1. When I was in Song Renzong, there was a wind of giving gifts from top to bottom. Bao Zheng has always been opposed to this trend of giving gifts and accepting gifts. He has visited the emperor several times and requested that the phenomenon of giving gifts and accepting gifts between officials be banned, so as to create a clean wind.
This year is Bao Zheng's 6th birthday. A few days before his birthday, he ordered his son Bao Gui, Wang Chao and Mahan to stand at the entrance of the yamen to refuse the ceremony. But who knows, the first birthday present was the emperor of the dynasty, and the eunuch of Liugongsili was sent to give gifts.
When the old eunuch arrived at the door, he insisted on meeting Bao Zheng, asking him to take orders and receive gifts. Bao Gui was stumped, and the gift from Long Live was not accepted. Isn't this a disobedience? But he dared not disobey his father's orders, so he had to ask the old eunuch to write the reason for the gift on a piece of red paper and forward it to his father. The old eunuch took a pen and wrote a poem on red paper.
"I am respected and respected, and I work like Wei Zhi day and night. Today, the emperor sent the gift, but it was unreasonable to refuse it. "
Bao Gui asked the dynasty to take the poem to the inner office to show it to his father. After a while, the dynasty brought back the original red paper and delivered it to the old eunuch. I saw four sentences added below the original poem.
"I'm selfless and loyal, and I'm afraid to talk about my merits as an official. Working hard is an official matter, and refusing gifts is a clean and honest style. "
After reading it, eunuch Liu Gongsi was speechless for a long time, so he had to go back to the palace with a gift and the red paper.
2. Bao Zheng, who lived in the era of corruption and bribery, was very particular about being an honest official, and even a little indiscretion could not be tolerated by him. When Bao Zheng was an imperial adviser, he impeached two three ambassadors-Zhang Fangping and Song Qi, who were very influential figures in the imperial court.
when Zhang Fangping was in charge of the three secretaries, there was a rich man who owned a wine shop, Liu Baoheng. Because he owed the government wheat, it was equivalent to more than one million yuan, and he had no loan, so he had to sell his property to pay off his debts. At this time, Zhang Fangping bought the Liu's house cheaply. After this disgraceful incident was known by Bao Zheng, he played Renzong, dismissed his position as the third secretary, and was demoted to the year of Chuzhou.
Song Qi, the new Third Secretary, worked as a magistrate in Sichuan before he took office. At that time, he had a bad reputation. He dined all day and lived an extremely luxurious life. Soon after he took the position of the third secretary ambassador on behalf of Zhang Fangping, he was demoted as the magistrate of Zhengzhou, amid the uproar of Bao Zheng and other Taiwan remonstrance officials. Song Renzong, after two consecutive terms, deeply felt the need for a person who can be honest and self-disciplined to take charge of the Third Division.
After some weighing, he decided to let Bao Zheng act as the representative of the three secretaries. However, many ministers don't understand that "the day of life, the foreign discussion is loud", thinking that it will be suspected of "replacing it". Even Ouyang Xiu, who once strongly recommended Bao Zheng, thinks that Bao Zheng's practice has the taste of "trying to seize the cow from the field", which is "punishing the cow already, and greedy for its wealth", and it has gone too far.
However, Bao Zheng did not retreat because of this. He resolutely accepted this new appointment. And change the old system, so that "the people have no interference", Xuan was officially appointed as the third secretary. After the official worship the agreement of the Council, he moved to the assistant minister of the Ministry of rites, but he refused to accept it.
Bao Zheng, a man with a "steep and straight nature", never puts on a crocodile face to please others. He detests evil, does not avoid pro-Party in law enforcement, and refuses all requests from old friends and relatives.
He values his honesty more. Although he is an important official of the imperial court, "clothes, utensils and food are like cloth". He hates people who take bribes and bend the law the most. He once made a will: "If an official of future generations commits the crime of taking bribes, he shall not be allowed to enter the house before his death, nor shall he be buried in the Bao family's grave after his death. If you don't follow my legacy, you can't count as my descendants. "
3. In 142, Bao Zheng served in Duanzhou for three years and was transferred to the central government. The inkstone worker in Duanzhou felt very sorry. In order to express his gratitude to Bao Zheng, he refined one side of the inkstone and told Bao Zheng extremely to put it away and send it to Bao Zheng when he returned to the capital. Who knows, Bao Zheng took a boat out of the Antelope Gorge, and suddenly it was covered with dark clouds, a sudden gust of wind, lightning and thunder, and heavy rain fell from the sky, making it extremely dangerous to take a boat.
Bao Gong thought, did someone in the boat do something unnatural and violate the gods? He didn't know the whole story until he called the people with him for questioning. Bao Zheng took the Duanyan and thanked Duanzhou deeply. He threw Duanyan into the river and said, "Bao will never take away a stone and a thing from the people of Duanzhou." In an instant, the wind stopped raining and the sky was clear.
Soon, the people discovered that a piece of Lu Zhou rose at the place where Bao Gong threw the inkstone, so they named it "Yanzhou". Later, people carved couplets at the gate of Duanzhou's gate, praising Bao Gong's incorruptibility.
4. Bao Zheng has only been an inspector for five and a half years, but he impeached more than 6 corrupt officials, with an average of more than 1 per year. He spared no effort. He impeached the transshipment department of Jingxi Road in Chenzhou, exposing his deeds of distorting the central policy and "bending" the crime of exploiting the victims, which was later recreated as a well-known early Bao Gong drama "Chen Zhou Releasing Grain".
He impeached Yan Shiliang, Song Renzong's closest eunuch, for stealing from inside; He impeached Prime Minister Song Yao, but as an important minister, he achieved nothing. He impeached the imperial relative Guo Chengyou four times; He played "Guo Zhang" six times, abruptly dismounting Zhang Yaozuo, the uncle of Song Renzong's favorite concubine.
Song Renzong dotes on Zhang Guifei, making her mediocre uncle promoted four times in one year, holding four important positions. This caused controversy among ministers, and Bao Zheng first impeached, and then some remonstrators also rushed to attack.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yaozuo's position rose instead of falling. Bao Zheng impeached again within three days, and even shouted that "Guo Zhang" was "garbage in prosperous times, devil in the daytime". See nothing happened, Bao Zheng impeachment again. However, Song Renzong went his own way, and wanted to promote "Guo Zhang" to Xuan Hui Ambassador.
Bao Zheng's face-to-face theory with the emperor. When the dispute reached its climax, Bao Zheng got excited and stood in front of Song Renzong, gushing, splashing his breath on the emperor's face, and the emperor left. After returning to the palace, Zhang Guifei asked for information, and Song Renzong lost her temper: "Bao Zheng spoke forward and spit in my face. You just need to announce the emblem! Don't you know Bao Zheng's envoy? "
In this way, Song Renzong finally agreed to the suggestion that the Empress Dowager's House should not be appointed as the two houses, and criticized the admonishers for being rude in the temple, fearing that there would be excessive behavior again, and stipulated that an application must be made first in the future. Yao Zhang, who was outraged by his self-awareness, took the initiative to resign from some posts.
5. In 143, Bao Zheng entered Beijing as Zhong Cheng, and was recommended by Wang Gongchen, Zhong Cheng, the imperial censor. In November, he was appointed as Li Xing, the supervisor of the imperial censor, and was responsible for supervising officials. Bao Zheng's eyes are bright and penetrating; Hearing, knowing everything.
From the emperor down to the officials, Bao Zheng can visit and smell anyone who has done something harmful to the country and the people, or remonstrate or impeach them, and never let them go. The most famous thing is to impeach Wang Kui, a big corrupt official, which is called "seven bombs Wang Kui" in history.
Wang Kui, a scholar, was greedy and abusive as an official, and the public was very angry. However, he was good at making friends with powerful people in the DPRK, and was repeatedly demoted and even promoted. This person immediately stripped the people when he was transferred to Hunan, and "the cool method was used to punish for money and profit", resulting in "the people along the way were shackled, and countless people fled and died". Under the impeachment of the minister, Wang Kui was demoted to Chizhou Zhizhou.
Shortly after Wang Kui arrived in Chizhou, he was successively promoted to Fuzhou Zhizhou and Yangzhou Zhizhou, and was promoted to Jiangnan West Road as a transshipment ambassador. After his arrival, he was still "reckless, tyrannical, and fearless", and Bao Zheng was impeached again. After Song Renzong received the impeachment, he handed the matter over to the Department of Prosecution of Jiangnan West Road. It is difficult to handle the case that the Deputies for Punishment and the Transhipment Ambassadors are tied for colleagues. After Bao Zheng learned that, he impeached Wang Kui in the last chapter.
after Wang kui was appointed as the prosecutor, he "hunted down hundreds of civilians" in order to crack down on his own informers. Under the resolute impeachment of Bao Zheng and others, Wang Kui failed to stay in office, but he was translated into the transport ambassador of Jinghu North Road and soon changed to the transport ambassador of Hedong Road. In these two terms, Wang Kui was once demoted to Fuzhou Zhizhou because of "what he did was more rampant than before".
In this post, Wang Kui is even more corrupt and perverted the law. After being impeached, he was appointed as Gwangju Zhizhou, and later promoted to Xuzhou Zhizhou and Huainan Road transshipment ambassador. Bao Zheng then played the impeachment of Wang Kui for the fourth time, but it was ignored. Bao Zheng joined the throne three times and continued to impeach, but Wang Kui was still successfully promoted to Huainan Road Transport Ambassador.
Wang Kui's crimes are obvious, and his methods are extremely bad. It is intolerable for the court to let it go. Bao Zheng was extremely angry. He played Wang Kui in succession, and took a two-pronged approach. He pointed his finger at the emperor: "With Wang Kui's cruelty and abuse, it is so obvious that he is blinded from top to bottom, and the music is used. What is the warning?"
The imperial court saw that Bao Gong impeached Wang Kui continuously and confidently, and if he continued to shield and reuse it, it would cause public indignation in the ruling and opposition parties, so he had to give up his love and finally dismissed Wang Kui, a heinous corrupt official.