In the previous chapters, some readers told the editor that the stories I edited did not conform to history, for example, Wang Xiong died before Wang Junkuo, and Wang Xiong died by Fu Gong Tuo. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Yes, what the readers say is the truth, the editor admits it, but what the editor wants to say now is that the small compilation is a historical travel novel, not a history textbook, and the editor will not completely rely on the framework of the novel. Of course, the editor will also write about the lives of Wang Junkuo and Wang Xiongdan, and let readers understand why the editor designed the different life endings of Wang Junkuo and Wang Xiongdan. The first is the life of Wang Junkuo.

Wang Junkuo (?-627), a native of Shiai (now Pingding, Shanxi), was a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty.

Wang Junkuo made a living by selling horses in his early years, but he was of bad character and often stole and the township was troubled. In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Junkuo planned to gather soldiers and horses as thieves, but his uncle disagreed. Wang Junkuo framed his neighbor for fornicating with his uncle, killed his neighbor with his uncle, and died in the rivers and lakes ever since. After that, Wang Junkuo gathered more than 1,000 people, plundered everywhere, and forced Xia County, Changping, and Hedong County Cheng Ding Rong to lead the army to resist, and sent people to appease. After Wang Junkuo saw the comer, he pretended to be willing to surrender. Ding Rong despised Wang Junkuo for this, so he arranged for the army to climb the mountain. Wang Junkuo ambushed his soldiers and horses in the valley, and took advantage of Ding Rong's withdrawal to suddenly launch an attack and break the enemy's army. Soon, Wang Junkuo, Wei Bao, Deng Bao and others attacked Yuxiang (now Yongji, Shanxi) and met the Sui general Song Laosheng. Wang Junkuo's initial battle was unfavorable, so he had to retreat to Fangshan, and Song Laosheng took advantage of the victory to press. At this time, Wang Junkuo ran out of grain and grass, so he deceived Song Laosheng and talked with him across the stream, praying for pleading. Song Laosheng was moved and relaxed his vigilance, and Wang Junkuo took the opportunity to escape at night. Later, Wang Junkuo led his army to plunder Handan. Wang Jun, a native of Handan, was stunned and advised: "Today's heroes are rising, you should wait for all forces to compete for the winner, and then take refuge, so that you can be rich and rich." Now you don't have a foot of land, and you don't have much food and grass, but you are robbing and harassing everywhere, and I am worried about you. Wang Junkuo asked about countermeasures, and Wang Junjun was stunned and suggested that he seize Jingcheng (now southwest of Houlu, Hebei). Wang Junkuo listened to his words and occupied Jingcheng, and when Tang Gaozu Li Yuan rebelled against Sui, he sent people to surrender Wang Junkuo. Wei Bao and Deng Bao planned to belong to Gaozu, Wang Junkuo pretended to agree, took advantage of his unpreparedness to suddenly send troops to attack, seized their baggage, and then took refuge in Wagang, and soon after he was not reused, he led the people to join the Tang Dynasty, and sealed the Zhu State, Hanoi Taishou, Changshan County Gong, and later changed his title to Shanggu County Gong, Liaozhou Assassin History, after that, Wang Junkuo followed Qin King Li Shimin to pacify Wang Shichong and Liu Heimin, and moved the right Wuwei general to enter the Duke of Peng. Li Ying served as the governor of Youzhou. Because Li Ying was cowardly and incompetent, the imperial court did not have the talent of a general, so he sent Wang Junkuo, a general of the right leading army, to assist him. Wang Junkuo was once a robber, brave and strong, insidious and cunning, Li Ying relied on him with all his heart, and formed a family with Wang Junkuo.

At that time, Li Tang's crown prince Li Jiancheng wanted to get rid of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and secretly contacted Li Ming, after the Xuanwumen Change, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were killed by Li Shimin, Li Shimin forced Li Yuan to establish himself as the prince, and later forced Li Yuan to ascend the throne, and sent the minister of Qin to Youzhou to recruit Li Ying into Beijing, Li Ying panicked, and discussed with Wang Junkuo. Wang Junkuo wanted to arrest Li Ying and make meritorious contributions, so Wang Junkuo provoked Li Ming, the king of Lujiang, to rebel, and then killed him, so he persuaded Li Ying to make plans as soon as possible, and Li Ying decided to start an incident. Li Ying imprisoned the envoys, mobilized troops, and summoned Wang Xu, the assassin of Yanzhou, to come and discuss the incident. Li Ying handed over all the soldiers and horses to Wang Junkuo's command, and Wang Lishe, who joined the army, thought that Wang Junkuo was capricious and could not entrust his authority to him, so he should be eliminated as soon as possible and Wang Shu should replace him. Li Ying hesitated, and when Wang Junkuo learned of this, he immediately killed Wang Xu, and lied to the soldiers that Wang Xuan had rebelled against Li Ming, and persuaded them to follow him to rebel. Wang Junkuo led a thousand of his subordinates into the city, but Li Ying did not notice it. Wang Junkuo released the imperial court, and Li Ying learned that Wang Junkuo had changed, and hurriedly led hundreds of cronies out, and happened to meet Wang Junkuo outside the door. Wang Junkuo persuaded Li Jin's subordinates, and everyone threw down their weapons and fled. Li Ying scolded Wang Junkuo for being a villain, and Wang Junkuo caught and strangled Li Jin. Li Ying was forty-one years old when he died, and Wang Junkuo passed him on to the head of Beijing. The imperial court ordered the posthumous abolition of Li Ying as a concubine and the rejection of his clan affiliation. Wang Junkuo regarded himself as a counterinsurgency hero, and was appointed as the general of the left leading army, the governor of Youzhou, and the doctor of Zuo Guanglu.

In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Wang Junkuo entered the court, because of his arrogance in his post and transgression of the law, his heart was uneasy, so he killed the post official in Weinan and prepared to defect to the Turks, but was killed by savages on the way, and the fiefdom was also cut off.

This was followed by the life of Wang Xiongdan:

Wang Xiong (?-623), Jiyang, Caozhou (now northwestern Cao County, Shandong). The adopted son and general of Du Fuwei, the general of the peasant rebel army at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Wang Xiong was strong and resolute, with extraordinary strength, Du Fuwei had 30 adopted sons, with food and clothing, only Kan Ling and Wang Xiong were well-known. Because Wang Xiongtan is younger than Kan Leng, the army calls Kan Ling a general and Wang Xiongdan a little general. In the fourth year of Wude (621), Li Zitong was conquered in Hangzhou and captured him alive. Wude five years (622 years), Qin King Li Shimin suppressed Hebei Liu Heimin, Xu Yuanlang, even under more than ten cities, Huaibei shocked, July, summoned Du Fuwei into the court, at the beginning, Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Yi is very good, Fu Gong Yi is old, Du Fu Wei is like a brother to him, the army called Fu Gong Yi uncle, awe of him and fear of Du Fuwei. Du Fuwei gradually became suspicious of him, so he appointed Kan Ling as the left general and Wang Xiong as the right general, and secretly seized the military power of the auxiliary prince. Before leaving, he stayed in Danyang with Fu Gong Tuo, and handed over the military power to the right general Wang Xiongdan, after Fu Gong Yi knew, he gradually became dissatisfied, when Du Fuwei entered the court, he left Fu Gong Yi to guard Danyang, and ordered Wang Xiong Dan to master the army as Fu Gong Yi's deputy, and said to Wang Xiong Dan in private: "I arrived in Chang'an, if I didn't lose my position, don't let Fu Gong Yi have an accident." After Du Fuwei left, Zuo Youxian persuaded Fu Gongqi to rebel, but Wang Xiongdan held the military power, and Fu Gongqi could not do it. So he pretended to have received a letter from Du Fuwei, suspecting that Wang Xiongtan had two hearts, Wang Xiongtan was very unhappy when he heard about it, claiming that he was sick and could not go to the Yamen to manage affairs, and Fu Gongqi took the opportunity to seize Wang Xiongdan's military power, and let his henchman Ximen Junyi tell Wang Xiongtan about the plan of rebellion. Wang Xiongdan woke up and regretted it, and said to Fu Gongtuo: "If you have just been pacified today, and King Wu is in Chang'an, the power of the Tang Dynasty army, and you are invincible, how can you exterminate yourself for no reason?" My king can only repay him with one death, and I can't obey orders. Now that you are following Fu Gong Tuo and you are perverse, it is just a hundred days of prolonging your life, how can the eldest husband fall into injustice because he is reluctant to die for a moment?" Fu Gong knew that he could not convince him, so he strangled Wang Xiongdan. Wang Xiong was a benevolent person, very sympathetic to his subordinates, and could make soldiers die for him, and he was very disciplined, and every time he captured a town, he did not commit any crimes. Therefore, on the day he was killed, the soldiers in the Jiangnan Army and the common people wept bitterly. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan rewarded his loyalty and ordered his son Wang Shiguo (Wang Guo in the Old Tang Book) to inherit the title of Duke of Yichun County. After Tang Taizong Li Shimin ascended the throne, he issued an edict to General Zuo Xiaowei and the governor of Yuezhou, and the nickname was loyalty.

After readers see the lives of Wang Junkuo and Wang Xiongdan, the editor thinks that all readers should know who is a loyal minister and who is a traitor! Xiaobian Xiang in the novel sets off Wang Xiongdan's loyalty and righteousness - Du Fuwei, as Wang Xiongdan's father-in-law, entrusted Wang Xiongdan's life to Li Jiancheng when he knew that Li Yuan could not let him go, which is a full affirmation of Li Jiancheng's personality, and also a kind of protection for his son as a father, the love between father and son jumped on the paper, and when he was alive, he kept telling Wang Xiongdan not to act rashly, even if he became a ghost, he had to show up to protect Wang Xiongdan, the emotions of the father and son were touching, in the later chapters, Xiaobian can tell you in advance that after Li Jiancheng ascended the throne, in order to thank Du Fuwei and Wang Xiongdan for their exploits, especially for their father and son, they set up a monument and re-established their reputation, and Wang Junkuo's treachery and cunning can also be seen from Wang Junkuo's life, for his own ambition and survival, he wanted to rob, but his uncle did not agree, so he framed his neighbor for fornicating with his aunt, and died with his uncle after killing people. And in it also betrayed many times, capricious, first took refuge in Wagang, and then took refuge in Li Tang after Wagang lost power, under Li Ming's hands, Li Ying admired Wang Junkuo, and constantly entrusted him with important tasks, and regardless of his noble status as a royal nobleman and a martial artist from the rivers and lakes, and finally when Li Ying lost power, Wang Junkuo only thought of using Li Jin's head to pave his officialdom future. However, whether in the novel or in history, Wang Junkuo's ending is not a good death, but the editor is unwilling to let Wang Junkuo's harm be too great. Moreover, Li Jin is really a tragic figure in history, as the Li Tang clan, he had to be involved in the dispute over the throne of Li Tang, and was in the feudal dynasty inheritance system, (of course, Li Jiancheng is not as incompetent as recorded in history, and is very capable), chose Li Jiancheng as his allegiance, and after the fall of Li Jiancheng, he was ready to raise troops to avenge Li Jiancheng, on the one hand, in order to protect himself, on the other hand, it can also be regarded as an emotional reward for Li Jiancheng, But he fell for the villain's trick and ended up ruined. Therefore, the editor used a small means to dispose of Wang Junkuo first. It saved Li Ming's life, and also showed it for Wang Xiongdan, Li Ying and others in later chapters. In order to show that good people in China since ancient times have good rewards; There is a proverb that the wicked have evil retribution. Then the editor will send you a few more words, don't be surprised if the writing is not good:

Du Fuwei's father prayed for high wishes, and Wang Xiong's birthday was loyal and righteous; Wang Junkuo counted his life to death, and Li Ying was a loyal minister.