Due to the eagerness to "look forward to honest officials like clouds", a strong "complex about honest officials" has even formed among the Chinese people, the most prominent manifestation of which is in Chinese dramas and other literary and artistic forms.
"Incorruptible Officials' Drama" and "Incorruptible Officials' Stories" have become an enduring and popular theme that people talk about.
However, if you dig deeper into these so-called "upright official dramas" or "upon official stories", you will find that the number of so-called "upright officials" sung by these literary and artistic works is really very few, and the most famous ones are just repeated over and over again.
Just Bao Zheng, Hai Rui and a few others.
In fact, simply using the "dual standard" of "purity" or "corruption" to evaluate officials like the Chinese people would be biased and single. For officials, "purity" and "corruption" are of course the same.
A very important evaluation criterion, but there are many more important evaluation criteria, such as: "ability" and "mediocrity", "brightness" and "turbidity", "diligence" and "laziness", etc.
And if we can adopt a more practical standard, we can even look at the problem this way - that is, if an official is a "capable official" and really has the talent and ability to govern the world, then even if he is a little "greedy", compared to
For those officials who are neither talented nor very greedy, this official is still not the worst.
People who simply judge officials based on their "cleanliness" and "corruption" often overlook one point, which is that if an official is just an upright official, but is incompetent and talentless, muddled all day long, and even relies on moral incompetence
If the jade is flawless but acts arbitrarily, the degree of harm to the people will be no less than that of "corrupt officials" who have some ability to govern the world.
This may be emotionally difficult to accept, but it is a conclusion that can be retested by many cases in history and reality.
Putting aside these, that is, as far as the images of upright officials carefully created in traditional Chinese literary and artistic works are concerned, if we compare the images of upright officials in these works one by one with the real upright officials in the historical mirror, we will find that in these literary and artistic works
The images of upright officials are actually ideal figures that have been deeply processed and entrusted with the aesthetic tastes and demands of Chinese people. They are very different from the historical reality.
For example, Zhang Tang, the famous "cruel official" in history, after his death, "the family property was only five hundred gold, and all the income was given as gifts, and there was no other property." So much so that he was buried with "a coffin but no coffin," which moved the emperor.
What is the inevitable close connection between "cruel officials" and "honest officials"? It seems that it is really a historical proposition that cannot be ignored.
In short, under a totalitarian autocratic regime, being an upright official is often a personal tragedy, a family tragedy and a social tragedy. At the same time, he must be a victim of this system. In a system that Bo Yang calls a "cultural dye vat", it is necessary to
If you want to keep your personality clean and reach the state of "everyone is drunk, but I am sober", it is destined to be very difficult. At the same time, it is also destined to be an unpopular "anomaly" in this system and always hit the wall!
Under this background, the inner pain of these officials can be imagined, so it is reasonable for them to eventually develop into a person with a split personality like Hai Rui. It is reasonable for him to be a bloody and ruthless person like Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang.
Since honest officials are often very isolated in real life, we cannot actually expect them to be able to accomplish anything great for the people as described in literary and artistic works about honest officials.
Therefore, in terms of practical value, the positive effects of upright officials can be said to be quite weak, but their side effects are very obvious.
In a totalitarian autocratic system, honest officials often become a kind of "narcotic", covering up the darkness and corruption caused by the system to a certain extent. It will only give people unrealistic hopes and encourage the occurrence of evil on a larger scale.
And spread. This is probably the reason why every dynasty in every dynasty has launched several models of upright officials to publicize them among the people, right?
I have been thinking about this problem seriously. Because of this, when I left Shangjiang City, the people gave me the Wanmin Umbrella, which made me feel a little scared deep in my heart.
From a political perspective, such things can easily be viewed as alien. Personally, I am also worried that I will become impersonal and even be considered perverted by others without knowing it.
Fortunately, I am a person with many shortcomings and my moral standards are not high, so I think it is unlikely that I will become like that.
But I feel that the person in front of me is different. He may have some understanding of my situation. Maybe he thinks that my achievements in Shangjiang are just a matter of luck, such as doing the right thing in a special place. Also,
Yes, after all, Shangjiang City is very small and there are so many state-owned enterprises, which always gives people the impression that it is easy to manage.
A person has to be in a real dilemma to feel the hardship. The current situation in Dongjiang is very difficult, so I guess Sun Dabao doesn't believe that I have the ability to successfully complete the delivery of leadership in the province.
task.
Of course, maybe Director Wu saw it wrong that night, or maybe he didn't have a good impression of this person.
The relationship between people is sometimes very strange. Some people will make people feel friendly as soon as they meet, while some people will make people feel disgusted even when they meet for the first time. Some people say that this is because
Each of us has a different frequency. When two people's frequencies are in sync, they will feel good about each other. Otherwise, they will dislike each other.
However, no matter what, I think there is something wrong with the person in front of me. At least he is obviously not proactive at work.
I looked at him and said to him in a very sincere tone: "Old Sun, I know you are a very capable comrade. Now we have too many clues in our work in Dongjiang, and the difficulties we encounter are also very great.
, so I hope you can come up with more ideas instead of just executing good questions. Lao Sun, I like to speak frankly, I hope you can understand.
Lao Sun, you should know that the situation we are facing now is that we must change the status quo of Dongjiang as soon as possible. If the leaders in the province just let our current team remain as unprogressive as before, then this industrial park will not be established.
My abilities are limited, and sometimes I am impetuous, but I am willing to do things, and I hope I can do things better.
But I know that it is far from enough to rely on the strength of one person at work, even just Secretary Dong and me. We need all members of the team to work together to find ways to overcome the current difficulties and work together to complete the province.
The tasks assigned to us by the leaders inside. Lao Sun, I really hope you can give me more ideas and let us work together to get the work started as soon as possible." (To be continued)