After all, yanyi is a form of entertainment literature, and many things are different from the correct history, and we can appreciate the literary nature, but if we really study history, it will not work. For example, Qin Qiong, who has feelings and righteousness in the interpretation, is known as "stepping on both sides of the Yellow River and fighting three states and six provinces", and when he has not followed Li Shimin, the limelight is very popular.
However, in history, Qin Qiong became famous relatively late, but he became famous under Zhang Sutuo's hands, and along with him, luo Shixin, the prototype of Luo Cheng. At the beginning, Qin Qiong was a Sui Dynasty soldier who followed the Sui Emperor in his conquest of Goguryeo, but did not establish any meritorious service, and was later transferred to Zhang Sutuo's hands to suppress Lu Mingyue.
Soon after, Li Mi led the Wagang army to defeat Zhang Sutuo, and Qin Qiong led the remnants to submit to Pei Renji. However, Pei Renji then surrendered to Li Mi, and Qin Qiong entered the Wagang army as a general. After the Yangzhou Mutiny, Yu Wenhua and led an army of 100,000 people to come, Li Mi decided to accept the luoyang court's invitation to attack Yu Wenhua in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy in the abdomen.
Li Mi almost lost this battle, thanks to Qin Qiong's gathering of the remnants at a critical moment and counterattacking Yu Wenhua, which defeated Yu Wenhua and him. However, Li Mi became more proud after that, and his subordinates also left, and Li Mi fled to Chang'an to join Li Yuan. Qin Qiong defected to Wang Shichong.
However, Wang Shichong was narrow-minded and could not become a great instrument, so Qin Qiong surrendered to Li Yuan. Li Yuan was really good to Qin Qiong, and Qin Qiong also remembered Li Yuan's kindness. Li Shimin treated him well, so when Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were vying for the throne, he sided with Li Shimin and directly participated in the Xuanwumen Revolution.
But at a strange time, Qin Qiong suddenly fell ill after participating in the Xuanwu Gate Change, and he was ill for more than ten years, and he never got better. When he saw people, he said, "When I was fighting, I had several pots of blood, but now that I am older, how can I not get sick?" ”
In fact, historians have their own speculations about whether Qin Qiong is sick, they believe that Qin Qiong may not be sick, he is pretending to be sick, and the reason for pretending to be sick lies in Li Shimin. Qin Qiong was also not a half-hanger, he also read books, he remembered What Han Gaozu did to the heroes after he was done, so he was also afraid of Li Shimin's prey on him.
Especially after the change of Xuanwumen, Wei Chi Jingde has always been very arrogant, believing that there is no Li Shimin without himself today, and he has repeatedly confronted Li Shimin. Finally, Li Shimin said some harsh words at a banquet, which frightened Wei Chi Jingde and Qin Qiong, so he had been pretending to be ill, which was also a means of self-protection.
Li Shimin is also very concerned about his condition, once sent the imperial doctor to see him, Qin Qiong was very grateful, and after the imperial doctor left, Qin Qiong poured out the boiled medicine and threw away the remaining medicine, not because it was poisonous, but because he was not sick at all and did not need to take medicine.
During the period during which he was ill, Wei Chi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin became more and more valuable, while Famous generals such as Su Dingfang, Li Jing, Qu Tutong, and Qu Tugai gradually rose, and Qin Qiong's prestige as the first fierce general of the Tang Dynasty was almost remembered by few people. Later, when Li Shimin set up the Twenty-Four Heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion, Qin Qiong was at the bottom of the list.
In fact, to tell the truth, Qin Qiong was right to do this, but unfortunately it was not in a correct dynasty. If he had been in the Han Dynasty, Qin Qiong might have dodged Han Gaozu's butcher's knife, but during the Tang Taizong period, his behavior was a superfluous behavior. Tang Taizong was a very powerful king, not comparable to Han Gaozu. Qin Qiong's days of pretending to be ill made many military merits sneak away, otherwise, he would not be the last among the twenty-four heroes.