"Chang'an 30,000 Li" distorts history? Gao Shi did not save Li Bai, and Cheng Gonggong was actually a big eunuch

Author of this article: Li Xiaotian

"Chang'an 30,000 Li" is being released, and it is worth watching for those who like traditional culture.

But for Tang poetry fans, they can't like this film because it distorts a lot of history. The most typical is to blacken Li Bai, portraying Li Bai as a prodigal son who is exaggerated, untrustworthy and has a high self-esteem, which is really inconsistent with Li Bai in the public's mind.

Here, one of the important characters in the film is Cheng Jianjun, Cheng Gonggong, and Cheng Yuanzhen. These three names are actually the same person, and the great enemy in his film is currently coming to censor Gao Shi's court officials.

According to the statement in "Chang'an 30,000 Li", Cheng Gonggong came to investigate whether Gao Shi had committed favoritism to Li Bai and whether he had shielded him. If it is, then the imperial court will not spare Gao Shi.

Then, through Gao Shi's mouth and through his narration of Cheng Gonggong, the film slowly unfolded the magnificent picture of the Tang Dynasty. This is also the main line of the film.

In the end, Cheng Gonggong knew that Gao Shi had shielded Li Bai and rescued Li Bai, but he still stood with Gao Shi, fought alongside him, won a great victory in Yunshan, and repelled Tubo's attack on the Tang Dynasty.

The film portrays Cheng Gonggong as a good person with a righteous face, reasonable and discerning right from wrong. It was also through him that he cleared the grievances that were carried on Gao Shi's back.

In the film, Cheng Yuanzhen also claimed to be a disciple of Colix, and in order to avenge Gaulix's death due to exile, he slashed another eunuch, Li Fuguo, and also admired Li Bai very much, singing "Early White Emperor City".

My good one!

What I want to say here is that all of the above is not in line with historical facts, and is a nonsense fabrication in "Chang'an 30,000 Li".

First, Gao Shi never rescued Li Bai. Even after Li Bai wrote a distress poem "Send Zhang Xiucai to High School Cheng" to him, Tuo Xiucai Zhang Mengxiong gave it to Gao Shi, but he still ignored it and let Li Bai live and die. Because of the different camps, Gao Shi was the general of the crown prince Li Heng, while Li Bai was the most famous literati in the Yongwang Li Xuan. Gao Shi was responsible for suppressing the rebellion of Li Xuan, the king of Yong, which was basically equivalent to Gao Shi personally capturing Li Bai. For the sake of his own political future, how could he let Li Bai go privately. Only by killing Li Bai can he prove himself. In the end, it was still thanks to Guo Ziyi's righteous speech that Shixian Fang was saved from dying and exiled to Yelang.

Second, the time is not right. Under Guo Ziyi's intercession, Emperor Suzong, who took the throne, spared Li Bai. In the second year of Zhide (757), he was sentenced to exile to Yelang, 3,000 miles away from Chang'an, and was not allowed to leave for eternity. But Li Bai only stayed in Yelang for more than two years. Because of the drought in Guanzhong in 759, in order to provide disaster relief, the imperial court announced a general amnesty, and the death penalty of criminals around the world was changed to exile, and exile was completely pardoned.

Li Bai was among the exiles and pardons and regained his freedom. When leaving Yelang by boat, Li Bai happily ordered "Early White Emperor City", which became a famous poem for thousands of years, and the time of writing the poem was 759 (the second year of the Qian Yuan).

The dynasty said that the white emperor was in the clouds, and the thousands of miles of Jiangling were returned in one day.

The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had already crossed the 10,000 heavy mountains.

After Li Bai left Yelang and returned to the Central Plains, he first went to Jiangxia and then to Jinling, running between the two places to play, and after two years of comfort. In 761 (the second year of the first century), 60-year-old Li Bai fell seriously ill and became destitute. After recovering from his illness, he went to Dangtu and defected to his uncle Li Yangbing. The following year, 61-year-old Li Bai died of illness.

When Gao Shiqian was appointed as the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, responsible for resisting the Tubo attack on the southwestern direction of the Tang Dynasty, it was in February of the first year of Emperor Guangde (763) of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Li Bai had passed away for more than a year. Moreover, it has been more than 4 years since Shixian was amnestied.

Cheng Gonggong also came to Gao Shi specifically because of Li Bai's affairs? The screenwriter and director of "Chang'an 30,000 Li" thought too much.

Third, Gao Shi not only failed to win in Yunshan City, but also strongly advocated giving up Shudi. In "Chang'an 30,000 Li", Cheng Gonggong finally believed Gao Shi, and then joined forces with Gao Shi to counterattack Yunshan City, defeating Tubo in one fell swoop and saving the Great Tang.

Ah, bah!

It is said that after Gao Shi suppressed Li Xuan the Prince of Yong, he was reused, first as the Assassin of Pengzhou, and then changed to the Assassin of Shuzhou. Because of the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court transferred a large number of elite people guarding the west and southwest to the interior to suppress the rebellion, and Tubo took advantage of the fire to loot and encroach on the land of the Great Tang Dynasty. Nishikawa not only had to deliver a lot of wealth to the country, but also participated in guarding the castle on the border between Xichuan and Tubo.

By the way, Gao Shi took office as the assassin of Shuzhou in 760, and when he went to Shudi, Li Bai had already received amnesty a year in advance, and the two did not meet. However, Du Fu was in Chengdu, the two met and interacted, and Gao Shi also sponsored the impoverished Du Fu.

In February of the first year of Guangde (763), Gao Shi was promoted from assassination to Jiannan Jiedu envoy. Fully responsible for the heavy responsibility of fighting Tubo.

But how did Gaoshi deal with it?

And look at the original text of "Old Book of Tang Gao Shi Biography":

After Jiannan returned to Beijing from Emperor Xuanzong, Yuzi and Yierzhou each set a section, and the officials were cumbersome, and the people worked hard, and it is appropriate to say: "Shu's status is in Qiaoyuan, and it is dangerous, and in the words of the state, it is not enough to doom the situation." Why do you want to trap the people of Shu Taiping with a dangerous land of projectiles? ”

Translation:

Soon, when there was turmoil in Shuzhong, Gao Shi went out of Beijing to do the history of Shu Prefecture, and Jiannan had set up a section in Zi and Yi Erzhou since Emperor Xuanzong returned to Beijing, with cumbersome bureaucracy and tired people, Gao Shi said of this situation: "Shu is located in a remote location and close to a dangerous place, from the national point of view, it cannot be used to contain the enemy's forces, why should it be troubled by the peaceful people of the entire Shu land with a very dangerous projectile small land?" ”

What does he mean? He said that Shudi was remote, and for the entire Great Tang, it didn't matter, so he gave up directly.

As a result, in December of the first year of Guangde (763), the Tubo army came to invade, "trapping the three prefectures of Song, Wei, and Bao, and Yunshan to build two new cities, and the Xichuan Jiedu made Gao Shi unable to save it, so the Jiannan Xishan prefectures also entered Tubo." ”

In other words, due to Gao Shi's passive defense, Tubo easily took over the key parts to enter Xichuan, and the two cities of Sanzhou were handed over, and since then Xichuan of the Great Tang has become unguardable.

At this time, the newly ascended Emperor of the Tang Dynasty really couldn't stand it, and immediately sent Yan Wu to replace Gao Shi as the envoy of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu.

This Yan Wu also entered Shu with Emperor Xuanzong, although he was more than 20 years younger than Gao Shi, but his style was capable, and he quickly trained an elite army, "broke the Tubo 70,000", and took Danggou City and Yanchuan City. Later, he repeatedly broke Tubo, expanded the land for hundreds of miles, and was awarded the title of Duke of Zheng Guo.

By the way, in taking care of Du Fu, Yan Wu took over the banner of Gao Shi, and even did better than Gao Shi, and established a very good friend relationship with Du Fu.

Look, when Gao Shi was guarding the southwest, he was not only fruitless, but also made a big mistake, and later transferred to an idle position and was marginalized.

"Chang'an 30,000 Li" is a great victory in Yunshan City, all of which are the merits of Gao Shi, and Yan Wu picked the fruit, which is really blind.

Fourth, Cheng Gonggong was actually the culprit who attracted Tubo to attack the Great Tang. In the middle of the film, Cheng Gonggong and Gao Shi teamed up to win the great victory of Yunshan City, defeated Tubo, and established meritorious achievements. On the Chang'an side, Guo Ziyi stabilized the situation, and Gao Shi and Cheng Gonggong joined forces in the southwest to jointly save the Great Tang.

In fact, this plot of "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is complete nonsense. This Duke Cheng not only did not defeat Tubo, but was the culprit of Tubo's capture of Chang'an.

Duke Cheng, also known as Cheng Yuanzhen, was a newly rising Tang dynasty eunuch after the fall of Colix.

Li Heng, the crown prince who defeated Li Xuan the Prince of Yong, ascended the throne and became Emperor Suzong. However, Emperor Suzong was in poor health, and after only 6 years as emperor (reigned 756-762), he fell ill and died.

The emperors of the Tang Dynasty liked to reuse eunuchs, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang reused Gaolix. After Emperor Suzong came to power, he first reused the eunuch Yu Chaoen, and later reused Li Fuguo and Cheng Yuanzhen. When Emperor Suzong was seriously ill in his later years and unable to govern, his Empress Zhang wanted to learn from Wu Zetian and planned to seize power, and even planned to depose the crown prince Li Yu and establish the Li line of the Yue king. As a result, when Cheng Yuanzhen learned the news, he immediately supported the crown prince and arrested Empress Zhang and the Li family of the Yue king. On the night of the mutiny, Suzong died of illness. Crown Prince Li Yu ascended the throne for Emperor Daizong.

After Emperor Daizong ascended the throne, he reused Li Fuguo and Cheng Yuanzhen, who had made meritorious achievements. Cheng Yuanzhen paid homage to the general of the Right Prison Gate, knew that the internal attendants were in charge of the palace. Soon, he was made a marshal marching Sima, a general of the Jiazhen Army, a general of the Right Prison Gate, a marquis of Baoxuan County, and commanded the forbidden army. In September, he moved to the hussar general and entered the title of Duke of Yongguo, and his power was prominent.

Cheng Yuanzhen got military power, Li Fuguo got administrative power, and was promoted to Shang's father, Sikong and Zhongshuling, and since then he has been proud of his achievements and arrogant. But Daizong quickly became dissatisfied with Li Fuguo and then found an opportunity to kill him. "Chang'an 30,000 Li" Mileage Yuanzhen said that he killed Li Fuguo, how is it possible, they are a cold relationship. Of course, in terms of power, after Li Fuguo's new death, most of the power was transferred to Cheng Yuanzhen's head, making his power expand a hundred times.

In September of the first year of Guangde (763), the second year of Emperor Daizong's accession to the throne, Tubo once again marched eastward, and the generals reported to the imperial court, and the military situation spread to the capital like snowflakes. As a result, it all reached the hands of Cheng Yuanzhen, who actually treated the military situation as a child's play, and in order to please the emperor, he suppressed the 100,000 fiery military situation again and again.

In October, Tubo and Dang Xiang sent troops to invade the east, all the way to Wugong and Qian County in central and western Guanxi, Tubo attacked Jingzhou, and after the local assassination of Shi Xian City, he became Tubo's guide. When this group of people passed through Yongzhou in a mighty manner, Tang Daizong had just learned that Tubo had originally entered the country, and "in one step", he had already arrived in Yongzhou and pointed directly to Chang'an.

Emperor Daizong Li Yu was frightened and quickly issued an edict to transfer troops. As a result, because the envoys and generals of various places were dissatisfied with Emperor Daizong's favor and trust Cheng Yuanzhen, no one responded to the order to send troops to Qinwang, causing the Tubo army to capture Chang'an, and Emperor Tang fled to Shaanzhou in panic. Cheng Yuanzhen was finally resigned.

After Tubo captured Chang'an, he established Li Chenghong the Prince of Guangwu of the Tang Dynasty as emperor as his ruling tool. Emperor Daizong Li Yu saw that this was not a thing, and quickly activated the retired Guo Ziyi as the deputy marshal (Yongwang Li Shi as the nominal marshal) to attack Tubo. Guo Ziyi actively organized troops to counterattack Tupan, established meritorious achievements, and became a generation of famous generals.

After reading it, the time is not right again. In 763, Tubo attacked Chang'an and captured Chang'an in October. Guo Ziyi's power lies in the fact that he recaptured Chang'an in November in just one month. When Tubo attacked the three prefectures of Song, Wei, and Bao, and Yunshan, which were guarded by Gao Shi, it was in December 763. Gao Shi could not be saved, which means that Gao Shi did not have time to rescue at all, and did not participate in the war on the front line at all.

As for Cheng Gonggong, when Daizong fled, he was impeached by Qunchen and was demoted to a commoner. Where is there time to run to Xichuan Supervisor Gao Shi? There is no such power, nor this motivation.

The following year, Cheng Yuanzhen was exiled to Qinzhou by Emperor Daizong of Tang and killed on the way.

"Chang'an 30,000 Li" greatly elevated Gao Shi, Cheng Yuanzhen, Ge Shuhan and others, while dwarfing Li Bai, Du Fu, Guo Ziyi, etc., which is really not enough training.

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