Speaking of Cai Wenji, there was still a brief introduction.
Cai Wenji was named Cai Yan, also known as Zhao Ji. Later, she changed her name to Wenji because she violated Sima Zhao's taboo. During the Three Kingdoms period, women never had a surname, which showed that her talent was extraordinary.
Cai Wenji married Wei Zhongdao when she was 16 years old. The Wei family was a family in the east of the river at that time, and the couple was very loving. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. In less than a year, Wei Zhongdao died from drinking blood. Cai Wenji had never given birth to a son or daughter, and the Wei family thought that she had jinxed her husband to death. At that time, Cai Wenji, who was proud and arrogant, ignored her father's opposition and resolutely returned to her mother's house. Later, Cai Yong died in prison and Wenji was taken away by the Xiongnu. She was only twenty-three years old that year and was taken in as the princess by King Zuo Xian. She lived in the southern Xiongnu for twelve years. Cai Wenji composed one of the ten most famous songs in the history of China, the 18 beats of eggplant, at this time.
In 208 AD, under Cao Cao's arrangement, Cai Wenji returned to her hometown from the Left Virtuous King and married Tian Lieutenant Dong Si. The bumpy fate seemed to follow this poor orphan girl closely, not relaxing at all. In the second year of her marriage, her husband, who she relied on, committed a crime and deserved to die. Cai Wenji was disheveled and barefoot in the cold winter. Finally, her father aroused Cao Cao's pity and saved Dong Si's life.
From then on, Dong Si was grateful for his wife's kindness and made a 180-degree turn in his relationship. He began to reevaluate Cai Wenji. Both husband and wife also saw through the world. They lived in the beautiful and lush foothills. Many years later, Cao Cao would pass by this place to hunt and would even visit.
Upon hearing Cai Yong's words, not only was the Spirit Monarch furious, but Ding Huai was also disappointed. Cai Wenji was after all a collection of famous beauties and talented women from the Three Kingdoms period. Now that Cai Yong had disregarded the Emperor's order and flatly rejected the marriage personally arranged by the Emperor, how could Ding Huai not be extremely disappointed?
In ancient times, the people of the gentry had always valued a promise. It seemed that Cai Wenji and Wei Zhongdao had indeed been engaged since they were young. Otherwise, Cai Yong would not have risked his life to do such a stupid thing. However, if Cai Yong did not reject the marriage and instead agreed to the Emperor, although it could be said that the Emperor's order was pressing, he would still be looked down upon by other scholars in the future. In this case, for Cai Yong, who was so eager to save face and suffer, it would be better to kill himself on the south wall.
However, Ding Huai thought that since Cai Wenji was already taken, he might as well plead for mercy on behalf of Cai Yong at this time and say a few good words. If he could save Cai Yong's life, not only would the scholars of the world admire and thank him, after all, Cai Yong had considerable influence on the scholars of the world in this era, but he could also use this opportunity to make friends with the Wei family of Hedong. After this matter, the Wei family would definitely be grateful to him. If he could deepen his friendship in the future, the entire Wei family would not be difficult to become the financial source of his army's expenses. In this era, it was simply impossible to make a name for oneself without the support of a wealthy family.
In those years, Cao Cao also relied on Chen Liuwei to have money to recruit soldiers. If he didn't have money, which fool would be willing to join Cao Cao's army? Yuan Shao also relied on the Zhen family of Ye City. In order to win over the Zhen family, Yuan Shao even let his second son Yuan Xi marry the youngest daughter of the Zhen family, Zhen Mi. Although Zhen Mi was beautiful and beautiful, Yuan Xi took advantage of her and made him a cuckold.(I won't explain it here, I believe everyone understands), but the combination of the two people contained too many political colors.
There was also Liu Bei. Before he met Zhuge Liang, he had been defeated repeatedly. It seemed that he had only won once, and that was when he set fire to the new fields. It was also because Xiahou Dun was greedy and rash. However, although Liu Bei had been defeated repeatedly, he was not short of money. He could quickly gather a team wherever he went. The reason was that his brother-in-law was Mi Zhu, a big family in Xuzhou, the richest man, and so on.
After making up his mind, Ding Huai's disappointment lessened slightly and he was about to plead for Cai Yong. At this moment, the Spirit Emperor was furious because Cai Yong had rejected him in front of all the civil and military officials."Cai Yong, don't think that just because you're an elder of two dynasties, zhen won't dare to kill you.”
Zhang Rang and the others were delighted to see the Spirit Monarch angry, while Yang Ci, Huangfu Song, Lu Zhi, Ding Yuan and the others who were usually on good terms with Cai Yong were worried. They looked at each other and planned to plead for Cai Yong. Unexpectedly, just as the Spirit Monarch finished speaking, Ding Huai's voice sounded,"Reporting to Your Majesty, since Lord Cai's daughter is already engaged, please retract your order. Otherwise, this lowly subject will bear the crime of forcefully snatching another person's wife.”
The Spirit Monarch was originally angry because he could not get off the stage. At this moment, Ding Huai's words just happened to make the Spirit Monarch get off the stage. Hence, the Spirit Monarch took the opportunity to say,"Since Minister Ding has come forward to plead for mercy, Zhen will not pursue this matter today.”However, after that, the Spirit Emperor hated Cai Yong deeply. Not long after, he dismissed Cai Yong from his post.
Seeing that the marriage of Cai Yong's daughter had already become a shadow, the Spirit Emperor thought to himself that it was fortunate that I had mentioned two marriages at once. Otherwise, he would really lose face. Thus, he said to Xun Shuang,"Could it be that the daughter of Xun Aiqing is also engaged since she was young, just like Cai Yong's daughter?”
Xun Shuang was very anxious. Xun Shuang's daughter Xun Cai had been engaged since she was young. Many officials in the court knew about this. If Xun Shuang followed the emperor's orders, he would ruin his reputation. If he refused the marriage like Cai Yong, he was afraid that he would lose his head. Cai Yong was lucky just now because Ding Huai pleaded for him to save his head. However, he did not know Ding Huai before, so how could he plead for him?
Xun Shuang was struggling in his dilemma when he heard the Spirit Monarch's question. He blurted out,""That's right."
Xun Cai, the daughter of Xun Shuang, a Guanglu doctor, was only recorded in the Biography of Lie Nv in Volume 84 of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. It was said that this woman was intelligent and talented. She married her husband Yin Yu at the age of seventeen and her husband died two years later. His father Xun Shuang ordered him to remarry to Guo Yi, who had just lost his wife in the same county. Xun Cai did not agree and finally hanged himself.
As soon as these two words came out, Xun Shuang knew that he was in trouble. He was afraid that he would not be able to survive today. His legs went weak and he knelt on the ground. Large beads of sweat began to flow down his forehead. His face was pale. Compared to Cai Yong, who did not move even when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, it was a world of difference. Immediately, many people in the court looked down on Xun Shuang.
Ding Huai also frowned. It seemed that this Xun Shuang had called himself a scholar in vain. He was actually so cowardly and did not have the backbone of a scholar at all.
The Spirit Monarch was furious. He thought to himself, What's wrong with me today? I've never been a matchmaker before, and this is the first time I've been unable to step down. If this matter fails again, I'll really lose all my face.
Before the Spirit Monarch could flare up, Ding Huai could not stand it anymore and stepped forward."Your Majesty, you can't force anything. As the saying goes, a forced melon isn't sweet.”
To be honest, the Spirit Monarch really loved Ding Huai to death. At every critical moment, Ding Huai could always resolve the awkwardness for the Spirit Monarch. " If that's the case, I won't pursue this matter any further," the Spirit Monarch said." However, I'm truly ashamed of Minister Ding. How about this? I'll make Minister Ding Marquis Yunting as compensation." Minister Ding, are you satisfied?"
Ding Huai was overjoyed. It was never too late to mend the fold. This idiom was too classic. Although he did not get Cai Wenji and Xun Cai, he had become a marquis of the Great Han Dynasty. Ding Huai hurriedly knelt on the ground to thank them. The civil and military officials were also secretly surprised. They did not expect the Spirit Monarch to be so kind to Ding Huai that he was conferred the title of marquis. Although he was only a marquis, Ding Huai was only twelve years old.
The identity of Hanzhong prefect, Marquis Yunting, the number one prodigy of the Han Dynasty, and the governor of Bingzhou with his father, such a prominent background and identity, perhaps even more glorious than Yuan Shao's four generations and three dukes, would be of great help in recruiting talents in the future. When Ding Huai accepted the congratulations of the officials after the end of the court, he was still thinking about these good things.
After being summoned by the Spirit Monarch, Ding Huai was allowed to live in the palace. Of course, this referred to the outer palace, while the Emperor, Empress, Concubines, Princesses, and palace maids lived in the inner palace. Although they were separated by a wall, they were two different worlds. It was vastly different.
The outer palace was where the emperor met his ministers, attended court, and dealt with state affairs. The inner palace was where the emperor lived, where the emperor, empress, concubines, princesses, and palace maids ate, lived, and played.
To put it bluntly, the inner palace was like a big cage, and the empress, concubines, princesses, and palace maids were like canaries locked in the cage. Although the food, accommodation, clothes, and entertainment were the best in the world, they could not leave the inner palace at will. It was very sad.
Originally, other than the Emperor, young princes, and eunuchs, no man was allowed to enter the Inner Palace. Once the princes grew up, they had to move out of the Outer Palace. The Emperor had given them another residence to prevent the princes from mixing with the palace maids and indulging in women.
However, in the ten years that they had grown up, the little princes had been influenced by women and eunuchs every day. It would be pure nonsense to say that they did not mingle around.
In the past dynasties, there had been cases of princes having sex with palace maids, and palace maids getting pregnant. In the end, the Empress's method of dealing with them was often to secretly execute the palace maids in order to protect the prestige of the royal family.
The more merciful empress would let the palace maid give birth to the child and then execute the palace maid. The child would be raised by other infertile concubines. For some concubines who were not very favored by the emperor and could not conceive a dragon child, it was very popular to adopt such a child. Because they were not favored by the emperor, they could only rely on the mother to be noble.
Most of them were executed immediately before the palace maid gave birth to the child. One corpse and two lives. This method was even more cruel.
However, even though they knew that their fate would be very miserable, there were still many palace maids who were willing to take the risk. It was no wonder. On the one hand, it was because of their low status and how they could resist the prince. However, the main reason was their desire for sex. As the saying goes," Once you enter the noble family, you are as deep as the sea."
Some palace maids had never seen the emperor after entering the palace. Yuan Zhen's poem "Palace" described the white-haired palace maid sitting idly talking about Xuanzong. This was a true portrayal of this situation.
This time, the Spirit Monarch had granted Ding Huai special permission to stay in the outer palace. Firstly, Ding Huai was young. Secondly, his father, Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou, did not have a mansion in Luoyang. Therefore, the Spirit Monarch had granted Ding Huai special permission to stay in the palace for a few days so that the concubines in the inner palace who were interested in this child could summon Ding Huai at any time. It was also to let them see the talent of the number one prodigy of the Great Han Dynasty and satisfy their curiosity.
There was also a hidden reason that the three poems had already drifted into the palace. If the Spirit Monarch could not satisfy this, he would be drowned in the saliva of these women in the future.
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