1. Attach importance to talents and attract talents in various ways.
Lao Zeng was good at making friends all his life. He used to be an assistant minister in the official department. When he founded the Xiang Army and led the troops to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the later period, he took how to know people and employ people to the extreme. Xianfeng wrote a letter to his two younger brothers in June ten years ago, in which he mentioned that a man named Wen Fuqing was very good at handling lijin. I hope there are more people like him. When my brother sees him, he must pay more attention to "doing things in an orderly way, and never get infected with bureaucratic habits." . In addition, Lao Zeng asked his younger brothers to take talents like Wen Fuqing as the standard, dig more in the army and local areas, and then recommend them. It can be seen that Lao Zeng himself hates bureaucratic habits and uses them as an important reference standard. This employment method is worth learning and learning from!
After the last letter about Wen Fuqing, Lao Zeng's brothers recommended a group of outstanding talents to him. Lao Zeng wrote back quickly and continued to express his views on how to employ people: Besides Fu Qing, his younger brothers also recommended Yi Qing and Talia Liu, both of whom were very good! Lao Zeng knew Liunan's sincerity and caution very well, and he felt that it was extraordinary to be clear. Here, he further pointed out how to observe talents "to have a clear ethics of love and hate, to be principled and not bureaucratic, and to be methodical and not daring." Simply put: personality, integrity, principle, organization, no bad habits, no arrogance and rashness.
In addition, Lao Zeng also put forward some specific requirements for selecting and employing people: the army selects talents with the final victory as an important principle. Therefore, whether people are used to hard work or not is fundamental, and try their best to find a large number of honest people who can work hard. With such a group of people around, after a long time, it is natural to be serious about military discipline, transform the army from top to bottom, overcome difficulties and be invincible. In Lao Zeng's view, if all the soldiers can take hard work and plain living as the foundation and take hard work as the habit, then this army will have the foundation to overcome all difficulties, and it is inevitable to move from one victory to another!
As we said before, Lao Zeng was a cautious person all his life. Lao Zeng is not only good at finding talents from the army and local governments, but also good at summarizing, classifying and rationally using talents. There used to be a unique method for how to choose and employ people, that is, "drop talents without sticking to one pattern." In his view, whether it is digging ditches to build roads, leading troops to fight, dealing with expenses, personnel work or filing documents, as long as you have a skill, you can use it for your own use. Therefore, in the later period, the Xiang army was full of talents and gathered in Athens.
2. Be good at summarizing talents and using them rationally.
In November of the seventh year of Xianfeng, Lao Zeng talked about the use of talents in a letter to his younger brother: Han Sheng, the chief of staff, took time off to go back to his hometown, and the paperwork in front of our army was still very heavy, and no one was in charge. I hope my brother can arrange for Wang Fu to return to the team as soon as possible during his work at home. During the time when Chief of Staff Wang Fu leaves, my brother can arrange Peng Chunnian to take over the management of copywriting. Lao Zeng thought that Han Sheng and Wang Fu were meticulous and diligent people. What is talent? Only when people do their best can they do their best! In this way, as long as we can make good use of it and give full play to our talents, everyone is a talent! This is the eternal truth of selecting and employing people!
"Beat the tiger brothers and beat the father and son", another important reason why Lao Zeng can achieve something is to pay attention to cultivating his brothers into talents and assisting himself. During Lao Zeng's founding of Xiang Army, three younger brothers served in the army successively. In August of the tenth year of Xianfeng, Lao wrote to his younger brother who led the troops in other places, mentioning that he was going to arrange for Chen Fangxian to apply for Datong Lijin for his younger brother to inspect and call, and asked if there was anyone named Wei Liunan who was suitable for Lijin. Or be the chief executive? It can be said that it is Lao Zeng's way of knowing people and his unity with all forces that can be United that finally brings all kinds of outstanding talents under his command and serves the country!
In March of the first year of Tongzhi, Lao Zeng talked about some specific personnel appointments in his letter to his ninth brother Ceng Guoquan: there was a man named Koizumi, who was clever and smooth, in line with what modern people often say. Ding Yusheng writes clearly and fluently, and his student Li Hongzhang seems to want to take part in the work of the shogunate. There is also a man named Nanpo, who is very talented and willing to be used by all officials. It's a pity that he is too old to participate in the negotiations in different places, and I'm afraid it's inconvenient to move. It's best to stay in Hunan. It is best to arrange Ting He to go to Guangdong and Hunan to negotiate all kinds of complicated matters, and let Nanpo go to Laozeng to handle salt affairs.
Many times, the selection and employment mechanism of some countries and units is very problematic! The phenomenon of cronyism and seniority is prominent, which is not a correct and reasonable way to select and employ people! What is the correct concept of employing people? To paraphrase an old saying, "talents with virtue can be reused without exception, talents without virtue can be cultivated and used, talents without virtue can be restricted from hiring, and talents without virtue can be resolutely used." . A person's talent can be cultivated, but the quality of his moral character is hard to change. In Lao Zeng's view, "you can't have both ability and political integrity, and those who benefit can't be reused." When selecting and employing people, don't reuse people who are greedy for fame and fortune. Morality should be the most important when talent and virtue cannot be taken into account. This is the correct and reasonable concept of employing people!
Lao Zeng's lifelong love for talents is inseparable from his correct concept of making friends. The friendship of Lao Zeng's life focuses on getting along sincerely, treating each other sincerely, sharing weal and woe, and treating each other sincerely, which is very chivalrous in ancient times. Therefore, Lao Zeng's attitude towards all kinds of talents is like that of his mentor. The root lies in the sincerity of people who have admired themselves and who are willing to associate, which is very rare. In this world, money is easy to get, but bosom friends are hard to find. In the end, countless friends, relatives, aides, students and subordinates gathered around Lao Zeng. These people are all with Lao Zeng, hand in hand through the ups and downs of the battlefield and officialdom.
3. Cherish and reuse talents and share weal and woe.
In December of the seventh year of Xianfeng, Lao Zeng specially wrote a letter to his ninth brother, Ceng Guoquan, about one thing: some time ago, he was in a hurry to go back to his hometown to pay a visit to Ding You (an official in ancient officialdom, who could take three years off to go home to see Ding You when his parents died to show filial piety), but he didn't have time to say goodbye to the local gentry in Jiangxi, especially because many people here helped the Xiang Army a lot, which made Lao Zeng feel guilty. Lao Zeng led the Xiang army to make friends with local gentry during the war in Jiangxi. Liu and Gan Zida were invited by Lao Zeng to handle military affairs in the army. Because he left without saying goodbye, Lao Zeng especially expressed his guilt for these two good helpers.
Lao used to be a virtuous and selfless person, and he was easy to get close to. Lao Zeng attached great importance to a talent named Li Ciqing (also known as Li). It is because I admire this man that Lao Zeng will try his best to support him whenever he has the chance. In August of the eighth year of Xianfeng, Lao mentioned in his letter to his younger brother that he would lead an army to Hukou in a few days and meet Shen Youdan, Li Ciqing and others immediately. Li Ciqing's army defended the two counties respectively. Some time ago, it won a great victory, and its reputation among the people is also growing. The Governor of Zhejiang Province has honored him as a registered Taoist priest, and will recommend him in the future, asking the imperial edict to make good use of him.
As the saying goes, "rely on parents at home, rely on friends when going out" and "friends make way for easy access". Many times, whether in school or in enterprises, we need good friends and teachers, as well as good partners and helpers. Especially those who are determined to achieve something, need to know people and choose people more in order to fly higher and go further! How to choose and employ people correctly is an extremely profound knowledge, which ordinary people can't do. Because of this, we need to deeply understand Lao Zeng's letters from home, so as to explore some clues and apply what we have learned.
Personality, morality, principle, organization, no bad habits and arrogance; Based on hard work and plain living, taking hard work as a habit; Those who make meritorious deeds are recommended in time, eclectic, eclectic, and talented; When you can't have both ability and political integrity, morality is the most important thing, and those who are good at profit will never be reused; Heroes don't ask the source, try to unite all the forces that can be United, classify and make the best use of their talents ... This is Lao Zeng's way of selecting people and employing people! Through analysis and summary, we can clearly see that Lao Zeng is scientific, reasonable and flexible in employing people, and we can also see his wisdom in life and turn it into his own use! Study again!
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