Did the True Body of the Eight Sages King Zhao Dezhao Zhao Defang and Zhao Yuanyan ever exist?
In "Yangmen Tiger General", "The Legend of Yang Jiajiang", "Bao Gong Goes to the Mountain", "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", etc., operas, storytelling and modern film and television dramas, chivalrous and brave, loyal and brave"The Eight Wise Kings"always appeared at critical moments, beating traitors, hypocrites, and emperors, which left a deep impression on people. You know"The Eight Wise Kings"Who is the historical prototype?
Word 1: Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Kuangyin's second son,"Yang Jiajiang"One.
In Xiong Damu's ** "The Biography of the Yang Family" during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty,"The Eight Wise Kings"undoubtedly refers to Zhao Dezhao.
The fifth chapter of the Biography of the Yang Family General wrote"Song Taizu, Pan Renmei's hero", Song Taizu Before Zhao Kuangyin died, he called the corpse of his younger brother Zhao Guangyi in front of Zhao Dezhao's son"It is not easy for the king, it is the credit of passing the throne to the king's uncle and not you. It gives you a handful of golden slips, and in the court, if there is no real prime minister, let him be Ling Chi. "According to Zhao Dezhao Yang's statement, the family will be rescued many times.
Zhao Dezhao, the word Rixin, the second son of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. When Zhao Kuangyin was alive, Zhao Dezhao successively served as the Guizhou Defense Envoy, Xingyuan Yin, Shannan West Dao Jiedu Envoy, and the Pingzhang Affairs of the Inspection School Zhongshu Menxia. After the death of Zhao Kuangyin of Song Taizong, Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong reappointed him as Yongxing Xiang, concurrently served as a servant, and was named the king of Wugong County.
In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo (979), Zhao Dezhao accompanied Song Taizong to the north to conquer Youzhou. The army was in a panic at night, and I didn't know that Song Taizong was in **, so some people wanted to make Zhao Dezhao the emperor, and Song Taizong was very unhappy when he found out. Because the Northern Expedition was unfavorable, Song Taizong did not have a reward. Zhao Dezhao went to Song Taizong to discuss, but Zhao Guangyi reprimanded him and said:"It's too late to figure it out! "So Zhao Dezhao committed suicide.
Although Zhao Dezhao is indeed a general of the Yang family in history, it is unlikely that he is related to the Yang general, after all, in the year of his death, Song Taizong had just destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, and Yang Ye had just surrendered to the Song Dynasty. The reason why Zhao Dezhao is portrayed as fair and just"The Eight Wise Kings", more likely to be the wishful thinking of the people.
In a word: Zhao Defang and Zhao Kuangyin's four sons, more from drama, film and TV series books.
Compared with Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Defang has signed his name many times"The Eight Wise Kings"and film and television dramas, especially movies about Yang Jiajiang, such as "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", "The Legend of Yang Jiajiang", "Ten Thousand Flowers", "Bao Gong Case", "Hu Jiajiang" and so on.
For example, the traditional Peking opera "Empress Dowager He" says that after the death of Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, his younger brother Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne. Empress Dowager He of the Song Dynasty interrogated her eldest son Zhao Dezhao in the temple, Zhao Guangyi was angry and wanted to kill him, Zhao Dezhao crashed into the Golden Palace in a fit of anger and died. Empress Dowager He took Zhao Dezhao to the Golden Palace, Zhao Guangyi apologized, and dedicated the sword of Shang Fang to Empress Dowager He, Empress Dowager He sealed the sword of Shang Fang in the Palace of Yang Xin, and Feng Dezhao was the king of the eight sages. There is text on the back"Give the white jade lock inlaid with gold, give the prince, the two good kings, the three loyal kings, the four sage kings, the five virtue kings, and the six respect kings, and the temple king is not different from the king, and the temple king does not resign; Then give you a concave golden mace, in the struggle with the faint king, kill the ministers who committed crimes, and accurately adjust the disrespectful things according to the size of the civil and military forces, you are the king of the eight sages, in the name of the government. "
Various commentaries and operas (albeit in different versions) suggest that Zhao Defang became the Eight Sage Kings, capable of standing up to weak-willed rulers and defamatory ministers, and then that he protected the Yang family or defended Bao Zheng from traitors, and even adopted what he was mistaken for"Tanuki for prince"The son of the emperor.
According to the official history, Zhao Defang is the fourth son of Zhao Kuangyin, but his mother is unknown. When Zhao Kuangyin was alive, he was successively appointed as the Taibao and Guizhou defense envoys. After Zhao Kuangyin's death, Zhao Guangyi was appointed as the envoy of Shannan West Province, Tongping Zhangshi Xingyuan Yin, and later added the school captain.
However, just six years after Zhao Guangyi's accession to the throne, in March of the sixth year of the Taiping Rejuvenation (981), Zhao Defang, who was only 22 years old, died of illness, which the History of the Song called it"Weak disease"。After Zhao Defang's death, he was named the king of Qi, later renamed the king of Chu, and then renamed the king of Qin during the reign of Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
It is not difficult to see from Zhao Defang's life that the stories in the storytelling and opera are basically fictional, although Yang Ye died before surrendering, but Yang Ye's"Yongxi Northern Expedition"It has not yet been carried out, and as for Song Renzong's escape, the story of Bao Zheng is even more unlikely to happen.
Claim 3: Zhao Yuanyan is the eighth son of Zhao Guangyi, and Zhao Guangyi has"The Eight Wise Kings"The title.
In **, storytelling and even modern film and television dramas,"The Blue Eight Kings"has never been with Zhao Yuanren, but compared with Zhao Defang and Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Yuanren is actually more in line"The Blue Eight Kings"The title. However, compared with Zhao Defang and Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Yuanyu is actually more in line"The Eight Wise Kings"The title.
Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi had nine sons, Zhao Yuanyan was the eighth, Taizong Zhao Guangyi loved him very much, often with him, and didn't even want Zhao Yuanyan to be appointed out of the palace soon, but hoped that he could stay until he was 20 years old before being appointed, so he was called in the palace"Twenty-eight Taibao"。
However, Zhao Guangyi did not wait for his son to die at the age of twenty, but after Song Zhenzong ascended the throne, because his little brother was still relatively taken care of, he was soon appointed as the Taibao inspector, the left defense general and the imperial historian, and was named the Duke of Cao Guo. In the second year, he was appointed as the commander of the Pinghai Sea Division, the Zhongshu Sect worshiped the Tongping Zhangshi, added the school Taifu and named the king of Guangling County, Song Zhenzong was named Taishan Taishou, and later was named the king of Rong. Because Zhao Yuanyan is ranked eighth, there is still the queen behind"Eight Kings"。
Song Zhenzong died because the crown prince Zhao Zhen was only thirteen years old, at that time, only Zhao Yuanzuo and Zhao Yuanyan were alive among Song Zhenzong's brothers, Zhao Yuanzuo was removed, only Zhao Yuanyan had an advantage, and he also had the precedent of his elder brother ending his younger brother's life and Song Zhenzong's time, so Zhao Yuanyan was actually qualified to compete for the throne.
According to the record of "Records of Emperor Renzong", Zhao Yuanyan may also be aware of his embarrassing situation, so he did not claim the title of emperor, but fled and hid under the pretext of illness, until he learned that Song Zhenzong had died, and then ran to the palace to mourn.
After Song Renzong ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager Liu E took power, and although Zhao Yuanyan was rewarded many times, he knew that he had the identity of the emperor's uncle who had fallen out of favor, so he did not participate in the court politics, but directly closed the door to thank the guests, saying that the truth was impotence (neurosis), and he could not go to the court to discuss.
In the second year of Ming Dao (1033), the empress dowager Liu E died of illness, and Yang Guifei, who raised Renzong, said to Zhao Zhen:"Empress Liu is not his biological mother, his biological mother is someone else. "Zhao Yuanyan also said to Song Renzong:"His Majesty's Concubine Li Chen died as a concubine in her lifetime, to the point of not dying! "Here it is"Tanuki for prince"The original source of the story.
Of course, not at the time"Tanuki for prince"said that Song Zhenzong wanted to canonize Liu E as the queen, but Liu E's background made Kou Zhun and other ministers oppose, Song Zhenzong wanted to wait for Liu E to give birth to a child and then seize the opportunity to canonize it, but Liu E has never had a child, so Song Zhenzong and Liu E came up with it"Borrowing the womb to give birth to a child"Idea! ""Borrowing the womb to give birth to a child"The plan was conceived by Song Zhenzong and Liu E, so Song Zhenzong favored Liu E's maid Li, and Li gave birth to a son who was rumored to be born to Liu E, thus ascending to the throne of the queen.
The Li family, who gave birth to the crown prince, was even more unlucky, only called Shunrong, and was moved to the Yongding Mausoleum to guard the mausoleum. Just a year before the death of the Empress Dowager Liu E, Li Shunrong was seriously ill, Liu E remembered his kindness and promoted him to Concubine Chen, and on the day of Concubine Chen's canonization, Li Shunrong died of illness.
After listening to the words of Concubine Yang and Zhao Yuanyan, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen was very unhappy, and he did not do anything for a few days, and issued an edict to blame himself, respecting Concubine Li Chen as the queen mother. Later, he went to Hongfu Yuan to visit Song Renzong and Concubine Li Chen, personally inspected the coffin replaced with his mother's appearance, soaked the body of Concubine Li Chen with mercury, looked like a living person, gorgeously dressed, there was no trace of being assassinated, and knew that his mother was not killed by Empress Dowager Liu, so he sighed:"How can a man's word be trusted? "
However, Song Renzong still knew his life experience after Liu E's death, plus his pro-government position, so he was still the prime minister Lu Yijian, special adviser Zhang Jie, special adviser deputy envoy Xia Zhu, adviser Chen Yaozuo, Empress Dowager Liu, Empress Dowager Liu during the curtain call of Yan Shu and others.
As far as Zhao Yuanren is concerned, Song Renzong trusted him quite a lot after coming to power, "History of the Song Dynasty" said"Please be able to do something, thank you"。In the fourth year of Qingli (1044), Zhao Yuanyan died of illness in the palace of Kyoto at the age of 60.
As mentioned earlier, with Zhao Yuanren's background and title, he is actually the most suitable"Eight Holy Kings"The title of the person. However, compared with these literary works, Zhao Yuanren did not have much contact with Yang Jiajiang, Bao Zheng and others, and the only connection was"Tanuki for prince"events, and this is just a fictional story.