What idea did Wang Xizhi come up with to help the victims and get the rich man to hand over the grain?

Wang Xizhi’s clever plan to punish the rich man

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When Wang Xizhi was the prefect of Linyi, the story of Wang Xizhi’s clever plan to punish the rich man was widely circulated in the local area and became a household name. .

Tang Xing, who lives in Tangjia Lake, lost his mother when he was young and relied on his father to raise him. Once, his father went up the mountain to collect stones and accidentally fell to his death in the mountain stream. Tang Xing wanted to choose a good land to bury his father in order to repay the kindness of raising him, but he had no choice but to suffer from poverty and no place to stand. The villagers said to him: "There is an open space in the ancestral grave of the rich Niu Lu family. You might as well go to him and tell him. Today is his mother's eightieth birthday. If he is happy, he may give you a piece of land." Tang Xing had no choice. , I had no choice but to beg Niulu shamelessly. Unexpectedly, Niu Lu agreed readily, but the condition was that Tang Xing gave him a pot of good wine. When the villagers heard this, they all praised the rich man Niu for his kindness and charity, and hurriedly asked Tang Xing to thank Niu Lu. Then they helped Tang Xing bury his father, and together they pooled money to buy a pot of good wine and asked Tang Xing to deliver it to Niu Lu's house.

This matter was originally settled, but who knew that five years later there would be another disturbance. In the past five years, Tang Xing earned some money by working hard, bought several acres of mountain land, built several thatched houses, married a wife and had children, and lived a good life. Niulu saw that there was oil and water to be exploited, so he began to think about seizing Tang Xing's land. So Niulu started to make a fuss about the charity cemetery five years ago. One day, Niu Lu and a group of his men came to Tang Xing's home and said to Tang Xing: "You have made money in the past few years, but I have declined day by day. Now please pay off the debt you owed me five years ago." Tang Xing replied: "My father was buried in the wasteland of your home at that time, but you said that as long as I gave you a jug of good wine. I already gave you the wine on your mother's birthday." Niu Lu said: "What I wanted was a lake, but you only gave me a pot, and you still owe me more wine." Tang Xing saw Niu Lu's sophistry and stepped forward to argue with him, but was led away by Niu Lu. The men who came beat him severely and robbed everything in the house. Tang Xing had no choice but to appeal to the prefect.

The newly appointed prefect Wang Xizhi knew that Niu Lu was a local bully and was very cunning, so he came up with a method of "treating the other person in his own way." He heard that Niulu's family raised a lot of geese, and he thought of a clever plan. Wang Xizhi came to Niu Lu's house one day. Niu Lu was flattered when he saw that the prefect came to visit in person. Wang Xizhi said: "I like geese by nature, and I want to exchange the "Le Yi Lun" written by me for a live goose. I wonder what happens to Yuanwai?" Niu Lu knew that Wang Xizhi was a famous calligrapher, and he could say that every word is worth a fortune. , if you can exchange one of your goose for a piece of calligraphy, it will be a blessing from heaven. He was so happy that he stayed up all night. Early the next morning, he took a big white goose to see Wang Xizhi. After Wang Xizhi saw the goose, he clapped his hands and said with a smile: "It is really a good goose that is only one in a thousand. I wonder if other geese are as good-looking?" Niu Lu said with a smile on his face: "All the geese in the small family are like this. Your Majesty asked for a live one." Goose, so I only brought this one today. If you want more, I will send you some more someday." Wang Xizhi suddenly changed his color when he heard this: "I want a river goose. Could it be that I want one? Is the handwritten "Le Yi Lun" only worth a goose? How dare you be so bold and reckless as to defraud your own official? What crime should you be punished by?" Niulu was very unconvinced and argued: "Excuse me, my lord, people in the world buy and sell geese. How can we talk about 'river' when talking about individuals and animals?" When Wang Xizhi saw Niu Lu saying such words, he seized the opportunity to bring Tang Xing to the court and said: "In this case, you said that geese cannot talk about 'river', then what? How can wine talk about 'lake'?" Only then did Niu Lu realize that he had fallen into a trap, so he knelt down and begged Wang Xizhi to forgive him for his blackmail against Tang Xing. Wang Xizhi ruled: "Niu Lu's seizure of Tang Xing's family property must be returned in full, and Tang Xing must be paid 500 taels of silver as compensation. I am an honest and upright official and never accept any form of bribe, let alone the white goose of Niu Lu, a local tycoon. ! Niu Lu must return his copy of "Le Yi Lun" and take back Niu Lu's white goose himself. If there is any mistake, the crime will be increased."

The story spread, and the villagers all responded. Applause.

Historical story: Wang Xizhi’s wisdom in rescuing the victims

Legend has it that when Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, was serving as the general of the right army, the Langya County area suffered from severe drought for many years, no harvests, and poor people. Eating up all the grass roots and tree bark. But the corrupt officials and gentry refused to save them.

Wang Xizhi then wrote a memorial, mounted a fast horse, and went straight to the capital day and night.

After the emperor received the memorial written by Wang Xizhi, he was immediately attracted by the calligraphy art of the memorial, especially the word "grain" that was intentionally written very large on the memorial. It floated like a flying dragon and was as powerful as a swimming dragon. . While watching, the emperor praised: "Good food! Good food! Good food!" As soon as the emperor finished speaking, Wang Xizhi was heard below, loudly replying: "Thank you, Lord Long, for your kindness." ! I will go to Yalang to stock up on food today!"

By the time the emperor realizes it, it will be hard to stop the water. He had no choice but to make mistakes and immediately appointed Wang Xizhi as the imperial envoy to deliver grain.

On the same day, Wang Xizhi hurried back to Langya County under the banner of "distributing grain according to the order" to release grain for disaster relief. The people in the county cheered thunderously!