There have been many strange women in history, whether they are the four beautiful women who are the most beautiful in ancient and modern times, or many female bachelors with outstanding talents and knowledge, or the female heroes who are in high positions for the country and the people, they have all bloomed in the brilliant long river of history, and they have bloomed their own brilliance.
The strange woman we want to talk about today is the Queen Guo of the Three Kingdoms period, who has experienced twists and turns in her life, not only beautiful, but also brilliant in wisdom, step by step from a palace person to an empress, never gave birth to a son in her life, but is still respected as the empress.
What was the final outcome of Guo Zhao
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Historically
She really was
foster child
Emperor Wei Ming
Pushing to the end of the road
Photo: Stills of Guo Zhao and his adopted son Cao Rui
First, a lifetime of twists and turns
The name Queen Guo sounds very arrogant, but it is not her real name, her surname is Queen Guo, so she is called Queen Guo, and what she is called, there is no real record. Of all the literature about Queen Guo, only the Book of Wei has speculated that Queen Guo's real name is Guo Zhao, which is also the name of Queen Guo in a series of film and television dramas.
The reason why there is the title of Queen Guo is mainly because when she was born, she had a vision from heaven, and when she was a girl, she was extremely beautiful and extremely intelligent, so Guo Zhao's father named his daughter "Queen".
I don't know what Guo Zhao's father really thought, if he took such a word after Wu Zetian, I am afraid that the child would not be able to jump for a long time.
Photo: Stills from Guo Zhao's teenage years
Guo Zhao was born in a family of eunuchs, and her father was Nanjun Taishou, equivalent to the position of prefect in later generations, and her status was still relatively high. However, due to the chaotic social pattern at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, even with such a birth, Guo Zhao's later period still could not live a stable life.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Guo Zhao's parents were killed in the war, and only Guo Zhao saved his life because he was fostered in someone else's home. After Cao Cao was made the Duke of Wei by Emperor Xian of Han, Guo Zhao entered the Eastern Palace and became a palace official.
At this time, Guo Zhao's double decade was beautiful and moving, and Cao Pi, who was three years younger than her, was the age of youth and ignorance, and he admired him endlessly. Fortunately, Cao Pi's father was Cao Cao, and his hobbies were not the same as others, otherwise there would be a chance for his turn.
Later, Cao Pi and his brother had a quarrel with each other over power, and Guo Zhao continued to give advice to Cao Pi at this time, so that Cao Pi had an absolute advantage in the conquest.
I have to say that although Guo Zhao's father's heart is too big to do, Guo Zhao's is indeed worthy of the two words of queen, and the strategy is not at all inferior to the strategist who was already famous at that time, and Cao Pi can become the son of the world, which is indispensable to Guo Zhao's advice.
Photo: Guo Zhao's stills for Cao Pi's advice
Second, after being favored
Cao Pi was very fond of Guo Zhao, and when Cao Pi was still a son of the world, Guo Zhao's brother was a county official at the time, but he committed the evil act of embezzling the property of the government, which was a death sentence according to the law of the time. In order not to make Guo Zhao sad, Cao Pi repeatedly pleaded with the officials in charge of the case, hoping that they would secretly pardon Guo Zhao's brother in private.
However, the officials were reluctant to do so, so they played all the letters written by Cao Pi to him to intercede, resulting in the failure to save Guo Zhao's brother.
In order to avenge Guo Zhao, Cao Pi asked his subordinates to join this official fiercely, so that this official was dismissed.
After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he directly crowned Guo Zhao as a lady and a nobleman, second only to the queen and empress, and his status could be described as above ten thousand people under one person, and Guo Zhao was the leader of the six palaces.
Photo: Cao Pi is very fond of Guo Zhao
Not only that, Cao Pi also took into account Guo Zhao's family, regarded Guo Zhao as a person within the nine clans of the Cao clan, and rewarded guo Zhao's relatives accordingly, and even one of Guo Zhao's distant cousins was promoted to the position of Loose Rider, which at that time must be a knowledgeable person to be eligible for the position, so Guo Zhao's cousin also became the only one among all the Confucians.
Unfortunately, Cao Pi is not a dedicated man, after all, he holds such a big power, what kind of woman he wants does not have ah, he can't put all his thoughts on Guo Zhao, although Guo Zhao knows that Shuda is concerned about things, but there is still a fierce enemy in the harem, that is, Zhen Mi.
In order to eliminate this opponent, Guo Zhao took pains to eliminate this opponent, and finally in 221 AD, Guo Zhao gave Cao Pijin a rumor and slandered Lady Zhen, so Cao Pi killed Lady Zhen in a fit of rage.
Since then, Guo Zhao began to truly control the harem in his hands, and later Cao Pi was even more forceful in his efforts to make Guo Zhao an empress.
Image: Guo Zhao was made empress still
Third, the good stories of the ages
To say that Guo Zhao's black spot, it is estimated that only Zhen Mi is relatively large, and after she became the empress, many things were done well. For example, when some of her relatives wanted to intermarry with other countries, she warned her relatives not to use power to oppress people, and to find some women who were right in the house and could support each other to live a life.
Her nephew wanted to marry a concubine, and she said that now that the war was raging and the number of women was scarce, women should be given to military officers as much as possible, and powerful people could not take concubines again. Moreover, Guo Zhao also constantly warned his relatives that few of the families during the Han Dynasty could be passed down to the present, all because of arrogance and luxury, and eventually the family was destroyed.
In order to assist Cao Pi, Guo Zhao managed the Eastern Palace in an orderly manner, and was very filial to the empress dowager, and his filial piety was far and wide. Compared with Zhen Mi's methods, Guo Zhao was very gentle with other concubines, even if those concubines accidentally made mistakes, Guo Zhao did not think much about them, and sometimes helped them cover up their mistakes, so as not to punish them.
If the concubine provoked Cao Pi's anger, Guo Zhao would also persuade Cao Pi that even if other concubines were favored, Guo Zhao would not be jealous, but would reward them.
Under Guo Zhao's governance, the six palaces were orderly and harmonious.
Photo: Guo Zhao and Zhen Mi stills of filial piety to the empress
Fourth, the mystery of death
However, such a person, the cause of death is different, some people say that she died a normal death, some people say that she committed suicide, and even more that Guo Zhao was killed by her adopted son Cao Rui. In the Wei Luo and Han Jin Chunqiu, it is recorded that when the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui traced the cause of death of his own mother, Lady Li informed Cao Rui of the truth, so after Cao Rui killed Guo Zhao, he dressed Guo Zhao exactly like When Lady Zhen died.
Another theory is that Cao Rui asked Guo Zhao how his mother died, and after Guo Zhao told him the truth, Cao Rui killed Guo Zhao in a rage and made her look the same as Zhen Mi's hair before being buried.
However, in the Twenty-second Chronicle of History, there are doubts about these two statements, saying that the things said in the two books contradict each other.
Nine years have passed since Cao Rui ascended the throne to Guo Zhao's death, and if Cao Rui wanted to avenge his mother, he would not have waited so long.
Moreover, although Cao Rui hated Guo Zhao for killing his mother, he only drove Guo Zhao to live in Xuchang, saying that Cao Rui killed him was just a rumor. Moreover, in the "Ming Emperor's Chronicle" and "Guo Hou Biography", it is all said that "the emperor and empress dowager collapsed", and there is no description of the murder, so Guo Zhao was not killed by Cao Rui.
Photo: Guo Zhao prepares to bury stills
In the "Kaiyuan Zhanjing", Guo Zhao was described as "no disease is sudden collapse", and Cao Rui used a "violent disaster" in the lament book written to Guo Zhao, so there will be rumors that Cao Rui killed Guo Zhao.
Article author: Dahui
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