Disciples

Chapter 12

Original
If you are injured, you will worry your relatives;
Virtue hurts, shames relatives.

Translation
You must take good care of your body, abide by the moral code, and be a healthy and high-quality person.Because the body is sick, it will make the parents worry; the morality is corrupted, and the parents will also lose face.

allusion
During Song Renzong's administration, a filial son named Zhu Shouchang came out.His father, Zhu Xun, was a soldier.Later, because his father passed away, he inherited his father's last wish and entered the official career.When he was governor of the prefecture, pirates sprang up in the prefecture, wantonly killing people and stealing goods.After Zhu Shouchang took office, he unified the numbers of all the ships and engraved the names of the ship owners on them, so that they could supervise each other.By implementing this method, local water theft has been greatly reduced.

Later, he was transferred to Langzhou, Sichuan Province as the magistrate.There was a local tyrant in Langzhou named Yong Ziliang who did a lot of evil.After Zhu Shouchang became the magistrate of Langzhou, Yong Ziliang committed another murder.After the investigation by the government, Yong Ziliang played tricks and bribed an old farmer with [-] silver to give false testimony for him.Through open and unannounced visits, Zhu Shouchang understood the truth of the matter, and exposed Yong Ziliang's scheme in front of the old farmer.The old farmer suddenly repented, so he confessed all of Yong Ziliang's evil deeds and conspiracy.The ironclad evidence is so strong that Yong Ziliang can only plead guilty and submit to the law.Wei Shouchang removed a major public hazard for the people and was praised by people.

(End of this chapter)