During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a very interesting minister named Zhu Maichen. We often say an idiom: water is hard to harvest. This idiom legend is related to Zhu Maichen, of course, this canonical history is not recorded.
Zhu Maichen was a native of Wu County during the Western Han Dynasty, a Confucian student who specialized in reading.
Poor family, good reading, no rule of industry, often ai salary tree, sell for food, bear the salary, line and recite the book - the Book of Han. Chuan Zhu Wuqiu's main father Xu Yan Final King Jia Chuanshang
Wudi people are similar to Zhoudi people and like to do business, which is traditional. He looked a little different in Wudi, selling firewood while reading. In the eyes of modern people, this is a nerd.
Don't be ashamed of being poor, but take pleasure instead
Zhu Maichen did not think that he was poor, but enjoyed himself, lived happily every day, and often sang while walking. This kind of dashing made his wife think that this man was not a problem, so poor that even eating was a problem, and he was so happy.
You can't blame his wife, because you said it was okay that you were in your twenties, but for more than twenty years, who can stand it. His wife broke down first.
So they had an interesting conversation.
I was fifty years old and rich, and now I am more than forty years old. Women suffer for a long time, and treat me rich and noble to repay female merits. - Book of Han. Chuan Zhu Wuqiu's main father Xu Yan Final King Jia Chuanshang
If you look at this sentence in hindsight, it is estimated that this is really the case, but at that time, his wife heard it, how did he think he was bragging, more than twenty years have not had a good life, let alone a good day, even can not eat. You actually told me that if you last a few more years, you will be rich at the age of fifty, which is for whom?
So his wife immediately fought back against him
Such as gong and so on, eventually starving to death in the middle of the ear, how can it be rich and noble--The Book of Han. Chuan Zhu Wuqiu's main father Xu Yan Final King Jia Chuanshang
Then his wife abandoned him.
A few years later, Zhu Maichen was not rich, on the contrary, he was even more miserable, and once his ex-wife went to the grave with her husband, met Zhu Maichen, who was hungry and dizzy, and beckoned him to come to dinner. So his ex-wife was actually quite nice to him.
Because gold hasn't shined for a long time, few people will insist that it's gold.
Zhu Maichen, who was really hungry and couldn't stand it, finally agreed to come out and do things, and he found an errand in the county, which was certainly not his wealth. Petty officials are generally looked down upon.
But the opportunity came, Zhu Maichen entered the capital, he felt that his wealth had come, and wrote to Emperor Wu of Han. He repeatedly waited for the reply, because he had not returned for a long time, so he had no money, and he had run out of dry food, so he could only rely on the place such as the inn to beg for some food. The opportunity he wanted really didn't come.
Second, the gold finally shines
Zhu Maichen did not despair, but always insisted, but his opportunity finally came, waiting not for the response of the letter, but to meet the fellow villagers Yan Help. With YanSuke's recommendation, he soon met Emperor Wu of Han. Of course, this YanSuke will say later, or because of this Yansuke, in the end, Zhu Maichen was killed by Emperor Wu of Han.
Speaking of "Spring and Autumn", "Chu Ci", the emperor even said that Bai Maichen was the middle doctor, and he served with Yan Shu. - Book of Han. Chuan Zhu Wuqiu's main father Xu Yan Final King Jia Chuanshang
Zhu Maichen's wealth finally came, and later Ren Huijian Taishou successfully quelled the Rebellion of The Eastern Yue and ranked ninth in the ranks. Of course, there are still people here who make up the idiom that after he returned home rich, his wife hoped to reunite with him, and only then did he have the idiom that it was difficult to harvest water.
Xu Jun of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem entitled "Zhu Maichen".
Long song burden long,
Once the high car is guarded.
The return of clothes to the home is the bottom of the matter,
Only the rich will be left behind by the ex-wife.
Third, the ending is lamentable
Zhu Maichen is not afraid of poverty, and he is firm in doing things, and now any person can stick to poverty for more than twenty years and accumulate energy, which is indeed something that few people can do. He is not afraid of poverty,
Because he felt that he was a potential stock, but he was afraid of not being respected, this weakness brought him the disaster of killing.
He was appointed by Emperor Wu of Han as the Taishou of Huiji, which is also a return to his hometown. The way he took office was very peculiar. He once ate at one of the guards of the Shou Tai Shou Mansion. This time he went in, and the guards didn't feel strange, didn't greet him, and he didn't speak, and it was there to eat and drink, as before.
After drinking and eating, he slightly revealed that he would be too conservative, and the guard took out a look at the actual shouzhang, naturally woke up, and ran to tell the county official, who thought he was talking nonsense. Later, when he saw that it was true, he told the county clerk.
One moment, the Chang'an stables came to greet them by horse-drawn carriage, and the buyer went by boat. - Book of Han. Chuan Zhu Wuqiu's main father Xu Yan Final King Jia Chuanshang
Along the way, it was very ostentatious, especially to Wudi, which was even more ostentatious.
Enter the Wu realm and see the way of his former wife and husband. After buying a car, he ordered his husband and wife to go to the Taishou House, put it in the garden, and give them food. - Book of Han. Chuan Zhu Wuqiu's main father Xu Yan Final King Jia Chuanshang
Zhu Maichen's practice is very unkind in Zhi Changrong's view, obviously repaying his ex-wife, but in fact humiliating his ex-wife, saying that she has no vision. If you think about it, what would the people in the house say about his ex-wife?
His ex-wife was not bad, and accompanied him for more than twenty years, and later he could not eat, and beckoned him to eat. Although it is impossible to do it, it is not abandoned, but the heart is not bad. His ex-wife can immediately find a good family when she remarries, explain her appearance, and her words and deeds will not be worse. So like the poem quoted above by Xu Jun of the Song Dynasty, there is obviously a taste of sarcasm in it. Of course, later generations wrote his wife as a negative teaching material, which obviously has the intention of etiquette.
A person who thinks of walking in the night shows that he cares a lot about the respect of others, and it also proves that his heart is very fragile. Zhu Maichen's two moves obviously proved perfectly that his pattern was not large. Xiang Yu was persuaded to set the capital xianyang in that year, and he replied.
Rich and noble do not return to their hometown, such as clothes embroidery night travel, who knows - "History · Twelve Benji , Xiang Yu Benji"
Xiang Yu eventually lost the world, and Zhu Maichen's weakness was also fully exploited by Zhang Tang.
Tang Shuxing is a beggar, and he knows that the buyer is expensive, so the tomb is folded. Buy the soup and sit on the bed as a courtesy. The buyer is deeply resentful and often wants to die. - Book of Han. Chuan Zhu Wuqiu's main father Xu Yan Final King Jia Chuanshang
Zhang Tang originally had a good relationship with Zhu Maichen, but later because of Yan Zhu, that is, the nobleman of Zhu Maichen mentioned at the beginning of the article, Zhang Tang framed him, causing Yan Zhao to be killed. Zhu Maichen and Zhang Tang began to have a bad relationship, and then Zhang Tang deliberately humiliated Zhu Maichen, so Zhu Maichen, Wang Chao, and Bian Tong joined forces to kill Zhang Tang in a framed manner.
However, Zhang Tang's mother buried Zhang Tang in a very simple way with an ox cart, which made Emperor Wu of Han feel that there was something wrong with the matter, and finally found out the facts, Zhu Maichen, Wang Chao, and Bian Tong were killed.
Some people may say that Zhu Maichen is avenging Yan Zhu, but in Zhi Changrong's view, it is more caused by Zhang Tang's deliberate humiliation of Zhu Maichen.
People with good face often have an inferiority complex in their hearts. They care a lot about the respect others have for them after their own development. But this weakness can be easily grasped by opponents, and Zhu Maichen is an example. Xiang Yu was even more so, his good face let Go of Liu Bang, forced away Yafu Fan Zeng, doubted his subordinates, abandoned Qin Andi and returned to his hometown, eventually breaking a good hand.
What you care about is precisely your weakness. The final outcome of Zhu Maichen, who counterattacked, is also lamentable.