Names of selfless people in history or legend.

Bao Zheng's selfless story: Bao Zheng was a famous honest official in the Northern Song Dynasty.

People call him Bao Gong and seldom mention his name.

There are many stories about Bao Zheng in ancient popular novels and operas.

But Bao Zheng in novels and operas is very different from Bao Zheng in history.

Some plots in novels and operas are completely fictional.

Bao Zheng was born in Hefei, Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui) in 1999.

At the age of twenty-eight, he was admitted to the Jinshi and began to be an official. Later, he became a deputy commander (the deputy commander was the highest officer at that time).

Bao Zheng is good at judging cases, enforcing the law like a mountain and being impartial.

When he was an official in Luzhou, one of his relatives broke the law and was taken to court by the government.

Bao Zheng dealt with it according to law, so he got a beating.

Some relatives and friends want to take Bao Zheng as their patron and run amok.

Now, they dare not do evil again.

Later, Bao Zheng was transferred to Beijing as an official.

There are many royalty and dignitaries in Beijing, and these people are even more lawless.

There is a Zhang Yaozuo whose niece is an imperial concubine in the palace.

With this relationship, he has served as three secretaries and other important positions at the same time.

These three ministers are all officials in charge of national finance and taxation. Bao Zheng believes that according to Zhang Yaozuo's talent, it is not appropriate to serve as three secretaries, let alone hold several important positions at the same time.

So, he wrote five speeches in a row to impeach this powerful person with background.

For this matter, on one occasion, Bao Zheng quarreled face to face with Song Renzong in court.

Under the repeated opposition of Bao Zheng, Song Renzong finally dismissed Zhang Yaozuo from his two official posts.

At that time, there was a big bureaucrat named Wang Kui.

When he was the traffic envoy of Jinghu South Road, he was very cruel and fierce, desperately exploiting and oppressing the people, forcing them to flee to the mountains and unite to resist.

Later, he was transferred to Jiangnan West Road as a transshipment ambassador and continued to harm the people.

Bao Zheng was very angry when he visited these situations. He immediately went to two lectures, impeached and said, "Wang Kui killed the people and forced them to flee into caves, which was extremely harmful and has not stopped so far.

The imperial court must not hire such bad people to endanger the country. "

These two lines went up, and the court did not stop Wang Kui's official, but transferred him to Huainan for transshipment.

Bao Zheng resolutely opposed this practice of the imperial court, and played the role of dredging and impeachment in the third place.

After a period of time, Bao Zheng learned about another big crime of Wang Kui.

It turned out that when Wang Kui served as a transshipment ambassador on Jiangnan West Road, he suspected that the local official Bian Xian had denounced his crime and took revenge. He secretly ordered people to falsely accuse Bian Xian, and he detained 500 or 600 people at once, creating a big unjust case.

Bao Zheng impeached Wang Kui four times in a row.

He sternly questioned the court: "Does the court have the heart to let the people in a region let Wang Kui do harm?" Under Bao Zheng's seven impeachments, Song Renzong finally had to go to Wang Kui's office.

Because of Bao Zheng's selflessness, no royal family, relatives or powerful ministers have access to Bao Zheng. So there was a saying at that time: "Without alliance, there would be Yamaraja and Bao Lao." People compare him with the legendary Yamaraja in the underworld.

Bao Zheng himself abides by the law everywhere.

He was an official in Duanzhou Prefecture (now Zhaoqing, Guangdong).

There is a kind of inkstone called Duanyan.

Duanyan stone is a precious handicraft with solid and fine stone and exquisite carving.

In the past, in the name of paying tribute to the emperor, local officials in Duanzhou took the opportunity to search for Duanyan and flatter the dignitaries.

The number of Guangdong inkstones they collected was dozens of times that of tribute.

When Bao Zheng arrived in Duanzhou, he only received the amount of tribute from the emperor and didn't take a cent.

Duanzhou people admire Bao Zheng's honesty and self-control.

Bao Zheng became a big official, but life at home is still simple, just like ordinary people.

He hated corrupt officials the most in his life. He said in an article "Family Training": descendants of officials and corrupt officials are not allowed to go back to their hometown; You are not allowed to be buried in the ancestral graves of the Bao family after death.

Bao Zheng's integrity has always been praised and respected by people.