The women in "The Legend of Miyue", no one has a smooth life and dies peacefully.
I thought that Zheng Sleeve was an exception, she was beautiful and had the means, she turned the dizziness of the king of Chu and Huai, and obeyed her. After the death of Mi Huai's wife, Empress Nan, Empress Chu Wei is also old, Zheng Sleeve holds the power of the harem, and has the favor of Chu King Mi Huai, she has to live a windy and rainy life.
She planned step by step to let her son Mi Lan take the place of the crown prince Heng, so under her plan, the prince Mi Heng was sent to Qin as a hostage, away from the Chu king Mi Huai, and her feelings slowly became indifferent, but her son Mi Lan was very favored by the Chu king Mi Huai, and married Qin State.
With the powerful Qin State as her support, seeing that her plan was about to come true, the pride in her heart was overflowing, but she didn't know that this was the peak of her life, and it also meant that she was going to fall from the peak, and life was better than death.
Zheng Sleeve's life is a life of ups and downs, the first half of his life of glory and pride, and the second half of his life of regret and hardship.
Zheng Sleeve was originally a daughter from a small country.
The word "dedication" shows that Zheng Sleeve is very beautiful, has a good family background, and is either a royal princess or a daughter of a nobleman.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, large countries annexed small countries from time to time, and small countries usually offered beautiful and high-status women in order to seek peace. "Zuo Biography" records that Jin Xiangong defeated Li Rong, Li Rong sued for peace, and dedicated Li Ji and his sister Shaoji to Jin Xiangong together.
It can be inferred from this that Zheng Sleeve must have been a pampered aristocratic girl who grew up before she got married, like Miyue Mishu, when she was at home, she learned the etiquette system, learned the things of the four seasons, learned how to sacrifice, in short, learned all the things that a wife should know, and looked forward to marrying a young man who was happy with each other, but she didn't know that fate played a joke on her, she was dedicated to the state of Chu and became a concubine of the prince.
As the saying goes, if you learn too much and know too much, but you can't use it, you will be unwilling, and the more you hope that what you have learned can be used, just like every student who graduated from college, she always hopes to find a job that matches her major, so that her years of learning are not wasted.
Zheng Sleeve is like this, she is unwilling to be just a concubine, so when Ju Ji threw an olive branch, she clung to it.
Zheng Sleeve was originally a smart and clever girl, and with the help of King Wei's favorite concubine Ju Ji, she went from an unknown girl to the front of the prince Mi Huai at once.
Some things can be broken at a point, but when no one instructs, the paper pasted in front of you is like an iron wall, no matter how you hit it, you can't break it.
Zheng Sleeve is like this, with Ju Ji's help, she not only walked in front of the prince Mi Huai, but also quickly got Mi Huai's favor.
Zheng Sleeve got the sweetness and began to hold on to Ju Ji tightly, and Ju Ji also needed Zheng Sleeve to help herself, see the article "Ju Ji: No matter how much favor you have, it is not as good as fulfilling each other", and the two began to cooperate.
When King Chu Wei died, Zheng Sleeve already had the strength to compete with Nanhou (Mi Huai's wife), and when the crown prince Mi Huai succeeded to the throne and became the King of Chu, Zheng Sleeve also became a favorite concubine, the change of identity, the change of environment, made her need Ju Ji's help more, and Ju Ji lost the protection of King Chu Wei, and was in need of new protection, this period was the honeymoon period for the two.
Zheng Sleeve gained all the experience from Ju Ji on how to deal with the queen, how to protect himself in the harem, how to deal with sudden accidents, and so on, and inherited Ju Ji's connections.
With the blessing of Ju Ji's experience and the help of connections, Zheng Sleeve quickly adapted to his new identity, the favorite concubine of the King of Chu, and stabilized her position, since then she is like a fish in water in the harem, even Chu Weihou, a goblin who has cultivated in the harem for thousands of years, she is not afraid at all, she is respectful and respectful on the surface, but in fact, she is secretly witty, there is no way, people have the king of Chu Mihuai covered, Chu Wei is angry to death, and there is nothing to do with her.
Zheng Sleeve on the one hand to the Chu King Huai Huai Fan of the seven meat and eight vegetables, on the other hand actively eliminate the weeds around him, such as Wei Meiren, a beauty presented by the Wei State, very favored by Wei Huai, Zheng Sleeve took a lot of effort to eradicate her, for details, see "Zheng Sleeve's means of dealing with Wei Meiren, simple and clever so that you can't think of it".
Although Zheng Sleeve eliminated the threat, it also exposed her shortcomings, she is a little clever and insightful, but she has no overall view and short-sightedness.
Wei Meiren was presented by Wei State, for the alliance of Qi, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Chu, and is a person who maintains the interests of Wei and Chu, she is a political beauty, but she has not yet played a role, and the alliance of the six countries has not yet been formed, so she was killed by Zheng Sleeve, and then Wei Guo left directly.
The end result was a six-nation alliance that came to naught.
It can be seen from this incident that Zheng Sleeve is a woman who can only compete for the wind and be jealous, and can only make some small calculations, without any political acumen, and cannot see the situation clearly, but she makes blind moves for her own interests.
Such a woman wants to participate in politics, and wants Chu King Mi Huai to abolish her heir and establish her son Mi Lan as the crown prince.
At that time, all countries continued the system of the Zhou Dynasty and established successions.
This is a system that has lasted for more than 800 years, and it has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and if you want to break it, you must have the ability and courage, but also have a precise political mind, and be able to absolutely control the overall situation, otherwise you will only follow the old path of King Zhou You.
The reality is that Chu Wang Mi Huai is a king who is neither capable nor courageous, or a soft-eared guy, who chatters a few words in front of him, as long as what he says is reasonable, he will favor whom, he is like a tumbler, one moment to you, one moment to him, always wavering in what to do, such a person, you let him challenge the system for hundreds of years, it is almost like a pipe dream.
So Zheng Sleeve has been blowing the wind in his ears for so many years, although the prince Mi Heng was sent to Qin State as a hostage, Chu King Mi Huai also has a lot of dissatisfaction with the crown prince, and he never thought of abolishing the prince Heng, even if the Qin State attacked the Chu State under the pretext that the prince fled away, Mi Huai also wanted to clean up the mess for the prince Heng, and he never thought about abolishing him, which shows that he has no courage to challenge the system and abolish the heir.
In such a situation, Zheng Sleeve was really anxious, so anxious that the six gods had no master, she only wanted to appease the Qin State, eliminate the anger of the Qin State, let her son continue to marry the Qin State, get the support of the Qin State, and achieve the goal of making her son Lan the crown prince.
But she didn't have any political vision, she couldn't see that this was a situation at all, and she couldn't see that Qin just wanted to attack Chu and just needed an excuse, so she listened to Jin Shang's words and instigated Chu King Mi Huai to go to Qin to form an alliance with Qin, completely unaware that this was a trap, even if Huang Xie told her that it was a trap, she would not consider it from national interests and the international situation, but only from personal interests, thinking that this was an excuse for Huang Xie to exonerate the crown prince.
It is a disaster for a woman with no political ability to get involved in the politics of the country and have the ability to influence the king.
The king of Chu, Mi Huai, went to Qin to form an alliance with Qin, but he didn't expect that he would be greeted by a cage and a captivity.
Zheng Sleeve didn't expect that when Chu Wang Huai went, she completely lost her backer, and since then her life and death have been in the hands of others, and she can no longer turn over a little wind and waves, but at this time she has no such awareness.
The king of Chu, Mi Huai, has been imprisoned by the Qin State, Zheng Sleeve is still dreaming of marrying with the Qin State, still thinking about his own private interests, and letting people open the door of the Chu State to welcome the arrival of the Qin army, which is really stupid.
It wasn't until Qin's send-off team turned into an army attacking the Yingdu of Chu that Zheng Sleeve realized that something was wrong and fled in a hurry.
The monarchs and ministers of the Chu State fled to a small land, and they didn't think about unanimous confrontation, they were still thinking about fighting for power and profit, the crown prince Mi Heng was pushed to the position of the king of Chu by Ling Yin Zhaoyang, and Zheng Sleeve did not forget to fight for Ling Lan to be Ling Yin, which is really ridiculous.
They fought back and forth in the nest, but they didn't expect Huang Xie to be dumb when he came, and everyone looked at Huang Xie who was like a god, and they were all frightened.
Huang Xie decisively threw out the evidence that Qin State bribed Jin Shang, and then killed Jin Shang, to make an example of the chicken, and then fully supported the king of Chu.
Zheng sleeve has a beautiful life, and has been favored for half a lifetime, and finally forced to wear filial piety for the first king Mihuai, and after Mihuai is buried, he will be a lifelong guardian for Mihuai, and his son Milan will be forced to study and learn for the rest of his life.
A noble lady who lives in the harem all her life, silk and satin, a group of slaves, and delicacies from the mountains and seas, needs to go to the guard in the second half of her life, there are no groups of slaves, at most a few servants, there is no more silk and satin, only coarse linen and plain clothes, no more delicacies from the mountains and seas, only coarse tea and light rice, no more pavilions, only low-eaves grass houses, no more flowers in the room, only wild grass on the mausoleum.
The original life was full of hope, but now life is day after day, at a glance, even her son's future is gone, she has no chance to rely on her son to turn over, and even wanting to see her son at any time has become a luxury.
She has changed from a noble lady who calls for wind and rain to an old woman who guards the spirit, such a life, such a gap, it is really better to live than to die.
Zheng Sleeve fell into such a situation, there are factors such as the King of Chu and her own, personal interests have always relied on the country, without the country, how to talk about individuals, Zheng Sleeve is just the opposite, all she thinks about is personal interests, and she does not care about the interests of Chu at all, and it is precisely because of the personal interests in her dreams that she strongly encouraged Chu King Mi Huai to go to Qin to form an alliance, so that she herself fell into the current situation, which can be regarded as self-inflicted.