You have your virtuousness and gentleness, I have my cleverness and wisdom; you can coax your mother-in-law to turn around, and I can keep my husband around. Guo Zhao has a pair of beautiful big eyes, and the eyes of women can capture the hearts of men. With these eyes, Guo Quickly let the great talent Cao Pibai fall under the pomegranate skirt.
Guo Zhao was born in March of the first year of the reign of Emperor Zhongping of the Han Dynasty, into a family of eunuchs. Her father, Guo Yong, was once an official in Nan County.
Since childhood, Guo Zhao has been favored by his father, he saw this daughter so intelligent, often out of the ordinary, said that this daughter has the demeanor of "the king of women", and even gave her a "queen" word, so Guo Zhao is also known as "Queen Guo".
Although she was born well, she was born at an inopportune time, the world was in turmoil, and her hometown was the main battlefield of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and her parents, brother, and brother died one after another. The young Guo clan was helpless and went to the Tong daihou family to become a slave.
Hou Guo was taken as a palace person by Cao Pi, although he had no background and no connections, but only a palace girl at the bottom, but this was enough.
Before Guo Zhao was favored by Cao Pi, Cao Pi's wife was Zhen Luo, who was very powerful and powerful, she was not only beautiful in appearance, dignified and elegant, but also able to be a talented woman. For Cao Pi, who is also brilliant, he can be introduced as a confidant and communicate with each other.
The most important thing is that she is very filial to her mother-in-law Cao Pi's mother, Bian Shishi, and is deeply loved by the queen, which can be described as having both moral integrity and ability.
Guo Zhao entered the Cao family, and although he gradually captured Cao Pi's heart, Zhen Luo kept Cao Pi's backyard safe and stable.
However, with the crisis that Cao Pi had to compete for the position of shizi, Guo Zhao's advantages gradually became prominent. Guo Zhao is a Lingzhi that grows on a cliff face, while Zhen Luo is a child who grew up in a greenhouse.
Guo Zhao's mastery of people's hearts and the world is naturally much more perfect than Zhen Luo's, and in the case of Cao Pi's anxiety, Guo Zhao's plans and methods make Cao Pi's eyes light up, and with the Needle of the Sea God, he will be able to deal with another powerful competitor, Cao Zhi.
Can help Cao Pi complete the great cause, will inevitably make Cao Pi fall in love, Guo Zhao has replaced Zhen Luo's position in Cao Pi's heart, originally men are lustful, Zhen Luo is beautiful, Guo Zhao is of course not bad, the key is that everything Guo Zhao did later made Cao Pi look right.
In 220 AD, cao pi succeeded Cao Pi as the prince of Cao Pi and became the king of Wei, and Guo Zhao was given the title of "lady".
After Cao Pi succeeded the King of Wei, he still divided the world into three parts, and he still had to continue to send troops to march and continue to seek a broader cause in the world. Because Guo Zhao was clever and was his own brainstorm, Cao Pi took her to Luoyang, and left the Zhen Luo people he had loved in Yecheng.
Cao Pi was called empress dowager, and the question of the empress became a focal point. Zhen Luo still has the strength to be elected, and she has two relatively big advantages, with her mother-in-law Bian clan covering her and her son Cao Rui as the eldest.
But how can you break a good deck of cards?
It's jealousy! Jealousy burned itself like a fire.
If Zhen Luo can have a normal heart and an equal heart to deal with this matter, others will be impeccable, but she is just jealous and resentful, because of resentment, she can't see through the situation, she is too hasty, and she must know the big truth of "not arguing for the sake of it".
Zhen Luo couldn't wait, several years of alone empty houses made her lonely and unbearable, teardrops lightly into the intestines, a letter of plain book tears two lines. So he wrote the famous "Tang Shangxing" in the history of poetry:
Pu sheng my pond country, its leaves are far away! Can do benevolence and righteousness,
Mo Ruo's concubine knew it. The mouths of the people are shoveled with gold, and the king is separated.
When Nian Jun came to me, he was always sad and miserable. Want to see the king color,
Sadness. Nian Jun is often miserable and cannot sleep at night.
……
Out is also full of sorrow, and in is also full of sorrow. There are many sad winds in the borderlands,
Trees are repaired. From the king to the unique pleasure, prolong the life of thousands of autumns.
This poem originally expressed the feeling of longing, the pain of lovesickness, and aroused Cao Pi's former love, but Cao Pi read the resentment from it. The inability to rain and dew evenly stains shows that Cao Pi's ability to control the overall situation and stabilize the rear defense is still lacking.
Cao Pi couldn't help but be furious after reading it, and Guo Zhao, seeing that the time was ripe, fanned the flames on the sidelines, so in June of the second year of the Huang Dynasty (221), he died in Zhen Luo.
A generation of talented women and beauties has been destroyed in this way.
And the next operation of Guo Zhao, but doomed to his later tragedy.
After Zhen Luo's death, Empress Guo, fearing that Zhen Luo's ghost would accuse herself of the King of Yan Luo, ordered that Zhen Luo's body be given special treatment during burial, with her hair draped over her face and her mouth covered with chaff to make her soul suffer.
Harem competition is not terrible, what you are afraid of is the "loss of heart", you have a bad mind, you do something lacking in virtue, can heaven let you go? Of course not!
Guo Zhao is smart and can strategize, but unfortunately this matter has dug a big hole for himself.
Guo Zhao's purpose was of course to be an empress, and in the third year of the Huang Dynasty (222 AD), Cao Pi proposed a bill to crown Guo Shi as empress, but was opposed by some ministers.
At the crucial time, she saw Guo Zhao's cleverness, and she adopted a strategy of retreating into advance, writing to Emperor Cao Pi and saying: I really do not have the discipline of Emperor E and Nüying; nor do I have the virtues of Qi's concubines and Ren's clan, and it is not appropriate to serve as an empress.
However, Cao Pi ignored the objections of his ministers and insisted on making Guo Zhao empress.
In order to make up for the "crime" committed, Guo Zhao, who became empress, paid attention everywhere, strictly disciplined people, and was diligent and thrifty, as if he was a "moral model".
However, he still did not make up for his own faults and blocked the "revenge" of cause and effect.
In 226, Cao Pi died and Cao Rui succeeded to the throne as Emperor Ming of Wei, with Cao Rui honoring Guo Zhao as empress dowager.
Cao Rui learns the cause of her mother's death and learns that she was inhumanly tortured after her death.
Emperor Ming wants revenge! Guo Zhao, under the persecution of Emperor Ming, committed suicide.
Ignoring Guo Zhao's nurturing grace, Cao Rui also adopted the appearance of his mother Zhen Luo's burial of the dead Guo Zhao, with a shawl, hair covering his face, and chaff stuffed in his mouth.
I don't believe it when it comes to saying there's no cycle in this world; I don't believe it if there's no cause and effect in this world.
Isn't Guo Zhao's example a good illustration? Then, I created my own karma, and I want to make up for it by doing "good things" to offset it, and you want to be beautiful!
On the road of life, we must treat everything we encounter with a normal heart and an equal heart, and if we violate our conscience to harm others, we will only dig a pit for ourselves.
