As we all know, Cao Cao was a generation of "adulterous males" in the Three Kingdoms period, who finally established his own foundation by virtue of his humble origins, but although Cao Cao finally achieved hegemony, he only lived for 66 years before he died of head disease, and later his own Cao Wei was usurped by the Sima family.
Cao Cao was 66 years old when he died, this age was quite ok in the era of general short life in ancient times, but compared to Sima Yi who lived 73 years old, and Sima Fu lived at 93 years old, this gap is still very large, but Cao Cao is already considered to be an advanced age compared to his sons Cao Pi and Cao Rui, to know that Cao Pi did not even exceed 40 years old, Cao Rui only lived for 35 years, Cao Rui even did not have a biological son to succeed to the throne when he died, and he could only let his adopted son Cao Fang take the throne. There is another important reason why the Cao Wei regime was finally replaced by the Sima family, why did the Cao family live so short?
Short life for one reason
The first, identity, when the emperor is really too tired, although the emperor is high and powerful, has everything, but needs to pay more, get up earlier than the chicken, sleep later than the dog, this is the normal state of the emperor, after Cao Pi ascended the throne, it can be said that he is a good emperor, handling political affairs day and night. Coupled with the fact that the world is not very peaceful, Cao Pi, who inherited his father's suspicious character, guarded against this and that day long, and was tired of death, but he did not prevent the idea, which is also ridiculous.
Short life for two reasons
In fact, Cao Cao's descendants all have a common disease, that is, covetous harem. Cao Cao was a very famous "young woman control" in history, who was almost killed for robbing Zhang Xiu's aunt, and finally survived at the expense of Dianwei and his eldest son Cao Ang. Cao Cao's good wife We know that Cao Pi is a huge group of concubines, and even took his own mother, and was scolded by his old wife, "This pig and dog are not as good as", Cao Rui is even more playful, in the name of marrying a wife to a soldier, let the common people send their daughters over, and then he stays, ugly to the soldiers as wives. Twenty-eight good human body like crisp, waist sword slash fool, you do not short life who short life?
The above is the reason why Cao Cao's descendants are so short-lived, and it is not surprising to say that there are still many short-lived emperors in Chinese history, if they can live longer, perhaps Sima Yi will not have the opportunity to take away the glory that should belong to the Cao family, and perhaps Chinese history will be changed because of this. However, nothing is a if, this is the fate of the Cao Shi family, and it is also the key to the prosperity of the Sima family.