Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Li Shimin held Wei Zheng's arm, looking like a monarch and his minister.

Wei Zheng was a little uncomfortable with it. After all, if he really had friendship with His Majesty, how could he speak when he was cursing someone?

However, there was no change after struggling for a while. In terms of strength, there was not much difference between him and the horseback emperor, so he could only say:

I am extremely frightened.

If you can't resist, you can only surrender for the time being. After all, the younger generation has said that there are some who are not door gods among them. It is impossible to say that it is him and His Majesty.

Therefore, for the first time, Wei Zheng hoped that the younger generation would speak faster.

[Before revealing the answer, we might as well deviate a little from the topic and talk about the history of the goalkeeper.

Judging from current research, as early as before the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the ancients had the tradition of hanging something to pray for blessings during festivals.

Tea is the earliest herbal medicine. Because it has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving phlegm, and its pungent smell can repel insects, Xia people hung tea on their doors to avoid plague. This tea evolved into The door god Shen Tu.

Yulei is most likely derived from snails. During the Shang Dynasty, there was still a practice of worshiping animal gods. Therefore, snails were worshiped by the ancestors of the Yin and Shang Dynasties for their symbolic meaning of closed doors. The Yin Shang tomb palace unearthed today is at the tomb gate. A large number of snails were found buried nearby. Some scholars speculate that this may be a kind of witchcraft used to protect the tomb based on its symbolic meaning. The barrier is based on hieroglyphics and is found to be three snail shells stacked on top of each other. In the end, it is also anthropomorphic. , evolved into the door god Yulei.

After the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties began a century-old history of the nation. During this process, the god Tu Yulei, who had the image of an immortal in his fluttering clothes, was quickly abandoned by the people. The image of the door god, a military commander wearing a helmet and carrying armor, became popular. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also entered the common people's door for the first time.

In the Tang Dynasty, on the one hand, martial arts were outstanding, and the people's worship of door gods was not strong; on the other hand, it was also because the Tang Dynasty had very strict regulations on door etiquette. The common people must paint their doors black, and there are strict grade regulations on the decorative painting styles on the doors. One mistake can lead to death.

Beginning in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, traitors were running rampant in the court, and the people were living in poverty and depression. Zhong Kui, who swept away the demons and monsters in the world, was created and hung at the back door.

The Song Dynasty is more interesting. Song Zhenzong also followed the example of the previous dynasty and set up a martial arts temple. The scholar-bureaucrats who had time to spare took a look at the statues in the martial arts temple:

Wu Zixu whipped the King of Chu to death, and Zhao Yun also scolded Mrs. Sun when he cut the river to rescue Adou. These were treasonous and unethical acts, and they should not be worshiped in a martial temple.

Song Zhenzong may have felt that it was too outrageous, but he also did not dare to ignore the opinions of the scholar-bureaucrats. He finally proposed a compromise, moving the two statues out of the Wu Temple and enshrining them at the door.

This action was quickly interpreted by Bianliang businessmen as the emperor canonizing a new door god. At that time, a door god New Year painting was made in the image of the two, and thus the most unrelated pair of door gods in history was born.

But the combination of Wu Zixu and Zhao Yun is not the most outrageous.

In the middle and late period of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were frequent peace talks between the Song and Xia wars outside, and the Fangla Uprising in Songjiang and the Xuanhe Northern Uprising inside, which can be said to be precarious.

After the two Song-Liao wars were met with disastrous defeats, the Song and Jin Dynasties established a maritime alliance to work together to destroy the Liao Dynasty. As a result, this move caused the Song and Jin Dynasties to lose their strategic buffer on the border.

After the destruction of the Liao Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Jin Dynasty launched a war to destroy the Song Dynasty without stopping in the same year. Two years later, the Jin soldiers marched in and captured alive the two emperors of Huiqin, the Zhao and Song clan, and 100,000 men and women. The Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed.

During the two years of the Song and Jin wars, the image of Bianliang's door gods also quietly changed. They were neither Shen Tu Yu Lei, nor Buddhist protectors, nor Zhao Yun and Wu Zixu.

The door god was raised many times and wore a tiger helmet, and the gate of the palace was decorated with pure gold. This is a record left in the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The enemy in the war became the door god who protected the homeland. It can only be said that the death of the Northern Song Dynasty was simply a matter of course.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Yuan Dynasty was addicted to alcohol, which led to the establishment of many wine shops in most of the Yuan Dynasty. The Fourth Young Master of the Warring States Period, who was a hospitable drinker, took office as the door god.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, scripted operas became the main form of entertainment for the people, and the celebrity stories performed in them could easily become the choice of doorkeepers during the Chinese New Year.

The Romance of Sun Pang fictionalizes the battle between Sun Bin and Pang Juan, in which the fictional Sun Bin becomes a locked door, allowing the two old enemies to successfully become door gods.

The Romance of the Western Han Dynasty made Xiao He's pursuit of Han Xin under the moon widely known, and coupled with the respected status of the two, it was also successfully painted on the door.

The Romance of the Gods created a pair of strange door gods, Zhao Gongming and Ran Deng Taoist.

In Journey to the West, the plot of Wei Zheng dreaming of killing the Dragon King of Jinghe River is well-known, so in some areas during the Qing Dynasty, statues of Li Shimin and Wei Zheng were posted on the back doors to serve as door gods.

In addition, the door gods in different places are similar. For example, the Nanyang generation in the Central Plains has Zhao Yun and Ma Chao as a set of door gods; Hebei Changshan has Ma Chao and Ma Dai brothers, who successfully stole Zilong's hometown; Sichuan and Sichuan have Zhuge Liang and Deng Ai, etc. .

In short, it was not that complicated to be a door god in ancient times. It was not impossible to stick to Liu Bei and Cao Cao as a door god if you wanted to.

And the people listed in the question just now are all door gods. 】

In the Bianliang Palace.

Whether it was the matter of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty or the eventual demise of the Northern Song Dynasty at the hands of the Xia, Liao, and Jin Dynasties, they were relatively distant to Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi, but they sounded like matters that were closely related to them.

But there is too little known. For example, Xixia has roughly guessed that Dangxiang founded the country, and the Liao Kingdom is not unfamiliar. Everyone knows that the Khitan established the Liao Kingdom, but what happened to the Jin Kingdom?

So Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi subconsciously turned their attention to the official family. Neither of them knew when the official family had the secret of the light curtain. They probably knew a lot more than they did.

Zhao Kuangyin wanted to put on an indifferent smile, but failed in the end. The muscles in his cheeks were completely frozen, and the smile he squeezed out after twitching twice was not much better than crying.

In the end, he could only say in a deep voice: I don't know anything about this Jin Dynasty.

Regardless of whether they believed it or not, Zhao Kuangyin was telling the truth, but once again he glanced at the records of the Northern Song Dynasty listed in later generations, and he felt a faint stomachache.

The Song Dynasty extended the Zhou system, and Zhao Kuangyin himself was inspected in front of the palace. He was from a standard military background. He always claimed to be a man who knew the army, and he knew the situation of the Forbidden Army very well.

For example, the Liao Kingdom's seven-department Khitan army, the king's army and the six-academy army, which were so popular in the north and south, were all like local chickens and dogs in his opinion. Both in terms of organizational structure and the quality of the soldiers, they were far inferior to the Forbidden Army. Not as good as that.

It can be said that after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, when the feudal vassal towns were fighting for supremacy, the imperial army was not worried about being unable to fight, but only worried about whether they could be loyal to themselves. After all, they were... ahem.

Zhao Kuangyin coughed loudly, which attracted Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi's side glances.

After waving his hand, Zhao Kuangyin was lost in the decision-making process of whether to abolish exorbitant taxes and improve people's livelihood.