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Song Dynasty Strange Case: The cow's tongue was stolen, Bao Zheng let people slaughter the cow, and the thief turned himself in

Good, evil, loyalty and adultery, from ancient times to the present, have their own conclusions in people's hearts, whether they are traitors and villains, or good officials with two sleeves and clean winds, their life and past events have been outlined in the history books one by one, the chief scholar of the Qing Dynasty, He Yan, the chief scholar of the Qing Dynasty, Qin Juniper, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Gao, the eunuch of the Qin Dynasty. They are all famous traitors and corrupt officials.

There must be justice when there is evil, and chinese culture has been up and down for five thousand years, and there have been endless clean officials and good officials. Di Renjie of the Tang Dynasty, Ximen Leopard of the County Commander of the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, and of course, the most famous is Bao Zheng in the Northern Song Dynasty, who was honest and honest in his life, and cracked countless mysteries, such as the case of Gongmei, the exchange of tanuki cats for princes, the beating of dragon robes and so on. He is very honest and selfless, and has a crescent on his forehead and is known as the "Black Bread Gong" by the world.

Song Dynasty Strange Case: The cow's tongue was stolen, Bao Zheng let people slaughter the cow, and the thief turned himself in

During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bao Zheng used a different method of judging cases to solve a case where the ox's tongue was cut off, and the incident went like this.

One day, Bao Zheng had not yet ascended to the church, only to hear someone outside beating a drum and sounding injustice, Bao Zheng quickly ordered someone to ascend to the church to bring the man, after asking the original committee, it was the farmer's cow that had been cut off his tongue for no reason, and he did not know who the thief was, because Bao Zheng was a local parent official, and cases large and small could be managed, so he came to complain early in the morning.

Song Dynasty Strange Case: The cow's tongue was stolen, Bao Zheng let people slaughter the cow, and the thief turned himself in

Bao Zheng did not say anything else, but told him to let him kill the cattle, then the murderer will come uninvited, the farmer is very strange, why people have not been caught, they still have to kill the cattle, and the law at that time can not kill cattle without reason, because cattle in that era without cars, industrial underdevelopment is the most important labor force for agricultural work, the status is very high.

However, Bao Zheng's prestige was already famous at that time, the villagers trusted him and relied on him, since he said he wanted to kill the cattle, then kill it, sharpen the knife to the cattle and sheep, after killing the cattle, Bao Zheng sent someone to tell the farmer that tomorrow he would sell the slaughtered cattle.

Song Dynasty Strange Case: The cow's tongue was stolen, Bao Zheng let people slaughter the cow, and the thief turned himself in

The farmer obeyed and did so, so he disposed of the cattle and turned them into pieces of beef, and the next day they took them to the market to sell, the people were poor people, the opportunity to eat beef was too small, most of them were vegetables and fruits, so the farmer's stall people came and went, but it was very lively, rushing to buy beef.

Just at this moment, another complainant came to Bao Zheng's mansion, and he accused the farmer of breaking the law and committing suicide against the cattle, and Bao Zheng listened to his complaint and asked people to bring the old farmer and tell him that this was the one who cut off the tongue of your cow. After interrogation, it was found that this man was indeed a thief, and because he had a personal vendetta against the farmer, he wanted to kill him.

Song Dynasty Strange Case: The cow's tongue was stolen, Bao Zheng let people slaughter the cow, and the thief turned himself in

This incident confirmed Bao Zheng's miraculous judgment, he first decided that the person who cut off the cow's tongue must be a grudge with the farmer, and wanted to put him to death by means of the Song Dynasty's law that the cattle could not commit suicide privately, so he cut off the tongue, and the old cow must not survive, just by going from the head to the palace to sue him.

Bao Zheng's wisdom and wisdom were well known at that time, and those who wrote books and wrote books wrote him into history and discourse, without adding oil and vinegar, according to the facts, they recorded the cases he had cracked in his life, and the people sang praises to him and preached his honesty and honesty, and it was precisely because of this that there was the famous Bao Qingtian in later history. Until now, many people have made his affairs into a TV series, so that future generations know that there is such a clean official in history.

Song Dynasty Strange Case: The cow's tongue was stolen, Bao Zheng let people slaughter the cow, and the thief turned himself in

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