Bao Zheng was born in 999 AD, Bao Zheng's father was called Bao Lingyi, who had served as a petty official like Zhi County and Yu Bu Ren Wailang, not the legendary "Bao Million" and "Bao Shanren", and loved this young son very much, providing Bao Zheng with a good education. What does the real bao zheng look like? According to the historical data to summarize, the height of 1 meter 65 to 1 meter 70, the face is beautiful, the face is white and bearded, the brain door is not crescent, is an ordinary white-faced elegant student. Although he was a scholar, some people joked at the time that it was more difficult to make Bao Zheng laugh than the water of the Yellow River. It can be seen that Bao Zheng is a teenager and an old man, with a serious face. Legend has it that "he didn't cry or laugh" for a reason.
In 1027, the 29-year-old Bao Zheng passed the Jinshi examination, and this year Song Renzong was 18 years old and had been emperor for six years. Yan Shu was the prefect of Ying Tian, and Fan Zhong flooded to teach at Ying Tian Academy, and this year was also a big year for examinations. Bao Zheng's "same year" produced many cattle people, as many as seven officials to the prime minister, including Wen Yanbo and Han Qi, the two prime ministers. After the examination, Bao Zheng could have gone out to be a county magistrate, but because his parents were old, Bao Zheng resigned from the government and went home to support his parents. A few years later, his parents died one after another, and Bao Zheng built a grass hut next to the tombs of his parents, until the end of the mourning period, he could not bear to leave. This decade of filial piety has left Bao Zheng with the reputation of filial piety. In 1037, Bao Zheng, who was already 39 years old, went to become a Zhi County, and from this year on, Bao Zheng officially entered the official field. The common people said that they secretly paid bribes, and the people who could not get away with each other were the King of Yan Luo and Old Man Bao, which showed that Bao Zheng was a clean official.
Bao Zheng served as an official in Duanzhou, when Duanzhou's specialty Duan Yan was the most cherished elegant instrument of the Song Dynasty scholars, and local officials paid dozens of times more to honor the chief, which was a common phenomenon. And Bao Zheng broke this unspoken rule, did not collect much, and never wanted a piece of end stone, "the age is not held a stone back" . However, the treatment of the solemn-looking Qingguan Bao Zheng in the official arena was very different from that of the later Hai Rui. Bao Zhengguan Yun Hengtong, who has been promoted 27 times in 26 years, is a big miracle, which is related to the general environment and cannot be separated from Bao Zheng's circle of friends. Bao Zheng and Wen Yanbo of the same year are the sons and daughters of the family, han qi is the old iron, and Wang Anshi and Sima Guang are close friends. Bao Zheng and Ouyang Xiu are also enemies and friends, Bao Zheng's appointment in Kaifeng Province is recommended by Ouyang Xiu, and the person who succeeded Bao Zheng also happens to be Ouyang Xiu, and Bao Zheng has also been attended by Ouyang Xiu. Wang Gongchen also recommended Bao Zheng to be promoted, Bao Zheng's resume is quite rich, the central and local governments have been, and the number of hands of the positions he has done cannot be counted. However, his main achievements were concentrated in the imperial history and the advisory. According to statistics, there were no less than 30 important ministers who were demoted, dismissed, and prosecuted under his impeachment, and at that time, they were called "wrapped bombs" and were one of the most capable of "bombs" at that time.
From 1056 to 1058, Bao Zheng, who was nearly 60 years old, temporarily replaced the Kaifeng Fuyin for more than a year. You read that right, Bao Zheng only stayed in Kaifeng Province for more than a year, so is Bao Zheng a god? "Tanuki cat for prince", "Gongmei case", and so on are all made up, and there are two recorded Bao Zhengjue cases, one is a cow tongue case. It is said that a farmer Liu Mou came to complain, saying that his cattle had been cut off by people, the cow had no tongue, and if he could not eat or drink, he would die, and what was even more difficult was that the law stipulated that cattle could not be killed and eaten beef. Bao Zheng pondered for a long time, let Liu kill the cow to eat meat, and then made a list announcement, who reported killing cattle for no reason will be rewarded with three hundred. The next day, Wei came to report Liu, and after the first trial, he was recruited, that is, Wei had a contradiction with Liu before cutting his family's cattle tongue.
Another Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk" records a trouble in Bao Zheng's trial, saying that a businessman broke the law and was to be sentenced to a heavy sentence of "cane ridge", and the old man knew that he could not buy Lord Bao, so he bought a responsible official. The little official told the businessman that when the time came to send the old man's verdict in court, before I beat you, you would desperately shout injustice, and then I would loudly reprimand you, "How can there be so much nonsense, and you are not obediently punished!" "Then things will turn around. Sure enough, as soon as Lord Bao heard the small official's wild words and had a bullying move, he beat the small official and sentenced the businessman lightly. The petty officials take people's money, eliminate disasters for others, and succeed in their treacherous schemes. Because the little official accurately grasped the logic of Lord Bao: sympathy for the weak. Let's think about the above two cases, the first bull tongue case, what if Wei Mou is a simple law-abiding person who reports? What if Wei Mou doesn't make a move or is beaten into a move? Will the second "cane ridge case" be a bit of a mood to see the case of lord Bao? Lord Bao is a compassionate man, but not a legendary detective.
In 1058, the 60-year-old Bao Zheng wrote a letter to persuade Emperor Renzong to establish an heir. Emperor Renzong asked him, "Who do you want to set up as a good one?" and Bao Zheng replied, "The minister's request to be made the crown prince early is for the sake of considering everything in the Temple, and His Majesty asks the minister who he wants to establish, this is a suspicious minister, the minister is already a 60-year-old person, and he has no son, so he is not considering inviting favors for himself and his descendants." "Doesn't Bao Zheng have a son?" At that time, he thought that it was gone, and Bao Zheng's eldest son Bao Qi would die for five or six years? However, not long after Bao Zheng said this, he found that he had another son. It turned out that the birth mother of the younger son was a concubine by Bao Zheng's side, and Bao Zheng once got angry and sent her back to her mother's house, thanks to the eldest daughter-in-law knowing that she was pregnant, she carried Bao Zheng and his wife and privately sent people to send money and clothing. After giving birth to the youngest son, the eldest daughter-in-law secretly raised the child in her own room, named the eldest sister-in-law, who was actually an adoptive mother. The story of Bao Zheng's legend of being raised by his sister-in-law is deduced from this paragraph. On Bao Zheng's 60th birthday, the eldest daughter-in-law sent her younger son to Bao Zheng, and Bao Zheng was in tears and happy.
Bao Zheng's 29th grandson, one named Bao Yugang, was a classmate of Run Run Shaw, the richest man in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s, and one of the world's eight major ship kings. In 1062, at the age of 64, Bao Zheng died of illness, and Emperor Renzong of Song personally came to mourn and posthumously presented him with the title of "Filial Piety". Bao Zheng's father, Bao Lingyi, with the character "Suzhi" and Bao Zheng's nickname "Filial Piety", not only reflects Bao Zheng's seriousness, but also happens to conform to the word filial piety. If Bao Zheng is just an ordinary historical figure, and you happen to have seen his resume, you will probably only be impressed by Bao Zheng's four things. First, Bao Zhengxiao, after the title of the golden list, performed filial piety at home for ten years before becoming an official. Second, Bao Zheng broke a cattle tongue case. His third bao zheng was a clean official, and he did not hold a stone at the end of his life. Secondly, Bao Zheng was a counselor, spraying the emperor with saliva all over his face, preventing Emperor Renzong from promoting his favored concubine's uncle, and you will not remember other things about Bao Zheng.
In fact, the above four points are also what we know in advance that we will be deeply impressed, otherwise these things will only be opened by historical professionals. Ouyang Xiu had a comment about Bao Zheng: "Honest and strong, talented and straight, but susu less knowledgeable, the court affairs or not thinking..." "The situation is like a salvation person, there are few filial pieties, smelled in the township, late straight festivals, written in the imperial court." But his knowledge is not deep, his thinking is not familiar, and he is obedient, and his people are also sorry. Ouyang Xiu's slightly harsh evaluation represents the views of some contemporaries, acknowledging Bao Zheng's filial piety and integrity, but believing that Bao Zheng's talent and politics are not top-notch. At that time, there were also scholars who evaluated Fu Gongzhen Zaixiang, Ouyang Yongshu ZhenHanlin Bachelor, Bao Lao ZhenZhongcheng, and Mr. Hu Gongzhen. It is said that Bao Zheng is a model for imperial history.
Bao Zheng was lucky, the Song Dynasty's Taiwan Advisory ushered in a golden age, the Taiwan Counseling system and the government system are parallel, and do not return to the zai zai rule. During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, it was not an exaggeration that the Song Dynasty prime minister resigned after being impeached by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. And the most brilliant place of Bao Zheng is the counselor, who scares the emperor. The real political image of Bao Zheng in history is of the same type as Wei Zheng and Hai Rui, and belongs to the political advisors. The Song Dynasty was full of talents, poetry, calligraphy and painting were famous, and there were hundreds of famous courtiers. Kou Zhun, Lü Yijian, Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi, Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Ouyang Xiu, Huang Anshi, Sima Guang, Su Shi... Which is not the person who won the name of the posthumous life, it is not too much to say that the historical status is two streets away from Bao Zheng, but there is still a big gap between the fame and the Bao Zheng. Strictly speaking, Bao Zheng is not outstanding in literary style, nor is he a ruler of the world, if he is not deified by later generations, perhaps many people will not notice Bao Zheng's name in the history books.