Chapter 359: Extra: Those supernatural things about Bao Gong

Today's "Invasion of a Foreign Country" is temporarily suspended, and the important reason is that today's day is very special, what day? Today is the 953rd anniversary of the death of the legendary Chinese figure Bao Zheng. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Bao Zheng can be said to be a household name in our country, today on this special day, with a chapter to describe some little-known events about Bao Zheng, one is for the respect for this great person, and the other is to let the majority of readers know more about his other, more real Bao Gong in addition to the case!

Bao Zheng has always been upright, honest and honest image by the people. Many people are interested in Bao Zheng's deeds, especially those such as the Quanmei case, Quanbao Mian, and Chenzhou grain...... A series of well-known cases are familiar, and Bao Zheng's charm is also in this series of unsolved cases, big cases, and mysterious cases...... It was honored by the people as: Bao Qingtian!

In the process of oral transmission, some of Bao Zheng's deeds will inevitably be exaggerated, and some people still believe in Bao Zheng's deeds of breaking yin and yang and calling for the little ghost. Of course, these things are all deduced deeds, but anyone with some scientific common sense knows that these are false and not enough to believe. But some rumors about Bao Zheng before and after his death are still full of supernatural atmosphere, and today I take this opportunity to "give" those supernatural things about Bao Longtu one by one for readers.

Bao Zheng was born in Hefei on May 28, 999, originally a very ordinary day, because the birth of Bao Zheng on that day seemed extremely unusual, in order to facilitate the reader's understanding, the author first had to explain the historical background at that time, AD 999 is the second year of Xianping, when the ruling emperor was Song Zhenzong. Song Zhenzong's governing philosophy. It is also advanced in the present. The "Seven Articles of Civil and Military Affairs" drafted by him made the Zhenzong Dynasty the most incorruptible period of officials in history. Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-corruption efforts are not insignificant, right? But all those who embezzle are basically killed, and even the nine clans are involved. But once the Ming Dynasty ends, it basically dies from corruption. It is obviously not enough to fight corruption by killing alone. Song Zhenzong knew this truth very well: the "Seven Articles of Civil and Military Affairs" was established in the system, so that officials could not be greedy if they wanted to, and there were various system constraints and supervision by officials at all levels. How greedy are you? It is precisely because of the clean politics that the officialdom is new, and the economy and culture of the entire Great Song Dynasty have developed by leaps and bounds. Bao Zheng was born in this context. (It's not hard to see from this that a good cultural background is extremely important for a person's growth.) Of course, this kind of thing is not supernatural, the supernatural thing happened in the early spring of the second year of Xianping, and there was a very treacherous war in the north - the Battle of Suicheng.

Throughout China's 5,000-year history, there have been countless classic battles, and battles such as the "Battle of Suicheng" were "much more humble" in terms of scale and historical importance, but the general who participated in the battle was the famous Yang Yanzhao. Don't be surprised. Is there a kind of Yang Yanzhao and Bao Zheng who are the same era? Of course not, when Yang Yanzhao was stationed at the border. Comrade Bao Zheng hasn't been born yet. Of course, it was also this battle that made Comrade Bao Zheng famous before he was born......

In the early spring of that year, the Liao soldiers invaded the south, invaded the Northern Song Dynasty, and encountered the famous general Yang Yanzhao in Suicheng, where is this Suicheng? It is in the west of today's Hebei, it has always been an obscure small city, but due to its relatively prominent geographical location, it has become a necessary place for Liao soldiers to go south. It is precisely because of its importance that the government of the Northern Song Dynasty sent famous generals like Yang Yanzhao to garrison here. So who led the Liao soldiers who faced this time? The fame is too great - Empress Dowager Xiao. I don't need to introduce this heroine, right? There are really readers who are not very clear, you can go to Baidu, almost the entire history of Liao is related to this heroine. Two milestone figures in Chinese history were "unexpectedly encountered" in the small place of Suicheng.

At that time, the Liao soldiers occupied an absolute advantage, after all, it was the Empress Dowager Xiao who was in charge, and the Liao soldiers were many soldiers and generals, and they were bound to win. On the side of Yang Yanzhao of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the original words of the history books, it is "the city is small and unprepared", and the soldiers and generals are outnumbered, and the entire city is almost useless. Empress Dowager Xiao worked hard and led the troops to work hard, and in less than a day, the entire Suicheng was surrounded by water, and the day of breaking the city was just around the corner.

Although Yang Yanzhao is a famous general, but "it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice", even if all the young and middle-aged people in the city are gathered together, it is difficult to form an effective counterattack against the siege of the Liao army, Yang Yanzhao can only wait for reinforcements to come, there is no other way.

For Yang Yanzhao's predicament, Empress Dowager Xiao is well aware, she personally came to the scene to command the battle, and was very confident to take Suicheng before the arrival of the Northern Song Dynasty reinforcements.

If the city is strong, then there may be a fight, how can the walls of the city be built with mud bricks, not to say that the Liao army's "thunder" (the author's note: an important weapon of the Liao army to attack the city, using the principle of leverage, will be filled with iron, gravel "cannonballs" shot at the city, in the historical background at that time, this weapon is extremely powerful. Even the strong crossbow of the Liao army can't resist, and the history books record: the arrow breaks the wall (an arrow shoots into the wall, and the wall will be shot through. )。 Under the strong attack of Empress Dowager Xiao, Yang Yanzhao was basically forced into a desperate situation, and had a plan to live and die with Suicheng......

Things have changed like never before: many people think that the next scene was invented by many novelists and historians, but it is precisely the next plot from the history book "The Treatise on the Scrolls of the Shi Family. Zhenzong (Editor's note: The author of this history book may have made a mistake in the survey, and the corresponding should be "Shi Shi Treatise", which is the hand-scroll of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty), and it is precisely because of this history book that people who study history later mistakenly think that Bao Zheng and Yang Yanzhao are contemporaries, but in fact, they are not. The specific details are like this: Yan Lang (that is, Yang Yanzhao) was sleepy, sleeping on the couch, suddenly smoke, Yan Lang was shocked, and mistakenly thought that the city was broken (roughly meaning: Yang Yanzhao was extremely tired, went to bed and went to sleep, and suddenly there was a lot of smoke in the house, Yang Yanzhao was shocked, mistakenly thinking that the city was broken by the Liao army, so he got up and prepared to meet the enemy. )…… The shadow is obvious, raw, burly, sword eyebrows, horns into the sideburns, thick lips and ears, eyes like a tiger. Who? Said: Feidong. Where? Said: Inject water into Guo, can resist the enemy...... Yan Lang had an epiphany, bowed to Feidong, and Feidong avoided being polite and said: It should be done, and the people of future generations will not be courteous...... Yan Lang then remembered, reported to the court, only the king knows...... (Roughly speaking, a man appeared in the smoke, and he saw a burly figure, with his eyebrows upturned and straight into his sideburns, thick lips, long earlobes, and sparkling eyes like a tiger.) Yang Yanzhao had never seen this person, and he was very angry, so he asked who he was? The man said his name was Bao Zheng. Yang Yanzhao asked him how he got here? Bao Zheng said that it was a good strategy to defend the city: sprinkle the city walls with water, so that it can easily resist the enemy, Yang Yanzhao thought about it, and then understood the mystery, and hurriedly wanted to thank Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng hurriedly avoided saying that he was a junior and could not accept this gift...... After the end of this war, Yang Yanzhao wanted to write about the war and military exploits to the imperial court, so he reported the scene that happened to Song Zhenzong, and after Song Zhenzong learned about it, he kept it a secret, and in the imperial court, only Song Zhenzong himself knew about it. This is some of the approximate records in the history books, the so-called water injection into Guo, is to let Yang Yanzhao mobilize soldiers and people, water on the city wall, because it is late winter and early spring, the weather is cold, so it didn't take long for the entire city wall to freeze, so that the city wall became hard not to mention, but also let the Liao soldiers who climbed the wall to attack the city suffer, because of the slippery fall of the Liao soldiers who died and were injured countless. Empress Dowager Xiao couldn't attack for a long time, and seeing that the reinforcements of the Northern Song Dynasty were about to arrive, she was afraid that she would be attacked by the enemy on her back, so she had no choice but to lose her troops and unload her armor, and retreated. In this battle, Yang Yanzhao was promoted to the history of Mozhou because of his merits, and the end of the Song Dynasty Zhenzong was constantly kind to Yang Yanzhao. Of course, Yang Yanzhao also told Song Zhenzong about Bao Zheng's advice, but for some reason, Song Zhenzong did not make this matter public, but recorded it in his private notes, to the Renzong Dynasty period (the fifth year of Tiansheng), Bao Zheng Jinshi and the first, Renzong saw Bao Zheng's appearance and birthplace, only then remembered that there was such a description of such a person in his father's private diary, so he summoned Bao Zheng and asked about it, Bao Zheng's answer was also very artistic, he replied like this: "I have been fascinated by Yang Zhengshi for a long time." (Yang Yanzhao died when Bao Zheng was 14 years old, and the two could not see each other in reality.) Later, under Renzong's questioning, Bao Zheng made every detail of the battle of Suicheng clear, and Song Renzong was shocked and called Bao Zheng able to know yin and yang (this is also the original basis for later generations to say that Bao Zheng can break yin and yang!). )。

Because of Bao Zheng's incident, future generations mistakenly thought that Yang Yanzhao and Bao Zheng were contemporaries, and mistakenly thought that Bao Zheng could break yin and yang. But this is just the most ordinary supernatural thing in Bao Zheng's life, and there are even more magical things, let the author tell you about it.

Bao Zheng's greatness is enough for future generations to bow and worship. After Bao Zheng's death, in order to commemorate him, the descendants built a lot of buildings related to Bao Zheng and changed the names related to Bao Zheng to Bao Zheng. Such as Kaifeng Bao Ancestral Hall, Hefei Bao Ancestral Hall, Kaifeng Bao Gong Pit...... But here I want to talk about a place that some readers may have been to and heard of, and its weirdness is no less than any supernatural event - the Baohe River in Hefei.

Friends who go to Hefei Baohe for tourism and business, no matter how busy they are, must eat two things: lotus root in Baohe and crucian carp in Baohe. (To be continued.) )