What mysteries did Bao Zheng interrupt in his life?

For thousands of years, people have called Bao Zheng "Bao Qingtian" and admired Bao Qingtian's magical ability to judge cases and his fearless spirit towards powerful people. According to folklore, Bao Zheng has a crescent moon on his forehead, which is the reincarnation of the stars. He is the first detective in the history of China. Unfortunately, legend is not history. The official verdict on Bao Zheng can only be said to be fair, not detective. However, his fearlessness and integrity are better than the legend. Shen Kuo, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, praised the "four truths" of Renzong's flourishing age: true prime minister, true academician, true gentleman and true heart. Among them, "Cheng in the Town" refers to Bao Zheng, who served as the highest judicial officer of the Northern Song Empire for many years. What cases have Bao Zheng solved in history? Who are the powerful people who have been brought down? Why do future generations admire Bao Zheng so much? In the official history, Bao Zheng only broke two cases.

Let's talk about the case of "cutting off the cow's tongue" handled by Bao Zheng when he was a county magistrate that day. The thing is, one day, a farmer complained to the county government that someone had cut off the tongue of his cow and begged Bao Gong to catch the murderer. After the tongue is cut off, the cattle can't eat grass and will starve to death in a few days. Bao Zheng will tell the owner that he can kill the cow and sell it when he returns. Bao Zheng stressed, however, that he agreed that killing cattle should not be told to anyone. In the Song Dynasty, slaughtering cattle was a big crime, ranging from imprisonment to execution. It is said that Lord Bao is allowed to kill cattle. The owner of the cattle must thank him and leave. A few days later, someone came to the county to report that a neighbor had slaughtered cattle privately and made a big crime, asking Bao's adult to punish him.

Bao Zheng was furious and arrested the accuser. He reprimanded him and said, "Why did you cut off other people's cow tongues and report them to the county government?" The man was surprised and finally bowed his head and confessed. On the matter of cutting the ox tongue, Bao Zheng judged that the person who cut the ox tongue must have contradictions with the peasants. Cutting off the cow tongue will not only kill a farmer's cow, but also make the owner of the cow go to jail for slaughtering the cow without permission. Bao Zheng's counterattack not only caught the real murderer, but also saved the interests of farmers. You can kill two birds with one stone. The second case is "the case of recognizing the prince". For two years (1050), Qian was the magistrate of Kaifeng. One day, the servant came to report that there was a young man in the street. He told people everywhere that he was the illegitimate child of Emperor Injong. The man claimed to be cold, saying that his mother Wang was the daughter of an official in the palace and was sent out of the palace because of the fire. However, when the king came out, he was pregnant with the dragon seed.

Wang married an ordinary man named Leng Xu. Soon after the marriage, she gave birth. Leng Qing also produced a Dou Du with dragon and phoenix patterns. This pocket does not belong to the people in appearance or embroidery. A few days later, the capital city heard the uproar of Kaifengfu. Yin Mingyi was frightened and ordered people to catch the guy who claimed to be the Prince of Kaifengfu. Cold and cheerless, he swaggered into the lobby of Kaifeng House and reprimanded Qian as soon as he met: "Qian Mingyi, how dare you not get up when you see me?" "Money got a fright, hurriedly stood up. I feel wrong when I think about it. Isn't standing up equal to acknowledging the identity of Prince Leng Qing? This is an earth-shattering event. At that time, Song Renzong had not given birth to a prince. Qian Yiming sat down.

After some trial, Qian was determined to be a madman, full of nonsense, beat him up and exiled to Ruzhou (now Ruzhou City, Henan Province). However, Han Jiang, the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture (in charge of litigation), suggested that if Ruzhou was close to Kaifeng, Leng Qing would still spread rumors everywhere, which would greatly affect the reputation of the imperial court. Some officials suggested that it is better to exile Leng Leng Nai to Jiangnan. Zhao Ci, a bachelor of Hanlin, thinks exile is not a good way to solve the problem. He suggested that if what Leng Qing said was true, then he could not be exiled; If Leng Qing takes the crown prince, he should be beheaded. Song Renzong felt that what Zhao Ci said was very reasonable, so he wrote a letter to Bao Zheng, the suggestion institute, asking for a review of Leng Qing's case. The case of "taking the crown prince" itself is not complicated. As long as you know Leng Qing's life experience and whereabouts in detail, you can tell the truth from the false.

After careful investigation by Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng played Renzong, and his mother, Wang, was indeed a palace woman, and was indeed dismissed after the fire in the palace. However, she was not pregnant when she left the palace. Wang gave birth to a daughter after several years of marriage with Lengxu, and it took several years to give birth. It is not true that Wang was pregnant before and after the palace fire. So, why did Leng Qing dare to take in the Crown Prince? This Leng Qing came from a poor family and worked as a handyman in a drugstore when he was an adult. A few years ago, Leng Qing drifted to Jiangxi and met a monk in Quandao of Guangshan Buddhist Temple. After a conversation, Quan Dao felt that Leng Qing had a strange commodity life, so he taught Leng Qing to create his own life story in order to seek wealth. Now that Quan Dao has been arrested, Leng Qing has to admit that the last two people were beheaded, and Yi Ming, the government office, was ousted because the case was unclear.

I wasn't even sure if Wang was pregnant at that time. Therefore, Guan Bai vaguely advocated that Leng Qing should be expelled from Peking to please Zhang Guifei and take into account Song Renzong's face. However, Bao Zheng got to the bottom of it and made the truth public. In the folk image, Kaifeng House was printed as a patent of Bao Zheng. In fact, Bao Zheng's tenure as Kaifeng Prefecture Yin was very short, only over a year. Moreover, during his tenure, his political achievements were average, which was briefly mentioned in history. Bao Zheng is famous in history, not because of solving crimes, but because of direct admonition. Bao Zheng's political ability is average, but his character is upright, he is not afraid of powerful people and dares to tell the truth. He has served as a counselor, counselor and consultant for many years in the judicial department. There are more than 30 senior officials impeached by Bao Zheng in the official history. One of the most famous is the downfall of three successive ambassadors of Bao Zheng.