Around 2005, many television stations at that time broadcast such a TV series "The New Biography of Wang Baochang".
After watching this TV series, many people will have such a question: that is, when in the Republic of China, what was the work of baochang? Is the job a civil servant? And is there a salary for this kind of work?
In fact, these answers can be found in many details of the TV series "Wang Baochang's New Biography".
About the New Biography of Wang Baochang
What kind of TV series is "Wang Baochang's New Biography", in fact, many people have different views. Some people think it's comedy, others think it's a farce. However, I personally feel that this is a tragedy with the cloak of comedy as a cloak: I think that if you think about it, the life of the ordinary people in the Republic of China is really painful.
1. Story background
Judging from the background of the story, the story of this TV series takes place during the Liberation War, and the location of the story is in the southwest sichuan region. Against the backdrop of the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War, Sichuan became the last stronghold of the Kuomintang on land.
Therefore, in order to save the overthrow and fall of the Chiang dynasty, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the local government to loot various social resources in Sichuan.
2. Wang Baochang's work
Sichuan's population base is actually not much in the whole country, but Sichuan's human resources are very rich.
For example, in the 1980s, Sichuan was called a major province for the export of migrant workers; during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Sichuan's sons and daughters became the main source of the anti-Japanese army.
Wang Baochang's work mainly lies in two aspects.
The first point is to grasp Zhuangding, and the source of strength of the Kuomintang army is mainly through the capture of Zhuangding. Sichuan has abundant human resources, so it is very suitable for catching Zhuangding.
The second point is to implement all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes formulated by the Kuomintang.
Of course, Wang Baochang often uses the two major business areas of his work to accept bribes or enrich his own pockets. This reflects, on another level, how corrupt the bureaucracy controlled by Chiang Kai-shek's government was at the time.
The scope of work of the guaranteed length
In fact, the historical baochang is indeed similar to what is said in the TV series. If you have to find a reference object, the chief can be simply compared to our current village chief.
But it cannot be completely equated with the village chief. Because the function of the village chief is still not as large as that of the chief at that time, but the number of people managed by the village chief is often much larger than that of the chief.
1. The source of the guarantee
In fact, the profession of Baochang can be said to be a long-standing profession in Chinese history.
As early as the Warring States Period, Shang Martingale implemented the change of law in the Qin State. In order to ensure that the common people would not be dissatisfied with qin's rule, and also to maximize the guarantee that the common people did not do things that were sorry for the Qin state, Shang Martin designed a system.
That is, the families of several households form a whole, and within this whole, and the people must supervise each other. If any one of them has a criminal offense, the first to report it can be exempted from prosecution.
However, if a certain family commits something and the neighbors do not report it in advance, then the neighbors who do not report it will also bear the same legal consequences as the family that broke the law.
This method was popularized throughout the country in the era of Qin Shi Huang, and it also had a special name: continuous sitting.
Because this policy was very effective and could adapt to various trends of the times, successive dynasties in Chinese history pursued this policy, and of course, this policy was continuously improved in subsequent dynasties.
2. The Armor Protection System of the Republic of China
After the founding of the Republic of China, in the early days of the founding of the Republic of China, the policy of sitting on the throne was denounced by intellectuals as barbaric. However, the Beiyang regime changed quickly, so the Beiyang regime did not implement this policy.
In fact, from the perspective of social progress, the system of continuous cropping is indeed a very barbaric and backward system.
But all this began to change in 1927, when the Kuomintang came to power.
Although the Kuomintang claimed to be a progressive force, many things that the Beiyang warlords did not do, the Kuomintang regime did without a bottom line - for example, the armor protection system appeared.
The so-called armor protection system can be as follows: within the rule of the Kuomintang, ten households are organized into one A, and the number of ten A is organized into one Bao. A has a length of armor and a length of maintenance.
The armor protection system means that there is a family in A who breaks the law and the whole family bears the consequences, and the chief of the A is responsible for supervising these. In order to prevent the phenomenon of shielding the chief of armor, the chief of security is responsible for supervising the ten chiefs.
The scope of the bao's management is only one hundred households when it is full. Such a population size is actually not as large as the population size of a modern administrative village. However, the power of the long-term can be described as big and terrible.
For example, the chief of security has the absolute right to speak, and the security chief can put a specific innocent and good citizen to death by falsely accusing someone of violating the law.
Theoretically, the chief could receive the salary paid by the Kuomintang.
However, because Baochang has amazing rights, Baochang can completely realize and cut leeks within the scope of his jurisdiction through his own rights. Therefore, compared with that meager wage, the people's fat and people's anointing that the baochang plundered through power are the main source of baochang's income.
However, the specific gold content of Baochang sometimes needs to be analyzed in conjunction with the local public security situation - for example, in the Xiangxi region of China, there were a large number of bandit armed forces in the Republic of China era.
These bandit armed forces are actually not at all afraid of the existence of Baochang. And bao chang did not dare to really offend the families of bandits in his jurisdiction, because although bao chang had real power, he was also very afraid of the outlaws.
After the founding of New China, the barbaric and extremely uncivilized system of armor protection also disappeared with the establishment of New China. After all, one person does what one does, the neighbor breaks the law and affects himself, and the person who is implicated is so innocent!