Empress Cao Jie of Han Xianmu, the daughter of Cao Cao the Prince of Wei and the sister of Emperor Cao Pi of Wei, entered the palace at the same time as her sister Cao Xian and sister Cao Hua to marry Emperor Xian of Han, becoming the last empress of the Han Empire that lasted for four hundred years.
[Empress Dowager Mu Cao of Wei, the daughter of Cao Cao of Wei.] In the eighteenth year of Jian'an, he was appointed to the three female xian, Jie, and Huawei's wives, and hired 50,000 horses with bundles of xuan, and the younger ones stayed in the country. Nineteen years, and worship as a nobleman. And the empress dowager was killed, and the next year, the festival was established as empress. ——Book of the Later Han Dynasty
Cao Caojin's daughter was made Empress Dowager Xian, and her identity was added from a regent to a layer of foreign relations, formally following the tradition of the regency of foreign relatives of the two Han Dynasties, or out of its mastermind, Shangshu Ling Xun Yu.
In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), the Han Xiandi Emperor Liu Xie wanted to murder Cao Cao's "Yidai Edict", and the relationship between the monarchs and the emperor deteriorated sharply, the person directly responsible, Dong Cheng, was killed, and his daughter Dong Guiren was also executed. Dong Guiren was several months pregnant at that time, so Liu Xie repeatedly interceded with Cao Cao to no avail.
Emperor Xian of Han: Liu Xie
Empress Fu Shou could not avoid the death of the rabbit, and with her father Fu Finished writing, saying how Cao Cao had brutally forced the imperial family, Liu Xie also deeply resented this matter, and asked Fu To unite with foreign ministers to instigate a new round of anti-Cao plots.
Emperor Xian of Han and his first empress: Fushou
After receiving a letter of help from his son-in-law, the emperor had no choice but to turn to Shangshu Ling Xunyu for help. As an intermediary of relative trust between both the Han dynasty and Cao Cao, Xun Yu was obviously extremely dissatisfied with The Actions of Lu (Zuo) Mang (Si) on Liu Xie's side, which was still unable to see the situation at this time, and temporarily concealed it. Fu Quan also showed this letter to his brother-in-law Fan Pu, but Fan Pu immediately went to cao cao to inform him, and Cao Cao considered that it was not suitable for Liu Xie to completely break his face at this time, and secretly raised his vigilance.
Shang Shu Ling: Xun Yu
After the Battle of Guandu and Cao Cao's great victory, Xun Yu thought about it, and after Fu Quan's father and daughter existed, it was obviously a great threat to his plan of "obeying the orders of the Son of Heaven and not being subject to him", in order to balance the interests of both the Han Dynasty and Cao Cao's hegemonic government, and to continue the Han Dynasty as far as possible, he said to Cao Cao, "Fu Hou is childless and evil, and once upon a time with his father, the words were ugly, and they should be abolished." Ming Gong can enter the daughter as empress". Cao Cao did not allow him to pass the pass easily, and asked him why he didn't say it before? Xun Yu was confused and had to plead guilty.
Because Xun Yu was the representative of the Yingchuan Shiren Clique and the people in Hainei were very highly regarded, Cao Cao did not mention this matter for the time being, and on the surface it seemed that the trust in Xun Yu was the same as before, but the knot in Xun Yu's heart had been buried. Xun Yu was a courtier but had two masters, and he could not be loyal to Cao Cao wholeheartedly, which was difficult for anyone in power to tolerate.
In the seventeenth year of Jian'an (212), because Xun Yu opposed Cao Cao's claim to the title of Duke of Wei, he was finally forced to die by giving him an empty food box.
However, the matter of "matching the emperor with a woman" mentioned earlier by Cao Cao was also regarded by Cao Cao as being able to add another layer of justified reasons to his hegemonic government, so it was also advisable to do so.
Duke Wei and Cheng Xiang: Cao Cao
In 213, Cao Cao officially called himself the Duke of Wei, and actually established the state of Wei, and the matter of the Han Dynasty was completely made public. Also in this year, Cao Cao simultaneously offered three daughters to Emperor Xian of Han into the harem to ease the relationship with Emperor Xian, and was fully prepared to make his own daughter empress. Xu Du Hanting paid 50,000 silk horses as a dowry for this, and at this time, Empress Fu's life also officially entered the countdown.
In March 214, Cao Cao's status as Duke of Wei was officially proclaimed as the Son of Heaven, above the princes, and was given the Title of Golden Seal, Akatsuki, and Yuanyou Crown.
In November, Cao Cao finally settled the account after the autumn, and on the grounds that Empress Fu and her father Fu had a grudge against her father Fu's faith more than ten years ago, he ordered Hua Xin Xi to enter the palace and kill Fu Shou, who had been the empress for twenty years, and the second prince born to him, as well as more than a hundred members of the Fu clan.
Empress Fu was given death
Cao Cao was a politician, and politicians must have their political purposes in doing great things, and it was precisely because Empress Fu, who was still called "childless and wasteless" by Xun Yu, gave birth to two concubines for Liu Xie for more than ten years, and was the first and second heirs of Liu Xie's undisputed throne, so her mother and son had already posed a threat to Cao's hegemonic government, and blocked the way for her daughter to become empress, so she had to die.
In contrast, empress Fu's "complaint incident" was just an excuse. Fu Guanlao died in the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209), but he was able to escape the disaster, and he died for this reason.
Two months later, in the first month of 215, Cao Jie became the new empress of the empire and was rewarded for this.
At this time, in addition to Liu Feng, the king of Nanyang, who died early in 200, Emperor Xian of Han also had four other princes alive, and three years ago they were respectively crowned, Liu Xi was the king of Jiyin, Liu Yi was the king of Shanyang, Liu Mi was the king of Jibei, and Liu Dun was the king of Donghai.
Obviously, Cao Cao, who had already initiated the usurpation procedure, did not really intend to make his daughter an empress for a long time, or to make his grandson the future emperor of the Han Dynasty, so he did not exterminate these princes.
Another year later, in April of the twenty-first year of Jian'an (216), Cao Cao officially claimed the title of King of Wei, tore to pieces of the last layer of the Han Dynasty's "non-Liu Bu Wang" fig leaf, and also killed liu xi the prince of Lang (the same person as Liu Xi the prince of Jiyin; this Liu Xi was the son of liu Rong, the former king of Lang), for reasons that the history of liu was not recorded, and it can also be proved that the princes surnamed Liu at this time were nothing more than things to be slaughtered by Cao Cao.
Four years later, Cao Cao fell ill and died. Cao Pi, the King of Wei and the Chancellor of The Imperial Household, precisely because of his ability and prestige, was far from being comparable to that of his father, and only by obtaining the position of the righteous Son of Heaven as soon as possible could he command the whole country, so he hurriedly accelerated the process of usurpation.
Liu Xie, the Emperor of Han Xian, who had long since lost any power and resembled a doll, could only be at the mercy of him, and sent the imperial master Zhang Yin to hold the festival and serve the seal, and repeatedly begged for the abdication of the throne to Cao Pi. Cao Pi also "resigned many times in a row, and finally because of the insistence of Liu Xie and the ministers of the Gongqing, he followed it." The Han Dynasty fell and the Wei Dynasty was founded.
Emperor Wen of Wei: Cao Pi
Pei Songzhi's note quotes in the "Biography of the Emperor Xian" detailing the various performances of a number of ministers and ministers in the succession ceremony of the two emperors at that time, and everyone was working intensively to make a serious play, trying to perform a beautiful talk that could rival the style of the ancient Yao Shun Zen dynasty. What a complete success of the annual costume drama!
Cao Pi made Liu Xie the Duke of Shanyang and gave him preferential treatment in the fiefdom of Shanyang, such as "offering sacrifices with the courtesy of the Son of Heaven, not being a subject, not bowing down to worship, and sacrificing to the temple such as the Han system", and demoting his four sons to the title of Marquis.
Liu Xie was given the title of Duke of Shanyang by Cao Pi, and Cao Jie was renamed the Duke of Shanyang, and followed Liu Xie to live in the "State of Shanyang", with The City of Turbid deer as its capital, and run their small principality.
Four years later, Cao Pi ordered five hundred households for his sister "Tang Muyi", and specially named his niece Liu Man the Princess of Changle County, five hundred households, which was also the only rewarded liu Xie's children after Cao Pi ascended the throne. Cao Pi probably also used this to express his appeasement to his sister and his own apologies as an elder brother.
Ten years later, Liu Xie, the Duke of Shanyang, died and was posthumously honored as the "Emperor of Filial Piety" of the Han Dynasty and buried in chanling as a Han Tianzi. Seventy-five years later, Liu Kang's grandson Liu Qiu was killed in the "Yongjia Rebellion" of Wuhu Chaohua, and the Principality of Shanyang was removed.
After Liu Xie's death, Cao Jie lived alone for more than twenty years, and Wei Jingyuan died in June of the first year (260), and was posthumously honored by Emperor Wei as Empress Xianmu, and was buried with Liu Xie in the Zen Mausoleum, and the funeral rites were like the Han system.