During the Yuan Dynasty, the miscellaneous dramas of "The Great Revenge of the Orphans of Zhao" and "The Unjust Retribution of the Orphans of Zhao" swept the country and became one of the representative works of the Yuan miscellaneous dramas. So, what kind of story does the "Orphan of Zhao" tell?
Today, the author will bring you the beginning and end of the Zhao clan extinction case in the Spring and Autumn Period.
The story begins with Zhao Dun, the ancestor of the Zhao clan. In other words, during the Jin Dynasty, Zhao Dun had become the leading political figure in the country. Tu Anjia failed in the political struggle and hated Zhao Dun in his heart, but he did not dare to make waves because of the power of the Zhao clan. Until the death of Zhao Dun, the newly succeeded Jin Jing duke Xin Tu'an Jia, so that Tu'an Jia regained power.
Tu Anjia had an extra hole card in his hand, and he immediately aimed his spearhead at Zhao Shi: "In the early years, Zhao Pu killed the Jin Linggong, and although Zhao Dun did not know it, he was also one of the culprits. How can such a person who kills the monarch as a courtier be qualified to live in the temple? Please destroy the Zhao clan! ”
At this crucial moment, Han Wei stood up to help the Zhao clan and excused the Zhao clan: "In the early years, when the Jin Linggong encountered evil people, Zhao Dun was in exile. The reason why Xianjun appointed Zhao Dun was because Zhao Dun was not guilty. To this day, if you want to liquidate the Zhao clan, don't you disobey the wishes of the ancestors? ”
Tu Anjia was unable to instigate the group of courtiers, so he simply attacked first and secretly plotted to destroy the Zhao clan. After Receiving the news, Han Yu immediately came to the Zhao family to report the letter and persuade Zhao Shuo to flee as soon as possible. Zhao Shuo believed that justice and justice were in the hearts of the people, and he was unwilling to flee in fear, so he instructed Han Jie: "It is impossible to escape, if someone harms the Zhao clan, I hope you can protect my Zhao clan from end to heir." ”
After the Zhao massacre, Zhao Shuo's wife Zhao Zhuangji fled to the palace, and she was pregnant with Liujia at this time. With the help of Zhao's disciples Gongsun Pestle and Cheng Bao, Zhao Zhuangji gave birth smoothly and gave birth to a son, Zhao Wu. When Tu'an Jia sent people to search the palace, Gongsun Pestle and Cheng Bao hid Zhao Wu and turned the danger into ruin.
Cheng Infant said to Gongsun Pestle, "Although I escaped a disaster this time, I am afraid that Tu Anjia will come to search in the future. Gongsun Pestle asked, "Which is easier to protect the baby or to die?" Cheng Infant replied, "What's so hard about dying?" It is not easy to keep the young lord. Gongsun Pestle said, "Since you have been treated favorably by the Zhao family, it is up to you to do the difficult things, let me do the easy things." ”
Immediately, the two drew up a plan.
It just so happened that there was also a baby in Cheng's family who was swaddling, and Cheng Infant tearfully adopted the strategy of adjusting the bag, took his child up, and fled with Gongsun Pestle to the Shouyang Mountains in Yongji. Let the wife flee in the other direction with the Zhao orphans. Gongsun Pestle and Cheng Bao took other people's babies to the deep mountains, and in the face of the pursuing soldiers who were trailing behind, Cheng Nian said, "My Cheng Baby is not going to support the Zhao clan, and if any of you can give me a thousand taels of gold, I will tell you the whereabouts of the Zhao orphans." ”
The generals were overjoyed, and immediately gave Cheng Bao a thousand taels of gold and went with him to grab Gongsun Pestle. When Cheng Infant appeared in front of Gongsun Pestle with his pursuing soldiers, Gongsun Pestle said angrily, "Cheng Baby, you treacherous villain, we protect the Young Lord together, but you betrayed me!" "The generals divided the corpses of Gongsun Pestle and Cheng Bao's child with a knife, and the pursuing soldiers all thought that the Zhao clan had died. Cheng Nian watched his own son and friend Gongsun Pestle die under the chaotic knife, and did not know that the real Orphan of the Zhao Clan was still in the human world, growing up day by day under the protection of Cheng Baby.
Cheng Infant lived in the mountains with the little baby for fifteen years, this year, Jin Jinggong had a serious illness, divination wizard said that Jin Jinggong's illness was caused by the descendants of Daye, Jin Jinggong went to Han Yue to discuss countermeasures, Han Yue advised: "Aren't the descendants of our Great Cause of jin the Zhao family?" Now that the monarch has destroyed the Zhao family, the people of the country are very sad, and the lord's illness should be caused by this. ”
Jin Jinggong was frightened, and he rushed to make amends, and said to Han Yue, "Is the Zhao clan already extinct?" Are there any descendants left behind? Han Yue saw that the time was ripe, and simply informed Jin Jinggong of the ins and outs of the matter. Therefore, Jin Jinggong planned to make the orphans of the Zhao clan as a reserve, and summoned Cheng Bao and Zhao Wu into the palace. With the investigation of Jin Jinggong, the Zhao family's extermination case finally came to light.
In the end, with the help of jin jinggong, Zhao Wu obtained soldiers and horses, thus destroying the Tu family and killing the enemy Tu Anjia. Subsequently, the Duke of Jin Jing returned all the fiefs and land properties of the Zhao clan in the early years to Zhao Wu. Suddenly, the Zhao clan regained its former glory and became the most honorable and favored family in the Jin Dynasty.
In the year of Zhao Wu's weak crown, Cheng Bao resigned to his colleagues in the court and said to Zhao Wu, whom he had raised: "In the difficulties of the lower palace in those years, most of the courtiers died with their bodies. I Cheng Bao is not a person who is afraid of death, but I hope to save incense for the Zhao family. Today, you have a weak crown and inherited the title of your ancestor, and I also have the face to go to the nine springs to see Zhao Dun and Gongsun Pestle. ”
Zhao Wu did not want his benefactor to seek death, and tried everything to keep Cheng Bao. Who knew that Cheng Bao's death wish had been decided, and he committed suicide after bidding farewell to Zhao Wu. In Bao'an Village, more than ten kilometers south of present-day Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province, there is the tomb of Sanyi, the tomb of Zhao Wu, Gongsun Pestle, and Cheng Bao, the original ancestral hall sacrifice, destroyed during the War of Resistance, and the existing tombs, there are inscriptions and tombstones.
Gongsun Pestle and Cheng Bao, two famous soldiers, endured humiliation and burdens, and finally saved the Zhao incense. Since then, the Zhao clan has been revived and has become the most powerful family in the Jin Dynasty, until the three families were divided into Jin.
Resources:
【History of Zhao Shijia" and "Xingtai County Chronicle"】