In the late Three Kingdoms period, the former heroes have been completely annihilated, and only some corrupt people who have not achieved enough things have been lost.
In 249 AD, Sima Yi, a minister of the Cao clan who had been waiting for the opportunity, saw the situation and disdained the mediocrity of Cao's descendants. He brazenly launched the Coup d'état of GaoPingling, which shocked the annals of history, wantonly hunted down and killed cao clan members, and killed cao shuang and other key bloodline people up to more than 7,000 people.
Sima Yi
In Luoyang City, for a time, everyone was terrified that the blood flowed all over the place. This sudden change has made this ancient city that has been through vicissitudes once again rendered with heavy colors.
Luoyang City stood quietly, and the ancient wind was still there. It's just that the people and dignitaries in the city are just as panicked as when Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang decades ago.
Sima Yi succeeded, and he used a raid to end decades of suppression of him by the Cao clan.
At this time, some readers may ask, cao's three masters are not mediocre lords, cao clan is in this great trouble, where are the loyal ministers who are favored by them? Where are the promoted Gensuke men?
One, relentless time
People like to read the Three Kingdoms, nothing more than like the Three Kingdoms era can be born, fighting wits and courage. The Three Kingdoms of the Cao Cao era is undoubtedly the climax of the Three Kingdoms era of wisdom and courage, and it is also the peak of the emergence of talents.
At this time, the quality and quantity of talents around Cao Cao can be regarded as the first of the Three Kingdoms. These people were loyal and diligent, and they were the biggest reliance on Cao Cao's invincibility in the world, and coupled with Cao Cao's own great talent, this cast the glory of the Cao clan.
Manpower is sometimes poor, and time is the most ruthless killer. In 218 AD, the famous fifth son Liang, Zhonglejin, died. Since then, Cao Cao has lacked a tiger general who dares to ascend first in battle.
In 219 AD, the Battle of Hanzhong, which can be called the most luxurious lineup in the Three Kingdoms Era, the Cao clan's benjia tiger general Xiahou Yuan, known as the Tiger Bu Guan right, was beheaded by Liu Bei's general Huang Zhong, and the Battle of Hanzhong was lost, and Cao Cao lost his most trusted general.
Since then, in the nine years from 220 A.D. to 229 A.D., countless active and brilliant figures in the annals of the Three Kingdoms era have begun to be ruthlessly removed from the field by the years.
Cao Cao Pi Cao Zhang's father and son, Cao Ren (曹仁) who was the official to the Great General, Cao Xiu (曹休) who was the official to the Grand Sima (大司馬), Xiahou Huan (夏侯惇) who was the official to the Great General, Xiahou Shang (夏侯尚) of the Official to the Grand General of Zhengnan (征南) and Xiahou Shang (夏侯尚) of Jingzhou Mu (荆州牧), the right general Xu Huang (徐晃) of the Five Sons, the former general Zhang Liao (張辽), and the general An Yuan (安遠) were banned, the General Of Wu Wei (武衛) was known as Xu Chu (許褚), who was known as a tiger fool, and the rest of the generals and lieutenants were innumerable. It can be said that in the past few years, Cao Wei's core combat strength has lost most of it.
In the following years, Cao Wei's last general, Zhang Guo ( Zhang Guo ) , the general of the Western Che Dynasty , was killed by Zhuge Liang in a battle at the Wooden Gate Road. Immediately afterward, Cao Zhen, the last pillar of Cao Wei's jiangshan, and Cao Hong, the general of the Hussars, also died one after another, and Cao Rui died. The rest of the lieutenants are not counted, and the family foundations saved up in Cao Cao's era have basically been reduced to too vain.
To put it bluntly, at the moment when Sima Yi made up his mind to act, Cao Wei no longer had many famous ministers and good generals of the Three Kingdoms era that we are familiar with. The huge power and talent vacuum allowed Sima Yi to take advantage of it.
This sentence is not vain at all, when Sima Yi is still worried about calculations, the Three Kingdoms era has quietly been a battlefield for the younger generation, and rising stars such as Jiang Wei and Deng Ai are writing legends in the new era. But Sima Yi relied on his longevity and strategy to turn around the situation created by countless haojie decades ago.
If it were not for Sima Yi's cross-era dimensionality reduction strike, the strength of Cao Wei's new generation would have had a different color.
Two: Everything is fate
Cao Pi did not reign for a long time, but he was also a generation of masters. But the biggest difference between Cao Pi and Cao Cao is that Cao Pi does not have Cao Cao's mind to encompass the universe.
In the era of Cao Cao, Cao Ren, Cao Xiu, Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Huan and others, Cao Cao all took their own strengths and were eclectic. This kind of mind that does not avoid personal alienation is the only way to use it, so that Cao Cao is afraid to conquer the world by chasing the north. So that in the end, Cao Cao himself floated away and was defeated at Chibi, which slightly stopped this momentum of encompassing the four seas.
But Cao Pi is different, and Cao Pi, who competed with Cao Zhi for the throne, can be described as quite jealous of the royal family, such as Cao Zhi, who was talented and failed to seize the throne, and Cao Zhang, who had outstanding military achievements and was brave and fierce, all of whom were suppressed by him in the open and in the dark, and finally ended up depressed.
It can be said that the situation of the emergence of talents in the past has stopped here in Cao Pi. What is even more frightening is that the descendants of Cao Pi continued this practice, resulting in a talent gap between the Cao clan and the Xiahou family, and before the imperial court, there was a vacuum in the power of the family.
It cannot be said that the Cao and Xiahou clans have no talents, but can only say that in this deliberately suppressed environment, even if they are talented, they do not dare to take the lead.
Deliberate suppression and the short-lived life of the first generation of talents in the family were too late to cultivate descendants, coupled with the fierce offensive of Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han Dynasty, led to a rather embarrassing but had to do it in the later period of Cao Wei. That is, the core power is decentralized, and the real power official position is held by a foreign surname.
Sima Yi rose on the basis of such a Cao Wei internal environment. Zhuge Liang's frequent Northern Expeditions and Eastern Wu's tiger gaze both allowed Sima Yi to dissolve them with ease, and while the upper echelons of Cao Wei avoided the worries of national subjugation, they ignored Sima Yi's rising prestige among the top brass of Cao Wei and the top of the army.
Perhaps Cao Wei was aware of this, but the reality was that the Cao family really did not have anyone who could pick up the girder.
In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang died of illness at Wuzhangyuan, and Shu Han stopped invading Cao Wei. Cao Wei, who had no border troubles in the country, took the opportunity to reduce Sima Yi's military power and planned to withdraw his motion.
In 238 A.D., I don't know whether the heavens did not intend to do it or whether someone deliberately arranged it, gongsun yuan of Liaodong province, which had been peaceful for a long time, launched a rebellion, and the chaotic attack on the city was gradually gaining momentum. Seeing that the situation was critical and there was no one available in the family, he could only reactivate Sima Yi to lead his troops to suppress the rebellion.
In the era of Cao Rui, although the talent of the family withered, the people of the Cao clan were especially in the heart, and although Cao Rui had no male talent, he could also be regarded as the lord of shoucheng. Coupled with the fact that Sima Yi's wings had not yet succeeded, he did not dare to act rashly.
In 239 AD, Cao Rui fell ill and died. Knowing Sima Yi's intentions, Cao Rui looked at the family and had no choice but to promote Cao Zhen's son, Cao Shuang, who was usually cautious, to a great general and a trusted vassal of the false festival. He wanted to use this to oppose the increasingly powerful Sima Yi and maintain the orthodoxy of the Cao clan.
Third, full of losses and humble benefits
Who is Cao Shuang? He was one of the most powerful military commanders in the Cao Cao period, one of the auxiliary ministers of the Cao Pi period, the main force against Zhuge Liang in the Cao Rui era before Sima Yi did not appear on the stage of history, the cao clan heavy minister who was worthy of the Taizu (Cao Cao) court temple after his death, and the last stubbornness of the Cao clan. Although Cao Zhen was only Cao Cao's adopted son, this did not prevent Cao Zhen's dedication and loyalty to the Cao clan.
Perhaps it is hoped that Cao Shuang, who is usually cautious, can have the great general Cao Zhen's escape style. Cao Shuang was thus temporarily appointed to stand against Sima Yi and assist the still young Emperor Cao Fang of Wei.
To say that Cao Shuang, who is usually not famous but cautious and cautious, is still quite capable, he did not directly collide with Sima Yi, but only took advantage of the remaining hearts of the Cao clan and the support of the clan officials to easily regain the power in Sima Yi's hands, leaving him idle at home all day and under house arrest.
It may be that winning is too easy to let the victory overwhelm the mind, or it may be that the previous fame did not appear in the power of the sea of inflation. Cao Shuang, who is known for his seriousness and caution, actually began to exert his authority.
If it is said that Cao Shuang is selfish and selfish, it is okay, but Cao Shuang touched a problem that even Cao Cao could only sigh when he saw it. There is nothing else, Cao Shuang touched Cao Cao's family, and the world's family families all adhere to the conventional interest system, that is, the Nine Pins Zhongzheng system.
The Jiupin Zhongzheng system is a talent selection system, which was the product of the cao pi era's acceptance of the proposal of Chen Qun, the representative of the shijia clan, and is the product of the balance of interests of the shijia clan.
What is the Nine-Pin Zhongzheng System?
To put it in layman's terms, if a person wants to be an official and take power, he must be examined for his family background, township morality and talent, and then recommended by the local government, and after verification by the superiors, he can be naturalized as an official, which is the most important talent selection system in the Wei and Jin dynasties.
Not to mention that the Cao family itself is a clan, the Cao family started by relying on the strength of the family and other clans. During The time of Cao Cao, he himself was a man of great talent and strategy, and he used conquest to consume and promote the Hanmen to suppress the power of the clan. In the Cao Pi era, it was to win the hearts and minds of the clansmen, compromise and use each other, and maintain a stable situation.
By the time of Cao Shuang, the power of the clans had already become more stable and interconnected than before, and the situation was far more complicated than before.
Cao Shuang did not have Cao Cao's ability, and wanted to have Cao Cao's dream, which was tantamount to begging for food and dragging down the Cao clan.
To put it bluntly, Sima Yi is only a member of the clan, and suppressing the Sima family can maintain the overall prosperity, so everyone naturally has nothing to say. But if you want to stir up the pot and start another stove now, it is equivalent to waging war against all the clans, which will only shake the attitude of the clan towards Cao Wei and the basis of rule.
It doesn't matter if you rob people of their jobs, if you throw up the pot and bury the fire, you will be angry. After Cao Shuang launched the challenge, all the clans immediately changed their attitude towards Sima Yi and re-provided support and support to Sima Yi.
Here, you will be surprised to find that the clan that supported Sima Yi and the clan that supported Cao Cao were actually the same people. For example, the Xun Yu family, the Chen Qun family, the Yang Xiu family, the Zhong Family, the Wang Lang family and so on. These families, which used to provide talents for Cao Wei, food, grass, soldiers, horses, and support, turned their guns and stood against the Cao clan.
These people were all the main conspirators of Cao Cao's family at that time, but under the interests of the class, they all became the helpers of Sima Yi's family.
As for those Hanmen families that rose up in the Cao Cao era, and the descendants of those loyal generals, they were either nameless or continued to be unstable, how to provide support to the Cao clan and the real clan confrontation?
Four: The fate of Cao Wei
There is one thing that readers must keep in mind. Do not mistake the attitude of the family as the attitude of the family behind it.
For example, at the time of the drastic changes in Gaopingling, a considerable number of people sincerely supported the Cao clan, such as Qiu Jian and Chen Qun's son Chen Tai. Wu Qiu Jian has been in the battlefield for a long time and has a good reputation, and although Chen Tai has no great talent, he is loyal to the Lord.
However, Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Ba, of the Xiahou clan of cao's own family, had the heart to defend but could not do it, one was tragically exterminated, and the other surrendered to Shu to avoid disaster.
In order to repay the favor of the Cao clan, the only one with military power, Qiu Jian, brazenly led the army to complain about the grievances, but unfortunately was soon suppressed by the clan forces.
During this period, there were also those who took advantage of the opportunity to rebel in the name of defending the country, such as Wen Qin, Zhuge Birthday and others. These people thought that they could take advantage of the opportunity, but they did not have the ability to accurately grasp the situation like Sima Yi, and eventually they were all annihilated in the long river of history, leaving a reputation for misdeeds.
Cao Cao aside, from cao pi usurping the Han dynasty, Cao Wei only had a forty-five years of statehood. What is even more sad is that the time that really belongs to Cao Pi's own discourse power is less than thirty years.
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