The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 906 Not to be an official!

Ao Huang whispered in a low voice: "When the workshop is good, those workers are good workers. When the workshop is not good, they all become bad workers. If they were so good at changing, they would have become officials long ago. Of course, one of them must be There is a problem."

Fang Yun glared at Ao Huang and said, "Yingwu continues. Have you ever experienced what happened back then?"

Fang Yingwu shook his head and said: "I have never experienced it personally, but Mr. Wu, who worked with me, was the staff of Sizheng of the Michigan Engineering Division. He analyzed it thoroughly. After Liushan successfully vilified the workshop workers, he began to let others The workers were naturally dissatisfied and went to block the county government offices and roads. However, Liushan had already stigmatized the workers as lazy and incompetent people. Not only would other people in Mizhou not sympathize with them, they would even sympathize with them. Hate them."

Ao Huang was stunned and said: "What a powerful method, even if you are unlucky. As expected of a left prime minister, I would not have thought of this trick! As soon as this trick was used, it isolated the workers and made them stand side by side with the people of the country." The opposite of officials.”

Fang Yingwu said: "Prince Huang drew inferences from one instance and I admire you. What I just mentioned was Liushan's method against the workers. After that, Liushan began to deceive the people. Didn't he say that there were officials who were corrupt? So he vigorously purged the officials. , he did deal with a very small number of corrupt officials, but 80% of them The officials who were punished above were all those with little background and opposed his selling workshops, as well as officials who were in opposition to his faction. Then, he used the heads of those officials as his achievements in government affairs, and naturally added his own people. With the vacant official position, Mizhou gradually became his world."

"What? How is this possible?" Ao Huang looked at Fang Yun.

Fang Yun said: "What Yingwu said is almost consistent with what I know and infer."

Fang Yingwu continued: "The reason why Liu Shan was promoted from Mizhou Mu to Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is not because he sold his workshop, but because he sold his workshop to the right person! Who can afford a workshop? Isn’t it a powerful family? Who dares to buy a workshop without someone above them? However, Liu Shan knows the faces of those people very well, so there is a prerequisite, that is, the owner of the workshop is allowed to acquire some ‘shares’ to ensure the smooth operation of the workshop in the future.”

Fang Yun nodded, knowing that shares were called stocks in ancient times.

Ao Huang said angrily: "Those shop owners are obviously not doing well in business, why are they still allowed to get shares? Isn't this dirty laundry washed with sewage, and the more it is washed, the darker it gets?"

"Liu Shan's reason is very simple. In addition to ensuring the smooth operation of the workshop in the future, he also said that the workshop owners with problems have been punished, and the workers who have problems have been fired. In addition, the management methods of the workshops have changed, so those The workshop can come alive.”

"Since changing management methods, dismissing problematic workers, and punishing problematic owners can bring things back to life, can it be solved without selling the workshops? To put it another way, even if the workshops must be sold, why are workers not allowed to work together to acquire shares? ? It can have the same effect?”

Fang Yingwu glanced at Ao Huang and remained silent.

Fang Yun turned to look out the window and said slowly: "If the workshop had not been sold, and if workers had been allowed to buy shares, he would not have been able to secure the position of pastor of Mizhou, and later he would not have been able to secure the position of left prime minister."

Ao Huang was stunned for a moment, with a sad look in his eyes. He nodded and said, "I understand."

Fang Yingwu sighed softly and said: "It's good if you understand. What can those workers bring to Liushan? A good reputation? How much good reputation can a few workers bring him? The more reputation he can get by deceiving more people. ! Selling the workshop to officials and wealthy families is equivalent to gaining profits. With their support, his official position will be more stable. Among those who can recommend articles to "Wenbao" and those who are responsible for reviewing articles, which one is the common people? History books are never written by the common people. It is the work of officials and those in power.”

Ao Huang looked at Fang Yun and said: "I didn't understand why you said that even if the Queen Mother fell, Liu Shan would not fall. I also understood why you said that even if Taizu Taizong was accused by officials in future generations, it would be impossible for Liu Shan, the left prime minister, to fall. I was denied by the officials, but now I understand.”

"You can teach me," Fang Yun said with a smile.

Ao Huang said in surprise: "Why aren't you angry? Didn't Liu Shan make a mistake? Shouldn't he be scolded?"

Fang Yun said: "Let me ask you, when he sold the workshops, did he bring those workshops back to life? Did he make the workshops that were losing money make money?"

"Yes. But wouldn't it be better if he didn't sell the workshop, or sold the workshop to workers? He sold things that originally belonged to Jingguo and were common to the people of the same place to others at a low price. Isn't it wrong?"

"It is a big mistake for you to judge a bureaucrat by the mentality of the common people! He is a bureaucrat, and he must safeguard the interests of the bureaucracy and consolidate his position. As for the interests of the people, what does it have to do with him?"

"But he said that the innovation workshop was for Jingguo and the people."

Fang Yun said: "He is a bureaucrat, he is a miscellaneous family. He can use power to court Qin, Mu and Chu. What's wrong with deceiving the people? Everything he has done is correct for a bureaucrat!"

"He...he is right, am I wrong?" Ao Huang was confused.

"If you are a bureaucrat and you are the beneficiary, he is right. If not, think about it yourself. In addition, I tell you clearly that many county-owned workshops that were very well-run were also renovated as workshops. What do you think if the flag is sold at a low price?" Fang Yun asked.

Ao Huang was stunned and couldn't believe that such a thing would happen.

Fang Yingwu looked at Fang Yun and said, "It turns out that the lord knows all about these things, but why do you still want to severely punish those workshop owners?"

Fang Yun said, "They got rid of the identity of the workshop owner of the county, and they helped the workshop to revive, but how did the workshop collapse before? It was a part of the workshop owners who used the workshop for personal gain! In order to make a tael of silver into their pockets, they did not hesitate to let the people of Jingguo pay the price of ten taels of silver. I must tell them, and I must tell the world that they are wrong!"

"If you do this, it is equivalent to being an enemy of all the officials and powerful people in Ning'an County and even Mizhou."

Fang Yun smiled indifferently, held his chest high, and said, "So what? I came to Ning'an County, not to be an official! This is something you all misunderstood!"

An invisible force surged in the study, and the vitality of the heaven and earth within a radius of 100 miles was in chaos.

Ao Huang and Fang Yingwu looked at Fang Yun in astonishment, because Fang Yun exuded a faint white light, which then dissipated in an instant.

Both of them have seen this kind of white light!

Ao Huang blinked and asked in surprise: "Fang Yun, how can you have a righteous spirit?"

"Oh?" Fang Yun looked down and found nothing, "Did you see it wrong?"

Ao Huang and Fang Yingwu looked at each other, puzzled, but didn't say anything.

Fang Yun said: "Let's go, let's start with Rong Xiucai who met at the door of the stubborn old man that day!"

Fang Yingwu said: "Do you really want to kill all the masters?"

"I can't do all of them, but as long as I can kill them all, I won't leave any!" Fang Yun said.

"Fang Xusheng is mighty! This dragon is convinced." Ao Huang's eyes lit up, Fang Yun's approach was too suitable for him.

Fang Yingwu frowned.