Wang Xiaolie listened quietly to the performance of Zhang Zhongfu and Zheng Jianchong these days, nodding from time to time. After Xiao Zhen finished speaking, Wang Xiaolie said: "I understand. Let them live a good life and go to school in Luoyang in a while."
Wang Xiaolie talked so much that night, it was just talking to a cow. The two of them are full of complaints these days. Not satisfied with status, not satisfied with salary, not satisfied with future, in short, almost no one is satisfied.
It took Wang Xiaolie some time before he remembered that he needed to hear their reactions. Then he found the accompanying officials and asked them about their usual behavior. Then I realized that these two people had so many complaints on weekdays, but they just didn't dare to say it to themselves. Only then did he realize that what he said that night was completely false, and they didn't listen at all.
How many people listened? At this time, Wang Xiaolie had to suspect that the people around him didn't listen. Even Wang Ruohai, Chen Qiudao and others, although they did not refute, did not necessarily agree.
If one day, I am gone, the whole system may collapse. Even the words I said will be forgotten. They will forget why they built this army and why it developed like this. It's doubtful what they'll even remember.
They only care about themselves and obey their advice, not because their ideals are great, but because they are victorious. This is because after advancing and occupying Xiangyang, they almost never failed and won consecutive battles. Whether their opinions are right or wrong, they all agree.
Sighing, Wang Xiaolie leaned on his chair and looked out the window.
Naturally, people are all different, and everyone has their own ideas. There is no way around this. Don't feel pity, it is precisely because of the thousands of people and faces that we have a colorful world. It is impossible to force others to think the same as you. No matter how great your ideals are and how pure your goals are, you cannot ask others to think the same as you. Don't talk about dedicating your life to some great goal, that's impossible. What's more, they are willing to dedicate their lives, but there are still questions about how to dedicate and how to live.
This is a personal matter. Just as a leader, I always want others to be like me, consciously or unconsciously. Since you can't do it, there's no need to waste energy on it. An organization needs mandatory orders and is essential. But there are many skills in how to order and how to execute the order.
The military can impose mandatory orders because these orders come from political demands and are relatively clear. In other words, the military cannot have its own will. The military's will comes from political will. If the military develops independent will, it must be eradicated promptly.
The question is, how does political will arise? According to the general development trend of the world, power has gradually shifted from being granted by heaven or gods to being granted by the people. A typical example is elections, and the right to vote is increasingly owned by a wider range of people.
Wang Xiaolie didn't want to use his brain on the form. Because a form has been set, those in power always strive to embed their own interests into this form. In the end, only the form was retained, but the content was completely changed. What Wang Xiaolie needs to do is to find a governance method that is compatible with new political ideas.
In the past, it was said that officials should know a little statistics. Wang Xiaolie did not do this on a whim, but because the world is like this, and officials must use this method to govern.
The world we live in is not static, nor can it be summed up in one sentence. If you do this, you will inevitably simplify the world a lot and then sketch a rough model. This model resembles the real world, but is by no means the real world. Most theories are about the models they have drawn, rather than theories about the real world.
What was the world originally like? For example, the greening trees in your community are fruit trees, such as peaches, apricots, plums, even pomegranates, persimmons, etc. Most people will take care of these trees and protect the environment of the community. But there are always several people, or sometimes even one person, who pick the fruits when they are almost ripe and take them back to their homes. They often don't eat, but they just feel like they're losing money if they don't pick.
If you drive this person away, you will find that someone will come out after a while and he will still do this. Unless this fruit tree is very common or has no edible value at all, this phenomenon will be difficult to eliminate. Even a neighbor is complaining with you about the unethical nature of fruit pickers one second, and then goes to pick fruit the next second. There is no use complaining at this time, because this is the way the world is.
It is useless to analyze human nature and say that human nature is inherently self-interested, or that there are some genes in human nature that cause this. The fact is, why do most people not pick it, but only a few people pick it?
In fact, the best thing to do at a time like this is to manage. For example, how much is the fine if you are caught picking a fruit? As long as you catch more people, no one will pick it. But this raises another question, which is how much the penalty will be. The penalty for picking a fruit is 10,000 yuan, which is called heavy punishment. The penalty for picking a fruit is a dime, which is called a light punishment. There will be a problem in the Chongdian that although a person is caught, he cannot pay the fine and the penalty keeps rising. If the punishment is light, there will be a problem of not punishing people, and more people will be picked off.
Therefore, there is a range of fines, which are neither heavy fines nor light fines. Only when it falls within this range can it be considered effective management.
This is true of most things in the world. Social phenomena are all probabilistic and conform to a statistical law. Only by understanding statistical knowledge can we manage it better. Without knowledge of statistics, management will be blind.
Wang Xiaolie had known this for a long time, but he still wanted to give it one last try. Using traditional methods, one wonders whether we can find like-minded people and whether we can get things done. But after trying it, I concluded that it doesn’t work well.
After picking up the teacup and taking a sip of tea, Wang Xiaolie shook his head.
People are inherently different, and it is impossible to force others to be the same as yourself. This kind of thing is normal. You should not get angry or blame others for lying to you. Because when you asked, you asked the wrong question.
If we say that power comes from the people, then we must find a way to make power come from the people. Don't think that this method will last forever and be effective forever. Just think that it works for you. It is nonsense to think that relying on the system, no matter whether a cat or a dog can be the emperor, it is nonsense.
How to do it? Of course, we still need to rely on statistical knowledge to depict the true face of the world. The people who do this are the people who went to folk gatherings when they were in Xiangyang. These people are a different kind of official, people who understand the real world.
Don't use heavy codes for government. When using Chongdian in troubled times, the first thing to deal with is the person who caused the troubled times, and then use Chongdian in a short period of time. Normal society is not suitable for heavy codes. Using heavy codes will cause more problems.
Of course, the punishment cannot be lenient. Punishments that are too light will make people despise the law and treat the law as nothing. In a normal society, laws should be neither light nor heavy, at a normal level. Only in this way will the law have its due status without causing more problems.
The key to the law is that those who break the law must be punished. The law has appropriate severity, and illegal behavior must be punished. We cannot turn a blind eye to some illegal activities or kill others for various reasons. If this is the case, people's respect for the law will disappear and the law will no longer work.
Wang Xiaolie couldn't make everything clear. He could only ensure that he was not angry or crazy and treated it calmly.
(End of chapter)
