In the circle of a Three Kingdoms game, there is a very interesting name "Dusk Two Gods", which are two characters with very low attributes, namely Huang Hao and Cen Di. There is also a reason for this low attribute, because The moral level of Huang Hao and Cen Di is very problematic, and the personal charm is almost zero, which affects the performance of the two of them in various game works. The character of Huang Hao is believed to be familiar to everyone, a relatively powerful eunuch in the late Shu Han Dynasty, and an important factor in the demise of the Shu Han Dynasty (regardless of Huang Hao's political influence, it is very difficult for Huang Hao to listen to the witchcraft and make Liu Chan not prepare when Zhong Hui and others cut down Shu), but it is very difficult to understand). In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the plot of Huang Hao's being delayed is designed, which is enough to see people's hatred for Huang Hao. So Cen Di, who is somewhat similar to Huang Hao, what kind of character is he?
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Cen Dim in romance of the Three Kingdoms and Cen Dim in history</h1>
Huang Hao and Cen Di were able to juxtaposed together, in part because of the shaping of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After all, most of the Three Kingdoms games are based on the plot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cen Di's identity is the same as Huang Hao's, he is a eunuch and a constant attendant. They were all eunuchs, all of them were vassals of the later lords, and they all contributed to the demise of their respective regimes to a large extent, which was an important reason for the formation of the "Two Gods of Dusk".
The image of Cen Di in history is generally no different from that of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but the identity is very different. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms portrays Cen Di as a eunuch, but historically it is not. From here, it may be seen that the ancients had a relatively large hatred for the special group of eunuchs. This is also understandable, after all, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the han huan emperor and the han ling emperor, there were two "disasters of the party", which caused many scholars to deviate from the Han chamber. The contradiction between the scholar and the eunuch has a long history.
Cen Di should actually be regarded as a scholar, if in terms of identity, he is somewhat similar to Chen Qi (the character of Chen Qi, which has always been controversial, and we will regard him as a courtier according to the historical records) instead of Huang Hao, but his status is indeed inferior to Chen Qi. Chen Qi, as shu han shangshu ling, was equivalent to shu han's chancellor without a chancellor, and at the same time, Jiang Wei, who was a great general who recorded shangshu, had no political influence at all. And Cen Dim could not reach this height.
Cen Di has no biography in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after all, he was a courtier and did not contribute much. The more common record of Cen Di is in the "Three Kingdoms Chronicles, Wu Shu, and Three Heirs". Among them, it is recorded that Cen Di "risked Guixing and gave the throne nine columns", and the so-called "nine columns" are nine secretaries, according to the Rank of Han Officials, two thousand stones, silver seals and green silks, the power is not to be said, the status is still relatively high. According to the records in the Book of Beginners (as will be mentioned below), Cen Di's official position was that of a guard lieutenant among the Nine Secretaries, mainly responsible for the guards in the palace. Cen Di was able to become a wei lieutenant, and it could also be seen that he was very trusted by Sun Hao, the lord of Eastern Wu. In addition, according to the records of Huan Ji's Wu Ji (which will also be mentioned below), Cen Di served as a Shangshu. Although the status is not high, it is in the center of power.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Cen's deeds in Eastern Wu</h1>
So what deeds did Cen Di do in Eastern Wu that led to his reputation being so low? In addition to flattery, there is a very important thing, that is, to support Sun Hao's great construction of civil engineering, which can also be regarded as a part of flattery. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms only comments on Cen Di as "a good meritorious service, and the suffering of the people", while the "Book of Beginners" records some specific examples.
In volume 24 of the Book of Beginners, it is quoted in the Huanji Wu Ji that Cen Di requested the construction of the "Hundred Houses", from the palace gate to the Suzaku Bridge, and built a series of mansions in the middle of the road; in addition, avenues were opened, and walls or bamboo fences were built next to the road to "make men and women travel separately", presumably for men and women to walk separately. This is the only historical material that Xiaobian can find about Cen Di Daxing's construction.
In ancient times, the construction of large-scale construction and palaces was regarded as a kind of extravagant practice, especially when the monarch had such a move, he was often advised and criticized by scholars. Liu Bei was criticized by Cao Cao for "passing on more houses and serving people" from Chengdu to Baishuiguan after capturing Yizhou (of course, Cao Cao was not very clean, "Yi Santai" was his handwriting); the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui had a place that was criticized by people, that is, he used more palaces, expended manpower and material resources, and was advised by many people; Sun Hao was both a tyrant and a dimwitted monarch, and he had a lot of extravagant things, and in the "Biography of the Three Heirs", Sun Hao spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build the Xianming Palace (which should be the Zhaoming Palace, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"). Sima Zhao's name was changed to Xianming Palace), "Lu Kaigu advises, do not follow." Cen Di's practice of building a large number of civil engineering catered to Sun Hao's needs, and naturally he was despised by the scholars.
So is there any other deed done by Cen Di? There are also some, and it can be said to be a good thing. Zhang Hong's grandson Zhang Shang, who served as a servant and Zhongshu Ling during Sun Hao's time, seemed to be a very arrogant person. Sun Hao ordered Zhang Shang to learn the piano and talk about the subtlety of music, Zhang Shang used allusions to satirize Sun Hao's lack of virtue (Jin Pinggong wanted to listen to "Qing Zheng", and the musician Shi Kuang replied, "Wu Junde Book, not enough to listen to it"), and when arguing with Sun Hao, he often showed his talent and learning, overpowering Sun Hao.
Once Sun Hao asked him about the amount of wine, Zhang Shang replied, "The amount of a hundred yao." There is a proverb in ancient times: "Yao Shun Thousand Bells, Confucius Hundred Yao." Zi Lu snorted, still drank ten bottles. "The more sages the better the wine." Sun Hao's "hundred yao quantity" is just better than Confucius. However, this did not satisfy Sun Hao, who took Zhang Shang into custody on the grounds that "Confucius was not an emperor", and at this time Shang Shu Cen led more than a hundred people to kowtow to Sun Hao and plead. Sun Hao therefore temporarily spared Zhang Shang and reduced his death to labor, but in the end he executed Zhang Shang.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the outcome of Cen Dim</h1>
Huang Hao was executed by Ling Chi in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but in history, he bribed Deng Ai to avoid death. Jiang Wei had wanted to kill Huang Hao before, but his political power was really limited, and Huang Hao was protected by Liu Chan, but Jiang Wei's own situation became very dangerous. Compared to Huang Hao, Cen Di was not so lucky. In the fourth year of the Eastern Wu Tianji, that is, 280 AD, the last year of the Eastern Wu regime and the last year of the Three Kingdoms period, the Western Jin Dynasty launched an attack on Eastern Wu, which was basically a situation of destruction and decay compared to the "Battle of Wei and Shu". In such a situation, Eastern Wu Qunchen pressured Sun Hao to take Cen Di into custody, and killed Cen Di before Sun Hao took refuge.
However, from the existing historical records, Cen Di is no longer a traitorous villain, a person who sneaks around and shoots horses. The real cause of the disintegration of Eastern Wu was actually Sun Hao's brutal rule, which led to internal centrifugal separation, coupled with the gap in strength between the Western Jin Dynasty and Eastern Wu, which led to this result. Cen Di was only a catharsis of the long-term dissatisfaction of eastern Wu's subjects, and it was not possible to vent to Sun Hao, who was the monarch of the country, and it was also a good choice to point to Sun Hao's cronies Cen Di. The murder of Cen Di did not save Eastern Wu from defeat, Eastern Wu was unable to stop the Western Jin Offensive at all, and soon after Sun Hao surrendered, the Eastern Wu regime was eliminated, and the Western Jin Dynasty became a unified regime that annexed the Three Kingdoms.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Chu Xue Ji, Han Feizi, Kong Congzi, Romance of the Three Kingdoms