世族制度统治下的西晋王朝,是一个贪欲横流,奢风盛行的时代。士族官员聚敛无度,竟相奢华。丞相何曾“日食万钱”,其子散骑常侍何劭“一日之供,以钱二万”,比乃父翻了一番,而且“食必四方珍异”。尚书任恺不甘落后,“一食万钱”,又大大超过了何家父子。至于富商巨贾石崇与皇亲王恺创记录的争豪斗富,更令人瞠目咋舌。在“奢汰之害,甚于天灾”的世风之下,胡质胡威父子洁己克勤,清廉为政,不啻污淖中的一股清风。 《晋书·良吏传》载:胡质青年时代已“以忠清著称”于江淮之间。胡威受廉父的教育熏陶,“早厉志尚”,志存高洁。胡质在荆州任刺史时, The Western Jin dynasty under the rule of the clan system was an era of greed and prevailing luxury. Aristocratic officials gathered too much, actually extravagant. When the prime minister had ever “eclipsed thousands of money,” his son, Sanqi, always served as “one day for money, 20,000 for money,” twice as much as his father. Ren Kai Shang Shang not to be outdone, “a million food money,” which greatly exceeded Ho family father and son. As for the wealthy businessman Shi Chong and the royal family Wang Kai record controversy, fighting for wealth, even more staggering. Under the circumstance of “the harm of extravagance, even more than a natural disaster,” Hussein Hu and his son cleansed themselves from their ground and cleansed themselves down honestly and politely, without turning a blind alley into a breeze. “Biography of Jinshu Liangli” contains: youth in Hulao has been “known as Zhongqing” between JAC. Hu Wei influenced by the education of the priest, “Zeng Li Zhaoshang”, ambitious. When Hu was governor of Jingzhou,