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As the saying goes, silver and goods are two, "one hand to pay, the other hand to deliver" is the eternal law of human transactions. No matter how precious and strange things are, they have spent money to buy in their hands, how solid in their hearts, in the eyes of outsiders, they will only envy, lament that they do not have enough money, can not get hands.
However, there is one thing, money can also be bought, but after this is bought in the hand, not only the person who bought this thing will not be solid in his own heart, but this outsider will also look down on the person who bought this thing. This thing is the official position.
Speaking of this official position, there was a period in history, when the official position of the DPRK and the Middle China was clearly marked, and as long as you had money, you could buy it. It's just that the official position is easy to buy, but this position is not easy to sit! The official position is obtained, and this reputation on the outside is also stinky, and even his own son will look down on the father who bought the official, which is like this Cui Lie.
It is said that one day, this Cui Lie bought an official, and ran to ask his son how outsiders looked at him, but he did not expect that his son said a surprising word, which is still a swearing jargon that has been circulated to this day. So what did this son of Cui Lie say? Why did this Cui Lie buy an official? Today, let's talk about the story of Cui Lie's purchase of officials.
Cui Lie was helpless to buy the official
When it comes to buying officials, others don't have a little ink in their chests, a straw bag, and they want to be officials, and they have a little money in the family to do it. But this Cui Lie was different from others, before he bought the official, he was a well-known university scholar, and the ink in his stomach was not ordinary. Then the question arises, why did Cui Lie, who had such a high degree of learning, go to buy an official, so that he ruined his good reputation?
To make a long story short, this was all the sins of the emperor at that time, Liu Hongzao, the Emperor of Han Ling.
The ruler sells officials, and in history, he is not the only one of the Han Ling Emperors, this Qin Shi Huang is the first emperor to start selling officials, followed by Emperor Wen of Han. However, the purpose of these emperors selling officials can be very different from that of this Han Ling Emperor. Everyone is for the stimulation of production, for the sake of the country, this Han Ling Emperor is only to fill his own pockets to drum, in his eyes, power is a floating cloud, only by holding a lot of money in his hand, then it is practical.
With such a purpose, the Han Ling Emperor soon clearly marked the price of the large and small official positions in the dprk and even the localities, and the one that was divided was called a detail, and the larger the official position, the higher the price. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, "There are differences between the gongqing prefecture and the county down to the yellow silk, and the rich people enter the money first, and the poor people go to the officials and then lose twice." It is conceivable that the emperor has taken the lead in doing things like this, and how dark the official field below is. The mercenary emperor and officials earned a lot of money, but they were bitter for talented people like Cui Lie.
Encountering such an era, such a strange emperor, Cui Lie really poured eight lifetimes of blood mold. In terms of learning, Cui Lie was a well-known scholar at that time, and his reputation was quite high; on the family lineage, the last three generations were all officials. However, if you want to be promoted, these are useless, and there is no money to talk about. Cui Lie was anxious, with such great ability, would he always have to succumb to this small official position? With such an emperor and era, Cui Lie really had no way at all, and he was really helpless. He wanted to be promoted, so he had to pool his money.
Cui Liemai's reputation was ruined
For the ambitious Cui Lie, it is not an easy task to collect money, after all, the larger the official position, the higher the price. What's more, Cui Lie wanted to be one of the three dukes of the imperial court, which cost a lot of money. Cui Lie didn't care about this and hurriedly gathered the money. However, he only got half the price of the situ position, which was far from the same. So he went to Madame Cheng's back door, and Madame Cheng's back door was different, and Cui Lie became a Situ as he wished. At this moment, Cui Lie was simply beautiful.
However, as we said above, the official positions bought are really not easy to sit in. Cui Lie has been in Situ's position for a long time, and his heart has become more and more chaotic, the more wrong things he has done, and the more uncomfortable he has become. He always felt that walking on the street, the eyes of the people looking at him were completely different from before.
So he quickly went home and asked his son, I became one of the three dukes, what do others think of me? His son was also not optimistic about his father, and he spoke quickly and directly: "The commentators hate its copper smell." Cui Lie's son was just a simple sentence at the beginning, but he did not expect to pass down to this day, dedicated to satirizing people who are mercenary, and Cui Lie's copper smell has also become an allusion to the smell of a thousand years. It seems that buying officials is really harmful, Cui Lie originally had a very good reputation, just because of buying officials, a good reputation was destroyed, which made the people despised.
It was a pity that Cui Lie bought the official
Choosing to buy officials, Cui Lie single-handedly destroyed himself.
Originally a scholar who was known and admired by all the distances and near, in that chaotic world, he could completely rely on his own knowledge and ability to fight for the position of the Three Dukes, maybe insist on insisting, and he could also become a figure of exile for hundreds of generations, but he could not control his inner desire for power, succumbed to the absurd policy of the Han Ling Emperor, bought the position of Situ with money, and destroyed all the reputation he had once been, leaving only the infamy of eternity.
In the era of darkness and chaos, Cui Lie is really very unfortunate; but he failed to adhere to his original intention and chose to go through the back door to buy an official promotion, and posterity can only say: It is a pity.
References: Encyclopedic entry "Cui Lie", Later Han Shu Cui Xiao Lie Biography 42