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Almost after the death of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, Cao Rui, the emperor of Wei Ming, began an absurd life, he built palaces and collected beauties on a large scale, but so many harem beauties did not leave him any sons. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info his own health became worse and worse, and he died shortly after Sima Yi pacified Liaodong, and the throne had to be left to his adopted son.

【Unconscious Politics】

On February 8, the third year of Qinglong (235), the Empress Dowager Guo died. On March 11, Empress Wende Guo was buried in the west of the Shouyang Mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Wei. During this time, Cao Rong overhauled the palace, governed the Luoyang Palace, raised the Zhaoyang and Taiji Palaces, and built the General Zhangguan, which consumed a lot of manpower and even affected agriculture. Yang Fu, Gao Tanglong, Jiang Ji, Wei Zhen, Sun Li, and other ministers of the DPRK and China gave advice several times, but Cao Rong did not listen. Later, Chen Qun and Sima Yi also advised one after another, and Cao Rui controlled the scale slightly.

Before Sima Yi's crusade against Liaodong, Cao Rui was still overhauling the palace, plus the cost of military travel, and the people were hungry and tired. So he admonished and said: "In the past, Zhou Gong built Luoyi, Xiao He built Weiyang Palace, and today the palace is incomplete, this is my responsibility." However, north of the Yellow River, the people are impoverished, and there are many internal and external servitudes, and it is inevitable that they will not be able to rebuild all kinds of waste, and internal affairs should be temporarily suspended in order to save the current emergency. ”

Later, Cao Rui also rebuilt the Chonghua Hall and renamed it the Nine Dragons Palace. And open a canal to attract water to flow through the front of the Nine Dragons Palace, build a well with jade, wrap the well fence with colored satin, and the water flows from the mouth of the jade carved toad, and then spits out from the mouth of the jade carved dragon. Dr. Ma Jun, a man who helped the wind, made a Sinan car, and made a hundred opera cars with water-powered rotation activities.

According to the records of "Wei Luo" and "Spring and Autumn of the Han Dynasty", Cao Rui will also move the bell, Lutuo, Tongren, and Chenglu Pan originally located in Chang'an to Luoyang. The dew plate was broken, and the sound came for dozens of miles. The bronze man was too heavy to be transported to Luoyang, so he had to stay in Bacheng. Brass was widely collected, cast into two bronze figures, called Weng Zhong, and placed side by side outside the Sima Gate of the Imperial Palace. Cast the yellow dragon and the phoenix respectively, the yellow dragon is four zhang high, the phoenix is more than three zhang high, and it is placed in front of the inner hall of the palace. In the northwest corner of Hong Lin Yuan, a mountain of earth was piled up, and all officials such as the three princes and Jiuqing were ordered to carry the soil, plant pine trees, bamboo, miscellaneous trees and beautiful grass on the soil mountain, and collect mountain birds and miscellaneous animals and put them in the bushes to raise.

At the same time, Cao Rui also began to collect beauties and beauties on a large scale, and began an absurd life. According to the record of "Wei Luo", at that time, the Ming Emperor was obsessed with the beauties of the favored concubines, and the official positions of the female officials in the palace and the number of civil and military officials were compared with the number of civil and military officials. At that time, there was also an edict ordering that those who had already married lower-level officials and commoners should be remarried to conscripts, and that a considerable amount of cattle, horses, and livestock should be redeemed. The more beautiful ones were also selected and sent to the palace.

In the later period, in addition to building and collecting beauties, Cao Rui also exchanged horses for jewelry from Sun Quan, and forced his queen to death for no reason.

At that time, Emperor Ming sent people to Wu to exchange horses for pearls, jade, and tortoiseshell. Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, said: "I don't use these things, but they can be exchanged for horses, why should I be stingy?" So they all were given to the messenger.

Mrs. Guo, a native of Xiping, was favored by Emperor Ming, and Emperor Ming's favor for Empress Mao gradually disappeared. Emperor Ming wandered around the back garden and feasted, Mrs. Guo asked Empress Mao to participate, Emperor Ming did not allow it, and ordered the people around him not to leak. Empress Mao knew about this, and asked Emperor Ming the next day: "Yesterday in the North Park for a fun feast, are you happy?" "Emperor Ming killed more than a dozen people in a row because the people around him leaked out. Gengchen (16th), ordered Queen Mao to commit suicide, but still added a nickname to mourn the queen.

It can be said that after Zhuge Liang's death, Cao Rui's transformation was extremely obvious. At the beginning of Cao Rui's coming to power, the situation he faced was very difficult, at that time, not only the Shu State was reinvigorated, the Wu State was ready to go, and the lord of Liaodong also changed from the incompetent Gongsun Gong to the ambitious Gongsun Yuan, and the Xianbei in the north was also integrated very quickly, Kirby Neng became the male lord of the new generation of Xianbei, Zhuge Liang and Kirby Neng, Sun Quan and Gongsun Yuan also showed signs of uniting with each other, so that the pressure on Cao Rui can be said to be very great.

And after Zhuge Liang's death, Kirby Neng was also assassinated quickly, Gongsun Yuan had completely broken with Sun Quan before, and the threat to Cao Wei was no longer there, so that Cao Rui's enemy was equal to Sun Quan left, and Jiangdong's means of luring the enemy had been exhausted, and the threat caused was getting lower and lower, so the burden on Cao Rui was much easier.

Cao Rui began to pursue entertainment in this situation, and began to become dizzy, but he was not completely incapacitated, and he still had the decisiveness to many major things.

【Cao Rui without a queen】

Cao Rui has a lot of women in his life, and this is especially true in the later period. Relatively speaking, Cao Rui's heirs are very thin, he has a total of three biological sons, two adopted sons and two daughters. It's a pity that his own sons all died early, and in the end he could only leave his position to his adopted son.

Cao Rui's eldest son is Cao Jian (?) -226), Cao Rui ascended the throne in the seventh year of the early Huang dynasty (226), and in the same year he made Cao Jian the king of Qinghe, but Cao Jian also died in the same year. The second son, Cao Mu (?) -229), in the second year of Taihe (228), he was made King of Fanyang, and died the following year.

In the fifth year of Taihe (231), Cao Rui's last son, Cao Yin, was born. Cao Yin's birth was originally of great significance to Cao Rui, when Cao Rui had lost two sons one after another, and there were no children under his knees, which not only marked that Cao Rui had a son, but also meant that Cao Wei had a new successor. After Cao Yin's birth, Cao Rui began to amnesty the world and celebrated with the whole world. But Cao Yin died before he was a year old. Cao Rui had to posthumously crown him as the king of Anping. After Cao Yin, Cao Rui no longer had children.

Cao Rui has two daughters, one is Cao Shu and the other is Princess Qi. In history, Cao Rui loved Cao Shu very much, but Cao Shu died before the moon, posthumously crowned the princess of the plain, and established a sacrificial temple in the capital Luoyang to bury Nanling; He also ordered his mother Zhen's deceased nephew Zhen Huang to be buried with his beloved daughter, posthumously named the Marquis of Zhen Huang, and set up an heir for her to inherit her title.

After Cao Rui experienced the pain of losing his son one after another, he was already prepared, so he adopted two adopted sons, one of whom was Cao Xun and the other was Cao Fang, who later inherited Cao Rui's throne.

On the first day of the first month of the third year of the Jing Dynasty (239), Cao Rui, who was only thirty-six years old, died and was succeeded by his adopted son Cao Fang.