Yuan Shao's adviser Frustrated Zhi presented yuan Shao with a plan, asking him to "blackmail the son of heaven and order the princes, and the beasts and horses to please the court", but the other advisers under Yuan Shao did not approve, "Later Han Shu Yuan Shao Biography": Frustrated Zhi said Shao Yue: "General Lei Ye Taifu, Shi Ji Zhongyi." Now the imperial court spreads yue, the zongmiao temple is destroyed, and the counties of the prefectures are viewed, although the righteous soldiers are entrusted outside, the inner reality map is not worried about the meaning of the community...
Later, this matter was done by Cao Cao.
In the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213), Cao Cao did something shocking. Originally, he had already fallen into power to the opposition, and he could even issue edicts on behalf of the Son of Heaven. Although Emperor Xian of Han had the order of an emperor, he was actually just a puppet who was toyed with by him. However, Cao Cao actually married his daughter to Emperor Xian of Han, and there were three of them in one marriage.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that in May of that year, Emperor Xian of Han created Cao Cao the Duke of Cao. Two months later, Cao Cao married his three daughters to the emperor. Emperor Xian of Han did not dare to be indifferent to Cao Cao's daughter, and soon made Cao Jie, one of the three, empresses. So, why did Cao Cao, who already had an absolute advantage, do this? Later generations of scholars have analyzed and come up with three reasons.
First of all, Cao Cao wanted to gradually encroach on the imperial power as a foreign relative, turning Liu's world into Cao's world.
In the four hundred years of the history of the Han Dynasty, many rulers have a problem, that is, they connived at foreign relatives to interfere in politics. When Liu Bang had just established the country, the Lü clan and the Dou clan successively intervened in politics, and the "Alliance of the White Horse" of that year was nothing. After Emperor Wu of Han, the great general Huo Guang monopolized power and steadily stepped on the imperial power. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, his foreign relative Wang Mang even wantonly usurped the imperial power so that the Liu royal family dared not speak out.
Emperor Guangwu finally established the Eastern Han Dynasty after suffering hardships, but the rulers after that still did not learn their lessons, and the phenomenon of foreign relatives interfering in politics was still emerging in an endless stream. Even General He Jin, who Cao Cao followed when he was young, was also from a foreign relative. It can be seen from this that interfering in political affairs as a foreign relative was already a strange thing at that time.
After Cao Cao had the ambition to win the world, he also wanted to take advantage of the decline of the Han Dynasty to change the dynasty like Wang Mang in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty. However, compared with Wang Mang, who was a relative of the emperor, Cao Cao had nothing to do with Emperor Xian of Han. In order to better elevate the imperial power, Cao Cao decided to marry his daughter to Emperor Xian of Han and forcibly establish relations with the Liu royal family.
Secondly, Cao Cao wanted to place his own people around Emperor Xian of Han in order to guard against Emperor Xian of Han.
Many people think that Emperor Xiandi of Han is a puppet who will only promise in front of Cao Cao, but this is not the case. In the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Emperor Xian of Han instructed his favorite concubine Empress Dong's father, Dong Cheng, to unite with the loyal servants in the palace to find an opportunity to kill Cao Cao and restore the Han Dynasty. In order to give Dong Cheng a basis in his actions, Emperor Xian of Han wrote an edict with his own blood, and then secretly gave it to Dong Cheng.
At that time, the military and political power of the imperial court was firmly controlled by Cao Cao. If this matter was learned by Cao Cao, then Emperor Xian of Han would be deposed or killed. In order to hide his eyes, Emperor Xian of Han secretly sewed the edict into his own belt, and then gave the belt to Dong Cheng. It is really regrettable that the Emperor of the Great Han Dynasty should use such means to convey the news.
Dong Cheng, seeing the emperor's blood letter, wept silently, and immediately contacted the courtiers loyal to the Han Dynasty to discuss the uprising. Unfortunately, due to the whistleblowing of Qin Qingtong, a slave of dong cheng's family, the plan to assassinate Cao Cao was stillborn before it was carried out. When Cao Cao learned of this, he was furious and immediately showed Dong Cheng and others to the public. After Dong Cheng's death, Emperor Xian of Han interceded with Cao Cao on the grounds that Concubine Dong was pregnant. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao's killing rose up, and he regarded Emperor Xian of Han as nothing.
He directly beheaded Dong Guifei, resulting in a tragedy of one corpse and two lives. Emperor Xiandi's empress Dowager Fushou saw that Cao Cao was so ferocious and couldn't help but worry about her own safety. Therefore, she conspired with her father to kill Cao Cao and eliminate the troubles forever. In the nineteenth year of Jian'an (214), Empress Fu's attempt to murder Cao Cao was revealed. Cao Cao was furious and directly forced Emperor Xian of Han to depose Empress Fu, and then claustrophobic Empress Fu to death.
Pei Songzhi, a famous historian of the Southern Dynasty, also gave a detailed description of this incident when he annotated the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At that time, the angry Cao Cao sent Hua Xin to lead soldiers into the palace and kill Empress Fu in front of Emperor Xian of Han. After Empress Fu was killed, the empress's seat was vacant. Cao Cao feared that Emperor Xian of Han would once again conspire with others to murder him, so he simply married his daughter to Emperor Xian of Han as empress.
In this way, Emperor Xiandi of Han's every move was under control.
In the end, Cao Cao wanted to use this to buy the hearts and minds of the people and stabilize the situation.
At that time, although the Han Room was sluggish, after all, Fukuzawa Broadcasting had been passed down for nearly four hundred years. In the hearts of most people, the Liu royal family is still the orthodoxy of the world. Anyone who wants to usurp imperial power is a traitor. In such a situation, It was not enough for Cao Cao to merely verbally support the Han Dynasty. Moreover, after Dong Guifei and Empress Fu were killed, he was already slandering the whole world.
At this time, if Cao Cao did not want to deal with this matter well, then there would be more and more people opposing him. This was difficult for the ambitious Cao Cao to accept. Cao Cao did not want to be the target of public criticism, nor did he want to lose the hearts and minds of the people. Therefore, he decided to marry Emperor Xian of Han to prove his loyalty to the Han Dynasty.
By the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an (220), Cao Cao the Prince of Wei died and was succeeded by his son Cao Pi. At that time, although Sun Quan and Liu Bei were constantly committing crimes, the climate was basically not the same, and peace in the hinterland of the Central Plains was a foregone conclusion. It is already the people's desire to get rid of the old and establish a new dynasty. Various forces are pushing Cao Pi to act. Those Cao clan subordinates are also thinking about how to celebrate the crown and how to share a piece of the new dynasty.
Therefore, there were xiao ministers who forced the Han Emperor to follow Tang Yu's old practice and cede the throne to the King of Wei. Finally, on December 10, 220, in the first year of Yankang (220), Cao Pi forced Liu Xiechan to give him the throne, and Liu Xie told him to worship the ancestral temple, so that Zhang Yin could play the seal and the edict, and Zen was located in Cao Pi. Cao Pi ascended to the altar of Zen at the Fanyang Pavilion and accepted the jade seal, the emperor's throne. Cao Pi also left a kind word for Liu Xie: "The good things in the world, I can enjoy it with you." ”
Resources:
[Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Later Han Shu Yuan Shao Biography"]