Zhuge Liang usually lives frugally. As a country, he has achieved "no money to save and no concubine to serve". During Zhuge Liang's serious illness, he presented a statement about his family's economic situation to Liu Chan, saying, "I served the first emperor because I was attached to officials, so I was born involuntarily. Today, there are 800 mulberry trees and 15 hectares of wasteland in Chengdu. The children have enough food and clothes. As for the minister's position outside the country, there is no other scheduling. Take food and clothing, learn to be an official, don't treat students differently, and grow up. When I die, I don't make much money inside, but I win money outside to pay my majesty. " This is not only a true portrayal of Zhuge Liang's life as an incorruptible politician, but also a family property declaration form of ancient senior officials. After Zhuge Liang's death, the Prime Minister's office took stock of the property and "died as he said". A frugal lifestyle often supports clean politics. Zhuge Liang advocated frugality all his life. In fact, Zhuge Liang's salary and reward are very rich. He calls himself "generous tens of billions" (Li), but he advocates "stingy", saying: "Being stingy means no reward. If you don't get a reward, you won't be fatal. It is invalid if it is not fatal. " Most of his possessions were used to reward meritorious soldiers (Zhuge Jiliang Jiangyuan). In the process of putting down the rebellion in the counties of central and southern China, we can imagine the arduous procedure of "going deep into the barren land and eating every day" and eating only one day every two days. Zhuge Liang devoted his life to the great cause of national reunification and left a model of honesty and integrity for future generations. Zhuge Liang not only lived a frugal life, but also advocated and led a simple funeral. He "ordered the Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong to be buried, because the mountain was a grave, and the coffin was enough to be buried, and the clothes were collected without utensils." This was valuable in the Han and Wei Dynasties when the wind of heavy burial prevailed.

Classic quotations:

If you don't learn, you can't be versatile, and if you don't want to learn, you can't succeed.

Be ambitious.

A gentleman's trip is quiet and self-cultivation, frugal and self-cultivation, indifferent and peaceful.

Quiet to cultivate one's morality, frugal to cultivate one's morality.

Only those who are not proud can be proud, not arrogant.

The spirit of a great man with lofty ideals should not be underestimated.

If you want its benefits, you must worry about its harm. If you want to think about its success, you must worry about its failure.

Expensive but not arrogant, winning without contradiction, virtuous but able to descend, just and able to endure.

You can't learn unless you are quiet.

If you don't love a ruler, you love an inch of land, which is hard to lose.

Knowing each other, warmth does not increase China, and cold does not change leaves, but it can be saved in four seasons.