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So, what kind of emperor was Cao Rui in real history? Cao Rui was the second emperor after the founding of the State of Cao Wei, reigned from 227 to 239, and was known as the "Three Ancestors of Cao" along with Cao Cao and Cao Pi. Because of the good foundation laid by the two generations of ancestors and fathers, Cao Rui himself was indeed good at employing people, and his era was also the heyday of the Cao Wei Dynasty.
However, in the traditional history, Cao Rui's evaluation is not very good. Chen Shou said in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, and Ming Emperor Ji that "Emperor Ming was determined to know, acted with his heart, and covered the great feelings of the king." If this sentence alone, we can also see that Chen Shou thought that Cao Rui was an emperor with an arbitrary and clever hand, but immediately after this sentence, Chen Shou said: "At that time, the people withered, the four seas fell apart, and they did not first cultivate the ancestors, expounding hongji, and chasing after the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, the palace was a camp, and the ge was far away, and its disease was terrible." ”
From the above-mentioned discussion of Chen Shou, it can be seen that although the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui was an emperor who was proficient in the heart of the emperor, he was not a good emperor, he did not have the frugal spirit of Cao Cao, but extravagant and extravagant, "the palace is a camp", that is, the meaning of building a palace. In fact, Cao Rui was still quite attentive at the beginning, and it was only in the last four or five years of his reign that he let go of his courage to engage in extravagance. Why?
When the Yuan Dynasty historian Hu Sansheng made a note to the Zizhi Tongjian, he wrote in the Wei Ji that the Ming Emperor Qinglong was three years old: "Zhuge Liang died, and the emperor was in the Daxing Palace. "It turned out that it was because Zhuge Liang was alive in the past, and the Northern Expedition was revived for many years, which put a lot of military pressure on Cao Wei, and after Zhuge Liang's death, the military pressure on the southwest of Cao Wei was reduced, and the Ming Emperor Cao Rui was also relieved, so he could play with confidence, and the Daxing Palace Room was also logical. The Qing Dynasty man He Zhuo's "Yimen Reading Secretary" also said: "Zhuge is a pawn, and the border is not shrugged, and the widow is wanton and desolate." ”
Judging from the above documents, Cao Rui is not only extravagant, but also absurd! The Book of Song and the Five Elements Chronicle records that "since the emperor ascended the throne from the beginning, he has been extravagant and extravagant, occupying more young girls, or robbing wives of soldiers, decorating the palace, and hindering agricultural warfare." It seems that Cao Rui's extravagance did not begin after Zhuge Liang's death, starting from the first time he took the throne, not only built a palace, but also extremely absurd, and played very out of line!
The energy that Cao Rui put into building a palace was unmatched by ordinary emperors. There is a particularly interesting passage in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, and Gao Tanglong Biography:
The emperor increased the palace, carved the pavilion, chiseled the quartz of the Taixing, the granite of the valley city, the Jingyang Mountain in the Garden of Fanglin, the zhaoyang hall in the north of taiji, cast as the yellow dragon phoenix qiwei beast, decorated with gold yong, Ling Yuntai, Lingxiao Pavilion. Hundreds of battles flourished, tens of thousands of authors, and as for the students below the secretary of state, they did not exert their strength, and the emperor was self-exciting himself to lead it.
In order to build a building, Cao Rui even dug the soil himself, which is also unique among the emperors of ancient and modern China and abroad, right?
In addition to building a palace in Luoyang, Cao Rui also occupied a large area of land in Xingyang and other places as a royal forbidden garden, in which a large number of deer and other animals were stocked, and the Ming Emperor regularly came here to hunt and have fun. Local people are not allowed to enter the deer farm, and even if the animals damage the crops, they are not allowed to kill, otherwise, they will pay for their lives. It is said that the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that "those who killed deer in forbidden land died, and their property was not official, and those who could be informed were generously rewarded." This perverted edict is diametrically opposed to the policy of his grandfather Cao Cao's era of attaching importance to the protection of Nongsang, and it is simply a third generation of emperors who are rich and unkind!
Ancient and modern emperors are lustful, power is an aphrodisiac, and imperial power is the strongest aphrodisiac. Many people know that the scale of the harem of Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, is amazing, but few people know that the harem of Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming is also spectacular. Emperor Wei Ming built a palace, and one of the functions was to store the harem. According to the Wei Luo, Emperor Wei Ming established the so-called "Eight Fangs" in the Luoyang Palace and raised a large number of "talented people", and these palace women should have many talents. The entire Luoyang Palace, from the nobles below the palace to thousands!
In order to enrich the harem, Cao Rui did not even spare the married women of the people, "those who had married the wives of the officials before the record of the warrior's daughter, and also used the soldier as a matching soldier, who not only listened to the self-redemption of the mouth, but also simply selected the inner court of those who had a posture." ”
As a politician, Cao Rui was by no means a mediocre talent, otherwise he could not have pushed the Cao Wei Empire to the top; but as an emperor, his extravagance and absurdity were inevitable, who was not absurd in that position? The weakening of the Cao Wei imperial family and the rise of the Sima clan probably began with Cao Rui's extravagance?
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