Chapter 18 The beginning of gossip, the end of a lifetime

——The wall has curbs, which cannot be swept away There are curbs on the wall, which cannot be swept away.The words of Zhongxie cannot be said.What can be said is ugly. There are thorns on the wall, so you can't help them.The words of Zhongxie cannot be detailed.What can be detailed is also a long story. There are thorns on the wall, so you can't restrain them.The words of the Chinese are unreadable.What can be read is also a disgrace. —— "Wind of Wind·Wall with Ci" Wei Xuangong committed too many crimes, and died shortly after killing his son.Ji Shuo succeeded to the throne as Duke Hui of Wei.

After Hui Gong came to the throne, he immediately dismissed the Zuo Gongzi Xie and You Gongzi.Gongzi Xie and Gongzizhi first had resentment towards Gongzi Hui because of the death of the eldest son Ji and Gongzi Shou, and later because of the dismissal, so they took advantage of the time when Huigong left the National Assembly to welcome the son Qianmou and reject Huigong abroad.When Duke Hui heard that the second son was making trouble, he was so frightened that he smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and went to the state of Qi overnight to find his old uncle. After Ji Ji and Shou were killed, Xuan Jiang also became lifeless with their deaths, just like Ji Ji who lost his beloved wife at the beginning, he was taciturn all day long.

After Ji Shuo fled, Xuan Jiang fell into the hands of Young Master Zuo of the State of Wei.At this time, Xuan Jiang was no longer the little girl who didn't know who she was when she was in love. She had already seen through that she, like her marriage, was just a pawn used by men to fight for power and profit.She was tired of everything, her heart was ashamed, and she begged Mr. Zuo to kill her.But the nobles of Wei State did not want to offend Qi State.Qi State has always been a big country among the princes. At that time, Qi Xigong was dead, and the current monarch of Qi State was already Xuanjiang's elder brother Qi Zhuer (Qi Xianggong).Qi Xianggong, a good man, wanted to help his nephew when he asked for help, but at this time, Xianggong proposed to the royal family of Zhou, and the new king of Wei, Qian Mou, was also the son-in-law of the emperor of Zhou, so it was inconvenient to meet in battle.Duke Xiang killed Xuan Jiang in anger for the subjects of the defense state, and even more to maintain the relationship between the Qi State and the old family of the Wei State, he actually urged Xuan Jiang to marry Zhao Bowan, the brother born to her fiancé Ji Yimu. It is unbelievable in the eyes of later generations, but it didn't seem to be too outrageous behavior at the time.

Although she is called a princess, she is actually just a political tool between countries. Xuan Jiang once again accepted the arrangement of fate in a daze.When the people of the Wei State heard this news, they thought they could use this to belittle Xuan Jiang's name, and they were all happy.The only son, Wan (Zhao Bo), cared about the relationship between father and son, and refused to obey.The so-called Gu Nian father-son relationship is just a deliberate beautification of Confucianism. I think it is more disgusting, because sons are no more stubborn than ordinary people who cannot marry wives.As a single person, there is really no way to marry, and Zhu Bajie's aunt also has to make do with it.As a son of the royal family, he has many concubines and beauties around him, so he really can't afford to pick up his father's broken shoes and marry a ruined woman.

Seeing that his son Zhaobo would not obey, the son was afraid that if the Qi State blamed him, the relationship between the two countries would be broken, so he made a plan to invite his son Zhaobo to a banquet, then get him drunk, and then move him to Xuanjiang. bedroom.After the young master Zhao Bo woke up from the wine, seeing that the matter had come to an end, he had no choice but to accept Xuan Jiang as his wife. Of course, some people said that Xuan Jiang disagreed, "Xuan Jiang, who was drunk, was forcibly locked into a new house."However, it is recorded in "Zuo Zhuan": "The people of Qi made Zhaobo suffocate in Xuanjiang, no, force him." The man disagreed, and the story also said: "Xuangong's son Zhaobo was drunk and dragged to Xuanjiang Jiang Fangzhong, in his dream, had an affair with Xuan Jiang, and they became husband and wife..." No matter who forced whom, these two finally got together and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The third son, Duke Wen, was destroyed, the eldest daughter was married to Duke Huan of Song State, and the second daughter was married to Duke Mu of Xu State, so Mrs. Xu Mu was called Mrs. Mu.We will introduce Mrs. Xu Mu in another article.

Although the marriage between Xuan Jiang and his son Zhaobo was brought about by external coercion, their marriage was not considered incest at that time. Fornication by the elders is the most despicable scandal. The people of Weiguo, of course, hate this kind of filthy behavior that corrupts human relations.Poetry goes: There are curbs on the wall, which cannot be swept away.The words of Zhongxie cannot be said.What can be said is ugly. There are thorns on the wall, so you can't help them.The words of Zhongxie cannot be detailed.What can be detailed is also a long story. There are thorns on the wall, so you can't restrain them.The words of the Chinese are unreadable.What can be read is also a disgrace.

The three chapters of this poem overlap, and the first two sentences have metaphorical meanings. The thorns clinging to the palace wall cannot be swept away, implying that the scandal of adultery in the palace cannot be covered up or erased.Originally, the scandal in the palace of the Wei Kingdom was known to all women and children, so there was no need to explain it clearly. The poet played tricks and made a big deal out of it, declaring that the secrets in the palace were "impossible to tell"!But deliberately revealing a little bit of tone: the three characters of ugly, long, and humiliating hide their heads and show their tails, and point to the end. It is more interesting to speak without words, which is more interesting than straightforward narration.

From an artistic point of view, this is a good poem, which is deeply in line with the Confucian euphemism.However, I can't see this kind of self-proclaimed moral policeman, who is obviously gossiping to death, and still looks serious.People who criticize others may not necessarily be perfect without flaws.Everyone's actions have a predetermined track and reason, like an island diving in the deep sea, outsiders can only see the external appearance, and have no way of knowing what kind of changes have been experienced inside. Although the poem expresses the words "ugly, handsome, and disgraceful", in fact, gossip makes eyebrows dance and saliva fly.Everyone knows that the reason why the private affairs of the imperial palace are private affairs is that they are unspeakable, unlucky, and unreadable.But the messier and dirtier it is, the more people like to watch it. It is this kind of shisha blurred, even bloody and insane quality that people outside the palace talk about.

The so-called accusation of thousands of people, death without disease.There is no record of when Xuan Jiang died.To historians and moralists, she is just an unscrupulous and immoral woman, of no importance, and she should celebrate the loss of a witch in the world after her death. Xuan Jiang, a woman with a life like a flower, has been manipulated all her life and cannot be loyal to herself.When the radiance faded, she was finally able to die as she wished, silently and silently annihilated in the wind and dust, like a meteor falling into the deep sea, no longer disturbed by any rumors. Good girls go to heaven, and bad girls go everywhere. Girls like Xuan Jiang should actually go to heaven.