How Zhang Juzheng first entered the workplace and accumulated contacts

Everyone in the unit or in society, can not avoid all kinds of communication. Some people are very attentive, do not do ineffective communication, and put an end to harmful communication. Zhang Juzheng is such a typical example.

Zhang Juzheng basically belongs to the young people who "went into the city barefoot" and have no relationship in the capital. And he has realized that if he wants to gain a foothold and develop in the official field, what he needs most is networking.

How do you build networks?

At the turn of the spring and summer of the twenty-sixth year of Daming Jiajing, Zhang Juzheng achieved his first goal after entering the official field: to point out Hanlin.

The days of studying at Hanlin Academy were very leisurely. Most of the students are busy making friends with powerful people to pave the way for future development; some students are immersed in reading, writing poems and compositions from time to time, and taking them to everyone's appreciation, for the name of a writer.

Zhang Juzheng despised these two types of people and was unwilling to be with them.

He has his own set of designs.

It is said that one day, Zhang Juzheng's fellow jinshi Wang Shizhen came to invite him again: "Brother Nian, Hanlin has also ordered, what else are you busy with?" Let's get together, everyone often gets together, and your brother doesn't show up every time! ”

Unlike Zhang Juzheng, Wang Shizhen did not participate in the selection of the museum and was assigned to the Criminal Department as the chief of affairs, which can be simply understood as being assigned to the Supreme Court and the Ministry of Justice as a director and judge. He became acquainted with a group of literary friends, formed the Poetry Society, and with his talent, works and activities, he soon became the equivalent of executive vice president and secretary general. Many people in the Hanlin Academy became regular visitors to Wang Shizhen. But Zhang Juzheng did not attend the party, and Wang Shizhen was very unwilling and invited him repeatedly. Zhang Juzheng did not appreciate it and politely refused.

Why didn't he want to attend Wang Shizhen's dinner party? Doesn't he need friends?

Wang Shizhen has extensive relations in the capital! His grandfather, father, and cousin were all from the military and had or were in the process of becoming high-ranking officials. Isn't it a shortcut to participate in Wang Shizhen's dinner party and establish a network of contacts? Why did Zhang Juzheng disdain it?

Zhang Juzheng is very politically sensitive, and he sees some kind of signs, this gang of people is unobstructed, often making drunk and cursing, and sooner or later they will cause trouble. Zhang Juzheng did not want to mix with them. If Zhang Juzheng and Wang Shizhen fought fiercely, then his official fortunes would be seriously frustrated. Therefore, he respected Wang Shizhen and stayed away.

Now, there is a ready-made relationship, which is very, very important for Zhang Juzheng, and he is thinking about how to develop this relationship well.

Zhang Juzheng and his gang of Shu Jishi were studying at the Hanlin Academy, and among the teachers who gave lessons to their classmates, there was one person with the most prominent status, his name was Xu Jie.

Xu Jie, who is 23 years older than Zhang Juzheng, after more than twenty years of official experience, looks gentle and generous in appearance, but in fact has a stomach full of calculations. At this time, Xu Jie not only had a good relationship with the prime minister of the cabinet, but also won the trust of the big boss ——— the Jiajing Emperor. This man is very skilled, and he can be regarded as an official veteran.

Xu Jie is also a man of great learning, rich experience, steady and old-fashioned, and has the demeanor of a senior leading cadre. When Zhang Juzheng began to contact Xu Jie, he felt that Teacher Xu and himself were more temperamental.

It is true that Zhang Juzheng has established a teacher-student relationship with Xu Jie. The relationship between teachers and students, like those of fellow villagers and classmates, was quite effective in the official arena at that time.

However, Zhang Juzheng knew that Xu Jie had done the main examination of local studies and politics and the imperial examination, and had also been the principal of the only institution of higher learning, the Guozijian, and the students were all over the world! Even now, Xu Jie is the teacher of Zhang Juzheng's 26 classmates.

Therefore, a general teacher-student relationship is not enough. Zhang Juzheng wants to further develop this relationship.

How to develop it?

Zhang Juzheng must have conducted too many square analyses, and finally concluded that the key is to let Teacher Xu understand himself, and once he understands himself, he will feel that this student and his temper are good, which is easy to do.

To make a leader understand himself, he must be close to the leader.

Zhang Juzheng thought about it for a long time and wrote an article called "Hanlin Academy Reading and Saying", which is equivalent to the current "Experience of Learning in the Middle and Young Classes of xx party school", and presented it to Teacher Xu to "teach".

At this time, Teacher Xu had been promoted to the minister of ceremonies. The Central Committee of the Ming Dynasty had 6 ministries plus the Metropolitan Chayuan, and the minister was counted as 6 +1, so the political status of the minister was far higher than that of the current minister; and according to the customs of the Jiajing Dynasty, the minister of ceremonies was almost the first person to enter the cabinet and worship the minister.

Xu Jie, a senior leading cadre, is still relatively responsible. Zhang Juzheng asked him to teach the article, Xu Jie really read it, when reading the words "those who measure shallow can not be deep, and those who see small cannot worry about the big" and "With the body of Geng Geng, let the world be heavy", Xu Jie's eyes are likely to be bright.

Since then, Xu Jie has looked at Zhang Juzheng differently and has the idea of cultivating and promoting him.

This is actually not difficult to understand. It is the duty of leading cadres to discover and cultivate talents; for private people, talented people can use them for themselves, like adding a pair of wings.

With Xu Jie's experience, he could not be unclear, people rule the officialdom, and the fight was fierce, even cruel. The most effective way is to use more of your own people. Then you have to personally discover and cultivate a group of people!

Taking this as an opportunity, the extraordinary teacher-student relationship between Zhang Juzheng and Xu Jie was established.

Such a relationship has become a key factor in Zhang Juzheng's smooth career and prosperous official fortunes.

With a certain network, you will definitely be able to have a smooth career?

For cadres from the bottom, this is not enough.

First of all, we must weigh how many pounds we have, right? Why do people bring you up?

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Juzheng shu Jishi had completed his training period and graduated, and it was time to assign a job.

Teacher Xu appreciated Zhang Juzheng, and his grades were also good, so the distribution was the best: not only did he stay in the Hanlin Academy, but he was also awarded the editorial position of Zheng Qipin.

However, in the Hanlin Academy, there are many people who have been doing ten or twenty years of editing and repairing, and some of them will always be in this post. The old and new editors gathered together, in this Qingshui Gate, doing some insignificant writing work, and they had a lot of free time at their disposal.

It is said that everything has settled down, and Zhang Juzheng should breathe a sigh of relief. But he didn't take it easy, and even had a sense of crisis.

Why?

He felt that his conditions in various aspects did not match his ambitions. That is, he felt that he was underweight.

Zhang Juzheng's family was poor and lowly, and he had been studying hard in the cold window for nearly twenty years, and he basically turned around the baton of the "college entrance examination" to study the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics in order to cope with the imperial examination. These things are only equivalent to stepping stones. Taking the exam is useful, but not useful for practical work.

The selection of the Hanlin Academy relies on poetry; when they enter the Hanlin Academy for further study, they are still taught poetry. As for what he learned from Teacher Xu, it was basically Wang Yangming's "neo-Confucianism", plus a set of self-defense techniques in the official field.

Since you want to do something, you must have the real talent to do it.

Zhang Juzheng clearly realized that his knowledge and the goal in his heart were too far apart!

Zhang Juzheng wanted to enrich himself, and he did not dare to slacken off.

Self-enrichment is not so simple, it takes a lot of effort, and it may not be possible to work on your own.

Zhang Juzheng came up with two shortcuts.

The first shortcut: find people with real talent and practical learning to make friends.

Zhang Juzheng is very attentive, observing people who can impart knowledge to him in his daily contact with colleagues.

Soon, he really found a suitable person.

This person's name was Gao Gong, a native of Xinzheng County, Kaifeng Province, Henan Province. He was 13 years older than Zhang Juzheng and was two years ahead of him (six years). Gao Gong has been well-informed since childhood, has a famous teacher to teach, study and learn, at the age of 16, is the first in the province. But he didn't get into the ranks until more than a decade later. During this period, Gao Gong studied at the Daliang Academy in the provincial capital, where he studied under the famous scholars of the time, Li Mengyang and Wang Tingxiang, who were known for advocating "practical learning", and were hired as professors by the Daliang Academy. After entering the army at the age of 30, he has been studying and working in Hanlin Academy, which can be described as a wide range of books and five cars.

Gao Gong was born in the Shuxiang Mendi and the family of official eunuchs. His grandfather and father were both from the science class, and they had served as leading cadres of not low rank in the central and local governments, and the eldest brother was also a scholar and was serving as a high-ranking local official.

Gao Gong is proud and talented, but he is also high and arrogant, does not like to pull and pull, and ordinary people want to get to know him, and he may not be willing to make deep friends.

Moreover, at that time, the officialdom was too particular about the ranks of the people, and they had strict etiquette when they met each other, and they were very restrained! A junior, want to make friends with the senior, it is not easy!

Zhang Juzheng could not take care of so many rules, he consciously approached the high arch, posed modest and studious in front of him, and humbly asked him for advice.

Gao Gong believes that to do scholarship, it is necessary to apply it to the world, attach importance to government affairs related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and pay attention to reality. This idea coincides with Zhang Juzheng, who naturally wants to make friends with him more and more.

Coincidentally, Gao Gong is very arrogant and serious on the outside, but inside he is like a fire and very enthusiastic. He did not pay attention to etiquette or anything, and felt that Zhang Juzheng was young and intelligent, diligently learning from him, telling him something, and he could immediately understand it, and he admired himself very much, and his heart was very happy. The two soon became good friends.

Gao Gong recalled afterwards that he and Zhang Juzheng became friends and often "discussed the Way of Governance" together, and the discussion at that time was the meaning of research and communication. Two people study and exchange ideas for governing the country, "to the point of oblivion"!

For Zhang Juzheng, interacting with Gao Gong is equivalent to finding a doctoral supervisor and laboratory director to impart knowledge for free.

With Xu Jie and Gao Gong, two masters, imparting experience and knowledge, plus protection and promotion, try to see who can be defeated in the official field? The reason why Zhang Juzheng can become a political master who fights invincible hands all over the world is a big factor! He was able to out of blue and out of blue, and ousted Xu Jie and Gao Gong from power one after another, and the secret was also here.

Zhang Juzheng also has another shortcut to enrich himself: to reach out to grassroots practitioners.

Hanlin Academy is known as the "choice of Tsinghua" and is generally more arrogant. Zhang Juzheng was different. He often inquired about news, saw some people on business trips in the capital, and when he heard that the cadres in charge of the salt administration, horse administration, and taxation, and the military attaché of the army were coming, he would bring a pot of wine himself, chat with them, and when he returned home, he would record what he had learned from these people.

At that time, he was not happy to go to the localities to conduct research, but Zhang Juzheng was anxious to understand and grasp the situation in the localities and all walks of life, so he adopted this method.

If a person wants to grow quickly, he must make friends with people who are helpful to his development; for sensitive people, he must stay away. This is the standard of communication that Zhang Juzheng, who has just entered the official field, pursues.

Zhang Juzheng has been stepping up to enrich himself, making all preparations early, just waiting for the opportunity to appear.