Queen Guo originally lived in the East Palace, and after being made queen, although she was favored by Cao Pi, she was more humble.

He cared for his mother-in-law, Queen Bian, and his filial piety was far and wide. He often admires the personality of Empress Han Mingdema, and curbs his family's power in the government to prevent it from growing and spreading.

Cao Pi's harem concubines and nobles sometimes have mistakes, Queen Guo often makes up for them, cover up their mistakes, she always tells Cao Pi the details of the matter, if Cao Pi is angry, she first kowtows to the concubine and asks for guilt, so the six palaces have no complaints.

Empress Guo is frugal by nature, does not have pleasures, and strictly restricts her mother's family.

Her own brothers were killed in the war, so she changed her brother Guo Biao to her father's stepson, and Guo Biao was appointed as the captain of Fengche.

Liu Fei, the in-law of Empress Guo's family, wants to marry people from other countries (other countries, or referring to outside the feudal country, or Wu and Shu), and when Empress Guo heard about this, he ordered his relatives to say, "The matter of marrying should be kept in peace, as long as the good people in the township who match the door can be, and they can't tend to be inflammatory, and climb the dragon and the phoenix with high-ranking officials and nobles." ”

Perhaps because of her own personal experience, Empress Guo was disgusted by the behavior of the men in the family with three wives and four concubines.

Her nephew Meng Wu wanted to take a concubine, but Empress Guo resolutely stopped it, saying, "Now that there are few women of appropriate age and many men, they should be allowed to marry soldiers who fought for the country." If you already have wives, be at peace with them, and do not take them as concubines by the pretext of power. If any of my people violates this rule, I will punish him severely. ”

At the same time, he often admonished Guo Biao, Meng Wu and others, "Those relatives of the Han family, very few of them can protect themselves, all because of arrogance and extravagance, you can't be cautious about this!"

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In the fifth year of the early Huang dynasty (224), Cao Pi personally conquered Eastern Wu, and Empress Guo stayed in Yongshitai in Xuchang.

At that time, it rained heavily for more than 100 days, and most of the walls of the buildings were washed away by floods.

The ministers asked Empress Guo to leave the palace and live in another place.

Empress Guo said, "In the past, when King Zhao of Chu traveled, his wife Zhenjiang stayed in Jiantai, and the river soared, so King Zhao sent someone to pick her up, but in a hurry, he forgot to bring the order, and Zhenjiang resolutely refused to leave until he was flooded." Now that the emperor is far away, I'm glad I don't have that kind of danger, so why change places? ”

After hearing this, the ministers did not dare to persuade any more.

In the sixth year of the early Huang dynasty, Cao Pi went east to Sun Wu and arrived in Guangling County, while Empress Guo was left in the palace of Cao's hometown of Qiáo County. At that time, Guo Biao stayed in the palace as a guard, so he wanted to use the public's building materials to build a dam to stop the water and catch fish.

When Empress Guo found out, she dissuaded him and said, "The river should first and foremost ensure the smooth flow of ships transporting military rations, and now there is a shortage of wood, and the slaves who are responsible for these things at home are not there, and you want to take the bamboo and wood from the government to build a dam to hold back the water." In this way, aren't you, the captain of Fengche, the 'captain of fishing'? ”

All these actions earned Empress Guo the respect of both inside and outside the palace.

Although Empress Guo helped Cao Pi with advice before the seal, after becoming the queen, she was very careful not to let herself fall into the political situation.

This can be seen from Cao Hong's experience.

Cao Hong, whose name is cheap, is Cao Cao's younger brother. Cao Hong's family is rich but stingy, and Cao Pi once asked for something to borrow from him when he was young, so he hated Cao Hong very much.

In the seventh year of the Huang Dynasty, Cao Hong broke the law, and Cao Pi ordered Cao Hong himself to be imprisoned and executed.

The ministers were helpless, and even the Empress Dowager Bian had no choice.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Bian found Empress Guo and said to her, "If Cao Hong dies today, I will depose the emperor tomorrow." ”

Under the threat of being deposed by the Queen Mother, Empress Guo had no choice but to intercede for Cao Hong.

She cried bitterly in front of Cao Pi many times, begging the emperor for mercy, and in the end, Cao Hong was only dismissed from office and reduced to knighthood, saving his life.

Cao Pi once specially issued the "Pre-government Edict after Banning Mother": "Husband and wife are in politics, and chaos is also the foundation of chaos." From now on, the ministers are not allowed to play the queen mother, and the descendants of the family are not allowed to be the auxiliary government, and they are not allowed to accept the lord of the soil. This edict will be passed on to future generations, and if there is a violation, the whole world will punish it."

This will seems to have been set up by Cao Pi against his mother, Empress Dowager Bian.

It can be seen how much Cao Pi hated the harem politics, but when Empress Guo pleaded, he released the water again.

In this example, it seems that Empress Dowager Bian can't change her son's decision, and Empress Guo did.

Zhen Luo is the biological mother of the eldest son and the princess, and she was killed for some complaints, and Empress Guo obviously interfered in state affairs after Cao Pi issued a ban, and Cao Pi still didn't care. It can be seen that Queen Guo's status in Cao Pi's heart is not low.

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On the fifth day of the seventh year of the Huang Dynasty, the forty-year-old Cao Pi died in the Jiafu Hall in Luoyang, and when he was dying, he sent all the concubines in the harem from Shuyuan and Zhaoyi to his mother's family to marry again, and finally decided to canonize Zhen Luo's son Cao Rong (

uì) for the heirs.

As early as half a year before Queen Guo became the queen, on the second day of the third month of the Yellow Dynasty, Cao Rong had been named the king of the plains.

Because Queen Guo was over forty at the time, it was no longer the golden age of childbearing, and childlessness was almost a foregone conclusion, so Queen Guo adopted Cao Rong.

How did Empress Guo treat Cao Rong? Whether it is the official history or the wild history novels, all of them record "very much love", which shows that Queen Guo poured a lot of love into this adopted son.

Similarly, Cao Rong also showed considerable filial piety to his adoptive mother, and greeted him in the morning and evening.

Due to the extraordinary death of Zhen Luo, although he has become the son of Empress Guo, Cao Pi is still unwilling to establish Cao Rong as the prince, and is interested in the sons born to other concubines.

Cao Pi had nine sons, in addition to Cao Rong, Cao Xie, Cao Rui (

uí), Cao Jian, Cao Lin, Cao Li, Cao Yong (yō

g), Cao Gong, Cao Yan. However, most of the sons died young, and in the end, Cao Pi chose Cao Ei to succeed him when he was dying.

From another point of view, it can also show that Queen Guo is worthy of asking Cao Rong a good question, and Queen Guo is not at fault on the issue of Zhen Luo's death, otherwise she would have been able to make trouble on the issue of Cao Rong's succession.

But some people think that Emperor Wei Wendi did not establish a crown prince for many years, and it was Queen Guo who obstructed it.

However, in fact, Cao Pi did not like Cao Ei when he was not yet emperor.

First of all, Cao Ei's character is strange and distorted, which can be seen from the various behaviors recorded in the history books after he ascended the throne.

The history books contain, "In the Han Dynasty, the crown was made of white jade beads." Emperor Wei Ming's good woman ornament, changed to coral beads. At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, it was still the same, and then it was changed. ”

In that feudal era when men were inferior to women, men's "good women" were very despised by the world. It is conceivable that Cao Pi would never be willing to pass on the throne to a son who loves to pretend to be a woman.

If it weren't for how early Cao Pi's other sons died or were too young, there was really no way for Wei to prosper in the future, and Cao Yi was afraid that it would be difficult for him to ascend to the throne.

Or it can be said that Empress Guo contributed to this, otherwise, she couldn't choose Cao Rong until the last moment.