When it was another year of examination, countless talents competed for glory, and ten years of hard reading in the cold window, only to earn merit and fame, if they ascended to the throne, it would be supreme glory.
As people often say, there are three great joys in life, he knows his hometown, the night of the cave flower candle, and the title of this gold list.
Chen Shimei was a member of the examination, and as an ordinary reader, it seemed that only Dengke and the first could get ahead. His wife, Qin Xianglian, gentle and kind, Dun Conscience, and he respected him as a guest and was very affectionate, and chen Shimei was very reluctant to go to the capital.
However, at that time, his reluctance had long been forgotten by him after high school, and Chen Shimei, who was elected as a horse, saw that the future was good and wanted to kill his wife. In the end, it was a North Korean official who stepped forward, collecting evidence to prove Chen Shimei's crimes, and finally beheading her under the dragon head.
This person is Bao Zheng, a famous Qing official in the Northern Song Dynasty, who was a clean and honest official all his life, enforced the law impartially during his tenure, was not afraid of the powerful, and was the real parent official in the minds of the people.
But this qing official also had his own troubles. On his 60th birthday, the Qing official could not help but lament that he had no children under his knees, and did not think about it, when his daughter-in-law suddenly knelt down in front of Bao Zheng and told the truth that he still had a son, which surprised everyone at the scene with joy.
After all, Lord Bao, who has been an honest official all his life, should have a child and grandchildren who go around his knees and enjoy the old age of heaven.
A Qing official, he had just erected a temple
Fan Zhongyan once lamented in the "Record of Yueyang Lou", "If you live in the height of the temple, you are worried about the people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you are worried about the king", and why is Bao Zheng not the one who worries about the king and the people?
From the moment he entered the career path in the examination, he has always been a man in the state of a strong pine cypress, and has been enforcing the law for the Great Song, the monarch, and the Li Shu all his life.
Bao Zheng is often referred to as Bao Longtu because he once served as a bachelor of Longtu Ge.
Longtu Pavilion is a palace set up during the Northern Song Dynasty, which houses the imperial books of Zhao Guangyi of the Song Dynasty and the royal treasures of the Royal Treasures. However, in the eyes of many future generations, the title of "Bao Qingtian" seems to be more familiar.
In fact, Bao Zheng's official position was the prefect of Kaifeng City, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the lyrics of "Kaifeng has a Bao Qingtian" are praises for Bao Zheng's severe law enforcement, justice and strictness during his tenure as prefect of Kaifeng Province. What does Blue Sky look like? Clear, clear, vast, broad, just like the two sleeves of the wind, acting impartially.
In feudal societies where imperial power is greater than heaven, royal families often have a supreme position, and even if they make mistakes and break the law, they can often escape punishment because of their status.
But Bao Zheng was not afraid of the powerful and prominent people with belts wrapped around their waists and crowns, and in his resolute obsession, the prince broke the law and should be guilty of the same crime as the common people.
Whether the Case of Zhenmei is a real event remains to be examined, or perhaps it is just a folk tale compiled by later generations in order to praise Bao Qingtian. However, if you think about it carefully, it is not afraid of Chen Shimei's identity as a pony to decisively behead him, which is also in line with Bao Zheng's style.
Some dignitaries and nobles secretly built ornamental gardens in private, just in time to encroach on a river in the capital, when the capital was flooded, and the crowded rivers were not only not conducive to the solution of the flood, but also added to the obstruction. After Bao Zheng knew about this, he resolutely sent someone to demolish the garden construction.
Bao Zheng's office is strict, and this rigor extends to all aspects, so that others may think that he is not very reasonable. In the capital, some people juxtaposed Bao Zheng with the King of Yan Luo, saying that they were all people who could not be secretly dredged. The degree of selflessness of Lord Bao's iron face was actually comparable to that of the King of Yan Luo.
In fact, after Bao Zheng's face, which may look a little serious and upright, it is a pure heart that is clean and self-righteous, does not accept privately from others, and does not seek personal gain from the public. If most of the officials of the court can have such a pure and upright heart, why worry about not being able to clean up the government and support the government well?
The "family affair" of The Lord Of The Bag
As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clean official to break off family affairs, and family affairs are actually no better than official affairs, and they must not be able to copy the state of handling official affairs. However, as the "top stream" of the Qing official circles, it is not difficult for Lord Bao to judge his household chores, and it can even be said that it is quite clear.
Although Bao Zheng is upright and solemn, he also gives a tender and gentle side to his parents. Confucius once said: "Parents are here, not far to travel, travel must be good", in Bao Zheng's early years of entry, he once chose to work in Hefei in order not to be too far away from his parents, and later resigned from the government to go home to take care of his elderly parents.
There was a system in ancient China called "Ding You", which means that after the death of the parents of the official of the dynasty, the official should be suspended from his post and return to his ancestral home to guard the system for the deceased parents, and during the 27-month period of this system, the parties cannot be officials.
After the death of Bao Zheng's parents, he kept the funeral for his parents for a long time, and he was still reluctant to leave after the deadline was completed.
Bao Zheng, who has upheld filial piety and cherished his parents all his life, in fact, his personal life was relatively clear in ancient times.
At that time, the feudal hierarchy was strict, and the old concept of "three from four virtues" prevailed.
Women's status was inferior to that of men, so three wives and four concubines were a common phenomenon at that time. For the officials of the clan, warblers and swallows are more common.
Bao Zheng not only had a wife, after all, the ideological concept at that time was not advanced to the point of "monogamy", but he was already relatively restrained, with 2 wives and a concubine in his lifetime.
After Bao Zheng's first wife died of illness, he married his second wife. When the second wife married into the Bao Mansion, she brought a dowry maid. Bao Zheng then took the dowry maid into the concubine room. What Bao Zheng did not know at that time was that this concubine who was born from a dowry gave birth to a son for him.
Bao Zheng's second wife actually gave birth to a son, who was named Bao Zheng. Bao Qi inherited his father's excellence, and once served as an official to Taizhu of Taichang Temple and tongjue Tanzhou.
However, his life expectancy was not long, and Bao Qi died the following year after marriage. This is a great blow to the Bao Zheng family. While Bao Zheng had not yet withdrawn from mourning, his grandson also died early at the age of 5.
"Surprise" at the birthday party
Later, on the day of the 60th birthday banquet held in Bao Zheng, something happened that shocked everyone present.
Bao Zheng was in a high position, and many senior members of the DPRK and China came to wish him a happy birthday. Bao Zheng was naturally very grateful to the people who had come to congratulate him, but between the back and forth, he looked at the lively scene of the full house, but he still couldn't help but sigh that he had no children under his knees and was thin.
Throughout his life, Bao Zheng was a diligent official, impartially enforced the law, worried about the king and loved the people, and indeed made some political achievements, but the beautiful happiness of this world is difficult to enjoy. Bao Zheng couldn't help but think about his heart and suddenly felt sad.
His daughter-in-law noticed her father's sad countenance at this time, came to Bao Zheng and suddenly knelt down in front of him, and solemnly said to Bao Zheng, What you don't know is that you actually have a son. Bao Zheng was stunned, he had reached the age of flower armor, how could he have a son?
When he saw a child being carried out by his daughter-in-law, Bao Zheng was even more surprised. After the daughter-in-law's explanation, everyone understood that this child was born from Bao Zheng's concubine room, that is, bao Zheng's second wife's dowry maid, after she was accepted as Bao Zheng's concubine room, she was expelled from bao mansion because of a mistake, and then found out that she was pregnant.
Later, the daughter-in-law and the concubine room had a connection under the circumstances of fate, and only then did they know what was going on.
The fact that the 60-year-old Bao Zheng suddenly knew that he still had a son at the birthday banquet surprised Bao Zheng. Bao Zheng named the child Bao Shi, and many years later, Bao Shi also became a Qing official.
The eunuch sea has been up and down for many years, and Bao Zheng has never changed its integrity and honesty,
Between the confrontation between the royal family and the high-ranking officials and nobles, he did not bow his eyebrows for the sake of power, and did not favor favoritism for the sake of profit.
Among the great temples, he is the most straightforward and solemn color.
Just like the cultivation of bamboo in the forest, it is straight and unbroken, with a straight posture independent of the forest breeze, always clear and unyielding.
The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is bustling, all are for profit.
A truly good official, such as Bao Zheng, should not only be for his own benefit, but more for the sake of righteousness and jurisprudence and the people of the world, and stick to the Tao in his heart in the chaotic and complicated official field.