In fact, in ancient times, there were still many people who attached great importance to money, not only among the royal aristocracy, but even in some cultured people, there have been similar cases, but this phenomenon we can also understand, after all, everyone's understanding of values is different, sometimes, miserliness is not a bad thing, but sometimes too stingy, so it is not good. The person I want to talk about today, he is a figure in the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, there may be very few stories about him in history, but there is a protagonist, whose name is Wang Rong, and his meaning is very serious at that time.
In fact, if you look closely, this person's origin is very good, at that time, he could also be regarded as a rich nobleman, the Langya Royal Family, and his father was the assassin of Liangzhou. According to such a status, it can be regarded as a famous and prestigious family, living under such a life since childhood, if it is stingy, it is indeed a bit unreasonable. But everyone who has such a problem is generally related to his own experience, and he has not escaped, which is said to be inextricably linked to a major setback in his growth career.
It is said that when he was an official, he used his rights to secretly build a mansion, but the good times were not long, and it did not take long before he was exposed, in order to be able to keep his black hat, not to be looked down upon by the people of the clan, then he had to find a way to clear himself of this grievance, at that time the only thing he could do was to use money to buy, at that time in order to be able to change back his only official name, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to open up personal relations, did not expect that this time actually succeeded, perhaps because of this time, He began to think that money could buy power and fame, as well as Lilu.
Looking at it this way, this is a greedy and miserly guy, and some of the things he did after this were indeed the case. Let's just say that when he's okay at home, one of his favorite things is to calculate his own property. As soon as you are not in a good mood, go and count your savings. This will be seen by the slaves under their hands, and they will secretly joke about it. As the highest-ranking person in the family, he is often looked down upon by these people, but it must not be put on the surface, usually these slaves are stealing and insulting him behind his back!
This person is not only particularly stingy with himself, but also very stingy with his own children, it is said that when his daughter got married, he was not willing to give away a dowry at all, and even his son became a relative, only gave a thin dress, and when the wedding was over, he cheekily asked for the dress back, because he felt that this dress was not worth giving away, too expensive, and he could not bear it.
From this point of view, this Wang Rong is really a living and free door-slamming image, although it is not a big deal, but at that time it was indeed enough to make others laugh. If miserliness is like this, it is indeed a little inappropriate, of course, it is also related to his early experience, in fact, in ancient times, there were no more than a few miserly officials like this, and even some emperors were also very stingy.