The orphans of the Zhao family are a well-known story in China, and between the Zhao family and the jin monarchs, it can be said that they have loved and killed each other for hundreds of years, and the most dangerous one is that the Zhao family is full of exterminations, and there is only one person left to kill.
This Zhao clan is the later Zhao State, he and the Qin State are the same surname, I don't know why, perhaps because the ancestors did not leave any good impression on everyone, this Zhao clan was suppressed several times in the Jin State.
The first to be suppressed was Zhao Dun, who was very famous in history, and also introduced the famous historical official Dong Hu who wrote a straight book in history, that is, the Dong Fox who Wen Tianxiang praised in the Zhengqi song as "in the Jin Dong Fox Pen".
So what did Dong Hu write, let posterity praise him for writing straight, he wrote six words, Jin Zhao Dun killed qijun, so to speak, Zhao Dun killed the monarch, Dong Hu dared to write, this is obviously Zhao Dun is a big bad guy?
Things are not so simple, it turns out that this Zhao Dun is a typical unlucky egg, Zhao Dun was originally in the Jin Kingdom, but the Jin Linggong did not like him very much, and wanted to kill him several times and three times.
In ancient times, unlike after the emperor had an emperor in the future, you had to die with an edict, and at that time, you also needed various tricks, such as sending assassins to assassinate, and as a result, the assassins saw Zhao Dunqinzheng himself dead.
Ambushing the knife and axe hand at the banquet, the result was that the subordinates could not see it, saving Zhao Dun's life, in short, this Jin Linggong was really too bad, and several times wanted to kill this Zhao Dun who was bent on serving the country.
In the end, Zhao Dun really couldn't help it, and I couldn't afford to hide, so Zhao Dun fled, and just when he was about to flee the country, he suddenly came out with the news that Jin Linggong had been killed by zhao pu of the same clan.
In this way, Dong Hu, a model of an ancient historian, wrote a record in history, saying that Zhan Dun killed the monarch, but Zhao Dun obviously did not kill anyone, and after Confucius heard about this incident, he also said with emotion that Zhao Dun was a good premier of the country, and Dong Hu was also a good historian, and if zhao Dun escaped from the Jin state at the time of the crime, he could avoid this consequence.
The logic of this statement is that Zhao Dun, as the premier of the country, is responsible for the death of the monarch, and after Zhao Dun returned, Zhao Dun did not punish the murderer, so Dong Hu believes that Zhao Dun killed the monarch.
In this way, Zhao Dun was saddled with the notoriety of killing jun, but the bad luck of the Zhao family was not over, and it did not take many years for the famous Zhao orphan incident to occur.
The process of things is probably like this, Tu Anjia is a traitor, framed the Zhao family, the result is that the whole clan was killed, leaving only a baby in swaddling, Cheng Baby sacrificed his child's name in order to protect this baby.
This is a familiar story, most of them are from the historical record, only in some details have been changed, so that the story looks more touching, "History" is recognized as a great work of historiography, then in this way, the matter of the Zhao orphan seems to be a nail in the coffin.
If history is the belief of historians, then Zuo Zhuan is the belief of ancient scholars, and if the two books clash, it will not be easy to deal with.
If according to the description of the "Zuo Biao", it is clear that there is another completely different version of this story, zhao yimen did suffer a tragedy, but it was Zhao Shuo's wife Zhao Zhuangji, who committed adultery with Zhao Shuo's uncle Zhao Baoqi, which caused the tragedy.
Is it a bit of a surprise, but from the status of "Zuo Biao" and the specific historical data, the real version of this story is this, there is no traitor, and there is no doorman to bear the burden of humiliation.
So why did Ma Qian of the Taishi company write such a story in Zhao Shi's home, which was certainly not deliberately made up by him, the authenticity of Sima Qian's "History" is constantly verified, and the reason why he wrote this story is because Sima Qian's writing style is to get used to going to the local area to collect style and listen to the local people's descriptions of someone or something.
Coincidentally, the Jin kingdom was later divided between the three families of Han Zhao and Wei, and the orphans of the Zhao clan who were in charge became the ancestors of the Zhao kingdom, so this scandal was slowly deliberately covered up and adapted in the Zhao kingdom, because each family had the original impulse to cover up the scandal, let alone the family of the monarch of a country.
Sima Qian also did not deliberately make up the story, he went to Zhao Guo to hear, is the version we are familiar with today, fortunately there are other historical materials and records of the "Zuo Zhuan", so that the truth of the matter surfaced.
Sometimes the truth and appeal of literature are not exactly the same as history, and many of the stories we are familiar with are actually not the truth of history, and they are moved to be moved, and history is returned to history, which is the best choice.