Chapter 30 Empress Cao: The Last Empress

Empress Cao, whose name is Cao Jie, is the second daughter of Cao Cao. Cao Jie was very well-behaved and clever when he was a child, and Cao Cao liked him very much.When Cao Cao came home from court, Cao Jie greeted him early and helped Cao Cao move the stool, make tea, fan, beat his legs, and rub his shoulders. It was very lively. Sometimes, Cao Jie also said to Cao Cao, Father, you can't stay at home for a while, rest and recuperate, what kind of government affairs, state affairs, there is an emperor, what are you worrying about. Cao Cao said, "No way, the emperor is still young, he has not grown up, he is cowardly by nature, and he can't take on major national affairs. As the prime minister, I should take more care of myself."If there are any mistakes, people in the world will scold me. If the historian writes me in the history books, then future generations will scold me.So, I do more things now, in order to be more stable in the future and less scolded.

Cao Jie said, I think my father is a person who can't be idle. Even if the emperor can ask questions, you don't let him ask. Cao Cao scratched Cao Jie's nose and said, I, Cao Cao's daughter, don't talk nonsense. Cao Jie said, of course, I won't talk nonsense, just to make you happy.Besides, I want to be with my father so much, I always feel empty when you leave. Cao Cao said, son, when I don't want to do it any more, I will take you to travel around the famous mountains and rivers, and have a good look at the scenery outside. Cao Jie asked, father, you often run outside, do you often see the scenery of famous mountains and great rivers?

Cao Cao sighed and said, I am outside, crusades and wars, my mind is full of marching and fighting, I am so busy, how can I have leisure time to see the scenery. Cao Jie said, Daddy, don’t sigh, I only hope that Daddy will bring peace to the world as soon as possible, and the world will be peaceful, so that Daddy can fulfill today’s promise. Take a good look at the famous mountains and rivers with Jieer, and let me see how Daddy prospers with poetry in the face of great rivers and mountains. Hair, generous song. Cao Cao said, good, good! Cao Cao often said to others that other people can leave me, but Jieer is absolutely impossible.I was full of worries outside, but when I saw Jieer at home, I forgot everything.

One day, Cao Cao came home very late, and saw that Cao Jie was still awake, thinking about things in his mind under the lamp.Just ask, Jieer, why are you still awake, what are you thinking about? Cao Jie said, I was thinking, Jie'er grows up day by day, why is the emperor always not growing up, always ignorant?Always want you to worry about it? Cao Cao said that the emperor is not growing up, but has grown up long ago.When I grow up, I don't dare to let him worry too much.As soon as he was worried, he thought about being a father.This time, his father was almost killed by him. Cao Jie asked, what did father say?

Cao Cao said that he wrote an imperial edict on his belt and passed it on to his uncle Dong Cheng, allied with the ministers in the court and the princes outside to murder me.Fortunately, Wei's father found out in advance and wiped out all these traitors.Otherwise, father will not see you today. Cao Jie asked, where is the emperor? Cao Cao said, I forgive him once, if there is a second time, I will never forgive him. Cao Cao looked at Cao Jie carefully, and suddenly said, the emperor needs someone from us. Then, he bent down, kissed Cao Jie, and said, good girl, go to sleep. Cao Jie didn't expect that her father sent her to the palace the next day.

At the same time, the eldest daughter Cao Xian and the youngest daughter Cao Hua were also sent.That year was the eighteenth year of Jian'an (213 AD).That year, Cao Jie was only fourteen years old. Cao Cao said to Cao Jie, Jie'er, originally, I didn't want to send you into the palace, but the palace needs our people. Although your sister Cao Xian is a few years older than you, she is a bit dull. Your sister Hua'er, Too young, not sensible.After much deliberation, only you are suitable. However, I was afraid that you would be homesick in the palace, so I sent your sisters to accompany you.

Cao Jie doesn't want to enter the palace, but what can he do?She was the most sensible daughter of her father, and her father loved her so much that she had no choice but to send her into the palace. At the moment before entering the palace, Cao Jie's heart rate suddenly accelerated.She couldn't figure out what the emperor who didn't worry about and manage state affairs looked like, and whether he was just like her, innocent and daring to speak and act.She was full of curiosity. After seeing the Emperor of Han, Cao Jie realized that the emperor was not young anymore, and he would have to be thirty years old no matter what.The emperor was very handsome, with a straight nose and a wide mouth, but his face was a little pale, probably because he was often "covered" in the palace.The emperor's gaze was very complicated, it was indifference, even hostility, sadness, loss, helplessness, fear and other emotions intertwined.

Later, Cao Jie learned that his father Cao Cao had just killed one of the emperor's favorite concubines—Dong Guifei, the daughter of Dong Cheng, the uncle who wanted to murder his father Cao Cao. The emperor seldom speaks, in fact, he wants to speak but dare not speak.Once, he drank some wine, but he didn't drink much. For some reason, he drank too much and talked more. She is five months pregnant.The emperor said that it was I who wrote the edict to her father. If he wanted to kill me, he would kill me, but why did he kill my noble concubine.What does all this have to do with her.The emperor stared at her very fiercely.

She was a mother, a mother who was five months pregnant.Even though the mother deserved to be killed, what crime did the child have? The emperor's emotions were a little out of control, almost roaring, hysterical. I'm not afraid of you telling your father, you let him pick up the sword and cut off my head, let him be the emperor. Cao Jie's heart was trembling.She also hated her father a little bit. She understands that her father killed Dong Cheng and others.If the father doesn't kill them, they will ask for the father's head.However, what is the crime of Concubine Dong Gui because she is Dong Cheng's daughter?

Then what crime do I have to come to this palace just because I am Cao Cao's daughter? No one could understand the complexity of Cao Jie's heart. She really wanted to run back and cry bitterly in her father's arms. But how can it be?It was her father who sent her in.She has a difficult task that her father has given her. That night, she didn't know how she got here. Fortunately, Cao Jie got along well with the emperor later.The emperor also changed from his initial hostility to her to trust.Of course, Cao Jie has put a lot of hard work into it.She is doing everything possible to influence the emperor and make this helpless emperor feel warm.

Cao Jie felt that the emperor was actually very kind, sincere and thoughtful.If his father hadn't taken over the government, the emperor could have done something, at least he wouldn't be so mediocre. Cao Jie was full of sympathy for the emperor. The queen at that time was Queen Fu, who was about the same age as her, in her teens.Cao Jie has a good relationship with Empress Fu, and the two of them talked about everything.What they talked about was nothing more than some things in the palace, food and drink, clothing, health care, and nothing related to state affairs.Cao Jie could tell that Empress Fu was a very naive person. But such a naive person.One day, her father Cao Cao suddenly announced that she was guilty of treason, and she was immediately abolished as a commoner.Within a few days, he was killed. Cao Jie was confusedly made queen.Sitting on the queen's throne and being congratulated by all the officials, she was dizzy for a while, as if she saw Queen Fu in front of her, and said with a smile, sister, sister is here to see you. That year, she was less than twenty, and the emperor was thirty-five years old. Father Cao Cao sometimes came into the palace and would say a few words to her to understand the emperor's state of mind. Cao Jie said that the emperor was very good and peaceful. Cao Cao said, very good. Once, when Cao Cao entered the palace and talked about the emperor with her, Cao Jie suddenly said: Father, will you push the emperor aside? Cao Cao was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said, I wouldn't do that.I want him to be the emperor forever, an emperor who listens to his father.Isn't it great that you stay with the emperor like this? Cao Jie breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, it's okay for the emperor to go on like this, and it's not bad for him to spend his whole life with the emperor in the palace like this.However, the emperor could not go on. After his father Cao Cao died of illness, his elder brother Cao Pi succeeded his father.Cao Jie didn't expect that her elder brother was far more ruthless than her father.Cao Pi sent someone to ask for the emperor's seal.He wants to be emperor himself. At that time, Cao Jie was furious, saying that if his father didn't dare to do this when he was alive, how could he, Cao Pi, dare to do such a rebellious thing. The messenger froze there, not daring to move forward. But Cao Jie is a weak woman after all, how could she beat his brother Cao Pi. In the end, the emperor's seal was taken by Cao Pi.Cao Pi became emperor. Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was granted the title of Duke of Shanyang.Cao Jie also followed Shanyang Gong to Shanyang and became Shanyang's wife. Cao Pi was very tolerant to this girl, often gave them some rewards, and named her daughter Liu Man as Princess Changle. He lived in Shanyang for twelve years, and the Duke of Shanyang died. Lord Shanyang said, I can live to this day because of you.If it wasn't for you, I would have been killed by your brother long ago. Seeing Lord Shanyang close her eyes, Cao Jie really wanted to cry, but she didn't cry. She breathed a sigh of relief and said to herself, you are finally gone. Twenty-five years later, Cao Jie died. That year, the emperor of the Cao family, Cao Mao, who was only 20 years old, was killed by Sima Zhao.The Wei Dynasty was exhausted, and the power fell into the hands of Sima. Five years later, Sima Yan pulled aside the last emperor of the Cao family, and proclaimed himself emperor by Zen.