Master Nan Huaijin believes that there are three basic mistakes that people cannot make: first, having poor virtue but having high status; second, having small wisdom but having big plans; third, having small strength but having heavy responsibilities!
The first mistake: having weak virtues but having a high position
"Having little cultivation but holding a high position" and having "poor virtues" does not necessarily mean a lack of virtue. Or maybe he has good personal qualities - gentle, courteous and thrifty, but he just lacks the qualities that match his position.
For example, after Wang Anshi became prime minister, he implemented a series of reform measures, which is known as the "Wang Anshi Reform" in history. In the name of "riching the country", they all used state machinery to forcibly intervene in the economy, and eventually evolved into disguised taxation with cleverly designed names. The privileged class competed with the people for profits in the name of the country...
Wang Anshi's cultural accomplishment is nothing to say. , one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. However, in the reform process, we only consider political achievements - "making the country rich" (how to make the country generate income), but ignore the injustice and damage suffered by the majority of disadvantaged groups in the reform. This is a typical example of "poor morality and high status".
The second mistake: small wisdom but big plans
“Although the wisdom is limited, the plan is big”, we continue to talk about Wang Anshi’s reforms. The failure of the reform was due to the fact that Wang Anshi's reform plan was completely unexpected and seriously out of touch with reality. This is completely consistent with the decision-making thinking of some "three-shooter officials":
First pat your head to decide, first pat your chest to ensure, Afterwards, he slapped his butt and left.
For example, Mr. Wang’s “Green Seedling Method” aims to provide small loans to farmers who work hard to plant. Due to incorrect evaluations of official performance, officials forced farmers to take loans at exorbitant interest rates, making support a burden. In addition, the "Urban Law" and the "Wan Law" turned the government into "official businessmen", directly monopolizing the market, manipulating prices, and taking money from people's pockets. Therefore, the people of the Northern Song Dynasty hated the monopoly economy.
Wang Anshi is very high as a prime minister and a pioneer of reform plans. However, it failed to curb power rent-seeking and abuse of power by public officials, which can only be said to be "small wisdom but big thinking". Reform, on the other hand, is based only on a passion, without considering the overall consequences, and without listening to criticism. The final result is that the whole people pay the bill, and even half of the Liangshan heroes cannot survive.
The third mistake: small power but heavy responsibility
Compared with the famous Shang Yang's reform and Wang Anshi's reform in history, Shang Yang faced greater resistance, and almost the whole country opposed it. However, Shang Yang's reform succeeded (Shang Yang died, but the system remained), but Wang Anshi's reform failed. The root cause is that Wang Anshi lacked political allies, which made him "weak but heavy."
Radical reforms caused Wang Anshi to lose almost all his allies, and the opposition gathered stars-Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi... almost all literate people opposed him. Even Wang Anshi himself admitted that the reform was thorough, "slow and planned, and great." If it is done hastily, it will cause great harm. ”
He only had one goal, but ignored that the process of achieving this goal would inevitably produce a series of problems. In just a few years, more than a dozen reforms were fully launched, which completely offended people from all walks of life. Therefore, the reform was in a dilemma.
When Yuan Shikai's second son persuaded Yuan Shikai not to become emperor, he wrote a good poem: "The prefect of Shanquan is deep, and he is reading Cangbo." , feeling unfair. "Mountain springs want to be like waves, but they need to know the depth of the water. What's more, they have some reputations, but they are just empty names.
Extended information
Nan Huaijin was born in 1918 in Yueqing City, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. A family of scholars. She received strict traditional Mongolian education since she was a child. In addition to studying the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, Nan Huaijin also dabbled in hundreds of schools, including boxing, martial arts, swordsmanship, etc. She has studied literature, history, calligraphy, poetry, medicine, divination, astronomy and calendar, etc. Each one has its essence, and she feels that she is very happy since she was a child.
In the "Analects of Confucius" it is said: "The ancient scholars are themselves. This is" this sentence. Although the main source is Nan Shen, but my grandmother was a child, her parents did not need "Nanmen's only son", "in In the future, wealth and honor, on the contrary, the grandmother also said, "You can read, but don't do it." His father's needs are very low, as long as he can support himself for a lifetime, he may not even read these. An ordinary family education should have had a positive impact on the life of Nan Huaijin, who had always been indifferent to fame, wealth and vanity. Later, when Nan Huaijin was in the "flower of youth and scholarship, on the border of horses, she came to her senses." "This ability is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Therefore, when someone asked Nan Huaijin how to educate her children, she only answered with four words: "Excellent", which means "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude."
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