You may ask: these two things are commonplace, you can eat them anywhere, why do you have to eat these two things when you go to Baohe in Hefei? It's because there's something special about these two things...... If you want to know these two special places, you must first understand the origin of Hefei Baohe. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info How did this bag come about? According to legend, when Bao Zheng was a child, he had been playing in this river, and later the people named this river Bao River in order to commemorate him. It is also strange to say that since the river was named Bao River, the lotus root produced in the river is crisp and silkless, which is completely opposite to the "broken silk connection". There are also crucian carp with black backs, which is different from the blue backs of ordinary crucian carp. Many experts and scholars are very puzzled by this phenomenon, and have done a lot of verification, but they can't get the truth of the facts, and finally the older generation has given a more appropriate answer: lotus root without silk represents Bao Gong's selflessness (silk), and the black back of the crucian carp represents Bao Gong's iron face, and the iron mask is selfless. This is definitely not a coincidence, nor is it artificial propaganda, but the fact is that when you go to Hefei Heihe, you must taste the lotus root and fish over there.

Finally, I have to talk about the supernatural things that happened when Bao Zheng died.

The year of Bao Zheng's death was 1062, that is, the seventh year of Jiayou. Since the ancient times were counted by the lunar calendar, the death day on July 3 should be the day of May in the lunar calendar. Let's talk about 1061 (the sixth year of Jiayou), some strange things began to follow, that year, in just a few days, Bao Zheng was promoted again and again, first promoted to the fourth rank of the official (Editor's note: equivalent to the current Zhong. Period. Committee Director). It didn't take a few days. He was promoted to the third envoy from the third rank (Editor's note: This official position is unacceptable. It is equivalent to the head of the three departments of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Commerce, which is definitely a fat gap! After a few days, he was promoted to the rank of Privy Deputy of the Third Rank (not to mention this, which is equivalent to the state. Business. Courtyard. Deputy. Total. Straightened. ）。 In less than half a month, Bao Zheng's official position has risen like a rocket, if everyone thinks it's over here, no. Not yet, two more days later, the order came down again, and this time the official to Bao Zheng turned out to be the second-rank official of the Ministry of Rites (Editor's note: This official position is equivalent to diplomacy. Ministry, Education. Minister of the Ministry. This time, Bao Zheng couldn't accept it anyway. Many officials didn't understand, so they asked Bao Zheng, this is the emperor's appreciation of you, why don't you take office? Bao Zheng said persistently: "If you still want me to live for two more years, then don't persuade me to be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites!" Many officials understood Bao Zheng's words as a high-ranking and hard-working position of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. It will shorten the life expectancy due to exertion.

At that time, many people sweated for Bao Zheng, after all. If you refuse to resign like this, it is essentially a disobedience to the order. This is a great sin of disobedience. If the state makes you tired, you have to work, you have to work hard, and then you have to die of exhaustion, and you can use the reason of fatigue to excuse yourself from taking office. After Song Renzong knew about this, he understood that Bao Zheng did not resign from being a waiter in the Ministry of Rites because of fatigue, so he had a private chat with Bao Zheng between the monarch and the minister. The last time I had a private chat, it was Bao Zheng and Di Jinshi, who were asked by Song Renzong about Yang Yanzhao's "strange incident", and this time, the content of the chat was also a "strange incident". After Bao Zheng saw Song Renzong, he said bluntly: "I can serve as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, but I will die immediately!" When other emperors heard this, they must have thought that Bao Zheng was crazy, but Song Renzong understood Bao Zheng's intentions and immediately said: "Then you don't want to be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, I want you to live a long life." Bao Zheng sighed and said: "Life should be rested, the successive promotions are like returning to the light, if I don't be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, I will stay up for another year at most!" From this conversation, it is not difficult to see that Bao Zheng already knows the date of his death.

In the end, Bao Zheng added to Song Renzong: "It doesn't mean much to me to live one more year, dying in the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, maybe I can be more decent, but there is one more important thing to rely on me next year, so I have to die next year!" Song Renzong asked curiously, what is the matter? Bao Zheng said one word: "drought".

If you were to be another emperor, you would have to kill Bao Zheng, how could you be so cursed in the era of wind and rain, but Song Renzong didn't, but said to Bao Zheng gratefully: "It's embarrassing Aiqing!" ”

In March of the seventh year of Jiayou (May 1062), there was really a great drought in the world, and Song Renzong immediately asked Bao Zheng to ask for rain. Bao Zheng asked Sun Luan to step down (At that time, Sun Luan was a good official and a good official, but Bao Zheng said that for the sake of the safety of the people in the world, you should not be an official.) Sun Luan is also open-minded, as long as the rain is invited, the people are saved from drought, and it doesn't hurt if he is not an official, so under the witness of Song Renzong, he resigned from the official! Then Bao Zheng asked Song Renzong to hold a banquet in the West Tai Palace, and personally invited the rain, and after a while, the heavy rain poured down, and the historical records recorded: "The people all take food." (The common people have a harvest.) ）

Bao Zheng, who had finished the rain, said to Song Renzong: "My last task is complete, God is going to take my life, I should go!" Song Renzong was willing to let Bao Zheng leave so easily, and said sternly to Bao Zheng: "I am the Son of Heaven, the son of God, it wants to take your life, I don't agree, Aiqing, you must live well, there are still many things to rely on you in the future!" Bao Zheng was also very helpless, and said in embarrassment: "There is indeed a little thing in the Privy Council that has not been taken care of, what should I do?" In this way, since I have invited the rain, I will also be selfish, and I will ask for my life once, and I will take my leave after the affairs of the Privy Council are taken care of! So Bao Zheng took advantage of the banquet in the Xitai Palace and asked for his life, and finally Bao Zheng said to Song Renzong: "In June, the lord of Xia will offer horses to worship and ask for books. If the emperor wants the old minister to live a few more days, then at the same time as giving the lord of Xia Guoguo, Ma Wanwan can't ask for it! Song Renzong agreed.

In April of the seventh year of Jiayou (June 1062), the lord of Xia really came to worship and give a book with a horse, and Song Renzong gave the book to the lord of Xia according to Bao Zheng's instructions (the edict was given as the "Nine Classics"), but the horse was not received and returned to the lord of Xia. Bao Zheng is still in good spirits, and there is no disease.

In May of the seventh year of Jiayou (July 1062), Bao Zheng made his last visit to the Privy Council, and after completing the inspection, he suddenly fell ill and died in office. He was 63 years old.

After 953, I wrote about this little-known experience of Bao Zheng as a memorial, and every word in the article is true, and there are historical sources to testify to it, and readers can be convinced...... (To be continued.) )