Friends who have watched "Sui and Tang Dynasty" know that in this novel, many vivid heroes are portrayed, such as Cheng Yaojin, Shan Xiongxin and so on. In this book, the character who has the strongest ability at the beginning and exists like a big brother among many heroes haojie is Shan Xiongxin.
However, such a heroic figure was finally killed by the order of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin is a very serious person, otherwise there would not be so many heroes and good men willing to follow him, shan Xiongxin is the same, is also a good big brother supported by many people, but why did Li Shimin kill Shan Xiongxin?
After Shan Xiongxin's death, his good brother Xu Maogong secretly helped him take care of his family, but what kind of crisis did he bring to the Tang Dynasty in the future? Today, let's take a look at this story.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > Li Shimin and Shan Xiongxin</h1>
Shan Xiongxin was a rich man at the beginning, quite prestigious in the jianghu, and he was also very moralistic, even Qin Qiong, whom he had never met, he was willing to help him generously. After the great chaos in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, he came to Wagangzhai and became one of the fierce generals.
But Shan Xiongxin, the eldest brother, was not the boss in Wagangzhai at that time, and the boss of Wagangzhai at that time was Zhai Rang, and this person was very jealous of Shan Xiongxin, not only jealous of his ability, but also jealous of his prestige, afraid that he would replace his position in Wagangzhai. Later, Li Mi came to Wagang Village, and Zhai Rang gave up his position to Li Mi.
However, Li Mi and Zhai Rang could not tolerate each other, and later the two had a conflict, Shan Xiongxin began to obey Li Mi's orders, and finally under Li Mi's planning, Zhai Rang was killed, Yu Wenhua and killed the Sui Emperor Yang Guang, and declared himself emperor in Jiangnan, so Shan Xiongxin followed Li Mi to go on a crusade, but returned with a feather.
After the defeat of Li Mi's army, Shan Xiongxin followed Wang Shichong, but his good brother Xu Maogong believed that the final world must belong to the Li family, so the brothers parted ways, and Xu Maogong came to Li Shimin's account.
Later history is well known, Xu Maogong's judgment is not wrong, the world indeed belongs to the Li family dynasty, and when Li Shimin led the army to attack Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong, who was defeated in successive battles, had to surrender, and Shan Xiongxin, as a great general, was also implicated, and surrendered with him, kneeling at the feet of Li Shimin.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > why Li Shimin killed Shan Xiongxin</h1>
As for the reason why Li Shimin wanted to kill Shan Xiongxin, in the novel and the interpretation, perhaps to excuse Emperor Taizong, saying that Li Mi issued an order to let Li Shimin execute Shan Xiongxin, the reason is that Li Mi and Shan Xiongxin have a personal grudge.
In fact, perhaps Li Shimin thinks that Shan Xiongxin is unruly, even if he has turned to himself, there are still so many brothers and sisters to intercede for him, there is still no guarantee that he will not regret it in the future, and if he is on the battlefield, it will become a major problem for Li Shimin.
Therefore, no matter how Xu Maogong and other former brothers and sisters of Shan Xiongxin interceded for him, Li Shimin was still unmoved and insisted on killing him. In this way, a generation of Yingjie Shan Xiongxin fell.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > the "bane" laid by Xu Maogong</h1>
It is worth mentioning that in history, it is said that before Shan Xiongxin was killed, Xu Maogong once visited him, and cut off a piece of his own meat for Shan Xiongxin to eat, vowing to take good care of his wife and children.
Xu Maogong also had a very high position in the imperial court, and after he submitted to the Tang Dynasty, he made a lot of military merits and gave advice to Li Shimin, which was highly used by Li Shimin. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he was also given the surname "Li" and was given the title of British Duke, which had a high prestige in the dynasty.
It is precisely because of this that he is able to secretly protect the integrity of the Shan Xiongxin family, and in private, he often takes care of the Shan Xiongxin family. Therefore, he also kept his agreement with Shan Xiongxin, and after his death, he took good care of his wife and children, and his living conditions were also very good.
And Shan Xiongxin's descendants are also very competitive, all of them are striving to be strong, and Xu Maogong also teaches them to read and practice, which can be said to be regarded as their own. And Shan Xiongxin's son Shan Daozhen, when he grew up, also became sima of Liangzhou, which was not to live up to his father's face.
However, in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, as the rule of the Tang Dynasty became longer and longer, various social problems were gradually exposed, and different social contradictions were also intensified, and various uprisings continued to appear in various places ruled by the Tang Dynasty, the most famous of which was the Huangchao Uprising.
Ironically, at that time, the descendants of Shan Xiongxin had already continued to the eleventh generation, and at that time, there were already four Haojie such as Shan Xing and Shan Wang in their family, and they all defected to Huang Chao, and finally became the famous "Huang Jun Four Jie" under Huang Chao. And the Tang Dynasty, which was overthrown under their leadership, is also lamentable.