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Chapter 1 Zen School's First Koan

"That's what I thought."

Ye Sansheng answered honestly.

He is feeling particularly strong now.

"I can't tell what you're thinking. Ever since I was little, I've known you were going to poop or pee as soon as your butt lifted up." Li Banggui sneered: "Do you think Wang Daming can cooperate? He has a good temper and is somewhat capable, right?"

"Yes."

Ye Sansheng answered honestly again.

He had read in a book that good morals are good business. This sentence applies not only to business, but also to other industries, and to his work, right?

Are you willing to cooperate with someone who is always plotting against you, always ready to betray you, and stab you in the back?

"I'm not against you doing this, nor am I against Wang Daming as a person, but grassroots work has its own characteristics. For example, someone must listen to what you say first." Li Banggui's expression became serious and he took another sip.

Tea: "For example, in Fulong Village, if you say you want to grow camellia oleifera, the villagers must listen to you, believe you, and support you, so that they are willing to devote time and energy, or even take the initiative to pay. But if you just cooperate with Wang Daming, you can't refuse.

To start this work. His appeal is not as good as that of Father Hu, or even as good as Li Erman. If he really wants to plant cash crops in Fulong Village, he will have to invite Father Hu and the elders of the Li family to sit down.

After discussing it together, they agreed, and they expressed their support, so that you could work in Fulong Village."

"But it is not easy to get this consent." Li Banggui sighed, "There are only one or two things that Fulong Village can discuss smoothly. When the Hu family and Li family meet like this, it is not so much a discussion.

, it is better to say that it is a struggle, a struggle for power and profit, which is just wrangling over how to provide labor, how to pay, how to distribute, and how much to plant on the hills with the surname Hu and Li. In the end, it will probably be a bad debt."

"Originally, I shouldn't have said this now to slap you down. But what I want to remind you is that this is grassroots work. You should not take it for granted, nor should you think that if you are right, you will be able to achieve results and do it well."

Ye Sansheng gasped.

He is indeed a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers, so he thinks things are too simple. However, it is precisely because he is a newborn calf that he dares to do such a thing as touching the tiger's butt.

"Does this count as clan power?"

he asked hesitantly.

"So what? Relatives can't help each other? Even fellow villagers should help each other, right? Besides, they didn't fight against the government, nor did they break the law. They just didn't actively support or support the work of the government. You

If you want to do something, you must first solve their ideological work. This is actually a test and exercise for our grassroots cadres. This is why I tell you this." Li Banggui's expression was serious again.

"I remember." Ye Sansheng replied seriously. "Wang Daming has no background and cannot get the support of Hu and Li in Fulong Village, so it is quite difficult to do things. I can see this. But he wants to get them

It is also difficult to support him. If either party supports him, the other party must resolutely oppose it, and he will not be able to become the village party secretary. This is really a paradox."

"An important reason why Fulong Village failed is that the conflict between the two surnames has existed for a long time."

"Then we have to find a way to solve it."

"Solved? That's easy to say." Li Banggui said disdainfully, "If we could solve it, how long would it take until now?"

"Uncle, you just said that there are many conflicts between the two surnames, which are actually due to poverty. However, in order to solve poverty, we must first resolve the conflicts between the two surnames. This is another paradox."

Ye Sansheng sighed in distress.

Unconsciously, he put himself into it, and it seemed that Fulong Village also fell under the jurisdiction of Linjiang Town where he worked.

"There is a way. Can a living person suffocate to death?" Li Banggui said.

"Then uncle, just use it." Ye Sansheng became interested.

"You can use it, uncle, why don't you use it?"

Li Banggui glanced at him, and the car bumped on the gravel road. Both of them flashed, smelling of alcohol.

Quickly taking a deep breath to suppress the alcohol, Li Banggui picked up the tea cup and took a sip, swallowed it, spit out a few tea stems, and said: "If you want to do things, you must have power. If you have power, you can do things. Fulong Village

Uncle, I can't solve the problem, and Mayor Shuji may not be able to solve it either, but why don't you try changing to the county magistrate?"

"It's not that the county magistrate has more solutions than us, but he has more power and more resources. With just a tilt of his pen, he can pour in tens of millions or install a few good projects, and Fulong Village will immediately change.

At that time, we can adjust it casually and send most of the Hu and Li surnames to other villages, or there is no need to adjust at all. With money, everyone will naturally be harmonious."

"This is a way."

Ye Sansheng agreed, but disagreed in his heart.

Although power is a good thing, it may not be a panacea to solve everything. For example, isn't Yang Zhong worried and troubled every day? It is even conceivable that the county magistrate and mayor may not be able to sit back and relax and everything goes smoothly, right?

But my uncle also taught a very fundamental truth: to do things, you must have power.

"Why should Hu Yong pay compensation for five years? Five years later..."

Ye Sansheng asked.

"Who will be in charge of things in five years? Of course, people in five years will be in charge of things in five years." Li Banggui laughed and looked at the young nephew he had picked up with contempt, "You just want to say

Li Sanmei, Li Erman, and the Li family would definitely not agree to the one-year compensation. It would not be short of the one hundred and ten yuan. Regarding this matter, both parties care about the impact. They both want to settle the matter and save face. In other words, they want a

Wang Daming and the others didn’t respect him, so they called me and asked me to go see the scene and listen to their quarrel. This was all just going through the motions. Of course, it wasn’t just going through the motions. If not handled properly, it could really lead to the National People’s Congress with two surnames.

Fight. So this statement must be said to the truth, and it must be said at once. Don't be muddled by mother-in-law and mother-in-law."

Ye Sansheng stopped talking.

I was thinking about today's incident and my uncle's handling of it all the way.

Taoist Wang said that everything in the world is nothing but emotion, reason, and law. In this matter, where is emotion? Where is reason? Where is law? How much weight does each have in it?

Li Banggui's solution may seem unbelievable, but in fact it may be one of the most appropriate methods.

Li Banggui did not go back to the town, but went directly back to Zizhou County, because on the way Ye Sansheng received a call from Taoist Wang, saying that he was back and that he had something important to see him.

Li Banggui sent Ye Sansheng down the mountain and told him to go back and sleep for two hours and see if they could have dinner together in the evening.

Ye Sansheng went up the mountain alone. He was filled with joy when he thought that he had not seen Taoist Wang for a long time. He took three steps and two steps at a time, almost jogging to the back room of the temple, panting.

As expected, Taoist Wang was meeting guests in the main room in the middle of the first floor.

The guest is a middle-aged man with a slicked back hair, a sinewy face, and a strong body. He sits half a head taller than an ordinary person, so he should be tall and tall.

The main room was arranged by Taoist Wang according to the layout of a wealthy family in the past. There were two wooden chairs for host and guest in the middle facing the door. Four chairs were arranged on both sides. Behind these two rows of chairs, there were another row of four chairs on each side. Ye Sansheng felt that

It's a bit like the legendary Liangshanbo Yiyi Hall.

Taoist Wang took the main seat, and the middle-aged man took the guest seat. There were three people sitting on the chairs on both sides. I don’t know if they came all the way. After Ye Sansheng entered the door, Taoist Wang only nodded slightly to him. He hesitated and took the seat.

The Taoist King sat down at the end of the room.

"...So I am planning to switch to the education industry. Teaching and educating people is a century-old plan. While cultivating generations of students to grow into talents, I will also be purified and perfected, find the meaning of my life, realize the value pursuit of life, and shape my own perfection.

His personality is... he has accumulated great virtues and is the first of all good deeds."

Ye Sansheng was stunned. Seeing that this middle-aged man was full of... wealth and arrogance, his words were so... moving. If the last sentence hadn't revealed his original thoughts, he would have thought he was someone who had put down his butcher knife.

Good people.

The chair he was sitting on had been occupied by many similar people before. There was once a mine owner who came from a distant place and talked to Taoist Wang about his ideals in life. He said that he would do business before he was forty years old, and he would do education after he was forty years old.

, there happened to be a teacher present at that time, who couldn't help but ask: Do you know more about education than me? Why don't you continue your business and give me the money for education?

The mine owner was speechless.

At that time, Ye Sansheng had just entered college, and Taoist Wang took this opportunity to teach him that Chinese entrepreneurs have a "street girl complex." They always feel that doing business is not as good as doing education, and doing charity is noble, and they always want to get out of the trap of business as soon as possible. This is

It is a fatal injury to contemporary Chinese values.

Taoist Wang meant that everyone has his or her own destiny, and living well and doing one's own thing well is the best reward for society and life. He encouraged Ye Sansheng to work hard to train himself after entering college and firmly

Prepare to enter politics, but do not lose confidence in politics because you gradually realize the ugly side of politics, such as dirt and cruelty.

Ye Sansheng wanted to know how Taoist Wang would use this middle-aged man to educate him this time.

He also thought that Taoist Wang should actually be engaged in education. He not only has great compassion, but also is good at discovering the characteristics of each student and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. However, Taoist Wang has always been engaged in education before and now.

Not only did he personally cultivate several orphans, but he also used his actions to silently influence the people around him, his patients and believers throughout Zizhou, and more people, even if he did not directly say what to do about it.

He does it, but he sets an example with his own actions and guides those people. It is said that words are not as good as teaching by example. This is the case.

I also thought that education has been closely integrated with temples, Buddhism and Taoism since ancient times. Two generations of Taoist kings can actually be regarded as great masters of education.

While I was thinking wildly, I heard the middle-aged man talking about topics ranging from education and investment to his attitude towards money:

"...It's good to have it, but it's okay not to have it. As long as you have a breath in your heart, your body will be able to stand. The so-called money is something external to the body. If you don't bring it with you during life, you won't take it with you after death. Your hands will be empty when you come and you will leave with empty hands. What can you hold on to?

Form is emptiness, emptiness is color, Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. There is nothing in the first place, so why care about those empty things that cannot be grasped? Why pursue those delusional thoughts and extravagant desires?"

Ye Sansheng couldn't help but smile.

It sounds like this man has also read some books and worshiped some gods.

However, if you are not such a half-filled bottle of water, you will not become Taoist Wang's guest and benefactor.

Hearing Taoist Wang and others respectfully address him as Hai Zong, he couldn't help but said: "Hai Zong said that Bodhi has no tree. Naturally, he has studied the koan of the Fifth Patriarch's transmission of Dharma and the Sixth Patriarch's verses. I have a question.

I would like to ask Mr. Hai: Is the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng more brilliant, or is Shenxiu more brilliant?"

Mr. Hai was stunned. He didn't expect anyone to ask him such a question. He was stunned and replied: "Of course the Sixth Patriarch is wise, otherwise why would he be the Sixth Patriarch? The Fifth Patriarch did not pass on the Dharma to Shenxiu."

"That's not necessarily the case."
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