She came to clink glasses with me, and then downed the drink, "It's easier said than done! Let alone a deputy minister like me, who is our minister, and the secretary of the provincial party committee can't do anything about it. This is caused by the system. In fact, this situation has never been like this.
This has been the case since ancient times. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, China has been an official-based country. This is a fact. Bureaucrats occupy the most social resources and the most glory in society. To put it simply, being an official has everything.
Being an official means everything. But at the same time, bureaucrats are also the leaders of politics and the operators of government affairs. The prosperity of the country and the quality of society largely depend on the quality of officials and the efficiency of the bureaucracy. According to
The logic of bureaucracy is that this system must constantly draw new talents from civilians to ensure the efficiency of bureaucracy and maintain the stability of the country and the healthy development of society. Therefore, the selection of officials in the past dynasties has always been political.
The core issue of the system. However, China is a country with family as its core value. Officials and their families are a community of shared interests. Officials have the obligation to bring good things to their families, including of course their descendants.
Come to the benefits.
The Han Dynasty implemented a system of recruiting, recruiting and selecting officials marked by recommendation. It was originally implemented in good condition. Most of the people who were recommended were outstanding talents. However, after this system continued for a period of time, problems arose. As for the people who became high-ranking officials,
, people around them will definitely look high on their children. Even without special request, the children of high-ranking officials who enter the official career are often treated favorably. It seems very natural for the aura of high-ranking officials to be projected on their own children. Secondly,
Because in the system, high-ranking officials have the power to recommend talents. For the recommended person, the recommender is the person who really changes his destiny and has the kindness to know him. The recommended person will also do bigger things in the future.
When an official has the ability to recommend someone, the best way for them to repay their kindness seems to be to recommend the benefactor's children. If they have already entered the official career, they will give them a hand in promotion. As a result, such a situation gradually formed, the more
The more senior officials, the more opportunities their children have to become officials. After several generations, they formed a powerful family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had mediocre qualifications, but just because they were born in the Yuan family with four generations and three fathers, they had many disciples.
The world, therefore, when they raised their armies, they actually formed the two largest warlord groups for a while. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the implementation of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, serving as an official simply became the patent of the officials' children. To select officials, you only need to check the various
This is the human ultimatum. As we all know, the country is divided and the politics is dark at this stage. The main reason is that the bureaucracy has turned into a hereditary aristocracy in disguise.
What completely changed this situation was the implementation of the imperial examination system. We know that the so-called imperial examination system is to obtain an official position through examination. No matter who, civilian or royal family, can become an official as long as they pass the relevant examination. In fact, in the imperial examination era, for high-ranking officials
The royal family also has advantages. Not only can their children go to better schools, but there is also a gate system. Children of high-ranking officials can directly enter the official career through the gate system. However, due to the relatively strict examination system, a trend has formed in this era.
Any official who does not come from an examination background will be considered to have no ability. Needless to say, those who spend money to buy an official position are looked down upon by others. And those who enter the official position from a humble background are often regarded as playboys and are equally despised.
.The atmosphere is such that even the emperor does not think highly of such people, so it is difficult for people who come from a good background to be promoted. In this situation, even the children of high-ranking officials often have to take the imperial examination as long as they are determined to pursue an official career.
, pass the exam with real swords and guns. Some people have studied that the imperial examination system since the Sui and Tang Dynasties can ensure that about half of the candidates who pass the examination are from small and medium-sized gentry and common people, and the other half are mostly the children of officials.
The problem in China now is that, first of all, the country has not had a consistent system for selecting officials for a long time. The college entrance examination system once became a disguised imperial examination. But even under this situation, there are still other ways to select cadres, and uneducated worker and peasant cadres
There are even advantages in terms of promotion. Even for college examinations, children of high-ranking officials were recommended for admission to other schools, which greatly reduced the fairness of the college entrance examination. After college graduates were not guaranteed distribution, although the civil service examination system was implemented, by then
So far, not only is this examination not a unified national examination, but there are still other ways to enter the civil service. After the reform, the academic qualification restrictions for entering the civil service have gradually increased with the increase of graduates from the 'Big Five', that is, TV University, Vocational University,
The emergence of graduates from Hangzhou University, Night University, and self-study examinations soon became useless. However, overseas students are given special preferential treatment, because some cadres’ children who cannot enter university at home can spend money to study abroad and get a degree.
You can come back and enjoy the discounts. Nowadays, quite a few of the new second-generation officials like to enter the official career directly. While their fathers are still in office, they can be promoted to a certain height as quickly as possible. These second-generation officials who are snatching official positions have formed today’s large-scale official career.
The phenomenon of hereditary power that has been criticized by public opinion.
Secondly, due to the official position, serving officials have the most resources in society, and the traditional Chinese family concept is still strong. Regardless of whether the officials themselves participate or not, no matter what the children of officials at a certain level do, as long as they are under the influence of this official
It goes without saying that they will be taken care of by people within their own power. If these officials' children go into business, as long as they use their father's signature, they will often have a smooth journey and obtain conveniences that common people can't reach. In the early days of reform, many high-ranking officials' children often
They like to use the legacy of their fathers to go into business and obtain economic benefits. Some of these people are official businessmen, and some are private businessmen, but regardless of official business or private business, their business trajectories often have the shadow of power. Even if a few people are really as they say,
Getting promoted or getting rich is due to one's own talents, but due to the general environment, it is still difficult to convince people.
As common sense tells us, the second generation of rich people and the second generation of officials are not necessarily all bad people, and the second generation of poor people are not necessarily all good people. However, these two obvious injustices, coupled with the worsening contradiction between the government and the people, will inevitably make
Second-generation officials have become the target of public criticism. In fact, some second-generation officials are frantically snatching resources, including personnel resources. Their behavior has become part of the unflattering officialdom customs and has created the greatest threat to society against officials.
The emotions added fuel. Compared with civilians, the descendants of officials originally have a competitive advantage. If even the competition itself is canceled and becomes a naked and powerful person, then the resulting social crisis will be
It’s self-evident.”
I said: "Sister, what you said makes sense."
She continued: "In the final analysis, this phenomenon is caused by the official-centered mentality. Although a modern country should change the official-centered situation and gradually turn the official-centered into a people-centered. However, until there is no change, the government will definitely
This tradition from the imperial era should not be strengthened. Even if it is just to ensure that talents are drawn from the common people, and for the sake of social stability, great efforts must be made to ensure the smooth flow of channels for social advancement. The elites of the common people will not be let out.
There is no promotion channel and they will always be subordinates, so they feel resentful. The only way to ensure the promotion channels for civilian elites is to use the power of the state to establish an official selection system and strictly implement it. At the same time, use the system to ensure a certain proportion of civilians
Promotion of children.
At present, there is a quite dangerous ideological tendency, that is, in the selection of officials, the so-called hereditary political reliability factor is introduced to artificially draw unnecessary boundaries among one's own people in the selection of officials. This tendency, if it were not for certain forces,
Deliberately building momentum for the second generation of officials to enter the official career and rise quickly, then it is extremely politically stupid. Doing so will actually draw a deep gap between the second generation of officials and civilians. In addition to intensifying the relationship between the second generation of officials and the common people,
The contradictions among the people make the hatred of officials even higher, which is of no benefit. (To be continued)