Who were the Five Ghosts in Song Dynasty?

The Song Dynasty was the richest, the most humiliating and the most treacherous. The Northern Song Dynasty is the richest dynasty in all dynasties. According to analysis, the annual revenue of the Song Dynasty was 654.38+600 million taels of silver. Even after the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the annual income of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is in a safe corner, can still reach 65.438+200 million taels of silver. It is no exaggeration to call it the richest dynasty. However, because the Northern Song Dynasty was too rich, coupled with the policy of emphasizing literature over martial arts implemented by emperors in the Song Dynasty, military commanders had no position and their military achievements were abandoned. They surrendered to ethnic minorities one after another, and even the emperor and his family were captured and humiliated, so the Song Dynasty was also the most humiliating dynasty. More importantly, the emperors of the Song Dynasty were mostly literati emperors, which led to a large number of people who were subservient to Nuo Nuo and arty. These people did everything they could for their rights, and the emperor was very tolerant of these people, which created the most treacherous dynasty of all previous courtiers.

The most famous treacherous court official is Qin Gui, who entraps loyalty and supports the emperor in humiliating the country and the people. He is a great treacherous court official. Besides Qin Gui, there were also "Five Ghosts" and "Six Thieves" in Song Dynasty, all of whom were famous traitors in Song Dynasty. Today we are talking about "Five Ghosts in Northern Song Dynasty".

Wang Qinruo stone statue

The first ghost named Wang Qinruo, whose real name is Ding Guo, is now from Xinyu, Jiangxi. His most famous story is that when Liao attacked the Song Dynasty, he actively supported the escape and quickly moved the capital to Shengzhou, which is now Nanjing, Jiangsu. At that time, the Liao army had just arrived in Yang Jiajiang, Hebei Province, hundreds of miles away from the capital. In the Song Dynasty, there were more famous artists and Jia Jiang in Hebei Province. These people are the main force against Liao. Wang Qinruo heard the news and asked the emperor to move the capital. You know, moving the capital is a great event in the past dynasties, and no one will move the capital until a crisis or a special moment. But Wang Qinruo urged to move the capital and let Song Zhenzong be a fugitive emperor. If Kou Zhun, the prime minister, didn't say a word and didn't let Zhenzong move the capital, Zhenzong would have become the first emperor to escape in the Song Dynasty.

In addition to supporting the emperor to flee abroad by mistake, Wang Qinruo also created a "gobbledygook" incident, wasting people's money to build a palace with gobbledygook, which lasted for more than ten years. You know, the emperor only lives in the palace, and the place where gobbledygook lives is probably better than the place where the emperor lives. This is the famous "Song Zhenzong's Closed-door Zen". It's really superstitious and harmful to the people, and it emptied the state treasury at once.

After being deliberately reused by Qu Yingdi, Wang Qinruo also excluded dissidents, incited Zhenzong to become the prime minister of Kou Zhun, framed several court ministers, made trouble in the court, and appointed traitors. He is really a treacherous man, so he is called the first ghost in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Ding Wei Song Dynasty stills

This second ghost is called Ding Wei Song Dynasty, or China's "". Ding Wei of the Song Dynasty, a very learned man, was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 24. He is also proficient in celestial divination, calligraphy and painting, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and poetry. He is as famous as Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan in articles and as famous as Du Fu in poetry. It can be said that he is a rare genius. If you do something well, it will be famous forever.

However, after Ding Wei became an official in Song Dynasty, he did everything for his rights, which harmed many good ministers and wise men. It was he who drove Kou Zhun out of Beijing with slanders, fell again and again, and died in his hometown. He is also one of the main planners of the gobbledygook incident, encouraging the true Sect to build a large building, forcibly levying labor, harming countless people, and is also a sinister generation, so he is called the two ghosts.

Qing Yu Zhao Ying Palace

The third ghost is called Lint. His name is Shi Qi. He is from Ningde, Fujian. He surrendered to the Southern Tang Dynasty and was recommended by the Prime Minister Monroe before being reused. He served as a minister for three times during the Zhenzong period, mainly managing the country's fiscal revenue. This man is also the chief culprit of harming the people. When family members pay taxes, the New Tea Law brings millions of dollars to the court every year.

This person is a loyal servant of the Song Dynasty in Ding Wei, and he is a ghost. He is responsible for collecting money from the people and then giving it to the local government to build the "Jade Zhao Qing Ying Palace", that is, the palace where the gobbledygook is stored. Yuqing Palace actually took eight years to build, covering more than 2,000 districts, including the Palace of Eternal Life and 36 10 houses. It costs about 200 million taels of silver, or about 20 billion yuan, which is about two years' revenue in the Northern Song Dynasty. The cost is huge, and the luxury even exceeds that of the Epang Palace of Qin Shihuang. "Exhausting talents in the world will hurt people's livelihood", which is the summary of Zhao Ying Palace in Jade Qing. Qin Shihuang's construction of Epang Palace caused a civil uprising, and the persecution of the people by "Yu Zhao Qing Ying Palace" was several times that of Epang Palace. Lint is called the third ghost because of his evil deeds.

The fourth ghost is called Chen Pengnian, whose word is Yongnian, from Chengnan, Jiangxi. Bandu was originally the son of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty. After the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chen Pengnian entered the officialdom after taking part in the imperial examination. Chen Pengnian is a writer, but he likes to satirize people, so he is unpopular and has been demoted several times. Later, Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne and saw that Chen Pengnian was an upright official. During his demotion, he earned money to support his family by going out to work, so he was re-enabled. Later, during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong, he served as a minister from the official to the Ministry of Industry.

The Ministry of Industry, that is, the department in charge of civil engineering, has been regarded as the wicked by the people and called the fourth ghost because it helped build the "Jade Zhao Qing Ying Palace" and met the wishes of the emperor.

Liu Chengxuan stills

The fifth ghost is Liu Chengxuan, who is generous and comes from Huai 'an, Jiangsu. This man is a eunuch, who did a lot of things, put down the riots, formulated the weighing method in detail, and led people to compile history books, which made certain contributions to the economy, politics, military affairs and culture of the Northern Song Dynasty, so he can be regarded as a successful official. However, he was also one of the main participants in the gobbledygook incident, and the Yingzhen Sect closed the Zen Buddhism, building large-scale projects, wasting people and money. Therefore, it is called the fifth ghost.