When our family has money, we should try to generalize first, instead of waiting for the arrival of the day and the arrival of people.
What does self-generalization mean? Nothing more than three words: clear, cautious and diligent. Recently, I changed the word "Qing" to "Lian", "Shen" to "Qian" and "Diligence" to "Lao", which was very simple and made me do something.
Zeng Guofan told Ceng Guoquan about "the way of probability", that is, "when the bucket is full, people are probable, and when the bucket is full, the sky is probable".
"Probably" means "scraping", which means that the bucket will be scraped flat when it is full, and it will be scraped flat when it is too full.
Too many people can be manifested in many ways, perhaps because of too much wealth or too much credit. In short, after exceeding a certain limit, it will develop in the opposite direction.
Zeng Guofan warned his younger brother that his family is very rich now. In order to avoid being "almost" by the sky in the future, it is better to be restrained and frugal at ordinary times.
He summed up this "self-generalization" method in three words: "sincerity, modesty and diligence", which is consistent with his usual way of cultivation.