The assassination of Cao Xian was the third coup d'état of the Sima clan in the course of the Jin Dynasty Wei. It was also beyond Sima Shi's expectations, the process was full of twists and turns, not to mention that Cao Xian was poked through the heart, poking his Chengji was destroyed by the three tribes, and even Sima Zhao almost moved his head. There are too many accidents before and after this incident, and it is very interesting to analyze it.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first accident, Cao Fu, who was not on the candidate list, was promoted to emperor. </h1>
Emperor Cao Rui of Wei had no biological sons. Emperor Cao Fang of Wei was the son of a foster family, and began to call himself emperor at the age of 8, basically under the care of the empress, but Cao Fang was still a relatively obedient child, Sima Yi and Sima Shi's master said one, he would never say two. But a planned coup d'état brought his career as emperor to an abrupt end.
It is said that Zhongshu ordered Li Feng to plot a coup d'état. He secretly joined forces with the empress's father, Guanglu Dafu Zhang Ji, the Yellow Gate Supervisor Su Shuo, the Yongning Bureau's Ling Ledun, and the redundant servant Liu Baoxian officials to prepare a coup d'état to depose Sima Shi, and then use the highly prestigious Xiahou Xuan to sit on sima shi's seat.
This incident was detected by Sima Shi's secret agents, who were quick and fierce in their tactics, and immediately wiped out the above-mentioned people and others.
The other is the "blue-headed chicken" incident. At that time, when the Shu Han Jiang Wei attacked the Longyou region, Sima Zhao commanded a large army to defend Xuchang, preparing to lead his troops to defend Jiang Wei, passing through the capital Luoyang, and Emperor Cao Fang would set up a banquet. Xu Yun, who was in charge of the palace guards, secretly plotted to kill Sima Zhao when he came to dinner, so as to take control of his troops and then use them against Sima Shi, so that the Sima brothers could be wiped out in one fell swoop. However, during the specific implementation, Sima Zhao brought a lot of his retinue to the palace to eat, and Gong You, who sang a small song next to him, deliberately sang "blue-headed chicken", "blue-headed chicken" refers to ducks, homophonous with "pledge", implying that Emperor Cao Fang decisively gave orders. However, Cao Fang was cowardly, "The emperor did not dare to send it." "Let go of Sima Zhao, the big fish." Planned abortion.
In any case, at that time, the emperor Cao Fang was surrounded by undercurrents, whether he himself was involved or not, the Sima brothers in power deeply felt that it seemed difficult to continue to cooperate with Cao Fang, who was already an adult.
Sima Shi decided to depose the Wei emperor Cao Fang and establish a new emperor.
The process of deposing the emperor was also very easy, and it was completed through a letter of edict from the empress dowager. The reason is that Cao Fang grew up to fornicate in the harem, and there was no one with the virtue of a king.
The key is who will be the emperor later.
At first, Sima Shi recommended Cao Zhao, the king of Pengcheng, who was also the son of Cao Cao, the emperor of Weiwu, and his age was relatively old, of course, the most important thing was that he would obey.
But the empress dowager did not agree, this mainly involved the issue of generations, the empress dowager had to call Pengcheng Wang Cao according to an uncle, if he became emperor, the identity of the empress dowager would be very embarrassing.
This reason was very strong, and Sima Shi had no way to refute it at all, so he had to hastily agree to the recommendation of others:
The nephew of Emperor Cao Rui of Wei, Cao Hui the Duke of Gaogui Township.
Cao Xi thus became a puppet emperor.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second accident: it could have been a peaceful transition, and Cao Xi had to come to your death. </h1>
Logically, since Cao Xian was a puppet emperor, he should kneel and lick Sima Shi. However, Cao Xi had an untamed personality, and when he ascended the throne to accept the seal, he behaved very arrogantly and arrogantly, which made Sima Shi very worried at the beginning.
Cao Xian was also a fairly talented young man who liked to dabble in ancient scriptures and history, and often studied scholarship with the ministers Sima Wang, Wang Shen, Pei Xiu, Zhong Hui, and others, and everyone debated with him, not willing to bow to the wind (of course, it may have been deliberately lost to him).
Once they discussed which tianzi was the best in ancient times, and finally Cao Xi made a decision: "Shaokang is the best". Shao Kang is the legendary emperor of the revival of the Xia Dynasty. This seems to indicate that Cao Xian will also do the same thing as Shaokang.
Cao Xian was an adult, thinking that he was talented and arrogant, but his power was controlled by Sima Shi. At this time, Sima Shi had passed away, and Sima Zhao was still in front of him, a big mountain.
If Cao Xian adopts the strategy of Taoguang and obscurity, and waits for the opportunity in time, he may really be able to regain power. Even if it could not be done, according to Sima Zhao's more moderate style of governance, the future peaceful Zen Dynasty would be completely fine, and Cao Xian would be able to save his life and prosperity.
But Cao Xi has a flaw in his personality, he is very impatient.
He had to say, "Either you die or I live."
In the spring of the first year of the Jingyuan Dynasty (206 AD), a solar eclipse occurred. Cao Xian couldn't sit still.
He himself had written the edict first, preparing to gather his ministers, and Linxuan directly announced the abolition of Sima Zhao's official position.
Although this trick seems to be a bit of a fantasy, but in fact it is a more ideal method, after all, Cao Xian is the Son of Heaven in the court, perhaps as soon as the Son of Heaven is announced, the group of ministers echoes, and Sima Shi takes it.
In the later Tang Dynasty, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Li Xian, was unarmed and relied on ascending to a high position to instantly quell the mutiny launched by the crown prince Li Chongjun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the third accident: Cao's plans were forced to change, triggering an unexpected murder</h1>
The night before the coup d'état, Cao Xian summoned Wang Shen of Shizhong, Wang Ye of Shanqi Changshi, and Wang Jing of Shangshu, showed them the edict written in his arms, and told them that early the next morning, he would take action against Sima Zhao and declare martial law in the palace.
Wang Shen and Wang Ye quickly took the opportunity to slip away, and quickly ma Chi told Sima Zhao. Sima Zhao immediately arranged for his confidant Jia Chong and others to deploy armed forces to deal with it.
Wang Shen and Wang Ye had asked Wang Jing to slip away together, but Wang Jing ignored it and stayed.
Early the next morning, Cao Xian found that the news had long been leaked, and there were already outside troops around the palace gate, and it seemed that Sima Zhao had already prepared to deal with it.
This is undoubtedly a warning to Cao Xian not to take risks! Due to the urgency of the situation, Sima Zhao could only stop Cao Xian's impulse first, prepare to consider the long term later, and then abolish the establishment.
Cao Xian knew very well that if he missed this opportunity, his throne would not be secured. Therefore, it was decided to change the plan, temporarily summon the only armed forces in the palace, such as Su Wei, Cangtou, and Officials, personally board the carriage, pull out the sword, and lead them to fight against Sima Zhao's Xiangfu!
If you were Sima Zhao, would you let the emperor out of the palace?
Of course not! If the emperor came to the street, in case the common people responded and attacked Sima Zhao's mansion in a mighty way, the hearts of Sima Zhao's men would be scattered, and they would not be able to stop it.
Therefore, Sima Zhao's plan was to block Cao Fu at the gate of the palace and control him.
Sima Zhao's younger brother, Sima Ling, a lieutenant of the Tun Riding School, led his army to the east gate of the imperial palace, where he encountered the imposing Cao Xian and his miscellaneous army.
Cao Xian scolded them left and right, saying that when today's son will do something crusade, "Dare to have a mover clan curse!" "This really works, the power of the Heavenly Son is still there, Sima Ling's subordinates are very smart, and they immediately scattered and ran away!"
Cao Xian continued to rush out of the palace gate, at this time Sima Zhao's confidant Jia Chong led the guards of the Xiang Mansion to block them again, and the two sides began to clash physically.
Cao Xian personally drew his sword and joined the battle, calling on everyone to fight heroically. Jia Chong's Xiangfu guards had originally received orders to control and disarm the emperor's men and horses, and did not say that they were going to kill them, so they shrank in action.
At this time, they saw that Tianzi Cao Xi had all shot, and they felt that they could not be enemies with them, so they put away their weapons and prepared to retreat.
If this group of troops dispersed again, Cao Xian would probably hit Sima Zhaoxiang's mansion and kill him!
At this time, a person with a super sense of responsibility appeared, he was the prince sheren Chengji, he hurriedly asked Jia Chong: "It seems that it is going to be undecided, what to do?" ”
What kind of old fox jia Chong was, and immediately instigated: "What did Sima Gong raise you in normal times?" What are you going to do today, you still have to ask?! ”
Cheng Ji, who was five years old and three thick, had this instruction and immediately drew out his long go and stabbed at Cao Xi.
Cao Xi was suddenly stabbed in the heart, "the blade came out of the back", and it "collapsed" in an instant.
Cao's actions ended with his own killing, and all his men laid down their weapons.
When Sima Zhao heard that Cao Xian had been killed, he "panicked and threw himself to the ground." ”
Sima Yi's younger brother Sima Fu ran to the scene of the incident and hugged Cao Fu's body and cried, "I am a sinner!" ”
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the fourth accident: Cao Wei Zhongchen Wang Jing was killed, and Sima Shi's hero Chengji was killed</h1>
Cao Xi's murder made Jing Shi in an uproar and shocked the whole country! Sima Zhao's reputation plummeted!
Originally, Sima Zhao's reputation was still good, and it was said that he was a political and lenient man, loyal and generous, happy and good,and had the degree of a gentleman of the high world.
As a result, Sima Zhao became a man with wolf ambitions and was engraved on the pillar of historical shame. In the era of the two Han Dynasties, Wei and Jin, who paid attention to honor and dignity, the Zen Dynasty could still be tolerated, and the behavior of the Emperor was unforgivable.
Sima Zhao asked the highly respected servant Chen Tai what to do?
Chen Tai said: Only the waist cut Jia Chong to thank the world.
Sima Zhao asked: Are there any other plans?
Chen Tai: This is the minimum solution. It is not too much to imply that sima Zhao cut himself.
Of course, Sima Zhao would not kill Jia Chong, let alone cut himself. Of course, he didn't bother to ask Chen Tai any more about the aftermath.
As a result, the first person to be killed was Wang Jing, accused of disloyalty to Sima Shi and not reporting in time.
Wang Jing calmly killed. Her mother, quite a martyr, said: My son died well! Die where you deserve it! Nothing to regret.
Wang Shen and Wang Ye, who ran out overnight to report, were added to the rank of knight and constantly commended.
Cheng Ji, who personally killed the emperor, became a scapegoat and was destroyed by the three tribes, what was the crime?
From Sima Zhao's report to the empress dowager, the reason for this is revealed:
In order to defend the state society, I specially ordered the soldiers to control the situation and not to harm him. The crown prince Chengji did not take it seriously, causing the noble township prince to die of serious injuries. Cheng Ji did such a great rebellious thing, I asked him to wipe out the three tribes!
The Empress agreed.
So hundreds of chengji's family were dragged to Dongshi and beheaded, and Chengji was shouting injustice all the way, scolding Sima Shi for not being merciful, but his shouts were drowned out by the saliva of the angry crowd and the eggs that smashed at him.
(End)
Author: @青史子建