Mention the name Bao Zheng, I believe that everyone will not feel strange. Throughout his life, he was an honest official, with great integrity, and did too many good deeds for the people, leaving a heroic name. In order to let future generations better understand him, his deeds have also been filmed into many TV series, dramas, etc., which makes Bao Qingtian's image of Wei'an also passed down to this day. Today, Xiaobian will tell a story about the Bao Zhengjue case.
We all know that in Bao Zheng's official career, because of his strong ability to judge cases, he helped the people solve many cases and punished many bad people, so he was called "Bao Qingtian" by the people. Among them, the most famous is this case of stealing cattle tongue. After Bao Zheng entered the army in the examination, he was sent to Tianchang County to make a county order. One day, he was on official business in the lobby when he suddenly heard someone beating a drum and shouting injustice.
Bao Zheng ordered the people to bring the wrongdoers to the church, and after understanding, he learned that the people who filed the grievances were farmers, and he claimed that the cattle he had cultivated the land had been cut off the tongue of the cattle, and handed the cut tongue to him. Bao Zheng inspected the cow's tongue and asked the farmer if he had an enemy, and the farmer shook his head and said no. Later, he said that his cattle could not eat because of this, and he had to kill them. However, according to the laws of the Song Dynasty at that time, killing cattle was a crime, and farmers did not want to watch their cattle starve to death.
In response, Bao Zheng ordered the old farmer to go back and kill the cattle. Although the old cow was afraid in his heart, the county commander said so, and he still went back to do it. As a result, the next day, a person came to complain that his neighbor had killed the cattle and violated the Song Dynasty's decrees. However, Bao Zheng immediately ordered: Arrest him, he is the murderer of the cow's tongue. This person was not convinced, and asked Bao Zheng: Why do you say this? Bao Zheng sneered: The purpose of cutting the cow's tongue is not simple, it is to force people to kill the cow, and now that the cow is killed, you will naturally come to the official at the first time.
The man was horrified, and only then did he confess his guilt. When the old farmer who heard the news saw this person, he recognized that it was his neighbor, because a few days ago his cattle ran into his own field, and he scolded a few times and drove away the cattle. But I didn't expect to be held in his heart by him, so I had this move. And the clever Bao Zheng did not hit the grass and snake at the first time, but pretended to fall into the trap of the murderer, and only then did the murderer take the initiative to appear. After this case, Bao Zheng's reputation for being good at judging cases was also spread locally.