Chinese The case of cutting the tongue of a cow in the History of the Song Dynasty Bao Zheng 5

Because it was illegal to slaughter cattle privately at that time, that person was the enemy of the cow owner, so after cutting the cow's tongue, the cow could not eat grass, and he thought that the cow owner would kill the cow because of this, so it would be a crime, so he went to report the cow owner, and the result was that Bao Gong would calculate it, so.

This is also the answer searched on the Internet, but when the teacher was lecturing, this question was discussed very intensely, and some students also said that it may be a case that someone else sued, since the process cannot be proven, then we will prove it from the result, and the result is: the thief is convinced. It shows that Bao Zheng's judgment is correct, so this paragraph reflects Bao Zheng's wit in adjudicating the case, so the author will never give an example of a wrong case to show Bao Zheng's excellent qualities, so, from an objective point of view, Bao Zheng's judgment is correct.

But this problem can be proved without results, because from a psychological point of view, when the owner's cow loses its tongue, sure the neighbors will know (because there is no impermeable wall in the world) then the cow that has lost its tongue has only one result: death. So does the owner of the cow let it starve to death a little bit, die of pain, or just cut it off?

The latter, of course. Presumably, the neighbors will also support the cattle owner. But the purpose of the person who cuts the tongue of the cow is to make the owner of the cow tortured and imprisoned, then his heart must be thinking:

This is a great opportunity not to be missed. In this case, the person who cuts the tongue of the cow will definitely observe the owner of the cow secretly at all times and wait for the opportunity. When the owner of the cow kills the cow, the person who is excited must be the person who cuts the cow's tongue, and the first person to report the crime must also be the person who cuts the cow's tongue.

If the neighbors don't know, then the owner of the cow must have killed the cow secretly (hidden), and the person who has been paying attention to the owner of the cow, that is, the first person to report the crime, must also be the one who cuts the cow's tongue.

Only those who deliberately cut the tongue of the cow and want to harm the owner of the cow and kill the cow will care about the private activity of the owner of the cow killing the cow, and will also report it to the official.

Broken Clouds: Niu has a strange dream because of his tongue, and he can stretch Bingqing.

It is said that God will be far away tomorrow, and if there is justice, it will be natural and clear.

Legend has it that when Bao Gong guarded Kaifeng, there was a people Liu Quan, who lived in Xiaoyang Village in the east of the city, and took agriculture as his business. One day he came back from ploughing the field, but he saw that the ox was full of blood and panting. Liu Quan looked at it carefully, and knew that his tongue was cut off.

Quan then wrote a complaint to Yu Zheng. He thought about it, and then asked Liu Quan: "Who do you have a grudge against in the neighborhood?"

Speechless to respond, but to tell the public to be the master.

Save 500 yuan with it, so that the ox will be slaughtered when he returns home, and the meat will be sold to the neighbors, and if the meat money is obtained, the money can be added to buy cattle for farming. I can't stand it. Save it and take it all. There should be a private slaughterer of cattle, summon someone to catch it, and the official will give a reward of 300 yuan.

When Liu Quan returned home, he ordered Yitu to peel his cattle and sell the meat to his neighbors. His eastern neighbor's surname is Bu Ming'an, and he has a long-standing enmity with Liu Quanyun, and he grabbed Liu Quanyun: "Now there is a list in front of the government, and the reward is 300 yuan for catching and slaughtering cattle privately, do you dare to disobey the order?"

immediately tied up Liu Quan and wanted to go to see Bao to be systematized. I don't know how Liu Quan was liberated, there is a poem as proof: his revenge can be commented on, who knows that Bao Zai is like a god?

The traitor didn't know the mechanism, and he investigated the past situation.

But it was said that Bao Zheng slept until the third watch overnight, and had a dream: suddenly met a patrol officer who took a woman to saddle, holding a knife, with a thousand mouths, and the Tao was an ugly person, and he couldn't see it. When I thought about it, I couldn't understand this dream.

The next morning, he went to the hall to ask about things, and Bu An came to sue Liu Quan about killing the cow, and he suddenly missed it, and he had a dream at night, which was in line with this matter: the inspector wanted to be a divination word, the woman Bu Nai'an was a word, and she was cut with a knife, and she had a thousand tongues, and she was ugly and gave birth to a cow. Bu An and Liu Quan must have a grudge, and the person who cut the cow's tongue the day before yesterday must be this person, so today he came to sue Liu Quan for killing the cow.

Immediately put Bu An in prison. The prison order took out the torture instrument and placed it in front of Bu An: "Confess truthfully, avoid suffering."

Bu An was frightened and had no choice but to confess: "Because of taking silkworm cocoons and borrowing firewood from Liu Quan, he hated it, and on the evening of July 13, he saw Liu Quanniu grazing in the slope, so he cut off the cow's tongue." The jailer verified the case and reported it to Yu Shengsheng the next day.

The general Bu An was decided, and the flail was ordered for a month, and later issued to the Ning family.

It was to ask the owner of the cow to go back and kill the cow, and then it was illegal to kill the cow at that time, because it was to be used as a war ox. Then a man went to complain, saying that someone had killed the cow, that the owner of the cow had broken the law. In fact, the person who complained was the one who cut the tongue of the cow.

Bao Zheng went to Tianchang County in Yangzhou (in present-day Jiangsu Province) to be the magistrate. Soon after he took office, he encountered a case.

On this day, a farmer's child went to the river to graze his cattle. He put the cows on the beach to graze, and went to play by the river. When he tried to take the cow home, he found the cow standing listlessly, dripping blood from its mouth.

The child was so frightened that he began to cry. When the child's father heard about it, he ran to the river to take a closer look, only to realize that the cow's tongue had been cut off by someone. He was anxious and hateful, and stamped his feet and said:

Destroy my cattle, how can I plow the land! After saying that, he rushed to the county yamen to complain. After listening to his narration, Bao Zheng thought about it and had an idea.

He said to the complainant unhurriedly, "If the tongue of an ox is cut, it will not grow any more." Go home and slaughter the cow and sell it as ripe meat.

lest the oxen not be able to eat grass and die, and even the meat will be worthless. After hearing this, the peasant was very dissatisfied, looked at Bao Zheng, and complained: "County master, if the small people slaughter cattle, what will they use to plow the land?

Besides, the government also does not allow the slaughter of cattle ......Bao Zheng pretended to be impatient and said, "What is a cow's tongue?" Is it worth it endlessly?

Let's go! The peasant had no choice but to swallow his anger and go back and do as Bao Zheng said. The next day, a man from the same village as the peasant came to complain.

He said that the farmer had violated the law by slaughtering cattle privately. Bao Zheng saw this person's ghostly appearance, so he stared at him and asked: "You sued him for killing cattle privately, you say, why did he kill cattle?"

Because the cow's tongue is ......As soon as he said this, the complainant realized that he had made a mistake and hurriedly shut up. Bao Zheng stood up suddenly, "snapped" and asked, "Say!"

What about cow tongues? The cow's tongue was cut ......"How do you know that a cow's tongue is cut? The complainant was so stammered that he could not answer.

At this time, Bao Zheng asked loudly: "You brought me honestly, why did you cut off his cow tongue and sue him?" When the man heard this, he was shocked and quickly kowtowed and confessed

It was the villain who had an enmity with him, so he cut off the cow's tongue ......"Bao Zheng punished the person who cut the tongue of the cow in accordance with the law. Since then, his reputation for being good at solving cases has spread everywhere.

It is illegal to kill a cow privately, and a person who has no enemy will not only cut the cow's tongue, but he wants that person to kill the cow, and if he kills the cow, then he can sue him: privately killing the cow. It's just simple causal inference.

It's entirely possible that someone else went to sue the ploughing cow and was killed. Will Bao Gong's inference be unreasonable?