Why didn't King Hui of Wei reuse Shang Yang, who was a genius in the world, but took a detour to recruit talented people?

Why didn't King Hui of Wei reuse Shang Yang, who was a unique genius, but took a detour to recruit talented people?

Before entering the Qin State, Shang Yang first chose to become an official in the Wei State, because at that time the Wei State was a more prosperous and powerful country in the Central Plains. The Wei State had resources that other princes and kings did not have. Between them, it has become the first choice for many students after their debut; it is convenient to obtain better resources and long-term development. But history played a big joke on Shang Yang. Even though Gongshu Cuo tried his best to recommend Shang Yang to King Wei Hui, he even suggested to King Wei Hui that if Wei insisted not to appoint Shang Yang. So why did King Wei Hui not reuse Shang Yang, who was a unique genius, but took a detour to recruit talented people? 011 King Hui of Wei’s pursuit of talents is suspected of being a show off

This is very sad for a country; from the perspective of the employment mechanism, there is actually no conflict between Wei’s extortion of Shang Yang and his subsequent meritocracy. The so-called outstanding talents that King Hui hired were just for show; why do you say that? We will understand if we look at the people invited by King Wei Hui. He invited Mencius from Confucianism and Chunyu Kun from the Yin and Yang family. Both of them were representatives of key theorists in the world at that time.

Can it be said that King Wei Hui does not know what kind of political views he holds for such people? Even if King Wei Hui doesn't know it, doesn't it mean that the ministers under King Wei Hui don't know it either? The answer is naturally no. In other words, when King Wei Hui asked these two people to get to know each other, he actually already knew what kind of answer they were going to give him. Asking someone who already knew the answer to a difficult question was not a fool's errand. What a joke?

Therefore, King Hui of Wei’s original intention was not to really find a way to found a country, but to find an excuse for his failure, so that the world could see that he was not without meritocracy. , it is very simple to show that what you are doing as a king meets the requirements. To put it bluntly, it is just a show.

The genius of history is that it can always tear apart these vain attempts to cover it up without revealing anything. King Wei Hui’s behavior of respecting the virtuous and virtuous has laid a lot of foundation for the Wei State. Disasters have made the resistance against outstanding talents more and more intense, so that many outstanding talents have continued to emerge in the future. Therefore, the resistance of outstanding talents in Wei State, or the so-called meritocracy, is not the Zheng people buying shoes. They are all making excuses for the mediocrity of the king. 02 Shang Yang’s own background was not in the eyes of King Hui of Wei

In addition, there is another reason. Shang Yang’s own strength and background are difficult; although Wei’s employment style is very skewed, King Hui of Wei’s actions must be done before For show, we thus explained the effect of external pressure on King Hui of Wei's change of attitude, but we have to admit that if Shang Yang was a person with a background and reputation, the Wei State would generally not even have the interest to kill him. of.

In fact, people like Zhang Yi and Fan Ju whom we cited above also suffered the loss of having no background. If it is true that the Wei State purged all talents, then How can we explain the fact that Sun Bin and Pang Juan guaranteed generalship in Wei? We all know that in fact, during the period of King Wei Hui, Wei's employment style had not yet become particularly scary. 03 King Wei Hui likes to use people with backgrounds (see the dishes under the dish)

But the talents chosen by King Wei Hui are all people with relatively backgrounds, like Sun Bin and Pang Juan, who should not be very powerful. Family background, but Sun Bin and Pang Juan were well-known, which was enough to attract the king's attention. Since there were already well-known grand openings in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, some people from famous families would always cause competition among countries. This is There is no doubt about it.

In fact, when King Wei Hui not only wanted to appoint Sun Bin and Pang Juan, he also had a great interest in his junior brother Sun Bin, but it was only Sun Bin's obstruction by Pang Juan that caused Sun Bin's tragedy. Therefore, people with no background like Shang Yang could not be valued in that era. This was also a social phenomenon. After all, there was no imperial examination system at that time and there was no objective way to identify talents. Under such circumstances, if this person had no background , without prestige, then he does not have a level worthy of the king's trust.

04 King Wei Hui does not have the ability to recognize people

As a result, whether you can truly select outstanding talents depends on the king’s personal ability. Sadly, King Wei Hui does not have this level, so , King Hui of Wei did not follow Gongshu Cuo's suggestion to appoint Shang Yang, and thus failed to see through Sun Bin and Pang Juan's plot. If we simply analyze these few things, King Wei Hui did not have much influence on the state of Wei, but the point is that this behavior of King Wei Hui seriously affected the subsequent monarchs of the state of Wei.

After all, King Wei Hui was a king who had been in power for 51 years. 51 years was enough time for the country's style to change, and it was also enough time to influence the next monarch. Therefore, the period of King Wei Hui caused The shortcomings not only reflect this era, but also have great harm to the development trend of Wei's descendants; this is actually the greatest tragedy of Wei as a big country. 05 Summary

The reason why the Wei State abandoned Shang Yang and sought talents from Confucianism, Yin-Yang School and other schools was caused by many factors. This was not only the pressure from the development trend of the Wei State, but also the kings of the Wei State. Defending one's own suspicions has a lot to do with the current social situation at that time. After all, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, blood relations and social status were very important.

For people like Shang Yang who had neither social background nor elegant origins, it was difficult for them to prosper in that era. This was one of the reasons why Shang Yang was unknown in the first half of his life; in fact, if Shang Yang If he doesn't meet Qin Xiaogong, who is truly a man of merit, he may be lost in the sands of history. The above is all the content. Thank you everyone for reading. If you have any other ideas, please leave a message in the comment area for discussion.