In The history of China, many famous officials have appeared, some of whom have used the power in their hands to corrupt the law, use their power for personal gain, and enrich themselves; on the contrary, some of them have been honest and honest officials, and some have left their names in history. The former is infamous, the latter is popular for centuries.
Among the officials of the past, the most loved by the people is Bao Zheng in Kaifeng Province. He is almost a household name, he is selfless in his judgment, he is fair and strict for the officials, and people give him the nickname Bao Qingtian. He appealed to the people for justice, judged cases quickly, and was not afraid of power, and he adhered to the principle that the Son of Heaven had broken the law and shared the common people.'
However, such a good official who took the benefit of the people as his duty and was loved by the people for the country and the people has always been mistaken for an official who worships the minister, because he is selfless in his iron face and puts Chen Shimei, the horse that was always chaotic and abandoned, to the fa, so there is the widely circulated lyrics of Chen Shimei's original wife, Qin Xianglian. Looking at Bao Zheng's eunuch career, it is not difficult to find that he has never worshipped the chancellor, so why do the people call him a chancellor?
When it comes to Bao Zheng's official position, it is necessary to explore the reasons from the entire official system of the Northern Song Dynasty. The political system of the Song Dynasty is not the same as other feudal dynasties, the Song Dynasty has no fixed results, that is to say, this position is not an iron rice bowl, he adopts a rotating official system, and the purpose of this is to concentrate the imperial power and disperse the elephant power, in order to change the sharp contradiction between the previous prime minister under one person, above ten thousand people and the imperial power.
In the early northern song dynasty, the governor of the three provinces of Zhongshu Menxia Shangshu Zhongshu Province was still set up as zhengxiang xiang, and the governor of the governor was the deputy minister, and our Bao Qingtian Bao Zheng was a jinshi of the northern Song Dynasty for five years. Bao Zheng was very affectionate, his parents were not far away, so he did not immediately choose to become an official in the DPRK after entering high school, but after his parents drove to the west of the crane, he completed his filial piety and set foot in his career under the persuasion of relatives and friends.
Until Song Jingyou was appointed to Zhixian County for four years, he was later transferred to Ruizhou, and after Zhizhou returned to Beijing, he was appointed as the inspector of imperial history, and he could impeach bureaucrats who misbehaved and wrongdoing, that is, the current secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission. Later, he served as the highest privy councillor and deputy envoy to manage the military and government, which was similar to that of the prime minister, and the official residence was Zheng Erpin. Bao Zheng held the position of Privy Councillor, but died within a year and a half. After his death, he was posthumously given a pin of Rebbe Shangshu, so Bao Zheng never served as a chancellor in his lifetime.
Bao Zheng was an official for twenty-six years, the most well-known of which was Kaifeng Fuyin, equivalent to the current ministerial leader of the municipality, and he could not sit on the throne until his death. The reason why he is called a minister in the people is probably because the common people hope that such a good person can be the biggest official and seek justice for the people.