From the allusion of "Wang Wen's visit to sages", we can clearly see the uniqueness and superiority of Zhou Wenwang's way of employing people, as well as several basic principles of his way of employing people:
First, be good at discovering people and making use of their strengths and weaknesses.
Jiang Ziya is a talented person with both civil and military skills, who can travel all over the world, but before "Wang Wen visited Xian", no one could really realize his value. When worshipping songs in Shangdu, King Shang Zhouwang thought he was old-fashioned, stupid and out of date, and only knew divination and fortune telling. For his own sake, he wanted to arrest him and make him flee everywhere. After Jiang Ziya returned from exile, his wife Ma Shi thought that he couldn't even do a small business that the most ordinary people could do well, and he was "the first basket case in the world". Follow him, no commitment, forced him to write a divorce certificate and left him angrily. When fishing in Panxi, the woodcutter Wu Ji joked that she was stupid and couldn't even fish. When Jiang Ziya defended him, he said that Wu Ji was blind, and Wu Ji actually punched him, which made him "a scholar meets a soldier, so it's not certain", which was very embarrassing. When King Wu visited Xian on behalf of King Wen, Jiang Ziya said: "Fishing, fishing, fishing, if the big one is smaller than the small one, don't fish!" Zhou Wuwang, a young man, ignored Zhou Wuwang and thought Jiang Ziya was white-haired, old and arrogant. He not only told King Wen that Jiang Ziya was useless, but also prevented Zhou Wenwang from visiting Xi 'an at Diaoyutai and so on. It seems that Jiang Ziya is really an old fisherman who has run into a wall everywhere and is of little use. However, Zhou Wenwang has a good eye for people. The essence of the problem can be seen from these phenomena. He believes that the prosperity of Zhou needs talents, and only talents can achieve great things.
The most fundamental competition between Shang and Zhou Dynasties is talent competition. Whoever has talents will have the future, and whoever has talents will win the world. All competition is ultimately the competition for talents. To rise, Xiqi must select and look for talents. He also believes that talents are not all-rounders, as long as they can do creative work in a certain field or aspect, they are talents. Although Jiang Ziya is not as good as the most ordinary people in many places, it has waged war and governed the world since ancient times, which is unparalleled. In this respect, he is a rare talent for thousands of years. This is what people often say: "feet are short and inches long." As the saying goes, "gold is not enough, and no one is perfect." There is no useful person who pursues perfection, and there is no useful person who fosters strengths and avoids weaknesses. The ancients said: "A good horse can take risks, cultivated land is not as good as cattle, a strong car can carry loads, and crossing a river is not as good as sailing. It is difficult for a wise man to make short-term, make money and make good use of it. Be careful not to ask too much. " Knowing the dialectical relationship between long and short, Zhou Wenwang thinks that although Jiang Ziya is not as good as the most ordinary people in many places, he is familiar with geography and astronomy. Being able to help him prosper the Zhou Dynasty, destroy the business and win the world is the talent he yearns for. So, he pushed his way through the crowd, personally visited Xian in Diaoyutai and invited Jiang Ziya to come out of the mountain, which made his legend.
Second, heart-to-heart, deepen understanding in conversation.
Zhou Wenwang is also a very bumpy person. Because he has both ability and political integrity, he has a high prestige among governors, and he has been suspected by businessmen many times. Almost all the good times in his life were spent in the prison in Wang Yin, and Zhou Wang was put back to Xiqiao only when he felt that he was sickly and had no threat to his throne. When Zhou Wenwang returned to Xiqiao, he knew that God didn't have much time for himself, but he had a lot of things to do, especially about Xiqiao's successor. His successor, Zhou Wuwang, is very clever, but after all, he is young, inexperienced and impulsive. He really needs an experienced wizard to help him, otherwise it will be difficult for him to hold this position. He has been looking for a long time in China, but there is no suitable candidate and he is very anxious. When he heard the rumor about Jiang Ziya, he thought that Jiang Ziya was a wizard and might be the one he was looking for, and he learned the lesson from the failure of King Wu's trip to Xi 'an. He felt uncomfortable when others visited him. He didn't want to give up this opportunity, regardless of his old age and illness, and insisted on visiting, interviewing and investigating the truth in person.
Zhou Wenwang went to the fishing place in Jiang Ziya, and after a few commonplaces, he immediately put down the king's shelf, sat on the ground with his knees next to his knees, and had a close conversation with his sweetheart. Soon, the topic turned to the strategy of governing the country with soldiers. He understood Jiang Ziya's idea of governing the country and the army by answering questions continuously. This is probably the earliest record of our cadres' face-to-face investigation and conversation today. And according to their talents, we should make efforts to realize the corresponding functions, because overqualified people will waste talents, and overqualified people will inevitably be difficult to take on big responsibilities and will cause losses to their careers. Someone made a careful record of this conversation between Zhou Wenwang and Jiang Ziya, which is the embryonic form of The Art of War of Six Towers. Through this "interview" review, Zhou Wenwang has a very comprehensive understanding of Jiang Ziya's virtue, talent and ability, and also learned a lot of things he wanted to know but didn't know. He soon broadened his horizons and found that Jiang Ziya was the genius he was looking for. He regretted taking many detours and strengthened his determination to reuse Jiang Ziya. This not only shows Zhou Wenwang's bold side, but also shows Zhou Wenwang's cautious side, revealing Zhou Wenwang's unusual way of employing people.
Third, be honest with each other and bend down to touch the world.
When Zhou Wenwang fled back to Xiqiao from the Shang Dynasty, he learned from these mistakes and made up his mind to prosper Zhou and destroy Shang. He weighed it and felt that although there were many talents around him, he lacked a commander who planned, commanded and commanded the overall situation. Zhou Wenwang talked with him and made a face-to-face investigation, and found that Jiang Ziya was very talkative, knowledgeable and had the skill of governing the country. He is a commander who misses him very much. He was very unhappy when he saw that Jiang Ziya was already white-haired. He blamed himself for his carelessness and serious dereliction of duty, which made a child prodigy fish under his nose for ten years and wasted ten years of precious time. A person's life can last for decades! I feel sorry for Jiang Ziya from my heart. In order to express my guilt and apology, I made a move that touched the ages. I personally got off the bus and bent down to pull the fiber for Jiang Ziya's carriage, to show my honesty. Later, people deduced the story and legend of "808 steps" according to this point, which has been passed down to this day.
An open king bent down in a carriage to pull optical fiber for a wanted man, and his frankness can be achieved by several kings in ancient and modern times. "Who can be heartless without vegetation?" This not only makes Jiang Ziya firm in the great cause of supporting the prosperity of Zhou Dynasty, but also has a good advertising effect, so that more talents can see that he is a once-in-a-lifetime sage, and naturally he will gather in Xiqiao from all directions, so that his talents will be abundant, his national strength will increase sharply, and he will get twice the result with half the effort.
Fourth, use people without doubt, and use them boldly.
Through careful understanding and investigation of Jiang Ziya, Zhou Wenwang found that Jiang Ziya was a genius with both ability and political integrity in the world. He thinks that some talents are talented, others are talented, and talented people can use them boldly. Those who are virtuous and talented can supervise their use, those who are virtuous and talented can restrict their use, and those who are virtuous and talented can't be used more, while those who are virtuous and talented in Jiang Ziya can use them boldly. Taking moral character, knowledge, ability and performance as the important criteria for measuring talents, regardless of seniority or status, we decided to stick to one pattern in employing people, taking Jiang Ziya as our surname (equivalent to the post of later prime minister and marshal of military forces) and preparing to put it in the most important position in Xiqiao.
Once Zhou Wenwang's decision was announced, he was immediately criticized by the ruling and opposition parties. Some people think that Jiang Ziya came to Xiqiao, but he didn't make any contribution. He put Xiqiao in the highest position at once, which will inevitably lead to chaos. Some people think that Jiang Ziya came from Shang Dynasty, but it is not clear why. Could it be a spy sent by Shang Dynasty? Not only can it not be reused, but it should also be monitored, which has caused great pressure on Zhou Wenwang. However, Zhou Wenwang believes that when employing people, factionalism and small groups should not be artificially created, no matter where he comes from, they are all equal and treated equally. As long as it is out of public interest, the country will be benign. He believes that when employing people, we should "doubt people, not doubt people." We should not only empower people who have jobs, but also allocate power to subordinates who are truly capable. Only in this way can we give full play to our talents and improve the administrative efficiency of prospering the Zhou Dynasty and destroying the business. We should also adhere to the principle of employing people without doubt, fully trust and boldly use talents, so as to arouse the enthusiasm and creativity of subordinates, form centripetal force and cohesion, enhance unity, work with one heart and one mind, and do a good job in prospering the week and destroying business. Zhou Wenwang still feels old, and featuring is too young. Time flies and time waits for no one. He should assign his goals, positions, powers and responsibilities to his subordinates. Only in this way can all kinds of talents be in their proper places, do their own things, return to their talents, let go of their hands and feet, work boldly, support the success of talents' cause, and truly form a social environment in which talents flourish and businesses destroy business.
To sum up, we can clearly see that Zhou Wenwang's way of employing people is rare among emperors in past dynasties, and he is a rare wise king in history. Under his operation, the Xiqiao monarch and his subjects United as one, United as one and made joint efforts. All these contributed to the rise of Western Qi in a short time, and Zhou occupied the second place in the world at the end of Shang Dynasty, which laid a solid foundation for overthrowing the dynasty and establishing a powerful Western Zhou Dynasty. Although the Western Zhou Dynasty was established during the reign of Zhou Wuwang, its foundation was laid during the reign of Zhou Wenwang. Therefore, Zhou Wenwang was also one of the actual founders of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Because Zhou Wenwang is very good at employing people, he is not only respected by later kings, but also unanimously recognized and highly praised by the society and people. Take the Diaoyutai in Jiang Ziya as an example. That's where Jiang Ziya used to fish. The main temple should be Jiang Ziya, but Wangwen Temple has the highest position and the largest building scale and level. On the one hand, it is because Zhou Wenwang is the monarch and Jiang Ziya is the minister. But the main reason is that it is generally believed that although Jiang Ziya is a child prodigy, it is futile to meet a knowledgeable person like Zhou Wenwang, because there are many talents like Jiang Ziya buried in the world. A thousand miles of horses, less bole. People who can use people are much more important than talents. This is why people all over the world built a more magnificent Wangwen Temple next to Diaoyutai. That's why today's pattern has been formed. This shows that Zhou Wenwang's way of employing people has a far-reaching impact on society. It is also the highest affirmation and recognition of Zhou Wenwang's way of employing people for thousands of years.