Cao Rui's Historical Contribution

Cao Rui, Wei Mingdi: Although he has the courage to fight, he has no wisdom to defend the country. His grandfather Cao Cao is very good. He can fight and is good at poetry. He is a veritable generation of lean men, who laid the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei before his death. His father xelloss is even worse. He made a fierce speculation on the "imperial shares" (see "Wei Wendi Cao Pi's Fierce Speculation on the" imperial shares "in June 2005 13), and seized power to engage in a coup, which simply turned the mountains of the Eastern Han Dynasty into those of Cao Wei. And he himself is not simple, once led the army to defeat the Shu army, forcing Zhuge Liang to shed tears and behead Ma Su. Unfortunately, after sitting firmly in the dragon chair, he began to be keen on building new buildings, which made the people complain. Although he has the courage to fight, he has no wisdom to defend the country. Wei Mingdi Cao Rui is more like a general wearing the wrong imperial robe. Wei Mingdi Cao Rui, grandson of Cao Cao, son of Cao Pi, the second emperor of Wei. His mausoleum is in Luoyang, but so far, no one can mark its exact location on the map. Cao Wei's Jiangshan was snatched from the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was not fair enough. Therefore, "Cao Jiaban" has always been suspicious. In order to prevent someone from destroying the mausoleum, when Cao Cao died, he laid a "seventy-two suspected graves". Cao Cao's descendants did better, simply not sealing the tree, and it is difficult for future generations to verify it. Xu Jinxing, a historian in our city, said that Wei Mingdi was buried in Gaopingling, which is the height of Pingling, probably in Dashishan in the south of Luoyang, which is Wanan Mountain; It may also be in Rudian Village, Ruyang County. When talking about the evaluation of Cao Rui, Xu Jinxing said that there have always been two views: "Some people say that he is a military genius, courageous and promising; Some people say that he is ignorant and only knows luxury and pleasure. " A xelloss is not only Cao Rui's father, but also his first teacher. As soon as Cao Rui was sensible, Cao Pi taught him a lesson: no one in this world can be trusted, including your own father; Only power can give people a real sense of security. Cao Rui received this "education" because he had an unusual mother. His mother, Zhen Fei, is a beautiful woman who is "as graceful as Youlong". At that time, she had married Yuan Jia and became Yuan Shao's daughter-in-law, but Cao Pi was greedy for her beauty, regardless of her "second marriage", she just got her and made her a princess. In 205 AD, Zhen Feisheng defected to Cao Rui. Soon, Cao Pi fell in love with the beautiful Guo again. The Guo family wanted to enjoy their love alone, so they spoke ill of Zhen Fei in front of Cao Pi every day. Unfortunately, at this time, the rumor that Zhen Fei and her brother-in-law Cao Zhi were "derailed" came out. In a rage, xelloss sentenced ZhenFei to death, with long hair all over her body and chaff in her mouth, which means she was ashamed to death and couldn't tell on her grave. The Guo family has no children. After Zhen Fei's death, Cao Pi gave Cao Rui to the Guo family for support. Cao Rui looked at his mother killed by his father, and his indignation was unspeakable. So he hated the Guo family, but the Guo family was a red man in front of his father. In order to survive, he had to obey his father's arrangement. He knows that only by putting up with humiliation and becoming an emperor in the future can he get ahead. Guo has a ghost in his heart. He dislikes Cao Rui very much and is embarrassed everywhere. Cao Rui looks at her stepmother's face every day, speaks and acts carefully, and always observes etiquette. Gradually, his attentions won Guo's favor. Even so, because of Zhen Fei, xelloss has no intention of making Cao Rui a prince. It was not until Cao Rui 15 years old that things changed for the better. That day, Cao Rui went hunting in the countryside with xelloss, and a doe ran past them with a young deer. Xelloss bows and arrows, shoots the doe, and then turns to let Cao Rui shoot the deer. Cao Rui looked at the frightened deer and remembered his own experience. Tears came down. He said, "since your majesty shot the doe, how can I have the heart to shoot his son again?" Hearing this, xelloss felt very sad, immediately threw the bow and arrow on the ground and returned to the palace. After this incident, Xelloss had the idea of making Cao Rui the Crown Prince, but somehow, Cao Rui was not given the title of "Crown Prince" at that time, only made him the King of the Plain. In 226 AD, xelloss was dying, and felt that he couldn't stand it any longer, so he made a testamentary edict and made Cao Rui the Crown Prince. In the same year, xelloss died, and Cao Rui succeeded to the throne, with Luoyang as its capital. Second, although Cao Rui became emperor, he was not very peaceful. Wei, Shu and Wu were at odds at that time. In order to seize hegemony, wars between the three countries continue. The war-torn situation gave Cao Rui an opportunity to display its military talents. In 228 AD, Zhuge Liang of Shu led an army to the northern expedition of Cao Wei. Because of the collective mutiny of the defenders in three counties of Gansu, Wei was in chaos at once. Some people assert that Wei's time is running out and will soon be over. At the critical moment, Cao Rui stood up from the emperor's chair with a straight face and said unhurriedly, I just lost three counties. What's there to panic about? When I dispatch troops, I will definitely beat the Shu army led by Zhuge Liang out of the water! Cao Rui immediately organized a powerful army and personally led the army to guard Chang 'an. At the same time, he sent 50 thousand infantry led by general Zhang He to stop the attack of Shu army. The enemy of Zhang He is Ma Su, the general of Shu. Ma Su's "A Military Strategist" is used to an armchair strategist. Before he died, Liu Bei warned Zhuge Liang that Ma Su was "exaggerating" and could not be reused. However, Zhuge Liang didn't listen to his advice. During the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, Ma Su volunteered to guard the strategically important street pavilion (now northeast of Qin 'an County, Gansu Province). Zhuge Liang agreed to Ma Su's request. Unexpectedly, after Ma Su arrived at Jieting, he didn't follow Zhuge Liang's instructions, but made his own decision and deployed his troops on Jieting Mountain far from the water. Wang Ping, the assistant commander, advised Ma Su that the street pavilion had no water and no route for providing foodstuff. If Wei Jun besieged the street kiosks and cut off the water supply and route for providing foodstuff, the Shu army would be defeated without fighting. Masu, still stubborn. As a result, Zhang He besieged Ma Su on the mountain, and the Shu army was defeated without a fight. The street pavilion fell and the situation changed suddenly, so Zhuge Liang had to lead his army back to Hanzhong. For the sake of serious military discipline, Zhuge Liang ordered Ma Su to be beheaded. This is the famous "Zhuge Liang beheaded Ma Su with tears" in history. The battle of Jieting shows that Zhuge Liang is not always ingenious, but it shows that Cao Rui can employ people and knows how to employ them. Since then, Zhuge Liang has led the army to the northern expedition of Cao Wei many times. Cao Rui boldly used Sima Yi and others against the Shu army. In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang led the army to the last northern expedition and confronted Sima Yi in Wuzhangyuan. Sima yi can't hold on any longer, just wait. Zhuge Liang sent someone to send women's clothes to Sima Yi and humiliated Sima Yi. Wei Junbing learned that the commander-in-chief was humiliated and asked to go out. Sima Yi wrote to Cao Rui, pretending to demand a decisive battle with the Shu army. Cao Rui read Sima Yi's letter, but it was not certain that Sima Yi would go to war, so he sent ministers to the camp, holding Jeff in his hand to suppress it. It didn't take long for Wei Jun to fight, and the Shu army ran out of hay and had to retreat. Soon, at the invitation of Shu, Sun Quan sent troops to attack Wei. Cao Rui decisively sent troops to defeat Wu Jun's main force in Hefei (now northwest of Hefei, Anhui Province), which led to the rout of Wu Jun and the failure of Shu and Wu's plan to attack Cao Wei. After destroying the attack plans of Shu and Wu again and again, Cao Rui's prestige in Wei became higher and higher. In addition, he was able to accept the minister's outspoken advice and observe the prison break. In the early days of his rule, the situation of Wei was relatively stable and its territory was once expanded. Thirdly, Cao Rui was also gifted in dealing with courtiers. He tested the courtiers without beating or cursing, and his means were very clever. There was a minister named Ye Liu, who was good at guessing the meaning of the monarch and was very popular with Cao Rui. Cao Rui wanted to crusade against Shu, but ministers said no. Cao Rui asked privately, but said yes. However, when Ye Liu discussed the issue of cutting Shu with other ministers alone, he said he could not. Cao Rui was told that Ye Liu was a swing. Your majesty, you should be careful of him. Cao Rui prefers Ye Liu not only because he is his favorite, but to test whether Ye Liu is really an apple polisher. Sure enough, Ye Liu didn't know what to do, but as always, he echoed Cao Rui. Cao Rui was disappointed and gradually alienated from him. Cao Rui also attached great importance to the scribes. Under his call, a large number of scholars came to Luoyang to engage in academic research. Uncle He Pingshu is one of them. According to Shi Shuo Xin Yu, Uncle He Ping is a fair-skinned handsome man. Cao Rui suspected that Uncle He Ping was not an authentic "gigolo" because of his powder. On a hot summer day, he invited Uncle Ping to the palace to eat hot noodle soup. Uncle He Ping didn't know Cao Rui's intention, so he generously took the bowl and ate full head big sweat. Cao Rui thought, good boy, is this powder on your face? However, when Uncle He Ping wiped his face with his sleeve after dinner, not only did he not wipe off any "powder", but his cheeks were white and red, which made him look better. Cao Rui didn't believe that Uncle He Ping was born white. An interesting thing happened between Cao Rui and the painter Xu Miao. One day, when Cao Rui and Xu Miao went out to patrol and swim in Luoshui, they found several white otters in the water. Cao Rui has always loved rare birds and animals. He was so excited that he ordered his followers to catch them in the water. However, this white otter is so clever that his followers spent a long time trying to catch none. Xu Miao had a brainwave, found a big board, drew a few squid and stood at the bow. White otters naturally like sole fish. When they saw the "prey" on the board, they scrambled to climb into the boat. So, in less than half an hour, Cao Rui caught a dozen white otters. Because he often deals with "senior intellectuals" like Xu Miao, Cao Rui is also somewhat shrewd. He is good at writing Yuefu poems and essays. However, his achievements in this respect are far less than that of his grandfather Cao Cao. 4. Although Cao Rui was good at fighting and respected corporal, Cao Wei Dynasty declined in his hands. After Zhuge Liang's death, Cao Rui got rid of his heart disease and began to indulge himself. He chose a large number of beautiful women to enter the palace, where he had fun day and night. What is even more frightening is that he has made great progress in construction, and the serious state power has become a toy at his disposal. After years of war, the treasury of Cao Wei was empty and the financial expenditure was in a hurry. To add insult to injury, Cao Rui built palaces in Luoyang and Xuchang, which made the national finance light up frequently. Ministers wrote several times to expose their shortcomings, but Cao Rui just wouldn't listen. Instead, he worked harder to waste people and money and aroused national dissatisfaction. It doesn't matter if it's not an economic account. As long as he chooses the right heir to the throne, Cao Wei still has hope of reorganizing the rivers and mountains. However, Cao Rui also made a fatal mistake in the choice of heirs and ministers. Cao Rui has no sons. Supposedly, he should choose the heir to the throne from the heirs of his father and grandfather. Perhaps influenced by his father Cao Pi's rejection of his brother Cao Zhi, he adopted Cao Fang and Cao Xun, who are not closely related by blood. Two years later, Cao Rui was seriously ill. He felt it necessary to make things clear, so he called his favorite Sima Yi and asked him to assist Cao Fang, who was only 8 years old, to ascend to the throne. Perhaps he was afraid that Sima Yi was unreliable, so he called Cao Shuang, a relative of the royal family, to help him deal with Sima Yi. This is a big mess: Sima Yi and Cao Shuang have their own ambitions, and Cao Rui's The Dying Orphan just gives them a chance to compete. In 239 AD, Cao Rui died in Luoyang. Sima Yi took the lead in playing the idea of usurping the Cao Wei regime. So I said, Cao Rui is a half-bright and half-dark monarch, very talented and capable, but he lacks understanding of the imperial art!