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Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 34, Hanji 26
The second year of Jianping, Emperor Ai of Han (chen, 5 B.C.)
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On to ask the yellow door attendant Shu County Yang Xiong and Li Xun, hun said: "This" Hong Fan "so-called drum demon. Division of law, thought that the ruler is not smart, confused by the crowd, empty name to get into, there is a sound invisible, do not know from the birth. Its "biography" said: 'years, months, days in the middle, it is the correct Secretary subject to.' Today, the April day plus Chen, Si has a different, is a dining room in the Yan. Secretary, said the ruling minister also. It is appropriate to retire the prime minister, the imperial secretary, in response to changes in the sky. However, although not retired, not out of the period of years, the people since the blame." Yang Xiong also thought "drum demon, listen to the loss of the image. Zhu Bo is a strong and resolute, more power and strategy, should be general rather than phase, fear of fierce evil and serious illness of the anger." The upper did not listen.
Translation】(You can escape to read the analysis directly)
Emperor Sorrow asked Yang Xiong, a yellow door attendant and a native of Shu County, as well as Li Xun about this strange incident, and Li Xun replied, "This is the kind of drum demon described in the Hong Fan, which casts spells, often when it is thought that the monarch has unclear ears and is confused, so that people with empty names enter the court and are promoted to important positions, when the drum demon will make a sound, but invisible, so that people do not know where the sound comes from. The Hong Fan - Chuan says: 'Those whose drum demon vocalization appears in the middle of the year, month, and day, foretell that the rightful secretary will suffer disaster.' Now it is April, and the day of the eighth and sixth hour, the appearance of strange, it is the middle of the period. By the term positive minister, I mean the ruling minister. The prime minister and the imperial secretary should be dismissed to deal with the change of heaven. Even if they are not dismissed now, within a year, I will suffer disasters since." Yang Xiong also believed, "The appearance of the drum demon is a symbol of the king's deafness. Zhu Bo is a strong and resolute person, rich in power and strategy, suitable for a general but not for a minister. If he does not withdraw, I am afraid that he will incur the wrath of heaven and send down a dangerous and radical disaster." Emperor Miao ignored their words.
[Analysis
When Prime Minister Kong Guang was removed, Zhu Bo took over from the position of imperial governor, and Shaofu Zhao Xuan took over as imperial governor.
Only strange things happened when the relevant appointment was accepted.
The first thing that happened was that the government had to take over the responsibility of the government.
People say that things have anomalies must be demons, according to materialism, there are scientific explanations for everything that happens in the world.
If you can not find a scientific explanation, you can only say that the current technical conditions, cognitive level is limited.
The sudden loud noise, the ancients seem to be the will of heaven in the warning, but in fact, to put it bluntly, is that someone deliberately make things happen, taking the opportunity to say things, using the will of heaven to achieve private purposes.
Emperor Han asked his ministers how to explain this.
Sure enough, someone jumped in and said that Zhu Bo was not suitable to be the prime minister.
There is a lot that can be said here, but what is interesting is not who is behind it or what he wants to achieve, but what Yang Xiong said.
Zhu Bo is a strong and resolute person, with a lot of power and strategy, suitable for the general and not the prime minister, fearing a vicious and urgent anger.
Strong perseverance, more power and strategy, is considered a comment on the character, character, style of work, some degree is not bad, but in the mouth of Yang Xiong is not good words.
The so-called strong perseverance, strong and resolute, more power and strategy is to do things with means very flexible.
The latter is a subjective judgement that is appropriate for the general and not the phase.
The person who said Yang Xiong, very powerful, is a thinker and rhetorician in the late Western Han Dynasty, he can say that there is actually some truth to it.
In "The Records of the Grand Historian Chen", Chen Ping said this about the functions of the prime minister
The prime minister is the one who helps the emperor to manage the yin and the yang, to follow the four seasons, to nurture all things, to subdue the four barbarians and the vassals, and to be close to the people.
In fact, the main mediation and management of specific people, although speaking rather vague, compared with Zhu Bo's personality style can still be seen some clues.
Zhu Bo's character is tough and resolute, in fact, that is, tough, do not admit weakness, and identify the things to do, encounter difficulties to fight.
This kind of character if to do specific things, naturally is no disadvantage.
However, the prime minister has to reconcile the interests of many parties, which can not have such a character, otherwise it is easy to cause internal conflicts.
From the point of view of internal unity.
Zhu Bo's character tends to overwhelm internal parties with power, authority and force, and those who do not listen to him directly do so, screwing everyone together.
Those who do not obey either roll or roll, as for the heart to obey or not does not matter, just obey.
In contrast, the prime minister, as Chen Ping calls him, unites all the unifiable forces, does the work, engages in unification, sets the mind, and integrates everyone together.
This kind is to get everyone to agree psychologically first, and then unify to do something.
Comparison of the two, the former is fast but huge potential problems, encounter a little disruption is very likely to fall apart.
The latter is slow and even difficult, but once it becomes, it forms a big momentum, like a snowball is unstoppable.
Then again, Zhu Bo's "more power and strategy".
It's not that more power and strategy is bad, power and strategy this thing, to a certain position, more or less will have, the key lies in the attitude towards this thing.
There is something called path dependence, that is, with what method to get success, will tend to use this method later.
It's like having a hammer in your hand, looking at everything like a nail and wanting to whack it twice.
Power is considered a solution or a way of thinking to solve problems, and if you over-rely on it, you will become unscrupulous for the sake of the end and lose the right way.
Small people may not matter, but the more upward you go, you can not engage in too much of this stuff, at least not to let others see.
Even if you want to engage in, is also engaged in the Yang plot, the hall is righteous moves, do not care to play underhanded means in private, so the other side lost also lost in the heart.
Or in order to achieve the purpose of too much emphasis on the means, and ignore the underlying causes of the problem, which led to things done, but similar problems will be endless.
It is like saying that the ancient local rebellion, more power and conspiracy may want to solve the rebellious people, may not be from the root to solve the factors that produce the rebellion of people.
On the other hand, the performance of more power and strategy is flexible thinking, not for the constraints of the rules and regulations, more ideas, more ideas, more ways, a turn of the mind think this thing can be done, so immediately arranged to go down.
If you are a general, you are leading others to do it, and most likely to be successful.
If the phase, it is to let others to do, first of all, whether others also agree is one hand, others can understand the level of implementation is in place is one hand.
If this is coupled with a strong and resolute character, it is easy to become a leadership decision, let the following to do or even forcibly suppress the following to do, resulting in ideas and the actual situation does not match.
I have encountered such a leader, ideas more ideas, encounter difficult things a head shot can think of ways.
Before he was in the middle, and the first line of contact, so basically is no disadvantage, want to do things have become.
Later he went to the top, a bit out of touch with reality, a number of head shot to make that a labor of love.
In fact, again from the perspective of power or management, the more you go up, the more retreat, set the direction of the tone table attitude, and will not be too involved in the specific how to do the problem, more is to think about how to unite people well.
So, what Yang Xiong said still makes sense, did not deny Zhu Bo's talent, but is not suitable to be prime minister.
Just like when Xiao Wangzhi acknowledged Zhang Chang's ability, but denied that Zhang Chang was too frivolous to be the prince's teacher for a reason.
Different levels have certain talent needs, not necessarily that there is a kind of all-purpose oil type can eat through the board.
Just as there are inevitable contradictions in development, and contradictions exist in every stage of development, these contradictions are often the same and different.
Talent character is also variable, only according to the reality of the situation constantly adjusted to be able to get better and better.
This thing in turn, from the point of view of employing people is also true.
Different stages have different goals, but also different needs, naturally need to place different people in this position to produce the appropriate effect.
So ah, the top are proficient in the master of people, get the people to get all!