What was Ming Yue's ranking of the Ming Dynasty's ministers in the top ten?

Answer 1

In Ming Yue's "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", there were some differences in the "Top Ten" rankings of the Ming Dynasty ministers, but overall, the following are the more common ten rankings:

1. Yan Song: The most powerful minister of the Ming Dynasty was known as one of the three academicians of the Yan family.
2. Wei Zhongxian, the representative of the Ming Dynasty's eunuch autocracy. He was known as the " First Ghost Talent of the East Chamber ".
3. Shi Heng: One of the powerful ministers of the Ming Dynasty, once ranked first among the top ten ministers.
4. Xu Youzhen: One of the prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty, known as the "number one beauty in the cabinet".
5 Gao Gong: One of the powerful ministers of the Ming Dynasty, once ranked as one of the top ten ministers.
6 Yan Ji said: One of the prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty was known as the "second beauty in the cabinet".
7 Li Shizhong: One of the top ten ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
8 Yang Jisheng: One of the top ten ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
9 You Dong: One of the top ten ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
10 Shang Wang: One of the top ten ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

It should be noted that these rankings were only mentioned in Ming Yue's book back then and did not represent the true situation in history. In addition, different readers might have different opinions on these rankings.