One of the door gods- Wei Chi Jingde

Last time, I talked about one of the two door gods, Qin Qiong, Qin Shubao. Today, I will talk about another door god, Wei Chi Gong Wei Chi Jingde. After all, the door god is two, and one can't always let one be on duty and the other take a long vacation!

Wei Chigong (585-658), (compared to not knowing qin shubao's birth year, this one has an exact birth year). Everyone should note that in the past, it was not called this name, but another name, that is, his real name- Wei Chirong. As for Wei Chigong's name, it is because in the New Book of Tang it is written that Wei Chigong, the character Jingde, was a native of Shuozhou Yanyang County, whose ancestral home was Tai'an Dina (present-day Shouyang County, Shanxi Province), a Xianbei ethnic group, and a famous general of the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

Wei Chigong made a career of striking iron when he was young (no wonder he was so brave). In the last year of Daye, he participated in the quelling of the civil unrest in Gaoyang, and was awarded the title of Chaoshan Dafu for his merits. In the thirteenth year of Daye, Liu Wuzhou, a lieutenant of the Yingyang Prefecture of Daye, killed Rengong, the prince of Taishou at the time, and decided to raise an army against Sui. Liu Wuzhou had long heard that Wei Chi Jingde was brave in battle, so he recruited him under his command and served as a partial general.

In March of the second year of Tang Wude, Liu Wuzhou received the support of the Turks and raised an army to the south, as a fierce general, of course, he could not be without Wei Chigong.

In about half a year, Liu Wuzhou occupied Taiyuan. Wei Chigong continued to move south with Song Jingang and soon conquered Jinzhou, and less than a month later, Xunzhou was conquered again.

Lü Chongmao, a native of Xia County, raised an army in response to Liu Wuzhou and defeated Pei Huan, the right servant of the Tang Dynasty, and soon after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it was suddenly in great trouble, and the form was very critical.

After Li Yuan received the news, he hurriedly ordered Li Xiaoji the Prince of Yong'an, Shangshu Dugu Huai'en of the Ministry of Works, Yu Yun, the governor of Shaanzhou, and Tang Jian, the chief of the Inner Epic, to lead an army against Lü Chongmao. Lü Chongmao did not have the strength to dare to fight hard with the powerful Tang Dynasty, so he asked Song Jingang for help, and Song Jingang hurriedly sent Wei Chigong and XiangXiang to lead troops to Xia County to meet Lü Chongmao.

Wei Chigong and Lü Chongmaoli joined forces and attacked the Tang army on both sides, and the Tang army was suddenly attacked and defeated. Poor Li Xiaoji, Dugu Huai'en, Yu Jun, Tang Jian, and Liu Shirang, the commander of the march, all of them were taken prisoners of Wei Chigong.

After Hearing the news, Li Shimin immediately sent his military headquarters Shangshu Yin Kaishan and Qin Qiong, the governor who had just surrendered to Tang, to intercept Wei Chi Gong's army at MeiliangChuan, and the two sides fought a big battle, resulting in a major defeat of Wei Chi Gong's army, and only two people escaped with Xiang Xiang, sending Li Xiaoji and others who had just been captured back to the Hands of the Tang army. (This incident is also interpreted as a fight between two door gods.) Staged a drama of three whips and two hammers. ）

In the third year of Wu De, Li Shimin personally attacked Liu Wuzhou. Liu Wuzhou, on the other hand, ordered Wei Chigong and Song Jingang to go to Jiexiu County to resist Li Shimin. As a result, Song Jingang was defeated and fled into the wilderness, perhaps too quickly, and even fled to the Turks. This time, Wei Chigong was miserable and was besieged in Jiexiu County.

Li Shimin spared his talents, so he sent Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng, And Yu Wenshi into the city to persuade him to surrender, and Wei Chigong and XunXiang pondered and felt that they would definitely not be able to defeat the Tang army, so the two surrendered to the Tang army.

Subsequently, Li Shimin recruited Wang Shichong, and naturally Wei Chigong, who had just surrendered to Tang, was indispensable. Perhaps Li Shimin would not have thought that he was fortunate to have Wei Chigong with him, otherwise he would not have lived to the age of taking Dan Medicine.

One day, Wei Chigong and Li Shimin had a whim, and the two went hunting in Yuqiao, and coincidentally, they encountered Wang Shichong leading tens of thousands of infantry cavalry to challenge.

As soon as Wang Shichong's subordinate Xiao general Shan Xiongxin saw Li Shimin, he immediately led the cavalry straight to Li Shimin, and the lieutenant saw the situation and rushed forward, roared, and even single shot Shan Xiongxin, the general Xiao, off the horse, and it was estimated that Shan Xiongxin was also confused. In this way, Wei Chigong protected Li Shimin while killing the siege.

After arriving at a safe place, he led his cavalry to fight Wang Shichong, and Wang Shichong's men were defeated, and even one of his generals named Chen Zhiluo was also captured, not to mention, and captured 6,000 cavalry armed with spears.

In the fourth and fifth years of Wu De, Wei Chigong followed Li Shimin in successive crusades against Liu Wuzhou and Liu Heitao, and all of them made great contributions.

In the ninth year of Wu De, he participated in the xuanwumen rebellion and personally shot Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, so that later when discussing the merits and rewards, Wei Chigong and the eldest son Wuji were designated as first-class merits, and Wei Chigong was given the title of Duke of Wu, and Zhenguan was renamed the Duke of Eguo in the eleventh year.

In his later years, Wei Chi was superstitious about immortal elixirs, grinding metal ores, swallowing mica ore powder, digging ponds to build buildings, decorating them with white patterned silk fabrics, learning to play Qing shang music for self-entertainment, and not interacting with outsiders, for sixteen years.

On November 25, 658 ( December 258 ) , Wei Chi Jingde died at home at the age of seventy-four.