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The four great demons of ancient China, Ji Xi, Dai Ji, Bao Ji and Li Ji, they are all beautiful heavenly immortals, national color heavenly fragrance, charming and moving, and are deeply loved by the king.
As long as they look at the soldiers guarding the city, they can make the city fall, and if they turn to the king Qiu Bo again, the country will suffer the disaster of destruction. The concept of red face and bad water seems to have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the ancients, and even the words of the Kwa mei people must be based on the fall of the country.
Because the emperor's obsession with women led to the decline of the country, the mourning of the country's demise was sung early. And for these women with the appearance of the country and the city, later generations generally call them demons, in fact, this slightly pejorative word is still very wronged on them.
Princess Xia Jie - Sister Xi
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."
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?
When people put all the blame for the subjugation of the country on Mei Xi, they often ignore the truth behind it, the Xia Jie in the historical literature, the tyranny, the absurdity, the extreme luxury, and the reused power ministers are mostly inflamed and powerful weinuo villains. 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. From this, it can be seen that if it were not for Xia Jie's fainting and lustfulness, and how could he have become a slave to the country?
Princess Zhou Youwang - Bao Ji
King Ji of Zhou You's palace conquered the kingdom of Chu, and the people of Zhou You sacrificed their beautiful women to beg, and the king of Zhou You loved like a pearl in his palm, and became a concubine and favored the Palace of the King of Zhou. The following year, King Zhou You, who gave birth to a son, was even more fond of her, and even deposed the queen Shen and the crown prince Yiusu, and made her the queen and Li Bofu the prince. If you are not willing, how can you really be happy?
She was worried all day, and she frowned for a long time, and she was sullen all the time. In order to win her a smile, King Zhou Youwang once collected "golden ideas" from the people of the world for a heavy reward of one thousand and two gold, which is the origin of the allusion of "a thousand gold is difficult to buy a smile". King Zhou You summoned musicians to ring bells and drums, taste bamboo and silk, let the palace ladies sing and dance, and try all kinds of ways to make the concubine happy. But she never smiled.
King Zhou You was really anxious, so he found his favorite courtier, Yu Shi's father, a traitor who was "skillful and good at profit". Father Yu Shi was really a super capable person, and his method not only made Qiao Ji smile one by one, but also won the one thousand taels of gold offered by the King of Zhou You, which could be described as fame and fortune. His idea, which can be called "the first in eternity", is: "The Princes of Beacon Theatre".
But is this really the case?
Hehe Zong Zhou, praise and extinguish it! "It was the praise that broke the Western Zhou, which was set in the Book of Poetry. However, in the end, how the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed, the Book of Poetry is unclear. Fortunately, the descendants came forward with a pen pole and added a lot of details. "Chinese" says that she is a monster, "Lü Shi Chunqiu" says that she destroyed the military alarm system, and "History" says that she is a monster who destroyed the military alarm system: the princes of beacon theater, and finally the princes did not come, the enemy came, the King of Zhou You was killed, and the Western Zhou dynasty perished.
In the Qing Dynasty, a more genuine person took the "Records of History" and carefully calculated it, and found that he was more than fifty years old when he entered the palace, and he should be in his early sixties when he laughed on the beacon platform. In order to make an old lady laugh and perish, is King Zhou You lustful, or does he respect the elderly? Moreover, the beacon fire was something that only existed in the Han Dynasty, where was the beacon fire in the Western Zhou?
This person may exist, but he is not responsible for the demise of Western Zhou. What was the cause of the fall of Western Zhou? Money – to be precise, there is no money.
Western Zhou was a large state, using a political system of sealing land and establishing princes. But without a monetary economy, it would be difficult for the central government to extract resources from the localities. The Western Zhou Tianzi is the boss of the princes, how can the boss be in vain? You can't squeeze the money of the little brothers, you are incompetent, but the little brothers are bullied, and the boss has no reason to care?
What's more, Zhou Tianzi could not summon the noble officials under him in vain, and he had to reward them frequently. At a time when the monetary economy is backward, the most valuable thing is land. Therefore, Zhou Tianzi had to reward his subordinates with land. Land is a non-renewable resource, and it is one less piece to give away. Without a monetary economy and a large amount of money in circulation to support it, Zhou Tianzi can only rule in this way. The resources that Zhou Tianzi could directly control became less and less, so the Western Zhou gradually declined.
The king had no intention of ruling for them, and even did something harmful to them. However, it is a bit far-fetched to attribute the demise of a dynasty to a woman, after all, the status of ancient women is very low, not to mention that they are all "booty" brought back by the king's war, and they have no choice.
In the Tang Dynasty, Luo Yin once wrote a poem about Xi Shi: "Since the rise and fall of the family country, the Wu people have complained bitterly about Xi Shi. If Xi Shi dissolved the State of Wu, who would be the fall of the Yue Kingdom? It can be said that a small number of people in the ancients began to realize the existence of this kind of responsibility "blame" psychology in a very early period.