Zhang Jie, a minor official of the Eastern Han Dynasty, relied on writing instruments to be reused by Cao Cao

Original title: Eastern Han Dynasty Petty Officials Were Reused by Writing Instruments

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(Zhang) Is a single family in the world, and a person with a sense of grace. Little worker shu shu, for the county gate under the small official, and the family is rich. Since the door is cold, there is no way to reach it, but it is always a good sword and pen and a version of the music, and serves the officials who have the lack of it, so that they can see it.

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Even those who have read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms may not know Zhang Jie as a person, because his fame cannot be compared with Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, and Sima Yi, but he is still a capable minister under Cao Cao, and Cao Pi praises him as a "good minister of the country", especially in quelling the rebellion. He is not famous, but that does not mean that his status is not important.

Zhang Jie's rise is not easy, he was born in the cold door, but don't think that the cold door is poor, Zhang Jie's family is still very rich, but the status is not high, that is, the so-called rich but not expensive, so in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which pays attention to the origin of the Hao family, he wants to get ahead, and it is not easy. But Zhang is very good at using the advantages he already has in his hands to ask the society for the resources he wants.

Since the family is relatively wealthy, Zhang jian uses this advantage to dress himself up to a higher grade, pay attention to his appearance and demeanor everywhere, at least in appearance, do not let people feel that he is from a cold door. This point is similar to Liu Bei, who came from a cold door and likes fashion and makeup, but also to make himself have style and prestige. People rely on clothing, which makes sense in any era.

In addition to paying attention to the modification of appearance and prestige, Zhang also has a trump card, that is, he is good at writing official documents, and he has a superior writing instrument in his hand - "good knife pen and print". Writing instruments in ancient times were an important indicator of a person's taste level, and Zhang Ji paid great attention to accumulating resources in this regard. He was working as a small official in the yamen at that time, and there were still opportunities for communication with celebrities and high-ranking officials, and once he saw that a celebrity high-level official lacked good pen and ink for a while, he immediately took out his own good pen and paper to make up for the lack of the other party in a timely manner, thus attracting the attention of the upper-level people.

Whether Zhang Jie's behavior is right or not, we will leave it alone, but at least it will make the other party feel that this person has expertise and advantages in official documents. Zhang Jie's talent was thus revealed.

Later, Zhang was both appreciated by Cao Cao and served as the commander of Xinfeng County, and his management level was rated as the first in the Guanzhong area. After that, he served as Jing Zhaoyin, the governor of Chang'an, rebuilding Chang'an, which had been devastated by war, making it a densely populated and vibrant city, and the people were very admired by the people. It can be seen that Zhang Jie was already full of ambition when he was thinking about collecting writing instruments.