He jinshou's character story

When He Jinshou first arrived in Yangzhou, it was a famine and agricultural failure. He borrowed money from the government treasury to help the victims and established the quality law. This standard method is to let the victims use cattle as collateral in exchange for a certain amount of money to buy food to tide over the famine. At that time, He Jinshou received more than 400 standard cows in this way. The following spring, he charged no interest and asked farmers to redeem their cows with the same money, so that farmers could sow in time.

Later, in Yangzhou, a pawnshop called Tongyidian was destroyed by fire. People who pawned things here were worried and talked for a while. It turns out that the owner of this pawnshop is Zhang of Hefei. He is related to Li Hongzhang, minister of military affairs, and people are worried that he will not compensate for the things lost in the fire. After he got the news, He Jinshou personally went to investigate and truthfully reported the details to his superiors. According to He Jinshou's investigation, the employees of the first store of fire system did it. Therefore, the pawnshop should be instructed to compensate the people at half the price of the goods, and no denial or deduction is allowed. Seeing that the information reported by He Jinshou was well-founded, the higher government approved his request for half-price compensation from the pawnshop to the people. When Yangzhou people heard about this incident, they all praised He Jinshou as a good satrap who "does not fear the strong beam and upholds justice".

1In the summer of 882, there was another drought in Yangzhou. He Jinshou tried his best to help alleviate the drought and fight the disaster with the people. In order to ask for rain, He Jinshou even went to the farmland in various places to pray to God again and again, dressed in official clothes and barefoot, facing the scorching sun in July. Later, He Jinshou eventually suffered from heatstroke due to high temperature and overwork, and died in the office soon after.

Before he died, He Jinshou took special care of the people around him and never received a penny from any businessman (giving money to help others with funerals). But as an honest official, He Jinshou's family has nothing but half of the books and no savings at all. According to the custom, it is impossible to send him back to his hometown for burial. So his friends and the people of Yangzhou buried him in the suburbs of Yangzhou.

It is said that there was a heavy rain in Yangzhou on the day He Jinshou was buried. Is it because of He Jinshou's sincerity that God sent down showers to alleviate the drought? Or the spirit of He Jinshou's loyalty to his duties and dedication to the people, and God's tears suddenly fell down? People in Yangzhou think they have both.

Later, Governor Zuo and others told Emperor Guangxu about He Jinshou's deeds and praised him for his "ancient official style". Huang Fang, a cabinet college student, wrote an elegy for He Jinshou, vividly and accurately depicting the image of an honest and upright official:

What can an honest official do? Only half of the books were left, and the children were divided.

I'm dead, and there's a sick woman's tears left, which are sprinkled in front of you with the flow of the river.

Historically, He Jinshou was not only an honest official, but also a romantic gentleman. Just like the introduction in the Draft of Qing History, "He Jinshou reinvented the wheel, engaged in pen and ink, and occasionally wrote bamboo and stone, which was uninhibited and uninhibited. Work poetry, good painting and calligraphy. " In Yuefei Temple in Tangyin, the hometown of national hero Yuefei, a couplet inscribed by He Jinshou hangs on both sides of Nai plaque in the main hall:

Every man dies.

First place doesn't love money.

This couplet is not only good in calligraphy, but also better in content.