The allusion "slip of the whisker" comes from Ding Zhi? Why did Ding Zhi, who was the deputy prime minister, give Kou Zhun a whisker? (Part 2)
Third, the origin of "whiskers"
Ding said "" whiskers
Kou Zhun was born in the second year of The Song Taizu Jianlong (961), in the fifth year (980) of the Song Taizong Taiping Xingguo Examination, Ding Zhi was born in the fourth year of the Song Taizu Qiande (966), and in the third year of the Song Taizong Chunhua (992) examination. By the time Ding was admitted to the Imperial Household Examination, Kou Zhun had already served as a privy councillor in the middle of the court (later changed to Tongzhi Privy Council), and won the trust of Emperor Taizong of Song.
Kou Zhun was very appreciative of Ding's literary talent and administrative ability. In the early days of Emperor Zhenzong of Song's reign, the "Holy Minister" Li Xun was made chancellor, and Kou Zhun repeatedly recommended Ding Zhi to Li Xun, believing that Ding Zhi could be a big responsibility, but Li Huan resolutely did not use Ding Shu. Kou Zhun asked Li Xun why, and Li Xun said, "With Ding as a person, can you make him above others?" Kou Zhun retorted, "Can a person like Ding Shu always suppress him and make him subordinate to others?" Later, Ding Yu really rose step by step.
In the third year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1019), Ding Zhi, who was deeply trusted by Emperor Zhenzong of Song, returned to the dynasty from Shengzhou and served as the governor of the government, and soon the chancellor Wang Dan retired due to old age, and Ding Yu took control of the imperial government. But Ding said that he did not have enough seniority and prestige to be promoted to the position of prime minister, and out of gratitude for Kou Zhun's knowledge, and in order to pull Kou Zhun to provide Olympic aid, he recommended to Song Zhenzong to serve as the zhijun of the "Yongxing Army" (in present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi), and requested the appointment of Kou Zhun as prime minister. Ding Shu's recommendation was approved by Emperor Zhenzong of Song, and it did not take long for Kou to enter the dynasty and become the prime minister again.
However, what Ding Shu did not expect was that as Ding Shu became more and more "cunning" in pandering to Song Zhenzong's "sealing Zen" and "sacrificing the soil" and other things, the upright and tough Kou Zhun gradually changed his view of Ding Shu and was very disgusted with him.
In order to cater to Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Ding Zhi claimed to be a descendant of the immortal Ding Lingwei, and built a Xianyou Pavilion and a Xianyou Cave in his own garden, and every day "in the morning he occupied the singing magpie, and at night he watched the lanterns, although he went out to return to the residence, he would also eavesdrop on people's language and use Bu Ji Zhao", and he was kind to xianhe, and when Ren Yuqing Zhao was envoy to the palace, every time he made a sacrifice, that is, how many xianyou danced between the temples, he was ridiculed as "crane phase". When Kou Zhun was serving in the Yongxing Army, he once invited guests, and just when a group of crows flew by, Kou Zhun said sarcastically: "If Ding Zhi saw it, he would definitely say that the crane had arrived!" ”
In the Song Dynasty system, the prime minister and deputy prime minister worked in the "government affairs hall" under the Zhongshu Menxia Province, delivered meals from the canteen at noon, and ate working meals in the "government affairs hall". After Kou Zhun was reinstated as prime minister, he dined at noon one day, and when he drank soup, the vegetable soup flowed to his beard, and Ding Said hurriedly "whisked" for Kou Zhun. Kou Zhun teased Ding: "Is the deputy prime minister of the hall whiskers for the prime minister?" This is where the proverbial "whisker" comes from.
Ding Zhi was openly ridiculed by Kou Zhun in front of the other two deputy prime ministers, Li Di and Wang Zeng, which was very embarrassing, plus he already knew that Kou Zhun looked down on himself very much, and he was extremely resentful of Kou Zhun from then on.
Fourth, the duel of life and death
In November of the third year of tianxi (1019), Song Zhenzong fell ill, and the following spring his illness worsened, and the illness became more and more serious, worried that he would not be able to afford to be ill, and once pillowed the thigh of the eunuch Zhou Huaizheng when he was recuperating, and discussed with Zhou Huaizheng that he wanted to "order the prince to supervise the country".
Zhou Huaizheng was in charge of the "Left and Right Chunfang" of the Prince's Mansion at that time, and had business dealings with Kou Zhun, who also held the position of Prince's Mansion, and wanted to win over Kou Zhun and support the crown prince in order to maintain his position of power after the death of Song Zhenzong, revealing to Kou Zhun the idea that Song Zhenzong wanted the crown prince to oversee the country. Song Zhenzong's thoughts were right on Kou Zhun's mind. Since Song Zhenzong fell ill and could not manage the government normally, Empress Liu E, who had always participated in political affairs, "pre-government" was more and deeper, which caused Kou Zhun's worries and dissatisfaction. Knowing that Emperor Zhenzong of Song wanted the crown prince to oversee the country, Kou Zhun looked for an opportunity to speak to Song Zhenzong: "The crown prince belongs to wang, may the weight of His Majesty's Sizong Temple pass the throne to the prince, choose The Fangzheng minister to be the prince's wing, and assist the prince", and said, "The governor ding zhi and the privy councillor Qian Weiyan are villains and cannot bear the heavy responsibility of assisting the prince." Song Zhenzong agreed to Kou Zhun's suggestion.
Kou Zhun was a man who dared to act boldly and act decisively, and with the consent of Song Zhenzong, he immediately found his friend Yang Yi, a scholar of Hanlin, and ordered Yang Yi to secretly draft an edict to supervise the state of the crown prince, and at the same time promised Yang Yi that once the matter was completed, Yang Yi would replace Ding Yi and serve as the governor of the government.
The big thing was decided, and Kou Zhun was very happy and went home to drink with the guests. However, Kou Zhun was also a person who did great things without being informal, and was good at drinking, and when the wine was hot, Kou Zhun actually revealed the news -- there are also records that Yang Yi went home to draft the edict, which was seen by his wife and brother Zhang Yan, who drank with people after watching it, and even bragged to people, saying that his brother-in-law Yang Yi would soon become the deputy prime minister and that he would also become a high official.
Kou Zhun
When such a big news came out, it immediately reached Ding Shu's ears as fast as a wind. Realizing that a great danger was coming, Ding Zhi immediately put on the clothes of ordinary people on the night of learning the news, sat in an ox cart that did not attract attention, and found Qian Weiyan, a privy councillor who was also called a "villain" by Kou Zhun.
The reason why Ding Shu looked for Qian Weiyan was because he and Qian Weiyan, Liu E, and Liu E's ex-husband Gong Mei had already formed a small group with a small number of people but extremely political strength through their relatives.
Many years ago, Liu E's ex-husband Gong Mei was forced by life to sell Liu E to Song Zhenzong, who had not yet become emperor at that time, Liu E did not complain about it, but because she did not have any relatives in the capital, she was alone, so she asked Gong Mei to change her surname to Liu Mei, named Liu Mei, and recognized him as her brother, at this time she was already the deputy commander of the Forbidden Army's "Guard Ma Military Division" and the supreme military judge "Du Yu Hou", who was actually in charge of the military affairs of the division, and Qian Weiyan, who was a descendant of Qian Qi, the king of Wuyue, and was in a high position as a privy councillor, in order to close the relationship with Liu E and Liu Mei. He married his sister to Liu Mei, let Liu Mei become his brother-in-law, and at the same time, let his son marry Ding Zhi's daughter, and became a child's family with Ding Shu!
Ding Yu quietly came to Qian Wei's house, and after discussing with Qian Wei's performance, the two immediately entered the palace and entered Liu E. Liu E was furious when she heard the two people's reports: a while ago, Kou Zhun had just done something that annoyed her. Wang Meng, the father-in-law of one of his "brothers" Liu Mei's sons, was serving as an official in Qiongzhou (邛州, in modern Qionglai, Sichuan), and the local official Ya reported it to Zhongshu Province, where Wang Meng was occupying Yanjing and cutting off the road of life, asking for instructions on how to deal with it. During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, he was an upright empress, and Kou Zhun was still like this, if the crown prince oversaw the country and Song Zhenzong became the powerless emperor, what would be the result of his own family, including himself?
Liu E got up to see Song Zhenzong, and when she saw Song Zhenzong, she said directly: The official family's throne is about to be lost! Kou Zhun let the crown prince supervise the country, saying that it was for the sake of the official family and the good of the world, but in his heart he wanted to take power himself, and let the official family and the prince be his puppets!
Song Zhenzong, who was deeply ill, listened to Liu E's words and immediately forgot that letting the crown prince supervise the state was his own proposal first, and Kou Zhun only "followed up", and decided according to Liu E's will: depose Kou Zhun and implement it immediately.
On the ninth day of the fourth year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1020), Kou Zhun resigned, but was given the title of "Duke of Lai" and remained in the capital Kaifeng.
At the beginning of the first year of Qianxing (1022), Ding Zhi became prime minister, and in February he encouraged Song Zhenzong to once again belittled Kou Zhun and exiled Kou Zhun to Lei Prefecture (leizhou, in modern Haikang, Guangdong), thousands of miles away, where he served as the "Sihu to join the army" of the official Rank Zheng Qipin. More than a year later, Kou Zhun died of illness in Leizhou in September of the first year of Emperor Renzong of Song 's reign (1023) at the age of 63.
And the ending of Ding Zhi is not beautiful. After Ding Yu expelled Kou Zhun from the court, he wanted to replace him as the prime minister of the "head of the hundred officials", but he was unable to do so, and Song Zhenzong appointed Li Di, the crown prince and later the teacher of Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong.
In November of the fourth year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1020), Emperor Zhenzong of Song summoned the ministers of the imperial court at the Chengming Hall, and ordered the crown prince to listen to the government in the main hall, the empress to make detailed decisions in the palace, and the daily administrative affairs were handled by the prince and the empress, and only the major affairs that really required the emperor's decision were reported to the emperor and decided by the emperor.
The ministers agreed to the implementation and suggested that the relevant officials of the Government Affairs Hall, the Privy Council", the "two houses", the deputy prime minister, the privy councillor, the privy councillor, and other relevant officials should concurrently hold the post of "East Palace" of the Prince's Palace and assist the prince as subordinate officials of the "East Palace". Emperor Zhenzong of Song approved the courtier's proposal.
On the same day, the monarch agreed that the list of subordinate officials of the Eastern Palace would be prepared by the deputy prime minister Ding Zhi, who actually did something in it.
The list drawn up by Ding Shu was mainly as follows: Ding Shu, Shengmen Shilang and Prince Shaoshi; Li Di, Zhongshu Shilang and Zuo Cheng, and then Prince Shaofu; Qian Weiyan, Cao Yong, Feng Zheng, Wang Zeng, Yan Shu, and other officials each had their own positions; and after the list had already reported to Song Zhenzong and copied Li Di and other officials, they added three envoys, one of the "five ghosts", Lin Tesheng's privy councillor, and prince guest.
In this list, there are two seemingly inconspicuous, but deeply hidden and extremely important issues: Li Di is currently the prime minister, but according to Ding Shu's arrangement, his position in the Eastern Palace is below Ding Zhi; Lint is Ding Shu's party, and after being promoted to deputy envoy of the Privy Council, he becomes the "two governments" and participates in the government affairs.
More importantly, Li Di knew that Ding Shu, Qian Weiyan, Lint and others were indeed pure villains as Kou Zhun said, otherwise he would not have been expelled from the court when Kou Zhun was expelled from the court and Song Zhenzong proposed that he be appointed as prime minister, and he repeatedly resigned, unwilling to work with Ding Shu and others without the upright and powerful Kou Zhun. If Emperor Zhenzong of Song agreed to this list, what would happen to the imperial court and the country if the government was controlled by these people? Can the position of prince be secured?
Li Di resolutely disagreed with Ding Zhi's proposed list, especially pointing out that the promotion of Ding Zhi took the opportunity to promote Lint, and the two quarreled in the government affairs hall. Li Di was so angry that he grabbed the wat board and wanted to beat Ding Zhi. Ding Zhi saw the situation, was in a hurry, and turned to meet Song Zhenzong, wanting to cross Li Di and report directly to Song Zhenzong.
Song Zhenzong was in the "Changchun Hall" of the side hall, Ding Zhi's front foot had just arrived, and Li Di's back foot had followed. Unaware of the quarrel between the two, Song Zhenzong took out the list that Ding Zhi had drawn up and said to Li Di, "This is the appointment letter of Qing and other officials of the Eastern Palace. ”
When Li Di heard that Song Zhenzong had indeed agreed to Ding's proposed list, the anger in his chest erupted violently because of Kou Zhun's demotion and the almost deposed crown prince. He angrily said to Song Zhenzong and Qian Weiyan, Feng Zheng, Cao Yong, Wang Zeng, and others who had arrived later: "Ding Zhi is a dictatorship without authorization, cheating and deceiving the upper and lower levels, and trying to form friends with Lint, Qian Weiyan, and others, and is jealous of Kou Zhun. Lint's son killed people with impunity, Kou Zhun was not guilty and was denigrated, Qian Weiyan interfered in the government by nepotism, and Cao Yu and Feng Zheng formed a party for personal gain, and the root cause of the curse was Ding Zhi. I am willing to resign at the same time as Ding Shu and hand over to Yu Shitai for impeachment and refutation! ”
Emperor Zhenzong of Song was blackmailed by Ding Di in the list of subordinate officials of the proposed Eastern Palace, and even more angry at Li Di's "roaring court", he drove Li Di and Ding Shu out of the Changchun Palace, leaving other ministers to discuss a solution.
As a result of the deliberations between the monarchs and the courtiers, Li Di and Ding Zhi were each demoted to one rank, deposed the chancellor, left the court, and went to the local area, where Li Di was appointed as the prefect of Yun Prefecture (郓州, in modern Dongping, Shandong), and Ding Di was appointed as the prefect of Henan Prefecture (河南府, in modern Luoyang, Henan).
Li Di was honest and honest, and seeing that the purpose of expelling Ding Zhi from the court had been achieved, he immediately set off for Yun Prefecture.
Dante did not go. The next day, he "resigned" to Song Zhenzong at the Qianjin Palace in Henan Province. Song Zhenzong asked him why he was arguing with Li Di. Ding Zhi replied: "It is not the minister who dares to argue with Li Di, it is Li Di who is angry and scolds the minister." The minister was willing to stay. ”
Song Zhenzong nodded after hearing this, and ordered the eunuchs around him to give Ding Zhi a seat.
But when the eunuch moved to his seat, Ding Zhi said, "Your Majesty has his own will, and he will return to the peace!" After sitting for a while, Ding Zhi got up and went to the government affairs hall where the prime minister worked, announcing that he had been reinstated, and then, the eunuchs around Song Zhenzong arrived and announced the edict: Ding Zhi ren Shangshu zuo servant shooting, menxia waiter, Ping Zhangshi and prince young master, not only reinstated as prime minister, but also the prime minister!
Song Zhenzong
On February 19, 1022, the first year of Qianxing,1022, Emperor Zhenzong of Song died. Empress Liu'e summoned the ministers of the "two houses" under the Zhongshu Menxia and the Privy Council to the harem "Yanqing Palace" and informed them that Emperor Zhenzong of Song had "ascended the immortals". After the ministers of the two provinces listened, they "cried for a while." Liu E said to the ministers: "One day I was crying and listening to the punishment. "—Whenever you cry, listen to my command.
The "thing" that Liu E said was that according to The "Testament" of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, the emperor was young and had to "honor the empress dowager as the empress dowager, and the military and the state were serious and punished." Empress Liu E was "well versed in the history of books", Song Zhenzong in her early years in the daytime office, at night often in the palace to approve the reading of the chapter, Liu E participated in its affairs, and Liu E for the heard of the imperial court political affairs, can remember the end of the end, Song Zhenzong has problems, can always put forward appropriate suggestions, deeply won the trust and reliance of Song Zhenzong, established a great authority above the court, now Liu E put forward "command things", Prime Minister Ding Zhi spoke first, willing to listen to the empress's instructions, in accordance with the empress's "Yi will" to draft Song Zhenzong's "will", the courtiers have no objection. After consultation, wang Zeng, the governor of the Senate, drafted the "testament".
However, when Wang Zeng drafted the "Testament" and handed it to Ding Zhi to read, the two had a dispute. The original text drafted by Wang zeng reads: "With the empress as the empress dowager, the crown prince is assisted, and the right to listen to the major affairs of the military state." The key to the dispute between the two is the word "right" in it. Quan, meaning agency, according to wang Zeng's meaning, Liu E was only "acting" for the newly established emperor Zhao Zhen to "listen to the major affairs of the military state", and although the emperor was small, the real power was still in the hands of the emperor. After Ding Zhi saw it, he asked Wang Zeng to remove the word "quan", but Wang Zeng did not allow it, insisting that Liu E could only "act" to listen to the government.
The dispute between the two seems to have only one word, but it has a major meaning. First of all, if Liu E is not "acting" song renzong to listen to the government, but arbitrary, then whose Song Dynasty is the Song Dynasty? Is it surnamed Liu or Zhao? What's more, if Liu E "arbitrarily" abolished Song Renzong and established someone else as emperor one day, would the people of the world admit that Liu E had done the right thing, or was it wrong? Secondly, ding said that he had deep contemplation about how Liu E listened to politics. Liu E had already established a small political group with Ding Shu and Qian Weiyan, and the three of them had joined forces to drive Prime Minister Kou Zhun out of the court, and Ding Shu had also faked Song Zhenzong to drive Prime Minister Li Di away, and then enter the prime minister, if he could prompt Liu E to "listen to the major affairs of the military state", and he was both a minister of "first merit" to Liu E, and he also left the little emperor Song Renzong, wouldn't the government be completely in his own hands?
However, when it came to the right and wrong of state affairs, Ding Zhi could not express his chest directly in front of Liu E and the courtiers, and what Wang had said was righteous and stern, and Ding Yu had to agree.
However, Ding Zhi was also a very competitive person, and how willing to lose face in front of everyone, he also pointed out that the matter of "taking Lady Shufei as the imperial concubine" was dropped in the will. Lady Shu was a concubine of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, surnamed Yang, a native of Sichuan, and liu e was a fellow villager, and the two got along very well. Wang Zeng put down his pen and said, "I didn't hear the empress say anything about this just now." Ding Said angrily, "Can the will be changed?" Can the emperor's will be changed at will? Although Wang Zeng no longer quarreled with Ding Zhi, he resolutely did not add this matter to the "Testament".
When the courtiers saw the two arguing continuously, "neither dared to speak", did not dare to speak, and for a while no one echoed Ding's words. Ding was helpless and had to agree again.
But this incident pried open a little gap between Liu E and Ding Shu. Song Zhenzong "will" Liu E "listened to the major affairs of the military state", Ding Said was already powerful, if according to Ding Zhi, another "princess", wouldn't it be more important to divide Liu E's power? Liu E was also a person with a very strong heart of power, and from then on, Liu E", who was "evil at the beginning" ding, began to dislike him, and had a good feeling for Wang Zeng's integrity.
The "testament" was finalized, Liu E's status of "having the right to listen to the major affairs of the military and the state" was established, and the next step was how to "listen to the judgment", and Ding Zhi and Qian Weiyan started to do it again.
In order to take advantage of their position as prime ministers and privy councillors of the "Second House" of the East and West, Ding Shu and Qian Weiyan deliberated with Liu E alone to strengthen their own power, proposing that in view of the fact that the empress dowager should not be too hardworking, the emperor was young, and the empress dowager and the emperor only went to court twice a month on the first and fifteenth day of the first month, and rested in their own palaces at other times; if there was a major event in the dprk, after the chancellor agreed on the handling measures, the eunuch Lei Yungong would pass it on to the harem, and ask the empress dowager and the emperor to "approve the play" in the palace, or Ding Shu and Qian Wei would play the empress dowager. Please indicate whether to implement it.
As soon as this discussion came out, the courtiers were angry, but they were silent. Wang Zeng once again stood up: "The two palaces are separated, and the eunuchs have no power, this is the sign of disaster!" ”
Wang Zeng was upright and strong, his eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw through the intentions of Ding Shu and Qian Weiyan: According to the design of Ding Shu and Qian Weiyan, the empress dowager and Song Renzong only met with the courtiers twice a month, studied political affairs with everyone, rested in the forbidden palace at other times, and lived in one place each, and then the political affairs were either conveyed by the eunuchs inside and outside, or by Ding Shu and Qian Weiyan alone with the empress, and the empress dowager and the emperor did not meet with the courtiers for a long time, what if the eunuchs cheated in the middle? Will the tragedy of the eunuchs at the end of the Tang Dynasty who caused the imperial court be repeated? In the daily government, only Ding Zhi and Qian Weiyan met with the empress dowager to discuss, what if the two deceived and concealed and falsely preached the holy will?
Liu E, who had super political ability, should have also sensed the intentions of Ding Shu and Qian Weiyan and agreed to Wang Zeng's suggestion.
But Song Renzong is only a 13-year-old child, and it is difficult for him to adapt to the work of "listening to politics" for a while. The emperor of the Song Dynasty listened to the government, every day to get up very early, generally "five more three o'clock" on the dynasty, the ancients to the hour, more, point time, each hour is equal to today's two hours, from the evening to dawn, divided into five more, each more is two hours, one more at seven o'clock to nine o'clock, two more at nine o'clock to eleven o'clock, three more at eleven o'clock to one o'clock in the morning, four more between one o'clock and three o'clock, five is more three o'clock to five o'clock; in order to be more accurate, and one hour or one more divided into five "points", each "point" is today's 24 minutes. Five to three o'clock, equivalent to 4:12 to 36 am today. The emperor needs to go to the court at 4 o'clock in the morning, and before the upper court, he must also dress up and dress up neatly to maintain his appearance and meet the courtiers.
Finally, one day, Song Renzong was bedridden and could not participate in the early dynasty.
Liu E, who had a serious temperament, was very angry that Song Renzong was not in bed, and sent eunuchs to the government affairs hall to preach the message: Because the officials were young and late, in order not to delay the hundred officials from going to the dynasty, they would only come to me every day every day to "take a break" to study and decide on political affairs.
On this day, It happened that Prime Minister Ding Zhi had taken sick leave and did not go to work, and there was only another prime minister in the government affairs hall, Feng Zheng, who was working. For such a big matter, Feng Zheng did not dare to agree to it alone, and played Back to Liu E: "Please wait for Ding To go to work for consultation." Ding Zhi was well at work, and Feng Zheng conveyed Liu E's words to Ding Yu.
After Ding Zhi heard this, he immediately went to see Liu E, and replied: "The ministers and others only know that they have uploaded the national treasure today and have been ordered by the former emperor to take the throne, and if they move the handling of such a major matter as state affairs elsewhere, the reason for the society will not go smoothly, and the ministers will not dare to obey the order." ”
Liu E did not expect that Ding Zhi belonged to the same political group as herself, but at this time she was so directly opposed to herself, and she was speechless for a while.
Ding Saw that Liu E did not insist on listening to the government alone, and turned away. However, he did not expect that after proposing to make Yang Shufei a "princess", he once again more seriously violated Liu E's wishes, further increased Liu E's ill feelings towards him, and laid another foreshadowing for the tragedy of his life.
Liu E
After the matter of "hanging the curtain and listening to the government" was determined, the next major matter was to build a mausoleum for the "Daxing Emperor" Song Zhenzong.
According to the custom of the Song Dynasty, the tomb was repaired for the previous emperor, and the prime minister at the time was the "tomb repair envoy" who presided over the construction project, which was a position with extremely high honor and high status in the dynasty. Prime Minister Ding Zhi did not give in, took up this post, and organized courtiers to study and decide that Zhenzong's mausoleum should be built on the side of the mausoleums of Song Taizu and Taizong in Yong'an County (present-day Zhitian Town, southwest of Gongyi, Henan), and the construction of the mausoleum would be completed in July of that year.
After the matter was settled, Lei Yungong, one of the eunuch leaders and "entered the inner inner service province to serve the province", asked Empress Dowager Liu E to "serve Lingshang".
Lei Yungong, a kaifeng native, entered the palace in his early years and became a small eunuch. Lei Yungong was quite intelligent and cunning, and gradually promoted to the low-level eunuch "Entering the Inner Palace" of Zhengjiupin, and when Song Zhenzong was crown prince, he worked in the "Eastern Palace" of the prince's palace. The former eunuch leader Zhou Huaizheng was executed after attempting a coup d'état, and Lei Yungong was promoted to the rank of "Inner Temple Chongban" of Zheng Qipin because he had exposed Zhou Huaizheng's fake creation of the Heavenly Book to Emperor Zhenzong of Song, and later promoted to a senior eunuch who was under the eunuch leader "Entering the Inner Capital" and the deputy Capital Zhi."
When Emperor Zhenzong of Song died, Ding Zhi, who was first deputy prime minister and then prime minister, secretly befriended Lei Yungong, and at the beginning of Empress Liu E's coming to power, all confidential matters were allowed by Lei Yungong to convey the forbidden, and Lei Yungong's power was inflammatory, running rampant in the palace and the foreign dynasty, and even Ding Yu was "virtuous" and very grateful to him.
Liu E was probably aware of Lei Yungong's collusion with Ding Shu, disagreed with Lei Yungong's involvement in the repair of the tomb, and said to Lei Yungong: "I am worried that you are acting rashly, I am afraid that I will harm you!" Lei Yungong wept bitterly and begged, so Liu E appointed him as the "Governor of Shanling" to supervise the construction.
After receiving the order, Lei Yungong rode quickly to the Xiuling construction site. Xing Zhonghe, the chief of the "Si Tiantai" (司天台), the chief of the central institution in charge of observing and recording astronomical meteorology and formulating the calendar, said to him: "The hundred steps above the mausoleum are beneficial to future generations according to the method of feng shui and land selection, and are very similar to the tomb of Zhao Tingmei, the King of Qin in Ruzhou (ruzhou, henan). Lei Yungong said, "Then why not move there?" Xing Zhonghe said, "I'm afraid there are stones and water in the ground." Lei Yungong said, "The former emperor has no other sons, if the place you are talking about is really similar to the tomb of the King of Qin, which is beneficial to the present, why not?" Xing Zhonghe said: "The construction of the mausoleum is a major matter, and it will take a month to inspect and examine, and I am afraid that the construction period in July will be delayed!" Lei Yungong said, "You immediately move the site to the top, and I will ride into the palace and play the empress dowager as soon as possible." Lei Yungong has always had a high status and acted arrogantly, and people never dared to disobey him, and after Xing Zhonghe listened, he quickly dug up a new site according to Lei Yungong's arrangement.
Lei Yungong entered the palace to report to Liu E on the relocation, and Liu E said: "This is a big thing, how can it be changed so easily?" Lei Yungong said, "If this can benefit the former emperor for his descendants, what is there to pity about changing places, and why not?" Liu E did not take Lei Yungong's statement seriously, and said to Lei Yungong: "You should go out first and discuss with the envoy of the mountain tomb." ”
Lei Yungong found the "mountain ambassador" Ding Zhi and told Ding Zhi about the incident, and Ding Yu just hmmm ah ah, did not express an opinion. Lei Yungong returned to the palace to report to Liu E: "The mountain ambassador has no objections. Ding Zhi also did not disagree. Liu E didn't say anything more.
However, Lei Yungong presided over the excavation of the grave at the new site, and sure enough, as Xing Zhonghe said, a stone was dug deep underground, and the stone was dug up, and water came out again.
Building a mausoleum for the deceased emperor, choosing a tomb site is very particular about feng shui, once there are stones under the tomb site, there is water permeability, which seems very ominous at the time, and it is a major sin of the person who selected the site and the official who presided over the project.
Another eunuch, Mao Changda, who was involved in the restoration of the mausoleum, returned to the palace from the construction site and reported to Liu E that there had been an accident at the new site of the tomb of Emperor Zhenzong of Song. Liu E's edict asked Ding Zhi about the situation, and Ding Yu asked Liu E to send someone to check it out at this time. Soon, everyone said that the old site should still be used, and Liu E issued an edict, ordering the chancellor Feng Zheng and the privy councillor Cao Yu to discuss a solution with Ding Zhi, and the deputy prime minister Wang Zeng investigated the case again. Wang Zeng quickly found out the facts, Liu E issued an edict, holding Lei Yungong and Xing Zhonghe accountable, and then found out that Lei Yungong had stolen the golden treasure in the palace, and in June, Lei Yungong was "killed by a staff", that is, beaten to death with sticks, confiscated family property, and all his family members were assigned to Chenzhou, under residential surveillance, xingzhong and exiled Dengzhou (in present-day Penglai, Shandong) Shamen Island (present-day Changdao, also known as the Temple Islands).
Naturally, the responsibility should also be held accountable to ding zhi, the "mountain ambassador".
Dante said that he was too powerful in the DPRK, there were many henchmen, and the punishment was much more gentle and secretive.
One day after the incident, The Vice Chancellor Wang Zeng said to the other Zaizhi very sadly: "I don't have a son until now, it's a pity, it's so sad!" The crowd expressed sympathy, and Wang Zeng turned to say: "Fortunately, my brother has several sons, and we have already agreed that we will give me one to inherit, and when tomorrow I retire from the dynasty, I will report this matter to the empress dowager alone." ”
After retiring the next day, Wang Zeng stayed alone and reported to Liu E. However, the focus of his report was not on his step-nephew, but carefully said that the site selection of Song Zhenzong's mausoleum was wrong, and the "mountain ambassador" who presided over the project, Prime Minister Ding Zhi, had the main responsibility and should be punished.
Wang Zeng
Liu E had long resented Ding Zhi for usurping his power and preventing him from listening to the government alone, and immediately agreed. Later, at the Ascension of the Dynasty in the Chengming Palace, a meeting was convened between Ding Shu and other zai ministers, and the central topic of the meeting was to discuss Ding Shu's responsibility for the mistake in the choice of the tomb site of Emperor Zhenzong of Song.
Ding Zhi had a clear understanding of his responsibilities in the incident and what kind of consequences he would face once he was investigated, and in the face of Liu E and a group of colleagues, he tried his best to defend himself, intending to separate himself from Lei Yungong and clear his responsibilities.
After the curtain, Liu E and Song Renzong, who were sitting upright, were silent, and the courtiers were even more silent. But when he had been talking for a long time, he was still continuing to argue, when suddenly a small eunuch opened the curtain and said to him, "Who is Xianggong talking to?" The empress dowager and the emperor were long gone. ”
Ding Yu was shocked and had to bow his head and retreat.
A few days later, at noon, the chancellor was eating a working meal at the "Zishan Hall", the academy where Song Renzong was studying, when a eunuch suddenly came to announce the edict, and Empress Dowager Liu E summoned the ministers to discuss the matter, but in the list of summons, there was no Ding Word.
Ding Shu and the courtiers seemed to understand something at once. Ding Zhi, who had always been tough, collapsed in an instant, and asked his colleagues to hope that you would speak well for yourself in front of the empress. The courtiers did not respond, only Qian Weiyan smiled and said to him: "When you try your best, there is no great worry." "I will try my best, there should be no major worries. But after Prime Minister Feng Zheng listened, he immediately glanced at Qian Weiyan, and Qian Weiyan shut up.
Liu E, who ascended the throne again at the Chengming Palace, said to Feng Zheng, Cao Yong, and other courtiers: "Ding Shu was a Zaifu, but he communicated with eunuchs. Then he ordered the people to take out the letters of Ding Zhi asking Torre Yungong to show the gold wine utensils made by the craftsmen in the palace for the courtiers to see, and then took out the letters of Lei Yungong to Ding Zhi requesting "Guan Gou" to directly accept the emperor's command of the secret service agencies "Imperial City Division" and the "Ya Division" of the Third Division, and let the ministers examine them, saying: "Ding Zhi used to collude with Lei Yungong to play things, saying that they had agreed with the secretary of state, so the things they reported were approved; to build the tomb of the former emperor, they actually moved the site without authorization, almost missing the big thing." Feng Zheng and others echoed: "Since the former emperor Ascended immortals, political affairs have been conspired with Lei Yungongtong, pretending to get the will from the forbidden, the ministers and so on can not distinguish between falsehood, fortunately relying on the empress dowager's holy spirit, clearly detecting his adultery, the blessing of this clan society!" ”
Liu E and the ministers finally agreed to dismiss Ding Zhi from the post of prime minister, demote him to the post of prince Shaobao, and work in the Left Guard Department of Luoyang, The Western Capital. The old system of the Song Dynasty, the demotion of the prime minister, was announced in the name of the emperor, when Liu E and the courtiers wanted Ding Shu to leave quickly, so they asked Feng Zheng to immediately summon the Zhongshu Sheren, drafted a document in the Chengming Hall, and published it in the court to inform the world.
However, it was obviously not enough to demote Ding Shu to Luoyang and also hold such a high-ranking honorary title as Prince Shaobao.
Soon after Ding Shu was degraded, Liu Demiao, a female Taoist priest who colluded with him and Lei Yungong to confuse the harem, was arrested and handed over to the eunuch for interrogation. Liu Demiao confessed that she had met Ding Shu because of her work for Ding Zhi's family, and Ding Shu had pointed out to her: "What you are doing is nothing more than a witch's thing, it is better to say that you are too old and old, and that the misfortunes of people are enough to impress people." So Liu Demiao set up a statue of a god in Ding Zhi's home, and set up a dojo in the garden of Ding Zhi's home at night, and Lei Yungong came here several times to pray and pray. When Emperor Zhenzong of Song died, Lei Yungong also led Liu Demiao into the forbidden place to do illegal things. Building a mausoleum for Emperor Zhenzong of Song and digging up a turtle and snake in the underground palace, Ding Zhi ordered Liu Demiao to take it to the palace, pretending to be from his family's cave: "If the emperor asks you how do you know that the immortal you worship is Taishang Laojun, you say' Xianggong is an extraordinary person, and you should know it." Ding Zhi also wrote a "Ode" text, entitled "Emperor Chaoyuan Gave Virtue and Magic", and the words were not born. For this reason, Ding Yu was demoted again, and he joined the army as the commander of Ya Prefecture (崖州, in modern Sanya, Hainan).
The document that deposed Ding again was drafted by Prime Minister Feng Zheng himself. When Ding Zhi drove Kou Zhun out of the court, he personally drafted a document and said to Feng Zheng when he wrote: "How about wanting to jump off a cliff and then wade into whale waves?" "I want to degrade Kou Zhun to Cliff State and let him experience some terrifying waves, how?" Now that Feng Zheng was drafting a document to depose Ding, he said to Deputy Prime Minister Lu Zongdao before writing: "'HeXiang' originally wanted to demote Kou Zhun to Yazhou, and there was a whale wave sigh. Now let's grievance this 'Zhou Gong' and let him go to the whale wave! ”
Yazhou is farther away than Leizhou, where Kou Zhun was relegated, and Ding Zhi, when going to Yazhou and passing through Leizhou, offered Kou Zhun to visit Kou Zhun, and Kou Zhun gave him a "steamed sheep" but refused to see him.
After more than 3 years in Yazhou, Ding Shu moved to Leizhou for more than 5 years, then to Daozhou for nearly 4 years and Gwangju for about 3 years, and died in Gwangju in The leap month of the fourth year (1037) of Song Renzong Jingyou, at the age of 72, and was later buried in his hometown of Xihua Mountain in Suzhou City.
Ding Zhi
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