Ding Wei

Ding Wei

This data is missing

Overview chart

, add related content, make data more complete, but also quickly upgrade, come on!

Ding Wei (966-1037) was born in Changzhou County, Suzhou prefecture (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province), and his ancestral home is Hebei. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, prime minister, treacherous minister, one of the Five ghosts.

Ding said that he was smart since he was a child and never forgets his reading. In the third year of Chunhua, he passed the entrance examination. Then he successively served as a judge of the third division of household affairs, a member of the Ministry of work, and a deputy envoy of salt and iron of the third division. In the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008), he was called as a right counsellor, an envoy of the third division of power, and a direct Bachelor of privy. Later, he successively served as the Minister of rites, counselor of political affairs, Minister of labor, criminal and military affairs.

In September of 1016, Ding Wei was appointed as the governor of Pingjiang army as a political advisor. He was proud to build jieben town. When the Liao army invaded the Central Plains, Ding Wei managed to stabilize the frontier fortress, which was praised by the people of the time. Soon after, he supported song Zhenzong to complete Taishan's Fengchan, and was favored and believed for a time. He successively served as the third secretary, the political advisor, the Minister of the Ministry of officials, and the governor of Baoxin army And other important positions. In the later period of Zhenzong's reign, Ding Wei was in serious opposition with Kou Zhun, the prime minister. When Kou Zhun offended song Zhenzong because of the Li Chu incident, Ding Wei took the opportunity to falsely accuse Kou Zhun of plotting a coup against song Zhenzong, which led to Kou Zhun's demise. Finally, he became the prime minister. He paid homage to Tongping Zhangshi, zhaowenguan's bachelor, Jianxiu Guoshi, yuqingzhao's imperial envoy, and the crown prince served as his servant and Zuopu Sheh The crown prince Zhao Zhen ascended the throne as emperor Renzong, and also conferred the title of situ and Shizhong. He was ranked among the three princes at one time. He was impeached and demoted again and again for covering up the eunuch. In the reign of Ming Dao, Ding Zhizhi was appointed secretary. In the fourth year of Jingyou (1037), he died and was buried in xijiayuan, Xihua mountain, Suzhou city.

Life of the characters

Smart and intelligent

Genius character

In the third year of Chunhua, Ding said that he was a Jinshi in the examination and was appointed as Dali judge and Raozhou judge. He is resourceful and versatile. He is familiar with celestial divination, calligraphy and painting, chess and piano, poetry and music. He pursued Han (Yu) and Liu (Zongyuan) in his writings, and his poems were like Du Fu. He was once known as "today's great Confucian".

Ding said that he was a gifted person, smart and intelligent, and "never forgets after reading a book". He could recite a few thousand words of articles once he read them. In his early years, his father, Ding Hao, was in Jingzhou (now Jingchuan County, Gansu Province). His father's colleague Dou Cheng, seeing that Ding was clever and talented, praised him and said, "this son is bound to be a senior official in the future." So he promised his daughter.

Wang Yucheng, a famous writer in the Song Dynasty, once served as the magistrate of Changzhou County in Pingjiang (now Suzhou). Ding Wei and his good friend sun Hezeng paid a visit to him with an article. After reading the article, Wang county magistrate greatly appreciated it and thought that "it was 200 years since Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty.". Wang Yucheng later called him "the great Confucian of today" and his poems were similar to those of Du Fu.

Kunshan Gong Ying is usually very conceited and seldom praises others, but she thinks highly of Ding Wei's articles, which can be compared with Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan of Tang Dynasty. He is diligent and studious, knowledgeable and strong in memory. He is proficient in celestial divination, calligraphy and painting, chess and piano, poetry and music.

Smart and witty

Once the emperor asked, "what was the price of wine in the Tang Dynasty?" Ding said, "three hundred for each bucket." When the emperor asked him how he knew, he replied, "as evidenced by Du Fu's poem," if you drink a Dou as soon as you can, you will have 300 bronze coins. " One day, song Zhenzong and his concubine went fishing together. After fishing for a long time, they didn't catch a single fish. They were very unhappy, frowned and didn't say a word. The ministers did not know what to do. Ding said with a smile, he ran up to write a poem and said, "the Yingjing Phoenix chariot goes through the flowers, and the fish is afraid of the dragon's face Seeing that he was so clever, song Zhenzong was very happy and praised him again and again.

map out a strategy

To be practical, Ding said that he was diligent, had a strong ability to deal with emergencies, and had done a lot of useful things.

Skillfully building palaces

Ding said that he could think about everything, and he had a plan to do things. The skillful building of jade Qingzhao palace was an example. In April of the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1009), Ding Wei was responsible for the construction of Yuqing Zhaoying palace. The project is large-scale and magnificent. The building is divided into 2610 areas, with a total of more than 3600 buildings. In addition to money, there are three problems in the project: first, it takes a lot of soil to build the palace, but there is very little open space in the capital, so it takes a lot of labor to dig the soil in the suburbs; second, it takes a lot of construction materials to build the Palace, which need to be transported from other places, and the Bianhe river is in the suburbs, which is far from the palace, so it needs a lot of people to transport the soil from the wharf to the palace; third, there are a lot of original materials in the project It's also a lot of trouble to clear away the rubbish such as broken bricks and tiles out of the capital. After careful consideration, Ding said that he worked out a scientific construction plan: first, he dug a number of deep ditches from the construction site, and used the excavated soil as the new soil for construction, so as to solve the new soil problem. The second step is to lead the bianshui River from outside the city into the excavated ditch, and use rafts and boats to transport wood and stone, which solves the transportation problem of wood and stone. Finally, after the material transportation task is completed, the water in the ditch will be drained, and the garbage on the construction site will be filled into the ditch to make the ditch flat again. Kill three birds with one stone, not only save time and money, but also make the site orderly, so that the city's traffic and life order is not affected by the construction. Originally, it was estimated that the project would take 15 years to complete. However, Ding said that tens of thousands of craftsmen were recruited to keep working day and night. As a result, it took only seven years to complete, which won the emperor's praise. "Building a palace" has become a typical example of engineering theory.

Pacify the border people

During the reign of Chunhua (990-994), the ethnic minorities along Xialu were oppressed and rebelled in the border areas. Ding was ordered to deal with them. He was praised by the imperial court for his efforts to pacify and unite the people without using weapons and properly stabilizing the situation.

Wang Jun rebelled in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the imperial court mobilized soldiers to resist. As a result, they turned into bandits. These people were familiar with the mountains and rivers, captured the counties, plundered men and women, and made enemies with the government. As soon as he arrived, Ding Wei ordered him to strike. He ventured into Xidong to meet his leader and told the imperial court to appease him. He also declared that he had an imperial edict to pardon him and not to kill him. He presented them with brocade robes and silver silk, which made them express their gratitude and willingness to pay tribute to the imperial court from generation to generation. He recorded the oath on a stone pillar and erected it on the border. From then on, the southwest region was peaceful.

Ding said that salt for grain was used to solve the problem of military pay in Kui and Wanzhou. At the same time, it also alleviated the long-distance labor of sending imperial grain to the border people. He also insisted that the horses raised by the people in Southern Guizhou could be freely exchanged in the market. He had personally planned and managed the construction of Kuizhou city village to strengthen the border defense. Song Zhenzong once asked ding that how to make the frontier long and peaceful, and the ethnic minorities did not dare to do anything wrong. Ding Wei replied: "as long as the officials sent by the imperial court do not ask for credit and make trouble, and win by quietness, there will be no trouble."

Crossing the Yellow River skillfully

In the first year of Jingde (1004), there was a war between Song Dynasty and Liao Dynasty. As the northern Khitan cavalry went south, the people were terrified. The people in the north of the Yellow River rushed across the Yellow River one after another. Thousands of people took refuge to cross the river every day, but the boatman invited Li and refused to cross the river in time. Ding said that he was ordered to take decisive measures to remove several death row prisoners from the prison. He pretended to be a boatman and beheaded them on the river. When the boatman saw that the officials had beheaded and killed people, he did not dare to come here any more. Ding said that he organized people and boats to ferry around the Yellow River day and night. In less than three days, all the people in the north of the Yellow River were able to cross the Yellow River. After that, he selected young people from the refugees and divided them into several blocks by the Yellow River hundreds of miles away. They all set up flags, played golden drums, and beat Diao Dou. Their voices could be heard hundreds of miles away. The Khitans didn't know the inside story. They thought that the Song Dynasty had been on guard, so they withdrew and left. From then on, "Yan Ran in the territory.".

Harnessing water conservancy

In the first year of Tianxi (1018), when Ding was appointed governor of Shengzhou (today's Nanjing), the Houhu Lake in the north of the city became a dry lake because it had not been managed for many years. His predecessor rented 76 hectares of land from the bottom of the lake to the common people and paid more than 500 taxes. Ding said that after he took office, he found many problems through investigation. He asked Shangshu to reduce this part of tax, and asked the army to organize excavation and management, return farmland to Lake, store water, plant water, grow water, plant lotus, raise fish, feed hungry people, and increase their income. If there is a severe drought, they can irrigate farmland, for example.

Tax relief

During the reign of Dazhong Xiangfu, Ding was appointed as the governor of Pingjiang army. Later, he also served as the governor of Suzhou. He also did good deeds for his hometown. He once "invited him to the imperial court for special exemption of Ding Qian". The common people are very grateful, "the villagers are still virtuous, and their ancestral temple is in Wanshou temple.".

Rectify the economy

Ding Wei was a famous economic expert in Song Dynasty. At that time, the whole country's grain tax was very chaotic. The amount of grain tax was different every year, and it was increased at will, which made the people miserable. After Ding Wei was appointed as the third secretary, he made special investigation and formulated corresponding policies, and proposed that the household registration and financial income in Xianping should be taken as the standard. After that, the data should be collected every year and reported to the imperial court for the record, so as to benefit the country and the people's livelihood. The imperial court issued an imperial edict. During his tenure, Ding also organized the compilation of many monographs reflecting the financial situation of the early Song Dynasty and adopting coping strategies, which became an important literature for later generations to study the economy of the Song Dynasty.

Treacherous minister

Catering to the Emperor

Ding, who was originally erudite and resourceful, became cunning for the sake of power and was denounced as a "treacherous minister".

In order to ascend and consolidate his position, Ding Jizhen had to distort his soul, please the emperor, and do things "in order to conform to the purpose", so he was called "treacherous" by the eyes of the world. People call him "Five ghosts" together with Wang qinruo, linte, Chen Pengnian and Liu Chengli.

1、 He encouraged the emperor to build large-scale buildings. Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty wanted to build yuqingzhao Yinggong in the palace city, so he advised and objected to it. When Emperor Zhenzong asked, Ding said, "Your Majesty is rich in the world. He built a palace to serve God and pray for the emperor's descendants. If there is any resistance

Chinese PinYin : Ding Wei