Punctuality, the government is responsible for the fire.

When Kuang Zhong was appointed magistrate, the government office was burned and all the documents were burned. It was a small official who caused the fire because of his dereliction of duty. After the fire was put out, Kuang Zhong sat in the rubble, ordered the deacon to be whipped with 100 whip, and then ordered the deacon to go home. After the beadle left, Kuang Zhong hurried to strike the table and took the blame for the fire, but said nothing to the beadle. At the beginning, the little official expected that he was dead. Kuang Zhong once sighed and said, "This is the responsibility that the satrap should bear. How can a small official stand it? " After the table was presented, the emperor only ordered a pay cut, but it was still the case that the people treated a small official. Therefore, although he is dignified, he has never aroused public resentment. If people today blame others for their mistakes, let alone suffer for others. The character of the public is beyond the reach of ordinary people!

Original text:

At the right time, the government was on fire and the text was in full swing. He who leaves the fire is also an official. When the fire went out, he stood outside the gravel field, called the officials to beat the stick, drank wine and went home, played grass in a hurry, and worshipped himself without tiring them. The first officer knew that he would die, and the commander sighed, "This is too stubborn. Why do I need a small officer?" When you play, you will be punished for your crimes. The public treats small officials in this way, so they act in a threatening way without complaint. How can a man who is here today, that is, a servant who wants to blame others for his sins, suffer on behalf of others? Public goods, so far away! ?

Source:

Excerpted from Feng Menglong think tank.

The three books, Think Tank, A Brief History of Ancient and Modern Times and Love History, can be described as another trilogy of novels by Feng Menglong besides Sanyan. The purpose of the think tank is to "dispel doubts", the ancient and modern brief description is "fighting corruption" and the love history is "loving education", all of which express Feng Menglong's concern for the world. Think tank is one of the stories with the most social and political characteristics and practical value.

He wants to sum up the reasons of "success or failure in ancient and modern times", which has far-reaching significance.

Think Tank was first edited in the sixth year of tomorrow's apocalypse (1625). This year, Feng Menglong has reached the age of destiny, still living the life of a library teacher, compiling books for booksellers and solving the problem of cooking without rice. At this time, the traitor Wei Zhongxian was in power, the prefect spy was in the East Factory, and Daxing was unjustly imprisoned. This is one of the darkest periods in China's feudal society. Such books compiled by Feng Menglong have a strong political color, and many chapters denounce the disadvantages of eunuchs in power, which makes people admire Feng's great wisdom and fearless spirit. Later, this book was supplemented by Feng Menglong, and it was renamed Think Tank Supplement when it was reprinted. Other publications are also called Complete Works of Think Tank, Supplementary Think Tank Supplement, and Extended Think Tank Supplement. , the content is the same as the think tank supplement. The book * * * contains 1238 wisdom stories from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, which are divided into ten parts and twenty-eight volumes. The political stories of past dynasties contained in Shangshu, Zhi Zhi and Tea Records express Feng's political opinions and diligent attitude towards being an official. Courage and wisdom, skill and wisdom, and understanding are stories about various means of governing government affairs. The story of Yu Zhi is eloquent and eloquent; "Bing Zhi" is a collection of various military strategies for winning by surprise attack. The wisdom stories of women in the past dynasties in the album "Wisdom in the Boudoir"; Miscellaneous Love collects all kinds of cunning tricks, even all kinds of tricks. Feng Menglong said in "General Theory of Miscellaneous Intelligence Department": "Justice is not taken from cunning, but trapped by cunning; Great wisdom does not take advantage of petty gain, but great wisdom may deceive petty gain. Break its cunning, then the power wins; Those who know the little will win again. " The situation is cunning, that's right. If it's not right before it starts, it will get smaller and fill it. Was it not big before the beginning? "Point out the cognitive value of these mixed wisdom stories. There are great strategies in politics, military affairs and diplomacy in the book, as well as whimsy in the daily life of small people such as foot soldiers, vagrants, servants, monks, farmers and painters. These stories have merged into a sea of ancient wisdom of the Chinese nation. The classics involved in the book cover almost all the official history before the Ming Dynasty and a large number of notes on unofficial history, which makes this kind of books on wisdom and strategy also have important data value and collating value. Most of the 1000 stories in the book are true and vivid, which is also very beneficial for us to study history today and enhance our national self-confidence and pride. In particular, the book's album "Wisdom in the Boudoir" describes many intelligent, brave and far-sighted women, which makes this book have a distinct anti-feudal people's character in the feudal era of "women without talent are virtue".

Feng Menglong wrote a general statement and a sub-statement in front of each department in the book, and wrote comments and comments after each article. These places are the most concentrated and direct expression of Feng's political attitude, outlook on life, love and hate, and they are all articles and first-hand materials for studying Feng's thoughts. The Summary of the General Contents of Sikuquanshu said that this book "is characterized by annotations and is extremely thin." This evaluation from the standpoint of feudal orthodoxy is unfair. But there are some superstitious ideas in the book, and there are some words that denigrate ethnic minorities and peasant uprisings. These backward things are not difficult to identify today, so I won't go into details here.

About the author:

Feng Menglong (1574-1646), whose characters are Youlong, Yule, Ziyou, Zilongyou, Maoyuan Waishi, Guqu Sanren, Gusu Ci Nu, Ge Ping Master, etc. China ancient writer, thinker and dramatist. His ancestral home is Changzhou County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), and he was the Suzhou Prefecture of Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty.

Feng Menglong was born in a scholar-bureaucrat family, and he was also called "the three treasures of martial arts" with his elder brothers Feng Menggui and Feng Mengxiong. I have studied hard since I was a child. I wanted to be an official, but I tried again and again. I have frequent contact with the lower classes in Fangtu Restaurant and accumulated a lot of folk literature historical materials. In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), he was a tribute student, and in the following year, he was granted an exception to Dantu. In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), he was promoted to Shouning County, Fujian Province. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), he returned to his hometown to write. In his later years, he failed to clear up. In the spring of the third year of Qing Shunzhi (1646), Feng Menglong died of grief, saying that he was killed by Qing soldiers.

Influenced by Wang Shouren and Li Zhi, Feng Menglong emphasized the truth and opposed hypocritical ethics. It advocates replacing "religion" with "emotional education" and attaches importance to the educational role of literature. His family has a large collection of books, including Biography of Three Demons in Suiping, Think Tank, Guangxiao Fu, Spring and Autumn Annals, An Introduction to Ancient and Modern Tan, The Legend of Mo Hanzhai and so on. Sanyan is a classic representative of China's vernacular short stories, which innovates and enriches China literature. He made a unique contribution to China literature by creating, collecting, sorting out and editing novels, operas, folk songs, jokes and other popular literary works.