Li Yannian, a famous musician in the Western Han Dynasty, once wrote a famous lyric, that is, "One gu pours people's city, and then cares about people's country." This phrase describes a woman so beautiful that a glance at the soldiers guarding the city will bring the city down, and a glance at the king will bring a nation to ruin. In the eyes of many people, a glance back to lead to the destruction of the country is an exaggeration after artistic processing, but in history, there are actually three women, their laughter directly led to the collapse of the three dynasties, is considered to have truly achieved "the fall of the country".
One of the first ones, named Meixi, lived in the last years of the Xia Dynasty and was the daughter of the Shi clan, and later when the Xia Dynasty army defeated Youshi, she was brought to the monarch Xia Jie as a trophy along with treasures and cattle and horses. Sister Xi was born with a heavenly national color, and instantly made Xia Jie submit to it, and from then on, she did not care about state affairs, but only single-mindedly sought pleasure with it.
According to Emperor Fumian's "Century of Emperors", "You like to hear the sound of cracks and laugh, and you are cracking to suit your wishes." In other words, Mei Xi likes to listen to the sound of the silk drapery tearing, and will laugh whenever she hears it. In that era of backward skills, silk was a very precious object, but in order to make Bomei smile, Xia Jie spent a lot of manpower and material resources to weave exquisite silk and sent it to Meixi to tear it up to please her. Finally, because he could not stand Xia Jie's absurd behavior, Cheng Tang led the people to resist and destroyed the Xia Dynasty.
Compared with MeiXi, the favorite daiji of the king is undoubtedly more famous, and unlike meixi, who laughs because of the tearing of the silk veil, daji likes to watch people being tortured and die tragically, and her favorite of many tortures is "cannon branding". According to the Biography of the Daughters of Lie, "Anointed with copper pillars, and charcoal added to them, made the guilty do what they wanted, and they fell into the charcoal, and they laughed at themselves, and the punishment of cannon burning was called." "
According to the description, this ancient torture specifically involves applying oil to a copper pillar, burning charcoal underneath, and requiring the victim to walk on the pillar. Obviously, no matter how carefully people walking on the oiled copper pillar, they will accidentally fall into the charcoal and be burned to death, and Daji loves to see the dying struggle and tragic death of these people, and will show a breathtaking smile when he sees it. Because of his indulgence in pleasure, the King of Lu was betrayed by many people, and the Shang Dynasty also went to the end.
The last woman who "fell to the country" is also very famous, that is, one of the protagonists of the "Beacon Theatre Princes" - Bao Ji. Born in the Kingdom of Bao, she was similar to MeiXi and Daiji, and she also entered the palace as a "gift" for surrender because her country was defeated. There was a point that made the King of Zhou You dissatisfied, that is, he did not like to smile, in order to make the beauty show a smile, the King of You lit a beacon for help, and when the princes came to the rescue, he told them that there was no enemy invasion.
Seeing the angry and helpless look of the princes, she finally laughed out loud, and in order to appreciate this beautiful picture, the Youwang lit the beacon many times after that, which made the princes gradually lose trust in him. Finally, when Shen Guo joined forces with Inuyasha and other forces to attack the Zhou Dynasty, King You's plea for help was ignored by the princes as a teasing, and the Western Zhou Dynasty collapsed.
Judging from the above description, it seems that Mei Xi, Dai Ji and Bao Ji were the murderers of the xia, Shang, and Western Dynasties, or at least the flame that ignited the fuse. However, this "since ancient" argument has become increasingly unconvincing in recent years. On the one hand, Meixi, Daiji and Baoji all have similar life experiences - after their own countries and tribes are defeated, they become chips for peace, which can't help but make people doubt the authenticity of their deeds.
A widely accepted view is that the reason why Meixi and others are recorded in the history books is actually to "carry the pot" for the king, so that people can blame the fall of the dynasty on women, so as to warn future generations not to indulge in pleasure. Since ancient times, people often say "red face is bad water", but in fact, these three women are not only sent to the palace as objects, but also basically carry the hatred of the country and the family, as well as the bitterness and resentment of involuntariness.
Some people say that the reason why Meixi showed her love of luxury and waste was to consume the national strength of the Xia Dynasty and arouse the people's dissatisfaction with Xia Jie. According to this logic, then perhaps the actions of self-deprecation and praise are also full of hatred, deliberately doing it in revenge for the king and the unjust fate of the king who regards him as a plaything. If it is really just to find a scapegoat for the demise of the dynasty, it is really sad that historians have smeared these three women on the basis of no evidence.