My inaction as a minister is not passive inaction, but a philosophy of life that transcends utility, respects nature and conforms to human nature. Jiang Tong was a statesman and writer of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. He advocated inaction, believed that politics should conform to nature, respect people's wishes and choices, and oppose excessive intervention and coercive control. He believes that if the rulers can adopt an inaction attitude and let the people develop freely, society will naturally prosper.
The background of this sentence was put forward by Jiang Tong in the face of political corruption and chaos in Cao Wei. He saw that the rulers sacrificed people's interests and happiness in pursuit of personal utility and power, which led to social unrest and people's livelihood. Therefore, he advocates that the rulers should put down their utilitarian heart, get rid of the shackles of selfish desires, return to the way of nature, let the people develop freely, and realize social harmony and stability and people's happiness.
The root of my inaction:
I also didn't do anything from the sixty-eighth chapter of Biography of Jin and Biography of Jiang Tong. Biography of Jiang Tong, the sixty-eighth volume of Biography of the Book of Jin, is a biographical history of Jiang Tong, in which there is a section of Jiang Tong's exhortation to Sima Zhong, the Emperor of Jinhui, involving the inaction of ministers.
Jiang Tong came from Chen Liu in the Western Jin Dynasty. He used to be Shanyin county magistrate, corps commander, Prince Washing Horse, doctor, merchant, Shen Fu, court, assistant minister of Huangmen, and constant servant. He moved to Xuchang because of the abolition of Prince Sima Yi, and then returned to Luoyang because of the death of Prince Sima Yi. In the meantime, he left his job because of his mother's funeral.
Later, he was appointed as Situ Zuochang, and when Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, was appointed as Yanzhou Shepherd, he appointed Jiang Tong as another driver and entrusted him with the management of state affairs. During this period, he recommended Chi Jian, a Gaoping native, as a sage, Ruan Xiuxiu and Chen Wei as outspoken people, and Cheng Shouzhu as the founder. At that time, people thought he knew people very well. However, in the fourth year of Yongjia (3 10), the Yongjia disaster occurred, and he fled to the elevation (now northwest of Xingyang, Henan Province) to avoid the disaster and died soon. After Chiang Kai-shek's death, the villagers built a shrine for him in the town, which, together with Dong Xuan and Cai Yong, was called Sanxian Temple.