The harem of Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty was very large, and if it was placed in the whole long river of history, he should be able to occupy the front row, after all, tens of thousands is not a small number.
There are tens of thousands of people in the harem, and if the women want to live a prosperous life, they must come up with all kinds of tricks to compete for favors, whether they are the former Jin Dynasty liangzi selected by the year, or the harem of Sun Hao later.
Sima Yan also had a headache, although the beauty was delicious, but he didn't know how to pick it at once. The method was figured out by people, and Sima Yan came up with the idea of a sheep cart patrol under the suggestion of a person with a heart -- the harem was so big, sitting on the sheep cart, as he pleased.
The so-called countermeasures, the clever concubines also have their own tricks, the most absolute is to combine bamboo leaves and salt juice to attract the sheep: as soon as the sheep arrives, the emperor will arrive.
It's just that Hu Gui's concubine Hu Fang disdains to use this set, and she has the charm to let Sima Yan spoil her.
How spoiled is Hu Fang? Her treatment was almost the same as that of the empress of the dynasty, and among the many favored concubines, she almost got a special favor!
Sima Yan used to play with her (chū pú, ancient games, boju, a bit like our modern thrower), and when the two were fighting, her long fingernails injured Sima Yan's fingers.
How could Sima Yan's Heavenly Son's dignity be injured? I can't stand it, my body and face. Sima Yan was naturally furious and rebuked her: "This solid will be planted!" "Hu Fang is the daughter of Hu Fen, and it is not wrong to say that she will plant." However, in the mouth of Sima Yan at this time, the seed was not a good word, which was tantamount to saying that Hu Fang was a rude warrior.
Hu Fang played a game with the emperor, causing the emperor to be injured, which was wrong, and to put it more seriously, it was not too much to kill the head. However, Hu Fang not only did not admit his mistake, but instead questioned, "Gongsun of the Northern Expedition, Zhuge Zhuge in the west, why not plant?" ”
In Hu Fang's eyes, her grandfather Gongsun Yuan in the Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang in the West, Nanping Rebellion, and Conquest of Eastern Wu, and her father cut down Liaodong and fought the Xiongnu, and Yu Jiaguo was a great contributor to the country. What is there to be ashamed of such a warrior?
Sima Yan was able to sit firmly on the throne of the emperor, and her Hu family was indispensable! Moreover, at that time, her grandfather and father were all following Sima Yi in their conquests. The Hu family is a warrior, Sima Yi is not?
In other words, after Sima Yan himself was also a martial artist, Hu Fang said so, Sima Yan was ashamed and did not dare to speak out again.
In fact, in our opinion, Sima Yan's shame has another meaning.
I think that when Sima Zhao died, Sima Yan served three years of mourning according to the ancient etiquette, and he said in public, "Shu Ben Confucian Sheng, pass on the family with etiquette..."
Listening to this sentence alone, it seems that jin zhi won the country incomparable, in fact, everyone knows that he instructed his subordinates to kill the king, seize power, and kill innocents indiscriminately... What is exposed one by one is hypocrisy, greed, absurdity, and "Confucianism" and "etiquette" have no half-cent relationship, and the so-called benevolent morality is a pretext.
If a courtier says so, he may still comfort himself with not thinking, but how can a harem be so transparent, how can he not be ashamed?
In this way, naturally he could not have a seizure to cut people, not to mention that this person was still his beloved woman, and he had to leave with his tail between his legs.
Compared with the caution of Zuo Fen and others, Yang Yan Yang Zhi's fear and trembling, Hu Fang lived really freely.
Why can Hu Fang live so casually?
The first is that she has a personality herself.
The harem is not short of beautiful women, but a smart beauty is different. Hu Fang is not only beautiful, but also has a brain.
As early as when she entered the palace, her reaction was different. When I learned that I was selected, there were many people who were happy. Hu Fang was not only unhappy, but also cried loudly, and people asked her not to cry, reminding her that the emperor had come and heard, what did she say? She said, "I am not afraid of death, am I still afraid of the emperor?" It was such a maverick energy that made Sima Yan extremely impressed and named her a noble concubine.
In the daily relationship with Sima Yan, the concubines were cautious and served as servants, and Hu Fang did the opposite, she always acted spontaneously and insisted on herself. Sima Yan was accustomed to seeing women who had no opinion, and Hu Fang's naturalness was particularly rare. Her favor is normal.
Of course, the harem not only spells appearance, fights wisdom, but also spells daddy and family lineage.
The Hu family is very unusual. Hu Fang's grandfather, Hu Zun the Marquis of Yinmi, was a general of Wei Wei (later posthumously awarded the general Che Riding), and was a vassal of Sima Yi, who fought in the southern conquest of the northern war and made great contributions to the Sima family's Jiangshan.
Hu Fang's father, Hu Fen, was strategic, and could also be literate and martial, whether in Xuzhou or Jingzhou, or in the frontier, it was a first-class prestige.
The six Hu Fen brothers, each of whom was a figure who could get his hands on it.
Hu Fang has such a family lineage, what is she afraid of? She really didn't have to be afraid of anyone, and walked sideways in the palace. However, Hu Fang's wanton presence in front of Sima Yan did not bring any negative impact to the court, although Empress Yang Yan had always been worried about Hu Fang's threat, and for this reason she also deliberately pulled her cousin Yang Zhi to consolidate the power of the Yang family, but Hu Fang herself, the wind evaluation was OK.
Hu Fang, as a noble concubine, was second only to the empress (the rank of concubine was very high during the Jin Dynasty). But she did not become a demon, perhaps it had a lot to do with her tutoring.
Although Hu Fen had great merits and great power in the Jin Dynasty, he himself saw it very thoroughly.
Hu Fen had a son and a daughter, and his son died early, and his daughter was Hu Fang. When Hu Fang was selected, Hu Fen cried and said: "The old slave does not die, only the second son, the male enters the nine earths, and the female goes above the nine heavens." Because of the favor of his daughter entering the palace, Hu Fen's power grew day by day, and he was given the title of Grand General of the Zhen Army and Kaifu Yi Tongsan Division.
In the face of the proud and self-satisfied Yang Jun, he also advised Yang Guozhang to restrain his point, saying: "Looking at the previous generations, marrying the Heavenly Family, there was no one who did not destroy the door, but sooner or later things happened." Yang Jun asked rhetorically, "Qingnu is not in Heaven?" Hu Fen said that his daughter was just a maid for Yang Zhi, which can be said to be quite sober.
Yang Jun did not listen to the advice, and finally caused the catastrophe of extinction. And the Hu family did not get involved in this.
—— During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Hu Fen's descendants came out of the Northern Wei Empress, and the Hu clan of Linjing flourished for a while, and the Hu surname entered the most glorious period. Of course, this is a later story.