Bao Zheng was born in a peasant family in Luzhou, Anhui. Later, my father Bao Lingyi was admitted to Jinshi and became a magistrate, and his family moved to Hefei. Bao Zheng studied at Xianghuadun in the city when he was young. He is diligent and studious. "He doesn't play for fun.". As an adult, he attached great importance to honor and determined to be a man with lofty sentiments.
In the fifth year of Tiansheng (1027), 28-year-old Bao was a scholar, but because his parents were old, he could not bear to leave and become an official. It was not until his parents died one after another that he was persuaded by his relatives and friends to be an official for ten years, so he was famous for his filial piety in the village. In the fourth year of the Song Dynasty (1037), Bao Zheng was appointed as the magistrate of Tianchang County, with remarkable achievements.
At that time, there was a saying circulating in Kaifeng: "If there is no alliance, there will be Yamaraja to protect the elderly." This is Yamaraja's selfless metaphor for Bao Zheng. Bao Zheng not only enforces the law impartially, but also abides by it everywhere. Did he let Wang Da harm the people in an area of Duanzhou? "Song Renzong finally had to go to Wang Kui's office after receiving Bao Zheng's seventh playing card.
Bao Zheng was appointed as the Kaifeng magistrate just over a year ago. However, in this short period of time, he severely punished the illegal acts of powerful people, resolutely suppressed the arrogance of Kaifeng officials, and was able to punish unruly people in time, thus restoring the order of Kaifeng government.
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Bao Zheng was especially praised for its justice and integrity in law enforcement. In Tianchang County, Bao Zheng met a difficult case. One day, a farmer came to the county government and accused the gangster of cutting off the tongue of his cow, demanding to catch the criminal. It was unprofitable to cut off the ox tongue. Bao Zheng decided that it must be revenge of his enemy, so he ordered the farmer to kill the cow and sell the meat to attract criminals.
In the Song Dynasty, it was illegal to slaughter cattle. As Bao Zheng expected, the person who cut the cow's tongue saw the owner kill the cow and wanted to aggravate his crime. Sure enough, he went to the county government to report that he was trapped and the mystery was solved.
Bao Zheng's integrity in law enforcement was fully reflected when he came to Luzhou. Luzhou is the hometown of Bao Zheng. When he was appointed as a well-known person, his relatives and friends thought that they could get his asylum, and they did many things that bullied and even disturbed the government outside the law.
Bao Zheng is determined to take family above all else as a warning. Just when an uncle broke the law, Bao Zheng didn't regard his close relatives as taboo, so he was reprimanded in court according to law. From then on, all relatives held their breath and never dared to run amok again.
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