Some people say that the gap between Cao Pi and Cao Cao is the gap between mortals and great people, Cao Cao abolished the long and young, so that Cao Pi lived in the shadow of trembling and trembling for many years, and after difficult competition and tribulations, Cao Pi regained power.
But the good times did not last long, and he died after only seven years on the throne.
Throughout history, the life span of the founding emperor is very long, if the founding emperor's life expectancy is too short, it will cause the foundation of the country to be unstable, and Cao Pi is a very clear example, and because of this, it gives the Sima family the opportunity to usurp power.
So why did Cao Pi die in less than 40 years? What kind of secret is behind this?
Shouyang Mountain
Luoyang Yan City Shouyang Mountain, Wei Wen Emperor Cao Pi's Shouyang Mausoleum is here.
This mausoleum was planned by Cao Pi himself before his death, and when experts excavated this tomb, they found that the construction of this Shouyang Mausoleum was very simple.
According to the mountain as the body, not sealed or trees, nor buried with wives and concubines, there is no mausoleum garden at all, and the architecture is not luxurious, and the burial products are not as luxurious as imagined, and after the baptism of years, the current Cao Pi tomb has long been dilapidated, and the foundation of the tomb is gradually collapsing.
Seeing such a scene, people can't help but wonder, as the Ninth Five-Year Emperor, why is the mausoleum so simple after death? And what about signs of collapse?
Experts consulted the history books and found that Cao Pi was the advocate and practitioner of simple funeral thin burial, and his father Cao Cao advocated thin burial, and the funeral after death was extremely simple, and there was nothing in the tomb with burial goods.
In fact, looking at the entire Three Kingdoms period, the real winner was Cao Cao, even if Cao Cao himself did not claim the title of emperor, but this wish made his son Cao Pi come true.
Cao Pi forced Emperor Xian of Han to take the throne in 220 AD, and since then he established the Cao Wei regime at the age of 34, but the reign of the Cao Wei regime was not long, only existed for 45 years, and the reason for this had a lot to do with Cao Pi's untimely death.
As Cao Cao's second son, Cao Pi was born in 187 AD, and from an early age he was very clever and clever, and he loved to read, so he can be regarded as one of Cao Cao's many excellent sons.
But cleverness is cleverness, but Cao Cao has never regarded Cao Pi as the best candidate for the world, even after his brother Cao Ang died in battle to protect his father, Cao Pi still did not become one of the candidates in Cao Cao's mind.
Because at that time he also had a younger brother, Cao Chong.
Cao Chong is very talented, and the allusion of "Cao Chong calling an elephant" is also widely circulated, and Cao Cao does love this son very much, but he is helpless to be jealous of talent, in 208 AD, Cao Chong, who was only 13 years old, died of illness, which made Cao Cao heartbroken.
In fact, there was a reason why Cao Cao's opinion of Cao Pi was so great.
In 204, when Cao Cao led an army to attack Yecheng, he thought that Yuan Xi's wife Zhen Mi was very beautiful, so he wanted to take her for himself, but when he sent someone to find Zhen Mi, he was told that he had been preempted by his son Cao Pi.
This made Cao Cao only have to suffer a dumb loss, but the matter had reached this point, and he could only give up, of course, because of this incident, Cao Cao had a great dissatisfaction with his son.
This made Cao Pi, who was not very popular with Cao Cao at that time, in an even more embarrassing situation.
And at this time, another son of Cao Cao also entered everyone's field of vision, Cao Zhi.
In fact, when it comes to Cao Cao's sons, then we have to admire the genes of the Cao family, first of all, as a tyrant of the times, not to mention a group of subordinates who can be born and die for themselves, and most importantly, their sons are extremely smart.
Of course, the record of Cao Zhi is very detailed, as a famous writer in the Three Kingdoms period, one of the representative figures of Jian'an literature, Cao Zhi's talent is undeniable, and Cao Cao is also quite appreciative of this.
Especially after the incident of Zhen Mi, Cao Cao also deliberately suppressed Cao Pi, so Cao Zhi was successfully pushed up by Cao Cao, which also made the brothers' shizi battle begin.
Although Cao Cao was very fond of Cao Zhi, he still did not directly establish him as the son of the world, which caused his subordinates to panic, everyone was speculating about who would become the ultimate winner, and everyone's ideas were different, which gradually and naturally divided into two factions.
The most emblematic point of Cao Cao's strength is that the strength of the two factions of Cao Pi and Cao Zhi is not much different, if you have to compare high and low, then Cao Zhi is only a little higher than Cao Pi, which also indirectly shows that Cao Cao is very powerful.
No matter who succeeds in becoming emperor in the end, the final winner is always the State of Wei.
So how did Cao Pi finally ascend to the peak of power step by step?
This has to talk about Cao Zhi's personality, Cao Zhi is born bookish, his demeanor is more inclined to the literati style, even with the assistance of a person as intelligent as Yang Xiu, it is difficult to change his innate disposition, and eventually because of his alcoholic nature, Cao Cao loses patience with him.
In 217 AD, Cao Pi finally won the competition with Cao Zhi and was successfully established as a son.
And Cao Pi, as a result, lived up to the expectations of everyone, followed his father's will, successfully established the Cao Wei regime, and became the founding emperor of the Cao Wei regime.
But why did the young Cao Pi die prematurely after only 7 years on the throne?
It turned out that when Cao Cao was alive, Cao Pi had been only keeping promises all day, fearing and fearing, hindered by his father's majesty, and had been tense in his thoughts, and when he really ascended the throne, as the highest ruler, no one could restrain and discipline him, so he began to indulge himself.
According to some information recorded in later history books, the number of concubines in Cao Pi's harem was countless, and after Cao Cao's death, he even took his father's harem 3,000 beautiful ladies for himself, preferring this inappropriate practice, which provoked his mother to scold and could not stop it.
His mother saw that her former sisters had now become mother-in-law, and such a disrespectful act was really angry and angry, and scolded Cao Pi, but there was no way, Cao Pi, who had become an emperor, seemed to be like a changed person, unable to listen to what anyone said, it had always been my own way, and I could do whatever I wanted.
It is said that there was a good story in Cao Pi's harem at that time, and the daughter of Taishou Guo Yong was named Queen Guo, and this woman was extremely intelligent from an early age.
However, the good times did not last long, her parents died of illness and family changes, and Queen Guo, who had no father and no mother, was sold as a maid, and it was precisely because of this identity that she met Cao Pi at a banquet, and was soon included in the palace by Cao Pi.
Although there was no son and half a daughter in Cao Pi's mansion, the naturally intelligent Queen Guo made many plans in the events of Cao Pi's son's struggle, and it can be said that Cao Pi was able to successfully become the son of the world, and Queen Guo was also indispensable.
Even after becoming emperor, despite the opposition of his courtiers, he resolutely established her as the queen, which was enough to see Cao Pi's love for her, which also made this good story pass down to this day.
Of course, when it comes to Cao Pi's harem, it is necessary to mention Zhen Mi.
As Zhen Mi, whose beauty was comparable to that of Jiangdong Erqiao, she was originally Yuan Xi's concubine, but after Cao Cao attacked the Yuan family, Yuan Xi fled, and her mother-in-law was afraid that Zhen Mi's beauty would lead to the disaster of killing herself, and deliberately smeared a lot of ash on Zhen Mi's face, but how could this little trick fool Cao Pi, so she took Zhen Mi away.
When Cao Cao entered the city, he also wanted to possess Zhen Mi, but when he heard that he had been cut off by Cao Pi, he had to endure the pain of cutting love, which was enough to show that Zhen Mi's beauty was recognized by everyone.
Of course, as the founding emperor of the Cao Wei regime, Cao Pi's harem was not only these two people, but also a large number of beautiful women, precisely because there were too many wives and concubines, plus each of them was talented and beautiful, and Cao Cao's thousands of harem beauties.
This made Cao Pi overindulgable and absurd for a long time, and it is said that when Cao Cao's sick mother Empress Bian went to visit, she happened to see a group of very familiar beauties on the side steps.
In his heart, all of them were concubines who had been favored by Emperor Cao Cao, and he immediately asked, "When did this happen?" Cao Pi was not hurried or slow, and said without shame, "The former emperor just died, I called them over", and Empress Bian said even more angrily, "Such things are not as good as pigs and dogs, and they deserve to die", which is enough to see Cao Pi, and the absurdity of this kind of thing is simply unimaginable.
Cao Pi also divided these old and new people into different ranks, each rank had a number of concubines, but only those who left heirs to Cao Pi would have titles, and the unknown was innumerable.
After all, Zhen Mi himself was won from Cao Cao's side, but later after Guo, Li Guiren, Yin Guiren, and the two daughters given to him by Emperor Xian of Han gradually snubbed Zhen Mi, just because Zhen Mi complained a few words, he caused himself to be killed, without the love of the two when the two were happy.
Of course, if there is a father, there must be a son, and Cao Pi's absurd behavior of being shameless and unashamed and contrary to human morality is mostly influenced by his father Cao Cao, and the absurdity is not allowed to be heard all day long, which must be learned.
It is said that both Cao Cao and Cao Pi did the same ugly thing with human morality, that is, they had a shameful thing with their aunt, and it was inevitable that they would die at the age of 40.
Of course, there are several reasons for Cao Pi's early death, Cao Pi especially loved sweets before his death, especially like grapes, sugar cane and other foods, from Cao Pi's letters to Eastern Wu, it can be seen that Cao Pi is really sweet as life.
According to historical records, Cao Pi was affected by his mother's genes, and it was very likely that there were diseases in blood sugar, which were difficult to cure, and in the era when medical treatment was extremely backward, it was impossible to treat.
After Cao Pi was proclaimed emperor, some people said that Cao Cao was not in a hurry to be called emperor, and Cao Pi was a little too anxious, but Cao Pi did not think so, because the matter of calling himself emperor had a lot to do with the interests of the Cao family.
However, from the perspective of Cao Pi himself, he was extremely clever and clever since he was a child, but he still could not enter his father's eyes.
After the brothers and brothers had accidents one after another, they had to go to a deadly struggle with Cao Zhi, living all day under the majesty of their father, worrying all day long, afraid of doing something wrong and adversely affecting themselves, knowing that their ambitions were very large, and they obviously had a strong belief in not being willing to be left behind, but the road to the top was still so difficult, which caused a certain degree of psychological pressure.
After ascending the throne, he was suddenly unfettered, so Cao Pi let himself go, absurdly and overseating sweets
Full of thoughts about how to enjoy the pleasure brought by rights, it eventually caused damage to his own body.
It is no wonder that in 226 AD, Cao Pi died of illness at the age of 40.