I think Cao Pi is a "debut is the peak" person...
Cao Pi succeeded Cao Cao in the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an (220), which was also the first year of Yankang and the first year of Huang Chu, and the mere presence of three era names shows that many major events occurred in this year, and the truth is the same. However, people's main focus is on the death of Cao Cao and the two most important things of Cao Pi's Han Dynasty, and ignore the other events that happened in this year, as long as the relevant historical materials of this year are summarized, it will be found that Cao Pi almost completed what others do not know how many years to complete in only one year, it can be said that this is completely a year that belongs to Cao Pi.
Cao Pi
The situation at the time of Cao Cao's death could not be said to be good, he had only completed the preliminary and medium-term work on the pacification of the north, and in fact his control over Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yongzhou and other places was relatively limited, and after his death, these places without exception had abnormal conditions. The Qingzhou Army and the Xuzhou Army rioted while Cao Cao was preparing for burial, and Luoyang was also rumored to be in the immediate chaos of the world, and some even proposed to simply replace all the local guards with Cao's fellow villagers.
When the crown prince was in Yi, the Marquis of Yanling had not yet arrived, and the soldiers and people were quite hard-working and had diseases, so there was a commotion in the army. The crowd is afraid that the world will change, and they want not to mourn. Kui suggested that it should not be kept secret, but that it should be mourned, so that both inside and outside should enter, and that each should not move. And the Qingzhou Army was good at beating drums to attract each other. The multitudes think it is appropriate to forbid it, but those who do not obey it ask for it.
Hui Taizu Beng, the Basuo department and the Qingzhou soldiers, thinking that the world would be in chaos, all sounded the drum and went away.
Taizu collapsed in Luoyang, and the courtiers entered the temple to mourn. Or it is easy to defend the city, and use the rumors and the Pei people.
After Cao Cao's death, the world shook
The west has been unstable since the Battle of Hanzhong, And before Cao Cao died, Li Yue's rebellion occurred, and after Cao Pi came to power, there was a great rebellion in Tongsan County, which can be said to be very lively.
Wang took Anding Taishou Zouqi as the assassin of Liangzhou, and Xiping played the role of Jiebian County to rebel against Qi. Zhangye ZhangJin was too shou Du Tong, and Jiuquan Huang Hua was not too shou Xin Ji, both of whom called themselves too shou to act. Wuwei three kinds of Hu rebellion.
As for the Central Plains, due to the logistical pressure of the Battle of Hanzhong and the Battle of Xiangfan, a number of places had large and small rebellions before Cao Cao's death.
Twenty-three years after Jian'an, Lu Hun Chang Zhang Gu was transferred to Ding Fu and given to Hanzhong. The people were disgusted and harassed. Minsun Wolf and others killed the county master book because of the Xingbing army, and as a rebellion, the county was destroyed. Gu Rate will be more than ten officials, according to Zhao to stop, recruit the remnants, and restore the community. Wolf waited for Suinan to attach Guan Yu. Yu gave the seal to the soldiers, and also as a thief.
Liang, Yu, and Lu Hun were thieves or remotely received the Feather Seal number, and they were supported by the Party, and The Yu Wei shook Huaxia.
At that time, Nanyang was in bitter service, and Yin Yu was holding the Eastern Li Gong, rebelling with the officials, and making peace with Guan Yu.
Two years before Cao Cao's death and one year before Cao Cao's death, there were also rebellions in Xu County, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Yicheng, Cao Cao's stronghold, the former being pacified by Cao Cao's Changshi Wang Bi and the latter by Cao Pi. All in all, Cao Pi succeeded to the throne in such an environment.
Cao Cao
Although Cao Pi was not too young (34 years old), he was officially established as the heir for only three years, and his prestige was not as high as expected, otherwise the people in Qingzhou and Xuzhou would not have dared to act so boldly. After Cao Cao's body was transported back to Yecheng and succeeded to his father's position, he issued a number of orders, including reducing tariffs, lifting the ban on chi, rewarding meritorious servants, and then decisively slaughtering Ding Yi's entire family.
Ding Yi was a hardcore subordinate of Cao Zhi at that time, Ding Yi served as the Western Cao Cao under Cao Cao, although the status is not high power, but not small, he has a large number of people, almost all of them said good things about Cao Pi to Cao Cao in those years, and there are many family families. Cao Pi killed him in February, which can be said to be quite an efficiency.
Ding Yi
Later, Cao Pi revised the relevant personnel and systems of the State of Wei. The systems of the Cao Cao period were actually relatively crude, including the restoration of Kyushu, which was an act of reversing in order to enhance his own power, so Cao Pi rezoned Liangzhou in order to better manage the West. Like many people like to say that Yu Ban is the first general with a foreign surname, which will cause this misunderstanding, there is also a pot with Cao Cao's imperfect military system in it.
Now everyone knows that the military system of the State of Wei is about the general under the big generals are hussars, chariots, then generals of Wei, then four marches and four towns, and so on, and then there are four generals of the four sides. But these are all revised by Cao Pi, Cao Cao period is not so strict at all, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren's conquest of the West to Conquer Nanguang is not necessarily higher than the forbidden General Zuo in terms of their own status, like Xiahou Huan did not want to be a Han official, and finally was made a former general by Cao Cao, if the four marches are higher than the four sides, is Xiahou Huan worse than those two? But if the four parties are higher than the four signs, can Yu Ban still be stronger than Cao Ren? To put it bluntly, official positions do not correspond strictly to status, and everyone is brushing their face cards.
Xiahou Huan
For another example, some people think that the Yu Forbidden Governor of the Seventh Army of the False Festival can cover the false festival of Cao Ren. If it is necessary to determine that the false festival is stronger than the false festival, then the Han Fubo general Xiahou Huan, who is not fake at all, oversaw the twenty-sixth army under Cao Cao in one breath. To put it bluntly, everyone knows who Xiahou Huan is the boss, and there is no need to fake any festival... There is no strict system for governors, including the townsmen and localities, which are temporarily appointed. Cao Cao's Zhonghu army Han Hao was considered by the generals to be qualified to defend Hanzhong, but Han Hao was never made a general, but his Zhonghu army could set up Changshi and Sima And wei to persuade him to enter the table after Cao Hong and before Cao Ren.
The reason for such confusion is also very simple, before the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the general was a relatively precious official position, and when Qin Shi Huang sent Zhao Tuo to lead 500,000 people to attack South Vietnam, he was only a feudal lieutenant. During the two Han Dynasties, there were only a few horsemen and chariots, and they were not set up at the same time, and the generals on the left and right and the generals before and after did not appear at the same time, and the standing generals such as the general Du Liao were very few official positions. Later, during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Huang Fusong, Zhu Juan, Lu Zhi and others all led their troops out as generals in Zhonglang. It was not until the great chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, when a large number of princes in various places called themselves and set up generals, that this official position was rampant, so the phenomenon of brushing face cards under Cao Cao's hands was naturally normal. Like When Zhuge Liang was a general under Liu Bei, he could not only lead the troops, but also manage the logistics, and even play a Shu County Taishou on the spot. There was no way, Liu Bei himself was also a self-appointed Sima Ma, could it be impossible to give Zhuge Liang the title of a chancellor?
Zhuge Liang
However, Cao Pi standardized the military system, and Xiahou Huan no longer had to be the former general who prepared for the migrant worker, and the position prepared for him was that of a general. Zhang Liao also don't want to conquer the east, you are not the governor, honestly the current general to go. Cao Xiu and Zang Ba were both local officials in the east, the former Zhengdong, the latter Zhendong, obviously Cao Xiu was one level higher, plus Zhengnan Xiahou Shang, Zhenxi Cao Zhen (personal speculation is not given to Zhengxi because Xiahou Yuan just died in this position, unlucky), Cao Ren, Cao Hong promoted to become che riding generals and Wei generals, and then Zhang Gao, Xu Huang, Zhu Ling and Zhang Liao went together to be the four parties. It is clear who is higher and who is lower in this ranking, and how the powers of each general are divided.
On this basis, Cao Pi also set up a local governor system, and appointed six major governors, Cao Ren, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Xiahou Shang, Zang Ba, and Wu Qian, who respectively administered several major war zones such as Yangzhou, Yongliang, Jingzhou, Qingxu, and Hebei. It took Cao Pi less than three months to complete these system changes after he succeeded to the throne.
Then there is the epoch-making Nine-Pin Zhongzheng system. Nowadays, people often black Cao Pi, which is to sell his father's ideals and become a lackey of the big family, honestly this statement is more funny. Cao Cao's subordinate high-ranking officials from the great clan have always been many, he himself started with the Yingru Shi people, and later reused a large number of Hebei Shi people, why did he kill Bian Rang and Kong Rong, who refused to cooperate, and become the spokesman of the Han clan?
In fact, when the inspection system of the Eastern Han Dynasty was carried out, some celebrities began to grasp the right to speak in the appraisal of human objects, and the people they received or commented on were immediately worth a hundred times, and Cao Cao himself had coerced the connoisseur Xu Shao to comment on himself. In such an environment, the hidden social status possessed by those celebrities is simply immeasurable, and the reason why there will be two disasters of the party is that the imperial court is hostile to such celebrities is an important reason.
Cao Pi's idea is well understood, that is, to give legitimacy to the power of character comments and take it into the ownership of the government, which can be said to be a fairly normal and reasonable idea, and what is the lackey of the big family is not at all. As for the tool that developed into the great clan after tens or hundreds of years, it cannot be said that Cao Pi is the lackey of the great clan.
It is even more ridiculous to suggest that the examination system is not implemented. In fact, the Han Dynasty always had a system of examinations for admission, but at that time when printing technology was not yet invented, books were all copied by hand, and there were only a few people in the country who could read books. Even in the Tang Dynasty, there were only twenty or thirty people who were admitted to the ranks each time by jinshike, and the official positions they obtained were far less than those obtained by the children of the great clan by entering the family in the shade. Under such conditions, how can the imperial examination system shake the scholar clan?
In short, cao Pi launched the Southern Expedition in June after several months of standardizing various systems. This southern expedition was not so much a southern expedition as an inspection he conducted in order to establish his own status and prestige. Moreover, from some sources, it can be seen that Cao Pi's purpose, for example, when the army crossed the river in Liyang, someone disturbed the team, and Cao Pi's subordinate Minister Jia Kui beheaded this person on the spot, and later the team arrived at Cao Pi's hometown of Yu County, and Cao Pi immediately appointed Jia Kui as the Assassin of Yu Prefecture (谯县 in Yu Prefecture).
From Liyang, the Jindu people are chaotic, and they are cut off, and they are whole. To Yu, to Kui as the history of Yuzhou thorns.
Jia Kui
That is to say, Cao Pi took advantage of this southern expedition to strictly enforce military law, and rearranged some personnel, which can be described as clever.
At the same time, although Cao Pi did not personally engage the State of Wu in this southern expedition, Cao Xiu of the Yangzhou Military Region did a big thing, he actually directly crossed the Yangtze River and burned thousands of Wu military camps, and Cao Xiu should be the only general of Cao Wei to achieve this feat.
Xiahou Huan ( Xiahou Huan ) , with Hugh as the general of Zhennan , was the governor of the military forces on false holidays , and the car was sent to the public, and the upper and lower public opinions held hands and parted. Sun Quan dispatched Tun Liyang, Hugh arrived, broke it, and then sent troops to cross the river and burn thousands of thieves in the Wuhu camp. General Qian Zhengdong, led the Yangzhou Assassin History, and entered the Marquis of Anyang Township.
Cao Xiu
Although neither the history books of the State of Wei nor the State of Wu write who the unlucky egg who burned down the barracks was, from the data, it should be quan quan, a big man of Eastern Wu who later became Sun Quan's son-in-law. And Sun Quan also had to suffer dumb losses, and after being burned down, the military camp had to take the initiative to show favor to Cao Pi.
In June, Kang Wu, Wang Yingjun toured the south. In the autumn and July, Sun Quan sent envoys to dedicate.
In addition, during this period, Cao Zhen quelled the Hexi Rebellion in the west, and Xiahou Shang defeated Liu Feng in Jingzhou, taking the three counties of Shangyong, and even the ethnic minorities in Wudu came to their aid. Compared with cao Cao's military anxiety in the years before his death, Cao Pi's succession to the throne for half a year was simply a good news.
Under these actions, Cao Pi quickly cleaned up the mess left by his father, established his own prestige in both the dprk and the military, and Cao Pi also used Jia Kui's governance in Yuzhou as a model to improve the level of official governance. By the way, Cao Pi's move is quite interesting, according to records, Jia Kui, Wang Ling and Yang Xiu are all Cao Zhi's master bookkeepers and friends.
Together with Jia Kui and Wang Ling, He is a master bookkeeper and is a friend of Zhi.
The two of them, like Yang Xiu, had probably supported Cao Zhi during the Li Chu Dispute, but unlike the Ding Yi brothers, who had many enemies, both Jia Kui and Wang Ling were treated well by Cao Pi. Cao Pi's move should be to narrow the attack area, while disintegrating Cao Zhi's party to minimize losses, even if Yang Xiu is still alive, it is estimated that Cao Pi will be good to him (Cao Pi originally had a good relationship with Yang Xiu).
So in October, Cao Pi, who had no worries about the future, naturally established himself on his own.
Cao Pi was proclaimed emperor
Looking at Cao Pi's performance this year, it is simply amazing, both internally and externally, and the efficiency is extremely high, it is not too much to say that Wang Bang plus four twos, and it is a good way to declare that Cao Wei without Cao Mengde is also equally powerful. If we continue to proceed according to this efficiency, if Cao Pi can live to his father's age, it is not impossible to unify the world. Then everyone found out that after Cao Pi came out of the scattered cards...
But Cao Pi also deserves praise for another point, the situation he left for his son is probably the best of all the monarchs in the Three Kingdoms period. During his reign, he consolidated his territorial rule, Zang Ba was stripped of military power, Yongliang's many rebellions were put down, Cao Hong was suppressed, and only Meng Da was left as a factor of instability. Moreover, the four ministers he arranged were also very in place, the four of them were capable enough, and none of them had the right authority, and the age was appropriate (God knows that Cao Rui had a short life), and finally Cao Rui completed the transfer of power very well.
In contrast, Cao Caoliu's stall has already said earlier, Cao Rui's arrangement of auxiliary ministers is simply a mess, Liu Beiliu's situation is ten times worse than Cao Cao's, Sun Jian did not leave anything, Sun Celiu's territory was in chaos, Sun Quan almost blew himself up in his later years, Sima Yi just started, Sima Shi died suddenly and almost did not hand over power, Sima Zhao left a bunch of elders for his son, causing Sima Yan to have to rely on connivance to sit down and sit in a stable position. By the way, there are Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, Liu Yan, and Tao Qian, who gave up treatment... In contrast, the heirs of the above gang should have this feeling for Cao Rui: