Pure heart is the cure, straight is the body. - "Shuduan Prefecture County Jaibi" Bao Zheng
For Bao Zheng, our impression of him may be that there is a crescent-shaped mark on his head, his appearance is very fierce, and his skin is also very dark. However, his heart is different from the surface, he does not have the kind of fierce and evil heart, only the heart of impartial treatment and single-mindedness for the people.
In the process of adjudicating the case, he was not afraid of the magnates, and he was a heroic man who dared to put the bureaucratic aristocracy to death. He is a glorious figure who appears next to the people, of course, there are many benevolent people and martial arts masters around him. According to the records, Bao Zheng was a famous courtier of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was "honest and just, resolute in establishing the dynasty, not attached to the magnate, and selfless with an iron face" throughout his life.
When he is the "parent official" of the people, he can judge the case like a god, and he can wash away the grievances of some people. During his tenure as an official, he solved a large number of unjust, wrong, and false cases.
Bao Zheng is deeply loved by the people. Similarly, he has a very high reputation and prestige in the folk, so his deeds are also praised and passed on by the people. Therefore, there are many legends about Bao Zheng in the folk. Of course, in opera literature, Bao Zheng also often appears.
After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Bao Zheng was also completely "deified" by the common people because of his various things, and naturally, Bao Zheng was also called the representative of "honesty and incorruptibility".
In opera literature, film and television works, Bao Zheng's characters and deeds have basically been imagined by people and have changed. Therefore, the image of Bao Zheng, as we know it now, has undergone obvious changes. After all, art comes from life, but it is higher than life.
However, there is one point about Bao Zheng that is completely unapologetic and false, that is, his thinking of "just and upright, honest and honest, and single-mindedly serving the people". This is also the most famous place for Bao Zheng.
In film and television dramas, we may always see that Bao Zheng has a small group, that is, his judgment team, and the core characters in it are Gongsun Ce, the chief think tank, "Royal Cat" Zhan Zhao, and zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Wang Chao, and Ma Han, the four major guards. They're basically used to protect our core character, Bao Zheng.
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Let's first look at the division of labor in this team. First of all, everyone knows best and is most impressed by Gongsun Ce. He is in the team and belongs to Bao Zheng's think tank.
His task is to help Bao Zheng resolve the case. However, it is more important to help Bao Zheng see through some of the open and secret struggles in the official arena. Because Bao Zheng is a person who is just and upright, in the process of handling the case, he will always offend some powerful people who want to go unpunished because of his integrity. Therefore, after these powerful people are offended by Bao Zheng, they will hate Bao Zheng very much and hate him to the bone. It will be in the official arena, and it will make a lot of stumbling blocks for Bao Zheng.
Then Gongsun Ce's role was to help Bao Zheng block the "open guns and dark arrows" brought to him by those high-ranking officials. As the think tank of this team, he must anticipate the dangers in advance and help Bao Zheng avoid these dangers.
Zhan Zhao was originally a man in the jianghu and one of the "Three Heroes". He was an unbridled man. However, when Bao Zheng decided the case in the private sector, when he encountered any tricky things, basically Zhan Zhao would help him. In the jianghu, there is basically nothing that cannot be done.
As for the four guards, they themselves served in Kaifeng Province, and they were the Six Pin Lieutenants of Kaifeng Province. However, they will always follow Bao Zheng to handle the case, so they are more like Bao Zheng's personal bodyguards.
They basically do some manual work. For example, collecting evidence, sending prisoners, protecting witnesses. Basically, they solved a lot of worries for Bao Zheng, basically completing the logistics and trivial work in the process of handling the case.
So, the question is, after Bao Zheng's death, what happened to the people in their small group?
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Basically, the people in this small group with a perfect and clear division of labor are all fictionalized by the authors in later opera literature and film and television dramas in order to protect our Qingguan Bao Zheng. But why do people think they're real?
Because, the shaping of these characters is really too successful, very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Moreover, their personality is also very much in line with that background. However, when we think about it carefully, we can know that there are really few such perfect teams in the world.
They have a clear division of labor, whether it is when Bao Zheng is inside the court or outside the court, there are people to protect them, they have a clear division of labor, where in the world is there such a thing. Therefore, except for Bao Zheng, their team is basically fictional characters. Among the works of art, it is not said what happened to the other people in the group after Bao Zheng's death.
I think the author also wants to leave a space for everyone to imagine what will happen to other people in this group in the end, so that they can have a perfect ending in the hearts of the public.
Then again, whether this group is true or not, and it doesn't really matter how the characters end up, mainly because what the author and everyone wants to celebrate now is that Bao Zheng can do justice for the people and his upright character. In ancient times of feudal despotism, under the strict hierarchical system of scholars, peasants, industrialists, and merchants, the people may sometimes be forced by authority to dare not speak out, and likewise, they cannot speak out.
Under this feudal system, people are divided into three, six, nine, and so-called "people on top" who persecute the people very hard. However, ever since bao Zheng appeared as a righteous force, fought against the forces of darkness, and was able to win the victory and speak for the people, then the people would eventually regard him as a "god"-like figure.
I think part of the reason why Bao Zheng's things can be passed down through the ages and deserves to be praised by the world, I think part of it is because in that era, the high-ranking officials and prominent people only considered their own interests and never cared about the lives of the people, and even the people could be their victims of misdeeds.
Bibliography: History of the Song Dynasty