Who are the honest and honest people?

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a man named Liu Chong served as the prefect of Kuaiji. He reformed the bad government, abolished exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and was very clean in lawsuits. Later, he was transferred to the position of great craftsman by the imperial court. Before leaving, local people took the initiative to raise money to give to Liu Chong who was about to leave, but Liu Chong refused. Later, it was hard to refuse the kindness, so I took a copper coin and accepted it symbolically. Because of this, he was called the "Yi Qian Taishou". Tao Kan, a famous official in the Jin Dynasty, served as an official in Xunyang County when he was young. Once, he sent someone to deliver a can of pickled fish to his mother. After his mother, Zhan, received it, she returned it to him intact and wrote to him: "As a county official, you use public items to give them to me. Not only does it not do me any good, but it adds to my happiness." Worry." Tao Kan was deeply educated by this matter. Wu Yinzhi was not afraid to drink from the Greed Spring. Wu Yinzhi, a native of the Jin Dynasty, served as the prefect of Guangzhou. Outside the city of Guangzhou, he saw a pool of spring water named "Tanquan". Local legend says that drinking the water from the Greed Spring will make you greedy. He believed this and drank it without fail. After drinking it, he wrote a poem: "The ancients said that this water is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Try to make the barbarians drink together, but they will never change their minds." During his tenure, he was indeed honest and self-disciplined, persisting in perseverance. own conduct. Zhang Jun, a minister of the Southern Song Dynasty who was so poor, was demoted to be a local official in Lingling, Hunan Province because of political disagreements with the treacherous Prime Minister Qin Hui. When he set out, he took several boxes of books with him. Someone falsely accused him of being related to the rebel party. As a result, Gaozong inspected his letters and shabby clothes. Gaozong sighed: "I didn't expect Zhang Jun to be so poor!" I felt sorry for him. So he sent someone to catch up with Zhang Jun on a fast horse and rewarded him with three hundred taels of gold. Yu Qian, a man with clean sleeves. Yu Qian, a famous official of the Ming Dynasty, was honest and upright in his official career. Once, the imperial court sent him to inspect Henan. When returning to Beijing, people bought some local specialties such as silk handkerchiefs, mushrooms, incense sticks, etc. and returned them to Beijing to distribute to the court officials, but he did not accept them. At the same time, he also wrote a poem to express his feelings: Silk handkerchief mushrooms and incense sticks are only for civilian use, but they are a disaster. The breeze blows with both sleeves toward the sky, lest Lu Yan (referring to the common people) talk short and long. "Don't keep a penny privately. During the Ming Dynasty, the Jiaxing magistrate Yang Jizong was honest and self-sufficient, and won the hearts of the people. Once, a eunuch passed by and asked him for a bribe. He opened the treasury and said, "The money is here, come and get it as you wish. , but you have to collect the official stamp of the Treasury from me. "The eunuch left in frustration. After returning to the capital, he slandered him in front of Ming Yingzong. Yingzong asked: "Are you talking about the eunuch Yang Jizong who didn't keep a penny? "After the eunuch listened, he no longer dared to speak ill of Yang Jizong. He is good at money but does not need money. Wang Jie, a Jinshi of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, was an upright and outspoken man, and did not attach himself to powerful people. At that time, He Kun had exclusive power in the court, and the ministers did not accuse him. But Wang Jie always argued with him. Once, after the discussion, He Kun deliberately teased Wang Jie, holding his hand and saying, "What a white and tender hand!" Wang Jie replied sternly: "Although Wang Jie has good hands, he can't ask for money!" "He Kun left in shame. Lu Huaishen, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was honest and honest, and did not collect money. His residence and furnishings at home were very simple. After he became an official, his status was noble, but his wife and children were still inevitably exposed to frequent abuses. He was hungry and cold, but he was very generous to his relatives and friends. He was responsible for the important official duties of selecting officials in Dongdu (Luoyang), but his luggage was only a cloth bag. Song Jing and Lu Congyuan often visited him. Lu Huaishen lay on a thin broken bamboo mat. There was no curtain on the door, so he had to use a mat to cover it when it was windy or rainy. He thought highly of Song Jing and Lu Congyuan, and was very happy to see them coming. He stayed with them for a long time and asked his family to prepare meals. What was served was only two pots of steamed beans and a few green vegetables. In addition, Nothing. Lu Huaishen held the hands of Song Jing and Lu Congyuan and said, "You two will definitely govern the country as officials. The emperor's search for talents and strategies for governing the country is urgent. But as the rule lasts for a long time, the ministers around the emperor will become slack. At this time, villains will take the opportunity to approach and please the emperor. You two must remember this. "A few days later, Lu Huaishen died. When he was critically ill, he wrote a report recommending Song Jing, Lu Congyuan, Li Jie and Li Chaoyin to the emperor. After reading the report, the emperor felt even more sorry for him. He was buried When Lu Huaishen was young, because he had no savings, he had to ask an old servant to make a pot of porridge for the people who were helping with the funeral. Emperor Xuanzong went hunting in the south of the city and came to a simple yard among a dilapidated house. , it seemed that some ceremony was being held, so he sent someone on horseback to ask, and the man came back and reported: "A ceremony for the second anniversary of Lu Huaishen's death is being held there, and a vegetarian meal is being eaten. Xuanzong then rewarded him with fine silk and stopped hunting.

It is also said that when Lu Huaishen passed away, his wife Cui stopped her daughter from crying and said to him: "Your father is not dead, I know. Your father is upright and upright, does not strive for fame and fortune, is modest and gives in, and the things he gives as gifts from various places, he He refused to accept it at all. He and Zhang Yue were prime ministers at the same time, and now Zhang Yue has received a mountain of money and goods, and the person is still alive, but how can the retribution of luxury and thrift be false? "At night, Lu Huaishen was alive again, The people on the left and right told him what the wife said. Lu Huaishen said: "The truth is different. There are thirty furnaces in the underworld, and they use the torture of barbecue day and night to punish those who make ill-gotten gains, but none of them are prepared for me. My sins in the underworld have been forgiven." After that, he died again. Note: Lu Huaishen (? - 716), a native of Lingchang, Huazhou (southwest of today's Hu County, Henan Province), was the censor of Wu Zetian at that time, and later served as the censor, censor, and the prime minister in the first year of Kaiyuan of Xuanzong (713). Lu Huaishen knew that his talents were not as good as those of another prime minister Yao Chong, so he avoided doing anything. His political achievements during his tenure were only to recommend talents and promote talents. He died of illness three years after he was appointed prime minister. Lu Huaishen was an honest official, but his family had no savings, no curtains on the door, no meat in his diet, his wife and children were hungry and cold, and he lived in poverty. He was a relatively honest prime minister in the Tang Dynasty. When Lu Huaishen's son Lu Huan was the governor of Guangzhou, he was not moved by the local rare treasures and could maintain his integrity, which was praised by people at the time. Xuanzong praised his beautiful administration and wrote a praise for it: "The importance of a special city divides the heroes of Shaanxi. It is also a benefit. It is a national treasure and does not lose the family tradition." Premier Zhou once said, "As long as I When you are prime minister, the conference hall is not allowed to be decorated. "At the entrance of the State Council Conference Hall, there was a wooden screen engraved with the four characters "Hard work and simplicity", which was a reflection of the work style that the prime minister practiced. At meetings of the State Council, people heard more than once that the Prime Minister refused to renovate the conference hall. The Prime Minister said: "As long as I am Prime Minister, the conference hall will not be renovated." In 1959, in the atmosphere of the Great Leap Forward, the Ministry of Water Resources did not After reporting and requesting instructions, a water conservancy construction achievement exhibition hall was built near Miyun Reservoir. One day, during a meeting in the West Flower Hall, the Prime Minister suddenly turned to Qian Zhengying, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Water Resources, and said, "Qian Zhengying, Mr. He told me that you are building a very high-end building at the Miyun Reservoir. Is this the case?" Qian? Answer: "Yes, it is a water conservancy exhibition hall." The Prime Minister was silent for a while, shook his head, and said softly: "I didn't expect you would do such a thing." Qian was so ashamed after hearing this that his heart felt like a knife. Uncomfortable. If we go by the thinking of some current cadres, the Prime Minister has neither severely criticized nor ordered the matter to be dealt with. There is neither the threat of punishment from the Discipline Inspection Commission nor the danger of losing his official position, and he can completely muddle through. However, inspired by Premier Zhou's great personality, Qian immediately conveyed the message at the party group meeting after returning to the ministry. The party group of the Ministry of Water Resources immediately decided to transfer this building worth more than 4 million yuan to a research institute of the First Ministry of Machinery Industry for free, and wrote an in-depth inspection report to the central government. In the Spring and Autumn Period of Integrity, Sichengzi of the Song Dynasty Han Qing is honest and honest, and is loved by others. Someone got a piece of precious jade and asked someone to appraise it and presented it to Zihan. Zihan refused to accept it and said: "You regard the gem as a treasure, and I regard non-greed as a treasure. If I accept your jade, then both of us will We all lost our treasures, why don’t we all have our own treasures? When Yang Zhen refused gold in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Yang Zhen passed through Changyi on his way to his post, Wang Mishan, the magistrate of Changyi County, came to visit him and brought ten pounds of gold to him. Yang Zhen said: "My old friend knows you, but you don't know your old friend. Why?" Wang Mi didn't understand Yang Zhen's accusation and said, "It's dark and no one knows." Yang Zhen said: "Heaven knows, God knows, you know, I know, what is ignorance?" " Only then did Wang Mi understand. He felt deeply ashamed and left in despair.