She was the concubine of the last monarch of the Xia Dynasty, Xia Jie. Xia Jie reigned from 1818 BC to 1766 BC, reigning for a total of 52 years. In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a scholar named Liu Xiang who wrote a book called "The Biography of the Daughters of Lie". According to the book, in the 33rd year after Xia Jie ascended the throne, there was a tribe called "YouShi Clan" that offended Xia Jie, and Xia Jie sent troops to conquer the "You Shi Clan" to kill chickens for the monkeys to show, completely eradicate this disobedient tribe, and warn other tribes. The "Youshi Clan" was weak and weak, unable to resist Xia Jie's attack, and in order to avoid the fate of complete destruction and preserve the tribe, they asked for peace. The leader of the "Youshi Clan" was worried that Xia Jie was not satisfied, and in addition to paying tribute to many rare treasures, he also adopted the method of exchanging beautiful women for peace, and threw in his favor, sending Xia Jie a beautiful woman of the world. Some of these beauties said that they were the daughters of tribal leaders, some said that they were folk girls, and some said that they were originally ordinary folk beauties, and later became the dry daughters of tribal leaders. This beautiful woman is Sister Hi.
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Xia Jie got her sister's joy, full of love, very pampered. The "Biography of the Daughters of Lie" says that the sister xi this woman is "beautiful in color", "the woman walks the heart of the husband, and the sword carries the crown." In this way, Meixi is not only beautiful, but also active and playful, and she also likes the costumes of samurai and handsome men in terms of dress, and she is completely a tomboy who does not love red clothes and loves arms. The history books record that Xia Jie was mighty and tall, a man with excellent martial arts, who could kill tigers and leopards with his bare hands, and could bend and straighten iron hooks like ramen noodles at will. Perhaps it is a beautiful girl with a bit of male temperament like Meixi who is particularly in line with Xia Jie's taste, so Mei Xi has suddenly become Xia Jie's most beloved concubine, the most painful baby knot. Xia Jie was originally an absurd and tyrannical monarch, and now it was even more intense, in addition to his own blind pursuit of pleasure and willful behavior, he also tried his best to please his sister.
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The "Biography of the Daughters" and the "Century of Emperors" written by emperor Fu Mi of the Jin Dynasty both say that Xia Jie accompanied Meixi and the palace girls to drink all day long, and especially liked to let the sisters sit on their laps and amuse the palace women. Sister Xi this woman did not know whether she was deliberately ingenious to play tricks or born special, like to listen to the sound of tearing silk, Xia Jie asked people to take out all kinds of exquisite silk stored in the storeroom, one horse after another to tear her.
There is a chronicle of the State of Wei in the Warring States period called the Bamboo Book Chronicle, which clearly records: "After the Harvest of Minshan, the minshan women Yu Jie and the two people, Yue Huan and Yue Yan." The second daughter, childless, inscribed her name on the jade of Amaranth, 苕 is 琬, and Hua is 琰. And abandon his yuan concubine Yu Luo, known as the end of the Xi clan. The Sueki clan befriended Yi Yin and then took the summer. This means that Xia Jie later sent soldiers and horses to attack a tribe called "Min Shan", and this war allowed Xia Jie to get two more beautiful women, one named Huan and one called Yan.
Perhaps although Xia Jie is happy to be with a tomboy girl like Mei Xi, but after a long time, there is also aesthetic fatigue and want to change the taste, so she likes the newly arrived Wan and Yan again, and gets along day and night. Xia Jie also carved the names of these two women on the two pieces of beautiful jade, "苕" and "Hua", completely indulged in the arms of the two beautiful women, Wan and Yan, and abandoned The Yuan Concubine Sister Xi. Accustomed to pampering Mei Xi was snubbed, overturned the vinegar bottle, it is estimated that in this way, he resented Xia Jie, wanted to take revenge, and established contact with a person named Yi Yin, secretly and continuously interacted, and became a spy installed by Yi Yin around Xia Jie. This is indeed more in line with the personality and style of a manly woman like Meixi, who "walks the heart of a husband".
Yi Yin is a famous courtier known to posterity and is a famous minister. He had previously worked as a cook and a royal dining officer in Xia Jie's palace, and it was perhaps at that time that he and Mei Xi had known each other. Because he was not accustomed to what King Xia Jie was doing, he also persuaded Xia Jie many times. Xia Jie didn't even listen to the minister's persuasion, who would care what a chef was saying, and perhaps blame the cook for being nosy. Yi Yin saw that the advice was ineffective, and Xia Jie still went his own way, believing that he could not play a role there, could not realize the value of his life, and the Xia Dynasty had no future, so he left the Xia Kingdom early and defected to a tribe called "Shang".
Tang, the tribal leader of the Shang, had long known Yi Yin and thought that Yi Yin was a talented man of the ages, a rare capable person, and was very happy to see him come to serve, and immediately reused him, making him the prime minister of the Shang. Under the rule of Tang and Yi Yin, the Shang tribe became more and more powerful, and its prestige in other tribes became higher and higher, coupled with the help of high-level "insiders" such as Meixi, which eventually defeated the rebellious Xia Jie, seized the world, and established the Shang Dynasty.
Another book, Chinese Jin Yu I, has a somewhat different account, which states that "there were Shi Shi in the Xixia Dynasty, and there were people who gave people to be happy with their daughters; Yu Xi was favored, so hu and Yi Yinbi died in Xia. According to this statement, Mei Xi went to Xia Jie's palace with a mission, and being a "secret agent" was arranged in advance, which was a political conspiracy, which was a bit of the meaning of Xi Shi entering the Wu Kingdom. Whether it is a premeditated plan, or a spy who later became jealous and hateful, Meixi's identity as a "high-level undercover" will not change. As for how Meixi and Yi Yin contacted each other and how to transmit intelligence in such primitive times, there is no record of this in the book, and it is unknown.