In the official court of the Suzhou prefect of the Ming Dynasty, there is an exquisite offering platform, on which the non-gods and non-immortals are enshrined, but it is a huge stone, and there is a moving story.
In Wu County, Suzhou Province, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a sage named Lu Ji was born, who studied hard and learned hard when he was young, and was called a prodigy.
One day, Wu Hou set up a banquet at home and invited Wu Chu's celebrities all over the place, and Lu Ji was also invited. During the banquet, Lu Ji saw the citrus on it, orange-yellow in color and sweet in taste, and reached out to take a few more and hid them in his clothes.
Wu Hou asked, "As a descendant of Wu Chu's famous men, why did you commit the scandal of stealing oranges?"
Lu Ji was ashamed and embarrassed, and cried: "I lost my father at a young age, Lai's mother carefully raised him to adulthood, now I eat delicious food, my mother eats chaff and I can't bear it in my heart, so I hide several oranges, and I want to honor my mother..."
Wu Hou listened, nodded his head and praised: "At a young age, even if you know such filial piety, Lu Ji will not steal the orange, but can be guaranteed as filial piety."
Later, Lu Jiguo was reused by Wu Hou, and Lu Jiguo,Took the post of Yulin Taishou (郁林太守) and returned home by boat with his family.
Lu Ji served in Yulin, busy with official business all day, and today he had leisure to enjoy the beauty of Jiangnan Water Town. Only to see that the mountain is clear and clear, and the chief of the wild post; Block vegetable field, green flowers and yellow; Slice of the manor, rice and wheat wafting fragrance.
Lu Ji was reveling in the grand scenery of the southern country, overhearing the sound of killing on the mountain, rushing down a group of good men in the green forest, hooking and ropeing together, intercepting Lu Ji's big ship and pulling it to the shore.
The good man at the head pointed his knife at The Landing And shouted, "Quickly hand over the looted silver!" Dare to say half a word, I will hack your whole family to death and throw it into the river to feed Wang Ba. ”
Lu Ji replied, "All the good men, Lu Ji has been in office for several years, and his salary is only enough for food and clothing, so where is the excess silver?"
"Ha..." The leader laughed, "what garlic?" Who doesn't know three years of Qing Prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver! You have been a taishou for three years, and you have plundered the people's money?
Lu Ji repeatedly pleaded, where the leader was willing to believe, looked at the big ship, waved and shouted: "You are not going to be poor anymore!" Isn't it clear that there is gold and silver on board at such a deep waterline? search! Search out the gold and silver and then call the corrupt officials you die to understand!"
The good guys got on board and searched. The outer cabin contained only two wooden boxes containing a few pieces of changed clothes, and the rest were all books. A few pieces of broken silver, sandwiched between the clothes.
Lifting the bottom compartment cover, someone exclaimed, "Yes, yes!" After a while, he moved up ten jars, reached inside, and grabbed a few pieces of salted bamboo shoots.
Look at the bottom cabin, large and small piles of stones, the largest one weighs hundreds of pounds.
Seeing that no gold or silver had been found, the leader asked Lu Ji, "What are you doing with so many stones?"
At this time, Lu Ji was shocked and frightened, and he couldn't even say the whole thing, but the Duke of Gong, who was still driving the boat, explained the reason to the good people.
It turned out that Lu Ji had served as a taishou in Yulin for three years, keeping in mind the family discipline of honesty and self-preservation, not greedy for ill-gotten wealth, and not disturbing the people. Every day, in addition to the official duties of the yamen, it is easy to read the scriptures and go to the countryside to persuade the people to do so.
He has received a palace, and his food and clothing are not rich, and he still helps widows and widows and lonely people from time to time, so where is the surplus wealth? This time he left his post and returned home, Lu Ji saw a huge boat, only a few people took, the luggage was light, it was difficult to withstand the wind and waves on the way, he sent someone to buy ten altar Yulin specialty salted bamboo shoots, the weight was not enough, so he asked the merchants and merchants on the shore to help pick up many stones and put them at the bottom of the warehouse for the purpose of stabilizing the ship...
When the good men heard this, they knew the reason. The leader asked tentatively, "I have heard that the officials of today are thieves, have you not once robbed openly and secretly?"
"Yes, yes!" Lu Ji told him about stealing oranges at King Wu's banquet when he was a child.
"Lord Lu, it's wrong." After listening, the leader couldn't help but hold lu Ji and said, "I am waiting here for Kou Shi to be caused by the exploitation of corrupt officials, in the past few years, we don't know how many corrupt officials have been killed, how many silver two have been robbed, and today when we meet you like Taishou, it is really the first time in my life, the stones on this ship are indeed treasures, it is a veritable incorruptible stone!"
Therefore, the good men sent Lu Ji's family to the ship and forcibly gave some silver for Lu Ji's way, which waved goodbye.
Lu Ji arrived home safely, and the story of Lian Shi was also widely circulated in Wu County, and Lu Ji's descendants regarded these stones as treasures, and before the first official in the Imperial Examination went to office, he brought a stone for the official to bribe the police.
Corruption and bribery have been a major stubborn disease of China's feudal officials over the years. Therefore, for the Qing officials, the common people are admired in their hearts and eyes; To the corrupt officials, the common people hate to the bone.
In ancient times, Lu Ji and Fan Qianshang could still be honest, frugal, and have a clean wind in their sleeves, and for our society today, they should be more honest and honest and be good servants of the people.
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