Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and Cao Cao were in a three-pronged position, but Cao Cao did not become emperor until his death, but his son Cao Pi took the throne.
However, to everyone's surprise, Cao Pi, the first emperor of the Great Wei, died not long after he ascended the throne. Some experts have studied his daily habits and say that it is already a miracle that Cao Pi can live to be 40 years old.
So what did Cao Pi do after becoming emperor, was someone doing it or was it caused by himself, so that the experts said such words?
Hold the Son of Heaven to order the princes
In 190, when the group of heroes rose together, among which Dong Zhuo was the only family, Dong Zhuo at that time could be described as quite extravagant, and the words of Jiuchi Meat Forest were not just talk.
In the end, all forces rose up and forced Dong Zhuo to hold Emperor Xian of Han hostage and flee to Chang'an, during which many of Dong Zhuo's army rebelled, and it was really a war at that time.
At that time, Cao Cao was extremely difficult to start a business, but after Emperor Xian of Han came to Guanzhong, Cao Cao saw an opportunity, you know, at that time, Cao Cao only had three cities left in Yanzhou.
At that time, Cao Cao wanted to compete with Yuan Shao for this hegemony, but he had no countermeasures, and after Emperor Han Xian came to Guanzhong , Cao Cao thought of using Emperor Han Xian to improve his status and then attack Yuan Shao's power.
At that time, Emperor Xian of Han was really miserable, after coming to Guanzhong, he could only feed himself by digging wild vegetables, in addition to starvation, some of the ministers accompanying him were killed by the enemy.
Emperor Xian of Han asked various princes for help, but did not receive help.
At this time, Cao Cao appeared, and he brought Emperor Xian of Han to Xudu, a move that successfully expanded Cao Cao's sphere of influence.
Cao Cao, taking advantage of the name of Emperor Xian of Han and his own growing strength, destroyed Yuan Shao and gradually unified the surrounding region.
At this time, Cao Cao forced Emperor Xian of Han to set the state capital in Yecheng and canonized him as the Duke of Wei.
Cao Cao also successfully achieved "holding the Son of Heaven to order the princes", at that time, Cao Cao, although not the emperor, was better than the emperor, and Emperor Han Xian gradually became a puppet emperor.
After the power in his hands increased, Cao Cao gradually began to be dissatisfied with only being the prime minister, and he began to have other ideas.
But at that time, Emperor Han Xian, although he was a puppet emperor, but he was an emperor after all, he still had a lot of appeal.
Cao Cao wanted to be called emperor, his resistance was considerable, after all, he was different from Liu Bei, Liu Bei was a Han clan relative, and the name of the emperor was justified, and Cao Cao did not have any excuse to convince the world to call the emperor, so he could only temporarily shelve the idea of calling the emperor.
Cao Cao was 61 years old at the time, and after the idea of claiming emperor was temporarily put aground, he began to think about the matter of heir.
At that time, Cao Cao preferred four sons, namely Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, Cao Ang, and Cao Chong.
Cao Cao most wanted Cao Ang to be his heir, but because he robbed Zhang Xiu's uncle's wife, causing Zhang Xiu to rebel, Cao Ang died directly in battle to protect Cao Cao, and Cao Cao's general Dian Wei died at that time.
After that, Cao Cao discovered that Cao Chong was also quite intelligent, and from the well-known story "Cao Chong called the elephant", we can see that Cao Chong was very brainy at that time, but Cao Chong died young and died at the age of 13.
At that time, there were still two candidates left, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi, quite talented, but especially liked to drink, Cao Cao was afraid that Cao Zhi would drink and make mistakes in the future, and Cao Pi at that time had the help of Sima Yi, Wu Qian and others, and finally Cao Cao chose Cao Pi to inherit his position.
In 220, Cao Cao died of illness, and in December of the same year, Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor and established the state as Great Wei.
The reason why Cao Pi was able to become emperor so quickly was inseparable from Cao Cao's arrangement before his death, and when Cao Cao was alive, it could be said that it was his greatest wish to become emperor.
However, he did not become emperor until Cao Cao's death, and after Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, in order to fulfill his father's last wish, he accelerated the process of becoming emperor.
Cao Cao's talent before his death also provided a lot of convenience for Cao Pi's road to becoming emperor, in addition to adhering to the shadow of his father's generation, Cao Pi himself was also quite excellent. He learned to shoot arrows at the age of six, and at the age of fourteen, he could walk through Yang at 100 steps, and he was familiar with the Five Classics, the Four Books, the Shiji, and the Book of Han.
Cao Pi claimed that the empress was the emperor, and Cao Pi called the emperor in the early days, advocating conquest, and even twice attacking Wu, and reaching cooperation with the state of Wu to destroy Liu Bei.
Cao Pi's political initiatives
At the beginning of his reign, Cao Pi proposed the abolition of Zhongchang Shi and Xiaohuangmen, and strictly forbade eunuchs to become officials. Moreover, in order to ease the relations between the ten ethnic groups, he founded the nine-pin zhongzheng system and returned the use of human rights to the central government.
It can be said that Cao Pi was still a relatively capable emperor at the beginning of his reign, but unfortunately he only served as emperor for seven years and died at the age of 40.
Later, a special historian studied Cao Pi's daily life and finally came to a shocking conclusion: it is already a miracle that he can live to be forty years old!
Many people will wonder, how could a Ninety-Five Venerable, who lived in the palace with fine clothes and food, die so early?
Many people know that Cao Pi's father, that is, Cao Cao, has a big flaw, that is, he is lustful, and his son Cao Ang was killed in battle because he robbed Zhang Xiu's uncle's wife because he was.
Cao Pi knew the stakes, but he didn't think so, and even went further and further down the road. After Cao Cao died, Cao Pi put all the beauties under Cao Cao's account into the harem, and sang night and night.
The beauty made Cao Pi gradually addicted, and the unrestrained favor gradually dragged down Cao Pi's body. In addition to being, there were many factors that led to Cao Pi's early death, and Cao Pi's mother suffered from severe diabetes, which can be inherited.
Cao Pi was a man with a very sweet tooth, and it is said that he even dipped his meat in sugar, and especially loved grapes. It may also be because of the love of sweets, and the genetic disease itself, which leads to early death.
Moreover, the medical conditions at that time were very poor, and Cao Pi's physical condition was not good when he was young, and the empress worked day and night, which made the already not very good foundation worse.
Before his death, Cao Pi personally conquered the Kingdom of Wu, and suffered from wind chill during the conquest, and at this time, Cao Pi's body could not hold up, which directly led to his subsequent death.
Moreover, the medical conditions at that time were very poor, and Cao Pi's physical condition was not good when he was young, and the empress worked day and night, which made the already not very good foundation worse.
Before his death, Cao Pi personally conquered the Kingdom of Wu, and suffered from wind chill during the conquest, and at this time, Cao Pi's body could not hold up, which directly led to his subsequent death.
After Cao Ying succeeded to the throne, he could also be said to be a wise lord, and under his leadership, the people lived and worked in peace, and he even obstructed Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition many times.
However, Cao Ying and his father Cao Pi and grandfather Cao Cao have one thing in common with the Cao family, that is, they are, and even what Cao Ying did is even more shocking than the previous two combined.
After Cao Ying ascended the throne, he recruited tens of thousands of beautiful women in the harem.
However, although there are many beautiful women in the harem, Cao Ying is desolate and lewd, and she was hollowed out by wine early, and she did not have many sons.
It may also be that the sky is about to die in the Cao family, and Cao Ying's two sons died early, forcing Cao Ying to adopt only two sons.
And Cao Ying died in her 30s because of her absurdity, her health is getting worse and worse, coupled with the blow of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person.
After Cao Ying's death, the Wei state of the Cao family officially began the process of changing hands to the Sima family, and Cao Pi made his adopted son Cao Fang crown prince before his death, because Cao Fang was still young, so Sima Yi and the then general Cao Shuang began to exercise the emperor's power for Cao Fang at that time.
At that time, Cao Shuang refused to share this power with Sima Yi, so he suppressed Sima Yi openly and secretly
Sima Yi was secretly accumulating strength, and Sima Yi already had plans to establish his own state at that time.
At that time, the state was that there were fewer and fewer disciples in the Cao family, but the Sima family gradually rose, and Sima Yi crushed the conspiracies of many pro-Cao forces, and finally destroyed Cao Shuang.
From the perspective of Sima Yi and Cao Cao, the talent of culture and martial arts can be said to be indistinguishable, but the juniors of the Sima family and the descendants of the Cao family, it is really the difference between clouds and mud.
Cao Ying, Cao Fang, Cao Xin, and the last emperor Cao Huan were all puppets in the hands of the descendants of the Sima family, and the Sima family, Sima Yi's son Sima Shi, led troops to defend against foreign enemies, and even deposed the emperor Cao Fang.
Another son, Sima Zhao, even directly destroyed the state of Shu.
After Sima Zhao's death, Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan became emperor and established the Jin Dynasty.
Successfully held the rivers and mountains of the Cao family in his hands, which shows that the ability of the juniors is excellent or not, which is related to how long the rivers and mountains he has laid can last, and if Cao Cao can see what happened later, I don't know if he will regret not cultivating the descendants well.
epilogue
As the first emperor of the Wei Dynasty, Cao Pi's early stage can be said to be successful, backed by Cao Cao's big tree and rich resources under his hands.
However, it was because of the sound and horses, indulgence, which eventually led to an untimely death, and most of the descendants of the Cao family were like this, greedy for pleasure after ascending the throne, and gradually forgot their original intention.
If Cao Pi could have remembered his original intention, maybe the result would have been different.
Therefore, it is said that "do not forget the original intention, always put it".
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