Huang Yi of the Heavenly Demon Strategy, the evil path of the Heavenly Demon Strategy

In Huang Yi's ** series, the Demon Gate is an extremely special existence. This mysterious sect has a long history and many talents, and although it is called by the devil, its deeds are nothing more than a loose alliance of eight small guilds that have been marginalized. Although Huang Yi has not clearly described the historical origin of the Demon Gate, he can roughly describe the general outline of the development and composition of the Demon Gate by following some clues in the **.

In "The Legend of the Frontier Wilderness", Xiang Yutian said to Yan Fei that the ancestor of the Holy Gate is the "Heavenly Demon" Cangxuan, who is not only extremely wise and martial arts, but also a book maniac.

In the historical world of Huang Yi**, if you ignore short and medium-length stories such as "The Legend of Jing Chu Zhengxiong", it can be traced back to the era of "Xun Qin" at the earliest. In that group of fierce Spring and Autumn Warring States periods, there was no supreme king on the earth, and the contention of a hundred schools of thought meant that the promoters of each idea could equally promote their ideas to the princes. No center means no edges; No one is exalted as an eternally right God, and naturally no one is trampled on as a demon; Therefore, in the era of "Xun Qin", there were no traces of the activities of the Demon Gate.

However, the good times did not last long, the Qin state dominated the world, the Han family followed the Qin, the monarchy began to expand and envelop everything, and the official ideology became the only loud voice between heaven and earth. As a result, some strata that were originally active for a while gradually became bleak and speechless because their value orientation was different from the official ideology or even contrary to it. As a result, some of these far-sighted people, in order to preserve their own ideas, formed a common alliance with the six-volume "Heavenly Demon Strategy" as the supreme guiding purpose.

This alliance included the Yin Sect composed of women engaged in the service industry, the Heavenly Pavilion composed of assassins and mercenaries, the Heavenly Lotus Sect representing the merchant class, and the True Preaching of the remnants of primitive Taoism (divided into the True Transmission of Dao Ancestors and Lao Jun Guan, this branch is quite symbolic and can explain the origin of the word "demon"). Of course, due to the different times of the rise and fall of various industries, this main body composed of two factions and six ways should be gradually formed in a long historical period.

Because they are contrary to the mainstream, everything about them cannot enter the public eye, and the public has all kinds of speculations and legends about them because they cannot understand them, and their images are further distorted in these speculations and legends, which is also the common situation of almost all marginalized groups. And the suppression of marginal groups by the mainstream discourse is also called "defending the way and subduing demons" in orthodox writing. Similarly, there are always some groups that want to enter the mainstream discourse, and make their positions clear through the suppression of marginal groups, so as to obtain the status of the auxiliary wing of the mainstream discourse, such as Buddha and Tao, Xu Ziling's so-called "thousand-year-old Taoist and demon dispute" probably comes from the past.

Starting from such a historical concept, we can also investigate the two factions and six ways of the Demon Gate, so as to draw a general impression of the history of the Demon Gate.

The establishment time of the Evil Pole Dao has not been specified, but in "Border Wilderness", Xiang Yutian can be used as a coordinate. At this time, it was not far from the Battle of Xiangshui, which was in 383 AD, and according to Shi Qingxuan, there were at least twelve evil emperors before Xiang Yutian. The ancients had twenty lines of "crown ceremony", that is, today's coming-of-age ceremony, and those who served as the head of a door should at least be adults, Bafeng Han said in "The Tang Dynasty".

Seven years ago, he was only 20 years old when he ascended to the position of head of the house", and it can be inferred from his tone that it was a special case to be the head of the head at the age of 20 at that time. From this, it can be roughly deduced that the lower limit of the establishment of the Evil Extreme Dao should be around 110 AD. The "Tang Dynasty" mentions that the first generation of the evil emperor Xie Bo "did not tolerate the orthodox society that respected Confucianism at that time", and Dong Zhongshu's "Three Strategies of Heaven and Man" was in the third year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty (132 BC), so it can be seen that the upper limit of the establishment time of the evil pole path should not be earlier than 132 BC.

The first generation of the evil emperor Xie Bo was mentioned in the Tang Dynasty, but it cannot be considered that the evil pole is the only way to make a living, otherwise it is difficult to explain the origin of the word "evil pole". In "The Tang Dynasty", Xie Bo's discovery of the "Evil Emperor Relic" process is quite interesting. Although there has been an explosion of people returning to the past recently, without direct evidence, I am afraid that it is impossible to conclude that Xie Bo ran to the ancient tomb of Qi to engage in archaeological work.

Tomb robbery is also a long-standing industry, there is the Han Dynasty, such as Xie Bo and other industries are unprecedented, so that Liu Bang had to "guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang 20 families" when he established the country. Mr. Wang Zijin's "History of Chinese Tomb Robbery" has a special chapter on this, so I will not repeat it here. In the current archaeological excavations, in the tomb of "Qin Gong No. 1" and the tomb of Cai Chu in Shangcai, Henan, the number of robbed caves in the Han Dynasty is staggering, which can also be a proof.

In this way, Ding Jiuzhong's outdated outfit may have something to explain.

The disciples of the Evil Extreme Sect also had the opportunity to enter the mainstream in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty, and Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao even set up the positions of "Touching Jin Captain" and "Faqiu Zhonglang General" for them. However, this kind of livelihood is evil to the people of the world after all, and it is understandable that it is listed as a demon sect by the evil extreme sect and is evil by the world.