In the history of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Pu cannot but be said to be an important official. He is known far and near for his ability to accommodate people and employ people's strengths, but he is even more admirable for his "shortness" in accommodating people and employing "shortness".

Geng Dingding of the Ming Dynasty recorded such a story in "Advanced Legacy": When Duke Wen Ding Yang Pu was in power, once his son traveled thousands of miles from his hometown to visit him in Kyoto. Yang Pu asked, "When you came to Beijing this time, you met a lot of local officials along the way. Who is good and who is bad?" His son seemed to have unresolved complaints: "There are countless good things, but Jiangling Ling Fan Li is too bad." Yang Pu asked: "Why do you say this?" The son replied: "Other places are served with wine and meat, and gold and silver are given; only Jiangling makes Fanli the worst, neither of them. Don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, this is the case. It's clear that he doesn't take you seriously. Otherwise, how can you treat me like this?"

Hearing this, Yang Pu did not feel as uncomfortable as his son, but his eyes lit up. He felt that Fan Li did not play "hidden rules", dared to refute his "face", and was businesslike, which showed that he was an honest official and was not afraid of the powerful. Must have patience.

Yang Pu loves flowers and plants, of course he understands that talents are like flowers. Most of the bright flowers are not fragrant, most of the fragrant flowers are not bright, and most of the bright and fragrant flowers have thorns. For those who are beautiful, take their beauty, and let them not be fragrant; for those who are fragrant, take their fragrance, and let them not be too flashy; for those who are bright and fragrant, take their bright fragrance, and let them have thorns.

Don't let those who break the rules benefit, and those who follow the rules don't suffer. Yang Pu, a virtuous prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, not only was not angry, but praised Fan Li repeatedly as a good official.

The matter of the complaint, just as it was about to be born, was stillborn.

"Play a thousand songs and then make a sound, watch a thousand swords and then recognize a weapon". Yang Pu then wrote down the name of Fan Li, the commander of Jiangling, and secretly sent people to Jiangling to investigate. The results of the investigation were just as Yang Pu expected. Fan Li was an upright official, and he had a good reputation for observing the people's feelings.

In front of speculators, he will do what he should do. He does not exchange principles for human feelings, does not judge the length of the situation by intimacy, and does not determine the level by the background. He does not ask whether he is familiar with him first, but he asks whether he can, not the hometown first. Not a hometown, but first ask the virtuous. This is Yang Pu!

Be good at using people "short" to become longer, and be good at using materials without waste. He went to the emperor and promoted Fan Li to be the prefect of De'an.

"Whoever wins will prosper, and whoever loses will collapse." Acting according to the rules, not making exceptions, and not making changes, made Yang Pu live a tough life and stand upright. famous sage. He has achieved "community of virtuous people" by appointing people on their merits.

Fan Li lived up to expectations, and he was quite helpful in his tenure. "When picking tea leaves and tender leaves, it is necessary to use the golden period for employment", and the employment must be cultivated and used well in the age group with the most abundant energy, the most agile thinking, the most talented and the most innovative ability. A few years later, Yang Pu promoted Fan Li as the political envoy of Zuo Bu in Guizhou.

Duke Ai of Lu asked Confucius, "How can we make the people obey?" Confucius said, "If the upright people are promoted and placed above the wicked, the people will obey; if the wicked people are promoted and placed above the upright, the people will obey. disobey."

Look at the past and look at the present, all the past is not the present. Those who serve as officials shoulder the responsibility of selecting and employing people, and first of all, they should learn to discern people with discernment. It is necessary not to downgrade, but also not to blame for perfection, and to examine and identify talents with an independent, comprehensive, dialectical and objective perspective. The genius of a manager is that "knowing people" cannot stop at feelings and feelings, let alone draw circles to select people, but should employ people in a fair and equitable manner, turning disadvantages into advantages and disadvantages into advantages.

Morality is to use an invincible weapon to dominate the rivers and lakes, and to be invincible. Later, when Fan Li learned that Yang Pu had passed away, he cried a lot and worshipped each other from a distance.

Lao Tzu said: The highest good is like water. Yang Pu is water, moisturizing things without arguing, and being fair without saying anything. There is no need to say gratitude, no need to say wisdom, I believe that regardless of the present and future generations, when talking about Yang Pu, they will feel a kind of warmth slowly permeating the whole body, permeating the heart and bones, and lasting for a long time. All this stems from the loyal quality, the pursuit of justice, the conscience of reverence for power and the nobility of human nature exuded from him.