Chapter 407: It doesn’t go your way*
Probably because he didn't want to put in the effort, Mr. Zong spoke very straightforwardly.
Meng Changqing could understand what the other party wanted to express.
The knowledge and skills she learned from Zong Ruwen were things that Zong Ruwen could truly give her, but his reputation and connections would not be passed on to her through the master-disciple relationship.
Mr. Zong is willing to use these things to help her, that is because of his compassion as a master. It is normal to be unwilling and unable to care. She, Meng Changqing, still understands some truth.
"At the end of last year, I had something to say to you, but it's a pity that we are far away. Some time ago, I became more and more ill, and I thought I would ask someone to convey those words to you." Zong Ruwen twitched the corners of his lips. , "After all, the fate between our master and apprentice is not over yet."
Meng Changqing took the warm water from the boy's hand and brought it to Zong Ruwen's mouth, "Drink your water and speak slowly."
Zong Ruwen hesitated for a while, then continued: "Let me ask you, what are common people?"
Meng Changqing was stunned by the unrelated questions, but then he responded: "People."
Zong Ruwen waved his hand, "You just changed your statement.
When you are an official, you are said to do things for the people, and you are the same.
You have done a lot of things in Beishan County, which has been beneficial to the country and the people.
But what are the people? Can it only be one group? Apart from the vast majority of certain people, should we still regard them as ordinary people?
Are the people who don’t agree with you still the people? ”
Zong Ruwen's series of questions made Meng Changqing understand what the other party was asking.
Meng Changqing always treated the first group of people who came down from the dangerous mountain differently.
Although she admitted to Yang Zheng that she was narrow-minded, she actually did not think so in her heart.
She insists that differential treatment is right and within her rules.
But now that Zong Ru heard this, it must mean that her behavior was a big oversight in the eyes of outsiders.
"Master, I am indeed not mature enough to handle things." Meng Changqing admitted decisively, but also wanted to defend himself, "But I have been as fair as possible."
Zong Ruwen did not deny her, but said, "Because I know your intentions, I am worried that you will not see the people under your rule alienate you in the future.
Your only shortcoming in that matter was that you did not tell them in advance the difference in treatment they would receive. Zong Ruwen said: "People have closeness and distance, as well as between groups and classes. This is human nature." But if you want to treat certain people differently, you have to tell everyone the reason and put it on the table so that everyone has nothing to say.
If you have to wait for them to realize it and figure it out, they will definitely blame you in their hearts.
Any disaster starts with complaints that are suppressed in the heart. ”
Zong Ruwen leaned back on the couch to rest for a while and asked Meng Changqing, "As soon as you come back, I will teach you a lesson. Do you blame me in your heart?"
"Master is still willing to teach Changqing even when he is ill. Changqing is only grateful."
Zong Ruwen said: "Compared with many officials in Daliang, you have done far better than them, but I know you very well. You have high expectations for the people, and it is inevitable that you will be sad in the future.
There are irreconcilable contradictions between the government and the people. As you said to me privately in the early years, the ruling class and the ruled class. ”
Meng Changqing no longer remembers when she said such words. Listening to it now, I just feel like breaking out in a cold sweat. In her early years, she was so ignorant that she dared to tell the beneficiaries of the feudal system her anti-feudal words.
Meng Changqing sat in Zong Ruwen's room for a long time, until Zong Shouqing came to the hospital twice to ask about the situation.
When Zong Shouqing came for the first time, everything was normal inside and outside the courtyard, but when he came for the second time, all the people serving in the courtyard were standing at the entrance of the courtyard.
"Why are you all outside?"
"The old man has something to say to Master Xiao Meng." the servants replied.
"There are only the old man and Master Xiao Meng inside?" Zong Shouqing asked.
"Yes."
"How long have you been out?"
"Just after we came out, the old man ordered us to wait until Mr. Xiao Meng comes out before we can go in."
Zong Shouqing stood at the entrance of the courtyard for a while, "When Master Xiao Meng comes out, take him directly to the dining room."
"Yes."