<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="7" > poor Wu master book, clear of suffering and poverty </h1>
A great victory in the water, the Former Qin army was beaten to the grass and trees, and the famous Eastern Jin general Xie Shi became famous in the first battle, from the general of Zhengyu to the general of the Chinese army, and two years later he was promoted to the general of the Erpin Wei, JinYin Zishou, who led the southern and northern armies, and became the commander-in-chief of the garrison in the capital.
Under Xie Shi, there was a specially invited celebrity named Wu Yinzhi, who gave him the main bookkeeper, equivalent to the director of the office or the director of the secretariat. In today's view, that should be a hot position.
On this day, Xie Shi heard that Wu Yin's family was very happy and his daughter was going to get married. As soon as his heart moved, he ordered his men to go and see, and then procured some wedding supplies to send, and also sent Mr. Bookkeeper and the cook to help.
Commander Xie, who came from a high-gate clan, had always lived a luxurious life, and he knew that this Wu lord was as poor as a book, but marrying a daughter was a big thing after all, and he couldn't be too shabby, nor could he lose the face of General Wei too much, right?
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The result was really as he expected, and when his men came to the Wu family, they saw that there was no atmosphere of doing happy things at all, it was cold and clear, and they also saw a small girl huan helplessly holding a dog and walking out. When I inquired, I learned that the Wu family was indeed incredibly poor, and they didn't have any spare money to pay their daughter a dowry, so they could only sell the only dog in the family!
These people are really a little confused, it is said that you Wu Yinzhi's time is not short, first as an auxiliary state gong Cao (auxiliary general of the auxiliary state, in charge of the examination record credit), and then to the general of the conquest as a staff officer, and later promoted to become Shang Shulang, but also to help the emperor deal with government affairs, how can you be poor enough to sell dogs and marry women?
But Wu Yinzhi was very calm, did not feel embarrassed, and did not accept gifts from others. Since he was a child, he was determined to be a "clean man", "mixed" to such an embarrassing point is not that the salary is too small, but that he spends every month, and in addition to leaving the basic living expenses of the family, the rest of the money is all for the poor relatives.
Wu Yinzhi came all the way through, until he became a high-ranking official of the rank of General of the Left Guard, he was still "diligent and poor", no different from the poor people, the clothes on his body were dirty, and he did not even change and wash, so he could only wait for the clothes to dry in cotton wool.
This is a bit of a puzzle. People often say that when he is an official for thousands of miles, why should he suffer so much in order to eat and wear?
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="53" > the shame of the ancestors and the rules of the future</h1>
Speaking of roots, I have to mention a not-so-glorious old thing on Wu Yin's ancestors.
The Wu family was not a small family, And Wu Yinzhi's sixth ancestor, Wu Qian, had made great contributions in the struggle of Emperor Cao Pi of Wei to ascend to the throne, and together with Sima Yi, Chen Qun, and Zhu Shuo, he was known as Cao Pi's "Four Friends", and was an official to the general of Zhenwei, jia Shizhong, and became an auxiliary chancellor. Because he liked to make friends with powerful people and had a bad reputation in the township, he became an official and acted as a mighty blessing, which was not benevolent, so that after Wu Qian's death, the imperial court actually gave him a nickname called "Ugly Marquis". In the "Law of Deception", "the mighty and the ugly" are generally "used for treachery, and the use of villains". The Wu family suffered great humiliation, and his son Wu Ying repeatedly wrote to complain, and after more than twenty years, he changed his name to "Wei Hou", which can be regarded as barely rehabilitated.
Therefore, in the process of Wu Yinzhi's growth, he made a big ambition: "Do not take the other way", not something that comes from the right way, and never reach out.
The world revolves, from Wu Zhi to Wu Yinzhi, but for six generations, the zhumen household has fallen into a Pengmen household, and the family has no surplus grain. Wu Yinzhi was not worried, and he should not delay reading.
So how did he get into the official arena step by step? It was also a little interesting that his officer actually cried.
Wu Yinzhi's teenage father was gone. After his mother's death, the two brothers "mourned the ceremony", and they were so hurt that they could hardly sustain themselves, and whenever they sacrificed their mother, they couldn't help but cry bitterly.
The neighbor's family lived a man named Han Kangbo, a high-ranking official in charge of state sacrifices and ceremonies. His mother was the sister of the famous Chinese army general Yin Hao, and a kind and wise woman, who could not eat whenever she heard the cries of the Wu brothers, and had to cry with her chopsticks. She once explained to her son: In the future, if you want to become an official in charge of personnel, you must recommend a filial son like the Wu family. Later, Han Kangbo did indeed become an official Shangshu, and immediately elected Wu Yinzhi as an auxiliary state Gong Cao.
Career is because of filial piety, and promotion is because of compassion. Mencius said: "Filial piety is filial piety when entering, and filial piety when going out." "Compassion" refers to brotherhood.
His brother Wu Tanzhi was a subordinate of Yuan Zhen, the assassin of Yuzhou. Yuan Zhen was from the Yuan clan of Chen County, and in 369, he followed Sima Huanwen on the Northern Expedition, because of the lack of combat, Huan Wen blamed him for the defeat at Fangtou, and wanted to depose him, Yuan Zhen was of course very unconvinced, so he occupied Shouyang and rebelled, and also fornicated with Former Yan.
In 370, Yuan Zhen died, and his son Yuan Jinli. In 371, Huan Wen's army conquered Shouyang and killed Yuan Jin.
At this time, Wu Tanzhi will also be in the face of a catastrophe, and it is inevitable that he will die. When Wu Yinzhi, who was then a general who had joined the army, heard about it, he immediately rushed to the Huanwen camp on flying horses, asked to see Sima Da, and knelt down to beg for his brother's guilt!
Huan Wen is also an unborn Haojie, and of course he was deeply moved to see such a brother with deep affection and righteousness, not only releasing Tanzhi, but also looking at Wu Yinzhi with admiration, and he became Shang Shulang.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="54" > dare to drink the spring water, it is not easy to be careful</h1>
General Xie Shi also respected Wu Yinzhi's character, specially invited him to be his master bookkeeper, and because of his high ambition and spotlessness, he was constantly promoted, and he was already a high-ranking official of two thousand stones when he was too punctual in Jinling County (Changzhou, Jiangsu), but he did not change his true colors and was honest and self-guarding. His wife had to carry firewood to cook.
He was an alternative in the official arena, but he was deeply respected by Sima Yao, the Emperor of Xiaowu, and constantly entrusted him with heavy responsibilities, successively serving as a general in the imperial history and a general of the Right Guard.
During the long'an (397-402) period, there was a collapse of corruption in Guangzhou, and several officials were taken down for a greedy word.
Guangzhou Tiangao Emperor is far away, but it is a land of miasma, but it is rich because of the trade through the sea, and ivory pearls and precious medicinal materials are casually taken away in a box, which is enough for generations of people to live.
The imperial court wanted to eliminate the evils of corruption, and Wu Yinzhi became an ex officio candidate, and he was promoted to the rank of general of the Three Pins Dragon Horse, the Assassin of Guangzhou, and left the town of Southern Yue to become a feudal official.
At that time, the capital of Guangzhou was in Panyu, and there was a spring twenty miles away, called Greedy Spring, and everyone said that as long as you drank the water of greedy spring, you would become greedy.
Wu Yinzhi went to his post, but he pointed out that he wanted to drink the water of this greedy spring. His subordinates tried their best to persuade them not to take risks, in case this spring was really evil, wouldn't it tarnish the name of the adult?
Wu Yinzhi was not afraid, drank the spring water very confidently, and gave a poem:
"The ancients clouded this water, and drank a thousand gold."
Try to make Yi Qi drink, and in the end it will not be easy. ”
After taking office, Wu Yinzhi still eats rough clothes and eats vegetables and dried fish every day. He distinguished between public and private, and the property of officials and families did not take anything. At first, everyone around him thought that this old man was nothing more than a showmanship, but after a long time, he found that he was really not a person who sold his reputation, this was his character.
One of his subordinates secretly brought him fish, and removed the fish bones beforehand, leaving only meat. Wu Yinzhi sensed its intention, huh! Can a few fish buy the name of the official? This kind of fly camp dog Gou villain can not stay, directly fired!
Wu Yinzhi is in Guangzhou, such as curling autumn moon, the dust is not stained, and the greedy spring is indeed out of order. The imperial court's evaluation of him was: "Where you want to be, you can not change your behavior, and the rich of the drapery, and the family is not easy to obey." With him leading by example, the emperor was very pleased that his rule "revolutionized luxury and changed the southern region".
When he left Guangzhou, in addition to the little things he brought with him when he took office, he accidentally found that his wife had bought a pound of agarwood. Wu Yinzhi thought that this thing was unclear and unclear, so why give people tongues, so he threw it into the lake.
Those who covet money diligently seek and often die for it; those who are not greedy have no desires and no demands, but their possessions fall from heaven. Back in the capital, Wu Yinzhi was given the title of former general. As soon as the imperial court struck, it "gave half a million yuan and Gu Qianhu." Of course, these things are still the same as his monthly salary, "cutting the body food, the rest of the money to give to the relatives", the general is always dressed in cloth, the wife has not worn a single strand of silk, but also has to personally spin thread to supplement the family.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="57" > Taishi nagging order testimonials:</h1>
In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Chenlong, a native of Shanxi, was greatly praised by the Kangxi Emperor: "The first honest official in the world"! He is known as "Half Duck Zhi County", also known as "Yu Qingcai", which is the reputation given to him by the common people. For more than 20 years, he has been diligent in government and loves the people, and has a clean wind in his sleeves, and Yu Chenlong is really a model for the officialdom, and can also be compared with the clean officials and honest officials of the previous dynasties, such as Yang Zhen of the Han Dynasty, Lu Zhen of the Tang Dynasty, Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty, and Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty.
In the "History of Jin", an extremely rare Qing official Wu Yinzhi was found, who was an official who was unswerving in his work and called him "the first honest official in the world". The official may say, how can there be another "first in the world"? The author has no intention of taking off jackie Chan's laurels, and of course does not have such an ability. Since ancient times, there is no first, there is no first in honesty, and the first is actually a great thing, and the people are not too much. The author praises Wu Yinzhi because he is a clean and honest official, it is easy to be a prosperous world, and it is even more difficult in a chaotic world, in the two Jin Dynasties when corruption became a common practice, he was a lotus flower that came out of the mud and did not stain, fragrant and beautiful, proud for a thousand years.
Reference Books: Book of Jin, Wei Jin