The Dengwen Drum originated from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties... Beating the Dengwen Drum means that there is a huge injustice, and the emperor must come to try it himself, but because the Dengwen Drum was abused by many people during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

For example, there was a commoner named Mou Hui who beat the Dengwen Drum one day. When the emperor heard the Dengwen Drum sounded, of course, he thought there was an injustice and immediately issued an order to summon him.

But who knew that when Mou Hui met the emperor and told him about his grievances, it was not a big deal. Instead, his pig ran away and could not be found, so he came to the emperor to complain.

The emperor at that time was pretty good. He listened to Mou Hui patiently and gave him one thousand dollars after that, as compensation.

Afterwards, the emperor also issued a handwritten edict to the prime minister: "Today someone came to ask me about finding a dead pig, but why did I see his pig? However, those who are happy with you know that there are no unjust people in the world."

It means that the emperor did not think that Mou Hui, who was looking for a pig, was wasting his precious time. On the contrary, he was quite relieved and happy, because this shows that there is no great injustice in the world.

In addition to asking the emperor to help find pigs, someone asked the emperor to arrange work for them.

One day in the leap year, more than 100 candidates who failed the exam came to beat the drum and beg the emperor to arrange errands for them. They said: "I am just practicing martial arts and willing to prepare for military service." It seems that I want to abandon my civil and military service.

The emperor personally organized a special interview, "Thirds of those who can hold the bow will be given money and ordered them to go to Tianxiong to instruct them." He found a job for some candidates who failed the exam and were still skilled.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty already had tens of millions of people. If every ordinary person came to the emperor directly to do business, even if the emperor had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to do it.

Soon, some officials suggested that it would be better for civil servants to review the people's statements and then select a part of them to the emperor as appropriate to reduce the emperor's pressure.

However, the censor expressed his objection, saying, "If it is not possible for the Shanglan Jue, who is willing to speak to Your Majesty in person?" Yes, the people came to beat the drum of the sound of the sound of the sound of the Lord, and wanted to go directly to the Holy Listening. If a checkpoint was set up artificially in the middle, who would still be willing to come?

But one can't be judged by one. The emperor is not worth it, so Li Shimin thought of a way. He can beat the drum, but he must have great grievances. If the grievances are repaid, he will be imprisoned for three years and be punished with a hundred sticks.

This is how Dengwengu can truly achieve the role it should play. Those who have no great injustice will naturally not dare to beat Dengwengu again. Of course, if you have great injustice, three years in prison and one hundred poles, you will definitely laugh it off.

There are pros and cons of the existence of Dengwen Drum. However, from the perspective of history, Dengwen Drum has repeatedly promoted the progress of history and even changed history.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system was still incomplete, and there was a phenomenon of favoritism and fraud. In 973, Xu Shilian, the son of the candidate, failed the imperial examination, and immediately beat the drums of the news and accused Li Fang, a Hanlin scholar who was the chief examiner, for committing favoritism and fraud, "using love to choose."

When Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he was furious. Following Xu Shilian's suggestion, he issued an edict to select 195 people and 36 people who had been admitted. He held a re-examination in the Hall of Martial Arts. Zhao Kuangyin personally served as the chief examiner. As a result, 127 people passed the exam, and 10 of the original admitted people were not selected.

After the results of the exam were announced, the government and the country were in a big uproar. Li Fang was demoted.

After that, the "Director Examination" in which the emperor personally presided over the last level of the imperial examination was formed, and it lasted for more than 900 years in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

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When the drum sounded, all the officials in the court were immediately notified to go to court. Just as our King of Wei was still sleeping soundly, Li Shimin came to Tai Chi Palace to bring the people who beat the drum sounded the drum sounded.

But after Li Shimin saw the few people who were taken to the hall, Li Shimin lost his mouth and shouted: "Wuji, You'er, Zhinu, Yizi...why are you four...?"

Li Shimin was very surprised. He didn't know why these four people were ringing the drum of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of

Li Shimin didn't say it later, but at this time, Liu Shi looked at Changsun Wuji and said intentionally or unintentionally: "Changsun Sikong, if there is nothing wrong, you will be imprisoned for three years, and you will be punished by a hundred sticks...!"

"Why... Liu Xiang, do you still want to beat me Sikong?" Changsun Wuji was a very tough person. He retorted Liu Shi's intentional words without hesitation.

At this time, Li Shimin hurriedly said, "Wuji...what is the matter? You want to ring the Dengwen Drum and bring these three little guys up?"

Li Shimin pointed at Li You and others.

After hearing Li Shimin's words, Changsun Wuji smiled and stopped talking nonsense to Liu Shimin. Instead, he bowed to Li Shimin first and said, "Your Majesty... is very happy... auspiciousness comes from the Tang Dynasty, and auspiciousness comes from the Tang Dynasty...!"

"Auspiciousness comes from the sky..."

Not only Li Shimin, but also other ministers looked at Changsun Wuji in confusion.

"Wuji... auspiciousness... where does my Tang Dynasty have auspiciousness?" When Li Shimin heard about auspiciousness, he felt spiritual, because auspiciousness is very good, and in today's terms it is a "good omen". The auspiciousness culture in ancient China has a long history, but the real scale and institutionalization was a special case in the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty highly praised auspiciousness. The Tang Dynasty designated auspiciousness as four levels, big auspiciousness, upper auspiciousness, middle auspiciousness and lower auspiciousness." The higher the level of auspiciousness appears, the more the ruler wins the will of the people.

Because before the Tang Dynasty, Chinese culture experienced hundreds of years of war during the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, and many inherited cultures had been cut off, but the Confucian theory of heaven and man was passed down and was soon accepted by rulers and subjects all over the world.

Under this theory of the induction of heaven and man, auspiciousness emerges in the world, which is the greatest affirmation of the emperor's rule and his status. Therefore, all emperors of the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to auspicious culture, and everyone knows that Li Shimin was obtained by killing his brother.

Therefore, Li Shimin's throne originated from was not orthodox, and for this reason, Li Shimin was very eager for auspiciousness, because the auspiciousness from heaven said that it was correct and right to be the emperor.

At this time, auspiciousness is a way for Li Shimin to comfort himself and recognize himself.

Of course, the young Li Shimin was not so passionate about auspiciousness. Historical books record that in the early years of Zhenguan, there was a huge pine tree in the courtyard of Emperor Taizong of Tang’s central bedroom. It was a long time and magnificent. Li Shimin liked it very much and often worked and rested under the trees. One spring, two magpies came from the tree and began to build nests on the trees.

At first, Emperor Taizong of Tang did not take it seriously, thinking that it was a good thing for birds to live there, so he let two magpies set up their nests. More than ten days later, the magpies were successfully built, and it looked like a waist drum from a distance. The ministers who attended the court saw a magpies nest on the trees in the palace from a distance, thinking that magpies had the meaning of a bird of good news, and setting up a nest in the palace was auspicious sign.

So the ministers in the court wrote letters to congratulate Emperor Taizong of Tang. Emperor Taizong of Tang, who was in the court, looked angry when he heard the flattery of the ministers, said to the ministers: I used to hear that when Emperor Yang of Sui was the emperor, he had a hobby that was to listen to the auspicious things submitted by treacherous ministers, but could not accept the heartfelt words of loyal ministers, which eventually led to the destruction of the country.

After Emperor Taizong of Tang came to court, he returned to the harem and immediately ordered the eunuch to bring a ladder, remove the bird's nest on the book, and then drove the two magpies out of the wild."

In Zhenguan, a white magpies suddenly nested on a locust tree in front of the bedroom, and their nests were as happy as a waist drum. They bowed and danced to celebrate. Emperor Taizong said, "I often laugh at the Emperor of Sui Dynasty for good auspiciousness. The auspiciousness is to be obtained. How can I congratulate?" He ordered his nest to destroy it and release the magpies in the wild."

However, what I want to say here is that it was the end of Zhenguan period, and Li Shimin was already old at this time, and the old Li Shimin was no longer as wise as he was when he was young. He began to slowly become another Li Shimin.

During this period, Li Chengqian's death had a great blow to Li Shimin. In addition, as the position of prince and Li Tai were really in his heart. Li Shimin was very scared, afraid of something, afraid that his son would repeat his mistakes.

In fact, when he was young, Li Shimin was still at ease, but as he got older, Li Shimin was afraid.

Do you know the origin of the door god?

It is the story of the Dragon King of Jinghe River, which says that Li Shimin had the same dream when he slept for three consecutive nights: he dreamed of an old dragon saying to him: "I am the Dragon King of Jinghe River. I have committed a crime. The Jade Emperor asked your minister Wei Zheng to kill me. Tell Wei Zheng about love and let me go. I will thank you very much."

Li Shimin asked in his dream: "Do you know when to kill you?" Lao Long said: "It's noon tomorrow."

Li Shimin said: "No problem, go back." The next day, it was almost noon, and the Tang Dynasty King Li Shimin called Wei Zheng to play chess. The two played several games. At noon, Wei Zheng was extremely sleepy and fell asleep. The Tang Dynasty was very happy and thought to himself: If I don't wake him up, he would wake up. When noon was over, he would not be able to kill Lao Long. The Tang Dynasty sat and looked at Wei Zheng, and saw that Wei Zheng was sleeping soundly, sweating made his clothes soaked. After a while, Wei Zheng shouted loudly from his sleep: "Kill!" and then woke up.

Li Shimin asked: "Who are you killing in your sleep?" Wei Zheng said: "The Jade Emperor asked me to kill the old dragon of Jinghe!"

Li Shimin asked: "Did you kill?" Wei Zheng said: "Kill!"

Li Shimin said, "Where are you sleeping, where are you going to kill?!" Wei Zheng said, "The heads are hung on the high pole of the Meridian Gate! If you don't believe me, let's take a look."

The two walked to the Meridian Gate, and there was indeed a blood dragon head hanging on the high pole, and Li Shimin believed it.

At night, Li Shimin was sleeping. As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw the blood dragon head coming and said, "You have delayed my life, I'll settle the score with you!" Li Shimin was so scared that he sat up. After waiting for a while, he closed his eyes, and it was like that again, which scared Li Shimin so much that he didn't sleep all night. The next day, several ministers came, and Li Shimin told them the matter. The ministers said, "We are all sitting here, you can sleep for a while!" Li Shimin closed his eyes, but was still awakened, and there was no way.

Qin Qiong and Jingde, two old heroes, came to hear Li Shimin’s death, and saw Li Shimin and said, “I’m here, are you still afraid of the old dragon? You’re sleeping, it’s okay.”

Li Shimin closed his eyes and fell asleep, sleeping soundly. When he woke up, it was noon the next day. When he saw that Qin Qiong and Jingde were still standing at the door. The King of Tang was moved and hurried out of bed. From then on, Qin Qiong and Jingde stood guard every night to protect Li Shimin from sleep. More than a month passed in a blink of an eye.

Li Shimin was an emperor who understood it. He thought: It would be too unreasonable for me to always ask people to stand at the door and sleep by myself. So he asked the painter to draw the statues of Qin Qiong and Jingde and stick them on the door. In this way, Lao Long didn't dare to come.

From then on, the statue of Qin Qiong and Jingde was pasted on the palace gate. The Tang Dynasty palace was passed down from generation to generation. The people also learned to write door gods every year. Until now, every year, every 12th lunar month, people stick to door gods every household to block the evil spirits of ghosts and gods.

Many people think that the door god is fabricated, but it is not all. The Dragon King of Jinghe is fabricated, and the rest are actually true. Why can’t Li Shimin sleep at night is because as soon as Li Shimin closes his eyes, he will dream that his elder brother and fourth brother come to ask for his life together.

At this time, Li Shimin was actually beginning to feel guilty!

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Chapter completed!