These are the hard-earned money of all the people.(民脂民膏)
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty in
China, there was a famous historian whose name was (Zhang Dai).
He has written a very interesting book. The
title of this book is a ship sailing at night.
Many allusions he knew were recorded in
this book. There are more than 4000 records in total.
One of the records is as follows.
The second king of the Song Dynasty once
promulgated a 16-character official admonition to various administrative units
across the country.
The tenth king of the Song Dynasty
re-promulgated this 16-character official admonition.
This time the version he chose was written
by a famous writer and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty. The name of this calligrapher
is (Huang Tingjian).
The contents of these 16 words are as
follows.
You have to remember one thing, this thing
is where the salaries that you government officials receive come from.
This money is earned by the hard work of
all the people.
You must serve all the people seriously. If
you do not treat all the people with a benevolent attitude, God will remember
your actions.
This idiom means that these are the
hard-earned money of all the people.
Dear friend, how do you feel or think after
hearing this story.
What are the official guidelines of your
local government? What is the business philosophy of your company?
I hope this story will give you some new
gains.
民脂民膏(These are the hard-earned money of
all the people.)
中國的明王朝末年，有一個著名的史學家，他的名字叫做(張岱)。
他寫過一本很有意思的書。這本書的書名是一艘正在夜裡航行的船。
這本書中紀錄了他所知道的許多典故。總共有4000多條紀錄。
其中有一條紀錄如下。
宋王朝的第二任國王，曾經頒布過一條16個字的官箴到全國各行政單位。
宋王朝的第十任國王，又重新頒布一次這一條16個字的官箴。
這一次他選用的版本是宋王朝一位著名的文學家與書法家寫的，這個書法家的名字是(黃庭堅)。
這16個字的內容如下。
你們要記得一件事情，這件事就是你們這些政府人員所領的薪俸從何而來。
這些錢是所有百姓辛辛苦苦的工作所賺來。
你們要認認真真的為所有老百姓服務，你們如果沒有用仁慈的心態對待所有人民，上天會記得你們的行為。
這句成語的意思是這些是所有百姓們辛辛苦苦賺來的錢。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的感受或有怎樣的想法呢。
你所在地的政府有怎樣的官箴呢?你的公司的經營理念為何呢?
我希望這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為宋-張端義-貴耳集上
https://zh.m.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E8%B2%B4%E8%80%B3%E9%9B%86
出處為明-張岱-夜航船-卷2地理部-140條