- This has been seen in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and TV series.

It's just that the perspective is different, and I don't savor it.

In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD), Cao Cao, who was defeated in the Battle of Chibi, returned to the north in a hurry, and Jingzhou, which had just been taken into his hands, fell into a state of ownerlessness.

Liu Bei, who had nowhere to stay, took advantage of this opportunity to occupy Wuling, Guiyang, Lingling, and Changsha in the south of Jingzhou (about the same as present-day Hunan Province), the so-called "four counties of Jingnan".

This historical event has been adapted into a variety of literary forms, such as the Yuan miscellaneous drama "Pang Plundering the Four Counties", the Qing Dynasty random play "Taking the Four Counties", and the Zidishu "Three Wars Huang Zhong".

Of course, it is impossible to let it go in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and it is this story that the fifty-second and fifty-third chapters of Mao Zonggang's book that are now in circulation are written.

The woman who is the trophy is among the four counties.

In charge of capturing Guiyang was the victorious general Zhao Yun.

There were no difficulties in taking Guiyang: after a simple confrontation, Guiyang Taishou Zhao Fan opened the city and surrendered.

After the surrender, Zhao Fan gave a banquet to Zhao Yun, and such an episode occurred at the banquet.

When Zhao Yun was a little drunk from drinking, Zhao Fan suddenly invited a woman to pour wine for Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun saw that the woman was dressed very elegantly, and she had the color of captivating the country and the city, so he asked Zhao Fan, "Who is this?" ”

Zhao Fan said, "This is my sister-in-law Fan. ”

Zhao Yun immediately became serious, not daring to lose his etiquette (if you don't know who this woman is, what will happen to Zhao Yun?). ）。

However, Zhao Fan did not notice the change in Zhao Yun's attitude, and proposed to marry the widowed sister-in-law to Zhao Yun, which stabbed the hornet's nest.

Zhao Yunyun was furious when he heard this, and said to Zhao Fan sharply, "I am a brother with you, and your sister-in-law is my sister-in-law, how can you do the best thing!" ”

Zhao Fan was ashamed (what about Fan?) You have to use the word "ashamed and hard to bear"), saying, "I am kind to each other, how can I be so rude!" ”

So, he glanced at the people around him, with the intention of harming Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun had already realized that he knocked down Zhao Fan with one punch, walked out of the mansion, and got on his horse and went out of the city.

After that, Zhao Fan saw that it was irretrievable, so he rebelled again, but was soon captured alive by Zhao Yun.

After Guiyang was pacified, Liu Bei asked what happened, and Zhao Yun's answer was also serious.

Zhao Yun said, "Since Zhao Fan and I are brothers, if I marry his sister-in-law now, it will be scolded, this is one of them; His wife remarries, causing her to lose her temperament, and this is the second; Zhao Fan descended at the beginning, and his heart was unpredictable, and this was the third. The lord is newly set in Jianghan, how dare I, Zhao Yun, abolish the lord's big event with a woman! ”

Liu Bei said, "Now that the big thing has been decided, how about marrying that Fan family for you?" ”

Zhao Yun said, "There are many women in the world (there are many women in the world), what do I want to do with such a woman?" Fear that no one will marry

Give it to me, can't you beat a single? ”

Liu Bei said, "Zilong is really a husband." ”

Zhao Yun in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" put forward three reasons for this, first, it is unreasonable for his brother to marry his sister-in-law; second, it is a woman's loss of virginity to remarry; The third point is that he doesn't trust Zhao Fan, for fear that he will delay a major event because of marrying a wife.

The Q&A between the two after that was quite meaningful: Liu Bei only dismissed Zhao Yun's third reason with "the big thing has been decided", while the first two simply ignored it.

Regarding Liu Bei's words, Zhao Yun didn't stick to the first two, but threw out the words "There are many women in the world".

It can be seen that the so-called gift of uncle and sister-in-law and the festival of chastity are just Zhao Yun's excuses.

In fact, Zhao Yun and Liu Bei are of the same age, and they are both middle-aged people at this time, although there is no direct evidence, it is not difficult to imagine that Zhao Yun should already have a wife, and if he marries the Fan family again, he will be a concubine.

The so-called "marrying a wife for virtue, taking a concubine for sex", originally did not have so many constraints.

Under Liu Bei's questioning, Zhao Yun finally said the reason why he did not want to marry Fan, "but I am afraid that my reputation will not be established", that is, I am worried that taking the Fan family like a trophy may damage my reputation.

So, was it really a dishonorable thing to use women as trophies in those days?

When it comes to snatching women, there is a famous saying among lovers of the Three Kingdoms called "Cao Wei Ai**".

It seems that snatching women is the patent of the Cao family.

Whether it was Cao Cao snatching Zhang Ji's wife Zou, or later coveting Dongwu Erqiao, or even "dragons giving birth to dragons and phoenixes", Cao Pi snatched Yuan Xi's wife Zhen at the age of eighteen, and Cao Zhi also remembered this sister-in-law.

These stories are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but in reality, Liu Bei and his men are not clean either.

In the biography of Xiahou Yuan in the ninth volume of "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", Pei Songzhi's note quoted "Wei Luo" and said that at the beginning, in the fifth year of Jian'an, Shi (Xiahou) was the thirteenth and fourteenth year of his sister, and he went out of the city in this county to collect Qiaocai, which was obtained by Zhang Fei.

Fei knew that he was a daughter of his conscience, so he thought that he was a wife, a daughter who gave birth, and was the queen of Liu Chan.

The detailed identity of this Xiahou clan is unknown, because he is the younger sister (cousin or cousin, cousin is more likely) of Xiahou Ba (Xiahou Yuan's son), and the legend is that Xiahou Squat (惇dū

This is, of course, a conjecture.

Zhang Fei's horse theft is well known, but few people know that he once abducted women, and he was actually a woman from the Xiahou clan.

If this is the case, Zhang Fei is afraid that he will have to take care of his old rival Xiahou squatting (惇dū

Uncle.

And Guan Erye, who has always been known for his unruly care, also had a heart for a married woman, and he fell in love with Cao Cao, a veteran of wife-snatching, and was jealous.

In the biography of Guan Yu in volume 36 of "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", Pei Note quoted "Shu Ji" and said: Cao Gong and Liu Bei surrounded Lu Bu in Xiapi, Guan Yu opened the duke, and made Qin Yilu go to ask for help, beg to marry his wife, and the public agreed. is about to break, and it has been repeatedly enlightened. The public suspected that it had a different color, and sent it to see it first, because of his own retention, Yu Xin was uneasy.

This is no different from what "Wei's Spring and Autumn" said.

Guan Yu heard that the wife of Qin Yilu, the general of Lu Bu's department, was stunning, and asked Cao Cao for instructions several times to marry him.

Unexpectedly, he was cut off by the "old driver" Cao Cao, and Guan Yu was still dissatisfied with this.

By the way, after Lü Bu was captured, this Qin Yilu surrendered to Cao Cao and became a county official, and was later killed by Zhang Fei. His son Qin Lang recognized Cao Cao as his father, and the official became a cavalry general, which can be seen in the Ming Emperor Ji of the Three Kingdoms.

And Liu Bei himself also married the wife of his distant cousin Liu Mao (瑁mào) Wu in a grand manner, and became the empress.

"Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" volume 34, the biography of the first lord Queen Mu said: The first lord Empress Mu, Chen Liuren also. Brother Wu Yi, Shao Gu, and Liu Yan have an old father, and they enter Shu at home. There are different aspirations, and those who hear good looks should be very noble. When Yan, the son Mao (碁mào) followed, and then he was admitted to the queen (碁mào). Mao (碁mào) died, and later widowed. The first lord established Yizhou, and Mrs. Sun returned to Wu, and the group persuaded the first lord to hire later. The first lord suspected that he was of the same clan as Mao (瑁mào), and Fa Zhengjin said: "On his relatives, why is it as for Jin Wen?" ”

So she was accepted as a lady.

No wonder Liu Bei didn't care about persuading Zhao Yun to marry a widowed sister-in-law, because soon after, Liu Bei himself did it.

In any case, from the historical account, whether it is the snatching of young women, the forcible possession of husbands, or the marriage of brothers and widows, it was common in that era.

This is not surprising, on the one hand, the world was in turmoil at that time, and women were being fought over as property; The so-called chastity concepts such as "one woman does not marry two husbands" in later generations were not fully established until after the Song Dynasty, and the moral norms of later generations could not be used to demand the people of the previous dynasty.