Chapter 47 Chapter 47: You may wish to leave a name for doing good deeds

Our society has always advocated doing good deeds without leaving a name, and advocating being an unsung hero. In fact, this cannot be generalized.For strangers, you should indeed do good deeds without leaving your name, "with a wave of your sleeve, you will not take away a cloud", but for relatives, friends and other people around you after doing good deeds, you may wish to leave your name. Zhou Wei in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty took his life as his The price is justified. Zhou Wei, courtesy name Boren, was born in Ancheng, Runan (now Runan County, Henan Province) during the Jin Dynasty.After the Jin Dynasty went south in 317 AD, Zhou Wei first served as governor of Jingzhou, and later as Shangshu Zuo Pushe, equivalent to Deputy Prime Minister and Supreme Prosecutor.

Zhou Wei was good friends with the prime minister at that time, Dao Wang, and the relationship between the two was very close and unusual. The term "empty and empty" comes from the anecdotes between them. It is said that one day, Director Wang visited Zhou Wei's house as a guest. After the two of them had a drink, they took a mat to enjoy the coolness under the tree and chatted.When Director Wang talked about his head, he got carried away, leaned down and rested his head on Zhou Wei's lap, pointed to Zhou Wei's big belly, and asked what was inside it?Zhou Wei replied: "There is nothing in this room, but a person like you can hold hundreds of him." After saying that, the two laughed endlessly.

In 322 AD, Wang Dao's cousin Wang Dun launched a rebellion and led troops to attack the capital Jiankang, which is now Nanjing.Wang Dao led his cousin Zuowei General Wang Zhen, his servants Wang Kan, Wang Bin and more than 20 people from the clan to wait for the emperor's conviction outside the palace gate every day.When Zhou Wei was about to enter the court, Director Wang called him and said, "Boren, the lives of more than a hundred people in the Wang family depend on you!" Zhou Wei went straight into the palace gate without looking back. Although Zhou Wei did not respond to Wang Dao's entrustment, he did not disappoint Wang Dao. After meeting Jin Yuan Emperor Sima Rui, he prepared that Wang Dao was loyal to the country and tried his best to defend him. Invite him to drink and dine.Zhou Wei was so happy that he got drunk. When Zhou Wei walked out of the palace gate, Director Wang and others were still waiting outside the gate.An anxious Director Wang called Zhou Wei again, but Zhou Wei still didn't talk to him, and looked around to the left and right, and said loudly: "This year, if you kill a bunch of rebellious officials and thieves, you can get the golden seal of Dou Da, which is tied on your arm. After the elbow." After returning home, Zhou Wei felt that his thoughts were still unsatisfied, so he lit up the lamp to write a book at night, and then wrote a letter to prove Wang Dao's innocence, and his words were very deep and powerful.It's a pity that Director Wang didn't know anything about the good deeds that Zhou Wei did for him secretly, so he felt resentment towards Zhou Wei in his heart.

Soon, the royal family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was defeated by Wang Dun. Wang Dun entered Jiankang, occupied the palace, and forced the emperor to add officials to him and promote him. Scholars started killing. When preparing to kill Zhou Wei, Wang Dun asked Wang Dao: "Zhou Wei and Dai Ruosi are popular, and they should be ranked in the third division. This is for sure." Wang Dao said nothing.Wang Dun said again: "Even if you don't rank in the third division, you have to be a servant, right?" Director Wang still didn't answer.Wang Dun said: "If you can't use them, you can only kill them." Director Wang still didn't speak.

Soon, both Zhou Wei and Dai Ruosi were arrested. When they passed the Taimiao, Zhou Wei said loudly: "The spirit of the first emperor of heaven and earth, the thief minister Wang Dun overthrew the country, killed loyal ministers in vain, and abused the world. The gods have spirits. Kill Dun immediately. He poisoned the royal family without orders." Before he finished speaking, the guards on the left and right stabbed his mouth with a halberd, causing Zhou Wei to bleed all over the ground without changing his expression. He was only fifty-four years old when he was killed. Later, when Director Wang was sorting out the documents of the Ministry of Education, he accidentally discovered Zhou Wei's memorial to him defending him. The family defended, but they didn't express it in front of themselves.Reminiscent of myself not reaching out to save Zhou Yi when I could have saved him, a strong sense of guilt welled up in my heart. When I returned home, I cried bitterly, and said to my descendants: "Although I didn't kill Boren, Boren will not kill Boren. I will die. In the nether world, bear this good friend!"

If Zhou Wei did not choose to help Director Wang silently and be an unknown good person, but instead expressed his concern and understanding for him naturally and truthfully while doing his best to defend him, then Director Wang would not When Wang Dun was about to kill Zhou Wei, he kept silent. If he didn't say a word, Zhou Wei's fate would be rewritten. Unfortunately, there is no "if" in history, and it cannot be assumed...