At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"As ordered."

Zhuge nodded and said: "When I was an official in the central government, I often lamented the incompetence of the local government. A government order is implemented so slowly and inefficiently. The central government must send people to supervise it, otherwise it will never be completed on time and with high quality.

At that time, I was quite dissatisfied with complaints about this. I felt that the local officials only knew how to get their salaries, and they ignored the court's policies and should be severely punished.

However, when he left the central government and came to the local areas, he often lamented that the central government did not understand the sufferings of the local areas, and only focused on formulating policies, but refused to look up at the real people. One profit. "

"Well, keep talking."

Guo Peng nodded slowly.

"After feeling such contradictions, I felt that there must be a connection problem in a certain link between the central government and the local government, making it impossible for the two sides to understand each other's difficulties. The biggest problem probably lies in the fact that both sides are trying to Make no mistake."

Zhuge Liang frowned and said, "Central officials don't dare to make mistakes, and local officials don't dare to make mistakes. This kind of mentality is very common among our Wei officials, and this mentality will directly lead to officials from all over the world to only report good news and not worry. .

The implementation of policies requires officials to implement them. Officials are human beings, and human beings are not sages. Who can be right?There will be good results, but there will inevitably be bad results, but officials who are afraid of making mistakes dare not report mistakes, and as long as they can be covered up, they will try their best to cover them up.

Shangguan is busy with affairs, and often cannot personally determine whether the matter is done well. He can only listen to the reports of his subordinates and use this as a judgment to report to the higher authorities. If someone really reports the problem, will the Shangguan really dare to report the problem to the central government?

This is not necessarily the case. In the worst case, when something goes wrong, it is concealed layer by layer. From top to bottom, they help each other to cover up, and officials and officials protect each other. In the end, what the central government gets is a muddled account, which is not the real situation at all. .

But the central government thinks this is the real situation. On this basis, it promulgates updated policies to further achieve a certain goal, but how can the goal that was not achieved before be improved to a higher level?Can only continue to lie. "

Zhuge Liang's words were heavy, and Guo Peng's expression was not relaxed, and even Guo Chengzhi fell into thinking.

"You concealed the report, and I also concealed it. There will definitely be problems. Even if it turns out to be a small problem, the concealment from the top to the bottom will cause a big problem. In the end, it will be a big case that shakes the central government."

Guo Peng looked at Zhuge Liang: "How do you understand this problem?"

Zhuge Liang nodded again and again.

"Yes, that's how the problem came about, and what's even more frightening is that from the formation of a government order to the place where it is implemented, no matter which link, no matter who, even if there is only an extremely small mistake, as long as there is one, it will eventually be extremely serious. There could be a gap that is large and difficult to fill."

"Your Majesty, are officials at all levels so afraid of admitting mistakes and correcting them? This is not difficult. As long as you have the courage to admit it and make corrections, it is not too late."

Having said that, Guo Chengzhi finally couldn't hold back and asked his own question.

In his opinion, as long as there is a problem, it is the most important to correct it.

Whoever made the problem will correct it, and if the error is corrected, then the problem will be solved, and no one will have to pay a huge price for it.

Just like when he was in school when he was a child, if he made a mistake, as long as he has the courage to admit it, he will be forgiven, although he does have to bear some responsibility for it and needs to make up for his own mistakes.

But wouldn't it be enough to just admit your mistakes?

On the contrary, if you hide it, once you are discovered, it will be a fat beating.

In his memory, when he was a child, he was also afraid of making mistakes. After making a mistake, he was afraid of being punished by Guo Jin, so he concealed it, but how could he hide the matter of the prince?

When Guo Jin found out, she was very angry, beat him up, and then told him that making mistakes is not terrible, but the terrible thing is not daring to admit it, not daring to correct it.

That beating is still fresh in my memory. I remember that in the end, it was his mother Cai Wan who ran to the palace and invited her grandmother Cao Lan. Cao Lan rushed over and told Guo Jin to stop, otherwise Guo Jin would continue to beat him.

The memory of that beating was too deep, so this became what he believed.

Is it hard to admit mistakes?

Why can't something so simple be done?

The young Guo Chengzhi couldn't understand.

Guo Peng sighed and said nothing.

Zhuge Liang answered Guo Chengzhi's doubts.

"My lord, it's not a trivial matter for an official to make a mistake. It is related to the official's own position and future promotion. It is more likely to become a target for others to criticize this person. Once the target is in hand, he may lose his position.

Local officials are not in harmony with each other. They intrigue with each other for power and interests, and they hope that each other will make mistakes and fall down. It is almost impossible to deal with the matter according to the normal process.

If one person makes a mistake, those who are staring at his position will immediately take this opportunity to slander this person, and may even launch an alliance to attack this person and insist on bringing him down.

Losing an official position is an extremely terrible thing for an official. The entire family, including himself, may be liquidated and lose everything. Therefore, it is very difficult for an official to admit mistakes voluntarily. "

Guo Chengzhi was very surprised.

This is completely different from the conclusions drawn from the education he has received.

"How could it be... If that's the case, what's the use of those regulations? Isn't the regulations just for use? Such a small place, where are there so many intrigues? Why do colleagues have to fall?

Isn't making up for mistakes and fixing mistakes the most important thing?Isn't it the common people who are hurt by the official struggle?They only care about themselves, regardless of the life and death of the people? "

Guo Chengzhi was surprised and angry at the same time.

"Although it sounds very hateful, but the real place is like this."

Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly: "What the young master said is an extremely ideal state, where officials are harmonious and united, and they are dedicated to doing things without selfishness, and everyone pursues the perfection of official affairs, not personal desires.

When one person makes a mistake, everyone bears and corrects it together. The superior takes the lead to bear the mistake, excuses the subordinate, and then concentrates all his efforts to make up for the mistake and correct the mistake. "

"Is not it good?"

Guo Chengzhi was full of doubts.

"This is very good, but the problem is that it can't be done. The ideal state we envisioned has been changing since the decree left the court. When it is implemented in the local area, it has long been far from the original intention, and it is not even the same idea.

The relationship between officials and officials is by no means a concerted effort. There are not no people who work together, but they are extremely rare. They are more intriguing and fighting for power and profit. They do not hesitate to magnify the mistakes of their colleagues for their own self-interest. To bring down colleagues. "

Zhuge Liang told Guo Chengzhi the true taste of the world with a face of regret.

Guo Chengzhi was hit hard.

"This... this is a complete bastard! This kind of official should be severely punished!"

Zhuge Liang shook his head again and again.

"Although this is said, how can such an official find out? He just did not act, but did not make a mistake. The law punishes those who make mistakes, but generally does not punish those who do not act. Inaction means that there is no mistake.

If you didn't make a mistake, how should you punish it?Under such circumstances, not to mention a small county, even a small village, such things happen. In the eyes of some officials, the people are just chips for them to fight for power and profit. "

Zhuge Liang talked about the fundamental problems of the local politics of the Wei Empire in one call.

Chapter 1535 One thousand four hundred and fifty-five

Seeing such a subversive real world for the first time, Guo Chengzhi frowned and couldn't say a word.

Guo Peng remained silent.

Guo Chengzhi is young, has just received a complete elite education, and has that set of ideal practices in his head.

That set of teachers told him the ideal political ecology and ideal country.

He has never experienced officialdom, does not know such things, and has insufficient understanding of people's hearts. He does not know that the ideal state of the country is imagined by people, and the bad state of the country is also caused by people.

When ideals and reality collide, illusory ideals often cannot compete with heavy reality.

The reason for everything is people.

Guo Chengzhi didn't understand, but Da Wei understood Huang Guo clearly.

He has come all the way from the officialdom of the former Han Dynasty, and has worked in officials large and small.

He has worked as a Lang Guan, public security work, civil affairs, and military affairs. It can be said that he is not only an emperor, but also a general, and he is also a super bureaucrat who has been up and down for countless years.

No one understands bureaucracy and bureaucracy better than him.

This has been the case since his birth.

Maybe no one cared about it, but Mr. Guo was also born in an official family.

His father, Guo Dan, was the county magistrate at the beginning, and Guo Peng was the son of the county magistrate's family. The county magistrate does not seem to have a high status, but he is also the ruler of the county. He is an official, not an official, and there are many officials and subordinates who work for him. official.

So he has lived in a small officialdom since he was a child.

Under the influence of his ears and eyes, he saw with his own eyes how the officials and officials in the county government were intriguing, just to fight for the insignificant interests in a county in his eyes now.

The county's land, tenants, taxes, commerce, any aspect can become their arena.

Even if they have nothing to do, usually just eating, drinking and chatting, they can have bad mouths and eccentricities with each other, all of them are great onmyojis, and they put all their energy into putting eye drops on others.

As soon as there were any vacancies in the county, they immediately started to move, jumping up and down, scrambling to work hard by Guo Dan's side, just to get those positions with no future.

If there is no one in the government, a powerful family is digging their own grave, and the whole family is buried alive without knowing what happened.

If you have someone, you must be able to fight against other people, so that you can cover the sky with one hand in a county and protect your own interests to the greatest extent.

After all, the officials are flowing water. Although the status of the local officials is low, they can be succeeded by their fathers and sons. They are controlled by a family for a long time.

So how are they willing to do so?

The ugliness when they fight each other is really...

Guo is still fresh in his memory.

Guo Dan also ridiculed in private those who are willing to fight for petty gains, saying that they are short-sighted, that they do not seek to make progress, and that they can only circle around in the quagmire for the rest of their lives.

But when it's Guo Dan's turn, he may not be so clean and holy.

In the early years when he hadn't given up his aggressive mind, he did everything he could to fight for a chance to reach a higher level.

He fought with several other county magistrates in the county, poured dirty water on each other, put eye drops on each other, knelt down and licked Pei Guoxiang desperately, just to get the appreciation of the Guoxiang.

At that time, the county was still the time when the country was the country. The authority of the county guard and the state minister was very heavy, and they had great dominance over their subordinates.

Whoever can please the Prime Minister will get a better evaluation in the key assessment, and thus rise straight to the top.

In this fierce struggle, Guo Dan has never succeeded, and it can be said that his skills in official struggles are very poor.

In order to please the Prime Minister, he did everything possible to do what he liked, and gave the Prime Minister what he liked, but he was always a step behind.

There was even a case where someone hijacked a gift given to the prime minister to celebrate his birthday, and it was not found out who did it in the end.

One year, the Prime Minister of the State called several county magistrates to go hunting together, and the others tried their best to give the Prime Minister the good prey, so that the Prime Minister could show off the limelight. Fortunately, he shot an arrow to death in front of the Prime Minister. The deer, which the prime minister liked, laughed loudly and showed off his archery skills.

The prime ministers were all ready to take down the deer with their bows and arrows, but Guo Dan was the first to shoot the deer over with an arrow.

It is said that the Prime Minister's expression was not very good at that time, and the atmosphere on the field was also a little awkward.

At this level, you still want to please the Prime Minister?

You don't even have the consciousness to let your boss show off and be a green leaf yourself, and you still want to be promoted and cared for?

Guo Peng, who is well versed in the unspoken rules of officialdom, didn't see it himself.

He figured out why Guo Dan only got a county magistrate post after his grandfather Guo Yong died after he tried everything possible to sue his grandpa.

At this level, if I don't work hard, I don't know when Guo Dan will be framed by someone, let alone a second-generation official, I can't even be a commoner.

As an official, Guo Dan really has nothing to praise.

In terms of political struggle, he is tantamount to a loser, and in terms of governance, he may not be an excellent official.

He may not be able to fulfill the government orders of Luoyang, the governor's request, and the prime minister's request.

Even the face project can't be done well.

There was a prime minister who liked to inspect the counties under his command. When Guo Dan learned about it, he often organized his cronies to carry out face-saving projects.

That's not necessarily a success.

I remember that once Guo Dan wanted to engage in a face-saving project. He wanted to engage in a drama of not picking up lost items and not closing the door at night when the prime minister came to visit, to show his political achievements, to be appreciated by the prime minister, and to gain political benefits.

He arranged a street and some people to stage the scene of not picking up lost things on the road. When the Prime Minister came, he would be brought to this street, so that the Prime Minister could see that the roads in Qiaoxian County he governed did not pick up lost things.

He can say confidently—look, the places I manage don’t pick up lost things!Everyone is rich!

In the end, he pretended to fail.

I don't know who took the lead, the money that was spilled on the road was picked up in front of the Prime Minister of the country, and then the crowd dispersed, leaving only a mess on the ground, and Guo Dan was ashamed.

Later, it was heard that a county magistrate who was at odds with Guo Dan learned of Guo Dan's plan, so he secretly sent people here to make trouble and show him off.

The intelligence work has reached this point, and his hometown has been infiltrated, and Guo Dan is also a talent.

Fortunately, the Prime Minister of the State was also a person in this way at that time, knowing that these scenes were all faked, and that everyone did it like this, but Guo Dan was weak and messed up.

Probably because I was tired of watching the bridge section where the road does not pick up lost items and the door is not closed at night, but I feel very happy to see the scene of the overturned car.

So Guo Que laughed at Guo Dan, saying that he laughed happily, and that Guo Dan was really ingenious, and he didn't make things difficult for him afterwards.

Afterwards, the news of Guo Dan’s pretending to fail and overturned the car on the spot spread in Peiguo Middle School, causing people to ridicule Guo Dan. People even compiled this story into a joke and spread it widely, and Guo Dan was so angry that he didn’t eat it all day meal.

After that, Guo Dan was still ill for a while, which scared his stepmother enough, thinking that Guo Dan was going to die.