More than once in the media, it has been reported that a certain high-ranking official is particularly incorruptible, lives in a small house, goes to work and takes the bus, dresses simply, and often eats in the public canteen with the masses, but when he checks, he is a huge greed.
Coincidentally, the grandfather of such corrupt officials was Tang Wenyao, the governor of Liangjiang during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, who was said to have eaten cabbage every day for three years, dressed in coarse cloth on weekdays, and ate and dressed so plainly.
Cabbage, but a home-cooked dish for the poor. Such a big official, eating every day, it must be a clean wind in two sleeves, not greedy, not occupied, willing to be poor. It is really a cabbage, and a dead cabbage. Fame is incorruptible, deadly incorruptible. As soon as someone reported it, they secretly investigated it, and the matter took a big turnaround. It turned out that the firewood he used to burn and steam cabbage was expensive ginseng!
Heavens, how many ginseng sticks can cook a pot of cabbage? And one burn is three years! In other words, his family's ginseng can be used as firewood! The strange thing is, why does this Tang Wenyao really eat cabbage every day?
In fact, he only eats cabbage hearts. Why eat cabbage hearts every day? No matter how good the cabbage heart is, it will be greasy to eat every day! Because he was poor when he was young, he often ate cabbage, and when he was poor, cabbage was delicious, and it was difficult to swallow when he was rich. But after the development of Tang Wenyao is very nostalgic, always thinking about the good taste of eating cabbage when he is young, so he has to eat it, and he also asks to eat it into a delicious dish.
The housekeeper racked his brains and came up with a strange trick, that is, to use ginseng as a firewood fire, so that the aroma of ginseng seeped into the heart of the cabbage, and the cabbage heart had a ginseng flavor, which became a high-grade precious tonic delicious dish. I see! This cabbage ate the price of ginseng.
Think about it, one meal is three years, three years of eating every day, how much ginseng has to be burned! A calculation, Yongzheng was furious, ordered to raid the house, just to find out the good ginseng more than 2,000 pounds, silver 15 million two, the result can be imagined, a word: chop. And it's the whole family chop.
This cabbage ate a catastrophe, and eating ginseng ate his own life. What should I think about it?
First, power and money are the strongest corrosive agents of human nature, the power is too much money, and the loss of supervision, it is easy to become bad, this Tang Wenyao has suffered since he was a child, rich and noble will become more and more enjoyed, just more than 30 little wives, rely on what to maintain a luxurious life? Of course, it can only be corruption and bribery, fish meat subordinates.
Second, it can be seen that although the Yongzheng Emperor's reputation is not too good, Kangqian's prosperity has omitted him in the middle, and it seems that he is not prosperous. In fact, he is also an anti-corruption emperor who has the most correct style to deal with corruption. The Viceroy of Liangjiang was just a case he had handled, and he had his officials report each other, and corrupt officials were all at risk, and in comparison, there were far fewer corrupt officials in the Yongzheng period than in the previous and subsequent dynasties.
The third is to think that people do not know, unless they do nothing. No matter how good it is to disguise bad things, it will also be revealed, and many acts of injustice will kill themselves, so it is still not greedy and not occupied, and it is good to be incorruptible.