Looking at everyone's expressions, Wang Xiaolie smiled. Said: "I have thought about this problem for a long time and tried various methods. In the end, I found that if you want to govern the world well, the most useful thing is to manage the officials well. If the officials cannot be managed well, you will use countless methods, but in the end it will be useless. . Of course, having such high demands on officials will test the means of governance. To put it harshly, as long as the rulers have no ideals and the officials have no ideals, everything will turn into nothingness. How long can our ideals persist? God knows. No matter what , it’s up to us to start.”
Having said this, Wang Xiaolie sighed helplessly.
It is difficult to maintain ideals, and most people even think it is impossible. Even Wang Xiaolie himself was worried. But apart from this method, any other method is unreliable.
Some people think that they can rely on the system. It sounds sound and logical, but there is no such system in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. How can people believe something that only exists in theory but does not exist in reality? What's more, even in theory, no system can thrive for a long time. Learning cannot be separated from practice. We cannot say that practice is neither important nor that, but my theory is the most important.
With a good system, the society can still run well if anyone can be an official. Such words are nothing but lies. As long as officials as a whole become corrupt, society as a whole will be unable to reverse its downward trend.
The core of politics is officials. If we abandon the supervision of officials, we will inevitably face chaos. This kind of chaos cannot be saved by any system, it can only deteriorate step by step.
But, how long can you hold on to your ideals? ten years? Or twenty years? Or for a lifetime? If you leave, can the next generation still hold on to their ideals? What about the next generation? God knows how long.
At least, while he is here, the people of the world can live a relatively happy life. If you can't even do this, it's a joke to say it can last through generations. You can't guarantee how it will end, but you can decide how it will start.
He raised his head and looked at everyone. Wang Xiaolie said: "You enter school, but in the end you find that you can't be an official. Or you become an official and are suddenly dismissed. If this is the case, many people cannot accept it. To put it harshly, it is so difficult to be an official. How many people Are you willing to come to study? It won't take long before this school will be unable to recruit students. Therefore, for those who study normally in school and are least able to become officials. There are also those who have not made big mistakes and are just not suitable for being officials. There are resettlement measures. There are several ways. One is not to be an official, but to be a clerk. Although the salary of a clerk is far not as high as that of an official, the requirements are not high. As long as you work hard, you will have no problem supporting your family. If you are not willing to be a clerk Yes, they can be arranged by the government to enter specialized schools and do other things after graduation. We are different from before. There are many factories and shopping malls, and people are needed everywhere. Only by arranging the people who leave well can we Officials can feel at ease so that they don’t have to worry about their retreat.”
When these words were spoken, everyone was unexpected, and they all looked up at Wang Xiaolie.
Wang Xiaolie said: "In the past, dismissal from office to serve the people was a very severe punishment. If coupled with the pursuit of literature since birth, this person would basically have no future in politics. In this world, how could he only be an official? What's a way out? There are many ways out. Our system only selects those who are suitable to be officials and lets them be officials. Those who are not suitable for being officials have not made any mistakes, so they naturally have their own way of living. The escape route for officials is It must be arranged well, so that everyone cannot be trembling with fear when they are officials. I will handle this matter personally now, so don't worry."
All the students let out a sigh of relief, looked at the people around them, and secretly thought they were lucky.
I heard Wang Xiaolie talking about how high the officials' requirements were, which frightened everyone. Finally, we found out that even if we couldn't become an official, there were still other ways to get into this school, and everyone felt relieved.
Wang Xiaolie has no musical talent and doesn’t listen to music much. I just occasionally listen to a song that sounds good to me. One of his favorite foreign songs in his previous life was "Scarborough Fair". Wang Xiaolie couldn't even tell what the meaning of this song was and how well it was sung. It was just the faint melancholy in the song that moved him.
Did you do it right? In fact, Wang Xiaolie didn't know. You can only do your best. Even if you don't do well, at least you tried your best. Regardless of success or failure, I at least left an ideal to the world.
Many of the things I learned in my previous life are very useful. But there is really not much taught about how to govern a country. Whether it is learned in the classroom or outside the classroom, it is really unreliable. Most of that knowledge was translated from Western scholars. They are divided into various factions and fight with each other. No matter what genre it is, if it is used for verification and practice, the results are regrettable.
Some people say that this country's system is good, while others say that country's system is good, and each has various reasons. But which system is better? Who can tell? After reading too much, the only reliable thing is that officials must manage things well.
The United States once dominated the world and ran rampant. But as time went by, it slowly began to go downhill. It's not scary to go downhill. What's scary is that there is no end to the downhill road. Whether it was a system or execution issue, Wang Xiaolie didn't think it was important. But when he heard the director of the CIA in the United States say, "We lie, we cheat, and we steal, and we have a course specifically to teach these. This is the glory of the United States' continuous exploration and progress." Wang Xiaolie felt that this country really The land is finished.
It’s not that noble people don’t do despicable things, they do them too. It's just that when they do it, they know it's wrong, but they just have no choice but to do it. When you abandon your noble ideals and take despicable things for granted, you have one foot in the grave.
Wang Xiaolie often feels a kind of melancholy like in the "Scarborough" market. Sometimes, he wished he could wake up and go back to the time when he was a teenager in his previous life. On a bright spring day, I will come to the door and plant a peach tree on the left and an apricot tree on the right. Not to eat their fruits, but to hope that they will bloom in the spring.
With a slight cough, Wang Xiaolie continued: "What kind of country do we want to live in? What do we want our government to look like? Work at sunrise. Rest at sundown. Dig wells and drink. Plow. I eat from the fields. What does imperial power mean to me? For us Han people, this may be the case. A government has to collect taxes and levy, so the people have no rest. We can only collect as little tax as possible and levy as little levy as possible. , don’t let the people have no rest every day, and no food and clothing. Officials in the government should not raise anything that is not useful, and try to keep it as little as possible.”
"It is not easy to do this. My principle is that all officials must have clear responsibilities and clear requirements. Every official is useful to the government and the people. According to this principle, there cannot be any favors, let alone In order to give someone a bite to eat, let him be an official. The requirements for officials must be strict. If you are not suitable for the job, don't do it. If you think you can't adapt to such strict management, don't do it. People who are not suitable for being an official , don’t treat them like criminals. It’s easy to get together and disperse, but the government has to find a way out for them.”
"In addition to officials, there are several types of people in the government system. The first is officials, the second is officials, the third is servants, and the fourth is servants. Of course, there is also the emperor above, but we won't talk about it. Officials and officials, It’s not just that the power is different, the salary is different, and the future is different, but the responsibilities are fundamentally different.”
Having said this, Wang Xiaolie asked the official on the side to bring up a blackboard. Picked up the chalk, drew a coordinate system on it, and then drew an inverted clock-like curve.
Said: "The function represented by this curve is a normal distribution. If you have never studied mathematics, you may not know it. It doesn't matter. You will learn it soon after entering school. Just remember it now. Two or three months ago, I Together with several people who study mathematics, we finally figured out this function and will tell you about it today. The probability density of most things in the world has this shape, including the things our officials deal with."
However, two vertical lines are drawn on the curve. Said: "Between these two vertical lines, we decide daily matters and act according to the regulations. All officials deal with the matters between these. The matters between these can be found in the regulations." Theoretically speaking, officials do not have any power. What they do is either stipulated in regulations or ordered by officials. Around and outside the vertical line, it is handled by officials. Regulations It’s something that doesn’t exist, it’s up to the officials to decide.”
"Remember, it's not that I am the senior official and you are the junior official. What should be decided by me and what should be decided by you. But all matters within the official's responsibilities are decided by the official. If the superior is not satisfied, he can When replacing people, don’t teach your subordinates to do things easily.”
"Use this method to distinguish officials from clerks. The responsibilities are different, the authority is different, and the income is of course different. This difference determines that officials cannot be promoted from clerks, but must have special channels. The imperial examination is a Seed, we canceled Enyin. The imperial examination alone was not enough, so we added schools. After graduating from the school, after passing the examination, some qualified people will be officials, and those who are unqualified will be clerks. Everyone should rely on his own ability, and don't complain about why he can do it. If you are an official, I will be an official. If you do well in the exam, you will be an official as well."
"In addition to officials, there are also messengers who work for the government. In fact, many of our former public officials were messengers, commonly known as messengers. Now I clearly distinguish them. The so-called messengers mean that the government does not pay them salaries, but they They work for the government on a daily basis. For example, there are guilds in ordinary cities, and the businessmen who manage the guilds are messengers. They do not receive salaries and work for the government. There are also markets in rural areas, and the same are those who manage the markets. They do not receive salaries from the government, but rely on money collected from the market as their income."
"In addition to the servants, there are also servants. The servants are servants who have no income and have to do things for the government. For example, in addition to the land tax, farmers also have to do 50 labors a year. When they are serving, they are servants."
"Different identities have different responsibilities and do different things. The officials are in charge of everything. Therefore, the government focuses on officials, and the officials are in charge. The police and servants below must obey the officials and officials. To be honest, as long as officials are in charge, there will never be chaos in the world. If officials are not in charge, life will only get worse day by day. I hope that everyone will go to school, study hard, and learn all the knowledge that officials need to master. . Come out of school, be a good person, be a good official, and don’t let the people down.”
"If we succeed, it will be a blessing to the people, and they can live a happy life. If I fail, many years later, the people may still remember that there used to be a group of people like us who wanted to be officials and govern like this. The world. At that time, under the Nine Springs, we could proudly say that we have been in this world before."
