The initial motivation for reading "The Great Qing Dynasty" was because Wang Qishan, former vice premier of the State Council, "praised" him, which made me want to get a glimpse of its color geometry. I didn't want to, and halfway through reading, I thought about what I wanted to write, and finally, I decided to wait until I read through it before I wrote it.
The protagonist of "The Great Qing Xiangguo" is Chen Tingjing, a famous minister of the Kangxi Dynasty, who has been in the Kangxi Dynasty for several ups and downs, and has been riding the official field for more than fifty years, successively serving as a worker, an official, a household, and a criminal shangshu, an official to a scholar of Wenyuange University, and finally a senior minister, "lenient and old, almost perfect" is the Kangxi Emperor's evaluation of his life.
We know very well that the most difficult thing for officials since ancient times is not to stick to poverty, but how to stand, as the Kangxi Emperor said, the officialdom has been called "eunuch sea" since ancient times, what is the sea? It is a place where there is no wind and three feet of waves. However, it is very difficult for a clear stream to compete for a place in this empty turbid wave.
Chen Tingjing was a young man when he first entered the army, so he offended many princes and ministers, was in a political whirlpool, and was full of dangers, but fortunately, He was able to mediate with Xiang Shu in the middle, turn the danger into a disaster, and teach him that officials were boiled out and should "wait"; after entering the DYNASTY, he accompanied the king like a tiger, his colleagues were like wolves, and he was repeatedly ostracized, and his father-in-law Li Zuwang taught him to "endure"; Kangxi was pro-government, a young hero, and the heavenly power was unpredictable, and he gradually realized that he wanted to be "stable"; after the official residence, he asked for the people's life, punished evil and promoted good, and in the same pearl, Soetu, and so on. Xu Qianxue and other kangxi emperor's henchmen and courtiers skillfully maneuvered in the struggle, secretly punched hard, and were forced out of a "fierce"; when he was an official and a scholar of Wenyuange University, the first assistant minister, standing at the peak of his political career, he also retreated bravely under the advice of his wife Yueyuandi, told the old man to return to his hometown, and penetrated a "hidden".
Chen Tingjing's story reminds me of another person— Su Shi, a northern Song Dynasty scholar who left thousands of poems and magnificent articles for our Chinese nation. You can vaguely see many similarities between Su Shi and Chen Tingjing- both are immortal materials, both are young and successful, both have a pure heart, and have the heart of the world; both are deeply appreciated by the royal family, and Su Shi and his brother Su Rui are called by the empress dowager of the dynasty as the materials of the two prime ministers cultivated by SuMen for the Great Song Dynasty. However, the same young talents have different career prospects. Su Dongpo was ostracized by his colleagues, repeatedly exiled, and eventually discouraged by the officialdom, and became a Lingnanian; although Chen Tingjing was up and down, he was finally able to ascend to the position and become a good minister. It can only be said that different personalities have created different lives.
From "waiting" to "hiding", Chen Tingjing knows better the trick of being a good official -- to make things round is not necessarily to be treacherous, to exchange courtesies and stills is not necessarily to be greedy, to leave room for himself is also to leave a position for the clear spring in the official field, only if he can first stand on the cusp of this storm can he try to ask for the people's life; and Su Dongpo, even if he has the talent of the prime minister and the ambition of helping the world, his personality is too rigid and straight, and he has never penetrated the truth of "the reason is straight, the road is curved", not to mention Mu XiuYulin. It is a pity that a generation of talents, leaving us more is "bamboo sticks and shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid?" The uninhibited and free-spiritedness of a smoky rain and a peaceful life, and the merits of the officials seem to be condensed into the scenery on the Su Causeway of the West Lake. alack! Mr. Dongpo should have learned from Chen Tingjing and done better.
After reading "The Great Qing Xiangguo" and thinking in a vague way, does Chen Tingjing's way of being an official and the way of being a man also have extremely practical significance and extremely profound enlightenment today?