Why did Cao Cao spend a lot of money to bring Cai Wenji back from the Xiongnu, but then marry her to an old man who farmed?
Cai Wenji was a famous talented daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was famous for being able to read the piano at an early age, and her father Cai Yong was a famous Confucian in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cai Wenji had married Wei Zhongdao, a descendant of Wei Qing, and later Wei Zhongdao died early, and Cai Wenji returned to her mother's house with grief. Wang Yun designed to kill Dong Zhuo, and Cai Yong was imprisoned and died because he lamented during Wang Yun's banquet. Dong Zhuo's Western Liang warlords fought in a scuffle, and Cai Wenji fell to the Xiongnu in the chaos of the war, married the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and gave birth to a second son.
Later, Cao Cao redeemed Cai Wenji from the Xiongnu with heavy money, and personally acted as a matchmaker, marrying Cai Wenji to Dong Qi, a lieutenant of Tuntian. So why did Cao Cao spend a lot of money to redeem a woman from the Xiongnu, but then marry her to his lieutenant Tuntian?
Talented woman Cai Wenji
1. At that time, Cao Cao basically pacified the north and already had the energy to do something to the foreign races in the north
Cai Wenji went into exile with the Xiongnu because of the political chaos in the Great Han Dynasty and was unable to resist the Xiongnu who were harassing the South at this time. Cao Cao, on the other hand, after Guandu defeated Yuan Shao, the largest prince in the north, gradually absorbed Yuan Shao's forces, and by the way, swept away some of the remaining princes in the north, and finally unified the north.
At this time, Cao Cao, who had the political program of "serving the Son of Heaven and ordering no subjects", had to begin to inherit the spirit of the Great Han in public and private, and he himself was also a tyrant with the world in mind, so he began to deal with the Xiongnu in the north.
Stone statue of Cao Cao
And as an excellent military expert, Cao Cao is by no means a reckless man who will only use soldiers, redeem Cai Wenji with heavy gold, and give enough benefits to the Xiongnu, Cai Wenji is just a personal old pearl yellow foreign woman for the Xiongnu, where is the gold jasper bi precious? Second, it was also equivalent to giving the Huns a warning, telling them that the army of the Great Han had the energy to take care of them. Cao Cao was worthy of being the top military expert in the pyramids of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and also relied on various means to submit to the rule of the Xiongnu in the three kingdoms of the late Han Dynasty that were in turmoil and strife.
2. Cao Cao ransomed Cai Wenji heavily, and had a huge relationship with Cai Wenji's father, Cai Yong.
Cao Cao and Cai Yong are a pair of friends who have not forgotten their years, and Cao Cao has read Cai Yong's works since he was a child and also respects Cai Yong. Cao Pi also used Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya as a metaphor for Cao Cao's friendship with Cai Yong.
Cao Cao was a murderous and bloodless military man, but also a literary scholar who had a pivotal position in the literary world, Cai Yong was a generation of Great Confucians at that time, and the friendship between the two was the mutual attraction between the literati.
After Dong Zhuo was reprimanded, Cai Yong was imprisoned by Wang Yun due to a sigh, and Cai Wenji was the only daughter, and after having enough ability, Cao Cao could not bear the daughter of his friend to fall to the Xiongnu, and it was reasonable to redeem her with heavy money.
3. For the sake of Cao Cao's own reputation, Wen Ji Guihan had a great effect on Cao Cao's impression in the hearts of the Tianxia Shi clan.
Before the Sui and Tang dynasties implemented the imperial examination system, the Shi clan had always had a lot of power, and even the Yang family of the Sui Dynasty and the Li family of the Tang Dynasty were all from the Shi clan. It is precisely because of the huge power and great contradiction with the imperial power that all the people in power in the past have tried to weaken the power of the warrior clan, but before the birth of the imperial examination system, no one could do it.
Cao Cao's work, Xue Luxing
In the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, when the northern was the largest before the Battle of Liyang, Yuan Shao came from the Yuan family, the largest warrior clan in the world at that time, the fourth and third dukes; one of the reasons why Dong Zhuo was hated by the people of the world after he entered the capital was that he was only a military general, not a scholar; he Jin, who was already a great general of the Han Dynasty, was not from the shi clan, because he was not from the shi clan, because the identity of the butcher had always been ridiculed as relying on his sister to ascend to the throne. It can be said that at that time, the warrior clan held the power to control public opinion, and at the same time held the real power that could not be ignored, and it was difficult for people of non-scholar origin to grasp the highest power at that time, even if they mastered it for a long time.
Compared with He Jin and Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao was also a scholar, but because his grandfather Cao Teng was a eunuch, Cao Cao had always been a "eunuch queen" in the eyes of the true sons of the Tushi clan, and many warriors actually disdained to be with him and serve him.
And Cao Cao also knew this, on the one hand, he united with other warriors to kill the largest warrior clan like Yuan Shao, who stood on the bright side, on the other hand, he was meritocracy, reusing the disciples of the Cold Gate, secretly weakening the power of the shi clan, and even eliminating the leaders of the shi clan such as Kong Rong, so although Cao Cao had great power, he had a very bad impression in the hearts of the shi clan in the world.
And the heavy money redemption of Cai Wenji is a wonderful stroke of Cao Cao, Cai Wenji's father is a generation of great Confucian Cai Yong, in the hearts of the World's Shi Clan is not inferior to Kong Rong's existence, and his daughter Cai Wenji has shown her talent at an early age, and is also a generation of talented women in the hearts of the Shi Clan. Cao Cao redeemed Cai Wenji with a lot of money, and he could save his image in the minds of the scholars, and he could also bribe the scholars to serve himself. Cao Cao once said in the "Short Song Line", "Zhou Gong spits and feeds, and the world returns to the heart." "For Cao Cao, who wanted to be the Duke of Zhou, exchanging gold and jade for the hearts of the world's soldiers was a bargain that could no longer be a bargain.
4. Many of the books in the collection were burned in the Luoyang fire, and someone needed to be able to take over the task of repairing books
The reason why Dong Zhuo's rebellion made the people of tianxia grit their teeth in hatred was not only because he was not from the warrior clan, but also because of his brutal attitude towards the soldiers, when the Guan ASEAN army was about to attack the city, Dong Zhuo hurriedly burned Luoyang and took the emperor to Chang'an. And this fire in Luoyang not only burned the homes of the people and destroyed people, but also burned many of the treasured books in the palace, and a considerable number of books were also destroyed in the heavy rain on the way to Chang'an.
Cao Cao is also a person who loves to read, the palace has lost so many books, he also does not remember this matter all the time, and Cai Wenji is known as a talented woman, who was influenced by her father in the past, and also read and memorized many classics, Cao Cao redeemed not only a Cai Wenji, but also a library of classics.
5. Cao Cao married Cai Wenji not to a peasant han, but to a Tuntian lieutenant
Cao Cao redeemed Cai Wenji, not necessarily wanting to marry Cai Wenji, although Cao Cao did do a lot of such things as marrying people's wives, but this is based on the beauty of people's wives, Cai Wenji is a talented woman, but a talented woman is not necessarily a beautiful woman.
After Cao Cao redeemed Cai Wenji, he personally matched her and married her to Dong Qi, a lieutenant of Tuntian, so what is the official position of this Tuntian lieutenant? Why did Cao Cao marry Cai Wenji to a Tuntian lieutenant?
Wen Ji returned to Han
In the chaotic era of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the forces of all sides were in a scuffle, resulting in a sharp decline in labor force and no one to cultivate the land, so Cao Cao implemented the tun tian system, dividing the army into tun tun, min tun, and shang tun three kinds of tun tian. Tuntian Lieutenant is not a cropper, but a grassroots official, responsible for the production, civil affairs and rent of Tuntian District, and is also the chief executive of the district, compared with the soldiers who rushed to kill on the front line, it is also quite safe to follow such a grassroots official's life is quite moist, Cao Cao promised Cai Wenji to Tuntian Lieutenant, and she can also be regarded as the daughter of the deceased.
So why was he given to Lieutenant Tuntian instead of another high-ranking official? Most of the high-ranking officials in that era were also controlled by the scholars, who had a very high self-esteem, like Cai Wenji, who had already married people and had two children, they naturally did not want to marry back home. Although Cao Cao was extremely powerful, he did not dare and was unwilling to force the Shi clan to marry her for the sake of cai Wenji, who was an old pearl and yellow, and marrying her to a Tuntian lieutenant who was from a non-shi clan and lived a life without worry was undoubtedly the best explanation for his daughter of the deceased.
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