In the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211 AD), the physiognomist Zhu Jianping showed Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Pi a photo, saying that he could live to be eighty years old. In fact, however, the first emperor of Cao Wei, Emperor Wen of Wei, lived only 40 years (actually only 39 years old) before dying.
Some people asked Zhu Jianpingxingshi about the crime of Xiangjian because of this, saying that he was not accurate: "What kind of physiognomy, it is simply a mixed meal, deceiving the world and stealing his name." ”
Zhu Jianping replied unhurriedly: "Alas, you only need to see what our emperors have done, and you will not say this about me." ”
So, what did Emperor Cao Pi of Wei do? Make yourself so short-lived?
Cao Pi's father, Cao Cao Nengwen Nengwu, was a traitor in troubled times, a rare historical figure in history who combined politicians, military strategists and poets.
Lao Tzu is a hero and a good man, Cao Pi inherited his father's genes, and he is also very good, brave and resourceful, and extraordinary.
At a very young age, Cao Pi showed extraordinary intelligence.
In the second year of Jian'an (197), Cao Cao went home and said goodbye to Cao Pi, who was playing: "Dad is going to Nanyang to ask Zhang Xiu, you should be obedient at home, listen to your mother." ”
Cao Pi was very excited when he heard this, and said to his father: "I will also go and go into battle to kill the enemy!" ”
"No, you can't go."
"Brother (Cao Ang) can go, why can't I?" Cao Pi was not convinced.
"Your brother is 20 years old, you are only 10 years old, still a doll, knife and gun do not have long eyes, but it is not a joke." Cao Cao discouraged his son and said.
Cao Pi was anxious when he heard this, stepped forward and grabbed his father's clothes, and said firmly: "I am the eldest husband, and I am not afraid of anything!" ”
Cao Cao was amused, and said in his heart that this kid had a chance, so let him go out to exercise and exercise. As a result, the battle went smoothly, and as soon as Cao Cao's soldiers arrived, Zhang Xiu was frightened and surrendered to Cao Cao under the persuasion of the military master.
But Cao Cao was carried away by the victory and asked his subordinates to go out to have fun for themselves and want to relax. Cao Cao's nephew Cao Anmin gave his uncle a bad idea and called Zhang Xiu's young aunt over.
Cao Anmin said to his uncle: "Zhang Xiu's aunt is very beautiful, beautiful as a flower, and her husband died at a young age, and she is living alone, which is very suitable for her uncle." ”
As soon as Cao Cao heard that this was a good idea, he nodded in agreement.
Aunt Zhang Xiu's beauty is indeed worthy of the name, so that Cao Cao fell in love at first sight, could not extricate himself, did not consider the influence at all, and left people in the army.
Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu's aunt talked about wine all day, but they didn't ask about business.
There is no impermeable wall in this world, this matter was known by Zhang Xiu, and the heart said that Cao A is too unauthentic to hide from you, just formed a group with you, you bullied my aunt, no, I want to teach this guy who does not speak shame.
Zhang Xiu could not swallow this breath and led his troops to launch a surprise attack on Cao Ying, who was defenseless in the gentle countryside and was caught off guard. Under the protection of his subordinates, Cao Cao escaped and saved his life. However, his men were not so lucky, and Cao Cao's sons Cao Ang, Cao Pi, and nephew Cao Anmin disappeared, and the right-hand man Dian Wei also died under the swords and guns of the rebels.
After Cao Cao broke out, he cried loudly, saying that the price of finding excitement this time was too high, how to explain to his wife after going back?
At this moment, a doll ran over on a war horse, and when he saw Cao Cao, he immediately turned over and dismounted.
Cao Cao saw that this doll he knew by himself, it was Cao Pi, the eldest son of Yan. It was later confirmed that Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang and nephew Cao Anmin died in battle, but the ten-year-old Cao Pi was not afraid of danger, rushed left and right in the chaotic army, killed him, and escaped death.
This shows two points, one is that Cao Pi is resourceful and strong in martial arts, and second, Cao Pi has good physical fitness and excellent psychological quality.
Cao Cao looked at it and was overjoyed, Cao Pi, this kid is too much like himself, he is a good seedling, and he must be specially cultivated.
It is said that Cao Cao's sons are better than one, except for Cao Ang and Cao Pi, Cao Chong and Cao Zhi are not mediocre, they are all capable of writing and martial arts.
Cao Pi also had a son, named Cao Zhang, who was a rare military general with high martial arts and brave crowns, nicknamed "Huang Xuer". However, Cao Chang was brave, lacking in wisdom, and unsuitable for his successor.
Cao Ang was killed in battle, and Cao Chong died when he was a minor. As a result, only Cao Pi and his younger brother Cao Zhi were eligible to inherit Cao Cao's career.
Cao Pi was the eldest son of Concubine and indeed very talented, and Cao Cao had long identified him as his successor. However, later Cao Cao discovered that his youngest son Cao Zhi's talent seemed to be far above Cao Pi, and he was better than his brother in all aspects, so he began to hesitate, not knowing who to let inherit his career.
Cao Zhi saw that the opportunity was coming, work hard, maybe his father would let him take over. And Cao Pi is the eldest son of Yan, so naturally he will not give up the position of heir. As a result, a battle for déjà vu successors that would emerge in all dynasties unfolded between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi.
According to historical records, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi had a strong think tank behind them.
The leader of Cao Pi's think tank was the battle-hardened and sophisticated Sima Yi, whose members included Huan Ji, Xing Yi, Wu Zhi, and Jia Xu.
The representative figure of Cao Zhi's team is Yang Xiu, a talented young talent, whose members include Ding Liao, Ding Yi, Kong Gui, Yang Jun and so on.
It is generally believed that Sima Yi played little role in the battle for the conquest, but it was not. Sima Yi became the crown prince in the second year of Cao Pi's appointment as crown prince of Wei, and was in charge of Sasuke Cao Pi. Whenever he encountered a major event, Cao Pi had Sima Yi come up with ideas and obey his words, which was a digression, and I will not describe it too much here.
We only need to know that this battle for the crown prince ended in Cao Pi's victory.
On the surface, it is the victory of Cao Pi's think tank, but in fact, it is still Cao Pi's personal victory.
Cao Cao is not a comatose monarch, he has the ability to discriminate, if it were not for Cao Pi being better and more suitable for succession, he would definitely not choose Cao Pi just because the other party was the eldest son of Concubine. Because in comparison, Cao Pi is more courageous, more like Cao Cao, and in terms of liking women, Cao Pi is also strikingly similar to his father.
Heroes love beauty, which is understandable, but Cao Cao has a characteristic, that is, he loves other people's wives.
For example, Guan Yu took a fancy to Du Shi, the wife of Lü Bu's subordinate Qin Yilu, and entrusted Cao Cao to reward Du Shi to himself after defeating Lü Bu; When Cao Cao went there, he saw that Du Shi was too beautiful, and then forgot his friend's instructions and took it for himself.
As for the matter between Cao Cao and Aunt Zhang Xiu, as mentioned earlier, I will not repeat it.
As the eldest son, Cao Pi inherited his father's "fine tradition" and also had a soft spot for other people's wives.
In the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Cao Pi accompanied his father to attack Yecheng and showed great courage in battle. Cao Cao was overjoyed and offered to reward his son.
Cao Pi said: "I don't want anything, can you reward me with Zhen, the wife of Yuan Xi (Yuan Shao's second son)." ”
When Cao Cao heard this, he stood there. He also knew that Zhen was a stunning beauty, like a celestial fairy, and it was said that every night when she slept, someone would cover her with a jade robe. I have heard of his name for a long time, and I have long coveted it, and I also have the meaning of owning it, but now after listening to my son's request, it is difficult to accept it for a while.
But after thinking carefully, he promised to reward Zhen to his son.
Cao Cao believes that this son is too much like himself, and the more like himself, the more promising the Cao family's hegemony is.
So, does Cao Pi's short life have anything to do with a good woman?
On the surface, there seems to be no necessary connection, Cao Pi died of a cold.
According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, in the winter of 225 AD, Cao Pi went to Yangzhou to inspect the troops and prepare for the next invasion of Wu, but because the temperature plummeted, the river was already frozen and could not be used by boats.
But Cao Pi also unfortunately fell ill with a cold and set off to return to Beijing. Perhaps out of foreboding, Cao Pi stayed in Yongqiu (雍qiu, in present-day Qi County, Henan) and met his younger brother Cao Zhi.
Probably thinking that it was too hurried to live a lifetime, everything was floating clouds, or the heaviest family affection, Cao Pi gave Cao Zhi, who was once a rival, 500 more households as a reward.
After Cao Pi returned to Luoyang, although the best doctors gave him the best medicine, his condition did not improve, and it was up and down. After struggling until the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Cao Pi finally couldn't survive and died.
Some historians have said that Cao Pi died of influenza. However, some experts have raised different opinions, saying that if Cao Pi only suffered from a cold, according to the medical conditions at that time, he would not have died, and he was likely to suffer from some underlying disease, plus complications, this disease is acute tuberculosis.
Cao Pi was only 40 years old when he died, in the prime of his life, his body was great, his immunity was very strong, and tuberculosis would only "bully" weak women, children and the elderly.
After analysis, experts believe that the reason why Cao Pi died young can be boiled down to 4 words: excessive indulgence.
Experts do not say this out of thin air, but are fully grounded and draw conclusions based on Cao Pi's actions after Cao Cao's death.
History records that Cao Cao passed away in 220 AD, and as Cao Cao's heir, Cao Pi should be extremely sad and painful, turn grief into strength, bravely take on heavy burdens, and govern the country. But Cao Pi didn't seem so sad and still entertained.
One of the most obvious examples is that not long after Cao Cao's death, his bones were not cold, and Cao Pi, who was supposed to keep filial piety for his father, went to his hometown of Guan County with great joy, where he spent days drinking and drinking with the people around him.
What's more, after Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi couldn't wait to accept his father's favored concubines and make his father's old love his new love.
Once when Cao Pi fell ill, her biological mother, Mrs. Bian, went to visit her son, and she was surprised to find many familiar faces around Cao Pi. After taking a closer look, I found that they were all Cao Cao's concubines!
Empress Dowager Bian asked angrily, "When did these concubines come to you?" ”
Cao Pi actually said without guilt: "It's time to fall." "It means that not long after my father died, I brought them here while keeping filial piety.
Empress Dowager Bian was angry when she heard this, and angrily rebuked her son: "Dogs and mice don't eat Ruyu, and they should die!" "Daddy's woman, you dare to ask for it, what you kid did is so disgusting, the smelly meat after you die, dogs and mice will not eat."
Even the old mother couldn't stand it, which shows how Cao Pi is.
The above allusion comes from "The World Speaks New Language", if this article has an element of joke, we can also look at how the official history records Cao Pi's potential in this regard.
The Zizhi Tongjian once recorded that "to receive Zen, show the second daughter". Translated into modern Chinese, Cao Pi married two daughters as concubines after accepting Emperor Xian's concession. Being so unkind to his father and the women of Emperor Han Xian, let alone the influence on ordinary officials and the daughters of ordinary people's families, Cao Pi couldn't wait to bring all the beauties of the whole world to a spring garden.
The historian Sun Sheng once said of Cao Pi: "The king of Wei not only chased the Han system, but also set up a feast for its great gifts, and set up a feast for the great mourning, and the foundation of the fall of kings at the beginning of the reign... To know the king's age. ”
This means that since Cao Pi accepted Zen Rang and inherited the Han system, it means that he followed the imperial rites. But now that Cao Cao's bones are not cold, Cao Pi should have kept filial piety and placed his thoughts on mourning, but he ate and drank so much, and played as he pleased, this is simply a loser, so Cao Pi's life expectancy ah, must be that the rabbit's tail can't grow.
Cao Pi's doing this is not only morally unjustifiable, but also bad for his own body, and his short life cannot be said to have nothing to do with indulgence.
In addition to being unfilial and lustful, Cao Pi also has a problem - alcoholism. At this point, Cao Pi also inherited his father's genes. Cao Cao loves to drink very much, otherwise he would not have left the ancient famous sentence: Wine as a song, what is life? How to solve the worry, only Du Kang.
Cao Pi drank as much as his father, leaving more poems about wine.
In Bill's "Poem": "The wine man gives three clears"; "Drink and stop drinking" in "Autumn Hu Xing"; "Drinking Laurel Wine" in "Artemisia on the Great Wall"; "But drink alcohol" in "How to Taste the Song"; In "Yu Zhao Composition Poem", "Yu Zhao Composition": "Rich food and starry Chen, the purpose of wine and jade":
Not only that, Cao Pi is also a promoter of wine, and after tasting Liangzhou wine, he was full of praise, and personally issued the "Liangzhou Wine Edict" for promotion. He spoke highly of Liangzhou grapes and wines, exaggerating that whenever he heard about wine, he would salivate and laugh.
Cao Pi indulges in lust and does not know how to be temperate, and in the long run, it is strange if there is no problem with his body, plus he is addicted to alcohol, which makes it even worse for his body.
Cao Pi did not care about his body, so much so that his untimely death had a negative impact on the transition of power, and as a result, the Sima family picked up a big leak and usurped Cao Wei Jiangshan in only 40 years.
If Cao Pi had not died so early, he would have consciously gradually weakened the Sima family, and history might have been rewritten.