Zeng Guofan said: People who are officials are often selfish and mean to their relatives. Starting from the age of 30, it is shameful for an official to get rich, and it is also shameful and hateful to leave money to children. So I vowed to be selfish and never leave my children by being an official and getting rich.

Zeng Guofan bluntly said that it is shameful to be an official and make a fortune. Now, who dares to say that? We just said vaguely that being an official is not about getting rich. If you want to get rich, don't be an official, and so on. The fact is that being an official is to make a fortune.

Zeng Guofan was determined not to leave money for future generations. Now, parents spend their whole lives accumulating money for their children.

The contrast between the two makes me think twice.