Everyone's impression of Bao Zheng may be "judging cases like gods", "iron-faced selfless", because the hit of a series of film and television dramas such as "Bao Qingtian" and "Young Bao Qingtian" will mold Bao Zheng into such an image, the historical Bao Zheng does not have so many legendary experiences, but because he is a clean and just, not attached to the magnate, dare to be unfair to the people, such officials are the most favorite of the Hundred Believers, so the Chinese folk have many stories of Bao Zheng, after Bao Zheng's death, his story is still circulating, from the Northern Song Dynasty, To the Yuan Dynasty's Yuan song there are a large number of Bao Gong dramas, most of which are Bao Gongjue cases, he was shaped into a half-human, demigod, can enter the heavens and the earth of the image of the judge, the Ming and Qing Dynasties novels continued the image of Bao Zheng's judges, especially the Qing Dynasty's "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" in the Image of Bao Zheng is "the greatest achievement of the image of the folk Bao Gong".
Most people know that Bao Zheng is basically the above-mentioned Bao Zheng, the historical Bao Zheng is indeed a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, but he is not a special official to judge cases, in 1027 AD, the twenty-nine-year-old Bao Zheng dengjinshidi, was awarded the Dali commentator, in fact, during this period of office, he did what was really a judge. In 1043 AD, Bao Zheng, who had been serving as an official in various places, was good at observing the people's feelings, and was good at improving the advantages and eliminating the disadvantages, so he had considerable political achievements, and later entered the capital to serve as a palace servant, and was later recommended to be the inspector of imperial history, such an official position was very suitable for the outspoken, wise and decisive Bao Zheng, who dared to impeach officials who had committed mistakes, even high-ranking officials and nobles, were not afraid at all, which caused a lot of pressure on the officials at that time. In 1055, Bao Zheng was convicted of a mistake in sponsoring the recommendation of officials and was relegated to the local level.
In 1056, Bao Zheng was reinstated to langzhong and Zhijiangning provinces, and was later promoted to right shilangzhong in Kaifeng province. Two years later, Bao Zheng was promoted to the position of Right Counselor and Quan Ren Yushi Zhongcheng, at this time Bao Zheng was already sixty years old, and had been in the official field for most of his life, and was finally reinstated and promoted, and finally ushered in his son, which was his only son at that time. Bao Zheng was not childless for most of his life, his original Li clan did not give birth to a son for him, and the later step-brother Dong clan gave birth to the eldest son Bao Zheng for him, but it was also a son with a proper name, of course, Bao Zheng thought so.
Nineteen-year-old Bao Qi married the Huaiyang Cui clan, who was the granddaughter of Lü Mengzheng, who had been the prime minister of the Three Dynasties, so the Bao family and the Cui family were also considered to be the right door. The marriage between Bao Qi and Cui Shi was a strong union, Bao Qi because of his father Bao Zheng, he received a special shade since childhood, when he was very young, he was given the title of Taichang Temple Taizhu by Emperor Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong, only to wait for him to become an official in the future, but unfortunately Bao Qi died of illness in the second year of his tenure, leaving only his wife Cui Shi and the only son of the two. But the son Bao Wenfu died early at the age of five, which not only made the Cui family grief-stricken, but also Bao Zheng, who was the grandfather of the child, could not accept it, the only eldest son died of illness, and the only eldest grandson also died prematurely.
After the Bao couple who had experienced great sorrow and pain calmed down, they looked at the young daughter-in-law Cui Shi, who really could not bear to be widowed in the Bao family, so they advised her to remarry, but Cui Shi was also a chaste and martyr woman, she did not want to betray her husband, and she also could not bear to let the second old man rely on each other bitterly, so she decided to stay, and said: "Father-in-law, you are the person who is admired by the whole world, I will honor you in place of my husband, this is also my wish." ”
After that, Cui Shi stayed in the Bao family and stayed for twenty years, this friendship made Song Zhezong moved, and ordered her to be crowned Yongjia Junjun, even this commendation edict was written for her by the great literary hero at that time, and the Bao family not only produced a respected Qing official like Bao Gong, but also a filial daughter-in-law, which was rumored to be a good story at that time.
So does the Bao family really have no descendants? Obviously, no, because the sixty-year-old Bao Zheng ushered in a son he did not know, Bao Shou, the young name Bao Sheng, was born in the concubine's family, concubine refers to the dowry of the woman, or refers to the concubine or the dowry, Although Bao Zheng only has one lady in the main room, it does not mean that he has no concubines around him, the child's birth mother Sun Shi is Lady Dong's maid, when she was pregnant, the uninformed Lord Bao sent her back to her mother's house. Later, Cui Shi learned about Sun's pregnancy, so after waiting for Sun To give birth to a child, he secretly raised the child in his room, and when Bao Zheng passed his sixtieth birthday, the child also grew up, so he sent the child to Bao Zheng and let the father and son recognize each other.
This was indeed a big surprise for Bao Zheng, after all, he thought that he had no children and grandchildren, and as a result, he did not expect to have another son, and later Bao Shou was also compensated by the imperial court, and the official was fenglang and sentenced to Tanzhou. I have to say that the Bao family is really thin, perhaps this is closely related to Bao Zheng's character style, Bao Zheng does not love money, nor does he love sex, but he wants to repay the imperial court, his eldest son Bao Qi is also affected by it, he and Cui two respect each other, husband and wife are harmonious, but it is a pity that the twenty-one-year-old Bao Zheng died young.
In 1062, when Bao Zheng was in the Privy Council, he suddenly fell ill and could not be cured for a long time, and finally died of illness at the age of sixty-four. Later generations found that after the tomb of Bao Zheng, it was found that there was only one ordinary brick platform in the tomb of the descendants of the Bao family, and there was no excess gold and silver jewelry, which also showed that Bao Zheng was indeed a clean and honest official.