Keep one's salary and maintain one's friendship

Keep one's salary and maintain one's friendship

The Chinese idiom ch í L ù y ǎ ngji ā O means to make friends with powerful people in order to maintain their position. From Guanzi Mingfa.

explain

To keep one's position by making friends with powerful people.

source

"Guanzi · Mingfa" said: "the junior officials hold the salary to support their diplomatic relations, and they don't take the official as a matter, so the official loses his ability." Wei guanzhuan, a draft of the history of the Qing Dynasty, said: "it's necessary to keep the salary and maintain the diplomatic relations, but it's also necessary to dethrone those who didn't dethrone in the Ming Dynasty and today." "Xunzi chendao" said: "do not care about the honor of the monarch, do not care about the country's Zang or not, cheating, to keep the salary only ear, called the national thief."

usage

It means to curry favor with the powerful to protect oneself