The image of Cao Cao gradually became clear in the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and more and more people began to like Cao Cao, but the older generation still insisted that Cao Cao was a white-faced traitor. In fact, Cao Cao did many remarkable things in his life, and with the support of these feats, he was enough to become one of the three great emperors in the history of Qin and Han Dynasty, together with Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han. In cao cao's late confrontation with the Xiongnu, he spent thousands of dollars to redeem Cai Wenji, and finally did not unusually marry her to a farmer, what was he trying to do?
Cai Wenji's tragic life
In the chaotic world, the most easily destroyed by war, in addition to those fixed cultural relics and monuments, is some of the cultural knowledge that has been circulated in the hands of Chinese literati for thousands of years. Cai Wenji's original name was Cai Yan , was a famous female talent at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty , and her reputation was once called the Eastern Han Dynasty Double Female along with the early Eastern Han Dynasty famous female Ban Zhao. She was a master of literature and became a rare talent of that era by relying on her family roots.
In fact, Cai Wenji is like Li Qingzhao in the Southern Song Dynasty, when she married in the early days, she had a happy marriage, and Cai Wenji married a reader named Wei Zhongdao by family marriage. The two talents will not care about the chaos in the chaotic world outside, but just sort out some ancient books left by the Shang and Zhou Dynasties at home, copy the ancient books when they have time, and then use the money in their hands to collect some inscriptions.
Two people have common hobbies, can do some hobbies to produce happiness, such a fairy companion lived in the chaotic world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty has become the object of envy of countless people, but unfortunately such a good life has not been too long, the death of the husband makes all this like a yellow sorghum dream into a bubble. After her husband's death, no one cared about Cai Wenji, and such a big beauty was ended up being targeted by the Huns.
After being captured by the Xiongnu, she became a xiongnu shan yu woman, people under the eaves, in order to save life had to bow their heads, Cai Wenji gave birth to a child for the Xiongnu Shan Yu, which broke the life in the north for more than ten years, but Cai Wenji's life still did not improve steadily, Cao Cao knew that she spent thousands of gold to redeem Cai Wenji after she was exiled to Hudi, but what was the real reason for forcing Cao Cao to redeem Cai Wenji?
Cao Cao's reason for redeeming Cai Wenji
In history, the folk people always think that Cao Cao likes Cai Wenji, this matter has been a sign from Cao Cao's youth, at that time Cai Wenji lived in Luoyang, his father Cai Yong was one of the greatest writers in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, they held a lot of knowledge and scholarship that was not passed on, and the context of the Eastern Han Dynasty can be said to be in their hands.
Many people say that Cao Cao liked Cai Wenji's beauty in his later years, which did not exist in his later years, if Cao Cao once fell in love with Cai Wenji in his youth, it is a possibility that it is possible, after all, the heroic boys in their youth basically see a beautiful woman and like one, so Cao Cao's favorite thing to do in the early days of the uprising is to capture the wives of local chiefs and then take them for themselves.
After reaching his old age, Cao Cao was already old, people were old and had no energy to do these things, the reasons for Cao Cao's redemption of Cai Wenji in the history books were actually very complicated, people in that era generally had their own pride in Huaxia, Cai Wenji and other talented women could not find a few out throughout the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao had initially unified the north at that time, if as the lord of the north saw the loss of Talent of the Han Dynasty to the land of the Hu people and did not save, it was his dereliction of duty.
Moreover, from the perspective of personal friendship, when Cao Cao was in the capital of Luoyang, he was also a good friend of Cai Wenji, and everyone was born in a prominent bureaucratic family, who had read books in Taixue and written poems and sang together. With Cao Cao as the core, the group of Luoyang nobles, including Yuan Shao, were once Cai Wenji's pomegranate skirt fans. Just for this friendship, after Cao Cao became the hegemon of the north, he could not help Cai Wenji, who was in the midst of disaster.
After Cao Cao took back Cai Wenji, he did not act excessively against him, but instead married her to a man named Dong Qi, who was a sensible official at that time, only a small Tuntian lieutenant, so he was called a farmer in the Wei court. The initial relationship between this petty official and Cai Wenji was not very good, the age difference was more than ten years, where the identity and experience were placed, but an incident that happened later made him change his view of Cai Wenji.
Dong Qi was sentenced to death, and as a result, Cai Wenji disregarded her face and feet to ask Cao Cao. Cao Cao finally forgave Dong Qi. Since then, the relationship between Cai Wenji and his wife has improved a lot. Cai Wenji is also a person who knows gratitude, in order to repay Cao Cao's kindness, she spent several months at home to silently write out 400 volumes of her father's collection and writings, and later scholars found that they were exactly the same as Cai Yong's original text after archaeological comparison.