After Cao Rui, the emperor of Wei and Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, he pursued his ancestor Cao Teng as emperor Gao and his wife Wu as empress Gao. This title was preserved until the Western Jin Dynasty. Cao Teng also became one of the five figures with imperial titles in the Wei Dynasty (Cao Teng, Emperor Gao of Wei Dynasty, Cao song, Emperor Tai of Wei Dynasty, Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei Dynasty, Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei Dynasty, and Cao Rui, Emperor Ming of Wei Dynasty. Due to the dictatorship of Sima, Cao Rui’s successors are not allowed to enjoy imperial titles).
In history, Cao Teng was the only eunuch officially awarded the title of emperor of the orthodox Dynasty, which is unprecedented. The biography of Cao Teng is contained in the notes of PEI in the annals of the Three Kingdoms ยท Emperor Wu Ji and the book of the later Han Dynasty. Liu Kezhuang, a poet of the Song Dynasty, wrote in his poem “a hundred miscellaneous chants? Cao Teng”: “the Marquis of FeiTing is in the sun, and chaos has sprouted. If you raise mothflies, you can still cover the Han family.”
Cao Teng, the grandfather of Cao Cao, was a famous Eunuch in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cao Teng’s father is Cao Jie, who has three sons. Cao Teng ranked third. He was sent to the imperial palace as an eunuch since childhood. Simabiao’s continuation of the Han Dynasty records a short story about Cao Jie. Cao Jie’s neighbor lost a pig and went to Cao Jie’s house to look for it. He identified one of Cao’s pigs as his lost pig. Cao Jie didn’t argue with him and asked his neighbor to take the pig back. Later, the neighbor’s lost pig ran home. Ashamed, the neighbor hurried to the door to apologize and return the Cao’s pig. Cao Jie did not blame, but accepted with a smile. So the villagers all praised Cao Jie as a kind and honest man. From this story, Cao Jie should be an ordinary rural farmer. Maybe because of economic factors, Cao Teng was sent to the palace as a eunuch.
Eunuch, commonly known as eunuch or “husband”. There are many appellations on the documents, such as eunuch, eunuch, eunuch, middle officer, internal officer, internal minister, internal attendant, eunuch, internal supervisor, etc. These men lost their sexual function after their reproductive organs were castrated and became androgynous men. These men were slaves who served the emperors and their families in the court of successive dynasties. According to records, eunuchs in the pre Qin and Western Han Dynasties were not all eunuchs; Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, all eunuchs have been used. This is because there are many female dependents in the Imperial Palace, including the empress dowager, the imperial concubine, the empress dowager, the imperial concubine and the palace maids. If male attendants are allowed to go in and out, it is inevitable that the palace curtains will be disordered. Therefore, no other adult male is allowed to work in the uterus.
When the Eastern Han Dynasty was an emperor, he became an official in the palace. Empress Dowager Deng thought he was young, docile and honest. She chose him to study in the east palace with the crown prince (Shun emperor Liubao). Because he is respectful, he is very popular with the prince. Later, he and the woman Wu became a “pair of food” couple, and adopted a Xiahou family boy as his son, namely Cao Cao’s father caosong.
After Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, Cao Teng was promoted to the position of Zhong Chang Shi. He has served in the palace for more than 30 years and has been cautious. His family has never been tyrannical in his hometown. Moreover, Cao Teng often recommended some famous scholars to the emperor, such as Chen Liuyu Fang, Bian Shao, Nanyang yangu, Zhang Wen, Hongnong Zhang Huan, Yingchuan tangxidian, etc. At that time, a prefect of Shu sent some gifts to Cao Teng by way of a planning officer (an official who reports to the Central Committee on local work every year). As a result, he was found out at xiegu pass by Zhonghe, the governor of Yizhou. He wrote a letter against the governor of Shu County, and thus impeached Cao Teng, requesting that he be handed over to Tingwei for punishment. The emperor said, “the letter came from outside, not Cao Teng’s fault.” (the emperor said, “it’s not his crime not to leave the book after writing it from outside.”) So he buckled the memorial. As a result, Cao Tengsi didn’t mind this. He often praised Chong song in front of the emperor as a talented official who could master the law of being a minister, which led to the continuous promotion of Chong song to situ. Later, he said with emotion, “I can become a situ because Cao Changshi helped me!” Cao Teng restrained his family and was close to scholar bureaucrats, which was widely praised by all walks of life at that time.
In the fourth year of Yonghe (AD 139) of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, zhong chang served on Zhang Kui and Fan Zheng. Shi Guang was ordered by the insiders, and Fu Fu Fu was ordered by the Shangfang to frame Cao Teng and Meng Ben in order to seize power. As a result, he was killed by Emperor Shun.
After the death of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Chong of the Han Dynasty, his youngest son, who had just turned two years old, died a year after he succeeded to the throne. At that time, the ministers all believed that an elderly and virtuous imperial clan should be established as the emperor. They all favored liusuan, the king of Qinghe. In order to continue to hold power, Liang Ji, the great general of his relatives, established Liu Zan, the son of King Bohai Xiao, who was only eight years old, as the emperor of Han Dynasty. But the little emperor was also very smart. He pointed to Liang Ji and said to his ministers at the court meeting, “this despotic general.” The terrified Liang Ji poisoned the little emperor who had only been on the throne for more than a year. At this time, the ministers strongly demanded the establishment of liusuan, the king of the Qinghe River. Liang Ji had planned to establish his brother-in-law, Liwu Hou Liuzhi, but when he saw the excitement of the crowd, he had no idea. He didn’t know what to do.
Liu Suan, the king of the Qinghe River, was “a serious man with a certain degree of movement and restraint, and the courtiers, such as Li Gu, were all concerned.” However, Cao Teng and other eunuchs had visited Liu Suan. Liu Suan did not treat Liu Suan with courtesy, which caused the hatred and fear of Cao Teng and others. Cao Teng and others rushed to Liang Ji’s home overnight to persuade him, saying: “the general has been a relative of the emperor for generations. The prime minister is in power. His interpersonal relationship is complex, and there are many places that violate the law. King Qinghe is strict. If he finally becomes a monarch, the general will suffer disaster for a short time. It is better to establish a Li Marquis, and wealth can be maintained for a long time.” Liang Ji adopted his suggestion and forcibly made Liuzhi, the Marquis of Li Wu, emperor of Han Dynasty. With this credit, Cao Teng moved to dachangqiu, reached the extreme of the eunuch position, and was granted the Marquis of FeiTing. Dachangqiu is the largest eunuch. He is in charge of the fengxuanzhong palace and receives a salary of 2000 yuan. He is a senior official at the level of lieqing.
After Cao Teng died, his adopted son caosong (Cao Cao’s father) inherited the title. At the end of the reign of emperor Huan, Cao song became an officer and a lieutenant of Sili. When he came to the throne of Emperor Ling, he was promoted to Da Si Nong and Da Hong Lu. He was successively in charge of the financial etiquette of the country, ranking as the ninth Qing Dynasty with high power. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a system of donating money to officials in the imperial court. Cao song was not satisfied with the position of dahonglu and spent thousands of dollars to donate the position of Taiwei for himself. Tai Wei ranked first among the “three public officials”, and Cao song reached the peak of his political career.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the political situation was turbulent and the ten regular attendants were in chaos, Cao song resigned and lived in Luoyang. Because DongZhuo attacked the Han Palace, Wang Yun and Lv Bu killed DongZhuo, Li Pei and Guo Si, Luoyang has become a land of right and wrong. Cao song took his family to Huaxian County of Mount Tai to avoid disaster. Later, Cao song took his second son, Cao De, and his wife and concubines to leave Huaxian County for Yanzhou, Cao Cao’s stronghold. When he arrived in Xuzhou, Tao Qian sent 200 guards to Zhang Kai to escort Cao song. According to the records in the book of Wu, Zhang Kai could not resist the temptation of more than 100 cars, luggage and gold and silver treasures. When he went between Mount Tai and Hua and Fei counties, he commanded the guards to kill Cao song, rob Cao song’s belongings and flee to Huainan. Cao song became the ghost of the sword with his second son Cao De, his wife Zou (Cao Cao’s mother), and his concubine Zhao.
Cao Cao insisted that Cao song was killed by Tao Qian, and immediately launched two successive wars against Xuzhou, claiming revenge for his father. In five cities, hundreds of thousands of men, women, young and old, including refugees from Shaanxi who fled to Xuzhou because of the Li Li and Guo pan riots, were killed by Cao Cao’s troops. These five cities are Pengcheng (now known as Xuzhou City), Fuyang (in the south of Yixian County), Tuoxie (in the southwest of Suining), Suiling (now known as Suining) and Xiaqiu (in the west of Sixian County, Anhui Province). When Cao Cao slaughtered these five cities, he really killed all the chickens and dogs, making the “suishui not flow” too cruel! This is a big stain on Cao Cao’s life.