Chapter 141: Legendary
Seeing his uncle and nephew perform like this, a few sour cuo's eyes were dumbfounded. Although these people are a little pedantic, they can still understand people's words, this Yao Zheng first finalized that he had read "Zhongtianzhu Xingji", and then endorsed Huang Dalang, saying that he did talk to people not long ago, and then the person he talked to him about was not someone else, but Su Che Su Ge Lao, and finally confirmed that Huang Dalang said in the "Theory of the Day" that Tianzhu destroyed the Buddha is indeed a thing.
Next, the uncle and nephew also performed Shuanghuang, and they didn't discuss whether the content was right or wrong, and directly asked Huang Dalang to apologize, which made the sour people unable to get off the stage suddenly.
When even a scribe who came with him smiled: "Lord Yao is thin and angry, so that the nephew is a young man, righteous and insistent, and there is something to say, it is not a big mistake." It's just that I have a question, this "Zhongtianzhu Xingji", although I and others have also seen it mentioned in various miscellaneous records in private, but now I can't find rare books everywhere, and the main Bo has actually seen it in Taixue, so why is this? ”
A few days ago, Su Che stayed in Huangzhou, waiting for Huang Dalang to make canned meat samples during the period of chatting with Yao Zheng every day, at that time he did mention that this trip to Huangzhou was to go south to Huangzhou, on the one hand, to commemorate the place where his brother had fought, and on the other hand, to collect all kinds of rare books of former dynasties.
This Su Che is not only Su Shi's younger brother, his literary attainments must be at least seventy or eighty stories high in this era. As early as the second year of Chongning (1103), he wrote a long scroll "Luancheng Collection", which has about 50 volumes, and later added 12 volumes of "Ying Zhao Collection", 24 volumes of "Later Collection", and 10 volumes of "Three Collections", a total of 96 volumes, but only 46 volumes survived in later generations.
In addition to the "Luancheng Collection", there are 21 volumes of "Poetry Collection", 12 volumes of "Spring and Autumn Collection Explanation", 60 volumes of "Ancient History", 10 volumes of "Longchuan Brief Chronicles", 8 volumes of "Longchuan Farewell Chronicles", and two volumes of "Lao Tzu Jie".
However, in the second year of Chongning (1103), after Su Zhe returned from Xunzhou to the north, the old party was still politically excluded and attacked because the imperial court continued to implement the new law. Zhao Ji of Song Huizong was bewitched by a traitor (Cai Jing) and ordered to burn the plates (carved wooden boards for printing) of Su Shi, Su Zhe and other humanities collections, so his "Luancheng Collection" became a banned book.
However, the banned "Luancheng Collection" at that time was only the "First Collection", and the "Later Collection", "Three Collections" and "Ying Zhao Collection" had not yet been compiled at that time, and this time Su Che's trip to Jiangnan was to prepare to collect some ancient scrolls and historical materials to supplement his "Ancient History" and "Luancheng Collection: Three Episodes".
The so-called "Luancheng Collection" is the history of the three Su, although originated in Meishan, Sichuan, but its ancestor on the Su flavor (Su Wei, 648-705, Tang Dynasty politician, writer, once served as prime minister. It is indeed a native of Luancheng, Hebei, so the collection of anthologies is covered with the meaning of nostalgia for his hometown.
The reason why Su Che and Yao Zheng mentioned "The Journey of Zhongtianzhu" is because Wang Xuance was really awesome back then, and he made the eternal legend of "one person destroys one country", and naturally his legendary story has become a major topic that historians of all dynasties are keen to study.
This Wang Xuance was born in Luoyang, Henan, and is still a fellow villager with the senior monk Xuanzang.
From the seventeenth year of Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty to the first year of Longshuo (643 ~ 661), he made three envoys to India, first in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan (641), because the Makada of North India sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, Wang Xuance greeted him with the delegation as a deputy envoy to his answer. Then, the following year, he went to India again as an envoy, and was involved in the usurpation of the throne of the country of Makada, creating a legendary record of "one person destroying one country".
In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan (647), Wang Xuance was ordered by Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to envoy Tianzhu for the second time. Unexpectedly, at this time, the king of Jieri, who ruled many small princes in Tianzhu, died of illness, and the emperor of the Empire, Azuna, took advantage of the chaos to usurp the throne and carry out cruel religious persecution (that is, the destruction of Buddha), so Wang Xuance once again performed the 2.0 version of "one person destroys one country".
It was not until the third year of the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (658) that he was elected as an envoy to India for the third time. Regarding these deeds of his travels in India, although he recorded the book "Zhongtianzhu Xingji", the complete version has long been lost, and only scattered fragments such as "Fayuan Zhulin" and "Jiejia Fangzhi" remain.
So, the next question arises, why have scattered fragments such as "Fayuan Zhulin" and "Jiejia Fangzhi" survived, but "Zhongtianzhu Xingji" could not find the complete version?
Moreover, even the "Zhongtianzhu Xingji" that Yao Zheng read in the Taixue in Bianliang, Tokyo, has only the record of the first and third envoys to India, and the record of the second envoy to India in the middle is incomplete. For the answer to this question, Yao Zheng and Su Che have studied, but their ideas are too pedantic and orthodox, thinking that in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of behavior of going to other countries to make trouble is a bit deviant, although it is a surprise victory, it can be regarded as the right way, so the people at that time were ashamed to talk about it.
There is also Wang Xuance's actions, which were harmful to the geopolitics of the Tang Dynasty at that time.
First of all, as the envoy of the Tang Empire, Wang Xuance, his mission to India was actually similar to that of Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty. It was for the Tang Empire to find strategic allies behind the powerful Tibetan states at that time, in order to contain this powerful opponent. After the Weishui Alliance, the Tang Dynasty regarded the Turks as their primary enemy and relaxed its control over Tibet, but under the leadership of Songtsen Gampo, Tibet became increasingly powerful. And in the autumn of the twelfth year of Zhenguan (638), Songtsan Gampo led the Tubo army to attack Songzhou in the Tang Dynasty, although the advance force of the Tang army defeated the Tubo army under the command of Dajiang Niu Jinda, but also let the Tang Dynasty find that the Tubo tail is a little too big, and he will not be able to die for a while if he wants to make him, in order to appease him, he has to send a princess for nothing (Princess Wencheng is the daughter of the clan, is the daughter of Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia), so the purpose at that time was to find an ally in India and find an opportunity to insert a knife in the back.
However, the final result was that Wang Xuance, the envoy of the Tang Empire, with the help of the Tubo people, attacked this object that should have been a vertical and horizontal alliance.
Although Wang Xuance had a good reason (the mission was robbed and killed) and was remarkable in terms of tactics, the mythical aura of "one person destroys one country" is also very bright. But from an imperial strategic perspective, this undoubtedly helped Tibet remove the potential threat behind it. In October of the second year of Baoying (763), the Tubo army broke through Chang'an, and Tang Dynasty was forced to flee, and Wang had to bear certain responsibilities.
Therefore, no one mentioned Wang Xuance's "Zhongtianzhu Xingji" again, and it must have been because he wanted to drown his exploits in the long river of history, and it was natural that he would be incomplete and extinct.
However...... Now it seems that there is something else hidden!