Cheng Zhijie this name does not know how much everyone knows, he was called Cheng Bite Jin before changing his name, there is a saying that halfway out of a Cheng Bite Jin, so his name is a household name. In many film and television works.
For example, in "Sui and Tang Dynasties", "Xue Rengui's Eastern Crusade", "Xue Gang Anti-Tang" and "Speaking of Tang", Cheng Biting Jin is an important figure throughout, from which it can also be seen that Cheng Biting Jinhuo is older, living from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian period.
In the work "Xue Gang Against Tang", we can find that Cheng Yaojin was particularly dissatisfied with Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne, and complained a lot about Wu Zetian changing the name of the country to Tang to Zhou, so when Xue Gang rebelled, Cheng Yaojin was on Xue Gang's side against Wu Zetian.
However, in the work "Xue Gang Against Tang", Xue Gang failed, the king was defeated, and Wu Zetian had always been cruel to those who opposed him, even if her own daughter had use value, she still killed and framed Empress Wang to ascend to the throne, even if her own son obstructed her from ascending the throne, she still killed her to avoid the consequences.
For those who are not close to Wu Zetian and strongly oppose Wu Zetian, she has zero tolerance, and even does not tolerate the dead, and digging up Xu Maogong's grave is a good example, but according to the description in the work.
Cheng Biting Jin was not implicated in the process of helping Xue Gang rebel, but died naturally with the increase of age, and lived to the age of 100 years old, so Wu Zetian's means were so fierce, why did he let Cheng Bite Jin, who was an enemy of himself everywhere?
Since 1976, the state has carried out rescue excavations of the tombs of famous ministers in the early Tang Dynasty, and in 1986, the tomb of Cheng Zhijie, that is, Cheng Biting Jin, was excavated, and the epitaph of Cheng Biting Jin was found from it, which is of great significance to the historical community. Moreover, the excavated inscriptions have changed the existing history, and experts said after reading them: No wonder Wu Zetian was afraid of him.
Because the contents of Cheng Yaojin's epitaph are not recorded in the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang, this historical discovery not only makes up for the regrets of the history books, but also corrects people's understanding of history.
Regarding Cheng Biting Jin, many people think that he was born in the grassroots and also worked as an illegal salt dealer, but from the inscription on Cheng Biting Jin's epitaph, it can be concluded that Cheng Biting Jin was not born cold.
On the contrary, from the generations of ancestors, the ancestors were all officials in the dynasty, and the descendants of Cheng Yaojin have also been mixed in the official field, so for Cheng Yaojin, he was born in a family of official eunuchs. This is also an important reason why Cheng Bite Jin can do everything in one go.
As for why Wu Zetian did not deal with Cheng Biting Jin, it is also shown on Cheng Biting Jin's epitaph that Cheng Biting Jin died in 667, that is to say, Cheng Biting Jin did not die after the age of 100, but died at the age of 77, which was already an advanced age for ancient people.
In 667, Wu Zetian was not yet in power, which meant that Cheng Yaojin, a Tang Dynasty general, did not have much intersection with Wu Zetian, who was not yet emperor, and since Wu Zetian was not yet emperor, there was no cheng yaojin to launch an uprising against Wu Zetian, so wu Zetian naturally did not have to deal with Cheng Yaojin.
To sum up, there is only one historical truth, it is not easy to seek historical truth, once there is a gap in history, posterity will supplement it in the form of art, and the supplementary content is likely to be fictional, and unreal things naturally cannot become history.
However, it is extremely easy to spread false rumors, three people become tigers, and falsehoods become true, so we still have a long way to go to study the historical truth.