What are the stories about the integrity of the ancients?

Ceng Zi is a very honest and trustworthy person. Once, Ceng Zi's wife went to the market, and the children left crying. The wife coaxed the child and said, don't go, I'll come back and kill the pig for you. When she came back from the market, she saw that Zeng Zi really wanted to kill pigs, so she quickly stepped forward to stop him. Ceng Zi said that if you cheat children, they won't trust you. Say that finish, he killed the pig. Ceng Zi didn't cheat children, but also cultivated their character of keeping promises.

2. "Zhong Shiheng didn't lose confidence in the Qiang people." Zhong, a famous Northern Song Dynasty soldier, visited and inquired about Qiang tribes in China when he went to Qingjian to guard the border. The female slave, the head of the Niu family, was stubborn and conceited and never obeyed the local management of the Song Dynasty.

Zhong agreed that he would visit the tribe under account the next day. But it snowed heavily that night, and it was difficult to walk the next day. The slave tribe was in a remote ravine. Officials discouraged Zhong from going another day, and Zhong insisted on keeping the appointment.

I didn't think this heavy snow would come, but I didn't expect him to come against the snow. I was deeply impressed and quickly called my people to see Zhong and obey him. Since then, local Qiang people have also come to submit. Zhong's army didn't commit any crimes in the autumn, won the hearts of the people and lived in harmony with the Qiang people, so it was called "Zhong Jiajun". Later, whenever the Xixia army invaded the Song Dynasty, the Qiang people always informed them in advance and tried their best to help them, so Song Jun won every battle and made the border peaceful.

3. Fan Zhongyan in the Northern Song Dynasty studied in Suiyang when he was young and met a warlock named Li. One day, the warlock was very ill, so someone called Fan Zhongyan and said, "I have a secret recipe for alchemy here. My son is too young to give him an alchemy. Now I entrust this secret recipe to you. "

The warlock sealed the secret recipe and a catty of refined platinum and gave it to Fan Zhongyan, and he died. A few years later, Fan Zhongyan became an admonition officer. He found the warlock's son and said to him, "Your father can use the touch of gold. When he died, because you were young, he asked me to save the secret recipe first. Now that you have grown up, you should return it to you. " So I took out the secret recipe and gave it to the warlock's son together with platinum. The sealed mark is still intact and has not been opened.

Fan Zhongyan's son Fan Chunren inherited his father's ambition. When he was an official in Luoyang, he was sincere and benefited the people. The local roads were not connected and the households were not closed at night. Once in Ma Po, Baisi, an old man sat by the wall in the sun, and someone came to tell him, "Your yellow calf has been stolen." The old man sat there, motionless, without asking a word.

After a while, someone came to tell him about the lost calf. The old man said to the man calmly, "Keep the change. Someone must have played a joke and hid it. "

Passers-by were surprised, so they went up to him and asked him, "Grandpa, you left your calf at home. People have told you over and over again, why don't you care? " The old man smiled and said, "Lord Fan lives here. Who wants to be a thief? This is absolutely impossible. " After a while, the calf really came back.

5. Among the seven heroes in the Warring States, the State of Qin lags behind the vassal states of the Central Plains in politics, economy and culture. Compared with Qin Guoqiang, neighboring Wei also seized a large area of land in Hexi from Qin.

In 36 1 year BC, Qin Xiaogong, king of Qin, ascended the throne. He is determined to strive for strength, and the first thing is to collect talents. He ordered: "Whoever can find a way to make Qin rich and strong, whether he is a Qin national or a foreign guest, must make him an official."

Qin Xiaogong's call really attracted many talented people. Sun Yang, an aristocrat of Wei (later Shang Yang), was not reused in Wei, but was introduced to Qin and taken in by Qin Xiaogong.

Shang Yang said to Qin Xiaogong: "If a country wants to be rich and strong, it must attach importance to agriculture and reward soldiers;" If you want to govern the country, there must be rewards and punishments. With rewards and punishments, the court has prestige, and all reforms will be easy. "

Qin Xiaogong completely agrees with Shang Yang. However, some nobles and ministers of Qin tried their best to oppose it. Qin Xiaogong saw so many people opposed to it. As soon as he acceded to the throne, he put the reform on hold for fear of trouble.

After two years, Qin Xiaogong's throne was firmly established, and he worshipped Shang Yang as the left subaltern (the official name of Qin State), saying: "From today on, the reform of the system is entirely up to the left subaltern."

Shang Yang drafted the reform, but he was afraid that the people would not trust him and would not abide by the new law. First, he had a 30-foot-high log erected at the south gate of the capital, and ordered, "Whoever can carry this log to the north gate will be rewarded with 12 gold."

Soon, there were many people around the south gate, and everyone was talking about it. Some people said, "Anyone can carry this piece of wood, so where do you need a reward of twelve taels of silver?" Someone said, "This is probably a joke played by Zuo Shu."

Everybody look at me. I look at you, but no one dares to go up and carry wood.

Knowing that people still didn't believe his orders, Shang Yang raised the reward to fifty taels. I didn't expect that the higher the salary, the more unreasonable the onlookers felt, and no one dared to mention it.

When everyone was talking about it, one of them ran out and said, "I'll try." He really picked up the wood and left until he reached the north gate.

Shang Yang immediately sent a message to the man who carried the wood and rewarded him with 520 gold, not a penny less.