In recent years, people's voice for honesty has become stronger and stronger. This may not be because the record of honesty of ancient people in China is much better than it is now, but because people's sense of honesty is gradually awakening. It's like a cake. Earlier, there was actually no cake in front of us. Everyone was in harmony and there was nothing to argue about. Now we live in an era where there is probably a cake for everyone to share, but the cake is not big enough to guarantee that everyone can get a piece of it. Moreover, there are no particularly clear and credible rules for sharing cakes. As a result, all beings are fighting with each other and even deceiving each other. There are naturally fewer cakes for others. At this time, people's call for honesty is the most urgent. With the gradual prosperity of society, cakes have become bigger, the rules of cake sharing have been clarified, and social integrity will be much better. Therefore, the people of China are so eager to call for honesty, not retrogression, but we are climbing the slope.

In ancient times, when Du Fu said that "there are tens of millions of spacious buildings, all the poor people in the world are happy", he was very miserable as a member of the poor. When Bai Juyi sang "He who doesn't know the cold should be warm, so don't make people wear lichens", I believe that he is sincere although he is an official. Because we were once too poor, honesty may always be a luxury in our dreams.

Now that China is getting richer, the problem of honesty suddenly appears. We are surrounded by all kinds of dishonest enterprises and individuals, and all kinds of imaginative tricks, such as putting some washing powder in steamed bread; Feed some lean meat or more water to the pigs; Feeding some birth control pills to turtles and eels is amazing. False advertisements, products and profits of various enterprises emerge in an endless stream, so that some people initiate the search for respectable listed companies in China stock market. Why is there a sudden lack of honesty, and we call for honesty so urgently?

At present, people's desire for honesty is actually prescient. If we still have nothing, we still have to strive for private practice, then our consciousness of respecting life, property and freedom will still fall asleep. It is precisely the 20 years of reform and opening up that have awakened people's sleeping consciousness. When we wake up, we are in an era when the cake is not big enough, so there are all kinds of dishonest disputes. In fact, behind it, it is just a profit! But this is still progress rather than retrogression. We often say that the United States is stupid when its citizens are honest, but Americans were not so honest a hundred years ago. In the past, it was almost common for toilet paper, tea cups and even towels to disappear from American motels. After the material wealth is abundant, there are fewer such things as stealing small wealth. The same is true in many places in China, such as Jinjiang, Fujian, Wenzhou, Zhejiang and so on. Their local products used to be synonymous with counterfeiting, but now the local economy and the rule of law have developed to a certain stage, and they themselves have to pay attention to honesty, which is very different from Amon in the Wu Dynasty. This is probably what we call eating and wearing warm clothes before we know honor and disgrace, and then we know etiquette!

How to call for the return of honesty? There is a two-handed policy, of course, one hand is to make a big cake, so that every citizen has at least one food and clothing, which is related to "development is the last word"! On the other hand, it is necessary to establish rules for dividing cakes, otherwise it is difficult for individuals and enterprises to have a good faith foundation. How to divide the cake fairly? This requires a balance mechanism of power. For example, one person has the right to cut the cake first, and another person should have the right to choose the cake first, so that a cake can be divided equally. Without the power of checks and balances, the owner of power cannot be expected to use power modestly and prudently, and most of them will abuse power for personal gain. In this way, in the process of dividing cakes, if the rules are not followed, the cornerstone of social integrity will be very unstable, which will eventually affect the hard work of the people to make big cakes.

Therefore, if China wants to be honest, he needs to "grasp with both hands and be hard with both hands". Without the rules of good faith, the society will become the Liangshan state of Shui Bo. Even a gentleman can only eat meat in large pieces and drink in large bowls, otherwise others will practice "a gentleman can bully him"; With the rules of good faith, everyone can behave credibly whether they like it or not. Both hands should be hard, that is to say, it is difficult to develop the economy and improve the framework of the market economy. The erosion or lack of government integrity has always been the fatal weakness of social modernization and civilization.