Talk about accompanying ministers in carrying out the country’s orders

Confucius was against accompanying ministers to carry out the country's orders.

After King Wu of Zhou founded the country, Duke Zhou established a feudal system. The king was the supreme princess of the world, but one person did not have the ability to manage such a large country, so he had to pull out his brothers, uncles and nephews. Each person owns a territory and implements "I have the final say on my territory" and becomes a vassal state. The princes follow the same pattern and entrust smaller areas to their brothers, uncles and nephews. This is the great aristocratic class. In turn, there are minor nobles, officials, scholars, etc., extending one level at a time.

In that era, this method should be reasonable and helpless. No one was willing to give their things to others and give them up. However, the material environment and organizational capabilities at that time could not form the current situation. This kind of governance structure.

Confucius highly praised the set of "rituals" established by Duke Zhou, and he has been lobbying everywhere, hoping to return to the era of Duke Zhou and make sure that kings, ministers, fathers, sons, brothers, and brothers are all in place. My opinion is that as long as everyone does this, the world will be peaceful.

I won’t expand on this topic here, and continue to talk about accompanying ministers to carry out the country’s orders.

Accompanying ministers are subordinates and subordinates. At that time, they especially referred to the retainers of the great nobles such as scholar-bureaucrats. Guoming refers to the lifeline and destiny of the country and refers to the power to control the vassal states. Originally, the vassal states should prosper and develop under the joint governance of the monarch and the scholar-bureaucrats. The retainers under the scholar-bureaucrats were not qualified to participate. If a retainer participated in the governance of the vassal state, it would be "accompanying the minister to carry out the order of the country." , that is inconsistent with etiquette.

If translated, in current terms, it is cross-level management. Originally, an ordinary employee should take orders from his direct leader, but he went beyond this direct leader and went to the boss to discuss things. In the end, They often end up being two-faced and inhuman.

Confucius’s idea of ??monarch, minister, father and son is actually a management method that uses systems to restrain people. No matter whether it is a family, an organization, or a country, it will not develop well without system construction. Therefore, it is very necessary to establish an effective system and require everyone involved to abide by it.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, few people followed the system advocated by Confucius. The King of Zhou, who lived deep in the Luoyang Palace, did not implement his administrative orders very well even in Luoyang City. Needless to say, in other places, many vassal states also followed the path of the King of Zhou. It was not uncommon for the scholar-officials under them to take power and be ignored. And many scholar-officials also experienced such a situation, and were neglected by their own retainers. Empty. This completely violated Zhou Gong's "etiquette" regulations and became a mess.

What Confucius saw was the chaos of society and the unsatisfactory lives of the people. He longed for change, but he could not come up with any new ideas, so he had to use the same tactics as Duke Zhou and lobby everywhere. As a result, He is running into walls everywhere and cannot succeed. Because times have changed and the old rules are no longer useful. How is it possible to force everyone to abide by them?

The only way out is change. The first thing is to transform the system and design a system that can be accepted and followed by the people of the world. Only then can society get on the right track

From From a management perspective, to put it bluntly, it is very simple, that is, we must use dynamic thinking to look at the system. Once we find something inappropriate, we must make changes in time. Otherwise, either the system will not be implemented, or the work will be hindered in order to implement the system. .