040 Kabuki Queen Bian (I)
Bian's ancestral home is Langxi Kaiyang (now Linyi, Shandong).
Shandong, educated by Confucius, is a lady and a beloved.
Bian was born in Baiting, Qi County, on December Jisi Day of the second year of Yanxi of the Han Dynasty (159).
The Bian family has been practicing menial occupations for generations, that is, kabuki people who make a living from their voices (maybe Lu opera, or acrobatics).
It is said that when Bian was born, the delivery room was filled with gold all day long, just like the roof and bed were inlaid with gold.
Bian Jinghou, who was a first-time father, was very strange, so he went to ask the diviner Wang Dan for divination.
Wang Dan replied: "This is a good omen, this little girl's future is limitless." ”
That being said, but when he grew up, Xiao Bian still couldn't help but practice the family's menial profession again and became a kabuki.
The family, who made a living as an entertainer, wandered around, and a few years later, came to the land of Qiao (谯qiáo) (Bozhou, Anhui).
At this time, the Eastern Han Dynasty was in power, and Cao Cao was the Taishou of the Eastern County, and he resigned from his official position to return to his hometown in order to avoid the disaster of his relatives.
Build a villa outside the hometown city, read and hunt, and entertain yourself.
It was here that the twenty-year-old Bian won the favor with his talent, and was favored by Cao Cao, who was twenty-five years old at the time, married to his family, and became the concubine of the eunuch Cao Cao.
Cao Cao is very discerning, and his political bets are not only quick and ruthless, but also accurate. In the gamble of life, there are always many successes. For example, he chose the woman Bian, which is the case.
Soon after living in the township, Wang Fen, Xu Yu of Nanyang, Zhou Jing of Peiguo and others conspired to launch a coup d'état, deposed Emperor Ling of Han, and established the Marquis of Hefei as emperor.
They came to contact Cao Cao and wanted to pull him along.
Cao Cao simply refused their request.
Sure enough, the plan of Wang Fen and others soon ended in failure.
However, the rebellion of Wang Fen and others produced a series of chain reactions, and rebellions and rebellions emerged in various places one after another.
Due to the turbulent situation, Cao Cao, who lived in the countryside, was also drafted and appointed as a military captain, becoming a subordinate of the general He Jin.
Bian took Cao Pi, who was still in infancy, and followed her husband to Luoyang.
In the winter of the fourth year of Zhongping (187 AD), Mrs. Bian gave birth to Cao Pi, who later became Emperor Wen of Wei.
According to history, when Cao Pi was born, there were cyan clouds, which shrouded him all day, and the shape was like the top cover of a car.
In ancient times, riding in a car with an umbrella cover was an extraordinary specification, and the cloud cover on this newborn baby was even more extraordinary.
It is said that a warlock with "hope" came to see the good luck, and when he saw this cloud cover, his face was immediately full of solemnity, thinking that this little baby was extraordinary.
The Cao family was very happy when they heard this, and the steward asked the warlock what is the future of this child? Can you catch up with his ancestors and also be a minister close to the emperor?
The warlock shook his head again and again, and was very disdainful of the steward's "lack of ambition", and replied: "This is not the cloud qi that the ministers are equipped with, but the omen of the supreme and supreme people. ”
gave birth to such a noble son, presumably Bian's heart should also be full of joy.
In the blink of an eye, in the summer of 189, the Eastern Han Dynasty underwent earth-shaking changes, the general He Jin died unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo killed the Empress Dowager He, and abolished the young emperor and set up the emperor.
Dong Zhuo felt that Cao Cao was a talent, so he named him a captain and wanted to reuse him.
Cao Cao's far-sighted political sensibilities saved him once again: he refused to go to his post and fled from Luoyang City with a few cronies.
Not long after Cao Cao fled, Yuan Shu brought news about Cao ** outside.
This news made Cao's mansion chaotic for a while, especially the subordinates who had taken refuge in him earlier felt that they had no head, and they all wanted to leave Luoyang and go back to their hometown.
As a woman who has been performing in the rivers and lakes since she was a child, Bian is well-informed and very assertive, and when the whole family is panicked and has no backbone, the 30-year-old Bian stepped forward to take care of the affairs inside and outside the family.
When she heard that her husband's subordinates were leaving because of rumors, she was very anxious, and regardless of the difference between inside and outside, she pressed her own anxiety about her husband's good fortune, and went out in person to persuade the tribes that were about to disperse:
"Cao Jun's life and death cannot be determined by just a few rumors. If the rumors are a lie made up by others, and you resign and return to your hometown today, and Cao Jun returns safely tomorrow, what face will you have to see your master? Is it worth it to give up your life's reputation in order to avoid the unknown? ”
Everyone looked at each other, speechless and ashamed by the young woman's words, and they all dispelled the idea of escaping, and decided to stay and wait for Cao Cao's news.
Bian's words saved a group of people for Cao Cao.
In that chaotic years, the number of subordinates and loyalty, on behalf of a person's prestige, although Cao Cao was not in Luoyang, his old department in Luoyang but no one abandoned him, this fact needless to say, but also for Cao Cao, who traveled far away, recruited troops and horses in other places to strengthen his prestige.
Cao Cao returned, and it turned out that Yuan Shu was telling a lie.
At this time, Cao Cao led the soldiers recruited in Chenliu, and with his original soldiers, he raised troops in Jiwu in December of that year.
In the first month of the spring of the second year, the later generals Yuan Shu, Jizhou Mu Hanfu, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Xuan (伷zhòu), Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai, Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao, Chen Liutai Shou Zhang Maung (邈miǎo), Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao (瑁mào), Shanyang Taishou Yuan Yi, Jibei Xiang Bao Xin and other local officials, at the same time raised troops, they publicly elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance, and formed a large army to march to Luoyang.
Cao Cao also led the army and served as a general of Fenwu in the Allied army.
When Dong Zhuo heard the news, he burned Luoyang, forced the Manchu Dynasty to relocate the civil and military forces and the rich people of Luoyang, and also stole and excavated the tombs of the imperial ministers of the Eastern Han Dynasty (their tombs had a large amount of gold and silver treasures).
Because the Bian family prevented the departure of Cao Cao's old department in time half a year ago, in this chaos, with the protection of these subordinates, the children of the Cao family were saved.
During this period, Mrs. Ding's divorce, Caofu had no hostess, and the eldest son Cao Ang died in the rebellion, so the second son Cao Pi born to Mrs. Bian became the living eldest son.
In addition to Cao Pi, Mrs. Bian also gave birth to three sons for Cao Cao, including Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi, and Cao Xiong (which princess was born to her, but there is no record).
It can be seen from the record of Mrs. Bian's respect for Mrs. Ding that Mrs. Bian can also love each other for Cao Cao's many concubines, in addition, after all, she was born in a family, and she is more romantic and charming in the way of husband and wife, plus four outstanding sons, Cao Cao looks at her very differently.
Although Mrs. Bian came from a humble background, how could Cao Cao be an ordinary man who could be restrained by stereotypes and bad habits?
So, soon after Mrs. Ding's divorce, Cao Cao set up his concubine Bian as his wife, and Bian really became "Mrs. Bian" from this time.