After the death of The Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui, his adopted son Cao Fang succeeded to the throne, and Empress Guo of Cao Rui was honored as empress dowager, Empress Guo was originally a member of the Liangzhou clan Xiping Guo, Xiping County rebelled against the imperial court, and after the imperial court quelled the rebellion, the Guo clan was confiscated into the palace, which was equivalent to a trophy, because she was good-looking and was favored by Cao Rui.
In the seventh year of the Huang Dynasty (226), after Cao Rui succeeded to the throne, he favored her and made her a lady.
In the second year of the Jing Dynasty (238), Cao Rui only made Guo empress before his death.
In the first month of the third year of the Jing Dynasty (January 239), when Cao Rui was dying, he made his adopted son Cao Fang the crown prince, and on the same day, Cao Rui died and Cao Fang took the throne at the age of eight.
In this way, Guo was honored as empress dowager, because Cao Fang was young, and Cao Rui was left alone to assist the general Cao Shuang and the eunuch Sima Yi.
In the first month of the first decade (249), Cao Shuang and Cao Fang and others went to worship Gao Pingling, sima Yi took the opportunity to launch a coup in the capital, entered the palace and asked Empress Guo to depose Cao Shuang, Empress Guo did not dare to resist, agreed, so Sima Yi exterminated Cao Shuang and his henchmen.
In September of the sixth year of Jiaping (254), Sima Yi's eldest son Sima Shi killed Li Feng, Zhang Ji, and Xiahou Xuan, and then entered the palace and played Empress Guo, saying that Cao Fang was not pro-government and obsessed with women, and requested that Cao Fang be deposed, and Empress Guo did not dare to resist and immediately approved it. As a result, Cao Fang was deposed as the King of Qi, and Sima Shi established Cao Fu as emperor.
In both coups, Empress Guo served as a tool of Sima Shi, causing many people to be killed, and seeing that Cao Wei's power was sidelined, she was usurped by Sima Shi's father and son.
If Empress Guo did not cooperate with Sima Shi's father and son, the coup d'état of Sima Shi's father and son would not be legal, it would be a rebellion, and it would be crusaded by the princes of the world.
However, in the face of Sima Shi's father and son, Empress Guo did not dare to say half a word, but in the face of Emperor Cao Fang, Empress Guo could be said to be fierce.
At the beginning, the relationship between Empress Guo and Cao Fang, the titular mother and son, was still very good, and when Cao Shuang was in power, he had Put Empress Guo under house arrest in Yongning Palace, and when they were separated, Empress Guo and Cao Fang hugged and cried and parted in tears, but later, the relationship between the two was frozen.
The cause was that Empress Zhen of Cao Fang had died, and Cao Fang wanted to make wang gui, whom he liked, empress dowager, oppose, and she wanted Cao Fang to make Zhang shi empress. Cao Fang was unwilling and gambled with Empress Guo, and when Empress Guo's mother died, Cao Fang did not go to comfort her. Therefore, Empress Guo immediately took someone and killed Cao Fang's two favored concubines, Zhang Meiren and Yu Wan.
Cao Fang was very sad to see the two concubines killed, and cried and said, The empress dowager killed what I loved, and there will be no mother and child grace from now on.
Empress Guo was timid and afraid of Sima Shi's power and usurpation, and in the face of butcher knives, she was fierce and fierce towards Emperor Cao Fang, and it was obvious that persimmons were specially picked up and pinched by soft persimmons.
In the face of Sima Shi's monopoly, deposing the emperor, and killing on a large scale, she did not dare to stop it, and her elbows turned outward, which made people scornful, and the empress dowager of a country was not as good as Xiahou Lingnu.
Xiahou Ling's daughter married Cao Wenshu, that is, Cao Shuang's cousin, but Cao Wenshu died early, Xiahou Lingnu did not give birth to children, and her father Xiahou Wenning persuaded Xiahou Lingnu to remarry, Xiahou Lingnu resolutely did not remarry, preferring to be widowed, and was forced to be anxious, she cut off her ears with a knife to show her determination, and did not remarry when she died, and the husband of the true daughter was also.