In the Song Dynasty, there was also a bearded prime minister named Ding Wei. Kou Zhun Kou Laoxi was degraded so badly, and a large part of it was due to Ding Wei.
Ding Wei is especially good at sneaking and patting horses. Once Song Zhenzong and the concubine fished together, and after fishing for a long time, they didn't catch a fish, and the upset emperor threw away the fishing rods, and the courtiers who accompanied him didn't dare to speak, and then Ding Wei appeared. He said, "The warbler is frightened and the phoenix wears the flowers, and the fish is afraid of the dragon's face and is late to fish."
One sentence earned back the face of the emperor's concubine.
Drilling camp like this, Kou Zhun naturally can't look down on it. At that time, Kou Zhun was the prime minister, and Ding Wei was the deputy prime minister, and the two often worked together. One day at lunchtime, Kou Zhun got vegetable soup on his beard. Ding Wei saw that his superior's beard was polluted by vegetable soup, and he must behave well. He quickly got up and helped Kou Zhun clean his beard.
But he didn't expect that Kou Zhun not only didn't thank him, but said in a weird way, "Participating in politics, the minister of the country, is it for the chief to whisker?" "The dignified ministers of the country, will they only slip in front of the chief? Kou Zhun's words were a bit damaged, Ding Wei couldn't get up and down the stage, and he hated Kou Zhun from then on.
Song Lizong's prime minister, Jia Yidao, was known as the cricket prime minister.
Jia Rudao is not only a master of fighting crickets, but also wrote a book "Promoting Weaving", which describes in detail how to raise crickets, fight crickets, and select crickets, and also wrote how to treat crickets when they are sick, which is the first book in the world to study crickets.
When it comes to animal-related prime ministers, we have to mention Wang Jishan.
Wang Jishan has no ability, but his father is Xing Guogong, born in such a family, as long as he is not a fool, he can have an official and a half-position, Wang Jishan became a big official lying on the merit book of his ancestors. Because he didn't have real talent and learning, he was ridiculed as "Dove Collection Phoenix Pond". "The turtledove occupies the phoenix pond", which is probably the same as "occupying the pit and not".
Although he has no ability, Wang Jishan has a prosperous official fortune, and he also became the prime minister during the Wu Zetian period. If you don't have the ability, you can't make political achievements when you become a prime minister. The only decree during Wang's tenure was that officials were not allowed to lead donkeys into the government offices.
Regardless of so many national affairs, two eyes are fixed on the donkey. Because of this incident, Wang Jishan was ridiculed as the "donkey driving prime minister".
There was also a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty named Lu Huaishen, who was famous for lying flat.
Lu Huaishen was born in the Fanyang Lu family, a famous family, and he was also born in scientific research, so he guessed that he should have real talent and real learning. It's just that no one thought that after he and the famous minister Yao Chong worshiped the prime minister at the same time, he actually said that he was not capable enough and pushed all the work to Yao Chong.
Yao Chongneng is famous in history, his work ability must be very strong, and it is no problem for one person to do the work of two people, but who hasn't done something yet. Once Yao Chong's family had a major incident and he didn't go to work for more than ten days, Lu Huaishen saw that the documents were piling up more and more, but he didn't dare to issue a single decree, and finally he could only ask Emperor Tang Xuanzong for his guilt.
The prime minister of a country, this is too incompetent, and the county orders are probably more courageous than him. Because Lu Huaishen only eats and does not work, he is called "the prime minister with food" by later generations.
Lu Huaishen's predecessor, Su Wei, is also a prime minister with a nickname.
In the "Old Tang Book· Su Wei Biography", Su Wei's wise words are "do not want to make decisions and understand, if there is a mistake, you will be blamed, but you can feel the edge to hold both ends". Don't think that you can be innocent when dealing with things, if you do it wrong, you will be punished, we just need to make things ambiguous. This is where the idiom "ambiguous" comes from.
Because of these things, Su Wei was called "Su Ambiguity", and later he was called "Ambiguous Prime Minister".
Liu Ji, the first assistant of the cabinet during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, was known as the "Prime Minister of Cotton".
Liu Ji is a sinister and cunning person, and many upright officials look down on him, so he is often impeached. But it's okay to be impeached, because the emperor is mediocre and likes this kind of person. Liu Ji was impeached every day, and he didn't have anything to do, but the people who impeached him were demoted, but Liu Ji's official became bigger and bigger. Therefore, Liu Ji is called "Liu Mian", which means that he can bounce higher and higher like cotton.
Liu Ji heard about this when he was still the first assistant of the cabinet, and he suspected that this nickname was given to him by the unsuccessful son. In retaliation, he told the emperor that those candidates who failed the list more than three times had no ability to think about it, so they should not be allowed to take the exam again. The emperor didn't think much of it, and agreed as soon as he heard it.
In ancient scientific examinations, many people have taken the exam for decades, and there are too many people who are still insisting on the list after three failures. As soon as this decree came out, it cut off the road for many scholars. Therefore, after Liu Ji was dismissed, this provision was gone.
There were also two prime ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty who were also as unprofessional as Liu Mian. One of them is named Li Bangyan and the other is called Wang Qi.
Li Bangyan is a rich second generation, good at playing football, and can be said to have no opponent on the court. is also good at writing meat jokes, and every time his new song comes out, the owners of major brothels in the capital come over to fight for the copyright. It's good for such a person to be an athlete or a composer, but he is a prime minister. A prime minister who doesn't do business and ponders these things every day is ridiculed as a "prodigal prime minister".
Wang Qi has been sluggish since he was a child, and he is particularly cautious when he sends people under the fence. Later, when he became prime minister, he was still very cautious, and even overly cautious. He has been prime minister for 16 years and has no political achievements at all. Every time he had something to deal with, he presented these pieces to the emperor, knelt on the ground and shouted "Take the holy decree". After the emperor finished reading it, he knelt on the ground and shouted "receive the holy decree". Convey the will to the subordinates and shout "Holy Will".
Where can this little thing be used by the prime minister, you don't have to be dumb to do it. Because he has no responsibility at all, he is called the "Prime Minister of the Three Decrees".