Tang Fu's general Cheng bit jin, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin once commented on him: "Zhi Huai Ruiying, strong sense of qi and fruit, difficult karma, small propaganda line." Entering the Janissaries, diligently and sincerely in Xuan Majesty; out of the town Of Fangyu, Huihua Qia in Li Customs. Domain is a classic, style long favor life", is a "one axe to prosper the Tang Dynasty" of the incompetent general.
This general, who transferred to the camp of the Tang Dynasty in the middle of the way, was highly valued by Tang Taizong in his life, and eventually he was able to die well. But what is puzzling is that Wu Zetian wantonly killed famous Tang Dynasty generals during the years, why was Cheng Yaojin spared? It was not until the tombstone of Cheng Biting Gold was unearthed that people found that the inscription reshaped history, and scholars sighed: No wonder Wu Zetian did not dare to murder Cheng Biting Gold.
Halfway out of the way to bite the gold, joined in the middle but became a powerful general
In the last year of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Li Yuan took advantage of the situation to rebel and wanted to rob the Yang family of the world. His son Li Shimin was instrumental in this great battle to seize the world, and he was both a military general who got the world from horseback and a strategic courtier. Among the courtiers he led, Cheng Yaojin was a very special one.
At the time of the initial encounter, Cheng Yaojin and Li Shimin were not in the same camp. He was the leader of the peasant revolt at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and he followed Li Mi, Wang Shichong and others to fight the world. According to historical records, Cheng Yaojin was "young and courageous, making good use of horse mallets", and had become famous when he followed Li Mi.
In the second year of WuDe, Cheng Yaojin gradually felt that Wang Shichong could not be trusted, so he resigned in person and turned to the Tang Army. He was full of bone and rectum, frank and upright, and after defecting to Li Shimin in the middle of the way, he was also valued. Although he had followed the enemy army for many years, Cheng Yaojin, who joined halfway, was quickly reused by his strength. In the process of Li Shimin fighting the world, he also made a lot of efforts.
In August of the ninth year of Wu De, Li Shimin, the emperor, took the throne for Emperor Taizong of Tang. In October, Tang Taizong was greatly enfeoffed as a meritorious warrior, and Cheng bit the golden food to seal 700 households, ranking among the founding heroes.
Since then, the Cheng clan has been appreciated by the emperor, and the family's status has risen all the way.
In the Great Change of the Middle Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian killed all the heroes and why he let the process bite gold
Since the time of Li Shimin, the Tang Dynasty has presented a scene of prosperity and prosperity, and the rule of Zhenguan has brought the entire dynasty to its peak state. However, by the time Emperor Taizong's son Li Zhi became emperor, crises began to emerge in the imperial court, especially after Wu Meiniang interfered in imperial affairs. This woman's ambitions cannot be underestimated, first "assisting" Li Zhi to manage the government, and after her son became emperor, she directly deposed the emperor and sat on the long-coveted throne herself.
This great change in Tang Dynasty caught everyone off guard. Wu Zetian's attempt to use the Zhou Dynasty Tang Dynasty, the famous generals of the Former Tang Dynasty who were used by the emperor, also became a thorn in her eye.
According to historical records, when she was in power, she carried out massacres of old tang courtiers, and those loyal to the Tang dynasty royal family were basically slaughtered. In the end, the only one who survived was Cheng Biting Jin. However, Cheng Yaojin was the most fierce among the ministers who opposed Wu Zetian, and had been supporting Xue Gang against Zhou in the later period, so why didn't Wu Zetian get rid of him?
The tombstone of Cheng Biting Gold was unearthed, and the historical truth is shocking
This mystery was not really answered authoritatively until the tombstone of Cheng Yaojin was unearthed in 1986. Prior to this, the world had made many speculations about the reason why Wu Zetian did not kill. After seeing the tombstone, the historical truth was unexpectedly "simple".
After the tomb was rescued and developed, the unearthed "Cheng Zhijie Epitaph" still made some people a little confused, who is Cheng Zhijie? In fact, Cheng Zhijie is Cheng Biting Jin, and he changed his name to this name after he defected to the Tang Dynasty, which is also exhorting himself to know the festival and understand reason.
Historically, Cheng has been advertised as a long-lived old man. Born during the Sui Dynasty, and by the time of Wu Zetian's reign, he could still lead troops to rebel, with an advanced age of more than 100 years. However, on the excavated epitaph, it is impressively written: "On February 7 of the second year of Lin de, he was sick in The Year of Waidridi, and there were seven in the Spring and Autumn Seventy."
In other words, Cheng Yaojin actually only lived for seventy-seven years, and in the second year of Emperor Gaozong of Tang (667), he drove to Hexi. And in what year did Wu Zetian ascend the throne? The year of the First Year of the Yuan Dynasty (690)! When Wu Zetian ascended the throne, Cheng Yaojin had been dead for more than twenty years, and he had no idea that there were still female emperors of the Zhou Dynasty Tang dynasty in the future, so how could Wu Zetian persecute a deceased person?
In summary, Wu Zetian did not dare to persecute Cheng Biting Jin, but it was simply impossible, after all, Cheng Biting Jin had already died. When Cheng Yaojin was alive, Wu Zetian did not have such great achievements, at most he assisted the emperor in managing the government. With cheng's prestige of biting jin, if he was still alive, I was afraid that he would also become one of Wu Zetian's targets.
In the face of mystery, the historical truth is the most convincing. After thousands of years of excavation, cheng biting gold epitaph really explained the reason.
brief summary
Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne is the only case in thousands of years of history, and the pressure to be carried can be imagined. A woman's sitting on the throne of God is bound to attract the displeasure of the courtiers, which is why most of the founding heroes were killed. Cheng Yaojin followed Li Shimin to fight the world for many years, known as "an axe to rejuvenate the Tang", and if he learned that Wu Zetian had usurped the throne, he would also be one of the opponents.
However, the reason why this founding hero escaped the murder was not that Wu Zetian had scruples, but that it was not necessary at all. The dead man is empty of everything, and Cheng Yaojin, who died more than twenty years ago, naturally cannot have any mobile phone meeting with Wu Zetian.
Reference: Old Book of Tang, Biography of Cheng Zhijie
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