Can sex also have an impact on history?

Sex is generally considered to be a private matter, a small matter in life, and the love between children is not enough to be recorded in history. Political struggles, military struggles, and dynasty changes are earth-shattering and earth-shaking major historical events, which cannot be compared with sex. But in fact, the sexual issue that people sometimes don't pay much attention to has changed a certain process of social development at certain critical moments in historical development, and even changed the fate of the entire country.

In these events, there is always a beautiful woman as the protagonist. They are not necessarily politicians or careerists, but are often just a plaything and a tool. They are possessed by a leader who may have an impact on historical development, or are attached to them, causing conflicts, contentions and struggles under certain circumstances, thus affecting the course of history. These women were unknowingly involved in the whirlpool of political and military struggles, and their "overwhelming" appearance really played the role of enchanting the country, but in the end, they themselves often became victims of this struggle.

Taking the famous "Four Beauties" in ancient China as an example, Xi Shi was actually a pornographic spy sent to the Kingdom of Wu by King Gou Jian of Yue. She charmed King Fu Chai of Wu and made him indulge in the gentle countryside. , ignored the government affairs, alienated the relationship between Fu Chai and Wu Zixu, and "attacked the castle from the inside." However, after the Yue Kingdom destroyed Wu, Gou Jian ordered her to "go to bed" that night. This great hero was actually a sex toy, and finally had to flee to all corners of the country with Fan Li. Diao Chan is also a pornographic spy.

There are many such cases in the West. About 2,500 years ago, Helen, the queen of ancient Greece and the most beautiful woman, eloped with the Prince of Troy, which triggered a 10-year war between the two countries. The two sides deployed hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of warships, and the fight was dark. In the end, Hope people used the wooden plank to capture the city of Troy. And all of this just started with sex between two people. In addition, there are many reasons why Napoleon, the once all-powerful and arrogant hero who almost swept Europe, was defeated in Waterloo. One of the reasons was that Queen Josephine, who had been married to Napoleon for 11 years and was finally deposed, was jealous of Napoleon and married again. The Austrian princess deliberately leaked military secrets to the enemy, which was a fatal blow to Napoleon.

The above-mentioned famous historical events at home and abroad, and looking at the incident between Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Sangui, which was only more than 300 years ago, is another example of how sex can affect history. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, to be precise, in the 1640s, the world was in chaos. Li Zicheng's peasant uprising army captured Beijing. Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan. Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the pass and defeated Li Zicheng. From then on, the Manchus took over the Central Plains and established China's last feudal dynasty. In this ever-changing process, the competition for Chen Yuanyuan, a beauty of a generation, played a seemingly accidental, but actually critical, role in changing the situation, leaving many thoughts and lessons for future generations.

Wu Meicun, a great poet in the early Qing Dynasty, wrote a long poem "Yuanyuanqu", describing this historical event in vivid pen and ink, recording "since ancient times, beauties have had a bad life", and recording the heroes and heroines. The greed of the people also recorded the cruelty of the struggle. This long poem seems to be comparable to "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty. It depicts a woman's role and destiny in political and military struggles. However, Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" seems to beautify the relationship between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. Yes, Wu Sangui in "Yuan Yuan Qu" has also been more or less beautified.

Chen Yuanyuan was originally a girl from a poor family, but she was born with "a beautiful heart and a delicate and natural appearance". When she was sixteen years old, she was invited by the Suzhou Theater to sing opera and music, and she became famous in Jiangnan. Later, during the beauty pageant, Tian Wan, the head of state, took Chen Yuanyuan away with both soft and hard tactics. This was like "The sculls of Hengtang flew away like flying, where can the wealthy family return home with force? At this moment, I don't know that my fate is unlucky. At this moment, I can only shed tears on my clothes." Later, when serving a banquet in Tianfu, Wu Sangui, who had a large number of soldiers and guarded Shanhaiguan, took a fancy to him and forced Chen Yuanyuan to be his concubine. When I was young, I picked up flower branches and looked back over them many times. I took the beautiful bird out of the cage early. How long will it take to cross the Milky Way? ”