Otherwise, Wei and Wu How could the country not find an opportunity for so long?
But no matter how powerful Zhuge Liang is, he is still a human being and has his limitations. His own versatility determines that he is more suitable for management, but not suitable for decision-making. He likes talented people with many talents, but does not like people with impure morals but great ability.
The idea of employing people with both talents and virtues can be very popular in the era of peace, but it cannot become the dominant idea of employing talents during the Warring States Period, because no one is perfect and no gold is pure. However, throughout the later period of Zhuge Liang's rule, the idea of virtuous first and then later became the dominant factor in his employment, and its shortcomings naturally gradually emerged.
For example, among the original talents in central Sichuan, Liao Li, who considered himself only as talented as Zhuge's deputy, was placed in an idle position for a long time; the capable minister Li Yanyun, Wen Yunwu, was demoted because of the grain transportation incident and was no longer useful; the general Wei Yanjiu What's even more interesting is that just because he was "naturally rebellious at the back of his head" he couldn't use it to its full potential, and was eventually forced to rebel shortly after Zhuge Liang's death.
Furthermore, it is difficult to list specific standards for things like virtue and talent. In most cases, they can only be judged by personal standards. Ma Su joined the army, and the Ma brothers became officials with their reputation. Later, they provided advice to the army and won Zhuge's approval. However, in the battle of Jieting, they lost one and all, and the entire Northern Expedition was in vain.
Therefore, the highly pragmatic talent training plan is more inclined to start from a low position, start with small things, look at ability first, and then consider morality. If someone under your command may be talented, then give him a chance to take charge of a certain errand, and Gao Pragmatic himself will analyze the person's character, ability, character, etc. from his handling of the errand, and then consider the right decision. His future use, or consideration of tendentious training.
