Thanks to decades of film and television dramas, in everyone's mind, Bao Zheng's image is: black crescent moon, upright and awe-inspiring. By his side, Elvis helped him; He has three big mowers: the dragon and grandson of the royal family, corrupt officials and traitors, local tyrants and evil gentry, and bullies and hooligans. Every time Bao Zheng is an imperial envoy, he will be carried away. In Xu? Chen Shimei? In the case, Bao Zheng killed this with a hay cutter? Heartbroken? It can be said that it is very popular.
However, history is not the case.
For example, Zhan Zhao in the southern summer, there is no record of this person in history books; And touts Gongsun Ce, want to know touts this position only appeared in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Even The Trio of Cutting Grass is composed of China traditional opera stories and martial arts novels. After generations of deduction, it spread more and more. Deeply rooted in the hearts of the people? Yes
In addition, if we must find the prototype, we will cross to the Qing Dynasty. One of them is called. Old valley? Yes, it's a bit like this story.
Therefore, in the real history, there was no hay cutter, Xu and Elvis Presley in Bao Zheng. In that case, why did later generations add so many scenes to Bao Zheng? What did Bao Zheng do to make his image immortal? Today, let's talk about it.
Resign and be filial for ten years? Love is the best.
In drama novels and film and television works, Bao Gong has a sister-in-law. It is said that Bao Zheng was born in a poor family, and his mother died before the full moon. Sister-in-law put him in her son's cradle, nursed Bao Zheng, fed her son porridge, raised him, and hired a tutor to teach him to become famous. There is no doubt that without this virtuous eldest sister-in-law, there will be no future for Bao Zheng. So Bao Zheng is always grateful to her sister-in-law. What is your respectful name? Sister in law? . This statement is widely circulated, but it is also false!
In the history books, Bao Zheng doesn't have a brother at all. How can she be a sister-in-law His parents are both. Bao Zheng, born in the second year of Xianping, Song Zhenzong (999), was admitted to the Jinshi Examination in the fifth year of Tiansheng, Song Renzong (1027), and served as the judge of Dali State and the magistrate of Jianchang County (now Yongxiu, Jiangxi Province).
This is a good thing, but Bao Zheng has never been happy. It turns out that Jianchang County is far away from Bao Zheng's home (Hefei, Anhui Province). Bao Zheng's parents are too old to stand the long journey, but Bao is reluctant to leave his parents, so he wrote to ask him to work near his home. Finally, Bao Zheng was reassigned to the state as a tax inspector, responsible for currency and food taxation.
Compared with Jianchang County and Hezhou, it is much closer to home, but it is still 100 kilometers. The problem doesn't seem to be solved. Parents can't run around, they don't want to leave their hometown, and they don't want to be separated from their sons. Reasoning, Bao Zheng wrote again, requesting to resign from his office and concentrate on serving his parents at home.
A few years later, his parents died one after another, and Bao Zheng built a drafting hut next to his parents' grave. Until the mourning period passed, he was still hesitant and reluctant to leave. Relatives and friends encouraged him many times. Until you Jing four years (1037), Bao Zheng went to Beijing to listen to the election and was appointed as the magistrate of Tianchang (now Anhui). This year, he is 38 years old.
Don't hold the inkstone back? Honesty and cleanliness
In the first year of Li Qing (104 1), Bao Zheng was transferred to Duanzhou (now Zhaoqing, Guangdong) as the magistrate. Duanzhou produced the famous Duanyan, which was paid dozens of times by the former county magistrate and given to the dignitaries of the dynasty. After Bao Zheng came to power, he strictly controlled the output of inkstone and produced as much as he paid tribute every year.
Bao Zheng left office after the expiration of the three-year term of Duanzhou Magistrate. In the meantime, he didn't bring the inkstone home. Don't hold the inkstone back? .
About Bao Zheng's integrity, Bai Shouyi's "General History of China" also recorded a short story:
At the age of 23, Bao Zheng was appreciated by Liu Jun, the magistrate of Luzhou, and became famous from then on. In his hometown, a rich man asked him to speak at a banquet. A classmate named Li was anxious to go, but Bao Zheng solemnly said: He is a rich man, am I an outsider or a county magistrate? If I make friends with him now, I will be tired for another day. ? It can be seen that he established his ambition of not favoritism in politics before he became an official.
Plead for the people? Love the people like children.
During his tenure as an official, Bao Zheng observed the sufferings of the people and pleaded for the people several times. Thin tax collection, wide force service and famine relief? Suggest, and strongly advocate saving state expenditure, and demand reducing redundant staff, redundant soldiers, construction and luxury.
In the eighth year of Li Qing (1048), Bao Zheng was transferred to Hebei Road (now Daming, Hebei Province) as a transshipment ambassador, and later entered the DPRK as an assistant ambassador of the Third Division. At that time, Qin Long's shipbuilding timber was collected from the people. There are also seven States that levy taxes on bamboo cables of river bridges, which generally amount to hundreds of thousands, and Bao Zheng demands that they be abolished. The Liao Dynasty assembled troops in the neighboring frontier, and the situation in the border counties was tense, so Bao Zheng was sent to Hebei to dispatch rations. Along the way, Bao Zheng found that the soil around Zhanghe River was fertile, but the people could not cultivate it. There are10.5 million hectares of arable land in Xing, Marsh and Zhao, but all of them are used for grazing horses. So he immediately went to the countryside and demanded that all the land be distributed to the people.
In the first year of Jiayou (1056), Bao Zheng was appointed as the governor of Kaifeng and promoted to the right secretary. Tokyo is famous for its management difficulties, because it is rich in royalty, officials and dignitaries. At that time, North Korean officials and aristocratic families built private garden pavilions and occupied Huimin River, thus blocking the river. Due to the flooding in the capital, Bao Zheng destroyed all the garden pavilions. Some people used land certificates to falsely report the number of their fields, but Bao Zheng strictly inspected them and impeached the fraudsters. Because of Bao Zheng's unselfishness, the noble eunuchs at the foot of the son of heaven were also greatly restrained.
At the age of sixty-one, Bao Zheng received an important task: to be in charge of the national finance as a three-secretary ambassador. In this position, Bao Zheng showed his talent in economic management. In the past, all kinds of articles sealed in warehouses used by emperors were shipped from all over the country, which caused a burden to the people. Therefore, Bao Zheng set up a market, conducted fair trade and solved administrative problems with the help of the market.
The 37-word family motto lingers? Family style filial piety
Bao Zheng is not only honest in his work, but also attaches great importance to the discipline of future generations. The History of the Song Dynasty recorded a family motto he left behind:
Later generations are officials, and those who have committed stolen goods may not return them to their own homes; After his death, he should not be buried in a big coffin. If you don't follow my wishes, you are not my descendant.
Bao Zheng asked the masons to put this? Family training? Carved on the tablet and erected on the east wall of the main hall to warn future generations. This family precept doesn't talk about national laws. No matter how you cultivate yourself, you can directly make family rules and use two. No? , one? No? Words, firmly, simply and decisively, there is no room for bargaining, and the descendants of the Bao family have always adhered to family precepts and lived an honest life.
Bao Zheng's son Bao Shu has always insisted on this? Honest and sober, honest and white? When he died, people opened the box he carried with him and found nothing valuable except orders, books, writing and stationery. Bao Zheng's grandson Bao Yongnian was evaluated as? When you are in charge of an official's affairs, you will not be disturbed, but the legacy of filial piety is still strong. .
Bao Zheng didn't leave many words. In addition to these 37 words of family instruction, there is also a poem "Zhaibi in Shuduan County":
Pure heart is the foundation, and the right path is the plan. Show dry eventually becomes a building, fine steel don't make a hook. The warehouse is full of mice and birds, and the grass is full of foxes and rabbits. There are lessons in history, so don't be ashamed.
He cured the root of the disease by clearing his heart, found his body by the right way, and left a story for generations to come.
A thousand years later, when we look back at Bao Zheng, we will find that he has never actually cut an ungrateful Xu, and there is no heroic Elvis Presley around him, and he has never invented a commanding hay cutter.
Maybe you have to ask, what did he do?
He resigned as a filial piety and did not take a penny from the people; He demolished officials' buildings and exempted the people from taxes; He was concerned about the construction of Kaifeng and the internal affairs and diplomacy of the Song Dynasty.
Maybe you should say that he is good at solving crimes. Yes, he did solve strange cases, but what did he do best? Just chatting? Write a report to Song Renzong and protest according to the facts.
Although such Zheng lacks many magical auras, it does not prevent the world from worshipping him!