When it comes to traitors, everyone must be eager to eat meat and sleep on skin. During the Tang Dynasty, there was a guy named Zhao Deyan, who was a traitor wholeheartedly, and Chinese instead of hating him, he liked him very much.
The TV series "The Rule of Zhenguan", the depiction of Jieli getting Zhao Deyan, is very interesting. Zhao Deyan was originally the history of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin found that he was good at patting horses and did not have real talent and practical learning, so he decided to let him go to the scourge of the Turks.
Li Shimin first removed Zhao Deyan from his position as assassin, and then asked Zhao Deyan to accompany the Tang delegation on a mission to the Turks. After Zhao Deyan arrived in turkistan, he made a sneaky pat on the horse, which made the Great Khan of Jieli feel very useful, so he decided to reuse Zhao Deyan. In order to make Zhao Deyan serve Jieli wholeheartedly, Li Shimin also sent Zhao Deyan's family to the Turks.
The main history is limited in space and does not record how Jieli Khan obtained Zhao Deyan. Zizhi Tongjian. Volume 192 only records that "Jieli Khan was entrusted with the words of the Chinese Zhao Deyan." ”
Li Shimin stills, pictures from the network, thanks to the original author.
The term "Chinese" has been used for a long time, but it is not unique today. After Zhao Deyan was reused by Jieli Khan, he immediately offered a plan to let Jieli Khan govern the Turks according to The Chinese administrative way. Zhao Deyan taught Jieli Khan a large set of theoretical knowledge, and made Jieli Khan stunned. Jieli ordered that Zhao Deyan be responsible for carrying out major reforms in the Turks.
In my early years, I worked in a private company, and my salary was piecemeal. Workers do more and do less. People who have something to do at home can arrive late and leave early. There are many lesbians who send their children to kindergarten in the morning and come late. I had to pick up my kids from school in the afternoon, so I left work earlier. Because it is a piece-rate salary, the boss has no loss, so he tacitly acknowledges the existence of late arrival and early departure.
When women workers find their commuting time free in this private company, they introduce women who also need to bring children to work here. Sometimes it is necessary to rush the goods to work overtime, and the boss will let the female workers bring young children to the factory to work overtime. The owner prepared many toys for the toddlers and many snacks. Although the wage level of this private company is not high, it can allow female workers to work while leading, but they are not worried about the problem of recruitment difficulties.
The boss found a college student to manage personnel, and the personnel felt that the personnel system in the factory was scattered, so he told the boss a lot of theories, so that the boss was strictly forbidden to arrive late and leave early. The boss said to the college students: "The selling point of my recruitment here is the freedom of time." If you follow the strict management you said, women workers will definitely go to factories with high wages. Your theory is indeed correct, but it is not suitable for my practice. ”
Stills of Jieli Khan, picture from the internet, thanks to the original author.
At that time, China had a very advanced national management system. For example, three provinces and six ministries, the administrative system at the state and county levels, and so on. This system is indeed much more advanced than the Turkic administrative system.
The crux of the matter is that this advanced system is suitable for predominantly agrarian China, but not for the nomadic Turks. It's like a strict personnel system, suitable for large companies, but not suitable for the private enterprises where I worked. The Great Khan of Jieli did not understand this truth, and gave Zhao Deyan full authority to promote the Turkic administrative reform movement.
The Turkic tribes were accustomed to simple and crude and effective administrative methods. They developed great resistance to Zhao Deyan's reforms. In order to promote the smooth progress of the reform, Zhao Deyan used the power given by the Great Khan of Jieli to suppress the Turkic tribes that opposed the reform. Zhao Deyan's reforms, advanced amid numerous obstacles, sparked turfish dissatisfaction with the Great Khan of Jieli.
This matter canonically published in the Zizhi Tongjian. The original text of the record of volume 192 is: "The german language is exclusive to its prestige, it changes many old customs, the government decrees are harsh, and the people of the country are not pleased." ”
Zhao Deyan copied the Chinese way of administration and complicated simple issues, causing the major Turkic tribes to complain about the Great Khan of Jieli. With the help of Zhao Deyan, many Turks were reluctant to give their lives for the Great Khan of Jieli.
When people's hearts are scattered, the team is not easy to bring. Li Shimin seized this opportunity and launched a fierce attack on the Turks. Under the leadership of Li Jing and others, it took only a few months for the Tang generals to capture the Great Khan of Jieli alive and completely solve the problem of Turkic border troubles.
The Zizhi Tongjian lists Zhao Deyan's confusion with the Turks as one of the main reasons for Li Shimin's defeat of the Turks. Zhao Deyan wholeheartedly became a traitor, but he made a great contribution to the motherland. When I read the "Zizhi Tongjian", I felt that Zhao Deyan, a traitor, could not be hated at all, but was loved by everyone.
Ignoring the actual situation of the Turks, JieLi blindly followed Zhao Deyan's advice and copied the Chinese administrative method to the Turks, and as a result, he played himself as a prisoner of Li Shimin's ranks. The story recorded in the Zizhi Tongjian tells us: "Advanced management methods are not necessarily effective, and only management methods that suit themselves are the most effective." ”
"Zizhi Tongjian" is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients, and if you read a small story in it, you can use it infinitely. The literary version of "Zizhi Tongjian" is more difficult to read, and the vernacular version of "Zizhi Tongjian" has no charm. The author suggests that you buy a white version of the "Zizhi Tongjian", which can charm and popular.
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