In 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, a group of German soldiers broke into the brothel to rob, suddenly a prostitute stopped them with a fluent German, and threatened to know the Emperor of Germany, the German general heard the news, when he saw the prostitute suddenly stunned, she really did not brag.
This prostitute named Zhao Caiyun, a native of Yixian County, Anhui Province, was a bitter woman since childhood, her mother had just given birth to her and she died, and at the age of 13, she was sold by her father to a flower boat in Suzhou as a prostitute.
In 1887, Hong Jun, a native of Suzhou and then a military attendant, saw Zhao Caiyun when he was visiting the flower boat during his return to his hometown to keep filial piety, fell in love with her at first sight, and directly brought her back to the capital after the expiration of the period of filial piety and accepted her as a concubine.
As soon as he returned to the capital, the imperial court assigned Hong Jun a major task, making him a special envoy to Russia, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands to investigate.
Diplomats generally need to be accompanied by their wives, and Hong Jun's wife is very disgusted with foreigners, and the title of "Minister's Wife" falls to Zhao Caiyun.
Hong Jun and Zhao Caiyun stayed in Europe for four years, during which time Zhao Caiyun worked hard to learn Western culture, and it didn't take long for him to speak fluent German.
Because of her beauty and eloquence, she soon became a brilliant social flower in Germany and even in the entire European high society, and even the emperors and empresses of Germany became friends with her.
Zhao Caiyun, who once lived at the bottom of China, became a winner in life in Europe, making friends with politicians from various countries and talking about national affairs.
However, in 1892, Zhao Caiyun followed Hong Jun back to China, and the next year Hong Jun died of illness, and just after his death, her family expelled zhao Caiyun from the house on the grounds that she was not born well.
Zhao Caiyun had no one to rely on, and could only return to her old business, she gave herself a stage name, called Sai Jinhua, and played the name of "Lady Zhuangyuan" and "Lady of the Minister", attracting visitors from all over the world, and for a time business was booming, and literati and inkers came to visit.
When she had accumulated enough wealth, she bought a group of beautiful girls and formed a "golden flower class" to make friends with various dignitaries and nobles.
Later, it was said that there were two amazing women in Beijing, and all the princes and ministers were their slaves. One is Empress Dowager Cixi in the palace, and the other is Sai Jinhua in the Eight Great Hutongs.
Every morning, the princes and ministers went to the Forbidden City to ask For the peace of Lafayette Cixi, and in the evening they lined up to go to the Bada Hutong, and one by one they fell under the pomegranate skirt of Sai Jinhua.
What is even more unexpected is that in a major event that changed Chinese history later, Sai Jinhua was accidentally pushed onto the stage of history and staged the most legendary scene in her life.
In 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance launched a war of aggression against China, burning and looting in Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled west with the Guangxu Emperor, and the people who failed to escape the city were deeply affected, and a group of German soldiers broke into Sai Jinhua's residence.
As the Germans prepared to plunder, Sai Jinhua stopped them in fluent German and declared that he knew the Emperor of Germany.
The German soldiers were startled and did not dare to act for a moment, of course, they did not fully believe Sai Jinhua's words, so someone called in the German general Wadesi, the supreme commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
Wadesi came to the scene to take a look, suddenly stunned, when Sai Jinhua spent several years in Germany as the "Minister's Wife", Wadsi and she also had many opportunities for communication.
The old people met and felt a lot of emotions, the two talked a lot together, Sai Jinhua hoped that the Eight-Nation Alliance could reduce the harassment of the people, and Wadsi because of the shortage of food, hoped that Sai Jinhua would help him solve logistical problems.
The two sides reached a consensus that Sai Jinhua used his connections to help Vadesi buy a large amount of grain, and Wadsi also kept his promise and reduced the harassment of the people in the capital.
Because of Sai Jinhua's relationship, many people in the capital were spared persecution, and she also saved the lives of many Boxer soldiers from foreigners. Sai Jinhua's deeds have been unanimously praised by all walks of life in Beijing, and he has the reputation of "Second Master Sai of the People of Huihe".
After Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an, she always missed the happy days in the Forbidden City, and she sent Li Hongzhang to negotiate with the Eight-Nation Alliance, claiming that as long as they withdrew from Beijing, any condition could be agreed.
Wadesi told Li Hongzhang that as long as he sacrificed empress dowager Cixi's head, he would immediately withdraw his troops. Because the German minister Klinder was killed by the Qing army not long ago, Vadersi put this account on Cixi's head.
Li Hongzhang was scared half a life, he did not dare to agree, but if he did not agree, the foreigners could not retreat, and then suddenly someone told him that maybe Sai Jinhua could help him solve it.
Li Hongzhang will be suspicious, and can only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and to his surprise, as soon as Sai Jinhua appeared, this matter was really settled.
As an old friend, plus helping him solve the food problem, Vadsi was very face-saving, and immediately said that as long as the compensation given satisfies him, he can not have Cixi's head.
In this way, Li Hongzhang begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother what he had not done, and Sai Jinhua easily solved it almost effortlessly.
Sai Jinhua saved the car, and it is reasonable to say that she should be brilliant from then on and embark on the peak of her life, but the world is unpredictable, not only did she not get the reward of the imperial court, but she ended up with a tragic end a few years later.
In 1903, a girl named Feng Ling under Sai Jinhua committed suicide by swallowing opium. The suicide of a prostitute had little to do with Sai Jinhua, not to mention that with her connections and the merits she had made, this matter should not have had any impact on her, but strangely, the Punishment Department directly intervened in the case and arrested Sai Jinhua for killing people.
Sai Jinhua went bankrupt to find connections in the capital to pick up a life, and when she was released from prison, the Jinhua class was dispersed, the money was spent, and the dignitaries who had fallen under her pomegranate skirt were gone.
Overnight, Sai Jinhua changed from the "Second Master" who everyone feared to an ordinary woman who was down. Since then, Sai Jinhua has experienced two more marriages, but both husbands have short lives, and the combined time of these two marriages is only four years.
In his later years, Sai Jinhua was poor and destitute, and on December 4, 1936, in a small and broken room at No. 16 Jurenli, Tianqiao, Beijing, Sai Jinhua died at the age of 66.
