"Honest, the people's table also; Greedy people are thieves of the people. " For thousands of years, people have praised honest officials, and corrupt officials are hard to blame.
Although an honest official is not equal to a good official or an official, at least he is not corrupt and will not harm the interests of the people. So we still like honest officials, especially the following ten.
The first is Sun Shuaio.
Sun Shuai 'ao, the first upright official in the history of China. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu acted as Yin (equivalent to the Prime Minister). It is famous for its talent and incorruptibility. Sun Shuai was a model of being an official in ancient times.
During Sun Shuai's tenure as prime minister, he was proud of his spring breeze, was not complacent when he was promoted and reinstated, and did not regret or sigh when he lost power. As a prime minister, Sun Shuaiquan is below one person and above ten thousand people, but he is flashy and simple in food and clothing. His wife and children don't care about clothes and silks, and even horses don't eat millet.
According to the history book "Everything is done by Han Feizi, the foreign reserve tells the left", he rode a wooden stack car, drove an old horse, ate coarse rice cakes and vegetable soup, wore a goat fur jacket in winter and coarse kudzu clothes in summer, and was hungry all year round.
In 594 AD, in Chu Zhuangwang for about 20 years, Sun Shuai died of gangrene at the age of 38. As a prime minister, his family was so poor that he didn't even prepare a coffin. It is said that after his death, his widow and son Sun An moved out of the government and lived in the suburbs. My son is in rags, mainly farming, making a living by collecting firewood and earning his own living.
It means it's clean.
The second place is Ximen Bao.
Ximen Bao, a famous politician and water conservancy scientist of Wei during the Warring States Period, made great contributions. We are all too familiar with the story of Ximen Bao's ruling power.
When Ximen Bao was a county magistrate in Yexian County, there was a local custom that people hated, called Hebo's marriage. After Ximen Bao eradicated this unhealthy trend and unhealthy trend, Ximen Bao led the people to build water conservancy projects and gradually made the people in Yedi rich.
Ximen Bao was an official all his life, honest and clean, and benefited the people. After his death, Yedi people specially built an ancestral temple for him by the Zhangshui River to worship the four seasons.
The third place is Zhang Tang.
Zhang Tang was a famous cruel official in the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. He was appreciated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for resisting Empress Chen, Huainan and Hengshan.
Of course, so Zhang Tang's experience, nature is very tragic. In the second year of Ding Yuan, that is, in the sixth year when Zhang Tang served as an ancient consultant, Zhang Tang himself was reported on charges of * * *, abusing power for personal gain, revealing state secrets and undermining economic reform.
As a result, Zhang Tang was forced to commit suicide. After Zhang Tang's death, the family's property did not exceed 500 gold, which was given by the salary and the emperor, and there was no other industry.
His brother and son wanted a heavy funeral, but his mother objected. Zhang Tang's mother said: My son, as the minister of the son of heaven, was framed by a villain and died. Why did he have to be reburied?
Finally, an ox cart with a thin coffin buried Zhang Tang. Zhang Tang is an honest official.
The fourth place is Ba Huang.
Ba Huang was in charge of the three dynasties of Emperor Wudi, Emperor Zhaodi and Emperor Xuandi. Historian Ban Gu commented: "Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the number of officials governing the people has been the first."
Ba Huang advocates benevolent governance, opposes torture, insists on lenient treatment of suspicious cases, advocates lenient treatment of crimes, puts education first and focuses on nip in the bud. In order to understand the people's situation, Ba Huang often sends officials to visit privately, and goes deep into the people as a civilian to care about their sufferings.
Therefore, Ba Huang is an official who is supported by the people, satisfied by the court and convinced by his subordinates.
The fifth place is Di Renjie.
In 676 AD, Di Renjie was appointed as Cheng Dali. He is honest and clean, and he is not good at law enforcement. Because of his cleverness and familiarity with laws and regulations, a large number of backlog cases involving 1.7 million people were pronounced within one year, and none of them were misjudged, which became a sacred case for the ruling and opposition parties and the people.
Subsequently, Di Renjie was appointed as a consultant by Tang Gaozong, who was responsible for hearing the case. Di's talent and fame gradually gained the appreciation and trust of Wu Zetian.
Di Renjie, who is well-known at home and abroad as a "Chinese detective", is actually an outstanding politician. It can be said that after Emperor Taizong and before Xuanzong, only Di was a politician. As a loyal minister, he was loyal to the monarch and loved the people all his life, cautious and strict with himself. He is the most trusted minister of Wu Zetian.
The sixth place is Xu Yougong.
Xu Yougong is the most famous official who specializes in handling cases in the Tang Dynasty, and he is also a rare honest official who abides by the law and upholds justice to the death.
Although Xu Yougong served as a full-time judge for a long time, he went down in history because he dared to strictly abide by the law, made faces and protested, defended hundreds of unjust cases and saved more than 10,000 lives.
The History of the New Tang Dynasty praised him as "unparalleled in a thousand years". There are many examples about Xu Yougong's integrity and law-abiding. Before and after he became a judge, he handled six or seven hundred major cases and saved tens of thousands of people. He is neither selfish nor influenced by the selfish desires of the monarch. It is precisely because he is an honest official that he can stand proudly in all kinds of false accusations.
Justice, loyalty, selflessness, talent and courage are the main reasons why Xu Yougong became the best judge in ancient times, so he was praised by people at that time as a good official since ancient times.
The seventh place is Bao Zheng.
Bao Zheng is a household name in the Chinese world, even people who haven't read books know it. Bao Zheng, a straight man in Longtuge, is a symbol of law enforcement in people's minds.
According to official records, Bao Zheng opened the front door when he was in charge of Kaifeng. People with grievances can go directly to the court to complain. Clerks are dying, and corrupt officials and local ruffians, who have always bullied the weak and feared the strong, have stopped.
Bao Zheng is honest, upright and upright, independent and powerful, fair and wise, and dares to redress grievances for the people. Therefore, he is called "Bao Qingtian" and "Bao Gong", and there is a saying in Beijing that "Yamaraja will protect its old age if it can't reach unity". Bao Gong is more selfless than Ye Yan. Later generations regarded him as a god, regarded him as the reincarnation of Kuixing, and was also called "Bao Qingtian" because of his black face image.
The eighth place is Harry.
Harry was born in 15 14 and died in 1587 at the age of 73. Harry lived through Zheng De, Jiajing, Qin Long and Wanli Dynasties. Harry was the most dazzling and individual official in ancient China.
I'm afraid all China knows Harry's incorruptibility. Harry's incorruptibility is world-famous, absolutely true, crystal clear and clear.
In his later years, Harry held a high position. He was a right-wing adviser, equivalent to the current minister of supervision. But when Harry died, there was no funeral expenses. It is said that his colleagues went to preside over Harry's funeral. When they saw Harry's tent and tattered bamboo utensils made of gingerbread, they could not help crying for it and pooled their money to handle Harry's funeral. Being an official can be said to be confident.
And Harry has stuck to his integrity all his life. When he was a magistrate of a county, all the dishes at the dinner table were grown by himself, and wine and meat were rarely eaten.
It is said that once, Harry bought two pounds of pork for his mother's birthday and instantly became a circle of friends. Harry became an online celebrity overnight. At that time, Governor Hu Zongxian couldn't help making a fuss, and sent a message to a circle of friends, saying, Do you know that Harry bought meat? He bought two Jin of pork, two Jin. Yan Song got 32 likes. It shows how clean Harry is.
The ninth place is Tang Bin.
Throughout his career as an official, Tang Bin concentrated almost all his energy on the management of river affairs and water transportation, paying attention to reducing the burden for the people, helping the people, promoting the benefits and eliminating the evils, and thus always devoted himself to practicing the Confucian "people-oriented" thought of "self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and calming the world".
Tang Bin was an upright official. When he died, he only had eight taels of silver, which was not enough to buy a coffin. He is really a generation of honest officials.
The tenth place is Yu Chenglong.
In his career of more than 20 years, Yu Chenglong was praised as "outstanding" three times. He was deeply loved by the people and praised by Emperor Kangxi for his outstanding achievements and honest and hard life. When Yu Chenglong died, there was only one set of official clothes in the wooden box, and there was nothing left. The citizens wept bitterly and built statues for sacrifice. Posthumous title Qingrui.
Kangxi: "Honest officials are the first, honest officials are the best in the world". Kangxi made an exception and personally wrote an inscription with the inscription "Happy and Green" to show his praise.
These are the top ten honest officials in the history of China, some of whom are honest officials and competent ministers, such as Di Renjie and Bao Zheng.