Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao, for Bao Zheng, it is indispensable, one can write and one can be martial, Zhan Zhao relies on his outstanding martial arts to protect Bao Zheng from the danger of gangsters, and Gongsun Ce relies on his mind to provide various conveniences for Bao Zheng to provide advice and advice for Bao Zheng's case.
In the Song Dynasty, which emphasized literature over military force, in fact, Gongsun Ce's status was still higher than that of Zhan Zhao, and people like Gongsun Ce could rely on his talent to take the imperial examination to obtain meritorious fame, and then seek an official and a half-position, and finally become a local official to benefit one side.
However, Gongsun Ce did not do that at that time, but always stayed by Bao Zheng's side, as a small scribe.
Gongsun Ce's loyalty to Bao Zheng can be learned, but once he almost died at the hands of Bao Zheng.
So, what exactly caused Bao Zheng to kill Gongsun Ce who was so loyal?
This incident actually came from the TV series adapted from the interpretation, and the cause of the incident came from a corpse.
During Bao Zheng's southern tour, he found a corpse near Taihu Lake, and Bao Zheng began to investigate the case behind the corpse.
After a period of searching and arresting, the murderer Chao Jianglong was finally caught, and Chao Jianglong was a local hooligan who usually relied on his own local forces to do many evils, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the local people.
After one of Chaojianglong's brothers was killed, Chaojianglong and his daughter avenged the brother, and then threw the body into the Taihu Lake, chaojianglong never expected that this matter would be reported to Bao Zheng there.
In the process of investigating this case, Gongsun Ce made a lot of contributions, but he also encountered difficulties, and it turned out that the dry daughter of Chao Jianglong was his illegitimate daughter many years ago. Now that his daughter had committed murder, Gongsun Ce was very embarrassed.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Gongsun Ce chose to recognize his daughter, and for so many years, Gongsun Ce felt very sorry for his daughter, and once Gongsun Ce handed her over to Bao Zheng, his daughter would face the punishment of being beheaded.
Out of guilt for his daughter and the inseparable relationship between relatives, Gongsun Ce decided to take a desperate risk and save his daughter's life.
Gongsun Ce secretly released his daughter from Bao Zheng, but with Gongsun Ce's loyalty to Bao Zheng, he did not want to hide this matter, so Gongsun Ce went to Bao Zheng to turn himself in, and Gongsun Ce hoped to exchange his life for his daughter's peace.
Bao Zheng was very angry after hearing Gongsun Ce's behavior, because his colleagues who had been with him for many years would actually do such a illegal thing, which made Bao Zheng very sad, so he threw him into prison and prepared to execute Gongsun Ce with a tiger's head to bring gongsun ce to justice.
After the daughter learned that Gongsun Ce would be executed by Bao Zheng, she took the initiative to find Bao Zheng, she did not want her father to die, so she committed suicide in front of Bao Zheng, hoping to get back Gongsun Ce's life.
After learning that his daughter was dead, Gongsun Ce was in pain, but at this time, he still did not get a pardon from Bao Zheng, and Bao Zheng still wanted to behead Gongsun Ce at the right time.
In a hurry, Zhan Zhao went into the palace to look for Song Renzong, song Renzong was very surprised after hearing this, Song Renzong was a wiser emperor, he did not want to see Gongsun Ce die, so he issued a holy decree: leave Gongsun Ce to die.
Before Gongsun Ce's execution, Zhan Zhao came to Bao Zheng with Emperor Renzong's holy will, which saved Gongsun Ce.