The Sui Dynasty was martial, and the Tang Dynasty was also martial. It was precisely because of the victory that the foreigners were subdued. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian was revered as the Sage Khan, while Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty went a step further and became the emperor of heaven. Khan, in these two dynasties, has achieved the goal that everything in the world is the king's land, and the shores of the land are all the king's ministers. However, Yang Jian and Li Shimin alone could not achieve the great situation of "everywhere the sun and the moon shine, and wherever the rivers go, are Han". When the Sui Dynasty was founded, Han captured the tiger, He Ruobi and Gao Jong lived long live the history, and the Tang Dynasty had two Li war gods ( Li Jing, Li Ji) Su Dingfang and Qin Shubao, Yuchi Jingde and Cheng Zhijie. As far as the author knows, at least four of them have been enthroned as gods during their lifetime or after death. However, it is difficult to judge who among these four gods ranks first, and it is even harder to draw conclusions. Therefore, I will pass the blame for this problem to the readers (there should be a smiley expression here, but it cannot be expressed), and I invite you to be the judge.
In terms of rank, there are two people who have official ranks in heaven and earth. They are Li Jing, the King of Pagoda, and Han Qinhu, King of Yama. According to Western grade standards, Li Jing should be at the same level as an archangel, while Han Qinhu is one of the Satans. The author has not studied the Western system of gods and demons, so this transposition method may not be accurate, so I would like to ask readers for advice: Which of the Western gods are equivalent to the King of Heaven in heaven and the Lord of Hell in the underworld?
Among the four great generals, Han Qinhu became famous the earliest, and his deeds as King of Yama were seriously recorded in the "Book of Sui" compiled by Wei Zheng and others. Everyone knows that Wei Zheng, the "Yangbi Gong (a nickname given to him by Li Shimin)", has always been rigorous and almost rigid. Without real evidence, he would not write this incident into the history books.
"Sui Shujuan Fifty-Two Biography No. 17" records: Han Qinhu looked so majestic and ferocious that even the Turkic Khan, who always had his nostrils turned upward, was "frightened and did not dare to look up" when he saw him. . "Although Han Qinhu looked powerful, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian was not afraid of him. Instead, he often asked him to drink (I wonder if Yang Jian would have his ears pulled by Dugu Jialuo after drinking). One day when Han Qinhu came back from drinking with Yang Jian, his men found an honor guard coming to greet him and said, "I'm here to welcome the king." Another man who was about to die of illness suddenly ran to the door of Han Qinhu's house and asked for " Asking to see the prince," and specifying that the person he wanted to see was King Yama. After hearing this, Han Qinhu laughed loudly and said the famous saying: "It is enough to live as the Shangzhu Kingdom and die as the King of Yama."
"Han Qinhu, the King of Yama" has a The nephew's name is Li Jing. It is said that he is the prototype of the King of Pagoda, but how did Li Jing become the King of Pagoda? Some people say that this is because there is a Li Jing in "The Romance of the Gods", so rumors spread that Li Jing from the Tang Dynasty traveled to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and became a non-existent "general soldier". However, although "The Romance of the Gods" is a mythical story, the main characters actually existed in history, such as King Daji of Shang Zhou, King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, and Jiang Ziya, Fei Lian and Boyi Shuqi, but King Tuota took up a lot of space. There is no prototype of Li Jing in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, so it is natural to think of Li Jing, the god of war in the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, before "The Romance of the Gods" was written, Li Jing had already been deified. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi's friend and the governor of Suzhou, Ruzhou, and Sizhou Li Fuyan wrote a book "Xu Xuan Wei Lu", which said that Li Jing once accidentally entered the Dragon Palace and made rain on behalf of the sky. As a result, he was asked to dot one drop, which meant that the water on the ground was one foot deep. Mr. Li Jing on a whim, connected the dots twenty times. Drop, the water on the ground was two feet deep, and only a treetop was left on the big tree. According to the rules of heaven, the dragon king must be punished. This may be the origin of the stories of "Nezha makes waves in the sea" and "Wei Zhengmeng kills the old dragon of Jinghe River".
As for how Li Jing, the God of War in the Tang Dynasty, became the King of Bishamontota, you have to ask the monks, because they can bring in the martial sage Guan Yu to become a god, and it is not enough for Li Jing to become a god. Weird.
Generally speaking, Han Qinhu and Li Jing, the uncles and nephews, were basically made gods after their death, while Qin Qiong, Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gongjingde were the door gods during their lifetime, and they were really honored by Xuanzang in Tang Dynasty. Before going to the West to seek scriptures.
According to Tang people's notes: Emperor Taizong Li Shimin was ill and in a daze. Only when Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde went to visit did he feel refreshed, so he hung the portraits of Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong in the bedroom, and later posted them on At the door, the people also rushed to imitate, so the door gods were replaced by new ones: Shen Tu Yu Lei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. The last and most well-known one is Qin Qiong Jingde (pronounced dei in the folk).
It seems that among the four great generals who were enshrined as gods in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, it is hard to say who will be the first, but one thing is certain: Li Jing will definitely not be ranked first, because he There is an uncle and teacher Han Qinhu who has become a god. If he were ranked first, he himself would not agree; Qin Qiong can at least be ranked third, because even if he is incomparable to Han Qinhu and Li Jing , but he can also overtake Yuchi Jingde and rank third, because Yuchi Jingde is his defeated general...