During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was an official surnamed Dong in Huai'an, Jiangnan Province, who was extremely popular and charitable to the poor, and he was not short of money. Because their family was very rich, in the early years, their ancestors did the silk sales business in Jiangnan, made a fortune, and after having money, they bought a large mansion in Huai'an, and bought a large amount of land in the surrounding area, becoming a famous local landlord.
This official surnamed Dong was only admitted to the meritorious name with the full support of his family, but only took the examination, and later obtained the official title of an alternate Zhi County through donation, and then spent money to obtain a vacancy, made a county order, and his human ability was relatively strong, in his place, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the public security environment was good, and the taxes of the imperial court were collected in a timely manner. Later, after two years of service, he was promoted to the rank of Caoyun official. A strange thing happened during his time as a shipping official.
This official surnamed Dong said one day when chatting with a friend: When he was an official of Caoyun, there were two ancestral halls in the official office, the earth god and the horse god, but only the earth god's ancestral hall had a spouse, and the horse god did not. At that time, he had a young son who relied on his talent and pride, saying that the earth god was an old man with a full beard and should not have such a beautiful wife: and the horse god was young and was a good spouse. So he took it upon himself to move the female statue to the horse shrine. It didn't take long for him to feel dizzy and fall to the ground, unconscious. When the official surnamed Dong heard about this incident, he was greatly surprised, thinking that this matter must be related to his son's assertion, which angered the earth god, so he personally prayed and moved back to his hometown, and only then did he wake up. After the younger son woke up, under the education of his father, he hurried to ask for the earth god statue in the official office, and prayed repeatedly to settle down.
Someone was amazed after listening to what he said, and told this official surnamed Dong a similar miracle. He had heard before that the Hejian Academy Office had an earth god and a female statue. There was a teaching that said that women should not be molded in the xue palace, so a small ancestral hall was built to move the female statue. Not long after, when eating at home, a deity seemed to attach himself to his little grandson and said, "Although your reasoning is upright, your heart is selfish, and you are trying to expand your house. The instructor was talking about things calmly and boldly, and suddenly said his selfish intentions, and he was greatly frightened. After that, until the end of his term of office, he did not dare to live in this room of the Academic Office, for fear of being punished by the gods. After that, there were no more cases of his family being injured.
After everyone said that these two things were similar to the incident, some of the friends of the official surnamed Dong said: "The discipline to move the temple is still out of courtesy, your children are too blasphemous, and the punishment should be heavy." Another friend said: Dong Zi is a teenager, just debauchery and arrogance. The discipline is selfish on the inside, which is beneficial to oneself, and the outside is pretending to be just, so that people cannot say anything. If it weren't for God exposing his plot, people would have thought he would have corrected the rituals of the temple. Just as the history book "Spring and Autumn" focuses on exposing people's intentions, if we really want to talk about the faults of two people, I think the punishment of the discipline should be heavier than that of Lord Dong's son.