Chapter 020: The Destruction of the Fu Clan

After the "Cloth Belt Edict" incident, the relationship between Cao Cao and Emperor Xian became clear, and the officials who stood on the side of Emperor Xian at that time were executed or expelled by Cao Cao, and the entire court became Cao Cao's private property, and Emperor Liu Xie hated Cao Cao very much, but he was helpless, not only did he not keep the pregnant daughter Dong Guiren, but even his own queen Empress Fu was also killed by Cao Cao.

Although Liu Xie was still the emperor of the Han Dynasty on the surface, he had actually completely become Cao Cao's puppet puppet, and soon after deposing the Fu family, he made his daughter Cao Jie the new empress.

【The Destruction of the Bush】

Empress Fu's name is Fu Shou, she is a native of Dongwu County, Langxi County, Xuzhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong), and the eighth grandson of Situ Fuzhan of the Western Han Dynasty. His father is Fu Wan, and his mother is Liu Hua, the daughter of Emperor Han Huan, Princess Yang'an.

In the first year of Chuping (190), Dong Zhuo took Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty hostage to Chang'an, and Fu Shou followed.

Five years later, in the second year of Xingping (195), Fu Shou was made the queen, and his father Fu Wan was appointed as the ruling Jinwu, when Emperor Han Xian was only 14 years old, and Fu Shou was only 15 years old, and the difference between the two was 1 year. Soon, Emperor Han Xian returned to the east, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others pursued and defeated Emperor Han Xian in Caoyang, Emperor Han Xian smuggled the Yellow River to Shanxi at night, and the concubines of the six palaces all walked out of the camp to follow. Empress Fu held several fine silk horses, Dong Cheng called Fu Jie to order Sun Hui to threaten to take it with a fast knife, kill the left and right attendants, and blood splashed on Queen Fu's clothes. When he arrived in Anyi, the clothes worn by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty were rotten, and he used jujube chestnuts as food, and later thanks to Zhang Yang and others, Emperor Xian was able to spend a winter in peace.

In the following year, in the first year of Jian'an (196), Cao Cao moved the capital to Xuchang, coerced the Son of Heaven and ordered the princes, and Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, became a puppet in his hands, guarding the vacant position in vain. Zhao Yan once offered advice to Emperor Xian, but Cao Cao was so disgusted that he killed him. Most of the rest who did not agree with Cao Cao inside and outside were killed. Cao Cao later went into the palace to see Emperor Xian, and Emperor Xian was extremely angry, because he said: "If you can assist me, then I hope you will be kind to you; Otherwise, I hope that you will abandon me with affection. Cao Cao was shocked and kowtowed to beg for help. The old rule was that the three princes led the troops to meet the emperor, and they wanted the tiger soldiers to hold sharp weapons and coerce each other. After Cao Cao withdrew, he looked forward to the left and right, sweating profusely. From then on, Cao Cao did not dare to meet the emperor like this again.

Dong Cheng's daughter was a nobleman, Cao Cao killed Dong Cheng, and asked to kill Dong Guiren. Emperor Xian thought that Dong Guiren was pregnant, and repeatedly asked for exemption, but he couldn't get it. Empress Fu saw this situation and was terrified from then on.

Empress Fu was either afraid of becoming the second Dong noble, or she really couldn't stand this precarious life, so she wrote a letter to her father Fu Wan, telling her about Cao Cao's cruel persecution, and asking her father to secretly map and eradicate Cao Cao.

However, in history, Fu Wan and Dong Cheng are completely two people, Dong Cheng is the bold and starving to death, just do what he says, what are you afraid of, and Fu Wan is a standard realist.

As early as the beginning of the imperial court being controlled by Cao Cao, Ren Fuwan was an auxiliary general at that time, and the ritual system was the same as that of the three dukes. Fu Wan thought that the power was all in the hands of Cao Cao, and he thought that he was a relative of the emperor in vain, so he handed over the seal ribbon, served as a doctor in Zhongsan, and soon changed to the captain of the Tun cavalry, and almost did not control the power in his hands to avoid Cao Cao, so after he received his daughter's letter for help, he had no intention of doing it at all, in the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210), Fu Wan died, and his son Fu Dian succeeded him, because Fu Wan himself hid this secret deeply, and did not have the slightest intention of doing it, so Cao Cao knew relatively late, and finally did not do anything to Fu Wan.

However, four years later, this matter was still known to Cao Cao, and at that time Cao Cao had been named the Duke of Wei, and Cao Cao had married his three daughters to Liu Xie a year earlier, so Queen Fu at this time was extremely eye-catching.

In the nineteenth year of Jian'an (214), Empress Fu contacted the clansmen to resist Cao Cao's secret leakage, Cao Cao was furious after investigation, so he forced Emperor Xian to abolish Empress Fu, and pretended to be a book and said: "Queen Fu Shou, from humble to enter the palace, to ascend to the queen's throne, since the throne, to the present twenty-four years." Neither has the beauty of Huiyin like Queen Mother Wen and Queen Mother Wu, but also lacks the blessing of prudent self-cultivation and self-cultivation, but insidiously harbors jealousy and harbors evil intentions, and cannot accept the mandate of heaven and worship the ancestors. Now send the imperial historian Xi to hold the edict of the Fu Jiece Decree, hand over the queen's seal, retreat to the middle palace, and move to other buildings, alas! Sad! Fu Shou took the blame for himself and was not tried, but fortunately! Later, Shang Shu ordered Hua Xin to be Xi Xin's deputy, and led the troops into the palace to arrest the ambush queen. At that time, Queen Fu closed the door and hid in the wall, Hua Xin stretched out her hand to pull Queen Fu out.

At that time, Emperor Xian was in the outer hall, and Xi Wei sat beside him. After the bush, she walked barefoot and wept past Emperor Xian to say goodbye, "Can't you save me again?" Emperor Xian said, "I don't know how long my life will last!" He looked back at Xi Wei and said, "Gong Xi! Is there such a thing in the world? So Cao Cao put the queen in the tyrannical room of the court, died in seclusion ("Cao Concealment Biography" said that he was killed on the spot), the two princes born were also poisoned with poisonous wine, more than 100 people of the Fu clan were also executed, and 19 people including Fu Shou's mother Ying (possibly Sister Fan Pu) were exiled to Zhuo County.

Just a year later, Cao Cao's daughter, Cao Jie, became the new Empress of the Han Dynasty.

【The Decline of the Han Dynasty】

In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Liu Xie failed to keep his pregnant concubine, and by the nineteenth year of Jian'an (213), the dignified emperor of the Han Dynasty could not even keep his queen.

The decline of the Han Dynasty originated after Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor after the Rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants, after which Yuan Shao tried to set up another emperor, and Yuan Shu simply established himself as emperor, although the two brothers ultimately failed, but they caused great damage to the majesty of the Son of Heaven.

After Wang Yun and Lu Bu and others eliminated Dong Zhuo and set things right, the imperial court once had a chance to revive, but because of Wang Yun's ignorance, the Western Liang Army rebelled again, and the new generation of Western Liang Army leaders Li Dao, Guo Yan and others were inferior to Dong Zhuo, and when they controlled power, the authority of the Son of Heaven was further harmed.

After that, the princes from all walks of life really saw Liu Xie's son of heaven not much, in addition to Zhang Yang and other chatting with a few people, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others all regarded the emperor as a tool, after Cao Cao moved the capital, the Son of Heaven essentially became his puppet, after more than ten years of development, at that time the court had only known that there was Cao Gong, did not know that there was an emperor, and the imperial power of the Han Dynasty had declined to a low point.

At that time, the reason why Emperor Xian could still sit on the throne was just because Cao Cao didn't want to.