With the decline of Shu Wu, the situation of the three divisions of the world was broken, and under the directors of Sima Yi, Jia Xu and other courtiers, a big drama called "Cao Pi Daihan" was officially launched.
Although Cao Pi dreamed of sitting on the dragon chair, he still had to do enough face kung fu. When Emperor Xiandi of Han wrote the Edict of Zen concession after being coerced and seduced, Cao Pi also pushed and shoved the concession to refuse the first Zen position. Immediately afterward, Dong Ba and Su Lin appeared, and these two doctors made a big fuss about the astrology, providing strong support for Cao Pi's ascension to the throne from an astronomical point of view, and the King of Wei took over the imperial power as soon as possible.
The general process of the two doctors deducing the astrology is as follows: Jupiter orbits once every twelve years, and if the ecliptic is divided into twelve parts according to jupiter's trajectory, this is the twelve stems. According to the "Twelve Branches of Theory", each of the twelve branches represents a dynasty, and these dynasties alternate with each other, and the stars on each branch change, indicating that certain conditions will occur in the dynasty corresponding to it.
The "Twelve Divisions of Wild Sayings" is from the Zhou Li, but wei is not included here.
If this is the case, then how to compile Wei into the "Twelve Divisions"?
The Cao family's fiefdom was in the Six Kingdoms of Zhao, so Wei should be the same as Zhao, corresponding to the great beam.
However, Cao Cao once said a sentence before his death, "Gou Tianfeng is lonely, and the lonely is the King of Zhou Wen", so the two doctors far-fetchedly equated Wei and Zhou with the corresponding position of quail fire in the "Twelve Fields".
It can be said that the "innovation" of Dong Ba and Su Lin, the two doctors, is very logical. If, according to the Old Ancestor's "Zhou Li", every twelve years the corresponding areas of the twelve branches of the ecliptic had to happen according to the stars, then the world would have been in chaos a long time ago. So their far-fetched attachment left a wealth of experience for future usurpers.
Obviously, these are all tricks to fool the ignorant masses, and they cannot withstand serious scrutiny at all. If Cao Pi wanted to ascend to the throne, he had to find some more reliable basis.
In order to find more evidence from the history books to support the usurpation of the throne by the master, the ministers pooled their wisdom and efforts. It has been pointed out that the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an is the year of Gengzi. In the xiangshu book "Poetry Pushing Disaster", it is pointed out that "Geng" can also have the meaning of "replacement", so the current regime will change this year. However, this basis is still very heterogeneous, is it necessary to change the dynasty every sixty years? Obviously this is illogical.
Therefore, some people found the sentence "The king Bude Yuzi, the ruler of the ugly" from the "Poetry of Pushing the Disaster", saying that this year there will be a saint who is destined by heaven to take over the world and implement benevolent government. This basis is decent, but it is also unconvincing. Who is the king who "ruled the ugly"? The "Poetry of Pushing disasters" does not say that this person must be Cao Pi, so this set of statements is difficult to convince the public.
This group of people stood up and gave examples of one kind or another, which was nothing more than to find a step for Cao Pi and let him naturally take Yuxi and sit on the dragon chair. However, Cao Pi's meticulous personality was inherited from Cao Cao, and he had to wait until a theoretical basis was convincing to everyone, otherwise, he would never take risks. If this were not the case, in the future, some people would point out that the Cao Wei regime was not coming from the right path and lacked legitimacy, wouldn't it be better to lift a stone and drop it on its own feet?
The ministers brainstormed and went to great lengths to get Cao Pi to sit on the dragon chair "legally". Cao Pi's subordinates had such a strange person as Xu Zhi, and he came up with seven bases, which could enable Cao Pi to obtain the support of the "Heavenly Mandate of Kingship".
First, the "Yi Chuan" mentions: "The flow of the sage Chang up and down, que ying emperor phoenix xiang, the joy of all the people without blame", "the saint is ordained, que should be under the phoenix, the son of heaven", "Huang Long see, the natural disaster is coming, the son of heaven, the saint out." ”
To put it simply, whenever there is a change of dynasty (the saints are out), there will always be an auspicious event in some place. Therefore, there is no need to come up with any written evidence to support it, as long as you create auspicious rui everywhere to fool the people, everything will be fine. For the Cao family, which has basically unified the north, it is easy to create a qilin, yellow dragon, phoenix and other auspicious rui in a certain place.
Second, there is a phrase "Wei Gongzi of the Red Generation" in the Spring and Autumn Jade Edition.
This "Spring and Autumn Jade Edition" has a high status in physiognomy, so it is more convincing. The "chi" mentioned here represents the Han Dynasty (Gaozu Liu Bang once claimed to be the son of the Red Emperor). At that time, Cao Cao was given the title of Duke of Wei, and his heir Cao Pi was the Duke of Wei.
Third, the "Spring and Autumn Sasuke Period" mentions that "Han lost the world with Xuchang".
It can be said that Xuchang is the "land of dragon rejuvenation" of the Cao family, and since it is mentioned that the Han Dynasty will lose the Jiangshan Sheji because of this place in Xuchang, then, instead, it is naturally replaced by the Cao family that has risen here.
Fourth, in the "Spring and Autumn Sasuke Period", there is also a prophecy that "Han Yimengsun died".
That is to say, the ancestors have predicted that when the Han Dynasty is passed on to the "Emperor Mengsun", it will not be far from extinction.
So, what should be the interpretation of the word "Mengsun"?
"Meng" means confused, Emperor Xian of Han was manipulated by The Cao father and son for half a lifetime, and it is obvious that his state is very consistent with the word "Meng". As for "Sun", it mostly refers to the "child emperor" who has destroyed the country. Although Emperor Xian of Han had grown up when Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, he was still a little doll when he was "blackmailed by the Son of Heaven to order the princes".
Fifth, the "Yellow Curse in the Book of Filial Piety" mentions that "The sun is in the east, and the ji is light and fire." Not yokozuna, Saint Mingcong. Four hundred away, yi surname and king. The world is attributed to the balance".
Seeing that this may be confusing to many people, there is no mention of the Cao family here, why say that the subrogation is Cao Pi? This has to admire Xu Zhi's ability to attach to the association.
If the three characters "day" are written in Hanli, adding two "east" to the top of the "day" becomes the "Cao" character, which is for "ri zai dong". "Not horizontal one" is more obvious, adding a horizontal line below the word "no", is not the word "Pi"? Therefore, "Ri Zai Dong" and "Bu Heng Yi" are the names of the Han Dynasty - Cao Pi.
Moreover, this criticism has even been analyzed and understood by the national fortunes of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Tianzi has enjoyed the national fortunes for four hundred years, and if he wants the world to continue to be stable, then he will have to change hands.
Sixth, there is a cloud in the "Easy Luck Period": "Words live in the east, there is noon in the west, and two days and light under the sun." It is the main, the opposite is supplementary, five eight forty, yellow gas, real people out. ”
This is also an anagram game.
"Speaking in the east and noon in the west" refers to the word "Xu", while "two days and the light dwells under the sun" is the word "Chang". What happened in Xuchang? The answer is self-explanatory. "Yellow Qi" represents the earth line in the five elements, which is exactly in line with Wei Zhi Tude.
Seventh, the "Easy Luck Period" also says that "the ghost is in the mountain, the wonu is lucky, and the king is under the heavens."
This is also a word-breaking game, "the ghost is in the mountain, the Wonu Luck" is the word "Wei", which is to make it clear that Cao Wei should be in the Central Plains.
Speaking of this, I wonder if you have such a question: Was there really so many magical prophets in the pre-Qin period who could predict what would happen thousands of years later?
In my opinion, these sutras are not necessarily false, but they are mostly similar to "Mayan prophecies". Everyone is predicting the future fortunes of the country, saying a lot of ambiguous words in the photo book, waiting for future generations to interpret the meaning of the text.
There were many fortune tellers in ancient times, and great prophets who relied on prophecies to eat were everywhere, and those inaccurate photo books that were inaccurate have long been burned by the emperor, leaving only those words that can be used to interpret the "heavenly mandate of kingship".
It is conceivable that the reason why these photo books can survive is because Cao Pi and other founding emperors enshrined them as "certificates" to confirm the legitimacy of the dynasty after they ascended to the throne.
All in all, Xu Zhi successfully created a momentum for Cao Pi from a large number of photo books that he had turned out of nowhere, allowing him to sit on the dragon chair with peace of mind.
In October of the 25th year of Jian'an, Emperor Xian of Han was tossed to the Gaozu Temple to perform a ceremony to sacrifice the heavens, and then handed over the "official documents" such as the Imperial Seal to Cao Pi.
Rao was like this, Cao Pi still pretended to resign three times, and then "reluctantly" came to Fanyang to set up an altar and officially took the throne. This smoky miasma of subrogation farce has finally come to a successful end.
Cao Pi stole the throne of his brother-in-law and became the "Emperor Wen of Wei" in history.
But interestingly, Cao Pi's sister, the one in the harem of The Han Xian, had always disliked the style of her father and brother, especially the fact that they had sent themselves to the harem as victims in order to usurp the throne made it difficult for her to let go. After the official ceremony of Zen Rang, she took the imperial seal back to the palace and hid it, and Cao Pi asked her for it many times without success. Later, when she was forced to hand over the imperial seal, the Cao family sister scolded her brother bitterly, and then threw the imperial seal on the ground.
More interesting is still behind, Sun Quan was even more angry when he heard that Cao Pi had fulfilled his father's last wish to become emperor, and said to the Eastern Wu Qunchen: "Regarding the age of Cao Pi, this guy is much younger than me, but he has become an emperor, and I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up in this life." At this time, kan ze, the minister of Eastern Wu, comforted the lord and said: "Lord GongXiu should be angry, although you did not rush ahead of him to become emperor, but you must have been emperor for a longer time than him." ”
Sun Quan was puzzled, and Kan Ze replied: "When Cao Pi became emperor, he could be an emperor for ten years at most, and looking at the 'Pi' in his name, wouldn't it be 'not ten' when taken apart?" After Sun Quan listened, he turned his anger into joy. I don't know where this Kan God Stick came from, "Cao Pi was emperor for less than ten years" This matter really made him say it. Sure enough, Cao Pi had only been emperor for seven years and then died, and when he died, he had just passed the age of confusion.
Although Cao Pi died, later usurpers inherited his experience.
Since Cao Pi, the dynasties of the next thousand years and long periods have always had to find some auspicious or metaphysical basis at the beginning of the founding of the country. Even, from the Three Kingdoms to the establishment of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, after more than 700 years, more than ten dynasties have completed the Yi Dynasty Ding Revolution in the way of Zen Dynasty, and the story of Han and Wei has become synonymous with the Zen Dynasty of imperial society. For example, when Sima Yan coerced Emperor Xiaocao, he used the same routine as Cao Pi. If Cao Pi had seen his descendants under the Nine Springs being so insulted by Sima Shi, I am afraid it would have been difficult to see.
Resources:
【Cao Pi Usurpation of Han", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"】