In modern society, it is almost the wish of each of us to get ahead, and it is also the most ardent hope of every pair of parents for their children, but there are also many people who say that the officialdom is a place of cannibalism, which has been the case since ancient times.
But there are still many people who have broken their heads, and they also want to go into the official field to find an official position for themselves, in their view, holding power in their hands is equivalent to holding wealth in their hands, after all, in the word power, power and interests are inseparable, and how many people in this world do not like money?
Regarding the matter of being an official, in fact, our ancestors have already summed up some profound philosophies of life, and told us in concise words, for example, this sentence "nine generations of officials in one generation" is absolutely quite incisive, and its next sentence is a symbol of great wisdom.
Nine generations of officials in one generation: double meaning, which is thought-provoking
If this sentence is combined with historical facts, it actually has two meanings, one of which is aimed at the officials themselves, and the other is aimed at the ordinary people who are under the control of the officials.
First of all, we all know that in ancient times, in fact, human life is not a very respectable thing, the whole country is the emperor's, not to mention the life of a courtier, that is not as long as you are not paying attention, provoking this person who controls the power of life and death, will lose his own life?
And after everyone holds the power in his hands, his ambition will begin to expand accordingly, after all, with the first piece of meat, he wants the second piece of meat, and with the second piece of meat, he wants to eat a pound of meat. Therefore, the more powerful the courtiers, the more they were suspected by the emperor, and indeed many people with heavy power had a heart that wanted to rebel.
If you don't have the heart to rebel, you may only need to be careful in your words and deeds in front of the emperor, but if a person who is an official really has the intention of overthrowing the current regime, it is better to say that he succeeds, after all, the writer of history is always the winner, but if he fails, he will face the "nine tribes of yours" that will never be recovered, which is the crisis of the generation of officials who have been officials for nine generations.
From another point of view, even if you have been an official in your life, your generation of officials will lead to the "nine generations of extinction" of others.
If you want to be an official, especially if you want to be a high official, no matter how charitable you usually are, when you can reach a fairly high position, you will definitely not be pure white, and your hands will be more or less contaminated with some powerful breath, and you will certainly be contaminated with the bloody smell of some others.
In the "History of Ru Linwai", it is written that "one year in the prefect of the Qing Dynasty, 100,000 snowflake silver", even a small prefect, when he was in the last year, he could have a deposit of 100,000 snowflake silver in his hand.
Nine fortunes are indispensable: Since ancient times, collusion between officials and businessmen has been the norm
This sentence and the first half of the sentence are very neat, which profoundly reflects the wisdom accumulated by the people in life, and the meaning it expresses is also very concise, telling us the deepest philosophy of life with the least number of words.
The so-called nine families that make a fortune are very vivid descriptions of the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor in ancient times.
From an economic point of view, the liquidity available in a society is certain, and when a person puts all the wealth in his own hands, it means that countless people will become very poor because he is rich.
This is the case, in ancient times the economic system is not as perfect as we are now, even in modern society, the gap between rich and poor is actually very obvious, not to mention in ancient times, at that time, a businessman who wants to get rich must have a certain relationship with the people who are officials, otherwise in the end it is also a bamboo basket to hit the water.
"Although the homes of the scholars and doctors are all traveled in all directions with merchants", this is a relationship between merchants and officials at that time, that is to say, although they are the homes of officials and eunuchs, they all like to get a place in the mall to consolidate their political position, but how to make money at this time, of course, is to find a way to get money from the hands of the people.
Therefore, at that time, a very rich person could appear, and it must have been with the help of officials, on the premise of sacrificing the interests of the vast majority of people, and the interests of this one person were all piled up to form a huge commercial capital.
brief summary
Human wisdom is infinite, and after thousands of years of continuous inheritance and accumulation of culture, there are many sayings like this that have gradually entered our lives, and they are very easy to use, after all, this is the wisdom accumulated by our ancestors.
As their inheritors, we need to take its essence and discard its dross, further optimize this philosophy of life passed down from our ancestors, and tell it to our next generation.
References :History of Rulin