Bao Gong, also known as Bao Qingtian and Bao Longtu, once served as the Governor of Kaifeng In the Northern Song Dynasty, dared to uphold justice for the people, and in the process of trying civil and criminal cases, he rehabilitated many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, fought fairness and justice for the victims, and won the welcome and love of the people, so he was called Bao Qingtian.
Later commentators and artists processed and created the deeds of the Bao Gongjue case, and wrote a series of legendary stories about Bao Gong, most of which were stories about the Bao Gongjue case such as gods, eliminating violence and peace, and daring to confront the hard, and the stories were based on the Bao Gong Gong Judgment Case, rehabilitating zhaoxue for the ordinary people, and bringing the bureaucratic aristocracy to justice as the main structure.
These stories made the people see the fairness and justice that they could not see in life, so they spread quickly, not only there were commentaries, but also various dramas adapted these stories, staged everywhere, of which the famous ones were "The Case of Gongmei", "Fighting the Dragon Robe" and so on, which were almost household names.
Even Chen Shimei, the protagonist of "The Case of Beauty", has become synonymous with negative people and entered people's daily lives, which shows how deeply these commentaries and dramas have had a deep impact on people's lives.
In these stories, in addition to the glorious and great artistic image of Bao Gong, he also has the protection and assistance of a group of jianghu qixia with rich personality and unique martial arts, including Nanxia Zhanzhao, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Wang Chao, and MaHan, and a master of divine ingenuity - Gongsun Ce.
In fact, these characters are all fictionalized by people in later generations in the process of creating the legendary story of Bao Gong, these people are not real in history, because Bao Gong has repeatedly attacked the powerful and presided over justice, so it is inevitable that they will be plotted by these outlaws who have been hit, so people have imagined these heroes with unique martial arts to protect Bao Gong.
At the same time, to provide help for Bao Gong to try and arrest people, these people are open-minded to follow Bao Gong, the reason why they want to follow Bao Gong is mainly by Bao Gong's honesty and justice, such officials are extremely rare in feudal society, so these jianghu chivalrous guests will be immediately impressed as soon as they see it, and then sincerely attach themselves to it and become Bao Gong's right hand and left arm.
The character image of Gongsun Ce is a foil for Bao Gong, who is not only fair and honest, but also knowledgeable, which makes Gongsun Ce fall for it and be willing to serve as a staff member for him, and at the same time, it also shows that Bao Gong has an open mind and can listen to the opinions and suggestions of others from the flow of advice, so that the work of cracking cases and arresting criminal suspects can be carried out more smoothly.
The emergence of Bao Gong and his legendary story is not accidental, but has profound socio-political reasons, and ancient officials treated ordinary people very viciously, as can be seen from the unjust case of Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage in the last years of the Qing Dynasty.
Yang Naiwu was a talented man, and later he was admitted to the jujutsu, relying on his own merit and knowledge, often fighting for the common people, and as a result offending the local county grandfather. Therefore, the county grand master dared to frame Yang Naiwu through a case that had nothing to do with Yang Naiwu, and as a result, he dared to sentence Yang Naiwu to death and sentenced Xiao Cabbage to 36 knives and fish scales.
If it were not for Yang Naiwu's sister and wife constantly filing lawsuits, if it were not for the factional struggle in the Zhejiang officialdom, or if Empress Dowager Cixi had not wanted to use this to rectify the Xiang Army, the case would have been settled, and the unjust murder would have been unjustly killed.
Many people from the county order to the inspector of Zhejiang knew or saw the suspicious points of the case, but no one took the initiative to stand up for the victims to seek injustice, but only hastily decided the case to maintain official order.
In such a social and political environment, the appearance of Bao Gong is simply a bright light in the night, illuminating a corner of the dark feudal society, and everyone worships Bao Gong as a god, of course, except for the corrupt and law-bending people. Therefore, the more Bao Gong's story is told- from the Yang world to the underworld, there are more and more characters around Bao Gong - from the fallen scholar to the jianghu strange man to the mountain thief Caokou.
The cruel persecution of the people by the ancient feudal autocracy system is the root cause of Bao Gong's emergence, the strategists and heroes around Bao Gong are fictional, and naturally there is no following after Bao Gong's death, but these people are the embodiment of the civil justice force, they will look for new official justice forces to combine, if they can't find it, they are likely to return to the jianghu, and then be a grass curser, spontaneously resist the evil rule of feudal despotism.