The woman in the "Historical Records" of Qi Jiang with courage and knowledge

Reading the "Records of the Grand Historian? The Family of Jin, let us see the courage of Qi Jiang, the woman behind the success of Duke Wen of Jin. Qi Jiang was the daughter of Duke Huan of Qi and was married to Chong Er as his wife. She got Chong Er out of his tenderness by killing the servant girl of Cai Sang, getting him drunk and forcing him to get on the car, and finally became one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period without any problems.

01 Caught in the tenderness and powerless to extricate himself

Chong Er is the famous Duke of Jin in history, due to the persecution of Li Ji, the Duke of Jin Xian, fled to the Di state with the sage Zhao Fai, Fox Yan, Jia Tuo, Xixing, and dozens of other people. Chong Er married and had children in Di. After the death of Duke Xian of Jin, there was a palace coup in Jin, Xi Qi was killed, and Yi Wu became the king of the state. After twelve years in Di, Chong Er felt increasing pressure from home. Chong Er left and said to his wife, "When I don't come back for twenty-five years, you will remarry." His wife smiled and replied, "Wait until twenty-five years, and the cypresses on my grave will have grown. In spite of that, I will still wait for you."

Chong Er began his exile once more, suffered a great deal of hardship, and finally came to the mighty state of Qi, where he was treated with great courtesy by Duke Huan of Qi, who prepared a magnificent pavilion for him, allotted him twenty steeds, and gave him a young woman of his own clan (also known as Qi Jiang) as his wife. Chong Er's tent was warm in spring, and after the banquet in the jade tower, he was in a gentle countryside, not thinking of "Jin". When Chong Er died, he was forty-two years old, but when he came to Qi, he was already fifty-five years old, and he was already too old to know what to do. He was given a comfortable living environment, and Qi Jiang was his wife, so he had no ambition at all.

Chong Er can be said to have a woman's destiny, in the Di state married to the beautiful girl in the country of blame as a wife, can not leave. He barely left and had to wait for 25 years before remarrying, so it's really good that he can say that! To the state of Qi deep in the tenderness, only the pursuit of immediate comfort, from which really do not see the shadow of the later Spring and Autumn hegemony!

02 Qi Jiang beheads his maid to break his love

Although Chong Er's life was easy, the people who fled with him were anxious to see how much time had passed in a decade. After the death of Duke Hui of Jin, his son succeeded to the throne as Duke Huai of Jin, who killed his opponents and created an unstable situation, and abandoned his wife, the daughter of Duke Mu of Qin, which aroused the resentment of the Qin state. Everyone thought that the time had come for Chong Er to return to his country.

Zhao Fai and the culprits gathered day and night, and secretly devised a plan in the depths of the mulberry shade in the afternoon of one day, preparing to take Chong Er hostage and escape, so as to return to the state of Jin in camera. The story was overheard by a mulberry maid, who rushed to tell Qi Jiang. Instead of getting the expected reward and commendation, the unlucky mulberry maid was secretly executed by Qi Jiang in an unknown manner, Qi Jiang didn't want her husband to keep her like a normal woman did, but rather she wanted her husband to give up his immediate comforts and to fight for his cause. Qi Jiang righteously said to her husband, "Zi noble son of a country, the situation is urgent to come here, but not quickly seek to return to the country to pacify the difficulties, but revel in the comfort, steal for the son of shame." But let Qi Jiang good words of advice or ridicule, heavy ear has always been indifferent, Qi Jiang can not stand it, had to tell the truth of the matter: "son of the entourage in the Mulberry Garden conspiracy, his wife is afraid of leaking the secret, has heard the news of the maids of honor to death, if the sky does not die of the state of Jin, then give up its who? How can you bear to let down the will of heaven, you will surely regret it in the future!"

Qi Jiang's bitter persuasion of her husband was ineffective, so she conferred with Zhao Fai and others, and used wine to make Chong Er drunk, tied up in the car, and sped away. When we left the Qi capital Linzi, probably more than a hundred miles when the heavy ear sober up, the entourage and so on to him to report the original story. Chong Er angrily holding a long thatch looked viciously around the blame, said: "If things come to pass, then forget it; if not, I'll kill you, but also skinning and pulling out the tendons, drinking blood and flesh, just to vent my heart's hate!"

After nineteen years in exile, Chong Er was finally able to return to his country and regain power through the help of Qin, so he couldn't wait to send people to Qi to welcome Qi Jiang to Jin, and make her his wife. The Qin state also sent 3,000 people to escort the five daughters of the clan to Jin to marry the Duke of Jin, Qi Jiang is as open-minded as a valley, treating the five daughters of the Qin state as sisters, get along with each other harmoniously, so that the Duke of Jin has no worries, and focus on ruling the country to become a generation of hegemony in the Spring and Autumn period.

Qi Jiang faced with the informant Cai Sang maidservant, decisively killed to promote the heavy ear clear will. After the ineffective persuasion of the heavy ear, simply drunkenly tied to the car and sent away by force, treating the deep in the tenderness of the heavy ear can be said to be quick and easy, from which can be seen in its boldness, admirable.

Read the history of wise, men and women to have love, but never deep into the tenderness can not pull themselves out, especially with an important mission man is more so. For men who are y involved in it, the wife must not let it be, and should have Qi Jiang general boldness, would rather endure a moment of pain, when the break is broken, dare to cut off the love hand, in order to achieve a cause.