Cao Xuequan stills According to the literature, this sentence is a couplet written by Cao Xuequan, a gifted scholar in the Ming Dynasty. Cao Xuequan was born in a poor peasant family, and his mother died when he was very young. His father made a living by selling baked wheat cakes, and brought him up with great pains. Although Cao Xuequan was born in a poor family, he is very sensible. He has read a lot of poetry books since childhood, studied a hundred schools of thought, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and is a rare all-rounder In the 23rd year of Wanli, Cao Xuequan became a scholar and began his political career. In the second year of the Apocalypse, Cao Xuequan served in the right Senate of Guangxi, that is, in Guilin, Guangxi. He wrote this couplet, which was handed down to later generations.
Before Cao Xuequan, an ancient scholar, went to work in Guangxi, he had long heard that relatives and friends in Guilin bullied the people all day, ignored the king's laws and committed many crimes. Unfortunately, due to their status as relatives and friends, the government did not dare to ask questions and the people did not dare to complain. Cao Xuequan, who hates evil and integrity, intends to take this opportunity to punish these arrogant and hateful people. At that time, these people lived in Guilin, and their favorite game was to attack dogs in the street, often indulging fierce dogs and biting innocent civilians.
Wax Statue of Ancient People One day, these minions, who are related to the emperor and the country, led vicious dogs and blatantly chased passers-by in the street. It happened that a scholar passed by and was thrown to the ground by a vicious dog because he was not in a hurry. The vicious dog bit the scholar, but the minions who were attacked by the longitudinal dog laughed around. Just then, a butcher passed by. When he saw that the scholar was bitten by a vicious dog, he was afraid that everyone would worry about his life. Seeing injustice, the butcher drew his sword and killed the vicious dog that bit people, thus preserving the reputation of the scholar.
The slaves of ancient butchers were not reconciled, and they were used to arrogance on weekdays. How could a butcher hit himself in the face? They sent the scholar and the butcher to the government on the grounds that the butcher killed the dog without authorization, hoping to severely punish the butcher with the power of royalty. It was Cao Xuequan who tried the case. He is honest and ignores these royal slaves. After inquiring about the cause of the case, Cao Xuequan declared the butcher innocent, and the royal family had to compensate the scholars for their medical expenses. These people have never been so insulted. In order to put the butcher to death, they secretly bought the scholar and applied for a retrial.
Cao Xuequan's murals were intimidated by the royal family, and scholars overturned his previous confession. He told Cao Xuequan that the dog was not a slave that day, but that he was playing with the dog, but the butcher came and killed the dog in Wang Fu without saying anything. This is clearly the following offense, malicious trouble, contempt for royal dignity. Cao Xuequan was very angry when he heard what the scholar said. He was furious with the scholar, and the butcher kindly saved his life. But it's immoral for Shusheng to reverse black and white and slander good people here.
Cao Xuequan ordered the leader to beat the scholar again. The scholar revealed the reason why the royal family asked him to make false statements. After the matter was settled, Cao Xuequan's anger was still hard to calm down, so he began to write down? Every time a dog is killed, it is mostly a scholar. This famous saying. Although this sentence is somewhat biased, from this perspective, the butcher who has never read a book is far braver than the scholar who has read a sage book, which makes Cao Xuequan feel chilling.