During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a prison official named Li Li in the State of Jin. When he tried a case, he listened to the one-sided words of his subordinates, which led to a person's wrongful death. After the truth came out, Li Li was going to make amends by dying. Jin Wengong said: There are high and low officials and heavy punishments. Besides, this case is mainly the fault of the clerk below, not yours.

Li Li said: "I generally don't tell the following people that we came to be this official together, and I don't share the salary with the following people." Now I have made a mistake and put the responsibility on the following staff. What should I do? ".He refused to listen to Jin Wengong's persuasion and died.

2. Zhu Ziqing turned down American relief food and became a democracy fighter.

At that time, just after eight years of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China won a complete victory against foreign aggression for the first time. However, with the support of the United States, the National Government appointed Okamura Ningji, former commander-in-chief of the Japanese invaders, as its military adviser. This incident was resisted by many people in China, and the student movement was huge.

In order to appease intellectuals, the Kuomintang issued a purchase license, allowing them to buy American-aided flour at a low price. This purchase license was resisted by many university professors, who jointly issued a statement announcing their rejection of American relief. This includes Zhu Ziqing.

Zi Han rejected this rough jade.

There was a little man in Song State. He got a rough jade and gave it to his doctor Zi Han. Zi Han has not been affected. So the little man said, "This is Baoyu. It is most suitable for making utensils for gentlemen, not for people with low status. " Zi Han replied: "I value jade, but I value jade without my son." Why don't we each keep our own treasures? "

The villain regards "rough jade" as a treasure, while Zi Han regards "not greedy" as a treasure. After listening to this story, many people despise villains and praise their sons. In fact, if you think about it carefully, what this little man said is not unreasonable. "Not greedy" is a treasure, and "Baoyu" is also a treasure. "Not greedy" is a "spiritual treasure" and "Baoyu" is a "material treasure".

According to common sense, people need both "spiritual treasure" and "material treasure". And in the eyes of many people, "material treasure" is more important than "spiritual treasure".

The value of Zi Han lies not in his contempt for Baoyu, but in his ability to distinguish right from wrong.

Ma Yinchu refused to take bribes.

Ma Yinchu was a famous economist and social activist in modern China. Before liberation, he was the finance director of Zhejiang Province. One day, a man who wanted to be a county magistrate in Deqing County entrusted Ma Yinchu with 1,000 yuan and asked Ma Yinchu to open the back door and let him be a county magistrate.

Ma Yinchu flew into a rage and scolded, "Shameless thing, this kind of person can hit his joints with money today. If he really becomes a county magistrate, he must be a corrupt official. With this one, he can't be a county magistrate, and immediately ordered people to return the money.

5. Bruno refused to give up the truth

Bruno was always associated with "heresy" all his life, and was displaced from place to place for this reason, and was finally burned to death in the Flower Square by the Inquisition. Therefore, he is often regarded as a pioneer in the rise of modern science and a martyr who defended scientific truth and gave his life for it.

But this is a beautiful misunderstanding, because Bruno didn't die because of Heliocentrism of Copernicus. One evidence is that when he was burned to death, the Roman church did not ban Copernicus' theory of celestial movement at all.