It is said that Bao Zheng is "iron-faced selfless Bao Qingtian", as long as he violates the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, Bao Zheng can behead princes and nobles, and the commoner Li Shu can be cursed. However, there was such a person, Bao Zheng gritted his teeth and did not dare to punish him. Who is this person? Can you actually make Bao Zheng helpless?
This person is Chai Wenyi, a descendant of the Later Zhou royal family.
Bao Zheng had beheaded the emperor and the state relatives, questioned the Holy Lord and the Empress Dowager, and his iron-faced selflessness never discriminated because of the identity of the other party. In his heart, it is the top priority to maintain the fairness of the Great Song Law and create a fair society under the rule of law for the country and the people. However, when Bao Zheng met Chai Wenyi, in addition to sighing that "God has no eyes", he actually had the idea of abandoning the official. What happened?
Later Zhou royal family
Speaking of Chai Wenyi Chai Xiaowangye, with his background, not only Bao Zheng, but even the Great Song royal family did not dare to slap the table head-on and glare. Chai Wenyi seems to be an idle king without power in the court, but in fact, he has a power that is almost "above ten thousand people under one person".
Why can a Wang Ye with a foreign surname be so arrogant? This has to start with the Later Zhou regime and the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty.
When the Great Tang lost its glory, the entire Chinese land fell into chaos again, and many regimes emerged during this period, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. In this chaotic background, a young man named Chai Rong appeared in the Xingzhou Wang clan, who loved to dance guns and clubs since he was a child, and was familiar with history books and the art of Huang Lao.
When he became an adult, Chai Rong was both civil and martial, carrying a gun and riding to fight in all directions, and with his uncle Guo Wei, he assisted Liu Zhiyuan on the throne and established the Later Han regime. Liu Zhiyuan admired Chai Rong very much and entrusted him with a heavy task.
Who knows that in 948, only one year after the establishment of the Later Han Dynasty, Liu Zhiyuan suddenly died, and the crown prince Liu Chengyou succeeded to the throne. This new emperor had not experienced war, and he had no concept of his colleagues in his heart. He was very jealous of Guo Wei and Chai Rong, and found an opportunity to slaughter Guo Wei's entire family.
Fortunately, Guo Wei and Chai Rong had something to do, and they escaped. After this incident, the two were bitter and indignant, and raised troops to kill the capital of Kaifeng, overthrowing Liu Chengyou's rule and ending the establishment of the Later Zhou regime by the Later Han Dynasty.
Soon after Guo Weiden's throne, he became seriously ill, and he quietly died after transferring the Later Zhou regime to Chai Rong. As a result, a generation of heroes after Zhou Shizong Chai Rong officially entered the historical stage.
Chai Rong can be described as the proud son of heaven, attaching importance to agriculture and building water conservancy, not only politically extremely clear, but also militarily a snow Han people for many years.
Under his strategic thinking of "first the south and then the north," there are great signs that the Central Plains will be unified. But who would have thought that the proud son of Tianzhi, who was about to recover the northern homeland that had been invaded by the Hu people for a long time, suddenly contracted a vicious disease and died in the Hall of Long Live at the age of 38.
In this way, Chai Rong left behind the orphan and widow of the Chai family, and that ambition also disappeared. The Later Zhou regime, which was originally most likely to dominate the world, appeared a Chen Qiao mutiny, and Zhao Kuangyin, who was added to the yellow robe, disappeared from Zhou and the Northern Song regime was established.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, as Chai Rong's general, had meritorious achievements in the southern and northern wars, but the world obtained by bullying orphans and widows will eventually be discussed by the world.
Perhaps in order to atone for his sins, or perhaps in order to block the world's leisurely mouths, Zhao Kuangyin specially issued a "death-free iron ticket" to the Chai clan, as long as the Chai clan did not commit trouble, almost no guilt could be added to them.
After the death of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, he specially left three ancestral precepts to the descendants of the royal family, and these three ancestral precepts were engraved on the Taizu stone tablet, but all future generations came to pay their respects, and they had to read the ancestral precepts.
One of them is about the descendants of the Chai family, that is, no matter what sins the descendants of the Chai family committed, the descendants of the Zhao family must not investigate deeply, and they must maximize forgiveness.
Little Wang Ye Chai Wenyi
Such a character appeared in the 93rd version of "Bao Qingtian", Chai Wenyi, the son of the old king of Shang, Chai Laowang. This little Wang Ye has the protection of the ancestor of Taizu, it can be said that he is arrogant and domineering, and never puts anyone in his eyes. How much is he?
For the Yang family generals who were loyal to the family and dedicated to protecting the country and defending the country, Chai Wenyi first destroyed them to the point that only orphans and widows remained, and later even framed the Yang family so that the Yang family was beheaded by the whole family.
One day in the capital, Yang Jiabao encountered Chai Wenyi robbing people's daughters on the street, and Yang Jiabao, who was righteous, intervened to stop it, so that Chai Wenyi touched a nose of ash. Chai Wenyi, who gritted his teeth, held a grudge and made trouble for Yang Jiabao many times.
Chai Wenyi's sister, Chai Wenting, the lord of Chai Family County, has long had feelings for Yang Jiabao in her heart, she does not understand why her brother did this, and every time she asks her brother, she is reprimanded. In desperation, Chai Wenting could only secretly protect Yang Jiabao through her own means. With the help of the county owner, every time Yang Jiabao secretly calculated, he could save the day.
The more this happened, the more annoyed Chai Wenyi became, and a vicious plan slowly sprouted in his heart, he wanted to design to kill Yang Jiabao. What I never expected was that her younger sister Chai Wenting had a deep affection for Yang Jiabao and was willing to give her life for Yang Jiabao, but also to make Chai Wenyi's plan fail.
Chai Wenyi, who mistakenly killed his own sister, became angry, but he still did not repent, and immediately framed Yang Jiabao for killing his sister, and Yang Jiabao was imprisoned.
The Yang family has a strict tutor, and no one believes that Yang Jiabao would do such a thing that hurts nature. But Chai Wenyi had long used his power to block all the avenues for redress, and it was useless to let the Yang family work hard and run around.
Fortunately, in the end, Bao Zheng came into contact with the case, which investigated the matter clearly. Chai Wenyi had the asylum of "death-free iron tickets" and could not be convicted, but it did not prevent Bao Zheng from releasing Yang Jiabao from prison first.
Upon learning that Yang Jiabao was released from prison, Chai Wenyi fell into complete madness, and he expanded his personal grudge infinitely, vowing to let the entire Yang family give his sister a burial.
So Chai Wenyi brutally killed the border guard Yang Jiasheng and Old Lady Yang, and cut off Yang Zhong's tongue, so that he could not go to Beijing to cry out wrongs. Without the key figure, he immediately framed the Yang family for collaborating with the enemy, and he discovered and stopped it in time. After all, the Yang family is a courtier, and the Chai family is closer to the Zhao family royal family after all.
Therefore, the emperor did not investigate much at all, unilaterally determined Chai Wenyi's statement, and beheaded the Yang family, and Yang Jiabao fled everywhere with the help of others. Chai Wenyi began to be angry with his father, who had been persuading him, thinking of the true cause of his sister's death, this unfilial son actually forced his father to die and coveted the position of King Shang.
Bao Zheng has tried cases all his life, and when he saw that things had developed to this situation, he couldn't bear the anger in his chest. He arrested Chai Wenyi for interrogation, and pointed the lawsuit and evidence to Chai Wenyi. But Chai Wenyi did not have the slightest remorse, not only arrogant in the hall, but even mocked Bao Zheng with loud words.
Ironic about the three guillotines given by the emperor on Bao Zhengtang, the dog's head guillotine can only guillotine the local tyrants and inferior gentry, the tiger's head guillotine can only guillotine corrupt officials, and the dragon head guillotine can nominally guillotine the emperor's relatives and state relatives, but no matter the guillotine, it can't guillotine him, a person who holds a death-free iron ticket.
Bao Zheng was furious, risking death by the emperor to seek justice for the Yang family, vowing to kill this bastard. But everyone around was persuading Bao Zheng to think twice, after all, this is the ancestral motto left by Taizu, and if he goes down with a knife, Chai Wenyi who dies will damage the face of the Zhao family's royal family.
The ancestral training is still there, the iron coupon is still there, this will undoubtedly bring credit risk to the world a kind of Zhao family royal family, how will the people of the world view the saint today? Therefore, Bao Zheng, who had no choice, fell into extreme self-blame and disappointment. He did not understand why good people should be treated like this, and how the wicked could go unpunished like this.
Bao Zheng, who was in disarray, wanted to resign, and he sighed: "Why is God so unfair? As soon as the words fell, there were dark clouds outside the door for a while.
Chai Wenyi, who had just walked out of the gate and was still swaggering and speaking wildly, was suddenly killed by a thunder that fell from the sky, and everyone present clapped their hands.
Chai Wenyi's death is very dramatic, not only expressing the irrationality of the death-free system, but also highlighting the core significance of heavenly reason and omission without omission. You must know that when reviewing the matter of "tanuki for prince", Bao Zhengshang can face the royal family and speak impartially. At this point, it can only be influenced by the rules.
It can be seen that the "death-free iron ticket" of the Chai clan accounted for a considerable part of the weight in the Great Song Dynasty. This weight, which began with Zhao Kuangyin's guilt, gradually evolved into a force that could influence politics and law.
Although Zhao Kuangyin felt guilty in his heart, he was also wary of the Chai family, and would never let the Chai family really enter the center of the politics of the dynasty. Just like "releasing power with a glass of wine", what a person in power fears most is the loss of power from his hands. It is a pity that Zhao Kuangyin did not expect that a "death-free iron ticket" would become an existence that affected the balance under the use of people with hearts.
Not to mention the people of Li, even if the entire court from the emperor down to the civil and military officials, they must be afraid of the face of the ancestors and the royal family. This caused Chai Wenyi's arrogance and arrogance, creating one unjust case after another.
The Legalist's idea that "the Son of Heaven commits the same crime as the common people" is to create an equal society under the rule of law, but once there are prerequisites for affecting the balance, even the iron-faced and selfless Bao Zheng cannot enforce the law impartially, which is a pity.
Chai Wenyi is a fictional character in film and television works, but it also reflects the various drawbacks of the death-free system. In history, there is no Chai Wenyi, but there are endless people who are arrogant and domineering through the grace of "avoiding death".
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, even if there were death-free imperial graces such as "Danshu Iron Tickets", they no longer had the same weight as the Song Dynasty. The beggar-born emperor Zhu Yuanzhang never cared about the fake and empty things of royal face, he could give the greatest gift to his courtiers, and he could also take back the gift.
Therefore, many of the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty had "Danshu iron coupons" in their homes, but in the end they still couldn't escape Zhu Yuanzhang's angry butcher's knife. Therefore, when there are certain privileges, the most important thing to think about should be how to keep a low profile and maintain, rather than abuse that no one can see.