During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, the tyrant who had been a hero in his life, left an extremely deep impression on the world, and for Cao Cao, whose temperament was quite complicated, people often used "old adulterous giant monkey", "suspicious nature", "capable subject of ruling the world, adulterous male of the chaotic world" to summarize his life and personality.
In fact, cao cao, the king of Wei, who was able to write and martial arts, in addition to leaving the impression of being cruel and treacherous in nature and unscrupulous in doing things to achieve his goals, he also had a very special problem with "good wives" - in Cao Cao's huge harem wife and concubine group, there were 16 widowed concubines who were married for the second time.
Although since ancient times, heroes have loved beauty, and these beautiful widows and concubines have brought Cao Cao more than just the pleasure of beauty, Cao Cao's act of liking people's wives actually has another layer of wisdom and purpose.
A group of wives and concubines during Cao Cao's lifetime
As early as the Three Kingdoms period, when the world was still in chaos, many heroes and heroes had the ambition to dominate the world. After several conquests, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan "divided the world and relied on it", although these 3 people all believed that they would eventually be able to dominate the world, but of the three, only Cao Cao became a generation of tyrants, proud of the world.
Cao Cao, the King of Wei, recorded more than 30 wives and concubines in history, at least 16 of whom were stolen wives or widowed women.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's original wife was Lady Ding, who was of the same clan as Cao Cao's mother, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were close, but Lady Ding never conceived in her lifetime. Lady Ding, who was childless, adopted Cao Ang as the eldest son after the early death of Lady Liu, a concubine married by Cao Cao.
Later, Cao Ang unfortunately died in the Battle of Wancheng, and the heartbroken Lady Ding blamed Cao Cao, and then directly packed up her body and returned to her mother's house, deciding to separate from Cao Cao or even never see each other again.
Cao Cao also went to Yue Zhang's house several times to take Back Lady Ding, but Lady Ding could not forget those sad past events and did not want to pay any more attention to Cao Cao.
In the end, Cao Cao did not want to embarrass Lady Ding anymore, so he married another lady of The House.
Lady Bian was born in a humble family of song and dance artists, she was born beautiful, exquisite and colorful, and she happened to sell her art to the land of Tandi, just in time for Cao Cao's father's birthday.
The 20-year-old Lady Bian was invited to the Cao family to sing and dance to celebrate the birthday, and at a glance she was favored by the 25-year-old Cao Cao, who later accepted Lady Bian as her successor.
After giving birth to several children for Cao Cao, Cao Cao made Lady Bian a proper wife, and in the Cao family, Lady Bian was dedicated, courteous, honest, diligent and thrifty, and treated the children born to Cao Cao's other concubines equally, gentle and friendly, and was a good wife of virtuousness and virtue.
In 219 AD, Cao Cao, the King of Wei, officially crowned the 58-year-old Lady Bian as queen, and also praised Lady Bian in public for her virtuousness and motherly virtues.
In addition to the original wife Lady Ding and his step-wife Lady Bian, Cao Cao's harem wives and concubines also had 5 concubines with the title of "Lady", namely: Lady Liu, Lady Du, Lady Qin, Lady Yin, and Lady Huan.
And these concubines were able to obtain the title of "lady" because they were highly favored by Cao Cao.
One of Cao Cao's other proclivities: liking other people's wives and being willing to take them for themselves
According to historical records, 16 of Cao Cao's harem concubines were stolen wives or widowed women.
However, from ancient times to the present, men are very fond of unmarried women, very few people like Cao Cao, the King of Wei, "especially love people's wives", although it is not surprising that men are lustful, but in Chinese history, such as Cao Cao like to go everywhere to collect married beautiful women and "take it for themselves" is really not much.
Cao Cao is a hero Hao Jie and Wei An boy, and it is not surprising that he loves women. In the process of fighting horses everywhere, Cao Cao attacked the city while not forgetting to pay attention to the beautiful women everywhere.
In 199, Cao Cao and Liu Bei joined forces to attack Lü Bu, and before the city was destroyed, Guan Yu repeatedly requested Cao Cao that he would give du Shi, the wife of the general Qin Yilu, to him after the siege of the city.
After Cao Cao agreed to come down, he always wondered in his heart how beautiful Du Shi could be enough to make Guan Yu remember.
After the destruction of the city, Cao Cao himself first met du shi, the wife of the defeated general, and at that time he decided that Du shi was a beautiful lady.
Therefore, Cao Cao, who was the superior, was not polite and directly accepted Du as a concubine, and at the same time, he also loved Wu and Wudi to adopt Qin Lang, the son born to Du, as a stepson, and also loved Qin Lang.
In 197 AD, Cao Cao led a large army on a southern expedition, and when Cao's army marched to the land of Shuishui, Zhang Xiu, the leader of the small warlord who had divided Wancheng, led his army to surrender.
Cao Cao's nephew met a gentle and beautiful woman during his inspection tour of Wancheng, and this woman had a very good temperament, so the beautiful woman was escorted to Cao Cao by cao's nephew who intended to please her uncle.
Cao Cao had been on the expedition for a long time, and had not touched a woman for a long time. As soon as he saw this beautiful woman, he was shocked, thinking that this woman called "Zou Shi" was really a beautiful heavenly immortal, and although Cao Cao later learned that this woman was the widow of Zhang Xiu's uncle, he still excitedly tried to persuade Zou Shi to remarry him.
Zou Shi saw that there was no way back after him, and he certainly could not get rid of Cao Cao, so he obeyed Cao Cao's "good intentions" and became Cao Cao's concubine.
There are more than ten concubines who are "snatched", "plundered", and "forcibly occupied" like this, and these concubines all have a flowery appearance and a white and soft posture, although they have become "booty", "widows" and "abandoned women" in the war years, they are still favored and loved by Cao Cao because of their outstanding appearance.
Cao Cao's fondness for widowed and second-married beauties is actually a manifestation of wisdom
Cao Cao, the king of Wei, lived an extraordinary life, he wielded freely on the battlefield, commanded thousands of armies, and his wives and concubines in the family were also charming and different.
In ancient times, powerful men had a large number of concubines in every family, but only Cao Cao had a "habit" in particular- he especially liked the beautiful wives who were widowed and married.
Some people may have to ask: Cao Cao believes that he has the power of a king, he should sit on the beauty of the world, is it not good to have so many beautiful unmarried girls, why does Cao Cao prefer mature married young women?
In fact, when we read through the history of the Three Kingdoms period, we will summarize the detailed reasons.
First of all, Kong Wu's powerful and strong body Cao Cao has always been irresistible to beauty, and in the process of conquest and attack outside, Cao Cao will be moved as long as he sees beautiful women, and he will have the intention of possessing beautiful women, in fact, this is also the common sentiment of people.
Second, Cao Cao knew in his heart how to pity Xiang Xiang and cherish jade, he knew that every time after conquering a place and breaking through a city, those captured women inevitably had to suffer some grievances and hardships, and how could those beautiful women who were well-bred in ordinary days endure the pain of freezing and starvation, it was better to receive them to their rooms, so that these delicate beauties would be spared from the scourge of labor.
Cao Cao, who is rich and prosperous, is very rich, and what those beautiful women want, Cao Cao, who has always been generous internally, will certainly try his best to satisfy them.
Third, Cao Cao has always had a high possessiveness of power, and he knows that there are still some powerful "relatives and friends" and "circles of contacts" behind those beautiful women. If you marry these beautiful women, it is equivalent to building a personal relationship with the relatives behind these concubines and the powerful friendly parties.
In this way, it is equivalent to Cao Cao not only gaining beauty, but also expanding his own circle of relatives and friends. Over time, Cao Cao, who has the world in mind, will naturally be supported and recognized by many different local forces and real power classes, and the realization of Wang Tu's hegemony is bound to be just around the corner.
Cao Cao's lifelong behavior and demeanor were often "perfectly in line" with the great goal in his heart, and his behavior of marrying a widowed and widowed young woman seemed strange and unusual, but in fact it implied political scheming and concealed unusual wisdom and cunning.
It can be seen that the world always likes to describe Cao Cao as "resourceful" and "old and treacherous", in fact, it is not too much, Cao Cao is an ancient intelligent politician who is well versed in "killing two birds with one stone" to make himself "kill two birds with one stone".