Eliminate the "three evils" at the Zhou Office

During the Western Jin Dynasty, in addition to the extravagant officials like Wang Kai and Shi Chong, there was also a group of scholar-officials who did not do serious work after eating and gathered in groups to brag and talk about absurd things that were out of touch with reality. This kind of talk is called "Qing". Such people, often very famous, have high status. This also shows the corruption of the culture at that time.went into the mountains with his bow and arrows, carrying a sharp sword, to look for tigers. When he reached the deepest part of the forest, he heard a tiger whistle and a white-fronted tiger came out from the distance. Zhou dodged aside and hid behind a big tree, and with a bow and arrow, he shot the tiger in the forehead with a whoosh and killed it.

Zhou told the people in the village that several hunters had gone up to the mountain to carry the dead tiger down the mountain. Everyone was quite happy to congratulate Zhou, Zhou said, "Do not be busy, there is a long bridge of auger."

After another day, Zhou changed into a straitjacket and jumped into the water with a bow and arrow and sword to look for the auger. The auger hidden in the depths of the water found someone in the water, and want to jump up to bite. Zhou was ready for it and stabbed the augur in the body. The auger was seriously wounded, and fled downstream of the river.

Zhou saw the auger did not die, closely behind the nail, auger to the surface, he swam to the surface; auger to sink, he went to the bottom of the water. So a moment to sink, a moment to float, has been tracking to dozens of miles away.

Three days and three nights passed, but Zhou did not return. People have been talking, that this time Zhou and Jiao must be defeated, both dead at the river bottom. Originally, everyone thought that Zhou could kill the tiger, and the big jiao has been good; this time "three pests" are dead, and everyone was overjoyed. The streets and alleys, as soon as the matter is mentioned, are happy, celebrating each other.

I did not expect that by the fourth day, Zhou came home unharmed. People were amazed. It turned out that after the injury of the big jiao, was chased by Zhou all the way, and finally bleeding too much, can not move, and was finally killed by Zhou.

Zhou returned home, knowing that three days after he left home, people thought he was dead, and are quite happy. This incident made him realize how much his usual behavior was hated by people.

He made up his mind and left home to study with a teacher in Wu County. At that time, there were two very famous people in Wu County, one was called Lu Ji and the other was called Lu Yun. When Zhou went to look for them, Lu Ji went out and only Lu Yun was at home.

When Zhou saw Lu Yun, he sincerely talked to him about his determination to change his ways. He said: "I regret that I realized too late and wasted my precious time. Now I want to make a career, but I'm afraid it's too late."

Lu Yun encouraged him, "Don't be discouraged, you have such determination, the future is still very promising. A person is only afraid of not having a firm ambition, not afraid of not making a difference."

After that, Zhou studied hard with Lu Ji and Lu Yun and paid attention to his moral cultivation. His diligent spirit of learning was praised by everyone. After a year, all the officials in the state and county recruited him to be an official. When Eastern Wu was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, he became a minister of the Jin Dynasty.