Whether Cao Cao knew whether he had used affection for Cai Wenji, and what kind of feelings this "love" was, there has been controversy over the emotional entanglement between Cao Cao and Cai Wenji for many years.
On the one hand, if Cao Cao had no other feelings for Cai Wenji, why would he spend a lot of money to redeem her from the Xiongnu? On the other hand, if Cao Cao had a deep affection for Cai Wenji, how could he marry her to someone else? The strategy of Cao Cao of a generation of heroes and the city government are well known to the world, and the beauties of Tongquetai have also proved that he is not a dedicated person, and his feelings for Cai Wenji are really just a crush that cannot be loved?
A generation of talented women has just grown up
Cai Yan (蔡琰), courtesy name Wenji, was a rare female writer at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cai Wenji has shown a talent that is different from ordinary people since she was a child, and she is quite good at literature, music, and calligraphy, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, where the social status of women is relatively low, it is rare for a talented woman like Cai Wenji to be famous, thanks to the fact that she has a literary father.
Cai Wenji's father was the famous literary scholar Cai Yong at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Cai Wenji's relationship with Cao Cao also came from his father. When Cao Cao and Cai Yong met, they were still an unknown little person, but Cai Yong was already a well-known literary master, and Cao Cao was very talented in literature, so although the two had a large difference in age, they got along as close as good friends.
The two had very close contacts when they were officials in Luoyang, and Cao Cao's son used the four words "Guan Bao's friendship" to describe the feelings between the two when recalling his father's relationship with Cai Yong, which shows that Cao Cao attaches great importance to this feeling, otherwise he would not have told his son about the relationship between the two.
At this time, Cao Cao did not become a relative, Cai Wenji was still a little girl, and the "little talented girl" Cai Wenji attracted Cao Cao's attention, and a strange feeling quietly arose in Cao Cao's heart. But how could Cao Cao's ambitions stop because of a woman, and then Cao Cao left Luoyang, and this feeling that had not yet begun to really sprout ended.
Cai Wenji, who has reached the marriageable age, naturally does not lack the object of door-to-door proposal, her father chose the Hedong Shi clan Wei family for her, her husband Wei Zhongdao was a more famous talent at that time, and the couple was a door-to-door pair, Qinse and Ming. After marriage, Cai Wenji spent the happiest time of her life.
Perhaps her life is destined not to be so smooth, a year after marriage, Cai Wenji's husband died of illness, at this time Cai Wenji was just 17 years old, she was not a mediocre woman with no talent or morality, because she did not want to bear the crime of others criticizing her for killing her husband, she moved back to her mother's house.
Originally, with her father's status, she could enjoy a peaceful life in Cai Province, but a coup d'état completely changed the trajectory of Cai Wenji's life. Because of Cai Yong's sigh, he was imprisoned, because the regime was unstable at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Yong was forced to choose to take the wrong side in the coup d'état, which eventually led to his unjustified conviction and tragic death in prison.
At this time, Cai Wenji's situation was not much better, the originally famous talented woman was implicated after her father was imprisoned, but she had to choose to follow the displaced people back to her hometown, who knew that on the way to escape, she actually encountered the looting of the Xiongnu, Cai Wenji was valued by the Xiongnu Zuoxian King because of her outstanding appearance, and stayed by her side to serve.
A generation of talented women fell into slavery, and this situation lasted for 12 years.
Wen Ji returned to Han, and things are divided into people
When Cai Wenji was originally abducted, she was 23 years old, and 12 years later she was already a 35-year-old xu niang, over the years she gave birth to two sons for King Zuoxian, and the perennial desert life made her long without the style of a talented woman, just when she thought she was going to die alone in the Xiongnu, she heard a good news that she did not dare to believe.
Cao Cao sent someone to pick him up and take him back to the Central Plains, and Cai Wenji, who had just heard the news, felt that everything was as unreal as a dream, and that 12 years of exotic life had flattened her heart, and if there was anything to keep her alive, it might be her children. Cao Cao's power in the Central Plains naturally needless to say, the Xiongnu did not dare to confront Cao Cao head-on, but it was indeed unreasonable to let King Zuo Xian let his own women out.
In the end, Cao Cao could not negotiate with King Zuo Xian and decided to redeem Cai Wenji by buying and selling slaves, and the price Cao Cao paid could be described by sky-high prices, so under the condition of Enwei and Shi, Cai Wenji finally embarked on the road home, and in the year before leaving, listening to the child's voice calling for her mother, Cai Wenji burst into tears, and finally she resolutely embarked on the road to Return to Han.
On the way back, Cai Wenji was full of emotions, she had not written a pen for many years, at this time she wrote the celebrity's "Eighteen Beats of Hu Di" on the car.
Is it a missed fate, or a young obsession
After returning to her homeland, Cai Wenji came to thank Cao Cao for saving each other, and at the banquet at Tongquetai, the two met again after many years. The years have changed not only in appearance, but also in seeing Cai Wenji Cao Cao is already a high and noble minister, and Cai Wenji has become a "lonely family" with no husband and no children.
Cao Cao saw Cao Wenji's situation and intended to send her back to her hometown for resettlement, but Cai Fu still had the shadow of that year. Perhaps out of gratitude for Cai Wenji's father, or because of the throbbing of his youth, Cao Cao did something that many people did.
In order to place Cai Wenji, he arranged a marriage for her, and the man he arranged to marry Cai Wenji was Dong Qi, a famous talent at that time, who originally married Dong Qi as Cai Wenji, but at this time, Cai Wenji not only experienced half a lifetime of upheaval and displacement, but even had two children married twice.
In this way, she and Dong Qi, who was just in her early twenties, were really not a good match, but Cao Cao's instructions who dared to resist, and later Dong Qi was sentenced to death for violating the law, Cai Wenji found Cao Cao again and interceded for him, which saved Dong Qi from dying, and finally Cai Wenji and her husband hid their names and returned to the mountains. However, Cao Cao's Tongquetai still has new people joining, and Cao Cao has not been mentioned for Cai Wenji.
epilogue
We try to find out from some of Cao Cao's behaviors what kind of feelings he has for Cai Wenji, but it seems that it is not appropriate to describe what kind of feelings to describe, and throughout Cai Wenji's literary works, we find that she has not mentioned any relationship with Cao Cao, perhaps this is cai Wenji's cleverness.
She never tried to take advantage of Cao Cao's different feelings for her, and when she wrote the history books for Cao Cao, she never usurped half a point, otherwise with Cao Cao's style of handling things, how could there be Cai Wenji in history.
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