Water drops stone wear
"Water Drops and Stones Wear" comes from the "Hanshu Pastoral Biography", which is a metaphor for as long as you persevere and accumulate over time, although the strength is small, you can achieve great things.
But things are divided into two, and some small vices, if not corrected in time, will lead to major mistakes.
It is said that during the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the country's long-term poverty and weakness, political corruption. Some military generals and soldiers have long held the military power, becoming arrogant and arrogant, and have no one in sight.
At the same time, some local petty officials and petty officials, who are far away from the emperor in the sky, who are in the middle of the country, who have patrons, do not pay attention to the powerless and powerless local officials at all, corrupt and pervert the law, eat, card, take, and want, forming a bad atmosphere, seriously damaging the image of the government, and endangering social stability.
One of the ministers, Zhang Yong, was a man of honesty and integrity, who hated this kind of behavior very much, was very unaccustomed to this kind of atmosphere, and was determined to find an opportunity to severely punish this kind of behavior and kill this arrogant arrogance of the courtiers.
Coincidentally, Zhang Yong was appointed as the county commander of Chongyang County, which has a national key treasury.
Zhang Yong was sure that someone would steal money from the treasury, and after completing his official duties every day, he would personally inspect the warehouse and guard against it day and night.
The petty officer also dared to argue
On this day, Zhang Yong saw a small official who guarded the door, ran out of the storeroom in a panic, looked left and right from time to time, and knew that there was a ghost in his heart when he looked at it.
Zhang Yong immediately stopped him and asked, "What's your name?" Don't stay in your own post during work hours, what is the blind running around? ”
When the little official saw that he had been discovered, he knew that he could not hide, so he had to reply with a hard scalp: "Lord, the little one is called Ma Sancang, and he is the doorman on duty today." This morning I drank too much water, I just couldn't hold back, so I went to the convenience. ”
When Zhang Yong saw him lying, he was immediately angry and shouted:, still want to lie, I obviously saw you running out of the warehouse, will you go to the toilet and pass through the warehouse? ”
After all, Ma Sancang had a ghost in his heart, and was frightened by Zhang Yong's momentum, and said in a broken voice: "Lord, I haven't finished speaking, when I went to the toilet, I heard a thunderbolt in the clear sky, worried that the tiles of the warehouse were damaged by lightning, so I checked the warehouse by the way after going to the toilet." ”
When Zhang Yong listened, he knew that he was arguing, and he was immediately furious: "Nonsense, it is clear that the sky is clear, there is thunder there." Do you think we can't hear? Someone's coming, search for me. ”
His men rushed up, three times five divided by two horses and three cannons, and came to a full body search. However, after searching all over the body, he did not find a single piece of stolen goods.
The petty officer was beheaded
Zhang Yong saw Ma Sancang tightly covering his hat, and asked his men to search, and sure enough, he found a copper coin in the corner of the hat. So he ordered ma Sancang to be taken to the lobby and severely tortured.
Ma Sancang saw that people had stolen money and obtained it, knew that there was no point in sophistry, and if he could not succeed in a plan, he moved out of the mountain to intimidate Zhang Yong: "What if I stole it, isn't it just a copper coin?" What a sin! Besides, my father is Li Tong, a big red man around the emperor, you have a small county order, you dare to move me to try! ”
Zhang Yongqi did not come to a place, decided to severely punish and kill this arrogant arrogance, and said sharply: "I don't care who your father is, the prince has broken the law and is guilty of the same crime as the common people." The crime of embezzling state funds is unforgivable. ”
So he wrote in the verdict: "If you steal one copper coin a day, you will steal a thousand coins in a thousand days, and there will be ten thousand in ten thousand days." In the long run, the national treasury will also be emptied. Therefore, over time, the rope can also saw off the wood, and the water droplets will penetrate the stone. ”
Therefore, the verdict was made, which dealt a blow to the arrogance of the riggers, and no longer dared to do bad things in a blatant manner.
That's why the saints often say, "Don't do it with evil, and don't do it with good." ”
References: "Chinese Idiom Dictionary", "Chinese Idiom Allusions".
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