Chapter 69 The Nine-Rank Official System
All in all, Cao Pi is still too tender, not only is he not as good as Cao Cao, but even Sun Quan is not as good as him. Sun Quan has been in power since Sun Ce's death in 200 AD, and has been in power for more than 20 years before and after the Battle of Yiling. At that time, Cao Pi had just usurped the Han Dynasty and became independent, and in front of Sun Quan, Cao Pi was still a novice, so Sun Quan easily defused Cao Pi's three large-scale attacks. β
"In general, Cao Pi is still a very good king, politically, he adopted Chen Qun's nine-product Zhongzheng system, which lasted for hundreds of years, militarily, he recovered the three counties of Shangyong, which laid the foundation for the next crusade against Shu Han, and culturally, he ordered the restoration of Taixue and the establishment of Confucian colleges, so that the cultural revival in the short term."
"However, a wise man thinks a thousand times, and he will make a mistake. After Cao Pi became emperor, he made a very bad decision, which caused Cao Wei to fall into power in the end, and the Sima clan seized power and usurped the throne strongly, and this decision was to cut the rights of the vassal king. β
"Why Cao Pi formulated this initiative, of course, there are lessons from the past, and he learned the lessons of the rebellion of the vassal states of the Han Dynasty. At the same time, it may also have something to do with Cao Pi's character, Cao Cao has so many sons, and it is not Cao Pi's turn to be called the emperor, but these sons are either physically problematic, or they are more and more disliked by Cao Cao, what is the process, there is no way to know, the Qing Dynasty still has Kowloon to seize the emperor, what kind of things to do for that position, no one knows. β
Kangxi: ......
"Let's talk about this Emperor Sima Yi, how he made the world under Cao Cao become someone else's wedding dress, Sima Yi's life can be described as quite exciting."
Zhu Di: The Sima family has the intrigues and tricks of the world, not to mention stealing Cao Wei Jiangshan, the most important thing is that their Sima family governs the world, it is a mess, and the emperors' cultural and martial arts are not worth mentioning, and Sima Shao, the emperor of the Jin Ming Dynasty in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is quite sober, but he has only done it for four years.
Qianlong: What's even more ridiculous is that a fool has become an emperor.
Qin Shi Huang: So outrageous!
Liu Bang: Foolish Emperor! Ridiculous!
Yang Jian: Hmph, this Jin Dynasty is really infuriating, then Sima Yi used conspiracy and tricks, and in one *****, he easily seized the Cao family's world, and that's it, the key to his descendants is too disappointing!
Cao Cao looked at the words on the barrage, his raging anger was burned, and his Wei State was taken away by Sima Yi? Can a fool be an emperor? Disgrace! Disgrace!
"Someone!"
"Prime Minister"
A tiger will walk quickly from outside the door, it is Xu Chu.
"Immediately capture Sima Fang, Sima Lang, Sima Yi, Sima Zhao and other Sima families, and do it quickly, there must be no mistakes!"
Xu Chu answered, and immediately led the troops to Sima Mansion, and at this time, Sima Yi was behind the curtain of the morning light, directly called the family, changed his makeup, and ran away, Xu Chu came and pounced, directly notified the city gates, closed the city gates, and investigated one by one, while Sima Yi and others ran to the mountain......
"In fact, he Sima Yi was able to usurp the throne, or Cao Pi's reason, Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and became self-reliant, in order to get the support of the scholars, he engaged in a nine-grade official system, and the scholars have risen by leaps and bounds, I don't understand why Cao Pi did this? Cao Cao has been fighting the Tu clan all his life, and he doesn't dare to be careless, but when he arrives at Cao Pi, he actually improves the status of the family, and he can be on an equal footing with the emperor. β
Li Shimin: I understand the status of these families too well, why didn't I come this way, it is too difficult to uproot them.
Cao Cao: Although there is a reason for my son, in the final analysis, it is still to blame Emperor Guangwu, if it was not for the promotion of the Tu clan at that time and let them raise their heads, it would not have been divided into three kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the three kingdoms were in chaos, and the group was divided.
Cao Pi: No way, if I want to attack Shu Han and Eastern Wu, I must use the power of these Tu tribes, if I can live longer, maybe I should also uproot the Tu tribes.
"Sima Yi's road to fame is the same as hanging up, and this fame and fortune are completely given by Cao Pi, but he still lives a long time."
"When Cao Cao was alive, Sima Yi was a prime minister, that is, a pawn, but in the Cao Pi period, it was like taking a plane, brushing up to the sky, Cao Pi just took office Sima Yi was promoted to the prime minister's long history, Cao Pi called the emperor, Sima Yi was promoted to the right servant of Shangshu (Shang Shutai in the Cao Wei period is the highest authority in the country)."
"Sima Lao Thief has gone from an ordinary petty official to a scholar under one person in just three years, in fact, if Sima Yi had been a civilian for a lifetime, there might not have been any usurpation later, but Cao Pi, Cao Ei, the two fathers and sons single-handedly cultivated Sima Yi into Cao Wei's military god, let's talk about the personnel arrangements after Cao Pi's death, which is very interesting."
"The four auxiliary ministers, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Chen Qun, Sima Yi, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, the two of them are important ministers of the clan, and they are all military generals, Sima Yi, Chen Qun is a different surname Wenchen, this arrangement is very ingenious, the Eastern Han Dynasty died in the politics of foreign relatives, Chen Qun and Sima Yi, the two ministers with different surnames. will be very effective in containing Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, the two clan generals with high prestige in the army. β
"After Cao Pi's death, his son Cao Rui took over, and he also understood his father's arrangement, just to enable Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu also intended to cultivate Sima Yi's prestige in the army, after Cao Pi's death, Eastern Wu led troops to attack, Cao Rui ordered Sima Yi to lead troops to meet Sun Quan."
"This is also the first time Sima Yi led the troops to fight alone, Sima Yi also lived up to expectations, repelled Sun Quan, Zhuge Jin, killed Zhang Baba and won a complete victory, in the same year Cao Rui promoted Sima Yi to hussar general, this year Sima Yi is 48 years old."
"Sima Yi started his military career away from the DPRK, and his prestige in the army gradually increased, at that time Cao Xiu was the great Sima, Cao Zhen was a general, the status and prestige of these two people in the army were higher than Sima Yi, if these two people did not die, there would be no later changes in Gaopingling, but unfortunately, this Cao family not only had a short life for the emperor, but also the clan generals did not live very long."
"The Gao Pingling incident happened because the father and son connived at the eunuchs to interfere in politics and misbelieved slander, which led to the departure of people with lofty ideals. In addition, Sima Yi was favored by the people and the royal family because of his outstanding talents, but Cao Rui excluded him. β
After Cao Rui's death in 220 AD, Sima Yi staged a coup d'Γ©tat and successfully overthrew the Cao dynasty. After that, Sima Yi became the supreme leader of the Wei state and began his reign. β
"The main reasons are Cao Rui's weakness and incompetence, the eunuchs' interference in politics, and Sima Yi's exclusion. Against this background, Sima Yi began to secretly organize the opposition and seek support from others. At the same time, he also won a large number of supporters in the army, and gradually developed a powerful anti-Cao dynasty faction. β