In the long river of history, there are always some classic stories that are destined to be remembered. One of the most distressing is Zhen Mi, the "first beauty of the Three Kingdoms" who was given poisoned wine by Cao Pi and humiliated after her death. What kind of fate did she experience in her life? Why did it come to this? Is it blinded by love, or is it an innocent victim of a game of thrones? What kind of secrets does she hide in her past and present life? Let's clear the fog and trace the origin of this timeless grievance.
An unspeakable marriage
Zhen Mi married twice in her life, and her fate was closely linked to the people of that turbulent era. She was born with the life of "the future will be unspeakably expensive", and after losing her father at an early age, she still grew up under the protection of her mother and brother, and became a beautiful lady who knew the general and was virtuous and filial.
During the Jian'an period, the scuffle was in full swing. Yuan Shao, who once dominated the north, hired Zhen Mi for his second son Yuan Xi, and everyone thought that she would become the wife of the future emperor and soar. Who knew that the good times would not last long, and after Yecheng was captured by Cao Cao, Yuan's mansion was besieged by soldiers. Zhen Mi had to paint her face with black ash and emit self-stains to escape the risk of life and death.
At the time of the breakthrough, the 17-year-old Cao Pi saw his true face and fell in love with Zhen Mi's stunning beauty. The world's first beauty, who has been famous for a long time, deserves her real name! Cao Pi reported to his father and urged her to be his wife. After the war, although Zhen Mi, who couldn't help herself, was faintly uneasy, she had to obey the arrangement.
A few years after marriage, Cao Pi doted on Zhen Mi. Zhen Mi gave birth to a son Cao Rong and a daughter Princess Dongxiang for him, serving Cao Pi's mother Mrs. Bian with filial piety, and advocating that Cao Pi serve many concubines in order to prosper his children. For a while, the two seemed to be a couple who were in love, Qin Se and Ming.
However, the good times did not last long, and the disaster was gradually rising from the old marriage between Zhen Mi and Yuan Xi. A few years after the marriage, Yuan Xi was captured and executed. This cruel reality makes the deep love Zhen Mi inevitably sad from it, so the poems are revealed, causing endless troubles.
In general, Zhen Mi's fate is so unfortunate. When he was young, he was ruined and killed, and the rumors that the young man was ruined and ruined, and once he was reduced to a prisoner after encountering a cruel war. When he got ahead, he seemed to have infinite scenery, but unexpectedly, he was ethereal and rootless, and he suffered the tragedy of abandonment and humiliation again. Her life is so troubled, whether it is a bad fate or her own selfish morality, all of which are regretted by future generations.
The love between husband and wife is drifting apart
After Zhen Mi became Cao Pi's main room, she played the role of a virtuous and virtuous wife as always. gave birth to a son, Cao Rong, and a daughter, Princess Dongxiang, all of whom were treated equally and well-raised. is even more filial to Cao Pi's mother, Mrs. Bian, once heard that Mrs. Bian was sick, Zhen Mi frowned, and did not let go until she received the letter and knew that she was cured.
For Cao Pina's other concubines, Zhen Mi never showed jealousy, but advised her husband: "The Yellow Emperor has many descendants, and it is precisely because of the large number of virtuous wives and concubines. It can be seen that he is indeed loyal to his husband's family.
Cao Pi is a promising young hero, both civil and military, and has a bright future. His wife Zhen Mi is virtuous and upright, and his son Cao Rong is Cao Cao's favorite grandson, and he was once regarded as the best candidate to inherit the family business. For a time, they were simply a model of a "model house".
Who knew that the good times would not last long, and the disaster gradually began with another marriage. Cao Pi took Queen Guo as his servant and favored her. Queen Guo was displaced at a young age, and she was grateful for Cao Pi's pity, lest she lose this grace. So he tried every possible way to flatter, and soon replaced the old and decrepit Zhen Mi and became Cao Pi's favorite concubine.
Zhen Mi was originally dignified and dignified, and had no suspicion. It wasn't until Queen Guo gave birth to a son that Cao Pi regarded his son Cao Huan as his eldest son, and he suddenly realized that something was wrong. But Zhen Mi is no longer as handsome as she used to be, and it is difficult to win her husband's favor, so she has to retire to the boudoir.
Seeing that Zhen Mi's wife's power was gradually lost, and even her son Cao Rong's princely hope was shattered, she was finally too sad. Cao Pi was blessed with his childhood and is now abandoned. In the past, there was a marriage relationship, but now it is the disaster of abandonment, capricious, and the remaining mother and son face each other all day long.
There is even more mourning Hong who deliberately did it after Zhen Mi had accumulated grievances for a long time. Either out of jealousy or hatred, or taking the opportunity to exclude dissidents, are all possible causes. In short, the two were originally husband and wife, but they eventually fell in love because of many power and favor walls. The face of husband and wife is difficult to recover as before.
The dispute over the establishment of the storage position has caused contradictions
After Cao Pi ascended the throne of Wei, the dispute between Cao Ei and Cao Huan for the throne became more and more intense.
As the eldest grandson, Cao Rong was originally supposed to be the best candidate for the prince. But Queen Guo has a good grasp and does not hesitate to pave the way for her son Cao Huan by various means. Although Zhen Mi has long fallen out of favor, she has always insisted on supporting Cao Rong. As a result, the conflict spread from the husband and wife to the mother and son.
The relationship between the three has long been turbulent. Cao Pi respected Queen Guo and doted on her son Cao Huan, almost treating her as the eldest son. Queen Guo struck while the iron was hot, paved the way for herself, and repeatedly made peace with Cao Pi and accused Cao Rong of not being right. How could Zhen Mi tolerate her own flesh and blood being framed? So he spared no effort to defend his son.
This back-and-forth prevarication intensified, and Queen Guo was even more waiting for an opportunity to find a gap and raise the lever. Once Zhen Mi learned that his son Cao Rong was not liked by Cao Pi, so he wrote an elegy to express his grief, but he was strongly criticized by Queen Guo, thinking that he "took personal grievances to defeat the country".
Such a tug-of-war lasted for a long time, and the mother and son were really unable to move an inch. Cao Pi also had to come forward again and again to judge right and wrong, but it was difficult to stop the discord between the two no matter what.
What's more, Cao Rong directly expressed his confidants to Cao Pi on the matter of establishing a prince. However, these words became the decisive evidence for Cao Pi's death sentence. For this reason, Zhen Mi cried even more bitterly, and asked Cao Pi for his life in person, but in the end he failed to save Cao Rong's life.
In the final analysis, such an entanglement is due to Queen Guo's efforts to pave the way for her son Cao Huan, but Zhen Mi only protects her son Cao Huan. The contradictions are entangled, and finally it turns into a tragic power struggle between mother and son. And the cause of all this is due to the competition for the position of the reserve.
Zhen Mi was extremely humiliated
After Cao Rong was killed, Queen Guo was ecstatic, believing that the biggest obstacle had been removed. She immediately pushed Cao Pi to further suppress Zhen Mi's mother and son, in an attempt to get rid of this stumbling block to the consolidation of her power in one fell swoop.
At this time, Zhen Mi was already over half a hundred years old, penniless, hiding in the countryside just to survive. She often worries about the death of her son Cao Rong, and the more she thinks about it, the more sad she becomes, and she actually makes a mourning poem and sings it in the world, and the meaning of the words is sad and tactful, and it is widely spread.
When the news reached Queen Guo's ears, she hated Zhen Mi for daring to openly exaggerate the femme fatale's rhetoric, so she tried her best to persuade Cao Pi to arrest Zhen Mi on the grounds of "framing the government and the opposition and coercing him into exile". Cao Pi was completely bewitched at this time, and at the behest of Queen Guo, he sent a sergeant to arrest Zhen Mi.
During the interrogation in prison, Zhen Mi stood still and defended herself confidently: "I am an elegy, but I am really mourning my own flesh and blood, how can I have any other heart? Moreover, it is human morality for the mourning of the deceased, how can they be falsely accused of a serious crime? However, the jailers spat and laughed at her, destitute and unreasonable.
The interrogation was fruitless, and Cao Pi listened to Queen Guo's extreme advice and decided to give Zhen Mi a dose of poisoned wine to correct his guilt. Zhen Mi was dragged to the imperial kitchen, staring at the poisonous wine indestructively, she shed two lines of desolate tears, and sorrow came from it: "Why is the imperial brother innocent? I was born at the wrong time, and who will I die for? ＂
Before Zhen Mi died, she also tried to intercede for herself, asking Cao Pi to accept her as a concubine. However, it was too late, and she was finally forced to drink the cup of poisoned wine, and on her deathbed she was subjected to the supreme humiliation of "plugging her mouth with filthy chaff". The world is deploring it, regretting that the first beauty of this generation will suffer such unbearable treatment.
Such a tragic fate stems from Queen Guo's crazy thinking of wanting to dominate the country, without pity for the old favor and Xinze, and bewitching her husband to the point of ruthlessness. Poor Zhen Mi was originally a scholarly woman, but she was caught in the whirlpool of this power struggle by mistake.
A generation of beauties fell into the Yellow Springs
After Zhen Mi passed away, the funeral was strictly confined by Cao Pi, and outsiders were not allowed to visit and be buried at will. Cao Pi originally wanted to put her corpse in the wild and give her the greatest insult. Fortunately, someone begged for affection, and Cao Pi reluctantly agreed to give a simple burial.
However, Queen Guo did not rest on her laurels. She actually instructed the dead to replace mourning clothes with rags of white cloth, stuffed filthy chaff into Zhen Mi's mouth, and humiliated the late Zhen Mi. After Zhen Mi's death, he was humiliated and insulted like this, which really made everyone regret it.
In order to bury the guilt in his heart, Cao Pi once wanted to pursue Zhen Mi to correct his name. However, after a long period of lobbying, in the end, she was only posthumously named a "festival woman". How can it be helped, the tragic death of a generation of beautiful women has suffered such a drenching humiliation, which makes people sigh.
It is worth mentioning that although Zhen Mi's eldest son Cao Rong was killed before his death, the coffin has been properly preserved by Cao Pi. After Zhen Mi's death, Cao Pi buried the two together on the side of the horse tomb. This point is quite a bit of a remedy, and it can be regarded as the last commemoration of the love between husband and wife in the past.
In addition to being sad, some poets wrote poems for Zhen Mi to grieve:
"In the past, she was the princess of heaven, but now she is stiff. Drifting like duckweed, drifting without support. The lead bloom is scattered into dust, and the snow body turns into cold. How fortunate is the fate of Bosheng, and the beauty of the calamity is embraced. When will the big luck live, and how many ups and downs will it take? The barren sun is full of green, and the wild cranes are in pairs. Go to the sky, the phoenix flies high. ＂
After this battle, Cao Wei unified the country, and Queen Guo was also named the queen mother. But the price in exchange is really bloody and appalling. The struggle for power is cruel and merciless, and the suffering of beauties is even more suffocating.
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Once the power is concerned, he will leave the reason behind. laments the innocent sacrifice under the strife at that time, and also regrets the peerless beauty who fell at the beginning of the sunrise. Zhen Mi's life was full of adventures, and after all, he could only be classified in Huangquan and became a good story in history.