This is the 258th original article of Shi Shuxing
In other words, in ancient times, the status of women was usually very low, often existing as an appendage of men. And women born into the imperial family, in addition to the rich material life that everyone envies, their lives are usually manipulated by the emperor, especially in the case of marriage, often used as a political tool and chip in exchange for profit. Today, I will talk about the famous tragic beauty Xuanjiang in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Xuanjiang was the daughter of the Duke of Qi, the Duke of Qi was her father, the Duke of Qi Xiang was her older brother, and the Duke of Qi Huan was her younger brother. When she became an adult, she was promised to be the crown prince of Weiguo, but on the way to Weiguo, she encountered a change, and it was not her fiancé Prince Ling who came to greet her, but Gonggong Wei Xuangong. Entering the cave room, Xuan Jiang learned that he had been robbed of marriage. Xuanjiang had no choice but to admit his fate, and within three years, he gave birth to two sons for Duke Xuan of Wei, one named Gongzi Shou and the other named Gongzi Shuo, and Gongzi Shuo was the later Duke Hui of Wei.
Gongzi Shuo has had a strong desire for power since he was a child, and in front of him are also the prince and his brothers, as well as his brother Gongzi Shou. In order to get rid of the princeling, he and his mother Xuanjiang together said bad things about the prince in front of Wei Xuangong, and after a long time, Wei Xuangong also believed it, so he sent the prince to the State of Qi on a business trip, and ambushed a group of thieves on the road to kill the prince.
Unexpectedly, this assassination caused Wei Xuangong to lose his two sons at once, because Gongzi Shouzhai was kind and benevolent, and died instead of the prince, who knew about it and then voluntarily buried him. However, in any case, Gongzi Shuo's purpose was achieved, and he was made crown prince by Wei Xuan, and after Wei Xuangong's death, he successfully took the throne as Duke Hui of Wei.
However, Wei Huigong's previous despicable deeds were not forgiven by the crown prince's cronies, especially the left and right princes, who overthrew Wei Huigong's rule by force, drove him out of wei, and then appointed the prince's younger brother Gongzi Qianmu as a prince, calling weijun Qianmu. Previously, Xuanjiang's husband died and became a widow, and now his son has run away and lost his protection.
However, her hard life did not end, after Wei Huigong fled for 8 years, thanks to the help of Qi Xianggong, Wei Huigong returned to Wei Guo to restore the throne. However, in order to calm the anger of the people, Wei Huigong and his uncle Qi Xianggong came up with a bad move, that is, to force Xuanjiang to remarry again. Faced with the despicable behavior of her son and brother, Xuanjiang once again endured it and obediently married Wei Zhaobo, another younger brother of the crown prince.
Wei Zhaobo, because of the previous loss of his wife, this made room for Xuanjiang to be a proper wife, perhaps the two of them had pity for each other, and their life after marriage was considered to be happy, and they gave birth to three sons and two daughters in a row. At the same time, her children also became weiguo nobles, and they had no chance to compete for the throne of Wei. However, people are not as good as heavenly calculations, and Xuanjiang, except for one Qizi who died prematurely, the other two sons (Ji Shen and Ji Fu) became the monarchs of the Wei state.
This is to talk about Wei Yigong's strange son Wei Yigong, the previous author analyzed the specific process of Wei Yigong playing with cranes to lose the country, here is a simple explanation, Wei Yigong loves cranes like fate, and also played the family, the crane according to the quality of the official rank, for its distribution of LuLu, so that the people do not have a good life. As a result, the Chidi invasion led to the death of the king and the destruction of the country.
At that time, Qi Huan was just in power, and he came forward to help the remnants of the Wei state to re-establish the country in Chuqiu. The Wei people, because they deeply hated Wei Huigong and Wei Yigong, decided to establish the descendants of the prince's clan instead, and it seems that only the two sons of Xuanjiang and Wei Zhaobo were still alive, and Ji Shen was thus pushed to the front of the stage by the Wei people, but he died in the year he ascended the throne, and the Wei people had to put his younger brother Ji Ji on the throne and called Wei Wengong.
In summary, let's take a look at Xuanjiang's life, she was born in the Duke of Qi, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Qi, the younger sister of the Duke of Qi Xiang, and the sister of the Duke of Qi Huan. But after she was promised to defend the country, she began a tragic life. She was originally promised to the crown prince, but as a result, Gonggong Wei Xuangong coveted her beauty and took her as a concubine. After Wei Xuangong's death, she became a widow, but was forced to marry again, marrying the younger brother of The Crown Prince, that is, her stepson Wei Zhaobo. He gave birth to 5 sons and two daughters, gave birth to Gongzi Shou and Wei Huigong with her ex-husband Wei Xuangong, and later gave birth to Qi Zi, Wei Daigong and Wei Wengong with Wei Zhaobo, of which Wei Huigong and Wei Daigong and Wei Wengong were half-siblings, but they were one generation apart and belonged to two generations!
How do you see Xuanjiang's tragic life?
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