<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Bao Zheng as an official</h1>
In China's long history, there have always been some officials who are known for their integrity and honesty. These officials are not afraid of power, are upright, and their purpose as officials is to do practical things for the people. Therefore, these people can always be loved by the people, and are called "the great lord of the blue sky" by the people. In the history of China, the most famous "Qingtian Grand Master" is Bao Zheng.
Bao Zheng, nicknamed "Bao Qingtian", was a jinshi during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song. In China's feudal era, most officials started from local counties, and it was nothing more than the local conditions in which the first people served were good and easy to make political achievements. Therefore, Bao Zheng was transferred to present-day Yongxiu Dangzhi County, Jiangxi after he was a jinshi.
However, Bao Zheng is a famous filial piety, and his parents were already very old when he was admitted to the jinshi, so Bao Zheng wanted to stay in his hometown of Feidong County, Hefei, as an official, so that he was relatively close to home and could go home to visit his parents at any time. Unfortunately, there was no shortage of people in Feidong County of Hefei at that time, so at that time, the imperial court decided to let him go to Ma'anshan City and County, which were two counties away from Feidong County of Hefei, as a tax supervisor, responsible for supervising the taxation of local feudal towns.
In the case of inconvenient transportation in ancient times, the distance between the two counties is still a bit far, plus Bao Zheng is the youngest son of the family, ranked third, and the most loved by his parents, so Bao Zheng's parents are still reluctant to him. Bao Zheng was helpless, simply resigned from the government and did not return to his hometown to support his parents, and waited until the two old people were a hundred years later, Bao Zheng kept the funeral for three more years.
After the funeral was still reluctant to save his parents, the father and fellow villagers came to persuade him, saying that it was not easy for him to enter the examination after so many years of study, and it was too wasteful to stay in his hometown like this, and he should go out to benefit the people for the officials. Only then did Bao Zheng pick up his spirits and return to the imperial court to resume his life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Bao Zheng's path to becoming an official</h1>
Bao Zheng, who had just begun to become an official, was sent to Dangzhi County in the area of present-day Tianchang City, Anhui Province, and this Zhixian Bao Zheng had been doing it for 6 or 7 years. In the past few years, Bao Zheng has been loyal to his duties and has managed his jurisdiction in an orderly manner. Therefore, after several years as a "county magistrate", Bao Zheng was promoted to the current Guangdong Zhaoqing as a prefect, a position equivalent to the current secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor.
After becoming the "mayor", Bao Zheng's incorruptibility began to be known to the world. The current Guangdong Zhaoqing was called Duanzhou during the Song Dynasty, and the most famous duanzhou is Duanyan.
Duan Yan is one of the four famous Stones in China and has a history of thousands of years. The end of the modern Fangzheng Eight Classics also costs a few hundred yuan, if it is a better price of tens of thousands, if it is an old Yantai used by celebrities, it is a hundred thousand hundred thousand to start.
Therefore, the officials who served in Duanzhou often relied on geographical advantages to expropriate and violently levy on local Duanyan. During the Song Dynasty, one of the most developed periods of Chinese literature, literati and politicians liked calligraphy and painting and the four treasures of the literary room, and the famous four treasures of the literary room such as Duan Yan were naturally very sought after by the literati of the Song Dynasty.
At that time, Duan yan was a tribute yan, so many officials reported the number of duan yan in the tax to dozens of times larger when collecting tribute taxes. This extra Duan Yan was privately swallowed by the Duanzhou officials, and then these Duanyan would become gifts from top to bottom of the Duanzhou officials.
After Bao Zheng took office, he began to crack down this unhealthy trend. Bao Zheng first announced the amount of tribute tax per year for Duan Yan, and then opened up the reporting channels, and if any official who collected tribute Yan falsely reported the amount of tribute tax, he would be severely punished. After Bao Zheng's governance, the previous trend of tyranny and tyranny of the Duan Yan has been greatly curbed.
Bao Zheng's two years as the "mayor" of Duanzhou made great achievements, because of his honesty, the imperial court decided to appoint him as the inspector of imperial history, and this official is equivalent to the head of the discipline inspection and supervision office of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission today. In less than 10 years, from a county magistrate to a director of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Bao Zheng's journey as an official can be described as a smooth road.
Because Bao Zheng's name of incorruptibility spread throughout the world, after serving as an inspector for several years, Bao Zheng served as a transit envoy in many important provinces.
This transfer envoy is an official position in charge of the transportation of grain, salt, and iron in a province, and this official position has great power and a large amount of funds handled, so it is extremely easy for big corrupt officials to appear, and Bao Zheng can serve as a transport envoy for several provinces, which is enough to see the trust of the imperial court in him.
The most well-known official position That Bao Zheng held in his lifetime was that of Kaifeng Fuyin. But in fact, Bao Zheng fought all kinds of corrupt magnates in the position of Kaifeng Fuyin, and the people who followed The Dynasty Mahan and others were all artistic processing in later generations.
In fact, Bao Zheng only served as an official in Kaifeng for more than a year, and Bao Zheng was not the governor of Kaifeng Province. In fact, Bao Zheng did not serve in the Eight Classics of Kaifeng Zheng'er, he was in charge of Kaifeng Province at that time, and he had the power of Fu Yin, but he did not have the position of Fu Yin.
Kaifeng Fu yin is a very special position, because this position was prepared for the Song Dynasty clan. The capital of the Song Dynasty was Tokyo, which is now kaifeng city in Henan.
Fu Yin is the highest official of a city, and as the capital of Fu Yin, its status is naturally very respected. Therefore, since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng Fuyin has not been a permanent position, and there was Kaifeng Fuyin when there was a clan office holding this position.
If there was no clan to serve as the supreme leader of Kaifeng Province, the Song Dynasty appointed an official to give him "the right to know the affairs of Kaifeng Province".
But in any case, Bao Zheng's "quan zhi Kaifeng government affairs" met the good expectations of the common people, making the people think that Bao Zheng's honesty and honesty had received great attention from the emperor, and Bao Zheng had great power from then on, and even managed all the affairs of the capital.
It is also for this reason that later generations have carried out various artistic processes for Bao Zheng's "Quan Zhi Kaifeng Fu Affair" period, and what is the case of GongMei and the dragon head and the pang Taishi are all fabricated by posterity.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the integrity and fairness of Bao Zheng</h1>
However, although Bao Zheng's affairs as the governor of Kaifeng were mostly fabricated, his fairness and honesty were not fabricated. After Bao Zheng became an official, he was truly selfless with an iron face and did not recognize his six relatives.
When he was the governor of Duanzhou, the villagers in his hometown of Hefei thought they could get Bao Zheng's protection, so they committed crimes everywhere. In order to curb this trend, Bao Zheng directly took out one of his uncles as a "typical".
At that time, Bao Zheng's uncle pretended that he was Bao Zheng's blood relatives and committed crimes everywhere, although he did not run amok in the township, but there were no less things such as petty theft and not giving money for eating.
When Bao Zheng's uncle was caught by Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng did not say a word and directly ordered his uncle to be beaten dozens of boards. As soon as the fathers and villagers of Hefei saw that Bao Zheng even dared to beat his own uncle, he never used Bao Zheng's name to do anything bad.
In addition to beating his uncle, the most famous thing about Bao Zheng was that he did not have a single thing on his body when he stepped down as the governor of Duanzhou. As we said earlier, Duanzhou is rich in Duanyan, and officials of all sizes in Duanzhou often embezzle Duanyan in the name of collecting tribute. However, Bao Zheng did not have a single piece of Duan Yan on his body after he stepped down as the supreme leader of Duanzhou, which can be said to be incorruptible to the extreme.
After Bao Zheng began to become an official, he was always able to separate private affairs from official affairs, and in his path to becoming an official, if someone asked Bao Zheng to do things with private feelings, then Bao Zheng would definitely not help.
But if it is a business, even if it is tedious and laborious, it will be done. Moreover, Bao Zheng was not afraid of offending people, and many high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty were impeached by him for corruption, the most representative of which were several three envoys equivalent to the current minister of finance.
Because Bao Zheng also has extremely high requirements for other officials, many officials in the DPRK and China do not like Bao Zheng very much and want to get Bao Zheng to step down. But don't look at Bao Zheng is very fair and honest as if he lacks heart and eyes, in fact, Bao Zheng is very "old and slippery".
Bao Zheng is extremely careful in doing things, it is difficult for others to catch his handle, and he eats and wears the same degree as ordinary people, which makes it difficult for those officials who hate Bao Zheng to pick fault from Bao Zheng.
When Bao Zheng was 56 years old, an official he recommended committed an accident, which implicated him, so Bao Zheng was demoted once. But since then, Bao Zheng has had one more heart, whether it is recommending others or promoting himself, he is extremely cautious and cautious, and resolutely does not leave a tongue for others.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the mythical Bao Zheng</h1>
Because of Bao Zheng's "old slippery", Bao Zheng was able to serve as a three-divisional envoy equivalent to a modern minister of finance and a ceremonial attendant equivalent to the deputy minister of modern culture, education, and foreign affairs without offending people everywhere.
And because of Bao Zheng's honesty, the folk have a lot of deification of Bao Zheng, in addition to the various opera performances, posterity even recorded Bao Zheng into the Chinese mythological system.
Like in the Chinese mythological system, hell is jointly administered by the ten halls of Yan Luo, of which the fifth hall of the Great Hell, Yan Luo, is managed by Bao Zheng.
Legend has it that anyone who goes to hell will be judged by Bao Zheng, and if he is guilty, he will be thrown into the great hell to be punished, and if he is not guilty, he will go to the next Yan Luo Temple to continue to approve or reincarnate.
Moreover, Bao Zheng's blackface image is also related to his identity as the King of Yan Luo. Bao Zheng did not like to laugh because he was more strict with people, so the world often called him Bao Blackface, so that he later evolved into "BlackFace Bao Gong".
This black-faced baogong has a crescent on the brain gate, which is the so-called "Taiyin brain gate". With such a brain door, Bao Zheng can pass through the yin and yang realms at will, so Bao Zheng is an official in the human world during the day and a trial in the underground government at night. It is with these legends that the Bao Zheng we see is a Qing official with a crescent moon on his head and a black face.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Bao Zheng's strategic vision</h1>
In addition to being fair and honest for officials, Bao Zheng also has a strong strategic vision. At the time of his appointment as an official, the Song Dynasty was in the stage when its armaments began to relax, and at that time the Song Dynasty had just been defeated in the Song-Liao War, and its military strength had been greatly damaged.
Therefore, the Song Dynasty's attitude toward the Liao State began to ease, no longer preparing to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, but instead contributing annual coins to the Liao Dynasty in order to alleviate it.
However, Bao Zheng was very dissatisfied with this situation, and he believed that this kind of behavior of the Song Dynasty was only fueling the greed of the Liao State, so that the armament of the Song Dynasty would become more and more relaxed, and then the initiative between the Song and the Liao would fall into the hands of the Liao State, and what the Song State would have to face at that time would not be as simple as paying the old coins.
Therefore, Bao Zheng called for the end of the old-age coin system with the Liao state, the reorganization and training of the army, the promotion of talented generals, and the preparation of border defenses. However, the Song State only wanted to defend half of the Central Plains, so it did not adopt Bao Zheng's opinion.
After that, as Bao Zheng expected, the armament of the Song state became more and more relaxed, and in the 65 years after Bao Zheng's death, the shame of Jingkang occurred in the Song kingdom, and the magnates of the capital and the two emperors were all abducted by the Jin state, and the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.
In general, Bao Zheng is a strong and fair person and has outstanding ability, he can always manage the affairs within his position well in every position, whether it is a powerful person or relatives and friends are not afraid of offending.
In addition, he also established a fair and honest family style, and any heir of the Bao family who committed corruption would be expelled from the Bao family and could not enter the ancestral grave after death. If the heirs of the Bao family in later generations are corrupt, they cannot claim to be the descendants of Bao Zheng.
Therefore, the people of the Song Dynasty were very fond of Bao Zheng, and when Bao Zheng died, the people of the whole country wept bitterly, and the Emperor of the Song Dynasty once personally went to mourn him, and for this reason he also stopped the government for a day.
Later, with the development of time, the image of Bao Zheng in the eyes of the world became more and more deified, and the Qing officials in later generations also took Bao Zheng as an idol, and even compared themselves to Bao Zheng. Ordinary people sometimes call Qingguan "Bao Qingtian is alive", and it is not difficult to see that Bao Zheng has become synonymous with Qingguan.