There will be eunuchs around the emperors of all dynasties and generations, do not underestimate the eunuchs, many eunuchs in history started from the lowest level, step by step became the emperor's favorite courtiers, and even some eunuchs can control the emperor in the end. The eunuch we are talking about today is a rare good eunuch in history, although he is high and powerful, he has accumulated virtue and good deeds all his life, and after his death, he has been posthumously crowned as an emperor, his son and grandson have become emperors, and his grandson has left a strong mark in history.
This eunuch was Cao Teng, who entered the court at a young age and became the lowest eunuch, and later Cao Teng was appreciated by Empress Deng, who thought that he was a serious and down-to-earth, generous and benevolent person, so he arranged for him to go to the side of the crown prince Liu Bao to serve the prince's daily life. Crown Prince Liu Bao also liked Cao Teng's personality very much, and he was very important to him, and the rewards given to him were also the best things.
When Liu Bao ascended the throne and became emperor, Cao Teng naturally followed suit, from a small eunuch to a constant attendant, after Liu Bao's death, his younger son Emperor Han Chong succeeded to the throne, and Emperor Han Chong was only two years old at the time, and he died less than half a year after ascending the throne. Later, the eight-year-old Emperor Han was put on the throne, but at that time, the foreign relatives were so powerful that they were killed in order to seek power for Emperor Han for only one year.
During the reign of Emperor Han, Cao Teng had a premonition that this day would come sooner or later, and in order to suppress the foreign forces and maintain the position of the Liu family's royal family, he found the right time, secretly ran to Liangyi, and successfully persuaded Liu Zhi to let him ascend the throne as emperor. In the end, with the help of Cao Teng and others, Liu Zhi successfully became emperor, that is, The Han Heng Emperor. After Emperor Hanheng ascended the throne, Cao Teng was given the title of Official.
Cao Teng stayed in the palace for more than thirty years, and during this time, he fully exerted his wisdom, reliable work, never made any mistakes, Cao Teng was generous, public and private, once someone wanted to give gifts to bribe him, the result was that the gift was not delivered, halfway was discovered by the Yizhou Thorn History, yizhou Thorn History Book told the emperor. The reigning Emperor Han Heng at that time was well aware of Cao Teng's personality, and after investigating the truth of the matter well, he gave Cao Teng a clean slate. Cao Teng did not blame Yizhou for the assassination, but praised him.
We all know that eunuchs are unable to produce offspring, and in order to continue the incense, they will generally adopt children, so that they will have an explanation to the patriarchs after a hundred years. And cao teng such a big eunuch is no exception, Cao Teng entered the palace in his early years and married a Wu woman, and the two also adopted a child named Cao Song. Cao Song has been with Cao Teng since childhood, relying on the relationship of his adoptive father, and is naturally very smooth in his career, and even later ranked ninth in the ninth qing.
Although Cao Teng was a clean and honest official, his adopted son Cao Song was a man who benefited from power, and under his control, the Cao family became a powerful family and became rich. Cao Song gave birth to four sons in his lifetime, the eldest of whom was Cao Cao, who everyone knew. Cao Song should have been very happy to have a son in middle age, but Cao Cao was not a child who was worried when he was young, and Cao Song did not want to see him, but it was this unpopular son who became a celebrity and the founder of the Cao Wei regime.
Cao Cao's son Cao Pi ascended the throne as empress dowager and posthumously honored Cao Cao as Emperor Wu. After Cao Pi's son Emperor Ming of Wei succeeded to the throne, he posthumously honored His grandfather Cao Teng as Emperor Gao and Cao Teng's wife as Empress Gao. Cao Teng thus became the only eunuch in history to be posthumously awarded the title of emperor, and one of the six people in the Cao Wei regime who held the title of emperor.
So, anything is possible, and we can't predict what will happen in the future.