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Text Chapter 488: Honest officials are also fiercer than tigers

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    Ding Baozhen warned himself to "work hard to be an official", and he did so himself. However, his "hard work" was not gospel to the common people.  Ding Baozhen was born in the late Qing Dynasty when the country was in decline and the country was in decline. Faced with the dark reality that "the corrupt officials in the world are worse than bandits; the corrupt officials in the government are no different from tigers and wolves", as a minister of the border, he was able to emerge from the mud and remain untainted, "taking the world as his example"  He is honest and upright, and his way of serving as an official embodies the glorious Confucian thoughts of "protecting the people," "nurturing the people," and "educating the people." It can be said that this is the most valuable thing about his thoughts.  But when it comes to actual implementation, it is completely different.  Because the theory in his mind has no operability at all now!  In Ding Baozhen¡¯s theory, officials serve the court and the people.  They should put the people first in their hearts, and then themselves.  Confucian scriptures teach this, but as a whole, officials pursue their own interests.  They put themselves first in their hearts, and if there is still room left, they can also decorate the common people.  If it's too crowded, forget it.  This is not a moral issue between two people, this is a common human nature.  The Confucian theory, castrated by Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties, provided people of this era with a very tempting vision and ideal.  For society, as long as everyone abides by the teachings of the saints, the society will be in order and achieve great harmony.  For individuals, if you work hard on yourself, you will reach the state of "sage".  But what Ding Baozhen and others don't know is that the sage's "preserving heaven's principles and destroying human desires" is actually impossible to realize.  Because it only recognizes moral education and does not recognize that the fundamental driving force that governs the operation of society is interest.  It requires people to restrain themselves at all times and walk on the tightrope of "natural principles", but regards "human desires" as the enemy.  therefore.  It lacks operability from the ground up.  "Preserve the principles of nature and destroy human desires" itself is a terrible spiritual treaty.  Or a well-intentioned scam.  Signing this treaty means that a person must always be at war with "self" in his life, squeezing a living natural person into a moral specimen.  Almost all scholars swear that they "must become sages."  However, the vast majority of people give up halfway. They smuggle their desires under high-sounding excuses, and they become "hometown wishes" who say one thing and do another.  Only a very small number of people with special talents can make victims of this treaty with extraordinary mental strength.  And Ding Baozhen.  It's such a weird thing.  Ding Baozhen believes that being an official "pays special attention to setting an example", "you must be fair in your mind, honest in your conduct, diligent in your work, and careful in your inquiries", "It is urgent to care for the people at all times. Caring for the people in everything, and practicing virtue."  He believed that "if you are obsessed with profit, you will be immersed in it for a long time, and some people will become greedy without knowing it." Therefore, he specially told his son Ding Tichang: "If you want to be an official, you must first establish yourself here. You must not follow the example of today."  Those who are unscrupulous and careless only care about the current excitement and do not think about the corruption of their descendants. "As for the unhealthy practices that were popular in the officialdom at that time, such as gifts for festivals and birthdays and filial piety from subordinates to their bosses every quarter, etc.  Ding Baozhen believed that it was corruption and must be resisted.  "All festivals, birthdays and seasonal rules must not be accepted.  If you accept bad rules, you have no way to ask yourself, and how can you treat others? If states and counties give bad rules, they are nothing more than taking them from the people. If you take one of the states and counties, the state and county will  Take ten of the people. If you think about it after the great disaster, can you bear to do such a thing that harms the law and abuses the people?  People will receive endless blessings To save their lives and collect the rules of the season is like being a thief who breaks through the wall. Only by being patient can one become a thief.  A good person Even if he is poor for a while, and his reputation is hard to come by, he is worth millions, so why not be afraid Poverty is not a disease, poverty is a sign of a gentleman, the sage has said this, and we should take this as an example.  Practice it personally" When it comes to the cultivation of an official, Ding Baozhen believes that a good and competent official must "know the affairs of the time clearly, be good at reading, and learn from the past.  He said that in order to prevent corruption, one must first stay away from corruption and keep oneself clean. "Except for going to the government office, it is better to stay closed all day long, read, write, and compose poems."  " He admonished his son Ding Tichang to "work hard in the morning and worry about the people"; to "not be frightened when being humiliated but to be flattered"; to "be prepared for danger in times of peace" and not to "forget about sorrow in happiness"; to keep the ups and downs of the officialdom and personal life in mind.  Gains and losses are indifferent, but one's own personality and integrity must be valued.  He said this: "When I am an official, my ambition is to rule and rule the people, and he has no questions. Officials can be dismissed and dismissed, but they must not follow the customs, which will harm themselves physically and mentally and bring shame to future generations!" Ding Baozhen went to Shandong as governor  After taking office, he practiced hard and resolutely, and the atmosphere in Shandong's officialdom was indeed much more "clean". However, what followed was extremely low administrative efficiency and embarrassment in fiscal revenue.  Ding Baozhen has always believed that scholars are disciples of Confucius and Mencius, and they become officials.?The starting point should be to practice the way of Confucius and Mencius, not for selfish interests.  Therefore, his abolition of the bad rules of acceptance and the maintenance of the ancestral system's "low salary" are just conducive to officials "forging moral integrity" and "maintaining righteousness", as the saying goes, "preserving natural principles and destroying human desires."  The low-salary system is actually a political tradition in China based on Confucianism. However, the problem is that on the one hand, official salaries are so low that sometimes they are not even enough to maintain normal expenses. On the other hand, officials are based on the standard and are omnipotent, and the power of officials at all levels is not restricted.  , there is almost no obstacle to formulating various local policies and carrying out various arbitrary charges.  Collecting administrative fees through additional assessments to support government operations is a normal phenomenon in the politics of the past dynasties, and it is also the basis for maintaining the low-wage system.  The question is how much to charge and how wide to apportion, there is no explicit regulation, it is completely a secret operation.  Moreover, there has never been an effective accounting and auditing system for the fiscal revenue and expenditure of government agencies.  Officials put money into their pockets as easily as they put food into their meals.  The absurdity of this system is like "a thirsty horse guards water and a vicious dog guards meat", which leads to the overall corruption of officials as an inevitable trend.  Under this system, if you are an upright official and do not take anything away from you, the result will be a poverty that is unbearable for normal people.  The problem is, you can be willing to be poor, but you cannot ask others to suffer poverty with you!  This impossible myth has supported the Chinese nation through thousands of years of hardship.  This myth is a trap. It tells people that the way for a society or a person to reach the other side of happiness has been pointed out by the sage.  So happiness is right in front of you, at your fingertips.  The problem is that the words of the sage are vague, and there is no objective standard for how to implement them 100%.  If you haven't found happiness yet, the reason must be that you haven't followed through correctly.  For thousands of years, the Chinese people have spent their time trying to implement the words of the saints and reach the other side of happiness. For thousands of years, the "world of great harmony" promised by the saints has never landed on the earth, and the "peace and prosperity" has never been achieved.  Just a brief respite from the war and famine.  When everyone mocks and praises the words of the saint, what people see when they look up is chaos, stagnation and poverty.  No one has ever doubted the accuracy of the sage¡¯s words, and no one has jumped out of the trap of this myth.  People just keep going, generation after generation.  The entire Chinese culture has fallen into huge paranoia, and perseverance is regarded as a magic weapon to solve all problems.  However, the harder people try, the worse the world becomes.  Ding Baozhen didn¡¯t care about this. When he took office, Shandong¡¯s tax revenue was not large, but he was ¡°wholeheartedly serving the people.¡± After taking office, he launched a large-scale ¡°project to benefit the people¡± and built water conservancy projects.  In 1871, the Yellow River burst at Houjialin in Yuncheng, Shandong, causing traffic jams and most counties and prefectures being flooded.  The minister in charge of river management recommended that construction be started the next year.  Ding Baozhen requested that construction be started immediately when the water dries up and that he be ordered to personally supervise the repairs.  It was completed in less than two months and was said to be "half the effort but twice the result."  Later, the Yellow River broke through at Shizhuanghu, and the water flowed southward. Hundreds of miles of Shandong, Jiangsu, and Anhui were affected by floods. Canal traffic was abandoned. The imperial court was divided on water control.  Ding Baozhen also asked the supervisors to block the construction, so that the water of the Daqing River would flow into the sea.  In addition to building Shuishi, Ding Baozhen built Shangzhi Academy in Jinan and recruited Confucian students from all prefectures and counties to give lectures in the academy, as well as those who were willing to learn astronomy, geography, and arithmetic.  After Zuo Zongtang's Western Expedition salary apportionment came over, Ding Baozhen actively supported it and delivered the salary in full every time.  These things he did won him a high official reputation, but Shandong's fiscal and tax revenue gradually became unable to make ends meet.  Ding Baozhen did not study the reasons for this, but implemented strict frugality throughout the province and took the lead in setting an example. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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