In Chinese history, Bao Zheng can be called a phenomenal representative of clean officials, he is honest in government, fair in law enforcement, heaven and earth, go south and north, no one dares to manage, no case dare not judge. For thousands of years, except for the solar black, no one has been able to pour dirty water on Bao Zheng's head.
But if you really go back to that era, if PK starts to have an official position, literary talent and contribution value, Bao Zheng is much inferior to Kou Zhun, Wang Anshi, Su Shi and others who also belong to the Song Dynasty
Bao Zheng was born in 999 A.D. and was a native of Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui) in the Northern Song Dynasty. Different from the record in **, Bao Zheng was not born as a cattle herder, but was born in an orthodox scholar family, and his father Bao Lingyi is the 24th grandson of Shen Baoxu, Jin Shi and the first.
Through the family's careful cultivation and his own hard work, at the age of 28, Bao Zheng passed the imperial examination and successfully passed the Jinshi examination, and was successively awarded the post of tax supervisor in Jianchang (now Yongxiu, Jiangxi) and Hezhou (now Hexian, Anhui) by the imperial court.
However, due to the distance between his place of work and his hometown, it was not convenient to serve his parents, so Bao Zheng resolutely resigned from his official position and stayed with his parents. It was not until 1036, after the death of Bao Zheng's parents, that the 37-year-old Bao Zheng re-entered the office and served as the magistrate of Tianchang County.
Giving up the first ten years of his life for his parents, Bao Zheng's filial piety is first commendable.
In Tianchang County, Bao Zheng broke the famous "Bull Tongue Case", demonstrating full of wisdom and majesty. The cause of the "cow tongue case" was that a farmer's cow had his tongue cut off, and the farmer hurried to the county office to report the case. Bao Zheng knew that the cow would not live long after its tongue was cut, so he said directly to the farmer: "You go back first and kill the cow." ”
The farmer was very surprised, the Song Dynasty had a rule that the people were not allowed to slaughter ploughing cattle without permission, and those who stole and killed ploughing cattle should be severely punished. Bao Zheng persuaded him: "Don't worry, this official will not punish you." ”
After the farmer went home and killed the cattle, the next day someone came to accuse him of killing the cattle, and Bao Zheng immediately ordered someone to detain the informant ** and scolded him: "Why did you cut off someone's cow's tongue, and now you are framing someone else?".”
The informant was shocked and quickly knelt down and confessed. This case is the famous "bull's tongue case".
Because of his outstanding performance in the process of solving the case, Bao Zheng was successively promoted to the positions of Duanzhou Governor, Supervisor of the Imperial History, Longtu Pavilion Straight Bachelor, Kaifeng Prefect, Three Envoys, and Privy Envoys.
In the eyes of the people of later generations, Bao Zheng can be called the "Sherlock Holmes" of the East, but in fact, handling cases is only part of Bao Zheng's daily work, he needs to assume financial, military, people's livelihood, judicial and other responsibilities, and the work tasks are very heavy.
In "Bao Zheng Collection", Bao Zheng used 55 articles to name and expose the first name of this dynasty, whether it is a relative of the emperor or a cool official, he does not shy away from it, which shows how "head iron" he is.
In response to the severe situation of the Song Dynasty's economic downturn and heavy taxes, Bao Zheng also put forward many practical countermeasures to reduce the burden of the people.
Perhaps because of the upright and unafraid character characteristics shown in the process of being an official, Bao Zheng has gradually become a template for a clean official in the hearts of thousands of people, and people affectionately call him "Bao Qingtian".
In 1062, Bao Zheng died of illness in office at the age of 63. After Bao Zheng's death, in recognition of his contributions, the imperial court specially posthumously awarded him the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, nicknamed Xiaosu.
In fact, up to this time, Bao Zheng was just an ordinary incorruptible **, and he had not established a far-reaching reputation in the long history. Bao Zheng really completed the transformation from a historical figure to a literary figure because Mr. Storyteller wrote him into the book.
The first part of the first to appear in the name of Bao Zheng is "Contract Text Case", which is about a property dispute after the disaster year, which was properly resolved under the auspices of Bao Zheng.
The second part of Bao Zheng's ** is "Three Appearances in Bao Longtu to Solve the Case", which directly involves the field of ghosts and gods, telling the story of Bao Zheng's reliance on ghosts to redress grievances and solve anagrams to solve the case and arrest **.
If the story in the first ** is still relatively plain, then the plot of the second ** can be called ups and downs, suspense, and shocking. Because of this, the story spreads very strongly.
In the Yuan Dynasty, due to the perverse actions of the imperial court, the people's lives were miserable and powerless to resist, and they were very eager for the emergence of a "savior" who was the master of the people.
Based on this compensatory psychology, folk artists and literati booksellers once again artistically processed Bao Zheng's story, packaging Bao Zheng as a watchman of justice who "can not only judge all kinds of unjust, false and wrongful cases in the world, but also manage the affairs of the underworld by the way", and the deification index has increased by an order of magnitude.
In the Ming Dynasty, the probability of Bao Zheng appearing was even higher. **The family has grafted a lot of exquisite case solving stories under the name of Bao Zheng, it seems that Bao Zheng is not only not afraid of the powerful, upright, but also the most wise and careful person in the past 5,000 years, Bao Zheng's image has become more vivid and expressive.
As for Bao Zheng's side, Zhanzhao, Wang Dynasty Mahan and others, they only appeared in the Qing Dynasty. Because at that time, people were even more difficult and helpless than before, and they always felt that they had shortcomings in handling cases only by Bao Zheng, and they needed the help of chivalrous men to deal with the bad guys more freely.
The film and television image of Bao Zheng's case-solving team There are countless Qing officials in Chinese history, but few people have become representatives of phenomenal Qing officials like Bao Zheng.
Throughout the whole process of Bao Zheng's transformation from a historical figure to a literary figure, my biggest feeling is that Bao Zheng can be so famous mainly because of the "god-making movement".
The common people in China's feudal society lived too hard, they got up early every day and ran around greedily, but it was difficult to survive, and basically there was no hope in life.
In order to resist the injustice of reality, the common people can only find an outlet for themselves and their families' anger by creating a clean official who is loyal to the emperor and loves the people, creating a glimmer of hope for the bleak life, and healing the wounds of the painful and helpless soul.
If the country can adhere to the rule of law, and the society can give the people fairness and justice, the people will not pin their hopes on a long-deceased ** to seek justice for themselves.
Therefore, it is not so much that Bao Zheng is the patron saint of the people, but that the people have created such a "patron saint" for themselves.
When the common people no longer need to use "god-making" to appease themselves, perhaps it is the time when the society has greatly achieved fairness and justice.
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