Words about Marry and Love (14-8)

It turned out that曹丕 (1) sending the pillow of甄 (3) to曹植 (2) was a testing to see if he knew the conspiracy of 216AD. And曹植 (2) wrote the poem was telling him that he knew it very well. In this way, 曹丕 (1) dared not kill his brother, because曹植 (2) was a famous scholar at that time. He might write something about that conspiracy and bid someone to publish it if he dead, especially after the ‘Seven Steps Poem’ event. So曹丕 (1) treated his brother kindly later. But when曹睿 (7) was in power, he treated his uncle very kind at the beginning. Yet he send an order the change the name of the poem as what we have seen now ‘A Poem for the Goddess of Luo River’.  曹睿 (7)  knew the uncle was aware the conspiracy of 216AD yet he didn’t know if his uncle knew his real father too. It was lucky that his uncle didn’t know it as he wrote an article to曹睿 (7) it gave evidence of that. In that article曹植 (2) quote an allusion, that in the time of king楚庄王 (?-591BC), one day in a banquet, it was very dark before candle was lighted, an officer, treated one of his concubine in rude. That concubine could not see the face of that officer, but she took off his tassel from his helmet. Then she told this to her husband. Knowing this, the king said, “Brothers, today, we are so happy, let us all pick off the tassel on our helmet.” Then all of his officers picked off their tassels. Of course, the king wanted to protect that officer, to avoid the awkward situation of him. Few years later, in a war, the king found one of his officer fought bravely with the enemy, when he wanted to reward him, he said, “Your Highness, you have reward me already, that day when you asked everyone picked off the tassel, you have protected me kindly.”  曹植 (2) used that allusion to ask a job from his nephew, it meant to say, although I have an affair with your mother, yet you had better do something like 楚庄王 and I would return you good in later. It didn’t touch the issue about曹睿 (7)’s birth.