The harems of all dynasties and dynasties are not places where the wind and waves are calm, and the open and secret struggles in the palace are even more cold and cruel than on the battlefield. At the emperor's side, there are concubines who understand righteousness and are virtuous and virtuous; there are tyrannical, sinister and cunning poisonous women; there are concubines who compete for favors and rewards and confuse the king... A fight between them. It's even more breathtaking,
Many emperors indulged in femininity and led to the decline of the country, and sang the mourning of the demise of the country early. For these women with the appearance of the country, later generations generally call them demons, in fact, this slightly pejorative word is still very wronged on them.
Although Meixi's fame is not big enough, every time she mentions the "red face of the evil country", she bears the brunt of it. Mei Xi and Dai Ji, Bao Ji, and Li Ji are known as the four famous demons in history. However, the famous writer Mr. Bai Yang once introduced Meixi in "The Death of the Empress": "Shi Meixi is a poor girl, her identity is a captive without human rights, and when she is in her youth, she has to leave her hometown, leave her lover, and for the survival of the clan, she is sacrificed to the hands of the enemy like a cow and a sheep."
Moreover, the records of Meixi in the history books are also very limited, and the existing materials can only prove that she was a woman of the Shi tribe in the Xia Dynasty. At that time, Xia Jie led an army to attack the Youshi clan, and the generals of the Youshi tribe who were unable to counter violence with violence had to use the "beauty plan" to stop the war, and at this time, the beautiful girl Xi became the key figure in this war. Although the history books do not record in detail the specific appearance of Meixi, it is conceivable that Meixi must be very beautiful, so beautiful that Xia Jie fell in love with her at first sight, so he immediately ceased to fight, and left embraced the beautiful woman and led the army to return to his own Xia capital happily.
In order to please the beautiful sister, Xia Jie worked hard to hurt the people's wealth, built a large number of civil engineering, and built the "Qiong Room Yaotai", while the sister Xi did not leave his side every day, and even when Xia Jie approved the reading of the chapter, he would listen to the opinion of the sister Xi ("The Biography of the Daughters of Lie" and "The Biography of the Evil Lady"). Of course, there is also a folk legend that can confirm that Xia Jie's love for Mei Xi has reached the peak: it is said that Mei Xi has a special hobby and likes to listen to the sound of "cracking veils", so Xia Jie ordered people to tear the veils from morning to night to win the laughter of the beauties. If this legend is true, then is it the sister who is hateful, or the absurdity of Xia Jie?
The "Chinese" records the incriminating evidence of "Sister Xi's Death", and it is also related to another person: Yi Yin. Yi Yin was an important minister in the early Shang Dynasty and a key figure who assisted Shang Tang in destroying Xia, and he was installed inside the Xia Dynasty as a "spy" of Shang Tang. According to the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", Xia Jie once sent troops to attack the Minshan State, and the Minshan State was unable to resist, so it followed the example of the Youshi tribe and sacrificed the beautiful women and Yan to Xia Jie, and from then on, Xia Jie's favor for Mei Xi was greatly reduced, and Mei Xi was abandoned in the Luo River Valley. When his sister fell out of favor and loneliness, Yi Yin took advantage of the void and not only won the hearts of the beauties, but also explored a lot of military intelligence, paving a clear path for Shang Tang to destroy Xia.
However, this record is also suspicious: because Meixi was not in Xiadu at that time, and she was snubbed, how did she get military intelligence? Presumably, Yi Yin would not tell Mei Xi about his identity as a "spy", so even if he spied any information from the unsuspecting Mei Xi's mouth, this could not become the "iron evidence" of Mei Xi's demise.
When people put all the blame for the subjugation of the country on Mei Xi,often ignore the truth behind it, that is, if it were not for Xia Jie's fainting and lustfulness, and would be corrupt and incompetent, how could it be reduced to the destruction of the country as a slave? In the historical documents, Xia Jie was violent, absurd, and extravagant, and most of the power ministers who were reused were only nuo villains who tended to be inflammatory. The chancellor Guan Longkui once advised Xia Jie, pointing out that if Xia Jie did not restrain any longer, he would inevitably perish. When Xia Jie heard this, he said angrily, "Is there any death in the day?" The sun dies and I die. Xia Jie compared himself to the eternal sun, and also killed Geng Zhi's Guan Longqi. At that time, many people who were devastated and desperate hated the faint and lawless Xia Jie, and they pointed to the sun and cursed: "Time is lost? I am dead with Ru Kai! ”
Of course, where there is oppression, there is resistance. During the four or five hundred years of the Xia Dynasty's rule, the class struggle never stopped. By the time of the fourteenth king Kong Jia, due to the chaotic government of Kong Jia, the relationship between various tribes and the royal family deteriorated extremely, and the disputes within the clan became increasingly fierce, some slaves fled, some rioted, and the Xia Dynasty gradually declined. When Xia Jie came back, Xia Jie's extravagance and tyranny and murderousness made the xia dynasty's rule decline day by day, and the country's power declined.
At this time, MeiXi's appearance only made Xia Jie find a reason for his greed and cruelty, he expropriated the people's power without restriction, bent on sexual pleasure and abandoned the government, brutally slaughtered the ministers who opposed him, and brutally suppressed slaves and civilians. In the last years of the Xia Dynasty, whenever a tribe rebelled, the only way Xia Jie used was to send troops to suppress it, and he tried to solve the dilemma of the disintegration of the dynasty by force, but it prompted the tribes of all sides to be more alienated.
After the death of this stunning demon, the descendants did not give up their attention to her, and she was portrayed in their pen as a demon who brought calamity to the country and the people. Even though she had the appearance of "laughing at the city and laughing at the country again", she was always just a weak woman, and in that era of war, she could only be enshrined to the king as a tribute to the king. Her fate was never controlled by herself, and she could only be silently ranked by the future generations in the position of the fox spirit who was in trouble.