Whether in folklore or various literary novels and TV series, Bao Zheng has always been portrayed as a "qingtian" image that is not afraid of the powerful and selfless. The three imperially bestowed knives in Kaifeng Province, the dragon head is a blunt knife, which is specially used to deal with the relatives of the emperor and the state, and the purpose is to let the nobles who know the law and break the law die slowly, as punishment. The tiger head is punishing corrupt officials, the dog head is punishing the civilian prisoners, and the knife is getting sharper and sharper.
The three swords have the "privilege of shangfang", which can be cut first and played later, and even the dragon head also symbolizes the idea that the son of heaven has committed the same crime as the common people. It was precisely because of this magic weapon that Bao Zheng dared to repeatedly resist and disobey the will, and in Kaifeng Province, he took chen Shimei, the son of Taishi, and Pang Yu, the son of Taishi, including his nephew Bao Mian. Not afraid of imperial power, not afraid of official authority, not favoritism, the only law in the eyes of the bag of salvation seems to be invulnerable. However, in the TV series "Bao Qingtian", there is a person who can't even help Bao Zheng, he is Chai Wenyi.
First of all, let's look at Chai Wenyi's crime, he is cruel and lawless in the TV series. First, because of his personal grudge, he killed the border general Yang Jiasheng, and then murdered several people in succession, and even tried to force his father to die. Such a heinous and unforgivable person, Bao Zheng was finished with the trial and sentenced, but he did not dare to punish him with a knife in accordance with the law, and could only be released in court.
What is the background of this Chai Wenyi, even Bao Zheng does not dare to be hammered. "Bao Qingtian" gives Chai Wenyi the identity of the eldest son of Chai Wangye and the future Xiaoshang King. This identity can have a lot to offer. The historical Chai Wang ye refers to the five generations of The Later Zhou Dynasty Emperor Chai Rong, who was praised by historians of all generations as a "generation of heroes".
Chai Rong became famous as a teenager, inherited the Later Zhou Emperor's throne from his righteous father Guo Wei, and set the ambition of "opening up the world in ten years, raising the people in ten years, and bringing peace in ten years". During his reign, Chai Rong suffered consecutive defeats in Later Shu and Southern Tang, and then northernly attacked the Liao state, opening up territory and expanding territory without a defeat. However, Chai Rong, who was the most promising to end the five generations of chaos, was unpaid in his ambitions and died young. The generals under his command launched a mutiny and seized the power of Later Zhou, and the person who sat on the profits of the fisherman was the later Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.
However, in order to gain a good reputation, Zhao Kuangyin did not dispose of Chai Rong's young son Chai Zongxun, but instead named him "King Zheng" and gave him "Danshu Iron Coupon". Later, the first ancestral precept established by Song Taizu in the Taimiao Temple was that "the descendants of the Chai clan shall not be punished if they are guilty", and there is also another one: "Those who have this oath of yu will be destroyed by heaven.".
The Chai Wang ye in "Bao Qingtian" is based on the descendants of Chai Zongxun Zheng Wang. Possessing two amulets of the Danshu Iron Coupon and the Ancestral Training of the Song Dynasty Taimiao Temple, this is really no one dares to mess with, including the Song Emperor. When Bao Zheng asked for Chai Wenyi, Pang Taishi, who had sent Danshu iron coupons, warned Bao Zheng that if he had chai Wenyi, not only would Bao Zheng want to curse the Nine Tribes, but he would also force the emperor to disobey the ancestral precepts and be imprisoned in the name of the descendants of the Song Dynasty.
The laws of the feudal era were ultimately royal laws, and Bao Zheng, as a human subject, naturally did not dare to violate them, and could only be forced to release Chai Wenyi. However, the TV series have a dramatic side, after Chai Wenyi walked out of Kaifeng Province, Bao Zheng knelt down to worship the heavens, praying to the heavens to uphold justice and punish adultery. Then it really thundered, and Chai Wenyi, who had just escaped from the Bao Zheng knife, was chopped to death outside Kaifeng Province. It can be said that "the wicked are afraid of heaven, and good and evil have their own justice."