The fire lasted until noon the next day before it was gradually brought under control. About 2,000 rooms were burned, and more than 500 people who participated in the fire fighting died/kloc-0, not counting those who died in the fire, Song Zhenzong said with regret. I don't waste money on what the two dynasties accumulated, but it's a pity that it was once exhausted. ?
This fire is really unusual. In fact, in February of this year, a fire just broke out in Zongzheng Temple, but it was nothing compared with this fire.
Prime Minister Wang Dan said to Song Zhenzong: There is no need to worry about the burnt money, but the gains and losses of government decrees are really worth worrying about. I should be removed from my post because of such a natural disaster. ? Then please demote officials, and Song Zhenzong also timely underground "sin", the fire as a natural disaster, is a punishment for improper decree of the son of heaven, so Song Zhenzong? What are the gains and losses of Xu Chinese and foreign seals? . The matter was forgotten when it came here, but later some people thought that the fire was not a natural disaster but a man-made, and a prison should be set up to impeach the matter. As a result, more than 100 people were involved.
Wang Dan didn't want to implicate too many officials, so he said to Song Zhenzong. When the fire broke out, your majesty had already committed a letter to himself, and I also asked for punishment, but now I want to blame others again. How can this be convincing? ? Song Zhenzong wanted to think or forget it, so these people who should have been implicated were not involved.
Prime Minister Wang Dan saved more than 100 people by himself, which can be said to be a rare good prime minister. And Song Zhenzong didn't continue to pursue this matter, but it was investigated. It turns out that there is also a dog blood plot.
Rongwangfu? Palace maid in charge of wine and tea? Miss Han (maid-in-waiting) and the marriage officer (bodyguard) Meng Guitong were working in the palace. After a long time, they made an agreement to elope, but they didn't want to go out to live a hard life, so they thought of stealing some valuable jewels from the palace and taking them out to sell, so that they could elope freely.
As a result, Miss Han's theft was discovered by Zhao Yuanyan, the nurse of Rongwang, and the punishment they faced was very heavy, and they might even lose their lives. This made Miss Han take risks and decided to set fire to the Buddhist temple of Rongwangfu. When the fire started, Miss Han could sneak out, but even Miss Han did not expect that the fire would be so big and the involvement would be so wide, and in the end she could not escape.
After such a thing happened, Zhao Yuanyan, as the master, naturally could not stay out of it, so Zhao Yuanyan was robbed of our time by Wu Xinjun, reduced from Rong Wang to Duan Wang, and lived in Shi Baojidi, a surname of Xu. Later, every time Zhao Yuanyan saw the emperor's brother Song Zhenzong, he cried and stated his fault. Song Zhenzong also felt that Zhao Yuanyan had no big mistake, so he made Zhao Yuanyan our time in Zhenhai and Anhua Army, and was promoted to Peng Wang.
However, because Wang Dan wrote in time to blame himself for the mistake, the fire was still kept low-key, or even dropped, and it was not enlarged and involved many officials.
Wang Dan did this to protect officials more than once. On another occasion, a diviner wrote a letter to talk about state affairs, was ordered to be executed by Song Zhenzong, and his home was confiscated. At the time of property seizure, it was discovered that many officials in the DPRK had written to the diviner to ask about good or ill luck. In a fit of pique, Song Zhenzong wanted to hand it over to the suggestion and investigate the matter thoroughly, and wanted to blame all the related officials.
When Wang Dan knew about it, he asked for pardon because they didn't talk about the DPRK, but Song Zhenzong didn't intend to let it go, so Wang Dan hurriedly took out his divination letter when he was young and asked Song Zhenzong to punish himself. Song Zhenzong finally decided not to pursue it under the persuasion of Wang Dan.
Wang Dan was afraid that Song Zhenzong would continue to pursue it when he remembered it. After returning to Zhongshu Province, he quickly burned all those letters, even if Song Zhenzong wanted to go back on his word, it would not change anything. So a group of officials were once again exempted from punishment with the help of Wang Dan.
References: History of the Song Dynasty, Record of Meeting the Morning in Yutang.