Hi Video 丨Weihai Old Story "A Generation of Famous Officials Xu Shilin (III)"

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Last time we said that Xu Shilin rode a small donkey and brought a family member to Jiangsu to take office. On this day, when Xu Shilin and Jia Ding passed through a small mountain village, they were in time for a local county order to celebrate his father's birthday, and other colleagues came to wish for the birthday. For a time, the traffic was busy, and it was not busy. A small county order to celebrate his father's birthday is so ostentatious, which is too much in Xu Shilin's view. Xu Shilin thought about it for a moment, since he had caught up, why not mix with the crowd celebrating the birthday, first, to understand the local customs and customs, and second, to further understand the way these local officials are officials and the style of government.

Xu Shilin made up his mind and went straight to the birthday feast, but he couldn't go to the banquet empty-handed, so Xu Shilin asked jia Ding to go to the neighborhood to buy a gift. The person who registered the gift took a look at it and threw the gift aside. Why? It turned out that xu Shilin was not wearing official clothes at that time, and he did not wear very decent clothes, and the gifts he sent were not worth a few dollars. But out of courtesy, Xu Shilin was allowed to sit down.

Admission is allowed, but sorry, you can only sit downstairs. It turned out that because there were too many people who came to celebrate the birthday, the main family arranged ordinary guests to sit downstairs, while those officials and people with status and status were arranged upstairs. Xu Shilin looked around and thought to himself, Didn't I come to the birthday banquet just to see the true face of these local officials? No, I have to go up. So he didn't say a word and went straight upstairs. Xu Shilin first observed it, and after he had a bottom in his heart, he walked over and sat down on the chief. Let's imagine, originally you and the people around you chatted lively, at this time the position of the guest of honor came up, you thought it was going to open the table, and then looked up, the seat was a stranger, no one knew, what was the feeling?

The colleagues of these county orders were stunned at once, and then they began to talk about it, this person did not wear an official uniform or an official hat, this is a person who does not know. How unceremoniously this comes to sit on the big head. At this time, the owner of the birthday feast came up, and the situation was even more embarrassing. If you think about it, the guest of honor and the host did not know each other, and then someone spoke: "You can't drink casually at the banquet, you have to answer the poem." Answer well to sit on the chief. ”

This is not difficult for us Xu Shilin, this is his strength. Xu Shilin said, "No problem, who started?" Everyone looked at him, which meant starting with you. So Xu Shilin's talent has once again been fully demonstrated.

"Step by step up the tall building, sit down to the big head." Advise Jun Mo to laugh at Shandong Guest and take charge of the Sixteen Prefectures of Jiangnan. ”

These county orders have long heard that they are going to come to an inspector recently, and this is unbelievable, and the muzzle of the gun has gone up! Immediately, I knelt down in unison. In this regard, Xu Shilin gave a political lesson to these officials who talked about pomp and pageantry, were more magnanimous, abused their powers, and were corrupt and faint, and in the course of his bitter and heartfelt teachings, Xu Shilin uttered the maxim that was widely recited by the common people and has been passed down to this day- "If officials do not do things for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes."

Serve as an official for one term, benefit one party. This parent official is to put the cold and warm of the people in his heart, only in this way can he be supported by the people, so what has Xu Shilin done for the people after taking office? Why did the people call him "Xu Qingtian"?

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