The county magistrate lost his office because he was afraid of his wife.
In the Tang Dynasty, the notebook novel A Book of Ruling and Ruling recorded that Yan, the wife of Ruansong, the magistrate of Guiyang County, was a super jealous woman during the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong. Ruan Song was drinking with the guests outside and asked some prostitutes to sing to amuse themselves. Yan heard about it and went to look for it with a knife in her hand. When the guests saw it, they all ran away, Ruan Song hid under the bed, and the prostitutes also ran away. When Cui Miao, the satrap, heard about it, he wrote a comment on Ruan Song's performance appraisal: "The wife is strong and the husband is weak. I can't even manage my wife. How to govern the people of a county? " The wife is so rude, where is the talent of the husband? As the next one. "When the official department saw the comments, it removed Ruan Song's office.
An insatiable local official
In the Tang and Five Dynasties, an interesting story was recorded in Sun Guangxian's notebook novel "Tales of the North Dream": the secretariat of Jianzhou attached importance to hegemony and was insatiable. There is a young oil merchant named Deng who is good at playing chess. His economic strength is relatively strong. One day, An Zhongba invited Deng, an oil merchant, to play chess with him, but he was only allowed to play chess standing, and he was not allowed to sit down. Every time after Deng's oil dealer laid down a venue, An Zhong asked him to retreat to the northwest window and stand, waiting for his own chess game to be decided before allowing him to arrive. It's just a dozen seeds planted all day. Deng was so tired and hungry that he could hardly bear it. The next day, An Chongba sent someone to summon Deng to continue playing chess. Someone advised Deng, an oil merchant, to say, "This secretariat loves taking bribes. He didn't come to play chess with you! Why don't you get away with bribing him? " Deng thought that the man's words were right, and gave An Zhongba ten ingots of medium-quality gold, which saved him the trouble of standing and playing chess.
The monkey and the emperor
Jiang Xiufu of the Song Dynasty told such a story in his note "The Record of Liquan". As a puppet emperor, Ye Li, Zhao Zong in the late Tang Dynasty, always looked into the eyes of the great warlord Zhu Wen, so Zhao Zong made a living by raising monkeys and teasing them. Perhaps it is because Zhaozong is surrounded by Zhu Wen's eyes and ears, and his cronies are few. The poor Emperor Zhaozong took a favorite monkey as a confidant, dressed it in the brightest clothes, and even gave the monkey an official title, a title of "Sun Sacrifice".
Later, when Zhu Wen saw that the time was ripe, he killed Tang Zhaozong, the mourning emperor, and his son Li Zhu, and became emperor himself, that is, Mao of the back beam. When Zhu Wen received the former courtiers to show his honor, he even took the monkey as a VIP and took a seat beside him. This very human monkey, seeing that the owner who often sits in the dragon chair has been replaced, immediately bounced up from his seat and jumped on Zhu Wen with indignation to deprive him of his dragon robe. Zhu Wen frightened, cut it. Alas, Tang Zhaozong Ye's civilian commanders are not as good as this monkey.