Chapter 172 Containment(2/2)
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ps: Ancient stories about killing wives:
1. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang mutiny and killed Yang Guifei for Xi, leaving behind a period of eternal regret.
2. Wu Qi killed his wife
Wu Qi was appreciated by the king of Lu. Later, when Qi and Lu fought, Wu Qi's wife was a royal family of Qi. The people of Lu expressed doubts about Wu Qi, who was about to be the commander. In order to win the trust of Lu, Wu Qi killed his wife.
3. Liu An killed his wife
Liu An's killing of his wife in the Three Kingdoms era was also portrayed as a loyal and righteous act. At that time, Liu Bei was defeated by Lu Bu, and his entire army was wiped out, and he fled to Liu An's mansion alone.
Liu An wanted to find some wild game to curry favor with Liu Bei, but time was too fast to get it for a while, so Liu An killed his wife and gave it to Liu Bei for food. It was said that it was wolf meat. Liu Bei had no doubts. The next morning, Liu Bei and his party were about to leave.
When he was picking up the horses in the backyard, he suddenly found a woman who was killed under the kitchen and the meat on her arms was cut off. Only then did Liu Bei realize that he was eating the meat of Liu An's wife.
Liu Bei was "sad and started a horse with tears." Later, he met Cao Cao and talked about Liu An's killing his wife for food. Cao Cao "ordered Sun Gan to give him a hundred taels of gold."
If you don’t believe it, go search it. I would never have thought that under the influence of feudal ethics, “Brothers are like brothers and feet, and wives are like clothes”, this kind of incident of killing wives and drinking guests has been rumored to be a "beautiful talk" for the ages.
Mao Zonggang of the Ming Dynasty once criticized Liu An in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms when he killed his wife: "A woman was unfortunately born in a chaotic world, so she was as obedient as a careless person, how sad!"
Chapter completed!