Qin Qiong was a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty, and since he defected to Li Shimin, he can be said to have made great achievements and can be regarded as a founding hero. However, since the change of Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate, there are very few stories about Qin Qiong. This is because he was sick, and whenever he was sick, he said to people: "I have been fighting horses all my life, going through more than two hundred battles, and have been seriously injured many times, and the blood energy flowing before and after has been several times, how can I not get sick!" Until the twelfth year of Zhenguan, Qin Qiong died of illness.
It seems that there is no problem, but if you think about it carefully, you will feel strange. So after Li Shimin ascended the throne, Qin Qiong was ill for 12 years, is it really for Mingzhe to protect himself?
On this point, some people think that Qin Qiong pretended to be ill, and there were not a few military generals who followed Li Shimin to fight the world, why did others not get sick, but Qin Qiong was sick. I really don't know how such words can come about? Do you have to get sick together if you want to be in the same profession? To die, you have to die together?
It is really speechless, Qin Qiong is sick, others are not sick, what does this mean? Can you explain the costume of the people? After all, the years are not spared, for the military generals, the perennial war does have a great impact, just like Qin Qiong himself, large and small injuries, what happened to the illness?
Maybe his illness didn't come at the right time, he didn't get sick early or late, but Qin Qiong fell ill after the change of Xuanwu Gate. At the same time, he has been sick repeatedly for more than ten years, which may be what makes people feel strange.
Indeed, in terms of Qin Qiong's official position and reward after Li Shimin ascended the throne, Qin Qiong was not the main force of the coup. Wen Chen was not compared first, and the gap between Wei Chi Jingde and Hou Junji alone was too big.
It can be seen that although Qin Qiong also received a reward, it is more like Li Shimin became emperor and improved the treatment of his subordinates, and he has long been excluded from Li Shimin's list of confidants.
So we can also look at it from another angle, Qin Qiong did not participate in the coup, and the main thing he was loyal to was not Li Shimin but Datang. Before his southern conquest of the northern war, it was also for the Tang Dynasty and the world, which may be due to his personality.
But for Qin Qiong, it is probably not a good way to retire after achieving success, although there is no war, his use is less, but there will be no war to invite them back from their hometown.
Li Shimin was also not happy to see him retire, so only he was sick, and it just so happened that Qin Qiong was indeed in poor health. So he used this as an excuse, he couldn't afford it, so he could only hide.
Therefore, Qin Qiong's illness is real, and it is also for Mingzhe's protection, which is not in conflict.