The first fu general in the "Sui and Tang Dynasty" can be said to be the "Chaos Demon King" Cheng biting jin.
This Cheng bites gold has several characteristics, one is bold, dare to rob the imperial post, dare to explore the crypt, dare to oppose the Great Sui; Second, the martial arts are few and refined, and the tricks are three axes and a half, and they have eaten for a lifetime; The third is that the mouth is good, the mouth is full of cannons, and the dead can also make him live; Fourth, the heart is wide, living long enough, counting from Gaozu Li Yuan, all the way to Li Shimin, Li Zhi, Wu Zetian, Li Xian, Li Dan, the elder of the Six Dynasties, one hundred and twenty years old, known as the first fu general of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
However, none of this is true. The historical Cheng biting gold is too far away from the Cheng biting gold in the interpretation. In 1986, with the opening of the Cheng Biting Jin Tomb, the secrets of the Cheng Biting Jin family were completely revealed!
Cheng Biting Jin Tomb is buried as a funerary mausoleum in the Tomb of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, this mausoleum is known as the "World Famous Mausoleum" is the largest of the Tombs of the Tang Emperors, and it is also the largest number of funerary tombs, as many as 180, and the tomb of Cheng Biting Jin is among them, located in the west of Shangying Village, Yanxia Township, Liquan County, Shaanxi.
Like Emperor Taizong's Zhao Mausoleum, Cheng's tomb was emptied, leaving only an square stone slab. It is this square stone slab that details the life of Cheng Biting Jin, and this square stone slab is the epitaph of Cheng Biting Jin.
Below, we will take two paragraphs from the epitaph to explain them to you one by one.
Zeng Zuxing, Sima of Qi Yanzhou; Zu Zhe, Sima of Qihuang Prefecture"
Two people are mentioned here, Cheng Yaojin's great-grandfather Cheng Xing and grandfather Cheng Zhe. One was Sima Yanzhou, the other was Sima Huangzhou, and "Qi" was Northern Qi during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Sima this official position originated from the Western Zhou, ancient description of which country is strong, depending on how many horses, how many chariots, so Sima are military attaché titles, different from the general, Sima is a staff officer. After arriving in the Sui and Tang dynasties, Sima became another name for bingbu Shangshu. One is Sima of Yanzhou and the other is Sima of Huangzhou, looking at the present, it is probably at the provincial and ministerial level, and the position is quite high.
"Father Lou, Jeju Daejung-
Cheng Biting Jin's father's name can be named, Comrade Cheng Lou. Everyone knows the nine-pin Zhongzheng system, Zhongzheng is actually an official position for selecting talents, and now we will all say who divides people into three, six, nine, and so on. Different from Zhongzheng, Dazhongzheng was in charge of an ancient prefecture (invented by Sima Yi), and according to the current words, he was considered the organization minister of the province and city.
It can be seen from this that this "Chaos Demon King" is at least the fourth generation of officials, and he also has extremely strong contacts and political resources in the shandong and Henan land boundaries.
So why didn't Cheng Bite Jin become an official in his early years?
There are two reasons for this, first of all, Cheng Yaojin has taken a different path from the family tradition. Cheng Yaojin's ancestors were all civilian officials, so it is speculated that they were all engaged in reading, but Cheng Yaojin liked to learn martial arts since childhood, "less Xiao Yong, good use of horses", in the early years of the Sui Dynasty, the world was determined, and the young Cheng Biting Jin had no place to play.
Another point is that with the change of dynasty, Cheng Jiazu was an official of Northern Qi, which was difficult to reuse in the Sui Dynasty.
But no matter what, Cheng Yaojin is definitely not a child of a poor family, and in real history, he is definitely not a model of grassroots counterattack.