We all know the story of ancient princesses marrying away, but you must not have heard of a woman in ancient times who married a foreign country, but unfortunately died in a foreign country, and as a result, her father did not pay attention. Even his own father sent a woman to his son-in-law.
Later, the woman was replaced by her father's courtiers. What is even more bizarre is that the minister also exchanged his daughter for a bride who married a foreign country. So how did the story come about, and what kind of story is behind it?
The story takes place in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the woman who married far away was Shao Jiang, the daughter of Qi Jinggong, and the husband she married far away was the Duke of Jinping. According to historical records, the Duke of Jinping was older than the Duke of Qi Jing at that time. During the reign of Duke Ping of Jin, the monarch of the State of Qi was the Duke of Qi Ling, and later the State of Qi wanted to break away from the State of Jin and suppress the self-reliance portal. However, as soon as Duke Jinping ascended the throne, he directly attacked the State of Qi, and the State of Qi was greatly defeated. Later, Duke Zhuang of Qi succeeded to the throne, but was still defeated by the State of Jin.
Soon after, the State of Qi was in civil strife, and the Monarch of the State of Qi no longer had the heart to rebel against the State of Jin. Later, duke Zhuang of Qi put a green hat on his courtiers, which resulted in killing himself. After his death, Duke Jing of Qi succeeded to the throne. Civil unrest thus began a major outbreak, at first the Cui and Qing clans jointly ruled, the two sides fought after the Qing clan won the victory, but was destroyed by other clans, and then Luan and Gao came to power, and soon the Tian clan replaced them.
At this time, the Tian clan dedicated their land to the Duke of Qi Jing, won the support of the Gong clan, and the civil unrest finally ended, and the Duke of Qi Jing truly embarked on the era of ruling the State of Qi. During the civil unrest, due to the chaos of the country, it was impossible to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, so Qi Jinggong adopted a strategy of approaching the Jin state.
Everyone also knows that the best way to have a good relationship with a country is to get married. Therefore, Qi Jinggong married his daughter Shao jiang to the Duke of Jinping, who was very young at the time and was also deeply loved by the Duke of Jinping. However, he died a year after entering the Jin Dynasty, and the cause of death is unknown.
But we can guess one or two from this, and there are three causes of death speculated. First, Jin Pinggong is lustful, he is keen on the love between men and women, perhaps some special habits have killed Shao Jiang; second, Shao Jiang married from his own country to the Jin country, and the boat was laborious. It should be known that the whole journey from the State of Qi to the State of Jin was as long as 1,500 miles, and in ancient times, it could only rely on cars and horses to make long-distance journeys.
She was a delicate princess who must have suffered a lot along the way. She was likely to be physically ill due to the lack of water and soil, and eventually died not long after. Third, there are many concubines in the harem of the Duke of Jinping, and we all know that the concubines of the harem like to compete for the wind and jealousy, and these concubines are also very scheming.
If the concubines of the harem were jealous that Shao Jiang had been favored by the Duke of Jinping, then they were likely to frame Shao Jiang out of jealousy. And Shao Jiang is just a princess of a country, where will he be as good as a concubine? So there is a high probability that the harem concubine killed her.
However, these are the speculations of our descendants, and the real cause of Shao Jiang's death is unknown. However, Shao Jiang's death did not prevent the marriage between the State of Qi and the State of Jin. When Qi Jinggong learned of his daughter's death, he did not ask too much, but wanted to marry the Jin state again to consolidate the stability of the qi state.
As a result, the king of the Jin Dynasty actually said that this was also his wish, so the two countries married again. In the summer of May 539 BC, Han Qi arrived in the State of Qi to marry the daughter of Duke Jing of Qi. At that time, the ruling secretaries of the State of Qi were the Luan and Gao clans. Among them, Gongsun Xi of the Gao clan knew that Shaojiang had been very favored in the Jin Dynasty, and he wanted to marry his daughter to enjoy the favor.
Therefore, when Han Qi and the princess came to the middle of the way, he took his daughter to catch up with the team of marriage, and successfully married his daughter to the Jin Kingdom, while the real princess was remarried to someone else. The marriage of a princess of a country has been replaced so arbitrarily, which is actually a little sad. But they are all just pawns in the friendly exchanges between the two countries to stabilize the regime, and no one really considers their feelings, so they have become victims of politics.
Conclusion: However, Han Qi did not care who he married, he just wanted to reach this marriage with The State of Qi, and as for who he married, it did not matter to him. For the monarch of a country, as long as it achieves its own political goals, maintains friendly exchanges between the two countries, and consolidates its rule. Who would care about a woman's life and death and marriage? This is the sadness of a princess in ancient times, but in fact it is also the sadness of a weak country.