However, there was still an endless stream of ministers who came out to advise. Some people directly wrote a letter, the content of which is: I heard that Yao lived in a very simple way. If all the countries were safe and Yu's palace was humble, then the world would live in peace and contentment. In the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, all people advocated were frugality. , so the ancient emperors, as long as they were wise, did not say that the palace was splendid, because that would weaken the people's financial resources. Jie built the Xuan Room and the Elephant Corridor, and Zhou built the Qing Palace and the Lutai. As a result, the state of Chu was lost. In order to show the prosperity of the palace, King Ling suffered disaster. Qin Shihuang built Afang Palace and harmed his son. People in the world rioted and Qin II perished. If you cannot be considerate of the people and just enjoy your own desires, you will not perish. Your Majesty should take Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen and Wu as examples and Jie, Zhou, Chu and Qin as lessons, otherwise there will be disaster. The king is the head, the minister is the body, life and death are one, and we gain and lose together. Although I am very stupid, I dare to use the truth to advise? My words may not be able to express my mood, nor can I wake up His Majesty. I hope I can take a bath and clean myself, waiting for beheading. Cao Rui was a little impatient when he saw it, and pretended he hadn't seen it. He just urged Ma Jun to quickly build the high platform, place the bronze figures, and take over the dew tray, and then ordered the selection of beautiful beauties with good looks in the Wei Kingdom to enter the Fanglin. In the middle of the palace, Cao Rui was extremely luxurious for a while, and he was so happy that he was drunk among beauties. The ministers came to advise him, but Cao Rui didn't listen at all. He only cared about how much dew was in the jade plate and when he would meet the guidance of the gods.
The Queen of Wei was called Mao and she was from Hanoi. When Cao Rui was named King of Pingyuan, they fell in love with each other very much. Later, they won the throne and became the queen. Later, Cao Rui doted on Mrs. Guo, and Queen Mao lost her favor. Mrs. Guo She was very beautiful, and Cao Rui liked her very much. They played together every day, and even did not leave the palace for several months. They had fun in bed with the beauty every day. In the spring and March of that year, the flowers in Fanglin Garden were blooming, and Cao Rui took Mrs. Guo with her. Go to the garden to play and drink.
Mrs. Guo asked: "Why aren't you afraid that Queen Mao will be invited to celebrate together?"
Cao Rui sneered and said: "If she comes, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink a drop of water." After saying that, he immediately gave the order not to let Queen Mao know about it.
Empress Mao knew that Cao Rui had not come to the main palace to find her for several months, so she took more than a dozen people to Cuihua Tower to have fun and kill the boring time. She only heard singing music, so she asked a nearby minister: "Where is it?" Are you playing music?"
The eunuch replied: "Your Majesty and Mrs. Guo were playing and singing in the imperial garden, drinking and having fun."
When Empress Mao heard about it, she was very troubled and returned to the palace to rest. The next day, Empress Mao took a car to go out for fun. As soon as she went out, she saw Cao Rui among the winding corridors and smiled and said: "Your Majesty was playing in the North Garden yesterday. , so happy!" Her words were full of sarcasm, and she turned and left after saying that, but she didn't expect that she had already caused a huge disaster.
Cao Rui was very angry after hearing this, and immediately ordered the soldiers to arrest all the people who served yesterday, and reprimanded: "When we were playing in Beiyuan yesterday, I clearly ordered that Empress Mao should not know about this matter, why did you still leak it?" Without waiting for an explanation, all those people were ordered to be beheaded.
When Queen Mao found out about this, she seemed very frightened and immediately ordered her to stop playing and return to the palace. Cao Rui was also completely angry and didn't care about it anymore. He directly ordered Queen Mao to die and let Mrs. Guo take the throne. No one dared to persuade her. admonish.
The reason why Cao Rui was so unscrupulous was that Xi Shu had been peaceful for many years, and the new emperor Yu Yi obviously had no intention of attacking, so he quickly stabilized his imperial power. Sima Yi also stood aside, planning a bigger decisive battle. Suddenly one day, Guanqiu Jian, the governor of Youzhou, came to the table and said that Gongsun Yuan, the prefect of Liaodong, rebelled and proclaimed himself King of Yan. In the first year of Shaohan, he also built palaces and raised troops on the Wei border. Now that the north was shaken, Cao Rui was very surprised and hurriedly summoned All officials, civil and military, discussed ways to attack together.
Gongsun Yuan was the grandson of Gongsun Du, the governor of Liaodong, and the son of Gongsun Kang. In the 20th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao pursued Yuan Shang and came to Liaodong. In order to express his surrender to Cao Cao, Gongsun Kang beheaded Yuan Shang and dedicated his head to him. After passing away Cao Cao, Cao Cao was granted the title of Marquis of Xiangping. Later, after Gongsun Kang died, he had two sons, the eldest son Gongsun Huang and the second son Gongsun Yuan. They were young at that time. Gongsun Kang's younger brother Gongsun Gong succeeded him. Cao Pi became the governor of Wei During the emperor's period, Gongsun Gong was specially granted the title of General of Chariots and Cavalry and Marquis of Xiangping. In the second year of Taihe, Gongsun Yuan gradually grew up, became both civil and military, and had a strong and aggressive personality. He launched a coup and took away Gongsun Gong's position. Cao Cao In order to stabilize the border, Rui, under the persuasion of his ministers, made Gongsun Yuan General Yang Lie and Governor of Liaodong. Later, Sun Quan sent Zhang Mi and Xu Yan to Liaodong with jewels and made Gongsun Yuan King of Yan. However, Gongsun Yuan was afraid of the Chinese It turned out that during the attack, Soochow was separated by the Central Plains. After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang and Xu were beheaded and their heads were given to Cao Rui. Cao Rui then named Gongsun Yuan the Grand Sima and Lord Lelang.
At this time, Gongsun Yuan was a little unhappy. Even Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu Dynasty named himself King of Yan. Why was the Lord of Wei still so stingy? He immediately felt dissatisfied. He discussed with everyone and felt that something should be done.
The news of Sun Quan's failure was quickly picked up and reached Yu Yi's ears. Yu Yi summoned everyone to discuss and thought that he could send more people to alienate Gong Sun Yuan and promise him a bigger position.
So Tan Bowen accepted this task and went to Liaodong specifically to report the situation to Gongsun Yuan. At the same time, he donated jewels and stated that he could directly make Gongsun Yuan King of Yan and agreed to divide the Central Plains equally. If he could destroy Wei, He could even sit on an equal footing with the new emperor of Shu, forming a new three-legged situation. At the same time, Tan Bowen also alienated the relationship between Liaodong and the Central Plains. He believed that Gongsun Yuan chose the Lord of Wei this time, and the Lord of Wei only awarded a small official. In fact, he looked down on him. This meant that there were often rumors in the Central Plains that Cao Rui felt that Liaodong was a small place and there was no need to pay attention to it. This aroused Gongsun Yuan's anger.
After Tan Bowen left, Gongsun Yuan immediately proclaimed himself King of Yan and changed the reign name to the first year of Yuan Shaohan. When deputy general Jia Fan learned about it, he advised him, saying: "The Central Plains awards lords with titles, and it is not very good." Despicable, if you claim the throne now and rebel, it will really not go well, and with the death of Kongming of Xishu, there will be no opponent for Sima Yi in the world. With such a man who is good at using soldiers, can my lord guarantee victory?"
Gongsun Yuan was very angry after hearing this. He scolded the people around him and beheaded him. When he was beheading, Lunzhi, who joined the army, came out to dissuade him and said: "What Jia Fan said is not wrong. The sage said that when the country is about to perish, demons will appear. Now There are many strange things happening in China. Some big dogs wear turbans and red clothes, walking on the roof, as if they are humans. In addition, villagers in the south of the city are making rice. In the pot of steaming rice, they suddenly see A child was steamed alive inside. In the north market of Xiangping, there was a cave, and a piece of meat appeared in it. In the surrounding area, it was found that the piece of meat had a head, face, ears, nose, mouth, etc., but It has no arms or legs, and the soldiers cannot cut it with their swords, so I don’t know what it is.”
