Song Shiqu asked 100 questions · 31 • Why is The Prime Minister Wang Qinruo ridiculed as a "gall phase"? (Part 2)
Wang Qinruo
Fourth, frame Kou Zhun
After more than a month of fighting and confronting each other in Liaozhou, the Liao state proposed peace, and after negotiations, the Song and Liao sides reached an "alliance of the Liaoyuan", and Song Zhenzong returned to the dynasty. After the monarch returned to the dynasty, Kou Zhun was promoted to prime minister because of his great merits.
However, when Wang Qinruo suggested that Song Zhenzong "Nanxing Jinling", Kou Zhun said to Song Zhenzong, "Those who draw this policy for His Majesty are guilty of being punishable", and in Lanzhou, they also persuaded Song Zhenzong to send Wang Qinruo to the Tianxiong army, which had become an enemy and was farther north than Inozhou, almost killing Wang Qinruo, and Wang Qinruo of course was very much to death for Kou Zhun. Kou Zhun was promoted to prime minister, and Wang Qinruo was afraid of continuing to be suppressed by Kou Zhun, and the other was unwilling to work with Kou Zhun, "tired of expressing his willingness to dissolve the political affairs", and repeatedly gave a table to Song Zhenzong, asking him to resign from the post of counselor and governor, and "resigned as a servant of the Punishment Department and a senior government scholar".
However, soon Wang Qinruo complained to Song Zhenzong again, saying that he should be in the front of the queue when he was in the upper court, and Song Zhenzong added a "big" character to the middle of the "Senior Political Hall Scholars" and promoted him to "Senior Political Hall University Scholar", and the upper court was ranked above the deputy governor of the Hanlin Academy, "Hanlin Chengzhi".
Soon, Emperor Zhenzong of Song ordered Wang Qinruo to major in the "Yuangui of the Book of The Book", one of the "Four Great Books of the Song Dynasty", and in the process of revising the book, Song Zhenzong praised him, and Wang Qinruo signed the first place, and thanked Song Zhenzong in the above table, and there were Miao errors in the book, and Song Zhenzong criticized it, so he warned the scribal officials, saying only that it was the responsibility of Kou Zhun's good friend Yang Yi, a Hanlin scholar who was also studying the book, and other people involved in the revision of the book.
Soon after, Wang Qinruo became the Privy Councillor and "knew the affairs of the Privy Council" and presided over the revision of the "History of the Nation".
However, after Kou Zhun became prime minister, "he was quite self-effacing and generous, although the emperor also treated Kou Zhun very generously", and Song Zhenzong also treated Kou Zhun very kindly because of Kou Zhun's meritorious service. This made Wang Qinruo, who was "inconsistent with Kou Zhun", "deeply jealous", and provided Wang Qinruo with the opportunity to frame Kou Zhun. One day in the second year of Jingde, the court meeting ended, Kou Zhun retired first, and Song Zhenzong watched Kou Zhun leave. When Wang Qinruo saw this, he said to Song Zhenzong, "Your Majesty respects Kou Zhun and has a social merit for him?" Song Zhenzong replied, "Yes." Wang Qinruo also asked, "In the Battle of Liaoyuan, Your Majesty is not ashamed, but is allowed to have social merit, why not?" Song Zhenzong was stunned and asked, "What is it?" Wang Qinruo said, "The alliance under the city, the shame of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the act of yuanyuan are also the alliance under the city." What a shame to be an alliance under the city with the preciousness of ten thousand multiplications! Song Zhenzong was "displeased by it." Wang Qinruo further said, "Your Majesty has heard of Bohu? Bloggers lose money, but they exhaust everything, which is called a desperate bet. Your Majesty, Kou Zhun's desperate bet is also in danger! ”
"From the decline of Emperor Gu Zhun", so that Song Zhenzong's admiration for Kou Zhun gradually decreased, "next year, he was deposed as Shangshu of the Punishment Department and Zhi Shaanzhou", and the next year, that is, in the third year of Jingde (1006), Kou Zhun was expelled from the court and appointed as the Zhizhou of Shaanzhou (in present-day Sanmenxia, Henan), until February of the fourth year of Dazhongxiangfu (1008), Song Zhenzong went to Fenyin (present-day Fenyin, Shanxi) to sacrifice "Hou Tu", and Kou Zhun was ordered to "lift up the official affairs of Bei, De, Bo, Huan, Bin, and Di to catch thieves, move the army to Shangshu, and enter the capital province", which is the abbreviation of ShangshuDu Province In the Tang Dynasty, shangshu province was one of the "three provinces" of Zhongshu, Menxia, and Shangshu, the highest administrative organ of the central government, but the Song Dynasty abolished the three provinces, and the highest administrative organ was called "Zhongshu Menxia Province", "Sentencing Capital Province" that is, "Sentencing Shangshu Province", which was only a fictitious title, so Kou Zhun returned to the dynasty, and did not have a real position, and in the first month of the seventh year of Dazhongxiangfu (1014), Song Zhenzong went to Bozhou (bozhou, anhui) to worship the Taoist ancestor Laozi, and only then appointed Kou Zhun as the privy councillor of the highest military and political organ of the country, Privy Counsellor, And Pingzhang. However, soon after, because Kou Zhun disliked one of the "Five Ghosts" and the head of the "Three Divisions" of the state's highest financial institution, the "Three Divisions Envoy" Lint, and did not help Lint to provide funds for Song Zhenzong's worship of the gods, he was once again expelled from the court and appointed as the prefect of Henan Province (henan province in present-day Luoyang, Henan), and was replaced by the Yongxing Army (yongxing army) (in present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi).
In the first year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1017), Kou Zhun was reappointed as an envoy to Shannan's Eastern Province (治襄州, in modern Xiangyang, Hubei). In order to cater to Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Kou Zhun presented the "Book of Heaven" to Emperor Zhenzong of Song against his will, and only then returned to the dynasty again, serving as "Zhongshu Shilang and Official Shangshu, Tongping Zhangshi, and Jingling Palace Envoy", and re-ascended to the throne.
Kou Zhun
V. "Gall Phase"
After song zhenzong expelled Kou Zhun from the court, in order to win the favor of Song Zhenzong and consolidate his position, Wang Qinruo persuaded Song Zhenzong to go to Mount Taishan to hold a ceremony to restore the image of "holy king" who had been damaged in the "Alliance of Yuanyuan", and was approved by Song Zhenzong.
In the early years of DaZhongxiangfu (1008), Wang Qinruo was appointed as the "Envoy of the Feng zen Sutra System" and the "Judgement of Yanzhou Military Affairs" in Yanzhou Zhizhou, where Mount Tai was located, and Emperor Zhenzong of Song sealed Mount Taishan and served as the "Deputy Envoy of Tianshu Yiwei". After sealing the Zen Ceremony, Wang Qinruo was promoted to the position of Libu Shangshu, and was ordered by Emperor Zhenzong of Song to compose the "Ode to the Head of the Society", and then promoted to the Shangshu of the Hubu Department.
In the fourth year of dazhongxiangfu, Song Zhenzong went to Fenyin to sacrifice "Hou Tu", and Wang Qinruo followed, and then served as "deputy envoy of Tianshu Yiwei", promoted to the post of official Shangshu, and actually served as "Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi", that is, the prime minister.
Wang Qinruo's home was behind the Taimiao Temple, and he told Song Zhenzong that he was uneasy when he came in and out of the vicinity of the Taimiao Temple. Emperor Zhenzong of Song gave him an official building in Kaifeng's "Andingfang" as a residence.
Ma Zhijie served as a deputy envoy to the Privy Council, and had always hated Wang Qinruo, often arguing with him and refusing to submit. At that time, when Lu Prefecture (鲁州, in modern Luzhou, Sichuan) was inspecting Wang Huaixin and others to report to the imperial court to seek the merits of the "barbarians", Wang Qinruo did not reward him for a long time, and Ma Zhijie attacked Wang Qinruo's shortcomings in front of Song Zhenzong, and the two quarreled fiercely in front of Song Zhenzong. Emperor Zhenzong of Song urged Wang Qinruo to award the reward as soon as possible, and Wang Qinruo, without reporting to Emperor Zhenzong of Song, promoted Wang Huaixin and others to official positions without authorization, and Song Zhenzong was so angry that he dismissed him from his position as privy councillor, leaving him only the qualification to go to the court to discuss politics. However, soon after, he was appointed as the "Zhitong Jin Yintai Division" and reinstated as a privy councillor and Tongping Zhangshi.
In the first year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1017), Shangzhou captured a Daoist monk who collected forbidden books and could use spells to support the "Six Dings and Six Gods". Yu Wenyi confessed that he had been in and out of Wang Qinruo's house, and Wang Qinruo had given him poetry. Song Zhenzong asked Wang Qinruo if he had any such a matter, and Wang Qinruo argued that he did not know that Yuwen had changed his affairs. Emperor Zhenzong of Song was furious and expelled Wang Qinruo from the court and appointed him as the "Prince Taibao" (太子太保) official post to "judge the affairs of the Military Prefecture of Hangzhou", that is, Hangzhou Zhizhou.
In September of the second year of the Tianxi Dynasty, the later Emperor Renzong of Song was made crown prince, and Wang Qinruo made a statement to Emperor Zhenzong of Song, claiming that since he had served as the "Eastern Palace Master", he should return to the dynasty to assist the crown prince. Emperor Zhenzong of Song approved his return to the dynasty and his reinstatement as a senior scholar, and ordered him to give lectures to the prince every day at the "Zishan Hall", a school built for the crown prince in the palace.
At that time, the auxiliary ministers generally held the official position of "Three Young", namely Prince Shaoshi, Prince Shaofu, and Prince Shaobao, and Wang Qinruo proposed to Song Zhenzong that his official rank was higher than that of "Three Shao", and requested that he be changed to an official position, and Song Zhenzong approved him to be appointed as one of the "Three Dukes" as "Sikong". Soon, because of his disagreement with the chancellor Ding Shu, he served as the prefect of Henan Province (判河南府) (治襄州, in modern Xiangyang, Hubei) as an envoy and tongping Zhangshi (同平章事). Soon, Wang Qinruo went to the imperial court and requested to return to his home in Kaifeng for medical treatment on the grounds of illness, but Ding Zhi ignored it. Wang Qinruo was furious and asked his son Wang Congyi to write a request to Henan Province, asking for permission for his father to return home, and Wang Qinruo immediately approved it and returned to Kaifeng. Ding Zhi learned that Wang Qinruo had left his post without permission to Emperor Zhenzong of Song. Emperor Zhenzong of Song instructed Yushi Zhong, one of the country's highest supervisory bodies, to go to Wang Qinruo's home to inquire, and Wang Qinruo, "terrified of his sins," was demoted to the post of Secretary of Si Nongqing and served in the Remaining Department of Nanjing (present-day Shangqiu, Henan), and his son Wang Congyi was also demoted to the rank of one.
In the first year of Qianxing (1022), Emperor Zhenzong of Song died, and Emperor Renzong of Song succeeded him, making Wang Qinruo the secretary and governor of the province "Secretarial Supervisor", and later serving as the governor of Hao Prefecture (濠州, in modern Fengyang, Anhui) as the governor of Hao Prefecture (濠州, in modern Fengyang, Anhui), and then as the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture (江宁府, in modern Nanjing, Jiangsu).
Song Renzong once practiced "flying white body" calligraphy, and it happened that Wang Qinruo had a chapter delivered, so Song Renzong wrote three big characters of "Wang Qinruo". At that time, Empress Dowager Liu E, who was ill with Feng Zheng and listened to the government, deliberately used Wang Qinruo as a minister again, wrote a note in the medicine box, sent a eunuch to Wang Qinruo, and announced the empress dowager's edict to summon Wang Qinruo to return to the dynasty, Wang Qinruo immediately left, when he arrived at the kaifeng city gate, no one knew. After meeting Liu E and Emperor Renzong of Song, Wang Qinruo was reinstated as Sikong (司空), Menxia Shilang (門下侍郎), tongping Zhangshi (同平章事) as chancellor, and concurrently served as an envoy to the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace and a scholar of Zhaowenguan University, supervising the study of national history.
In the third year of Emperor Renzong of Song (1025), Wang Qinruo believed that there were regulations for the promotion of hundreds of officials, and made a "Migration Map" dedicated to Song Renzong as a reference for Song Renzong, who had just become emperor. In this year, Wang Qinruo's "Supervision" of the "True Sect Records" was written, and Wang Qinruo was enthroned as one of the three dukes, "Situ", and because Song Renzong held a ceremony to sacrifice the heavens in Kaifeng, "Tui En", he was enfeoffed as the Duke of Ji.
At that time, Shao Wujun (治邵武县, in modern Shaowu, Fujian) knew that Wu Zhi was ill, and asked the imperial court to change his position to another position, and sent gold to Wang Qinruo through the "Palace Of the Palace" Yu Chen, in order to ask Wang Qinruo's care. However, before Yu Chen could send the gold to the palace, the anxious Wu Zhi sent officials to Wang Qinruo's mansion to inquire about the progress of the matter. Wang Qinruo did not receive the gold, but was asked about the matter at home, and he became angry and embarrassed, and when he escorted the officials sent by Wu Zhi to the court, he asked for questioning. Wu Zhi and Yu Chen were both demoted. Wu Zhi and Wang Qinruo had a friendship, in the early years Wang Qinruo had "appeased Xichuan", Wu Zhi was then a lieutenant of Xinfan County, and Wang Qinruo recommended Wu Zhizhi to the imperial court. At this point, Wu Zhi was punished, and Wang Qinruo should also bear the responsibility for improper recommendation and be punished for "sitting together", but Song Renzong issued an edict not to pursue Wang Qinruo's guilt.
Later, Wang Qinruo also served as a "translator", but when he went to the "Transmission Court" to take office, he suddenly fell ill and hurried home. When Song Renzong learned of this, he personally went to his home to offer condolences and gave him 5,000 taels of silver. Soon after, Wang Qinruo died at the age of 64. The imperial court gave him the honorary titles of Taishi and Zhongshu Ling, with the title of "Wenmu", and hired more than 20 of his relatives and cronies as officials. Since the Song Dynasty, the "mercy" given by the imperial court to the prime minister, that is, the preferential treatment after death, has been compared with Wang Qinruo.
Wang Qinruo's deeds were extremely disgusted and disgusted by the government and the public, although he was favored by the emperors of the Song Zhenzong and Song Renzong dynasties, and the officials became more and more powerful, but people's contempt for him became more and more serious, he was short in stature, and he had a "gall" on his neck, which was the ancient people's title for the cystic tumor that was born in the neck, so people ridiculed him as "gall phase", and Song Renzong also said to the prime minister: "Qin Ruojiu is in the government, examining what he has done, it is really treacherous!" At that time, the Suffragist Wang replied: "Qin Ruo, Ding Shu, Lin Te, Chen Pengnian, and Liu Chengjue, who were known at that time as the 'Five Ghosts,' were as treacherous, sinister, and deceitful as the Holy Word."
Song Renzong
Although some people are suspected of personal attacks and insults to personality, it is also understandable to use Wang Qinruo's behavior as a person.
References: "Song Shi Kou Zhun Biography", "Wang Qinruo Biography", "Yan Shu Biography", "Wang Dan Biography", Song Wang Wei "Daoshan Qing Dialect", Jiang Xiufu "NeighborIng Magazine", Ming Chen Bangzhan "Song History Chronicle End, Volume 21", Qing Xu Song "Continued Zizhi Tongjian Song Ji Twenty-five"