Ancient literati stories
Guan Zhong has a good friend named Bao, and their friendship is very deep. They do business together. When Guan Zhong makes money in business, he always gives himself more and less packages. Bao never argued with Guan Zhong about this issue.
People secretly say that Guan Zhong is greedy for money and doesn't care about friendship. After Bao knew it, he explained for Guan Zhong that Guan Zhong was not indifferent to friendship, but greedy for money. He did it because his family was poor, and I was willing to give him more money. Guan Zhong called three times, but he escaped all three times.
So people laughed at him, saying that Guan Zhong was afraid of death and had no spirit of brave sacrifice. Hearing this sneer, Bao knew that this was not in line with the actual situation of Guan Zhong, so he explained to people that Guan Zhong was not afraid of death, because his family had an old mother and he had to rely on him to support himself, so he had to do that.
The friendship between Guan Zhong and Bao is very sincere. He also tried many times to do something good for Bao, but all failed. It not only failed, but also caused many new difficulties to the package. It is better not to do it well. Therefore, people think that Guan Zhong has no ability to do things, but Bao doesn't think so. He knows in his heart that his friend Guan Zhong is a very capable person.
Things didn't work out because the time was not ripe. In the long-term exchanges, the two have forged a profound friendship. Guan Zhong told people many times that my parents gave birth to me and Bao Shu Ya knew me.
2. Fan Li-All the birds bow their heads and hide.
After helping Gou Jian, the King of Yue, succeed, Fan Li left Yue immediately. He wrote to Wen Zhong from the State of Qi, saying, "A hundred birds fly, but a good bow hides; A sly rabbit dies, but a running dog cooks. The King of Yue is a bird with a long neck. He can have trouble with * * *, but he is not happy with * * *. Why not go? " After shooting the bird, the good bow and arrow will be put away. When the cunning rabbit is caught, the hounds will be driven away.
The king of Yue is insidious and cunning. You can suffer with him, but you can't enjoy it. Why don't you leave at once? After receiving the letter, Wen Zi said that he was ill and would not go to court, but he still didn't escape the fate of death. On the other hand, Fan Li has long anticipated this, and I have to say that this is his greatness!
3, Bai Gui-people abandon me and take it, people take me.
Bai Gui has a unique set of business skills. He summed up the business principle in eight words: "People abandon me and take it, and people take me and". The specific way is to buy grain in time when farmers sell a lot of grain in harvest season or bumper year, and then sell necessities such as silk and lacquerware to relatively well-off farmers at this time; When the years are not good or the years are not good, we should sell grain in time and buy unsalable handicraft raw materials and products.
Moreover, Bai Gui's "harmony" is beneficial to people. When some goods are unsalable, some profiteers and other prices fall lower and then buy in large quantities, while Bai Gui buys at a higher price than others; When the market is short of food, profiteers hoard food, but Bai Gui sells it at a price lower than others in time to meet people's needs.
Bai Gui's management mode not only ensures that he can grasp the initiative of management and get rich profits, but also objectively regulates the supply and demand and prices of commodities, protecting the interests of farmers, individual craftsmen and ordinary consumers to a certain extent. No wonder Bai Gui called himself a "benevolent".
4. Meng Taste-Hepu
Meng Changjun was later recommended as a scholar for his policy towards Lian Xiao. The court appointed him as Xu county magistrate. The book of the county government recommended his talents and promoted him to Hepu Prefecture. Hepu does not produce food, but the sea produces treasures. Hepu is adjacent to Jiaodian and often trades with each other to buy food. In the past, most officials in Hepu County were greedy and filthy people, and they ordered people to collect them. I don't know the boundary, but the pearls gradually moved to the border.
As a result, merchants stopped coming, people and animals had no food, and the poor starved to death by the roadside. After Meng took office, he tried to get rid of the past abuses, visit the people's sufferings and benefit them. In less than a year, the departed pearl mussel returned to Hepu, the people resumed their jobs, businessmen began to come and go, goods began to circulate, and Meng Taste was praised as wise as a god.
The famous idiom "Hepu Pearl Return" says that Hepu does not produce grain, but pearls are produced along the coast. Due to the corruption and bribery of the former magistrate, the pearl was transported to the neighboring Jiao Jiao County. Meng tasted the promise, abandoned my end, and moved away from the Pearl to Hepu. Later, he used the phrase "pearls return to Hepu" or "pearls return to Hepu" as a metaphor for people going back or things being lost and recovered, which has a beautiful meaning for people or things.
5, Jing Ke-despair.
In the 20th year of the King of Qin (227 BC), that is, in the 28th year of the Prince of Yan, Taizi Dan sent Jing Ke as an emissary to meet Ying Zheng, the king of Qin, with Du Kang of the State of Yan (now Yixian, Zhuoxian and Gu 'an in Hebei) and the head of the defeated troops who fled to Qin.
In order to assassinate the king of Qin and save Yan. Before Jing Ke left, Taizi Dan and several guests put on white hats and went to Yishui (now Yixian County, Hebei Province) to see him off. When Jing Ke made peace with him, he generously lamented that "the strong men are gone forever" and expressed his indomitable spirit. Everyone was very sad and cried. Jing Ke jumped on the bus with Qin Wuyang and went to Xianyang, the capital of Qin.
After Jing Ke arrived in Xianyang, the capital of Qin State, he gave Meng Jia, the favorite of Qin State, a present. Meng Jia urged, "The Prince of Yan did enhance the king's prestige, but he dared not send troops to rebel against military officials. He hoped that the whole country would rank among the ministers and princes, and pay tribute to the county as a unit, so that they could guard the ancestral temple of the former king. Dare not confess, cut the fan, present a map of Yan Du Kang, seal the letter, and send it to the court, so that the envoys can listen to the king. Only the king ordered it. "
The king of Qin was very happy after hearing this, so he set up nine guests in the court and summoned the envoys of Yan State in the court of Xianyang Palace. Jing Ke took a box with a picture of Fan in his hand, and Qin Wuyang took a map of Du Kang in his hand and stepped onto the steps of the Qin Dynasty step by step. When Qin Wuyang saw the formation of the Qin Dynasty, he was afraid and turned pale. The ministers of Qin were very surprised.
Jing Ke had to say to the king of Qin, "The barbarians in the north have never seen such a big scene, and they are a little scared. Please forgive me. " Wang Zheng said to Jing Ke, "Let Qin Wuyang give you the map. Come up alone. " Jing Ke took the map from Qin Wuyang and presented it to the king of Qin with a affairs box.
Qin opened the affairs box, and it was Fan's head. Qin Wangzheng also asked Jing Ke to bring the map. Jing Ke slowly opened a roll of maps until they were used up. Jing Ke right hand picked up a dagger, left hand grabbed Ying Zheng sleeve, was about to speak. The king of Qin was frightened at this time. Instinctively got up and broke free from Jing Ke, and Jing Ke's sleeve was torn.
The king of Qin wanted to draw his sword, but the sword was too long and he was in a hurry, so he didn't draw it. Jing Ke came at the king of Qin, who fled with a column, followed by Jing Ke. Although there are many people around, they are unarmed; Moreover, according to the regulations of the state of Qin, the warrior of your highness is not allowed to enter the temple without the call of the king of Qin. One of the officials, Xia Wuqie, used his quick wits, picked up the medicine bag in his hand and threw it at Jing Ke.
Jing Ke raised his hand to avoid the medicine bag and got distracted. At this time, the minister on the side shouted to the king of Qin, "Your Majesty can pull out the scabbard on his back." The king of Qin seized the opportunity made by Xia Wuqie just now, drew his sword and cut off Jing Ke's left share. Jing Ke fell to the ground, barely sat up, and threw the dagger at the king of Qin with his right hand, hitting Zhu Tong right in the middle. Ying Zheng cut him with his sword again, and Jing Ke took it by hand, and five fingers fell off.
Jing Ke leaned against the column and smiled. He said to the king of Qin, "the reason why things can't succeed is because I want to take you alive." You must make a treaty with us to repay the prince. " At this point, the squire warrior has been ordered by the king of Qin to chase after the temple and kill Jing Ke. Qin Wuyang was hacked to death by the attendants' warriors on the steps of the imperial court.
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