Integrity Integrity and other small stories, short stories about integrity

Kou Zhun, Liu Luoguo, Ji Xiaolan, In feudal society, the people called good officials Qing officials. In the official canonical and historical books, good officials are generally not called Qing officials, but called"Followers"、"Good Officer"、"Incorruptible officials"Wait a minute. China was the first country in the world to establish a bureaucracy, and since Sima Qian's "Records of the Historians", there has been a typological evaluation of bureaucracy.

What are the criteria for a good officer? Different periods have different emphasis. Sima Qian's criteria are:

Teaching, honesty, and law-abiding. In the Warring States, Qin and early Han dynasties, which advocated Legalist politics, law-abiding was the most important criterion for good officials. It's here"Confucianism"During this period, the implementation of indoctrination became the standard for good officials.

However, because it is difficult to assess the effectiveness of education, since the beginning of the Three Kingdoms, according to Sima Yi's thoughts, purity, prudence, and diligence have become the official standardization, and Qing officials have gradually become synonymous with good officials.

The simple explanation is incorruptibility and fairness.

Hai Rui was an honest official all his life, and he never left any money after his death, and even his friends helped him to bury him. Incorruptible, he did not leave a single deposit ...... in the bank at the time of his death

According to the record of "The Book of Jin and the Biography of Wu Yin", twenty miles outside the city of Guangzhou, there is a water called a greedy spring, and people drink its water to be greedy, that is, the incorruptible people are also greedy. Therefore, in the past, those who rushed by, even if their mouths were dry and they looked at the spring, they did not dare to drink it in vain.

However, Wu Yinzhi, the newly promoted assassin of Guangzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, passed by the greedy spring when he took office, but he drank from the spring, and also sang and said: "The ancients used this water, and drank a thousand gold; Try to drink it together, and you should not move your heart in the end. "At that time, although Guangzhou was not as prosperous and wealthy as it is today, it was also a fat place.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, it has been an important maritime center and treaty port. Merchant ships from Nanyang, Tianzhu, Lion Country (now Sri Lanka), Persia and other places transported a large number of rare treasures and overseas foreign goods several times a year. As long as those in power "make a handful" at will, foreign wealth and windfall will be determined.

As the "Book of Southern Qi: The Biography of Wang Kun" said: "The history of Guangzhou is stabbed but once it passes through the city gate, it will get 30 million." However, Wu Yinzhi, who drank the greedy spring and sang an oath, broke this example.

He has always maintained his innocence of not being greedy or occupying in the fat shortage of Guangzhou's assassination history. After the expiration of his term of office, when he returned to Jiankang by boat from Guangzhou, he still had no long belongings and a clean breeze on his sleeves, which was in sharp contrast to the "ship carrying foreign goods and the car loaded with treasures" when he left office and returned from his post.