Gossip about stingy people in history

The world is full of miracles. There have been many rich and powerful misers in history, and many of them still hold important positions in officialdom.

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During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Hong was the cousin of Cao Cao, and he laid down his life several times to save Cao Cao. With Cao Cao's voyage to the Western Ocean, he repeatedly made meritorious military service and was worshipped as a general of Wan Forbidden Guard.

After xelloss proclaimed himself emperor, he appointed Cao Hong as General Wei, and later he was promoted to a title of generals in ancient times, and became a vassal of the wild, and later he was appointed as Duke Yang.

When Cao Cao was a mediocrity, he personally took the lead in putting away the monthly transshipment in the county. Cao Hong's money was not as good as Cao Cao's. Cao Hong is the richest man under Cao Cao. He was so mean and mean that he almost died for it.

The thing is this: Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei Wen, borrowed one hundred silks from Cao Hong when he was a prince. Cao Hong felt dreary exercise and refused to borrow it under various excuses, which annoyed xelloss.

After Cao Pi, who had always held a grudge, acceded to the throne, he tried to put his uncle in prison and prepare to be executed. Later, due to the mediation of Empress Bian, Cao survived his death, but his official position and title were reduced.

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In the Western Jin Dynasty, Wang Rong was stingy by nature, and one of his nephews got married. As an uncle, of course, Wang Rong should follow the crowd, bite the bullet and give his nephew a thin coat. However, Wang Rong, distressed, ran to someone else's house to get it back.

Even for his own daughter, Wang Rong is not generous.

Our daughter married Pei's son and borrowed tens of thousands of dollars from her father. When my daughter went back to her mother's house, she forgot to return the tens of thousands of dollars given by her father. As a result, her own father was very unhappy, and her daughter quickly returned the money. In this case, Wang is a little happy.

Wang Rong is very rich and can be said to be the richest man in Luoyang. But he is stingy by nature, has no interest in daily consumption, and only wants to lay eggs, Qian Shengqian.

He sold the good plums planted at home at a high price, but he was afraid that others would use his plums as seeds to cultivate good plums, so he removed the seeds of plums in advance.

Wang Rong's favorite thing to do is to calculate the family's financial situation with his wife under the candle every night.

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In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhou Za, the right general, was a five-member Hou and held an important position.

The development of Zhou's power was doubted by the powerful Wang Dun. So, Wang Dun quietly joined forces with Shen Shi and other Jiangnan cremation to crusade against Zhou.

When Zhou got the news that the enemy was at the gate, he was ready to lead hundreds of his men out of the city to meet them in a hurry.

In Zhou za's warehouse, there were a number of well-made weapons, and his men advised him to take them out quickly to equip the army.

What makes people laugh and cry is that Zhou za is reluctant to give up, so he gives inferior weapons to soldiers.

Seeing that Zhou is still so stingy at the critical moment of life and death, the foot soldiers have no determination to work for him. As a result, Zhou was defeated and killed by the enemy.

Zhou za, who died of meanness, was the father and the third son of Zhou Chu, a famous figure in history.

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Xiao Ji, king of Wuling in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, was the eighth son of Liang Wudi.

Xiao Ji once led an army to attack Jiangling. He melted gold into cakes, and there were 100 gold cakes in a basket. More than 100 baskets were hung high, and silver was five or six times as much as gold, and there were countless kinds of silks and satins, so as to encourage soldiers to fight bravely.

But the miser just feasted his eyes and never rewarded him after every war.

As a result, the morale of the army was in chaos, and nine times out of ten, the cities on both sides of the strait 14 fell in a very short time, and Xiao Ji's soldiers were defeated like a mountain, and he himself died in the disorderly army.

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In the Tang Dynasty, there was a Yuan Zong Kui whose official position was Sima Zhou.

One of his handmaids died, so he ordered the housekeeper on duty to say, "My old handmaid is dead. She has lived in my house for several years, so she should find a coffin for her funeral. I'm new here, and my family is too poor to buy a new coffin, as long as I can buy something that can be used. You don't have to say that my family wants to buy it, just say that your family wants to buy it. "

The housekeeper went out to tell everyone about Yuan Zongkui's remarks. People in one state laughed at this Sima for being too stingy and took his words as a joke after dinner.

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In the Tang Dynasty, Mizhou, the secretariat of Zheng, cherished money as his life and was very funny.

A page in his family begged him to buy a pair of shoes. Zheng said, "It's easy. I'll find you a pair of shoes. "

Soon, the doorman came in wearing shoes. Zheng deliberately ordered the doorman to climb the tree to dig the bird's nest.

When the doorman took off his shoes and climbed up the tree, Zheng secretly let the page put on the doorman's shoes.

The janitor got off the tree and looked for shoes everywhere, so he had to walk barefoot.

Zheng is very proud of this.

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Wei Zhuang, a great poet in the Five Dynasties, is famous all over the world. And his meanness is as famous as his words.

Every time Wei Zhuang cooks, there is a fixed amount of rice; The firewood for cooking should also be weighed in advance; If he eats barbecue, he will know even if one piece is missing.

Wei Zhuang had a son who died at the age of eight. When the child was buried, his wife put on the clothes before his death, but Wei Zhuang stripped them off, just wrapped them in an old straw mat where the child used to sleep and sent them to be buried.

And after the burial, Wei Zhuang also brought the straw mat back. ...

eight

Zhang Yun, assistant minister of the official department, was also notoriously stingy in the Five Dynasties.

Even his wife, Zhang Yun, won't give her an extra penny. He was afraid that his wife would steal his money, so he pinned all kinds of keys to his waist and began to jingle. At first glance, he sounds like a woman with many earrings and jewels hanging on her body.

After the mutiny in Guo Wei, Zhang Yun barely saved his life by hiding in a ruined temple, but the soldiers took all his keys. When he got home, he had been robbed, and Zhang Yun was heartbroken. Wow, blood gushed out, and he died in less than half a day.

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Li Yue in Song Dynasty was the county magistrate of Shangcai County, Cai Zhou.

Li Yue is so stingy that it is difficult to understand how to do things.

Their family seldom eats meat all the year round. Every time they worship their ancestors on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, they send purchasing staff to borrow a catty of cooked meat from the butcher shop and put it in a basin. Then they put money on several plates and wrote a few words to worship their ancestors, and prayed: "The wine I bought with an official's money is pure and lovely; I borrowed the meat from the butcher shop, and it was delicious. Because things are too busy to buy fruit, use money as fruit. "

After the sacrifice, Li Yue greeted the buyer with meat and said, "Come back to the butcher shop."

People laughed at him for being too stingy.

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Tang Bin, the governor of Jiangning, was honored as a "famous official of Neo-Confucianism" and was a representative of Zhu Cheng School at that time.

Tang Bin is famous for his hard life, and his meanness is also famous.

One day, the old man had a whim, looked at the account book at home and found that there was an egg in the expense. He suddenly flew into a rage: "I haven't eaten an egg since I came to Suzhou." Who bought it? "

The servant replied that it was a son. He summoned his son and knelt in court and scolded, "Do you think the price of eggs in Suzhou is the same as that in Henan? If you want to eat eggs, go back to your hometown in Henan ... "