There is a wealthy landowner, with a fortune worth ten thousand gold coins, who is greedy and unkind, oppressing the local people.

A scholar named Wu swore that if he became an official in the future, he would severely punish this person.
Several years later, Wu passed the imperial exam and returned to his hometown to serve as a local magistrate.
At the beginning of his term, he immediately arrested the landowner and prepared for a strict interrogation.
The landowner did not resist at all and confessed everything on the spot.
Magistrate Wu, however, became suspicious and ordered him to write down all his crimes.
The next morning, a package and a letter appeared in Magistrate Wu’s study: “Thirty thousand gold coins, I hope Your Honor will show mercy.”
Magistrate Wu was furious and gave the landowner fifty lashes.
On the third day, the amount increased to fifty thousand gold coins, and Wu again gave a hundred lashes,
On the fourth day, the package was even larger, and the money directly became one hundred thousand gold coins.
This time, Magistrate Wu not only did not get angry but also broke out in cold sweat, sighed deeply, and accepted the silver.
His wife was puzzled: “Aren’t you determined to hate him to the bone? How can you accept his money?”
Wu sighed with a bitter smile: “Madam, you don’t know that when the money reaches one hundred thousand, it can communicate with the gods.
If I don’t accept it, he will send this hundred thousand to my superior.
By then, he might be safe, but I will be the one facing great trouble first.”