Yan Guang, called Ziling, also known as Yan Zun, was a native of Yu Yao in Huiji. He was famous when he was young and studied in the Imperial College with Emperor Guangwu. When Emperor Guangwu came to the throne, he changed his name and lived in seclusion. When Emperor Guangwu thought of his ability, he ordered to search for Yan Guang in the whole country according to his appearance. Later, Qi reported, "There is a man wearing a sheepskin garment fishing at the water's edge." Emperor Guangwu suspected that it was Yan Guang, so he prepared a cart and gifts and sent people to invite him. He invited him three times before he arrived, and arranged for him to live in the military barracks of the capital guard, supplying him with bedding and other utensils, and the officer in charge of food in the palace supplied him with wine and food every morning and evening.
Hou Ba, the chief minister, was an old friend of Yan Guang's and sent a letter to him. The messenger then said to Yan Guang, "Hau Gong heard that Mr. Yan had arrived and wanted to visit him immediately, but he could not because of the inconvenience of the relevant system of the imperial court. I hope that I can come in person after dark to express my apologies to you." Yan Guang did not speak, and called back the letter to Hou Ba. Orally, he said, "Mr. Junfang: it is good that the official position has reached the Third Duke. With a benevolent heart to assist benevolence and righteousness of the world are happy, kissing asses and reading people's faces these things you can master all." Hou Ba received the letter read, sealed and then up to Emperor Guangwu. Emperor Guangwu smiled and said, "This crazy guy is still the same." On that day, he personally came to the pavilion where Yan Guang lived, Yan Guang sleeping not get up, Guangwu Emperor went into his bedroom, touched Yan Guang's abdomen and said: "Alas Yan Ziling, can not help each other to do something?" Yan Guang fell asleep again and did not speak, after a while, only to open his eyes, looked for a long time, said: "In the past, Tang Yao such a notable character, nest father Xu Yu such a person heard to grant the official position still go to wash his ears. Readers have their own aspirations, why do we have to go to the point of forcing people to become officials?" Emperor Guangwu said, "Yan Ziling, I can't even make you make concessions?" So he got into his car and left with a sigh.
Afterward, Yan Guang was invited to the palace again to talk about old relationships in the past, and the two spent many days together. Once Emperor Guangwu casually asked Yan Guang, "How am I compared to the past?" Yan Guang replied, "Your Majesty has changed a little from the past." After saying this, they slept together. When Yan Guang was asleep, he pressed his foot on Emperor Guangwu's stomach. The next day, the historian reported that a guest star had violated the emperor's throne and was very powerful. Emperor Guangwu laughed and said, "My old friend Yan Ziling is just sleeping with me."
Granted the post of counselor, Yan Guang refused to accept with resignation, so he lived a life of farming in the Fuchun Mountains, and the descendants named the place where he fished as Yan Lingse. Jianwu seventeen years, once again enlisted him, did not go. He lived to the age of eighty and died at home.
22. Wang Jianbi Xian
Simen Langzhong Wang Jianbi, a native of Weizhou, studied the three biographies of the Spring and Autumn Annals, passed the examination for the jinshi, and then was transferred to Yi State as a recorder. At that time, Mr. Lu Zongdao, the Duke of Jiansu, had just become a military counselor, his family was poor, and there were many people eating, and his salary was insufficient, so he often borrowed money from Mr. Wang, and when it was not enough, he begged Mr. Wang to lend him money for his salary in advance.
Lu Zongdao rule subordinates harshly, the treasurer is very resentful of him, accused Lu Zongdao private borrowing of public money, Yizhou guards even impeachment of the Wang repair together. Wang Jian told Lu Zongdao, "(You) just put the fault on me, you do not bear." Lu Zongdao said, "My family is poor, and I ask you for it. The fault is caused by me, so what is your crime in this matter?" Wang Yu said: "I have spent my life in a dull way, I have no great ambition in my career, I only rely on the income of my salary to support my wife and children, (even if) there is no harm in being convicted, moreover, I lent the official property to other people, and my sin is not up to the point of being dismissed. You are young and ambitious, wise and upright, and really have the talents of the three ministers, so you should not be affected by a minor fault and jeopardize the great cause; what is the benefit of being condemned together?" (Wang Jianxian) finally showed that Lu Zongdao did not know the truth, and thus he alone suffered the crime of borrowing public property. Lu Zongdao was very ashamed and thankful, and (felt) ashamed of himself, but Wang Jian was very open about it, and did not show any dissatisfaction. As a result of this fault by the Ministry of mandarins sunk more than twenty years.
After a long time because of the court recommended talent, the emperor summoned the Ministry of Justice officials to inquire, explaining their merits and demerits, the son of Lu Zongdao's name. At this time, Lu Zongdao has been in power, accompanied by standing in the courtroom. Emperor Renzong looked at Lu Zongdao and said, "Is it you, Minister?" Lu Zongdao immediately claimed to be guilty, and fully stated the truth of the incident. Emperor Renzong sighed: "[Wang Liu] is really a man of generous nature." Prior to this, there are private wrongdoing, as a rule, after correcting the demotion of appointment, from now on can not be demoted appointment, the edict (wang repair) changed to Da Lisi, the official to the Ministry of Lang, repeatedly in charge of the famous counties, (wang repair) in his later years of the rich fields, the descendants of the many prosperous, live to eighty-nine years old and end. This was (his) reward for sheltering the virtuous and doing good deeds.
23. Wu Cui was magnanimous
Wu Cui, with the character Deji, was a native of Lanxi. He studied under the famous scholar Meng Ji and familiarized himself with the Spring and Autumn Annals. Li Wenzhong, who was in charge of the eastern part of Zhejiang, hired him to be the head of the county school. After a long time, he was recommended to the court and was authorized to be the prime minister of Nankang. Nankang custom is fierce, think the county minister literati, despise him. After a few months, Wu Cui cracked the case and caught the adulterer like an old jailer, and everyone was surprised, and they all restrained their behavior one after another. Wu Cui then relaxed his policy and gave the people a respite. Zhou Yizhong, a magistrate, was scolded by the villagers and was unable to arrest them, so he was furious and arrested many of his neighbors. Wu Cu investigated the case and found out the reason, released the people immediately and told Ezhong. Zhou Yizhong was even more furious, saying, "The county magistrate has neglected me." Wu Cui said, "There is only one person who has offended you, what is the crime of his neighbors? Now there are many people arrested and the culprit has not been caught, what if the situation is urgent and there is some change?" Only then did Zhou Yizhong's anger subside. The people of Eupli were so uncontrollable in their sacrifices that every time a snake went out of the house, the people recognized it as a god. Wu Cu bound the sorcerer and rebuked him, and sank the idol into the river, so the obscene shrine died out.
Wu Cui was the county minister for six years, and the people loved him. When he was promoted to Anhua as a magistrate, a big family named Yi occupied a dangerous terrain and held it by himself, and Wu Liang, the Marquis of Jiangyin, wanted to break him, so he summoned Wu Cui to discuss the matter. Wu Cui said: "Yi fled to avoid death, not a rebellion. Calling him he should come; it is not too late to kill him if he does not come." Wu Liang listened to his plan, and Yi did come. Wu Liang wanted to register and catalog the peasants who had originally served as soldiers. The people were very frightened, and Wu Cu said, "The world is clear, and the people are at ease with their farming. Register to enroll those who are willing to be soldiers, and do not force them if they do not want to." Moved Weizhou governor, Shandong military affairs commonly used cattle and sheep instead of fall taxes, Wu Cui to the people of the plan, said: "cattle and sheep have a disease and death of the hidden, not as convenient as the delivery of corn." On that day, the superior let the people to send cattle and sheep to Shaanxi, other counties people more than dumped, the people of Huaizhou only save. When the county was transformed into a prefecture, Wu Cui was called back by his superiors, and the people of Weifang wept and followed him. Wu Cu asked the emperor to dismiss him from his post and return home
24 Meng Ye's honesty
Meng Ye's character Jing Ye was a native of Anguo, Ju Lu, a small town with a poor and humble family. His family was originally poor and humble. When he was young, he worked as a state official, and his character was honest and prudent. Some of his colleagues, who had embezzled and stolen silk from the public, gave Meng Ye thirty pieces of silk, and he refused to accept them. The line Taiwan Langzhong Guo Xiu is very polite to him, just to recommend him up, coincidentally, Guo Xiu died.
Yuan Shao, the king of Pengcheng in Wei, was the son-in-law of Qi Shenwu, and was appointed as the governor of Dingzhou. Liu Renzhi, the chief historian, said to Meng Ye: "I am outside the state office, you are inside the state office, working together, perhaps we will achieve something?" Soon after, Liu Renzhi entered the court and became the Chinese Minister, and when he was on his way, he reminded Yuan Shao, "The only person around His Highness who can be trusted is Meng Ye, and I hope to use him all the time; no one else can be trusted." He also bade farewell to Meng Ye, took his hand and said, "Now that I am leaving Pengcheng, you are deprived of assistance, and I fear that you will not be able to preserve yourself in the future, and that you will only be loyal and upright; I hope that you will endeavor to do so." Meng Ye had only one horse, which was thin and dead, Yuan Shao, on the ground that Meng Ye's family was poor, made the officials and servants of the state government eat the horse meat together, wanting them to heavily reward Meng Ye. But Meng Ye firmly refused to do so. Yuan Shao joked with Meng Ye and said, "You are welcoming a prestigious person," to which Meng Ye replied, "Meng Ye is an important position in the state as a signatory, and those people who want to bribe me are only worried that they have no chance to do so. If I let them eat meat now, I am afraid that it will lead to the gathering of wealth and amassing of goods, which will be detrimental to my reputation, and thus go against your wise teachings." Later, but ten days later, Wang Side and Dong Weijin, who were by Yuan Shao's side, were both secretly reported by Pei Yingqi, the chief historian, for giving away the meat of a horse that had died, and the Shenwu Emperor wrote a letter to Yuan Shao, reproving him greatly. Meng Ye was soon slandered and went out to patrol the affairs of the county. Later Shenwu wrote a letter to Yuan Shao, rebuking him, saying, "That dianzhi surnamed Meng was very attentive, so why did you let him go out?" When the man Yuan Shao sent to replace him went down, Meng Ye followed him back, not accepting any of the gifts. When Liu Ren came to be an official in West Yanzhou, he said to Cui Cui, the minister of the Ministry of Revenue, when he was leaving, "Meng Ye is the only one of your state's talented people who stands out, so don't forget about him when you select and recommend him." Cui Siam asked Meng Ye, "What political achievements did you have in Dingzhou in the past that made Liu Xigun so admired and impressed?" Meng Ye replied, "It is only because I know how to cultivate myself."
25 Yu Yan Zhengfa
Yu Yan was a pavilion chief when he was young, when the doorkeeper of Wei, Wang Mang's noblewoman (the name of a female official), was indulgent, Yu Yan led the officials to storm into his house and arrest him,............... .... At the end of Wang Mang's reign, the world was in chaos, Yu Yan often wore armor and a helmet to protect his relatives and fend off marauding robbers, and there were many people who relied on him to preserve their lives and property.
In the early years of Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was appointed magistrate of Hsinyang County. When he left his post and returned to his hometown, Fu Zong, the governor, heard of Yu Yan's reputation and recruited and arranged for him to be a gongcao (official name). Fu Zong was an extravagant man, and many of his cars and their decorations were not in accordance with the law. Yu Yan remonstrated with him, saying, "In the past, when Yan Ying served the state of Qi, he wore coarse leather clothes which were still incomplete; when Ji Wenzi served the state of Lu, his concubines did not wear silk clothes. There are very few people who have blundered because of thrift." When Fu Zong was displeased, Yu Yan resigned and left. After a short time, Fu Zong was indeed killed for extravagant indulgence, and when he was about to be executed, he wiped his tears and sighed, ".................. ............!"
(Yu Yan) was promoted to Luoyang magistrate, at this time, the Yin family (the family of Queen Yin) had a doorkeeper named Ma Cheng, often robbing and stealing, Yu Yan arrested and interrogated him. The Yin family repeatedly asked to be exonerated, but Yu Yan got a letter of mercy and beat him with an additional 200 plates. Marquis of Xinyang, Yin Jiu (the younger brother of Empress Yin), then told the emperor, falsely accusing Yu Yan of having wronged many people. The emperor then went to the pavilions on the emperor's road to personally check the prisoners' guilt. Yu Yan told those prisoners whose cases were arguable to stand on the east side, and those who had no reason to stand on the west side. Ma Cheng then turned back to think of the east, Yu Yan went up to catch him, said to him: "You are a big worm among people, long rely on the city society (city society metaphor for power), not afraid of smoke and fire. Now the review and verification is not finished, should be completely lawful sanctions!" Ma Cheng shouted that he was wronged, the emperor's close guard officer stabbed Yu Yan with his halberd and shouted at Yu Yan to let go of Ma Cheng. The emperor knew that Yu Yan was just and impartial, and said to Ma Cheng, "You have violated the king's law, and it is you who have caused the calamity!" Ah reprimanded and told him to walk back quickly. A few days later Ma Cheng was put to death. From then on the foreign relatives converge their behavior,.............
26 Fong Zhong ruled Suzhou
Fong Zhong, the word Bo Lu, was a native of Jing'an, Jiangxi Province. At first for the Shangshu Lv Zhen subordinate officials, Lv Zhen surprised at his talent, recommended that he be awarded the honorary minister of the Department of Instrumentation. Later, he was promoted to the rank of Langzhong (郎中). Xuande five years, Ming Xuanzong because he felt that most of the county guards can not be competent, but also coincides with the lack of Suzhou and other nine provinces governor, these nine provinces are important and difficult to govern the place, and so ordered the six ministries and ministers of the Academy to recommend the subordinates of the integrity of the competent officials to fill the vacancies in the various provinces. Fong Zhong because of the Shangshu Jianyi, Hu Xuanxuan and other recommendations, was promoted to governor of Suzhou, Emperor Xuanzong special grant and sent him to. The Suzhou region was said to be the most difficult place to govern because of its heavy burden of labor and its powerful and cunning officials who used literature and ink to seek profits. Fong Zhong arrived at Suzhou by post and horseback. When he started to deal with affairs, a group of officials stood around and asked him to write down the judgment. Fong Zhong pretended not to understand, asked for advice from his left and right, and did everything according to the intention of the officials. The officials were very happy, saying that the governor was dim and deceitful. After three days, Zhan Zhong called the group of officials and scolded them, saying: "Before something should be done, you stop me; something should not be done, you force me to do. This group of people, you have been dancing for a long time, the crime should be punished by death." Immediately ordered to kill a few people, the bureaucrats in the greed, tyranny, mediocrity, cowardice all reprimanded. The whole house was greatly shocked, all acted according to the law. So the situation of the bell exempt from the annoyance of the harsh details of the tax, the development of the provisions of the people, things that are not favorable to the people, will immediately write to the court to make it clear. At that time, many times the imperial edict to alleviate the heavy taxes in Suzhou and Songjiang. Fong Zhong and governor Zhou Chen carefully planned, tax exemption of more than 700,000 stone. Where Zhou Zhen implemented good governance, Fong Zhong assisted in vigorously do. Accumulated relief of farmers and storage of food every year hundreds of thousands of stones, in addition to the use of disaster relief, but also used to pay the folk miscellaneous taxes and arrears of rent. Fong Zhong was careful and thorough in his administration. He had set up two books to record the good and bad deeds of the townspeople, which were used for rewards and punishments. He also set up a customs inspection book to prevent the entry and exit from fraudulent behavior. He also set up a transportation book to prevent theft and embezzlement by carriers. He also set up the Pavilion Book to prevent unreasonable demands. He spared no effort to promote the interests and eliminate the harms. The people worshiped him as a god. When Fong Zhong was a mandarin, Ping Sizhong from Wujiang also started from a mandarin, served as a secretary of the Ministry of Mandarins, and was kind to Fong Zhong. By this time, the state bell repeatedly invited to see him, treat him with great respect, and let his two sons to their own subordinates, said: "not that I have no servants, but want to take this to repay you just." Ping Si Zhong's family had always been poor, and he had never asked for anything from him because of his old friendship with Fang Zhong. People praised both of them as virtuous men. When Fang Zhong's mother died, the people in the capital went to the court to ask him to stay in office, and the court ordered him to wear mourning and stay in office. Zhengtong six years, Fang Zhong term has expired should be promoted, the people in the House of more than 20,000 people, went to the imperial inspector Zhang Wenchang complain, requesting that Fang Zhong continue to serve. Emperor Yingzong issued an imperial edict into the situation Zhong eat the third grade salary, still stay in the governor. In December of the following year, Fang Zhong died in office. The officials and citizens of Suzhou gathered to weep and mourn, and set up a shrine for him. Fong Zhong is upright and honest, love the people, before and after he served as governor of Suzhou can not be like him.
27 Wang Gui knowledge
Wang Gui, the word Mao Hong, the grandson of Guanglu Daifu Wang Nuan. His father's name was Wang Xie, and he was a minister of the Zhenjun army. When he was young, Wang Guan was a man of style and foresight. When he was fourteen years old, Zhang Gong, a famous scholar in Chenliu, was very surprised to see him and said to his cousin Wang Dun, "Look at this child's appearance and heart, he is a talented person to be a general." At first, Wang Guan inherited the title of his ancestor. Soon Sikong Liu Banner introduced him to be the East Court priest, and promoted to Secretary Lang, Prince Sherman, Shangshulang, he did not go to the post. Later, he became the Counselor of Sima Yue, the King of East China Sea. At that time, Emperor Yuan of Jin was still the king of Langya, and Wang Guan has always been close and friendly. Seeing that the world was already in great chaos, Wang Guan made every effort to support the King of Luangya and secretly set his mind to revive the Jin Dynasty. Emperor Yuan of Jin also highly valued him and shared similar interests as close friends. When Emperor Yuan was in Luoyang, Wang Guan often persuaded him to go to his own fiefdom. When Emperor Yuan was in Luoyang, Wang Guan often advised him to go to his own fiefdom. When Emperor Yuan went out of the town of Xiapi, he asked Wang Guan to be the Secretary of the Eastern Department of Justice, and Wang Guan was actively involved in the planning of the military and state affairs. When Emperor Yuan left the town of Jiankang, the people of Wu were not attached to each other. After more than a month, there were still no scholars and people to pay their respects, and Wang Guan was y worried about this. When Wang Dun came to see him, Wang Guan said to him: "Luangya Wang Rende although heavy, but the reputation is still light. Brother here has long been a great reputation, should find a way to help the situation. "In March, on the day of the first six months, Emperor Yuan personally went to watch the ceremony of purification, all the way on the shoulders of the moped, the majesty of the ceremony. Wang Dun, Wang Guan, and all the famous ministers and generals also rode on horseback to escort him. Wu Ji Zhan and Gu Rong, who were very famous people in the south of the Yangtze River, went to watch the ceremony privately and were surprised to see such a scene, so they greeted and worshipped together by the side of the road. Wang Guan then offered his advice to Emperor Yuan, saying: "In ancient times, all those who were able to reign over the world did not fail to treat the old and the wise with courtesy and respect, and asked about the customs and customs of the country, and were open-minded and honest, in order to recruit the world's best people. What's more, now the world is in chaos, the country is divided, our statehood is still in its infancy, the most important thing is to obtain the hearts of the people ah! Gu Rong and He Chuan are the local leaders of the native tribes, so why don't we attract them to us so that we can win the hearts of the people? Once they are here, there is no one else who will not come. "So Emperor Yuan sent Wang Guan to pay a personal visit to He Zhuan and Gu Rong, and they were ordered to come to see Emperor Yuan, so Wu would be influenced by them, and the people's hearts would return to them. From then on, all places honored Emperor Yuan one after another, and the rites of kings and subjects began to be observed.
28. Tang Jie, an admonisher
Tang Jie, called Zifang, was a native of Jiangling. When his father, Tang Gong, died in Zhangzhou, the people knew that the Tang family was poor and wanted to pay for his funeral, but Tang Jie, though young, politely declined the goodwill of the people. Later he was promoted to be the lieutenant of Wuling County, and then transferred to be the magistrate of Pingjiang County. Mr. Li was a rich and stingy man, and when the officials did not get enough of his plundering, they falsely accused him of murdering people and sacrificing them to ghosts. The governor of Yuezhou arrested his family and tortured them indiscriminately, but none of them confessed. He sent Tang Jie to interrogate him, but there was no evidence. The governor was furious and reported the case to the court, which sent the royal historian Fang Kai to come down to another prison to interrogate the family separately, and the result was the same as that of Tang Jie's. All of them were punished, and all of them were sentenced to the same punishment. The result was the same as what Tang Jie had tried. All of them were punished, but Fang Kai was rewarded, and Tang Jie didn't take the initiative to claim the credit.
Tang Jie was transferred to Renqiu County in Mozhou. As Renqiu was on the road of Liao's envoys, the post officials were often extorted by the envoys and suffered a lot. Tang Jie sat at the entrance of the post station and passed the order: "Nothing that is not provided for in the law shall be supplied, and if you dare to destroy any grass or wood in our place, you will be firmly imprisoned." The envoys were obedient and left. Border ponds yearly flood, flooding the good land, the Chinese Yang Huaimin presided over the management, with forty-one villages in the west of the city to store floods, Tang Jie presided over the construction of embankments, the people have benefited. And reappointed as a judge in Dezhou, the transit Cui hills take stock of silk and silk sold to the people at high prices, Tang Kai held back this order is not issued, and to the Division of Pacification to disclose this matter. Cui hills was very dissatisfied, several times sent people to chase after Tang Jie to quickly follow. Tang Jie always delayed, and finally did not carry out the order.
Later, he was transferred to the capital as a supervisor of the Imperial Household, and was reappointed as the Imperial Household of the Imperial Household. Kai Sheng Yuan newly built " dragon and phoenix car ", decorated with jewels and jades, Tang Kai criticized: " This is the place of Taizong's memorial tablet, can not be noisy desecration; harem rare and extravagant toys, can not go beyond the provisions of the system." The emperor immediately ordered the destruction of the dragon and phoenix car. Zhang Yaozuo one step to the sky of the edict drafted to be promoted to Xuan Hui, section, Jing Ling, the group of pastoral four envoys, Tang Jie and Bao Zheng, Wu Kui and other strong opposition, and asked the middle minister Wang Juzheng with the hundred officials to discuss, and the result is deprived of Zhang Yaozuo two official positions. Soon after, Zhang Yaozuo was appointed as the envoy of Xuanhui and the governor of Heyang, and Tang Jie said to all the officials ": the emperor wanted to appoint him as the envoy of Xuanhui, but in the name of the governor of Heyang, we can't stop here. However, all the officials kept their heads in the sand, and only Tang Jie firmly opposed it. Emperor Renzong said, "The order of appointment is issued by the Ministry of the People's Republic of China." Tang Jie was impeaching the chancellor Wen Yanbo, who had woven wonderful brocade with wrong gold in Shu, colluded with eunuchs, and looked for insiders in the palace to get the post of chancellor; and now he reappointed Zhang Yaozuo, who was obviously trying to collude with him even more tightly. He suggested the emperor to dismiss Wen Yanbo and appoint Fu Bi as the minister. He also criticized Wu Kui, an admonition officer, for stepping on two boats, with harsh wording.
Renzong was furious and refused to read his writings, claiming that he would transfer him to a remote place. Tang Jie slowly read the emperor's opinion and said: "I am inspired by loyalty and righteousness, and I am not afraid to go to prison or to the execution ground, how can I be afraid of remote places?" Emperor Renzong hurriedly summoned the ruling minister and said ": Tang Jie's opinion is his duty. As for the allegation that Wen Yanbo got the post of prime minister through my concubine, how can it be true? How can a concubine interfere in the appointment of a prime minister?" At that time, Wen Yanbo was with him, and Tang Jie accused him: "Yanbo should reflect on himself, and if there is such a scandal, he should not hide it." Yanbo kept on thanking for his offense, and Emperor Renzong was even more annoyed. Liang Shi reprimanded Tang Jie and sent him down to the temple, and Cai Xiang, who had been practicing his profession, also came to his rescue. As a result, Emperor Renzong demoted him to the rank of Chunzhou Flying Officer. Wang Juzheng thought that this punishment was too heavy, but Inzong came to his senses, and on the next day, he reassigned him to Yingzhou, dismissed Wen Yanbo, and relegated Wu Kui to a local post. Fearing that Tang Jie would die on the road, and that he would get a bad reputation for hurting upright ministers, Emperor Renzong sent a Chinese ambassador to escort him. Mei Yaochen, Li Shizhong all wrote poems praising him warmly, from then on his frank and upright cynicism like hatred of the reputation of the world, the scholarly world to talk about the "real royal historian", are bound to say "Tang Zifang", and do not dare to call him by his first name.
29Liu Kuan (刘宽) was a gentle and forgiving man
Liu Kuan (刘宽) was a native of Huayin County, Hongnong County. His father, Liu Qi, served as an apostle during the reign of Emperor Shun of Han Dynasty. Liu Kuan once traveled in an ox cart, and a man who had lost his ox identified Liu Kuan's driving ox as his lost ox. Liu Kuan did not say anything, unloaded the ox and gave it to him and then walked home. After a while, the identified man found the lost ox and returned Liu Kuan's ox, kowtowing and thanking him, saying, "I am sorry for an elder like you, let you punish me in any way you like." Liu Kuan said, "Things have similarities and things are allowed to be wrong, why should I apologize when I have labored for you to return the ox to me?" The people of the state admired him for his lack of consideration. When Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty, he was summoned by the great general Liang Ji and was transferred to be the chief historian of Situ five times. In the eighth year of Yanxi, the imperial court recruited him and authorized him to be an official Shangshu order, and then he was promoted to be the great governor of Nanyang. He was in charge of three counties successively. He was kind and merciful and forgiving, and even when he was in a hurry, he never showed any impatience in language or expression. Liu Kuan always believed that if the people were punished, they would only seek to escape punishment and would have no sense of shame. When an official made a mistake, he was only punished with a whip made of cattail, just to show his shame, but he was not punished severely in the end. When there were merits in government, they were passed on to their subordinates. Sometimes there is a disaster, then blame themselves. Every time he visited the counties, he just stayed in the countryside in the guest house, he invited the scholars, priests and scholars to explain to the people the doctrine of scripture, and when he saw the old people, he talked with them about farming and the countryside to show his concern; and to the young people, he encouraged them with the teaching of filial piety and obedience to the parents and older brothers and sisters. People were touched by his morality and behavior, and the customs and hearts of the people improved day by day.
During the reign of Emperor Lingdi of the Han Dynasty, he was recruited and awarded the post of Taizhong Daifu, and worked as an attendant lecturer in the Hualin Garden. In the fifth year of Xiping, he replaced Xu Xun as a lieutenant. Emperor Ling was very fond of academic literature, and every time he summoned Liu Kuan, he often asked him to explain the scriptures. Liu Kuan once appeared to be drunk and asleep in his seat, and Emperor Ling asked, "Is the lieutenant drunk?" Liu Kuan tilted his head up and replied, "I do not dare to be drunk, but I am y concerned about my great responsibility, and I am as drunk as a drunkard in my heart." The emperor valued his statement.
Liu Kuan once entertained a guest and sent his servant to buy wine. After a long time, the servant came back drunk. The guest could not help himself and cursed: "Bastard." Liu Kuan immediately sent someone to visit the servant, suspecting that he would commit suicide. He said to those around him, "He is a human being, and what kind of insult is worse than calling him an animal? So I am afraid he will go to his death." The lady wanted to try to make Liu Kuan angry, and when he was ready to go to court and had already put on his official clothes, she had her maid bring meat soup and deliberately knocked over and stained his official clothes. The lady-in-waiting hurriedly cleaned up, Liu Kuan looked unchanged, slowly said to the lady-in-waiting: "Did the soup burn your hand?" His temperament and demeanor were so gentle and loving. People in the country called him a loyal elder.
30. Han Yanshou ruled his county
Han Yanshou was a native of Yanchi, and when he was the governor of Yingchuan, the local custom was that people were very hateful. Yanshou wanted to change this situation, and he educated the people with courtesy, fearing that the people would not obey him, and he summoned dozens of elders in the county and people trusted by the townspeople many times to stipulate that the rituals of marriages and sacrifices should be done according to the ancient methods, and that they should not be exceeded. The people complied with his teachings. After Huang Ba replaced him, he followed his method and thus governed this place very well. Wherever Yan Shou went, he made sure to employ capable people, treated them with courtesy, made extensive use of strategies, adopted other people's suggestions, so that people's teachings and fraternal duties could be practiced, and repaired the places of study, set up the chiefs of the army and the chiefs of the army, and practiced fraternal duties and teachings with each other, and could not tolerate the bad people. Whenever there was any abnormal situation in the township, the officials knew that the bad guys would not dare to enter the place. At the beginning, the work seemed to be very burdensome, but later on, the officials did not have to suffer from the pains of pursuing and arresting, and the people did not have to suffer from the punishments and beatings, so all of them were stabilized. He treated the officials with great kindness, but there was an agreement in advance, if someone cheated or failed him, Yanshou scolded himself harshly, "How could he fail me, why is it so? When he heard this, he regretted and was saddened, and some of them even killed themselves.
Yanshou once went out and when he was about to get on the train, an official on horseback came late and let Gongcao discuss his punishment. When he came back to the gate of the palace, the watchman stopped the train, hoping to have something to say, and Yanshou stopped the train and asked him, and he said, "Today, you had to leave the house very early in the morning, but you didn't come out for a long time. The father was chastised for honoring his own father, isn't it too unfair? Yanshou raised his hand in the car and said, If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have known my fault, and when he returned home, he summoned the doorkeeper and reused him. Three years in Dongxian, the order can be implemented to prohibit the things did not happen, the case greatly reduced, so into the palace as Feng Dang. When he came to Gaoling, some of his brothers complained about the land, and Yanshou said sadly, "I am fortunate to be in this position, and I should be an example for the county, but because I cannot take the lead in preaching education, some people complained among their relatives, and the fault is mine. This day, closed to think, a county do not know what to do, so the complaint of this family all blame each other, the two brothers are also very remorseful, both cut off their hair bare back to thank you, hope to make the field each other to move, to death will not fight again, the county people are very shocked, and each other legend of his severity, do not dare to violate the law.
31Zhang Chuang was dismissed from his post after nine years of serving as a minister of justice
(Zhang Chuang) because of his close relationship with Yang Yun, who had been killed for committing a crime of treason, and the officials of the court wrote a letter to the emperor saying that Yang Yun's cronies and friends shouldn't have been appointed to the post, and they were dismissed from their posts as usual, except for the impeachment against Zhang Chuang, which was withheld from the emperor, and was not handed over to the following people to be dealt with. Zhang Chuang sent puisne puisne shu shun to investigate the case, shu shun thought that Zhang Chuan was being impeached and was about to be dismissed from office, he was not willing to finish the case for Zhang Chuan and went home privately. When some people advised him to do so, he said, "I have done a lot of hard work for this man (referring to Zhang Chuang)! Now, he can only be the governor of Beijing for five days, how can he investigate the case again?" When Zhang Chuan heard what Shushun said, he immediately sent his officials to arrest Shushun and put him in prison. At that time, there were only a few days left in the winter month, and the officials who were investigating the case were working on the case about Su Shun day and night, and they even sentenced him to death. When Wushun was about to be executed, Zhang Chuang sent his chief official with a teaching order to Wushun and said, "How is the five days of Jingzhao Yin? Winter is coming to an end, do you want to live?" After saying this, he executed Su Shun in the city.
When it was spring, the official who examined the wrongful imprisonment came out to inspect, and the family of Su Shun carried Su Shun's body in a car and appealed to the official who examined the wrongful imprisonment in person with Zhang Chuang's edicts compiled on it. The official who inspected the wrongful imprisonment wrote a letter to the emperor to report the killing of innocent people by Zhang Chuan. The emperor took Zhang Chuan's crime lightly and wanted to make it easy for him to engage in his own business, so he first issued the edict that Zhang Chuan should be dismissed from the government because of Yang Yun, and dismissed him from the government so that he could be a commoner. After Zhang Chuang was dismissed, he went to the palace to hand in his seal and then fled from the palace to live elsewhere without returning to his hometown. A few months later, the officials and citizens of the capital city were slack, the beating of drums to call the police happened frequently, and there were big thieves in the area of Jizhou. The emperor missed Zhang Chuan and remembered his effectiveness, so he sent a messenger to summon him to the place where Zhang Chuan lived. Zhang spacious was harshly impeached, wait until the messenger arrived, his wife and children were scared and cried, but Zhang spacious smiled and said: "I have fled for the people, the county officials should be arrested on the spot, and now the court messenger to come, this is the emperor wants to use me!" Then he dressed up and followed the messenger to the bus, and wrote to the emperor, "I was lucky to get the official position of Minister, and I was awaiting punishment in Jingzhao, and I committed the crime of killing the puisne puisne rafter. He was my favorite official, and had been treated with kindness and leniency by me many times. He thought that I would be impeached and would be dismissed from my post, and he went home and went to bed without attending to his duties, and said that I was a five-day governor of the capital, and that I was ungrateful, and that I had harmed the culture and had corrupted the morals of the people. I privately thought that Su Shun was lawless and killed him in violation of the decree. I killed an innocent man, and interrogated the prisoner who deliberately did not act according to the straight and narrow; that is, I was sanctioned, and died without remorse." The emperor summoned Zhang Chuan and sent him to be the assassin of Jizhou.
32. Looking at the door to stop
Zhang Jian, with the character Yuanjie, was a native of Gaoping, Shanyang, and a descendant of Zhao Zhan's advocate Ear. His father, Zhang Cheng, was the governor of Jiangxia. Zhang Jian was initially recommended to be a great talent, but because the assassin who recommended him was not very good, he was ill and did not go to take up the post.
In the eighth year of Yanxi, he was asked by the governor Zhai Chao to serve as a postman in the eastern part of the country.
Then, the Chinese Permanent Secretary Hou Duan's family was in the east of the city, and he was brutalizing the people and misbehaving. Zhang Jian reported and impeached Hou Duan and his mother's sins, and asked the court to kill Hou Duan. HOU Duan suppressed the report and could not send it to the emperor, so the two of them had an enmity. Zhang Jian's fellow villager Zhu and, who had always been sycophantic and evil in character, was disliked by Zhang Jian. Zhu and, harboring a grudge, wrote a letter to the court to denounce Zhang Jian for forming a private party with twenty-four people in the same county, and the court ordered Zhang Jian and others to be arrested by deleting Zhu's name on the zhangzhang and sending it down. Zhang jian was forced to flee for his life, distressed and embarrassed, running around, see people to sleep, people respect his name and behavior ("Dictionary" "name and behavior" article.). When Mao Qin, the commander of the Yellow River, led his troops to Li Duke's house to search for him, Li Duke called Mao Qin aside and said, "Zhang Jian is well-known all over the world, and although he has fled, he is not guilty. Even if Zhang Jian can be captured, can you bear to arrest him?" Mao Qin got up and patted Li Duc and said, "Dianbus Boyu is ashamed to be a gentleman alone, how can you be so exclusive with benevolence and righteousness?" Li Duke said, "Though I aspire to moral righteousness, today your honor has gotten half of it." Mao Chin sighed and went away. Li Duke took advantage of this opportunity to send Zhang Jian out of the Seine, and was thus able to be spared. In the places he passed through, dozens of people were subjected to capital punishment, and all his clan relatives were exterminated, and the counties were severely damaged as a result.
In the first year of Zhongping, the party affairs were lifted and Zhang Jian returned to his hometown. The generals and princes all recruited him, and recommended him as a dunpu, the characteristics of the public car, invited from his home, to serve as the post of young government, he did not respond to the call. In the early years of Emperor Xian, the people suffered from famine, and Zhang Jian family assets slightly able to maintain food and clothing, so take out all the property, and the euphonious people *** with the enjoyment of the people, live by Zhang Jian hundreds of people.
In the early years of Jian'an, the imperial court recruited him to be a guardian, and he had no choice but to take up the post. Seeing that Cao's virtuous fortune had already manifested itself, Zhang Jian resigned from his post and closed his door to political affairs. A year or so later, Zhang Jian died in Xu County at the age of eighty-four.
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