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Secretary Lu heard from Ye Ming that if he couldn't answer, he was willing to drink two glasses of wine. He was very satisfied with his confidence, nodded slightly, and said, "Okay, let's start now. Sima Guang is compiling "Zi Zhi Tong When reading "Jian", I often make my own evaluations on some historical events or characters for the reference of the emperor who read this book. Many of these evaluations are classic quotes, and three words are added at the beginning: 'Chen Guangyan ', which means 'Wei Chen Sima Guang thinks'. My question is: at the beginning of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", what topic is the first paragraph "Chen Guang Yan" talking about? Can you recite one of the most classic A few words?"

Ye Ming has read "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" twice, and is very interested in some of Sima Guang's views in it, so this question naturally does not bother him.Moreover, he guessed that Secretary Lu wanted to answer this question by himself, and the purpose was to teach Secretary Li, Xia Bicheng, and Xu Lizhong a lesson, so that they would also know what is a gentleman and what is a villain.

So, he talked eloquently: "Secretary Lu, this is Sima Guang's conclusion about the relationship between virtue and talent after summarizing the lessons learned from the defeat of Zhi Bo in the late Spring and Autumn Period. A sage who has both virtue and ability is called a fool, a man whose virtue wins his talent is called a gentleman, and a man whose talent wins his virtue is called a villain. When choosing and employing people, if you can’t get a saint or a gentleman, you’d rather use a fool than a villain. A fool IQ is not high, ability is not high, even if he does evil, he can't make a big wolf; but a villain has talent but no virtue, he uses his talent to do evil, and his intelligence is enough to make his treachery succeed, like a tiger with wings, and the harm is not shallow. , the loser of the family has more than enough talent but not enough virtue, so that there are many overthrowers. This is Sima Guang's "concept of morality and talent": not only pay attention to "talent", but also pay more attention to "virtue", admiring virtuous saints, A gentleman despises a villain who is talented but has no virtue. When talking about the point of view that he would rather use a fool than a villain, he also used a very vivid metaphor. The original text is this: "Although a fool wants to do bad things, Wisdom cannot be controlled, strength cannot be conquered, for example, a dog fights a person, and the person can control it. A villain is wise enough to commit treachery, and brave enough to repel violence. He is a tiger with wings, and the damage will not be too much!' It means: a fool wants to harm people, but he is not capable enough, just like a dog that wants to bite people, the person who is bitten can easily subdue it; The vicious tiger is very harmful to people."

Hearing that he explained this passage very clearly, Secretary Lu couldn't help nodding his head frequently, took a sip from his wine glass, and said earnestly, "Xiaoye's understanding of Sima Guang's view of virtue and ability The explanation is very thorough. Comrades, this passage of Sima Guang has a great enlightenment effect on how we leaders and cadres choose and appoint people! At our level of leadership, there are not a few people who surround themselves. Among these people, saints are rare in my opinion, but there must be many gentlemen and sages, and there must also be many fools and villains. Therefore, we must have the ability to see clearly, have a pair of piercing eyes like Monkey King, and always pay attention to distinguishing Which ones are gentlemen and sages, and which ones are fools and villains. And those villains are often people with strong abilities, who are usually good at disguising, opportunistic, and good at currying favor with leaders. But often these A villain of great ability but of little virtue is the greatest danger to our cause.

Take Wang Mang, the most notorious villain in history, as an example.This ambitious and conspirator, before usurping the throne, tried his best to curry favor with Emperor Han Cheng and Empress Dowager Xiaoyuan.When the time was not ripe, although he was in a high position, he never respected himself. He was always respectful to the virtuous and corporal, honest and frugal. Loved him, so that celebrities in the ruling and opposition parties praised him.In order to gain a good reputation for being impartial and selfless, he even forced his two sons, Wang Huo and Wang Yu, who had made mistakes but were not guilty of death, to commit suicide, causing his wife to cry blindly because of excessive grief.It was such a hypocritical villain who turned his face immediately after the death of Emperor Han Cheng, poisoned his son-in-law Emperor Han Ping to death, and borrowed some auspicious signs and prophecies to instigate people to support him as emperor, established a short-lived new dynasty, and ruined the Western Han Dynasty It also triggered the Green Forest and Chimei Uprising, which caused the world to be in turmoil for more than ten years, causing tens of thousands of people to be displaced and their families to be destroyed.Therefore, the harm of the villain is very great. We must always be vigilant and pay attention to everything, and we must never let the villain succeed, and we must never let the villain gain power. "

When he said this, he looked at Ye Ming, smiled slightly and said, "Xiao Ye, I'm going to test you again: There was a great poet in the Tang Dynasty who had a few vivid descriptions of Wang Mang's hypocrisy. This poet is Who? What is the title of the poem? What is the full text of the poem?"

As soon as this question came up, Secretary Li and Xia Bicheng knew a few lines, but they couldn't figure out who wrote it and what the original poem was like, so they all turned their attention to Ye Ming to see if he could answer it come up.

Ye Ming thought for a while, and then he replied confidently: "Secretary Lu, that poem should be written by Bai Juyi. The title seems to be "Fang Yan". And Zhu Yarrow. It takes three days to burn the jade, and it takes seven years to distinguish the material. Zhou Gong was afraid of the day of rumors, and Wang Mang was humble before usurping. Xiangshi died in the same year, and who knows the truth in his life.' Among them, the last four This sentence is very famous, I think Secretary Li, Director Xia and other leaders should know about it.”

Xia Bicheng nodded and said with admiration: "Xiaoye, I heard Xu Fei say that you have a wide range of knowledge and an amazing memory. At that time, I didn't believe it. Now it seems that you are indeed outstanding. Talent. For example, in the poem just now, I only know the last four lines, and I don’t even know that there are four more jerky lines in the front. It seems that the local tax system of your City K praised you as the number one genius in the system. What a beautiful word!"

Xia Chuchu, who was sitting on Ye Ming's right, saw that her sweetheart answered the provincial party secretary's school exam with ease, and also received a kind of praise from her father. She couldn't help being proud and happy, and stared at Ye Ming closely. With that radiant face, I just feel that I am as happy as a fairy now.

As for Secretary Lu, the purpose of his examination of Ye Ming is to verify whether he has real talents and learning, and on the other hand, he also wants his precious son to show his hands in front of Secretary Li, Xia Bicheng and others, so as to satisfy himself. pride.

Therefore, after listening to Xia Bicheng's praise of Ye Ming, he had a satisfied and satisfied smile on his face, drank another half glass of wine, and began to think about asking a more difficult question to test Ye Ming.If he also answered it, then he should be even more happy.