The question of whether Qin Qiong had "made meritorious contributions" to Xuanwu Gate does not need to be debated, and the list of changing warlords of Xuanwu Gate listed in the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang Liechuan No. 30 is very detailed: "On June 4, Wu Ji and Wei Chi Jingde, Hou Junji, Zhang Gongjin, Liu Shili, Gongsun Wuda, Du Guyanyun, Du Junqiu, Zheng Rentai, Li Mengyu and nine others entered Xuanwu Gate to discuss the completion of The Xuanwu Gate, Yuan Ji, and Pingzhi. ”
Changsun Wuji, together with Wei Chi Jingde and others, were the famous "Ten Warlords of XuanwuMen" or "Ten Killers", who not only killed the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, but also raised their heads to the city tower to show the public.
In accordance with Li Shimin's instructions, the next ten killers beheaded Li Jiancheng's five sons, Wang Chengdao of Anlu, Wang Chengde of Hedong, Wang Chengxun of Wu'an, Wang Chengming of Runan, and Wang Chengyi of Julu, and Li Yuanji's five sons, Wang Chengye of Liang County, Wang Chengluan of Yuyang, Wang Chenghui of Pu'an, Wang Chengyu of Jiangxia, and Wang Chengdu of Yiyang.
Li Jiancheng was thirty-eight years old when he was killed, his sons may have been mostly adults, and Li Yuanji was only twenty-four years old when he was killed, and his sons should not have been an adult, and it was really a loss to the "second uncle (uncle)" Li Shimin had to do it--before the change of Xuanwumen, these three brothers often visited the door to drink (Li Yuan had warned Jiancheng to let Shimin drink less during the family banquet), and the ten nephews who were beheaded by Li Shimin's orders may have been pouring tea and wine for Li Shimin not long ago.
Such a tragic tragedy, if Qin Qiong participated, it would not be a glorious thing. If we look closely at the list of the ten killers of Xuanwumen, we will find that these people did not even have half a duke before Li Shimin became emperor, and the highest title was Sun Wuji, the duke of Shangdang County, Hou Junji's title at that time was Quanjiao County, and Wei Chi Jingde was not even the lowest baron.
During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Li Yuanwude, Qin Qiong had already been awarded the title of Duke of Shangzhu and Duke of Yiguo, and had reached the peak of the title of Martial General, and Cheng Yaojin was also awarded the title of Duke of Su in the fourth year of Wude.
If these two founding princes participated in the xuanwumen change, even if they did not rank first and second, they would definitely be in front of Wei Chi Jingde and Hou Junji. However, after going through the two Tang Dynasty books, only the vague words "Congping" and "Congjie" were found, and the names of these two could not be found in the list of killers at all -- this is actually very easy to understand: the so-called Congping and Congjie are just not on the opposite side, and Li Shimin, in order to show the reasonableness of his launch of the Xuanwumen Revolution, can write all the civilian generals and even soldiers and civilians outside the Yuanji clan as "Congzheng".
Qin Qiongcheng's bite of Jin had not succeeded in the Xuanwumen Revolution, which was a good thing: their character was more respectable, and their ending was much better than that of the Xuanwumen Ten Killers—at least two of the Xuanwumen Ten Killers were wiped out.
Speaking of the ending of the Ten Killers of Xuanwu Gate, let's start with the three people who Zheng Shi didn't bother to mention: "Li Mengxian... Nothing is recorded. Those who have not been passed down from the rest are attached to this. ”
The Seventh Book of Old Tang squeezed out twenty names, Pei Ning and Liu Wenjing occupied nearly half of the page, Li Mengyu and the following are small roles that are not worth mentioning, Liu Shili and Gongsun Wuda are among them, Liu Shili has a little more words, but most of the records in it are stains: "Later generations told Shi Li Ziyun that 'there is red light in the eyes, there is an extraordinary appearance in the body, and the surname should be in line with the symbol'. Luo Yi's reaction, Chang'an people's feelings were turbulent, and the division was established to inspect the right Wu Hou general in preparation for the extraordinary. and YiPing, The Constitution Division studied the party with exhaustion, and shi li sat and communicated, so he was removed. ”
Dugu Yanyun, Du Junqiu, and Zheng Rentai also have brief records in the inconspicuous corners of zhengshi, these three are like the three Xuanwumen killers who "don't record anything", they will be the top of the county, and their titles will never be as good as Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, and after two or three generations, few people have mentioned it, only Qin Qiong still enjoys the sacrifices of the future emperors with a group of rulers.
Until the first year of Tang Dezong's founding, on the list of emperors of all dynasties, the names of Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin were never omitted, and the six killers below Liu Shili had all disappeared from the sight of the Tang Dynasty emperors, and hongxu Temple certainly did not know who they were.
Liu Shili and others are not famous, and their titles are also up to the county duke, their treatment is naturally not as good as Qin Qiong, and even not as good as Cheng Biting Jin, and the top four Xuanwumen killers have a more tragic ending - one was exterminated of the three tribes, one was exiled by the whole family, and half of them could not end well.
The best solution among these people should be Zhang Gongjin, who died of illness as the Duke of Zou, but definitely not the end of his life, because he only lived for thirty-nine years—even in the Tang Dynasty, the Duke who died at the age of thirty-nine was considered to have died early. Even if he only counted the time of death, he was six years earlier than Qin Qiong, and Qin Qiong's age should be much older than Zhang Gongjin.
Although Zhang Gongjin did not live long, he was not like Wei Chi Jingde, and the last sixteen years were spent in melancholy self-confinement: "Jingde is good and straight, and he is responsible for his merits, and every time he sees short and long such as unscrupulousness, Xuan Ling, and obscurity, he must face and face the court, and he will not be at peace with the government." In the last years of Jingde's life, he believed in xianfang, flew alchemy stones, took mica powder, wore chi chitai, worshiped Luo Qi, tasted Qing Shang music to cultivate himself, did not communicate with outsiders, and spent sixteen years. ”
Wei Chi Jingde later had no friends, so he had to hide behind closed doors, and one of his most successful things may be to marry his granddaughter to Qin Qiong's son, ostensibly a generation older than Qin Qiong, but according to the current concept, marrying his granddaughter to the son of a "friend" always seems to be a bit stubborn.
Although Wei Chi Jingde did not have a very comfortable life in the last sixteen years, after all, he died in his own home, compared to Hou Junji, who died with his whole family on the execution ground, he was still relatively lucky.
The eldest brother of the Xuanwumen Ten Killers, Changsun Wuji, did not catch good fruit to eat in the end: he was exiled to Qianzhou (present-day Pengshui County, Chongqing), which was still very barbaric at that time, and hanged himself in fear.
Hou Junji's fate was the most tragic of the ten killers: "Beheaded in the Qu of The Four Da, there is no home for him." Teyuan (pardoned) his wife and one son, migrated to Lingnan. ”
The Ten Killers of Xuanwumen either disappeared or were self-imprisoned, and some people embarked on the road of exile or even the execution ground, which corresponds to the old saying: "Those who respect others are always respected, and those who kill people are constantly killed, and they are all self-inflicted." ”
The Ten Killers killed Twelve Of Li Yuan's descendants, that is, killed Li Shimin's twelve brothers and nephews, and if those people were alive, Emperor Gaozong of Tang would also call them uncles and brothers.
The kinship that is thicker than water cannot be extinguished forever, the Ten Killers have killed so many Li Tang Sect Chambers, and it is impossible for the Tang Emperor with a conscience in the future not to be grumpy, so these people are basically controlled and used. However, Li Jing and Li Ji, who were never mixed, became the commanders of the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, and even Cheng Yaojin also made an expedition to the Turks when he was nearly seventy years old, and the later famous general Su Lie Su Dingfang could only give him a vanguard at that time.
Qin Qiong was called ill after the change of Xuanwu Gate, and held the golden wine jug all day long, and after his death, Li Shimin gave him a unique honor: "Emperor Taizong's special order is to establish a stone man and horse within his body, and to make a contribution to the battle front." ”
A year before the construction of stone people and stone horses in front of Qin Qiong's tomb, Li Shimin had just ordered that no one who was not a prince and a king of the county had great merits should not be allowed to have stone people and stone horses in front of the tomb--Li Shimin had taken Qin Qiong as his own Wei Qinghuo to get sick.
The ending of the ten killers of Xuanwu Gate is not as good as Qin Qiong and Cheng Qiongjin, this is the heavenly reason, loyalty is like Qin Qiong, wisdom is like Cheng biting gold, this is the way of being a man, a subject, a general: the big husband does something and does not do something, Cheng bites Jin guangly, Qin Qiong is highly respected, these two are born and die, are not good and good rewards?