In 220 AD, Cao Pi usurped Han.
Cao Pi usurped the throne
At this time, the last empress of the Eastern Han Dynasty, following the example of the former Han empress dowager Wang Zhengjun, threw the jade seal at Cao Pi, who was vainly trying to seize the Han family's Jiangshan, and cursed the aggressive Cao Pi and his loyal ministers:
"Heaven forbid"
What is even more surprising is that this last empress of the Han Dynasty turned out to be Cao Jie, the daughter of the Cao family, who should have sided with the Cao family!
Regarding Cao Jie's act of angrily throwing the jade seal at his brother, there are different opinions:
Supporters believe that she was virtuous and fierce, preserving the last dignity of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years.
Opponents believe that as a daughter of the Cao family, she should help her family achieve hegemony, but she betrayed her father and brother for the sake of men, mocking her as a "filial daughter" and a "white-eyed wolf" of the Cao family.
Eastern Han Dynasty Empress Cao Jie
However, no matter what the opinion was, Cao Jie finally made this earth-shattering move, and in the eyes of the Cao family, who held the initiative to speak at that time, she was an "unfilial daughter" and a "traitor to the Cao family".
In the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, when filial piety was highly valued, Cao Pi did not dare to rebel against his mother-in-law Lady Bian and had to give up the idea of killing his brother Cao Zhi.
Empress Cao Jie's move was tantamount to "deviant deviance." Spurned by the world.
Say Cao Jiezhong? Who was the orthodox at the time? It's the Cao family's Wei! The real Han master was soon to be deposed as the "Duke of Shanyang"! For the Cao family: Han has long been a rat that everyone shouts and beats, Yu is loyal to filial piety, and Cao Jie should help Cao Pi become emperor.
The three fathers and sons of the Cao family
What is the idea that makes Cao Jie prefer to contradict his mother's family and also to give out this evil breath?
Some people say that it is because of the love for her husband Liu Xie, the Emperor of Han Xian, but Liu Xie is not enough to make Cao Jie move this idea——
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > disobeying the father's orders</h1>
In the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213), Cao Jie, who was only 17 years old, and her two sisters were sent to the Han Palace by their father Cao Cao and made concubines to the 32-year-old Emperor Liu Xie, and the following year, Cao Jie was registered as a nobleman.
Emperor Xian of Han, Liu Xie
This move, as everyone knows, is that Cao Cao further used his daughter to control the Han Palace and control the puppet emperor in order to further implement his proposition of "serving the Son of Heaven and ordering him not to be a subject".
And the three sisters of the Cao family are really willing to obey their father's orders and willingly serve and monitor this timid and incompetent "puppet emperor"?
Believing that you are the three sisters who are rich in gold, they are naturally reluctant in their hearts.
However, in the hierarchical feudal era, ancient women were at home from their fathers, married from their husbands, whether it was a girl from a poor family or a lady born in a noble family, the status was extremely low; especially in the noble and rich family, they raised their daughters, the biggest reason is that they can carry out family political marriage when they grow up, and shine for the prosperity of the mother's family, they cannot have their own love, otherwise it is the greatest disobedience and filial piety.
Like Liu Lanzhi, who is praised by modern people, although he resisted, what was the result?
Not to mention that such "alternative" women are rare.
The emperor's daughters were no exception, and they were often used by their own emperor's father and brother to make peace, as political pawns to connect with foreign tribes to consolidate their rule.
Cao Jie's three sisters, their father Cao Cao, naturally did not allow them to have the idea of rebellion.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > deeply rooted in Han dynasty thought</h1>
Judging from Cao Jie's behavior of emulating Wang Zhengjun in throwing off the jade seal, rebuking his brothers, and cursing his courtiers, Cao Jie's heart was toward the Han Dynasty. To put it bluntly: If the emperor at that time and she were not Liu Xie, she would have made such a move!
Emperor Cao Cao of Weiwu
The early Cao Cao was also loyal to the Han Dynasty, as can be seen from his repeated letters of advice to the Han Ling Emperor, the conquest of the Yellow Turban, and the anti-Dong Zhuo when he was young. Otherwise, how could Xun Yu, a famous minister who "guarded the vanguard of Han Power", be so stubbornly loyal to Cao Cao?
However, the Han Dynasty was like a rotten tree, and there was no cure, so Cao Cao slowly had the idea of changing his course.
However, many people believe that Cao Cao was still loyal to the Han Dynasty and did not steal the title of emperor of the Han Dynasty until his death; although the biggest reason was forced by the times, his heart still yearned for the Han Dynasty.
This point, Cao Jie who entered the palace all looked at it, otherwise, when Empress Fu's father and daughter stood up to kill this "chaotic thief", why did Cao Jie not rebel against his father at that time?
Don't say that Cao Jie was just a nobleman at that time! With Cao Cao's position, did Emperor Xian of Han dare to treat the three sisters of the Cao family badly? Wasn't he afraid that Cao Cao would get angry and give him some bits and pieces of torture? I'm afraid that my status is almost on a par with the empress of the main palace.
Because at that time, Cao Jie's heart was of course still towards her father Cao Cao, the Han Dynasty minister, and she also thought that Empress Fu's father and daughter were rebellious, otherwise, she would have already made a move against her strong actions later!
It was not until Cao Pi completely destroyed the Han usurper And exterminated it, that Cao Jie, who was then the empress, realized that something was wrong, and would be so crazy to defend the emperor and maintain the broken Han Dynasty system.
Even Luo Guanzhong borrowed the pen of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and said in Cao Jie's tone, "My father's gong covers the universe and shocks the world", but he has never moved his mind as an emperor of the Han Dynasty.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > as a pawn, unspeakable hate</h1>
As I said before, Cao Jie, as a woman, like other nobles and thousands of gold, does not allow herself to decide on major marriage matters, she is obedient on the surface, but how can she not hate in her heart!
Empress Cao Festival
Before there were so many tragic ends of the imperial concubines of the Han Dynasty, she naturally knew the sadness of being an imperial woman, not to mention marrying the man who was 15 years older than herself and could be a father! Not to mention that the man was a puppet emperor with no power and no realism!
However, Cao Cao naturally sacrificed the happiness of his daughters for his grand cause, even another sister of Cao Jie, Princess Qinghe, became a political pawn to appease the relatives Xiahou clan, and it can be seen from the married life of Princess Qinghe and Xiahou Shu that the marriage of Princess Qinghe was also very unfortunate.
Therefore, in Cao Cao's eyes, these girls were not daughters at all, but playthings and gifts of princes and nobles!
Didn't she hate her father in her heart? Such hatred grew like a snowball as it grew with age, until Cao Pi usurped Han and instantly fell from the empress of the Tangtang Palace to the "Duchess of Shanyang", and the status gap was also quite large! Only then did his hatred for his father and the Cao family for many years completely follow the arc thrown by Yuxi, with the heavy landing, with the sentence "Heaven is not a zuoer", completely exploded!
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > han xiandi is also one of the reasons</h1>
But because of Cao Cao, Emperor Xian of Han was very good to Cao Jie, Cao Jie also slowly accepted Emperor Xian of Han, Emperor Xian of Han was also pitiful, Cao Jie was the same, coupled with the deep-rooted idea of "marrying and following her husband", so they slowly melted into family affection, hugging each other for warmth, in fact, if Cao Jie really had no feelings for Emperor Xian of Han, perhaps Cao Pi would commit suicide after usurping Han and would not live to 260 AD.