First of all, introduction:
1, Cao Pi, a native of Guo Peiqiao County, was a politician and writer in the Three Kingdoms period, the son of Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, and his mother was Mrs. Bian, Empress Wu Xuan. She is both civil and military, well-read and well-versed in hundreds of theories. She is a corps commander with five senses.
2. In the twenty-second year of Jian 'an, he became Wang Wei, and in the twenty-fifth year of Jian 'an, he succeeded Prime Minister Wang Wei. In the same year, he ascended the throne, ending the rule of the Han Dynasty for more than 400 years and establishing the State of Wei. During his reign, he adopted the opinions of Chen Qun, the senior official of the official department, formulated and implemented the Nine-grade Zhong Zheng system, which became the main official selection system in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, pacified the separatist forces in Xuzhou and Qingzhou, finally completed the unification of the northern region and restored the organizational system in the western regions.
3. Cao Pi died in Luoyang on May 4th, the seventh year of Huang Chu. He was forty years old and was buried in Shouyangling. Cao Pi has made great achievements in poetry and Fu-style literature, and is good at five-character poems. With his father Cao Cao and his brother Cao Zhi, he is also called Jian 'an Three Caos. At present, there are two volumes of Wei Wendi Collection and Dian Lun, among which Dian Lun is the first systematic literary criticism monograph in the history of China literature.
Second, political initiatives:
1. Economically, Cao Pi continued to develop the reclamation system, implemented the policy of exchanging grain and silk for the market, and stabilized social order. By the end of the year, Wei's national treasury had been enriched, and huge amounts of money had been accumulated, which basically solved the inflation problem caused by the war. At the same time, we should take strategic defense, resume production, lift the ban, relax tariffs, widely discuss light punishment, recuperate with the people, and restore stability and prosperity in the northern region.
2. In the first year of Huang Chu, Cao Pi ordered the restoration of imperial academy, the establishment of Confucian educational institutions, the dissemination of Confucian classics, and then the collection and collation of Confucian classics, to encourage scholars to learn and annotate Confucian classics, and to develop cultural undertakings. In the second year of Huang Chu, a county with a population of more than 100,000 was ordered to inspect Xiaolian every year. If there are particularly outstanding talents, they can be exempted from household registration restrictions. In the third year of Huang Dynasty, the imperial edict of selecting scholars for an unlimited number of years was promulgated to break the age limit.