This strange phenomenon is the result of political propaganda of imperial power. If Cao Cao, Sima Yi and Si Mazhao are "thieves", then Cao Fang, Cao Mao, Sima Yan and Sima Zhong are just enjoying the "stolen goods" robbed by their predecessors. In other words, everything they have has no legitimacy. Why do powerful ministers want to compete with them for power and profit?
However, under the imperial power politics, historians must first find a dharma master that the world respects, otherwise history will be written as "there is no owner in the world, which is better than the soldiers in Mazhuang." This view obviously runs counter to the concept of imperial power. Therefore, in the history written under the imperial power politics, it is always determined that the world belongs to an emperor or a royal family, and others dare to fight for power and profit with this emperor or this royal family. This is a big rebellion.
At first, the historian decided that the world belonged to Liu's royal family, and it would be a big violation for any other surname to dare to compete with Liu's royal family for power and profit.
After the complete decline of the Liu royal family, historians found a new owner for the world. So the royal family of Cao Shi, the "thief" who once stole the world, became the legal owner of the world. Any other family that dares to fight for power and profits with the royal family in Cao Shi is a big mistake.
After the complete decline of the royal family in Cao Shi, the official history found a new owner for the world. So Sima Huang, the "thief" who once stole the world, became the legal owner of the world. It is a big mistake for any physical surname to dare to compete with Sima royalty for power and profit.
I don't want to judge whether the historian's behavior is right or wrong. I just want to say that this world never belongs to Liu, Cao Zhi or Sima. There is no master in the world, and people who are better than Ma Zhuang will get it. The world belongs to everyone, and whoever represents everyone's interests deserves to be in charge of the world.
Imperial power itself is not sacred. If the family that controls the world is strong enough, the imperial power will become sacred. If this family is weak, the so-called rebels will naturally pour out. The real history is: since ancient times, emperors have taken turns to do it, and it will be my turn to come to my house next year.
Since Cao Wei Empire, imperial power has lost its sacredness and mystery. Because in the next four or five hundred years, the so-called empire is like a lantern, the so-called emperors die one after another, and the so-called traitors take risks in droves.
Rebels and thieves bullied the emperor and usurped the imperial power step by step. From the standpoint of imperial power, nature is a big violation. The question is: which family didn't win the imperial power? Later, they achieved positive results, so they repeatedly forced the people to accept the fact that the world belonged to the emperor's family, and described anyone who tried to rob the family as a big transgression. The question is: why didn't they make such remarks when they rebelled?
The first emperor said, "I am the first emperor, and there are many descendants." As for the second and third generations, it will be passed down endlessly. " The madness of the first emperor was just a dream, but in later generations, which founding emperor gave up this dream?
How to make this dream come true is the most urgent task for this family that has achieved positive results. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, many founding emperors made different attempts, but all failed without exception.
After Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he suppressed his consorts and the royal family, and ruled the world with aristocratic men. In the end, he was usurped by Sima, who was represented by aristocratic men. After Sima Yan proclaimed himself emperor, he learned the lesson from the demise of Cao Wei, and began to support the imperial power and wantonly enfeoffed the king. Although no rich gentry could usurp the throne of Sima's family, the Western Jin Empire was torn apart by the wars of the kings and went to extinction.
Later in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, no matter what means the founding emperor used to ensure the continuation of the empire, the so-called "long-term empire" would be weakened after the death of the founding emperor. Even the unified Sui Empire continued the short-lived gene of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The so-called "Datang Empire" is as indispensable as brothers and sisters, father and son, the queen mother's authoritarian power, large-scale rebellion and powerful faction.
It was not until the Song Dynasty that the imperial power was gradually stabilized because of the maturity of the imperial examination system. After the imperial examination system matured, officials were only officials, not the heads of the rich gentry. It is almost unthinkable for an official to overthrow the empire. You can look through the history books. Since the Song Dynasty, few traitors have succeeded in usurping and seizing power. All this is because of the maturity of the imperial examination system, which in turn gave birth to a mature bureaucratic group.
Many people think that the emergence of the imperial examination system is an epiphany of a political figure, which is all wet. Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, even if someone thought of a system similar to the imperial examination, they could not turn it into reality, because nobles would strongly oppose the emergence of the imperial examination system. Because once the imperial examination system becomes a reality, the rich gentry cannot continue to monopolize the personnel power of the empire. In a society with relatively backward transportation and media, it is impossible for the supreme ruler to extend his ruling tentacles to every corner of the empire. In this context, the supreme ruler at that time only acquiesced in the fact that the nobles monopolized the personnel power of the empire.