Presumably, everyone has heard the "Sui and Tang Dynasty Yanyi" taught by the late famous book critic Shan Tianfang, right? It is estimated that everyone has also watched the TV series of the same name.
Due to the spread of popular art, people believe that Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong have the best friendship. The commentary said that Shan Xiongxin was the chief scoop of the green forest in the nine provinces of the Sui Dynasty, and that Qin Qiong was the head of the fast catching squad in Jinan Province, Shandong.
Shan Xiongxin
When Qin Qiong fell into distress, it was Shan Xiongxin who pulled him along, so that the underworld leader and Qin Qiong, who handled the case, intersected. According to the current saying, a thief and a policeman have made friends, but in fact, this is the plot of the novel to highlight the contradictions between the characters.
In real history, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shijie were friends who had passed away, that is, friends of life and death.
Xu Shijie ,字茂功, is the prototype of Xu Maogong in the Commentary, the military master of Emperor Taizong of Tang and Li Shimin.
Some people may ask, since it is a matter of life and death, why did Xu Maogong not stop Li Shimin from killing Shan Xiongxin? Saying that Xu Maogong did not try his best to rescue Shan Xiongxin was really wronging him, and it was true that he did not save him.
However, two hundred years later, Li Shimin's descendants were punished. Knowing the details, we have to start from the beginning.
Li Shimin
To put it bluntly, what I am talking about below is real history. In real history, Shan Xiongxin was a native of Cao County, Heze, Shandong, and he was a good friend of Xu Shijie of the same county, that is, Xu Maogong.
Xu Maogong is a native of Dongming County, Heze, Shandong, and the two swear to live and die together due to their similar disposition. When Shan Xiongxin was young, he was brave and belligerent and good at making horses, while Xu Maogong was calm and sophisticated, resourceful, and the two formed a distinct complement.
In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, due to the construction of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guangguang, the people were overwhelmed and rose up.
In the ninth year of Daye, at that time, the people of Weicheng in Dong County, that is, Zhai Rang, a native of Present-day Anyang Huaxian County, Henan, gathered a crowd to rebel at Wagang Mountain.
Wagang Mountain is just south of Huaxian County, Henan is next to Shandong, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Maogong discussed, they defected to the WagangShan rebel army, and the two were quite important.
Later, the Wagang army grew rapidly, and the two generals, as well as Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Pei Xingyu, Luo Shixin, and other generals, were the best in the Wagang army.
Xu Maogong
After the team grew, due to Zhai Rang's lack of strategy, he seemed a little powerless at this time.
It was also at this time that Li Mi, the son of a broken nobleman, came to be attached. Li Mi has goods in his stomach when he reads poetry and books, and according to the words of the common people, he has many hearts and eyes.
Since Li Mi's arrival, Zhai Rang obeyed his plans to win battles repeatedly, so that Li Mi's prestige in the army surpassed Zhai Rang's, and Zhai Rang was a sincere man who felt that his ability was inferior to Li Mi, so he gave up the number one golden chair on Wagang Mountain to Li Mi.
Li Mi resigned three times and eventually became the leader of Wagang Mountain. He was given the title of Grand General of left Wu wei and Xu Maogong was divided into right wu wei generals.
If there is no later incident, Zhai Rang and Li Mi are the models of Jean Xian.
With the passage of time, with the fading of gratitude, Zhai Rang, the second in command of Ganju, had a conflict with Li Mi.
Zhai Rang
It turned out that the respective generals of the two sides were not convinced, needless to say, Zhai Rang's confidant generals were marginalized, and there was nothing wrong with this. These lost generals wanted to regain power, so they encouraged Zhai Rang to take back the position of leader.
If it were not to say that Zhai had made this man brave and fierce, and his strategy was insufficient, he wanted to regain his rights and should be carried out quietly, and li mi could not be detected. Otherwise, it will backfire, and it is possible that even the little power in the hand will be deprived, or even lose one's life.
Sure enough, before Zhai Rang could act, the news reached Li Mi's ear. Li Mi was taken aback, and his heart was determined to do zhai rang. Li Mi had many ideas, so he set up a bureau to invite Zhai Rang to a banquet in the name of inviting him to admire his newly acquired treasure carving bow.
At this time, Zhai Rang did not feel that the killing machine was coming, and only brought Shan Xiongxin Xu Shiji and several other relatives to Li Mi's camp.
Needless to say, Li Mi had already laid an ambush in advance, and just as Zhai Rang was looking down at the bow, he suddenly strangled Zhai Rang from behind with the bow string until Zhai Rang lost his breath. At the same time, the ambushed knife and axe hand slashed Xu Maogong and other retinues.
Li Mi
Shan Xiongxin saw that the situation was not good, after all, the few people were not the opponents of Li Mi and others, watching several people to do ghosts under the knife, Shan Xiongxin's good man did not eat the loss in front of him, and he threw himself on his knees and prostrated his head, begging Li Mi to raise his noble hand.
Li Mi was a wise man, and he didn't want to make too many enemies, so he pushed the boat along the water to spare Shan Xiongxin and Xu Maogong. To tell the truth, if it were not for Shan Xiongxin prostrating his head and interceding, Xu Maogong would undoubtedly die, and at this point, Xu Maogong owed Shan Xiongxin a life.
After that, Wagang Mountain grew rapidly under Li Mi's management, but when Wagang Mountain developed large enough, Li Mi showed his lack of courage, that is, there was no big pattern and big thinking, and Wagang Mountain eventually collapsed under the attack of the Sui Dynasty army and various rebel armies.
All the generals of Wagang Mountain voted one side, and Shan Xiongxin defected to Wang Shichong, one of the anti-Sui heroes. Wang Shichong was also a leader in the peasant rebel army, and he also wanted to seize the country.
Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Xu Maogong, and others were sent to the command of Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, and were still generals under Li Shimin, the King of Qin.
Shan Xiongxin and Xu Maogong
In this way, Shan Xiongxin and his deceased friend Xu Shiji stood on the opposite side, and from the perspective of their respective masters and meritorious achievements, it was not surprising that the two became rivals, but the tragedy was buried.
In 620, Li Shimin, the King of Qin, led an army to attack Luoyang, at this time Shan Xiongxin was Wang Shichong's vanguard officer, and he single-handedly broke into the joint camp, forcing Li Shimin to circle around the tree. Just as Qianjun was about to strike, Xu Maogong arrived in time and shouted: "This is the King of Qin, and my brother's men are merciful." ”
Shan Xiongxin saw that he was a good friend Xu Maogong, so he gave him a face and spared Li Shimin.
And when Shan Xiongxin fell into the hands of Li Shimin, Li Shimin was not the original person, he did not listen to Xu Maogong's persuasion and insisted on killing Shan Xiongxin.
Here's how it went:
In the fourth year of Wude, Wang Shichong's Luoyang City was breached by Li Shimin's army, Wang Shichong surrendered Kaesong, and Shan Xiongxin was unable to escape and became a prisoner. At this time, in order to avenge the pursuit of the Royal Garden, Li Shimin decided not to accept the surrender and execute Shan Xiongxin.
After hearing the news, Xu Maogong strongly dissuaded Li Shimin from doing this, saying that Shan Xiong and himself were friends of life and death, and that he spared him without looking at the monk's face and looking at the Buddha's face, and finally, Xu Maogong told the story of Shan Xiongxin saving his own life.
In fact, it is better not to say this, Li Shimin listened. The relationship between his own military division and Shan Xiongxin was so deep. Li Shimin was afraid that they would be unfavorable to his own country in the future, and originally wanted to bypass Shan Xiongxin, but after listening to Xu Maogong's words, he immediately dispelled this idea and made up his mind to kill Shan Xiongxin.
The king is the king, Li Shimin thinks differently from ordinary people, although he is grateful to Xu Maogong for saving his life, but he will not let go of Shan Xiongxin, which is called one yard to one yard, Li Shimin also does not want to give Xu Maogong this face, the emperor is more concerned about Jiangshan Sheji.
Xu Maogong saw that he was not speaking well, so he pinched his finger and calculated, and after a moment said to Li Shimin: "If our lord insists on killing Shan Xiongxin, I calculate that after more than 200 years, my lord's descendants will be punished, and I hope that the lord will think twice before acting." ”
After hearing this, Li Shimin smiled secretly in his heart, "I have never believed in fate in my life, and the bull-nosed old man said don't scare me here." Li Shimin sneered, and the Buddha sleeved away, ignoring Xu Maogong's set at all.
On the day of the execution, Xu Maogong felt that his face was dull, he could save Li Shimin but could not save his friend who had lived, and he thought about it and felt sorry for Shan Xiongxin, so he pulled out the short knife in his waist and cut a piece of flesh on his thigh.
With the tip of the knife, he carried it to Shan Xiongxin's mouth and said, "Brother, I'm sorry for you, this piece of meat represents that my brother is dead." "No wonder Li Shimin has broken Xu Maogong's heart." My brother ate this bite of meat, we will be clear, see you in the next life. ”
Shan Xiongxin was well aware of Xu Maogong's difficulties, after all, he was only a military division of Li Shimin, and he also said that it did not matter, and the good brother wanted to save himself but did not have this right.
Shan Xiongxin swallowed this piece of meat in one bite, and Xu Maogong burst into tears: "Good brother, rest assured, your wife and children will be raised by me." I will take good care of them. Shan Xiongxin smiled and died generously.
After Shan Xiongxin's death, Xu Maogong did indeed fulfill his promise, and under his recommendation, Shan Xiongxin's descendants all became officials in the court, and they were also considered to have no worries about food and clothing.
259 years passed, the last year of the Tang Dynasty, Shan Xiongxin's 11th generation grandsons: Shan Xing, Shan Wang, Shan Mao, shan Sheng joined the Huangchao anti-Tang rebel army, the four brothers Xiao Yong was good at war, and the Tang army that killed directly was rolling urine.
In the end, the four brothers of the Shan clan entered Chang'an with Huang Chao, and the Tang Dynasty survived in name only.
Yellow Nest Uprising
The descendants of the Shan family finally reported their revenge for their ancestors, and the retribution finally fell on the heads of Li Shimin's descendants, it turned out that it was not unreported, it was time that it had not arrived, and when the time came, it was not pleasant to report repeatedly.
Text/Reading Spring and Autumn by Candle