mentioned Wei Chigong, a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty who respected virtue with this word, with an iron whip, in Liu Wuzhou's place, he once won eight passes in the day and five villages in the night; After entering the Tang Dynasty, he once snatched the lance with a single whip, saved the life of the King of Qin, and finally assisted Li Shimin to launch the "Xuanwumen Change", which resulted in the life of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, with one arrow, until he became the door god of people to exorcise evil spirits and avoid ghosts in the future together with Qin Qiong.
However, in historical facts, Wei Chi Gong is by no means the black charcoal head in Cheng Biting Jin's mouth, but a generation of famous generals who are brave and politically far-sighted.
Wei Chigong is a native of Shanyang, Shuozhou, Shanxi, and his generation has made a living by striking iron and also practiced martial arts. In the last years of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Wei Chigong joined the army in Gaoyang, and was known for his bravery in the army.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the heroes rose together, and Liu Wuzhou, the captain of Ma Yi Yingyang, killed Wang Rengong, who was too guarded, to raise troops against the Sui, because he had heard of the courage of Wei Chi Gong, so he asked Wei Chi Gong to think that he was a partial general.
After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, Liu Wuzhou's subordinate Song Jingang suggested that he take Jinyang as the foundation, and then peep into the opportunity to take the world.
In order to gain the support of the Turkic Ministry, Liu Wuzhou raised troops to the south after claiming to be a vassal to him, and Wei Chigong was among them. In the space of a month, Liu Wu and Zhou's army first occupied Taiyuan, then conquered Jinzhou, and then went down to Huzhou. At this point, the emerging Tang Dynasty suffered its greatest crisis since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The crown prince Li Jiancheng and the king of Qi, Li Yuanji, who took the initiative to ask for battle, were defeated nine times in one day, and had to ask Li Yuan for help.
Li Yuan promptly sent reinforcements to Li Shimin, the king of Qin, as the commander, and his general marching chief Qin Qiong defeated Wei Chi Gong's department in Meiliangchuan (now north of Xia County, Shanxi), and his battle Qin Qiong killed more than 2,000 armor soldiers, and Wei Chi Gong was only exempted (this is the origin of the romance ** three whips for two maces).
Then, Li Shimin defeated Liu Wuzhou in a row, and finally defeated him and Song Jingang to flee into Turkic territory with only a few hundred people. Seeing that they were defeated, the Turks decided that they had nothing to use, so they took the opportunity to kill Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, and then ordered their heads to be presented to the king of Qin as a gesture of goodwill.
Because Li Shimin cherished that Wei Chigong was a rare fierce general, he did not kill him in Jiexiu City, but sent Li Daozong into the city to persuade Wei Chigong to surrender.
After entering the Tang Dynasty, Wei Chigong soon became one of the right-hand men of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and since then, he has followed Li Shimin to conquer the Quartet and made outstanding contributions to the unification of the Tang Empire.
At that time, the crown prince Li Jiancheng was very jealous of Li Shimin, and in order to disintegrate the power of the King of Qin, Li Jiancheng had bribed Wei Chigong several times, but all of them worked.
At this time, the crown prince and Li Shimin were already on the same page, and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, was mixed with the prince again. They once tried to take this opportunity to get rid of Li Shimin on the grounds that they did not believe in Wei Chigong's single whip and snatched the lance, and pretended to be Shan Xiongxin, but the lance of the person who came did not get close to Li Shimin's body, and the lance he held three times was taken by Yu Chigong.
During the "Xuanwumen Change", although the eldest grandson Wuji and other people persuaded him to take the initiative to strike first, Li Shimin still hesitated, and it was Wei Chigong who analyzed his interests to Li Shimin, which made Li Shimin completely determined to meet his brothers.
After Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were killed respectively, their subordinates, under the command of Feng Li, stormed Xuanwumen with more than 2,000 elite soldiers. At the moment of crisis, it was still Wei Chigong who took the holy decree he asked for from Li Yuan, and ordered Feng Li to put down the ** with the heads of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji.
After the incident was assessed, when the people of the Qin Mansion repeatedly begged Li Shimin to kill the rest of the Prince's Mansion and the Qi Palace, Wei Chigong once again stepped forward to persuade Li Shimin to put down the butcher's knife.
For such a loyal hero, although Wei Chigong has also made many mistakes, including the seat of the seat, Wei Chigong almost blinded the eyes of Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, but Li Shimin was still tolerant when he was strictly admonished, and even proposed to marry his beloved daughter to Wei Chigong.
The epiphany of Wei Chigong has not been in the world for sixteen years since then, so he also has to die a good death. In the third year of Tang Gaozong's reign (658 AD), the seventy-four-year-old Wei Chigong died of illness due to taking Danshi. Gaozong Li Zhi dropped out of the dynasty for three days, gave Situ the post of governor of the state, nicknamed "Zhongwu", and was buried in Zhaoling (the tomb of Li Shimin's eldest grandson).