In China's thousands of years of history, there have been many attempts to usurp the throne, and the careerists have sung and appeared in order to realize their political demands. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the Han Dynasty was in decline, Cao Cao blackmailed tianzi to order the princes, and took this opportunity to make the heroes of the world Haojie attach themselves.
In Cao Pi's generation, it made the Han Xian Emperor Zen located in Cao Pi, making the Han Dynasty truly perish, and everyone also acquiesced to the fact that Cao Pi usurped Han. However, after Cao Pi became emperor and established the Wei Dynasty, only three generations later, Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Rebellion. However, when he usurped Wei, he was denounced by many people. The same is the usurpation of the throne and self-reliance, why is the world's attitude to the two so obvious differences? The following are my personal views.
First of all, although Cao Cao had the intention of usurping Han, he always called himself a Han subject, did not overstep the etiquette system, and his practice was the trend of the times. Cao Cao, although he did indeed blackmail Tianzi in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ordered the princes and forced Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian, to become a puppet under his command. However, it is worth noting that at this time, the warlords are fighting, and the strength of the Han Room is not good, and it has already been a bow of a strong crossbow.
Especially in the period of Li Dai and Guo Feng, the two fought each other for power. They kidnapped Emperor Xian of Han and his courtiers respectively, and later the two became even more in cahoots and pursued Emperor Xian of Han together. As a result, Emperor Xian of Han had to flee all the way and was embarrassed. It was not until Cao Cao welcomed him to Xuchang that he was able to settle down. Although Cao Cao also had his own calculations, Liu Xie also avoided suffering because of this.
When Emperor Xian of Han was welcomed back by Cao Cao, Cao Cao also treated him with great courtesy. Although Emperor Xian of Han wanted to regain power during this period, he granted Dong Chengyi an edict and asked him to unite his ministers against Cao Cao. However, after the incident, Cao Cao did not hold Emperor Xian of Han accountable. Instead, he only executed Dong Cheng and others. Even Fu Shou, the wife of Emperor Xian of Han, wrote to her father asking him to eliminate Cao Cao, and after the incident, he was imprisoned.
During this period, Cao Cao also married several of his daughters to Emperor Xian of Han, although it had some meaning of strengthening his control over Emperor Xian, but it may also have the meaning of alleviating the degree of contradiction with Emperor Xian of Han. After Cao Pi usurped Han, Liu Xie's final outcome was also good. He was allowed to be dressed in Han Zhengshuo and buried in the Zen Tombs with the ritual of the Son of Heaven after his death.
Secondly, when the Cao clan was fighting for world domination, it stabilized the situation in the world and reduced the war, while Sima usurped the throne and caused chaos in the world. In fact, from the beginning of the han xian emperor Liu Xie's ascension to the throne, he may have been doomed to his puppet-like life. At this time, the Han Room was in decline, and the country was facing the dilemma of internal and external troubles, and Liu Xie, as the Emperor of Han Xian, was naturally unable to return to heaven, and the Han Room could not continue.
To some extent, Cao Cao's coercion of the Son of Heaven to make the existence of the princes precisely enable the Han Dynasty to continue to be maintained. Moreover, although Cao Cao failed to unify the whole country, he also largely calmed the chaotic situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and reduced the war. After Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, the State of Wei was established, and the lives of the people under the rule of the State of Wei were also greatly improved.
However, Sima Yan's usurpation of the throne is really challenging people's bottom line. Although Sima Shi had the merit of destroying Shu when he followed Cao Wei, after he usurped Wei and established himself, he did not think about the country at all. After Sima Shi unified the world, his successor Sima Yan was proud and complacent, and he was absurd, causing the people to complain.
His successor, Sima Zheng, was even more incompetent, and was known for not eating meat. The establishment of the Jin Dynasty was also established in a short period of time, because the Rebellion of the Eight Kings triggered the Wuhu Chaos, which led to the chaos in the Central Plains, and a large number of people were killed. Since he had usurped the throne, at least he had to do well like Cao Wei. However, if he usurps the throne and does not do a good job, the world naturally despises him.
Again, Sima Shi was promoted by the Cao clan, and the status was obtained from Wei, and after usurping Wei, he once killed the king, violating the etiquette system, and the world was not ashamed. As mentioned above, although Cao Cao had the intention of usurping the Han Dynasty, he always called himself a Han chen, and when he served in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he only served as a lieutenant in the military academy.
Later, during the Three Kingdoms period, he laid his own world, relying on his own character ability, not all of which came from the support of the Han Dynasty. After Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, the world could not force the Cao clan to forget the favors of the Han Dynasty and use this to harshly criticize the Cao clan. Sima was not in much the same situation as Cao. Sima Yi's power and position came entirely from the State of Wei.
However, even though Sima Yi was favored by the State of Wei, he rebelled against Cao Wei with deep thoughts. Before his death, the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui entrusted sima yi with his orphans. He also asked his son Cao Fang to hold Sima Yi's neck and told Sima Yi not to forget today's feelings. However, Sima Yi, as a chancellor of the Orphans, still usurped Wei's self-reliance, which was really intolerable.
Moreover, after the Sima clan deposed Cao Fang, they were even more insulted. Sima Shi not only killed Cao Fang's empress Dowager Zhang, but also gave his noble concubine Xing Shi to Sun Yi. Sima Zhao even sent people to kill the Wei Emperor Cao Xian, but in the end he only threw out the two pawns of the Chengji brothers. Such an approach is in stark contrast to Cao Wei and will naturally be criticized.
It can be seen from this that although Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty to stand on its own, he did not overly usurp the etiquette system, and the imperial court won the support of the people. And Sima Shi usurped Wei, acted extremely absurdly, and brought turmoil to future generations, so naturally there will be such an ending.
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