During the Spring and Autumn Period, a beautiful woman was spoiled, triggering two wars, and finally a famous saying was born
Cao Zhi's "Jing Si Fu" gave birth to a famous idiom red face disaster water, which means that beautiful women are often the root cause of disasters, especially in ancient feudal society, there are many famous red faces that have become disasters, such as the Peach Blossom Lady in the Spring and Autumn Period, which makes three countries meet each other, and two of them fall apart. There is also the well-known Yang Yuhuan, and Bai Juyi's poem describes her as "the spring supper is bitter and the sun rises, and the king does not rise early from now on." "Tang Xuanzong didn't even go to the early dynasty after he knew her, and he drank and enjoyed himself all day ignoring the government and politics, and buried the great Kaiyuan prosperous world." Today, I want to focus on the beautiful Cai Ji of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period.
"Spring and Autumn Left Biography" and "History Suoyin" recorded such a thing as the Duke of Qi Huan sitting on a boat, Cai Muhou was the monarch of the State of Cai in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the princes would definitely choose to marry in order to live peacefully with the relations between various countries, so Cai Muhou wanted to marry his own sister Cai Ji to the Duke of Qi Huan of the State of Qi for the sake of state politics, so that at that time the State of Qi was a big country, and the status among the princes was lofty, Cai Ji was still young and did not understand the world when she married in the past, plus the woman who was originally from an aristocratic background was spoiled from a young age. When he arrived at Qi Huangong's side, he still paid attention to his words and deeds at first, after all, his companions were like companions, and Qi Huangong was also spoiled when he saw her young and beautiful.
One day the two ran to the boat to watch the scenery, when the boat sailed to the middle of the lake, Cai Ji wanted to get up and pick lotuses, the boat kept shaking up, Qi Huan Gong saw a nervous face and hurriedly let her sit down and quiet down, while saying that she was afraid of the water and was not familiar with the water, the young and greedy Cai Ji listened to it more energetically, and simply got up to play with her husband as she used to, while shaking the boat so that the boat kept swinging left and right.
Qi Huangong, the dry duck, looked nervous and kept calling her to stop, so he almost begged this aunt, and Cai Ji didn't think that she was playing with herself and played with the water, reaching out and holding up the lake water in the lake to splash at her husband, as if she had forgotten that her husband was still watching so many people under her hands! Qi Huan was furious and yelled at Cai Ji before he stopped, and no matter how much Cai Ji coddled and apologized, it was useless.
Qi Huangong felt that this matter was too damaging to his own face, and being played by Cai Ji would definitely be reduced to a laughing stock for everyone, and the angry Qi Huangong simply sent someone to send Cai Ji back to Cai Guo's mother's house, and the daughter who married out according to the rules at that time could not return to her mother's house casually, and must have her parents allow Cai Ji to come back. Cai Muhou did not know what had happened, a Duke Huan of Qi was not satisfied with his sister, if the sister had been in her mother's house would be misunderstood and could not marry out, and another Cai Guo also needed to find alliances with other countries to show friendship, so he married Cai Ji to the King of Chu.
A few months passed, And Duke Huan of Qi began to miss this wife, thinking that she had been home for a while and her disposition should also be restrained, so he sent someone to Cai Guo to pick her up, and Cai Muhou told the truth that he thought that the King of Qi did not want her, so he married his sister to the State of Chu, and only then did he realize that the King of Qi only let her go home to reflect and did not want to break off the marital relationship with her, but it was too late. Such a big thing did not tell the King of Qi to completely anger the Duke of Qi Huan, completely provoking his prestige among the princes, so he launched a military campaign against Cai Guohuo and captured Cai Muhou, Cai Guo was disturbed, and the princes of other countries did not think that there was any need to make such a big move, after all, it was a misunderstanding, and Cai Muhou was fortunate to be put back.
However, the Duke of Qi Huan was furious, and then he aimed his spearhead at the State of Chu, and led his troops south to the State of Chu to prepare for the crusade, the Two Places of the State of Chu and the State of Qi were far away and had nothing to do with each other, the King of Chu and the chancellor were also confused and did not know what to do, if the Duke of Qi Huan said that he came for Cai Ji, it was inevitable that people would laugh and lose their teeth, and the king of a country actually came for a woman who came thousands of miles away to lose the face of the monarch. So I said two things about Chen Sesame Rotten Grain and wanted to provoke an incident and plan to start a war, one was to question why the State of Chu did not pay tribute to Western Zhou, originally stipulating that princes and commoners of various countries should regularly pay tribute to Zhou Tianzi, but then the authority of Zhou Tianzi plummeted, many monarchs stopped paying tribute to him, and the King of Chu also honestly apologized and said that this matter was wrong by himself, corrected it, and then said that all countries are now not paying tribute. When Duke Huan of Qi asked why King Zhou Zhao died after coming to the Chu State, King Zhou Zhao of the Zhou Dynasty personally led his troops south, and when he arrived in the Chu State, he planned to go to Hanshui, but suddenly drowned in the process of taking a boat. The king of Chu replied that the place where King Zhou Zhao's accident occurred was in Hanshui, and it was only right to go to Hanshui to ask for explanations.
After a war of words, Qi Huangong finally had no choice but to go back with a large army, and the war ended before it could start. Cai Ji's behavior triggered two battles, one of which is worth saying that there is a famous saying that "the wind and horses and cattle are not compatible", which means that the cattle that like to walk downwind and the horses that like to walk against the wind will not come from the State of Qi to the territory of the State of Chu even if they are lost, indicating that the State of Qi and the State of Chu at that time were indeed unrelated.