Although Zhuge Liang is the prime minister of Shu and the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, he is a model of honesty and integrity. He educated his son to cultivate noble character, that is, to cultivate morality through frugal life, to establish lofty ideals through indifference to wealth, to increase his talents through meditation, to get rid of pleasure and laziness through uplifting his spirit, and so on. This is exactly what Zhuge Liang did by practicing the famous saying "Do your best, and die before you die". Before he died, he wrote to Liu Chan and said, "My family has only 800 mulberry trees and 65,438+05 hectares of fertile land in Chengdu, and my children and grandchildren are quite rich in it. I have no other property outside (outside my hometown). I always depend on the government for food and clothing, and I don't want to find another way to make money to increase my private property. When I die, I won't let my family have extra cloth and silk, and I have extra property outside. " On his deathbed, Zhuge Liang not only made suggestions for his ancestors, but also stated his family affairs in a targeted manner, declining the reward in advance, so that future generations would not be great because of money. Moral integrity, this is very valuable!
This spirit of Zhuge Liang has inspired generations of people with lofty ideals.
2. Yue Fei
Yue Fei was an honest and upright general in ancient China, and he was a model of being a teacher by example. A prominent feature of his strict management of the army is that he is strict with himself. Yue Fei put forward two famous slogans: "Civil servants don't love money, military officers don't hesitate to die, and the world is at peace."
He practiced, Yan Shouyi was not greedy for money, second, he didn't love sex, third, he didn't marry a concubine, and fourth, he didn't follow the "four noes" rule until he didn't drop a drop of wine. His personal daily life is extremely simple. His usual meals are mostly staple food plus a dish. On one occasion, Yue Fei ate a kind of food called "sour stuffing". He thinks it tastes good. After tasting it several times, he told his entourage to put it away and save it for the next meal to avoid wasting it. Yue Fei married a woman named Liu when she was 16 years old. Being far away from the army, after the fall of her hometown, she lost her life and was forced to carry on the family line. After crossing the south, Yue Fei married a young lady named Li, and the relationship between husband and wife was very close. Out of respect for head coach Yue Fei, his subordinate colleagues paid for a beautiful young Turkish woman as his wife. Yue Fei politely declined before meeting. At that time, most social officials in the Southern Song Dynasty were three wives and six concubines. "When will the West Lake stop singing and dancing and Lin 'an be a border town?"? Yue Fei leads an honest life like water, honest as a mirror, and upright, which is really rare!
3, the story of being strict with yourself in ancient times.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an upright official named Yang Zhen. When he was an official in Jingzhou, he discovered the brilliant Wang Mi and was elected as the magistrate of Changyi County. When Yang Zhen came from the East as a magistrate and passed by Changyi, Wang Mi took advantage of the dead of night to visit Yang Zhen with 10 ingot of gold to thank him for his previous recommendation. Yang Zhen was very angry with Wang Mi's move and resolutely refused. Wang Mi looked around and said, "No one will know that black people are quiet at night." Yang Zhen said righteously, "God knows, earth knows, you know, I know, how can I say no one knows?" Then he threw the gold on the ground angrily. Good sentence: Heaven knows the earth, you know me. Although you don't say that everyone knows, you know in your heart that the whole world knows.
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The story of Yan Ying's strict self-discipline.
Yan Ying, named Zhong Ping, was a doctor in Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period. He is Shi Li Gong Ling, Zhuang Gong and Gong Jing III.
Yan Ying is brilliant and strict with herself. Very appreciated by the monarch of Qi. There are many records about this in Yanzi Chunqiu.
Although his position is very high, he lives frugally and never does anything special. His house is low and shabby, and the environment is bad. The monarch of Qi wanted to build a new house for him, but he politely refused. Unable to convince him, he took advantage of his mission. The house was extended for him. When he came back, he parked his car in the suburbs and refused to go home in the city. Gong Jing had no choice but to restore the house to its original appearance, and Yan Yingcai would go home.
Yan Ying usually wears simple clothes and drives a broken car, so Qi Jinggong sent someone to send him a sturdy MCA car, but Yan Ying refused to accept it. He said to his British father-in-law: "I am frugal to set an example for the Lebanese people in case the wind of extravagance and waste prevails." If we all pay attention to wearing beautiful clothes, riding horses and pursuing luxury enjoyment. Ordinary people will also follow suit, resulting in bad conduct and corrupt social atmosphere. It will be difficult to correct it then, so I can't accept your reward. " Qi Jinggong accepted Yingying's advice.