Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 528 The Origin of Li's Second Door God with a Guilty Heart (mid-autumn celebration)

The Dengwen drum originated from the sounding of the Dengwen drum during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which meant that there was a great grievance, and the emperor had to come to try it in person, but because the Dengwen drum was abused by many people during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

For example, there was a commoner named Mou Hui who rang the Dengwen Drum one day. As soon as the emperor heard the Dengwen Drum beating, of course he thought there was a grievance, so he immediately issued an order to summon him.

But who knows, when Mou Hui met the emperor and complained about his grievances, it was not a big deal, but his pig ran away and could not be found, so he came to complain to the emperor.

The emperor at that time was not bad. He patiently listened to Mou Hui's speech and gave him [-] yuan as compensation.

Afterwards, the emperor issued a command to the prime minister: "Today, someone came to ask me to find a dead pig. Why did I see him? However, those who rejoice with you know that there are no wronged people in the world."

It meant that the emperor didn't think that Mou Hui, who was looking for a pig, was wasting his precious time. On the contrary, he was quite relieved and happy, because this showed that there was no great grievance in the world.

In addition to asking the emperor to help find pigs, some people asked the emperor to arrange work for them.

One day in the leap year, more than 100 candidates who failed the exam came to beat the Dengwen drum and begged the emperor to arrange errands for them.They said: "I have learned martial arts for a long time, and I am willing to prepare for military service." It seems that they want to abandon literature and follow martial arts.

The emperor personally organized a special interview, "there are only three people who can hold the bow, and each will be given money, and ordered to go to Tianxiong to instigate", and found a job for some of the candidates who were considered skilled despite failing the rankings.

Of course, there are already tens of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty. If every common people came directly to the emperor for business, the emperor would not be able to keep busy even if he had three heads and six arms.

Soon, some officials suggested that it is better for the civil servants to review the statements of the common people, and then select some of them and send them to the emperor as appropriate, so as to reduce the pressure on the emperor.

However, the admonisher objected. He said: "Who will speak to His Majesty if it is not up to the Shanglan?"If a checkpoint is artificially set in the middle, who is willing to come?

But you can't come to trial one by one, the emperor is worthless, so Li Shimin thought of a method, it is okay to beat the drum, but there must be a big injustice. .

Only in this way can the Dengwen Drum really play its role. Those who have no great injustices will naturally dare not beat the Dengwen Drum again. Of course, if you have a great injustice, you will be jailed for three years. Baizhang blame, will definitely laugh it off.

The existence of Dengwen drum has both advantages and disadvantages. However, from the perspective of history, Dengwen drum has promoted the progress of history many times, and even changed history.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system was not perfect, and there was a phenomenon of favoritism and fraud. In 973, his son Xu Shilian failed in the general examination, and immediately beat the Dengwen drum to accuse Li Fang, a Hanlin scholar who served as the chief examiner, of malpractice for personal gain, "choosing according to emotion".

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was furious when he heard the words. Following Xu Shilian's suggestion, he issued an edict to select 195 people who had failed and 36 people who had been admitted, and conduct a re-examination in the Jiangwu Hall. Zhao Kuangyin personally served as the chief examiner.As a result, 127 people were selected, and 10 people who were originally admitted were not selected.

After the results of the examination were announced, there was a great uproar between the ruling and opposition parties.Li Fang was demoted.

Since then, the emperor personally presided over the last stage of the imperial examination, the formation of the "palace examination" system, which has gone through the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties for more than 900 years.

When the Dengwen drum sounded, all officials in the court were immediately notified to go to the court. While our Royal Highness King Wei was still sound asleep, Li Shimin came to Taiji Palace and brought the person who played the Dengwen drum to the main hall.

But when Li Shimin saw the people who were brought into the hall, Li Shimin blurted out and shouted: "Wuji, Youer, Zhinu, Sizi, what are you four doing?"

Li Shimin was very surprised, he didn't know why these four people beat the Dengwen drum, and what kind of grievance they could have.

Li Shimin didn't say anything later, but at this time, Liu Ji looked at Changsun Wuji and said, whether it was intentional or unintentional: "Changsun Sikong, if nothing happens, you will be imprisoned for three years if you beat the Dengwen drum, and you will be punished with a staff of one hundred." .!"

"Why you, Liu Xiang, do you still want to beat this Sikong?" Changsun Wuji is a very tough person, and his eldest granddaughter Wuji retorted unceremoniously to Liu Ji's intentional words.

At this time, Li Shimin hurriedly said on the top: "Wuji. What is it that requires you to beat the Dengwen drum and bring these three little guys up?"

Li Shimin pointed to Li You and the others.

After hearing Li Shimin's words, Changsun Wuji showed a smile, stopped talking nonsense to Liu Jie, but first bowed to Li Shimin and said: "Your Majesty, great joy and auspiciousness descended from heaven to Datang, auspiciousness descended from heaven to Datang! "

"Heavenly auspicious...?"

Not only Li Shimin, but even the other ministers looked at Changsun Wuji suspiciously.

"Wuji. Auspiciousness. How can there be auspiciousness in my Tang Dynasty?" Upon hearing auspiciousness, Li Shimin became energetic, because auspiciousness is very good, and it is a "good omen" in today's words. The formation of scale and institutionalization was a special case in the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty highly respected auspiciousness. The Tang Dynasty classified auspiciousness into four levels, Darui, Shangrui, Zhongrui and Xiarui. "Four grades, the higher the grade of auspiciousness, the more the ruler will win the hearts and minds of the people.

Because before the Tang Dynasty, Chinese culture experienced hundreds of years of wars during the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, and many inherited cultures have been broken, but the Confucian theory of interaction between heaven and man has been handed down, and it was quickly accepted by the rulers and subjects all over the world. .

According to this theory of heaven and man, there is auspiciousness in the world, which is the greatest affirmation of the emperor's governance and status.Therefore, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty paid more attention to auspicious culture, and everyone knew that Li Shimin got the throne by killing his brothers and brothers.

Therefore, the origin of Li Shimin's throne is not orthodox, and because of this, Li Shimin is very eager for auspiciousness, because what does the auspiciousness descended from the sky mean, it means that it is correct and right for him to sit on the throne.

At this time, auspiciousness is Li Shimin's way of comforting himself and acknowledging himself.

Of course, the young Li Shimin was not so keen on auspiciousness. According to historical records, in the early years of Zhenguan, there was a huge pine tree in the courtyard of the palace where Emperor Taizong of Tang lived. Office break.One spring, two magpies came to the tree and began to build nests in the tree.

At first, Tang Taizong didn't take it seriously, thinking that it was a good thing for birds to come and live, so he let two magpies build a nest.After more than ten days, the magpie's nest was successfully built, which looked like a waist drum from a distance.The ministers of the upper court saw a magpie nest on the tree in the palace from a distance, and thought that the magpie had the meaning of a bird of good news, and building a nest in the palace was an auspicious sign.

So the ministers of the court wrote letters one after another to congratulate Tang Taizong.Tang Taizong, who was above the court, listened to the flattery of the officials, his face showed anger, and said to the officials: I heard that when Emperor Sui Yang was the emperor, he had a hobby of listening to the auspicious things played by the treacherous officials, instead of listening to them. Accepting the words from the heart of loyal ministers will eventually lead to the subjugation of the country.

After Tang Taizong returned to the harem, he immediately ordered the eunuch to bring a ladder, remove the bird's nest on the book, and drive the two magpies out of the field. "

In Tang Zhenguan, there was a white magpie nesting on the locust tree in front of the sleeping hall, and its nest was like a waist drum.Worshiping and dancing from left to right to congratulate, Taizong said: "I often laugh at Emperor Chang of the Sui Dynasty for being auspicious and auspicious, so what's the point of congratulating him?" He ordered to destroy his nest and release the magpie in the wild. "

However, what I want to say here is that this is the end of Zhenguan period, Li Shimin is already old at this time, and the old Li Shimin is no longer as wise as when he was young, and he has slowly become another Li Shimin up.

During this period of time, Li Chengqian's death hit Li Shimin very hard. Coupled with the position of the crown prince and Li Tai's true heart, Li Shimin was very afraid. What was he afraid of? He was afraid that his son would repeat his mistakes.

In fact, when Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were killed, Li Shimin would feel at ease when he was young, but as he got older, Li Shimin was terrified.

Do you know the origin of the door god?

It is the story of the Dragon King of Jinghe in Journey to the West, which says that Li Shimin had the same dream three nights in a row: he dreamed that an old dragon told him: "I am the Dragon King of the Jinghe River. I have committed a crime. The Jade Emperor called your ministers If Wei Zheng kills me, tell Wei Zheng about your feelings and let me go, I will thank you very much."

Li Shimin asked in his dream: "Do you know when to kill you?" The old dragon said: "Tomorrow is noon."

Li Shimin said: "No problem, you go back." When it was almost noon the next day, Tang Wang Li Shimin called Wei Zheng to play chess.The two played several sets.At noon, Wei Zheng was so drowsy that he fell over and fell asleep.King Tang was very happy and thought to himself: If I don't wake him up, once he wakes up, it will be past noon and he won't be able to kill the old dragon.The king of Tang sat and watched Wei Zheng, and saw that Wei Zheng was sleeping soundly, his clothes were drenched with sweat.After a while, Wei Zheng shouted loudly from his sleep: "Kill!" After shouting, he woke up.

Li Shimin asked: "Who did you kill in your sleep?" Wei Zheng said: "The Jade Emperor asked me to kill the old dragon in Jinghe!"

Li Shimin asked: "Have you killed it?" Wei Zheng said: "Killed it!"

Li Shimin said: "You are asleep, where are you going to kill?!" Wei Zheng said: "The heads are hanging on the high poles of the Meridian Gate! If you don't believe me, let's take a look."

When the two walked to the Meridian Gate, there was indeed a blood dragon head hanging on the high pole, and Li Shimin believed it.

At night, when Li Shimin was sleeping, as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw Xuelongtou coming and said, "You have delayed my life, I will come to settle the score with you!" Li Shimin was so frightened that he sat up.After waiting for a while, closing his eyes, it was like that again, scaring Li Shimin so much that he didn't sleep all night.On the second day, several ministers came, and Li Shimin told them the matter.The ministers said: "We are all sitting here, you can sleep for a while!" When Li Shimin closed his eyes, he was still awakened by fright, and there was nothing he could do.

Qin Qiong and Jingde, two old heroes, heard of Li Shimin's death, so they ran over, met Li Shimin and said, "With me here, are you still afraid of the old dragon? You sleep, it's fine."

Li Shimin closed his eyes and fell asleep, sleeping soundly.When he woke up, it was already noon the next day, and he saw that the two loyal ministers, Qin Qiong and Jingde, were still standing at the door.Tang Wang hurriedly got out of bed moved.From then on, Qin Qiong and Jingde stood guard every night to protect Li Shimin from sleeping.More than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Shimin is a sensible emperor, he thought: I always let people stand at the door and sleep by myself, it's too shameful.They asked the painter to draw the portraits of Qin Qiong and Jingde and paste them on the door.As a result, the old dragon also did not dare to come.

Since then, the portraits of Qin Qiong and Jingde have been pasted on the palace gates. The Tang Dynasty imperial palace has been passed down from generation to generation.

Many people think that the door gods are fabricated, but not all of them are. The Dragon King of Jinghe is fabricated, and the rest are actually true. And why Li Shimin can't sleep at night is because Li Shimin will dream of his own as long as he closes his eyes. The elder brother and the fourth younger brother came together to demand their lives.

At this time, Li Shimin actually started to feel guilty!

(End of this chapter)