时常听到有人发出这样的感叹:现在讲话越来越难了。讲真话,领导不愿意听;讲假话,群众不高兴;只有讲笑话,大家才开心。愚以为,讲真话难,最主要的原因在于有些人特别是有些上级领导不愿听真话、闻诤言。中国古代有个叫裴矩的人,他在隋朝做官时是一个以阿谀奉承著称的佞臣,但归顺唐朝以后,却成了一个刚正不阿的诤臣,深得唐太宗的器重。对裴矩的前谀后诤这一奇怪现象,元朝名相拜统解释得既形象又透彻:“盂圃水圆,盂方水 I often hear someone sigh like this: Now it’s getting harder and harder to speak. Tell the truth, the leaders do not want to hear; tell lies, the masses are not happy; only tell jokes, everyone happy. Stupid thought, telling lies the most important reason is that some people, especially some senior leaders do not want to hear the truth, smell the word. In ancient China, there was a man named Pei Mo, an officer who flaunts his name to him when he was an official in the Sui Dynasty. However, after returning to the Tang Dynasty, he became an honest minister and won the favor of Emperor Taizong. The peculiar phenomenon of Pei Mo’s antebellum was explained in the Yuan Dynasty patriarchal manner: "The nursery garden water circle, Yufang water