What is more important than a decline in population?

Recently, I saw such a question, why did Pei County, the hometown of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, be very small, but later there was a meritorious management group of the entire Han Dynasty, managing a huge country. For example, Zhou Bo, Xiao He and others are all people from Pei County.

This phenomenon is relatively common. For example, many of the original team of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, were Fengyang people. Later, during the Qing Dynasty, the main administrators of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were all from Jintian, Guangxi.

Similar talent highlights the problem somewhere, and people often ask similar questions. Some people replied that they were brilliant, promoting each other, and meeting in the wind and clouds, so there could be many talents.

There is some truth to these answers, but they don't seem to point out the real reason.

Recently, I saw such an explanation, among the talents listed in a certain place mentioned above, in fact, the most scarce one is the person who took the lead, such as the founding emperor Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, and the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan.

And what other civilian and military generals, such some talents, in fact, in a county, can find such people. That is, a county can match the talents of a court.

If you think about this problem in reverse, there are many, many excellent talents in so many counties across the country, because of the lack of such leaders, resulting in no good opportunities, then these talents can only be buried in secret. No wonder the ancients often said that they did not meet each other, it seems that there is still a certain truth.

In recent years, a very hot topic, said that the number of Chinese will decline sharply in the future, many controversies around this topic, many people express their opinions and suggestions.

In contrast, in fact, compared with the decline in population, it is more important to identify talents and get what they deserve. Although it is difficult, this space for improving various strengths is very large.

Thanks for your attention!