From ancient times to the present, the most favorite of the people at the lowest level of society is often those who are honest and honest, just and upright parents and officials. They can not only distinguish between true and false, understand things, but also help the people to do practical things and do good things, and in ancient times, the most representative is the Song Dynasty's Bao Zheng, who was nicknamed "Qingtian Grand Master".
Bao Zheng "Bao Qingtian" in the Song Dynasty from a small Zhixian old man to Kaifeng Fuyin, when the official for decades but always adhere to honesty and honesty, never by desire to blind the eyes, when he took office in Duanzhou, according to the practice of previous years, each prefect will generally take away a few pieces of Duan yan after retirement, but Bao Zheng did not like them, but did not take away a piece, showing a good image of a clean and honest official.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the state emphasized civilian subjects and light military generals, so in the upper class, most of the literati and gentlemen were the most, so Duan Yan in the upper class society of the Northern Song Dynasty has always been loved by everyone, and the literati and gentlemen all hope to have a Duan Yan, and Bao Zheng is no different, but he can restrain his selfish desires, not to act with evil, which shows his integrity and integrity. Questions about Bao Zheng
Why can Bao Zheng be so honest and clean? Is he really not interested in money? That may require him to have a high moral restraint in order to maintain incorruptibility for decades, but this is not realistic, after all, people are not sages and sages can be blameless, Bao Zheng is just an ordinary person, he also needs to support his family.
If Bao Zheng's income when he was in power could not support the operation of his family, would he still be able to be honest and honest for decades? Even if Bao Zheng can restrain his selfish desires, can his family still be like Bao Zheng? After all, material is the foundation of the spirit, if the Bao Zheng family is hungry, how can Bao Zheng still be so upright and clean. The experience of a high-ranking official in the early Ming Dynasty
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, a Zhengsanpin official, named Zeng Bingzheng, because he wanted to return to his hometown, but the travel expenses were not enough, and finally he had to sell his four-year-old daughter to raise money for the way home, and later someone told the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang about this matter, and Zhu Yuanzhang was furious after hearing this, and immediately ordered Zeng Bingzheng to be punished with palace punishment.
Zeng Bingzheng was a Sanpin grand officer who was high above the temple at that time, but who could have imagined that he would fall so far that he would even have to sell his daughter to make up for the cost of the journey home, which shows the low salary of the Ming Dynasty government officials. And this also proves that Zeng Bingzheng must be a clean official, otherwise, as a senior member of Zeng Bingzheng's three pins, he wants to embezzle and accept bribes, and he can easily get rich, so how can he even sell his daughter to make up for the travel expenses home? "High salary and clean government" is an important factor in Bao Zheng's clean and honest
Zeng Bingzheng had a bumpy life and was born in the Ming Dynasty, if he was born in the Song Dynasty, then he would not have fallen into the dilemma of selling his daughter to make travel expenses, and even lived a landlord life of 100 acres of good land.
Because in the treatment of ancient officials in China, the Song Dynasty is the best dynasty for the treatment of officials, although the national territory during the Song Dynasty is not as vast as that of several other dynasties, but the economy is indeed the most developed, and the government pursues the policy of "high salary and clean government".
The reason for this is traced back to Zhao Kuangyin's "cup of wine to release the military power", since then, the leaders of the Song Dynasty have intentionally or unintentionally used money to bribe courtiers, and have always revealed to them a central idea, that is, as long as they do things obediently, do not think about rebellion, and feel at ease to be a rich man, rich and powerful. Anyway, at that time, the economic strength of the Song Dynasty was strong, so what was the harm in giving those courtiers some more money, and this should also be one of the important reasons why Bao Zheng could be as clean and honest as ever for decades and concentrate on serving the people. If you can earn tens of millions of dollars a year as an official, how can Bao Zheng risk corruption and bribery?
Perhaps everyone still does not have a clear view of the high level of the Song Dynasty officials, let's take Bao Zheng's Feng Lu, when Bao Zheng's income was the highest, it should be when he was a scholar of Kaifeng Fu Yin and Longtuge University, Bao Zheng's monthly salary was about 1500 yuan, which did not include other additional income such as "year-end bonus" and the emperor's reward, that is to say, Bao Zheng's annual salary was 18,000 yuan.
At that time, the consistent money of the Song Dynasty was equivalent to one or two silver, equivalent to the current rmb between 1000 and 1800 yuan, so that the conversion was down, the annual salary of Bao Zheng was 18,000 yuan, which was equivalent to between 10 million and 18 million, and there was no need to pay any personal income tax, five insurances and one gold, and the net income of the bar. Coupled with the fact that Bao Zheng is reliable and deeply loved by the emperor, the emperor gives Bao Zheng some rewards every three to five years, so that the annual income of Bao Zheng may be more than 20 million. In addition to Feng Lu, Bao Zheng also has more than 2,000 acres of fertile land
Such a high income is not the whole of Bao Zheng, after all, people's wages are just a cover, in addition to the fixed minimum income of more than 10 million Yuanlu every year, Bao Zheng has a lot of additional income, such as the emperor's reward, gifts sent by students, etc., in addition, Bao Zheng also has more than two thousand acres of good land, at that time, good land, like the current house, is the best value-addable real estate. It is conceivable how rich Bao Zheng is, just more than two thousand acres of good land can make him a big landlord, not to mention the annual Feng Lu and so on.
Seeing this, compared with everyone who has a certain understanding of the wealth and income of Song Dynasty officials at that time, and Bao Zheng, a person who can easily become a rich man by doing his part with peace of mind, why should he go to corruption?
summary:
Although human desire is infinite, in terms of materials, as long as material can meet people's needs, I believe that more people will pursue a higher level of spiritual wealth, and Bao Zheng is such a virtuous person, why not?
Human nature is the most difficult to control, but the Song Dynasty has done a good job, has been pursuing a high salary and honesty, which is also one of the biggest factors that lead to Bao Zheng's life of integrity and honesty, there is also Bao Zheng has received a good education since childhood, his moral character is noble, and the gentleman is frank, which is also a very important reason, if Bao Zheng was born in zeng Bingzheng's era, can Bao Zheng still be as clean and honest as this? When a man can't support his family, will he still regard money as dung, the old saying often says that poor people have evil thoughts, maybe this is it.