Preface
There were many famous ministers and good generals in the Song Dynasty, but when it comes to being honest and honest, people can do it with two sleeves, and people often flash a person with a black face and a crescent moon on the hall, this person is Bao Zheng, who is affectionately called "Bao Qingtian" by people.
After all, an honest official like Bao Zheng will certainly not have much inheritance, but why is the legacy he left behind for future generations to enjoy for more than a thousand years?
Even Bao Zheng's 29th grandson is richer than Li Ka-shing, which makes people wonder, does an official as Bao Zheng really leave a very rich legacy?
So if the inheritance is strong, why is Bao Zheng still called a "clean official"?
1. Filial piety for parents
Bao Zheng is known as "Bao Qingtian" and "Bao Gong" because of his qualities such as honesty, iron-faced selflessness, and lack of fear of power, coupled with his ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and his ability to avenge grievances for the people and be loved by the people.
Later generations even worshipped Bao Zheng as a god, believing that Bao Zheng was a descendant of Wenqu Xing and recognized him as a lucky star. It can be seen that Bao Zheng is a good parent in people's hearts, so how did Bao Zheng get to this step by step?
Bao Zheng was born in the second year of Xianping, for later legends are that Bao Zheng was born in a poor family, his parents saw the newborn Bao Zheng face like black charcoal, so they threw it away as a "monster".
Later, he was carried home by his sister-in-law and raised under the care of his sister-in-law, although he was later recognized by his biological parents, his second brother and sister-in-law regarded him as a threat, thinking that Bao Zheng would rob them of their property.
So he designed Bao Zheng to jump into the dry well to help them pick up hairpins, Bao Zheng was young, but kind-hearted, and believed in his brother and sister-in-law, but fortunately Bao Zheng was a little lucky star, but he was scratched on the forehead by hairpins, but there was no worry about his life.
This is why there will be a "crescent" on Bao Zheng's head, but in fact, this is just a scar left. Of course, the above are also legends, but in fact, Bao Zheng was born in an official family, and his family is quite wealthy.
Bao Zheng loves to learn and read, and also wants to gain fame, embark on a career in office, become a parent official, and do things for the people. Until the fifth year of Tiansheng, Bao Zheng was admitted to the Jinshi, was rated as a judge of Dali Temple, and went to Jianchang to serve as the magistrate.
But at this time, Bao Zheng's parents were old, and Bao Zheng resigned and did not go to the post on the grounds that he wanted to be filial in front of his parents. Although Bao Zheng wants to embark on a career in office, he is more worried about his parents in his heart, after all, "his parents are here, and he is not far away".
It can be seen that Bao Zheng is very filial, and later Bao Zheng was appointed as a supervisor and state tax, and his parents also did not want Bao Zheng to leave, so Bao Zheng resigned again and supported his parents at home.
Until a few years later, when his parents died one after another, Bao Zheng built a grass house next to his parents' graves until the end of the mourning period.
So he lingered in front of the grave for a long time, and he couldn't bear to leave, until the villagers came to dissuade him, and Bao Zheng went to the ministry to accept the election, so Bao Zheng also became a model of filial piety at that time.
Second, the Bao family "no queen"
Later, in the first year of Qingli, Bao Zheng was transferred to Duanzhou as the prefect, at that time, Duanzhou's "Duanyan" was very famous, and it was also very valuable, so Duanyan was also used as a gift by the previous prefect, in order to open up his own contacts, and also to be able to get closer to some dignitaries.
Therefore, it is often necessary to collect dozens of times the tribute inkstone and fill his own pocket, but after Bao Zheng took office, he only ordered the manufacture of enough inkstones for tribute, and did not take away a single inkstone when he was transferred to other places after his term of office expired for one year.
It can be seen that Bao Zheng's incorruptibility has truly achieved a clean breeze on both sleeves. Bao Zheng is honest in terms of being an official, but he has also touched the interests of many dignitaries and dignitaries, which has made his relatives and magnates jealous to a certain extent, but he has also won the emperor's reuse.
Although Bao Zheng went very smoothly in his official career, even his son inherited his shadow and was awarded an eight-rank official, and when his son and crown were crowned, he could enter the court as an official.
But Bao Zheng's heirs are thin, Bao Zheng only has two wives in his life, a Teng concubine, when he was originally married to Bao Zheng, there was a dowry maid for the Sun family, that is, Teng concubine.
The original Li died of illness shortly after marrying into Bao Mansion, leaving no heirs, so Bao Zheng married Dong as his wife, and he was particularly fond of Dong, and Dong also gave birth to a son and two daughters for Bao Zheng.
This son is Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng was 35 years old at the time, so Bao Zheng and his wife loved this son very much, and personally taught Bao Zheng, hoping that he would be able to make great achievements in the future.
It is precisely because of the emperor's reuse that Bao Zheng and the others let Bao Zheng marry his wife early, and after Bao Zheng married Cui's wife, they gave birth to a son, who is also Bao Zheng's grandson named Bao Wenfu.
At this time, Bao Zheng had just entered the court as an official for one year, and died of a sudden accident in the second year, which also made Bao Zheng sad, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, fortunately there was a grandson, otherwise the Bao family would be gone.
However, the disaster is not alone, grandson Bao Wenfu died four years later, so far the Bao family really has no descendants, and at this time Bao Zheng is also close to the age of sixties, but they are very open-minded and can't bear to waste the Cui family.
wanted Cui's to remarry, but Cui's saw that his in-laws were old and insisted on staying to take care of them, and Bao Zheng and his wife were also moved by Cui's filial piety.
thought that Bao Zheng would have no descendants by now, until Bao Zheng's sixtieth birthday, Cui Shi told Bao Zheng an exciting news: "You have a son who is two years old. ”
Bao Zheng and his wife were a little puzzled, so they asked Cui Shi to elaborate that after Bao Zheng's grandson passed away, Bao Zheng had pampered the wedding maid Sun beside him.
Later, because Sun made a mistake, he let Sun go back to his parents' home, but he didn't know that after returning to his parents' home, Sun was pregnant, but Sun didn't dare to tell Bao Zheng the news, but only told Cui.
3. Bao Zheng left 37 words of ancestral teachings
After Cui heard the news, although he was happy, he was also afraid that Bao Zheng would be angry, so he gave Sun a sum of money and asked Sun to give birth to the child and take care of it first, until Bao Zheng was 60 years old, and then told Bao Zheng the news.
Bao Zhengzheng sighed for the lack of a queen, which got a good news, that is, "someone handed a pillow when he wanted to sleep", and this two-year-old son also became the only descendant of the Bao family, called Bao Shou.
But Bao Zheng did not accompany this son for long, and died, this year Bao Shou was only 5 years old, only an empty mourning hall, and did not leave any inheritance for his son.
However, there are 37 words of ancestral precepts: "In later generations, those who commit stolen goods shall not be released to their own families; Not from my will, not from my descendants. ”
It means that the descendants of the Bao family have officials, if there are people who are corrupt and pervert the law, they will be expelled from the ancestral home, and they will not be buried in the ancestral grave of the Bao family after death, and this ancestral training is also a very strict family law in ancient times, and it will be remembered from generation to generation.
Bao Shou also became a good official under the teaching of Cui's and others, and this ancestral training has also become the biggest legacy left by Bao Zheng, which lasts for thousands of years.
The descendants of the Bao family are now scattered all over the country, but the most well-known of them is Bao Zheng's 29th grandson - Bao Yugang, known as the "World Ship King".
Perhaps this is also related to living by the sea since childhood, when Bao Yugang was 37 years old, he joined the shipping industry and established Global Shipping Co., Ltd., whose wealth surpassed that of Li Ka-shing.
At the most glorious moment of Bao Yugang's life, he did not know his relationship with Bao Zheng, and it was not until he visited the Tianyi Pavilion in Ningbo that he found out that he was the 29th generation grandson of Bao Zheng in the "Hengheyan Bao Family Genealogy".
When Bao Yugang learned the news, he burst into tears, feeling proud of himself as a descendant of Bao Zheng, and at the same time spent 20 million US dollars to establish "Ningbo University", and did many good things for the country and the people.
epilogue
The ancestral training left by Bao Zheng is the best wealth for future generations, and it is precisely because of this ancestral training that the descendants of the Bao family have gone further and further on the right path and have come out of a batch of pillars.