In the last years of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong ordered the conquest of North Korea, and the general recruited soldiers, and Xue was drafted into the army. One day, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, made a personal expedition to the military camp. He was discovered by the coach of the North Korean team, Guy Su Wen, and led a surprise attack. None of Emperor Taizong's men was an opponent of Gai Suwen, and they were defeated one after another. Emperor Taizong escaped, followed by beggar Su Wen.
While running for his life, Emperor Taizong shouted, "Who will save the coachman and reward half of the Tang Dynasty!" At this time, a general in a white robe arrived on horseback, defeated Gai and saved Emperor Taizong. Since then, Emperor Taizong has punished him and appointed Xue as the Grand Marshal of the East. Xue lived up to expectations, and finally captured the beggar gang alive and pacified North Korea. What a "loyal minister".
This story comes from the romantic novel Xue Dongzheng written by a layman like Lian in Qing Dynasty, which is a classic.
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Xue's Journey to the East is one of China's famous popular novels, which takes Xue's life as the classics and deeds as the latitude.
Xue was originally a civilian. He was drafted into the army and buried in the rotor army. Although he has made outstanding achievements, all the credit has been taken up by He Zongxian, the son-in-law of treacherous court official Zhang Shigui. Later, Marshal Weichi Gong made many investigations before the truth came out. Therefore, Zhang Shigui was found guilty, and he was appointed king of Liao Ping, thus ending the story of conquering the East.
Xue Dongzheng inevitably involves supernatural things, but it has many advantages, especially the portrayal of several main characters, which is quite successful, such as Weichi Gong's bravery, recklessness and Xue's martial arts intelligence.
In particular, those who participated in the clothing-giving later sacrificed everything, broke the class concept and married Xue in a broken kiln, which was a kind of resistance to the traditional marriage system in China at that time, which was particularly rare.
Xue was a famous military general in the early Tang Dynasty. A long time ago, there was a folk story that Emperor Taizong and Xue were famous military generals in the early Tang Dynasty.
In order to recover Liaodong, unify the world, conquer the beggar Suwen and rescue Silla, Emperor Taizong sent troops to conquer Goguryeo three times. In the first year of 668 AD, Xue and others led troops to capture Pyongyang, captured King Koguryo, and Koguryo perished. In Koguryo's hometown, the Tang Dynasty set up 9 states and 42 states 100 county, with Anton as the governor and Xue as the commander in chief.
This period of history is the background of Xue Dongzheng, and it is also a part of Xue Jiajiang's story.
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