Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Wei Chi Jingde were all fierce generals in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and all three of them made important contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of battle merit, these three people seem to be on par, but according to the titles of the three in history, there is still a difference between Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong.
In the novel "Sui and Tang Dynasty", it is obvious that Qin Qiong's status is the highest, and in the novel, Qin Qiong's ranking is higher than that of Wei Chi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin. Sui and Tang eighteen good men, Qin Qiong ranked sixteen, while Wei Chi Jingde ranked seventeen, as for Cheng Yaojin, he did not enter the list of eighteen generals at all, but was only known as a fu general.
The novel is naturally fictional, and after all it cannot be equated with history. According to the ranking of Ling Yan Pavilion heroes during the Zhenguan period, Wei Chi Jingde was obviously higher than Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin. In fact, no matter how the Lingyange heroes are ranked, according to the real history, Qin Qiong and Cheng Jingjin cannot be compared with Wei Chi Jingde, for Li Shimin, Wei Chi Jingde is his first confidant, and although Qin Qiong and Cheng Qijin are also generals of the Qin Dynasty, they both do not seem to be as trusted by Li Shimin as Wei Chi Jingde.
Wei Chi Jingde, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Yaojin all belonged to the generals, Wei Chi Jingde served under Liu Wuzhou in his early years, and when Li Shimin attacked Liu Wuzhou, Wei Chi Jingde defected to the Tang Dynasty. Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin were Li Mi's subordinates in their early years, they were all fierce generals of Wagangzhai, after Li Mi's defeat, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin belonged to Wang Shichong, and later, Wang Shichong was jealous, and Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin only turned to the Tang Dynasty.
Although Wei Chi Jingde, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Yaojin were all Tang generals, the titles given to them by Li Shimin were very different. Wei Chi Jingde was a former official who paid homage to Kaifu Yi tongsansi and the Duke of Eguo, and his position in the Tang army was second only to Li Jing, and it can be said that he was the second general of the Zhenguan Dynasty. Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, one was given the title of Duke of Lu, worshiping the Great General of the Left Leading Army, and the other was made the Duke of Hu and the Governor of Xuzhou. Among them, Qin Qiong's Governor of Xuzhou was still posthumously honored after his death, so from this point of view, Qin Qiong's status was significantly lower than that of Wei Chi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin.
The reason why Qin Qiong's status was lower than That of Wei Chi Jingde may be related to his experience. Wei Chi Jingde was a hero of the tang taizong Li Shimin Xuanwumen rebellion, and he saved Li Shimin from danger many times. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Chi Jingde was gradually trusted by Li Shimin because of this relationship. Later, he led an army to attack the Turks, threatening to shock the outside. Let's look at Qin Qiong again, although Qin Qiong is also a Tang general, it seems that Li Shimin is called empress dowager but does not have the figure of his meritorious service. During the Zhenguan period, Qin Qiong served in the local government for a long time, and during his tenure as duke of Hu, he was bedridden for a long time. Because of his physical reasons, coupled with his remoteness from the imperial court, Qin Qiong had never made any military achievements since Li Shimin ascended the throne. When Li Shimin chose the heroes of LingYange, he was based on military merit and battle achievements, and since Qin Qiong had not made meritorious contributions for more than ten years, he was naturally inferior to Wei Chi Jingde in terms of title.
The heroes who were reused during the Zhenguan years basically participated in the Xuanwumen Revolution, and in this regard, Wei Chi Jingde had a great advantage. Wei Chi Jingde was not only a great contributor to Li Shimin's uprising, but also a key figure in the murder of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, while Qin Qiong, on the other hand, did not make any outstanding contribution to Li Shimin's change in Xuanwumen, and second, did not support Emperor Taizong on the surface, and naturally could not gain Li Shimin's trust.
As the same famous generals of the early Tang Dynasty, the gap between the status of Wei Chi Jingde, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Yaojin was very different, which naturally contained imperial factors, and at the same time, it was also related to their abilities. In the main history, Wei Chi Jingde and Qin Qiong were both fierce generals of the three armies of the Yongguan, the two were comparable, as for Cheng Yaojin, as described in the book, they were first-class fierce generals, but in terms of bravery, they were inferior to Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde. If in the theory of force, Qin Qiong is the first, Wei Chi Jingde is second, Cheng bites the end of the gold, if the merit is theory, Wei Chi Jingde is the first, Qin Qiong is second, and Cheng bites the end of the gold.