Three Kingdoms

After Fei Qian dismissed the people gathered outside Du Yuan's tent, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he sat alone in the tent and stared blankly.

What was the reason that led the gentry to form a gradually closed circle?

In other words, what caused the Chinese nation to lose the motivation to go global?

If we follow what Fei Qian learned when he was in school, it is: the economic base determines the superstructure, and the superstructure reacts on the economic base.

Fei Qian thought about it carefully. In fact, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty, and the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, almost every dynasty had a constant collision of ideas, trying to dominate the entire country's political power and social economy...

During the Spring and Autumn Period, when a hundred schools of thought contended, many people put forward different ideas for governing the country, including some strange ones. Some even advocated returning to the primitive worship of wild beasts. By the Warring States Period, legalists, Mohists, military strategists, Confucians, Taoists, and Zongheng were left. The relatively large schools such as the Jia family and others, with a complete ideological system structure, survived. Later, the Qin Dynasty used Legalism to rise, but it failed to use Legalism to manage the social conflicts at that time and collapsed. Liu Bang used Huang in the early days of establishing the Han Dynasty. The old Taoist recuperated, and later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used Confucianism to consolidate his rule...

Fei Qian took a pen and paper and wrote down his messy thoughts.

Well, just ignore the intruder Wang Mang...

However, why did Confucianism win in this ideological battle in the end and become the dominant culture of the Han Dynasty? And it became more and more fierce in the subsequent dynasties, dominating the political arena?

Fei Qian thought for a long time and finally wrote the word "rule" on the paper...

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the power of princes in various feudal states continued to expand, and foreign enemies such as the Xiongnu continued to invade. Therefore, there was an urgent need for an ideological tool that could support his centralized rule ideologically and morally. Dong Zhongshu was at the critical moment. He presented an improved version of Confucianism, eliminating internal troubles and combating foreign troubles for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

From this aspect, Confucianism has a positive meaning, but why did it become crooked later?

And the longer it gets, the more crooked it becomes...

Fei Qian wrote four new words under the word "ruling": "fooling the people, suppressing business", then paused for a moment, and then wrote "lazy"...

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucius advocated teaching without distinction, enlightening the people's wisdom and letting them understand what etiquette and righteousness are. However, in the hands of the successors of Confucianism, they supported Confucius while doing the exact opposite of Confucius...

A farmer whose ancestors have been working in the same place and knows nothing will obviously rule better than a businessman who has traveled far and wide and has extensive knowledge; an honest commoner who can't even write will obviously be better than a person who has mastered knowledge and opened up a new world. A wise maester rules well...

Therefore, the people are fooled and the business is suppressed.

Because this method had been effective and easy to use before, I never thought about changing it, or in other words, I didn’t want to change at all. So I continued to emphasize the good arguments of my ancestors, and became lazy and lost the ability and courage to pioneer and innovate...

As a result, those who want to reform in the later stage need to bear greater pressure.

In order to protect his dominance, the emperor liked more and more ignorant people. In order to protect their status, the nobles held on to knowledge more and more tightly to prevent it from leaking out, and became more and more closed...

Although this closed mind was eventually broken by the imperial examination system, it only broke the circle of gentry, and the closed nature of the entire mind remained unchanged.

Heaven is above the country, haha.

The land is vast and abundant, haha.

Barbarians from all directions, haha.

If possible, would it be at a time when this closed framework is not yet so strict...

Fei Qian was thinking when he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps outside the tent, and his own soldiers reported that Du Yuan was asking for a meeting.

Fei Qian folded the piece of paper he was writing on, put it in his arms, and then let Du Yuan in.

"Wen Zheng, are you awake? Have you used late breast milk?"

Du Yuanchang bowed to the ground, his face full of shame, and said: "Yuan is incompetent, but he bothered the master... This is Yuan's crime..."

Fei Qian waved his hand, picked up another piece of paper from the desk, handed it to Du Yuan, and said, "Wen Zheng doesn't have to be like this. Come, sit down. You can take a look at this piece of paper first."

Du Yuan took it and looked at it. It was a list, indicating the person in charge of various affairs and the time for checking the accounts...

Fei Qian said: "These people have different talents, high and low, but they have all done related things, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get started, so let these people do it first. You don't have to correct the text all the time." Just keep an eye on it and check it regularly.”

"A person only has twelve hours in a day. If you sit here and work from morning to night, you only have twelve hours at most. But if you make good use of these people, you will have more than twelve hours. ”

"Don't worry about me choosing these people. Depending on the situation in the future, if you can't do it well once or twice, but you are willing to learn, ask for help; if you can't do it well, you are unwilling to learn or you really can't learn. , just change.”

"You must learn to let go and use people. If you have any questions, come to me."

"My lord's teachings must be kept in mind." Du Yuan stood up again and knelt down, "Don't trust those who employ you, and ignore those who doubt you."

Fei Qian smiled and did not continue to say anything on the topic of employment.

The highest state of employing people is not to employ people without suspicion and use them without suspicion. According to the concept of company management in later generations, people should be employed with suspicion and those with suspicion should be used accordingly. It's just that when you use it, you have to prepare the B character, maybe the BB character, and the supervisor's C character, and at the same time make a budget for the collapse of the A character.

The authority given to a is the extent to which he can accept the loss. For example, if he can bear a loss of one million, the authority given to a may be five hundred thousand.

If something goes wrong, you can immediately pull a down and push it up with b...

Of course, the specific operation is not as simple as that, otherwise there would be no such thing as saying "easy to say, hard to do". It is just a matter of knowing this and not knowing this. This gap will slowly be reflected in the entire team. Then it will affect future development.

Of course, in the Han Dynasty, Fei Qian didn't have many talents at his disposal. So again, a leader who only immerses himself in dealing with specific matters is not a good leader. Only one who focuses on how to discover and cultivate talents is not a good leader. Only talented leaders can lead a team well.

At this point, Fei Qian still has a long, long way to go.

"Okay, I have one last question for you. Now we still have to solve the problem of recruiting ourselves without going through the barbarian leaders. What are you going to do?"

Du Yuan almost blurted out subconsciously, saying that he would do it right away, but then he saw the piece of paper Fei Qian gave him with the person in charge of various affairs written on it. He pondered for a while and said, "If you find someone to take charge of this, Things... you must first learn the Hu language... Well, if some Bingzhou veterans who can speak the Hu language are asked to be responsible for arranging these Hu people, what do you think, my lord?"

"Well, you can try it." Fei Qian smiled, stood up, and said as he walked out, "Wen Zheng, pay more attention to rest. In addition, remember your attempt and decision today, we should let more people Master the skills rather than trying to have them all in your own hands…”

In the days after Chibi's defeat, Cao Cao had been in a trance, always mumbling to himself.

Later, Miaocai and Gongming were worried and went to visit their lord.

As a result, I heard the master say outside the tent that the blow was too great.

Miaocai nodded: "Well, it's quite big."

Gongming sneered: "How do you know?"

Miaocai smiled and said: "If it's not big, how could King Zhou like it?"