However, the main author of this book is a big traitor.
This book is Yuan Gui, the first of Four Great Classical Novels in the Northern Song Dynasty, written by Wang Qinruo, the Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Today we will talk about this book and the story of Wang Qinruo.
Yuan Gui of Ci Fu is the longest and largest book in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is the first of the four major books in the Song Dynasty. The other three books, Tai Ping Guang Ji, Tai Ping Yu Lan and Wen Yuan Hua Ying, are not as big as Yuan Gui.
Yuan Gui in Ci Fu is the work of Song Zhenzong in the Northern Dynasty. It is an ancient book compiled by the government, which records the political and historical knowledge before the Song Dynasty and can be regarded as the pinnacle of summing up the previous generation.
The contents recorded in this book include more than a dozen historical books, 1000 volumes, with more than 9.4 million words. It is a masterpiece, and many of them are recorded in lost language, which is of great significance to historical research.
The author of such a great book should be immortal and respected by the world, but this is not the case.
There are more than a dozen authors of Yuan Gui in the bookstore, all of whom are learned scholars selected by the Central Committee of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time, headed by Wang Qinruo.
If Qin Wang is the darling of northern Song Zhenzong, he is a scholar in the imperial examination, and eventually his official career is promoted.
The man reached the pinnacle of power by flattery. At that time, Song Zhenzong and the Khitan made peace and signed the "Union of Love Sources", which was a disgraceful thing. After all, the emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty paid tribute to the barbarians in the north. However, Song Zhenzong's vanity is extremely strong. To avoid his embarrassment, he decided to "enjoy the funeral" and forced him to worship Mount Tai.
Meditation on Mount Tai is exclusive to the great emperors in the history of China. Before Song Zhenzong, emperors who meditated on Mount Tai were all monarchs with great achievements, such as Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi, Han Guangwu, Tang Gaozong and Tang Xuanzong.
An ordinary emperor in Song Zhenzong insisted on going to Mount Tai to meditate. Many people disagreed, but Wang Qinruo jumped out at the right time and urged the emperor to go to Mount Tai. In this way, Song Zhenzong remembered Wang Qinruo and licked his face to meditate on Mount Tai.
A farce completely discredited the sacred event of Mount Tai meditation, so that many great emperors such as Ming Taizu were embarrassed to go to Mount Tai meditation again.
Mount Tai worships Zen, which wastes people's money and makes people laugh, but Wang Qinruo has soared in his official career. With Song Zhenzong's connivance, Wang Qinruo and his five henchmen took control of the officials and formed a group to seek personal gain. The world called them "Five Ghosts". Wang Qinruo rejected dissidents all his life, corrupted, made mischief, and was insidious.
Yuan Gui of Bookstore was written by Wang Qinruo to test the attitude of the emperor. When he saw that the emperor liked the book, he immediately put his name at the top of the author's list to win credit.
Unfortunately, the influential masterpiece Yuan Gui was led by a big traitor.