041 Queen Bian of Kabuki (middle)
After becoming a wife, Mrs. Bian still assisted her husband, raised her children, and treated her concubines well. She is like a housekeeper of the master, managing the family way, a bit like Wang Xifeng in "Dream of Red Mansions", but she is not as cunning and vicious as Wang Xifeng, but is gentle and frugal.
Cao Cao had many children, and many of his concubines died early like Mrs. Liu, and many young children were deprived of their biological mothers.
Cao Cao admired Mrs. Bian's virtuous and open-minded wife, and entrusted these children to Mrs. Bian and asked her to take care of them. Cao Cao was very relieved of Bian's.
Mrs. Bian has no guilt about the birth of these children, and she has raised and educated them wholeheartedly, which makes Cao Cao very comforted.
Cao Cao, who has no worries, can devote himself to the grand cause of competing for the world with all his body and mind.
Cao Cao has never forgotten Mrs. Ding, and repeatedly invited Mrs. Ding to return to the palace for banquets in the name of Mrs. Bian.
Mrs. Bian knew her husband's thoughts, and always left the seat of the wife next to her husband to Mrs. Ding, and retreated to the concubine position herself.
This is not easy, and ordinary people can't do it.
And Mrs. Ding is a harsh woman, and when she was a wife, she never gave Mrs. Bian any good looks. Now, Mrs. Bian can treat her like this, which makes Mrs. Ding a little unhappy, she said to Mrs. Bian: "I am already a divorced, why should Mrs. be like this? ”
However, Mrs. Ding's kind words were only said to Mrs. Bian, and to Cao Cao, who was looking at her beside her, she was as expressionless as ever.
A few years later, Mrs. Ding passed away quietly at her mother's home. With resentment and perhaps regret.
Cao Cao was very saddened by the death of Madame Ding, and lamented that he had no chance to atone for his sins.
Mrs. Bian observed her husband's heart and offered to handle Mrs. Ding's funeral by herself.
Cao Cao nodded in agreement, and personally chose a cemetery for Mrs. Ding and buried her in the south of Xuchang City.
In March of the nineteenth year of Jian'an, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was forced by the situation to grant Cao Cao the Golden Seal, the Red Silk, and the Yuanyou Crown, and raised his position above the princes and kings. So that Cao Cao achieved the first rush.
After that, Emperor Xian made several efforts to regain his real power as emperor from Cao Cao, but instead of success, he successively lost the lives of Dong Guiren, Empress Fu and three sons (one in Dong Guiren's belly).
In the twentieth year of Jian'an, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty canonized Cao Erguiren (Cao Cao married three daughters to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty) as the last queen of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In this situation, in May of the twenty-first year of Jian'an (216 AD), the emperor passed on the edict and named Cao Cao as the king of Wei.
Cao Cao successfully reached the top for the second time. It's easy to say, it's not easy to say.
In April of the second year after becoming King of Wei, Emperor Xian of Han even agreed to Cao Cao's use of the Son of Heaven's honor guard.
By October, Cao Cao, the king of Wei, had adopted the same size as the emperor's crown, and could be driven by a golden chariot and six horses, with a side car.
Up to now, everyone knows that the emperor has been set up in the same place, and the real emperor is actually Cao Cao, the reason why he did not abolish the emperor and stand on his own is just that he does not want to become the target of public criticism and infamy.
After his father became the king of Wei, Mrs. Bian's sons, especially Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, engaged in a series of open and secret battles for the inheritance.
It was vigorous and bloody.
During the whole process, Bian knew what happened, but she remained silent and did not say anything at will.
In November of the same year, Cao Cao was in the group of sons, and finally selected Cao Pi, who was then the general of Wuguan Zhonglang, as his heir.
Called the crown prince of Wei.
When the news came, a close minister soon went to report the good news to Mrs. Bian and ask for a reward.
Mrs. Bian replied lightly: "Cao Pi is the eldest son, so he is the heir, and I, as a mother, can teach my son without fault, it is enough, our mother and son have no merit, what is there to reward?" ”
Cao Cao was very happy when he heard Mrs. Bian's answer, thinking that her performance had the demeanor of a mother, and praised: "It is really rare that anger does not change its appearance, and joy does not lose etiquette." ”
Since he has such a high opinion of Mrs. Bian, the next thing is logical.
In July of the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao promulgated a policy: "Mrs. Bian, raising all sons, has the virtue of motherhood." Now that she is the queen, the princes and princes will accompany the throne, and the princes will live on the throne, and the capital crime in the country will be reduced by one degree. ”
It is an amnesty for the world. This matter after the closure is a major event in the world, and it can be amnestied.
In this way, the Bian family, who was born from a humble background, officially became the noble queen of Wei.
This year, she was 58 years old.
Cao Cao advocated frugality, his concubines did not wear brocade forging embroidery, the curtains in the palace were rarely replaced if they were damaged, and they were still used for sewing, as long as the bedding and the like could be warmed, and the workmanship never cared. All the war booty and luxuries, he distributed to the meritorious men who conquered the city.
In this regard, Queen Bian's husband sings with her wife, her clothes are not embroidered, the ornaments are not beaded and jade, and the furniture in the living room is not painted with colored lacquer, and the color is black. Think about it, the queen's clothes are all plain, who dares to be gorgeous?
No matter how frugal a woman is, she also loves beauty, and Cao Cao knows this very well. Once he got a few pairs of exquisite earrings outside, and happily took them back to the palace, so that Queen Bian could choose first. Queen Bian's choice was beyond his expectations - she only took one of the medium-grade ones.
Cao Cao was very strange and asked her why? Queen Bian said lightly: "If you choose the best, it is greedy; If you choose the worst, it is hypocrisy; So I choose one of them. ”
Under Queen Bian's example, the harem of Cao Wei at the beginning of the creation was simple and thrifty.
However, although Queen Bian herself is frugal, she still takes care of her younger brother as usual.
Queen Bian's younger brother is named Bian Bing, who has been fighting with Cao Cao in the south and the north. Although his military achievements were outstanding, during the Jian'an period under Cao Cao's reign, he had poor official luck, and his merits were not as good as his, and he was named Hou, but he only became a few ministers.
Queen Bian couldn't help but raise objections to her husband.
Cao Cao replied: "He is my brother-in-law, so I can't give him too much of an official title." ”
In this case, Queen Bian did not talk about official positions anymore, but her younger brother was poor because of his humble official position, and Queen Bian couldn't bear it, so she said, "Since you can't be granted the official position that matches it, give him money." ”
Cao Cao disagreed, saying: "If you give him some secretly, it is enough, and if you want me to reward it publicly, it will not work." ”
- Since Cao Cao has this attitude, Queen Bian is aggrieved in her heart, how can she really give her younger brother any property?
Therefore, until Cao Cao's death, Bian Bing's official position was not promoted again, and his property was very small, and some people who were not as good as him in war were much richer than him.