After the death of The Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui, his adopted son Cao Fang the Prince of Qi succeeded to the throne as emperor, and Cao Shuang and Sima Yi jointly assisted in the government, and later, Sima Yi launched a coup d'état in Gaopingling, killed Cao Shuang, and took control of the imperial government, and after Sima Yi's death, his eldest son Sima Shi took over the baton and continued to control the imperial government.
Dissatisfied with Sima Shi's monopoly, in February of the sixth year (254) of Jiaping's reign, Zhongshu ordered Li Feng and Empress Zhang's father, Empress Zhang's father, Guanglu Dafu Zhang Ji and others to secretly negotiate and prepare to abolish Sima Shi and establish Xiahou Xuan as a general.
Unfortunately, things soon fell apart and Li Feng and Zhang Ji were exterminated by Sima Shi. Because Cao Fang was involved in the conspiracy of Li Feng and others, Sima Shi decided to depose Cao Fang.
In September of the sixth year of Jiaping (254), Sima Shi played Empress Guo and requested that Cao Fang's throne be deposed on the grounds that Cao Fang was not pro-government, indulged in female sex, abandoned lectures, and insulted Confucians, and Empress Guo approved it.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Volume IV, Book of Wei, and Chronicle of the Three Young Emperors, records that in the autumn and September, the general Sima Jingwang plotted to depose the emperor in order to hear about the empress dowager. Emperor Fang Chunqiu has grown up, does not kiss wanji, is procrastinating in internal favors, Shen Man's female virtue, Riyan advocates excellence, indulges in his ugliness; yingliugong family stays in the inner room, destroys the narrative of human morality, and chaos in the festival of men and women; filial piety is lost every day, and the defiance is even worse, and it is not allowed to inherit the heavens and the temple. The envoy Gao Rou (高柔) was advised to use the One Yuan Dawu to sue Yu Zongmiao, and sent Fang to return to Qi to avoid the throne.
As a result, Cao Fang was deposed as the King of Qi and moved out of Luoyang.
After the abolition of Cao Fang, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day, who will be the new emperor?
Sima Shi initially wanted to establish Cao Zhao as emperor, who was Cao Zhao?
Cao Zhao was Cao Cao's eighth son, and at this time, there was a person who strongly opposed, and the person who opposed it was none other than Empress Guo, who had allowed Cao Fang to be deposed.
Empress Guo had her own little calculation, and she felt that if Li Cao was made emperor, there were two things that would be wrong.
First, if Cao Rui was made emperor, then the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui would have no one to worship, because Cao Rui's sons were dead, only his adopted son Cao Fang, Cao Fang was deposed, and Cao Rui was equal to no descendants.
Second, Cao Zhi was Cao Rui's uncle, and if Cao Zhi was made emperor, she herself, the empress dowager, would become the niece and daughter-in-law of the new emperor, so her identity would be embarrassing.
Therefore, Empress Guo insisted on establishing Cao Xian as the new emperor.
Whose son is Cao Xi?
Cao Xi was Cao Rui's younger brother and the son of Cao Lin, the King of the East China Sea. In this way, in terms of generations, it can also be said that Empress Guo can still be the empress.
Because empress dowager Guo's suggestion was supported by many ministers, Sima Shi had no choice but to make Cao Xian the new emperor.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Volume IV, Book of Wei, and Chronicle of the Three Shao Emperors, Records the Fourth Chronicle of the Three Young Emperors: Ding Ugly, Ling Yue: "Wang Lin of the East Sea, son of Emperor Gao Zuwen." The sons of Lin, who are close relatives of the country and noble townspeople, have the amount of great success, and they think that they are the heirs of the Ming Emperor.
In this way, Cao Xian became the fourth emperor of Cao Wei.
After Sima Shi's death, he handed over power to his brother Sima Zhao, who continued to control the imperial government.
In the fifth year of Ganlu (260), because Cao Xian was dissatisfied with Sima Zhao's monopoly, Cao Xian personally led the slaves in the palace to fight Against Sima Zhao, and was killed by Sima Zhao's confidant Jia Chong, who instructed the crown prince Cheng Ji to be killed, at the age of nineteen.