"Deep love will not last long, and extreme wisdom will be hurt." There are many "child prodigy" in history who have been very famous since childhood, such as "Zhongyong", " Cao Chong ", "Ganluo", etc. All of these people have shown extraordinary talents since childhood, and their actions are eye-catching.
Fate opened a door for them, and also closed a window. The final results of these prodigy are all sad. Zhongyong was eventually lost in everyone and was sad; Cao Chong was seriously ill when he was young and died of untreated death; Gan Luo was worshipped as the Supreme Court, but there was no history books. Is the fate of prodigy really such twists and turns?
But in fact, compared with a child prodigy, these people are already lucky. At least their tragic fate belongs to "force majeure", but this is the miserable fate of a child prodigy, but the fate of this child prodigy is lost by his own "coldness".
A prodigy who is known as the elephant
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the rise of the hero Cao Cao can be said to be very legendary, especially in the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao "welcome" Emperor Xian of Han to his own hands, and from then on, he began to "handle the emperor to command the princes" and became the most authoritative one among the princes in the world. It was also in this year that Cao Cao and his concubine, Mrs. Huan, gave birth to his youngest son Cao Chong. For a while, Cao Cao had a successful career and had successors, and he was in a good mood.
But Cao Chong brought Cao Cao a greater surprise than he thought. As Cao Cao's youngest son and last son, Cao Chong turned out to be a "child prodigy". The most famous deed is " Cao Chong is called ".
That's Sun QuanSend someone to send an elephant to Cao Cao. This animal has opened the eyes of everyone who has lived in the north for a long time. No one expected that there was such a big guy in the world.
Cao Cao was on a whim and asked the messenger how heavy the elephant was, but the messenger shook his head and claimed that the elephant was too big and that no scale could weigh it, so he didn't know how heavy the elephant was.
Cao Cao was immediately excited when he heard this, and asked the onlookers to think of a way to weigh the elephant. This made everyone stumped. How did he call it? Could it be that the elephant was slaughtered and weighed it?
Cao Cao certainly refused. This is the first treasure, so how could he kill him? Just when everyone was at a loss, Cao Cao's youngest son Cao Chong stood up and claimed that he had a solution.
Cao Chong first asked someone to put a big ship in the lake, let the elephant stand up, marked the draft position of the ship, and after driving the elephant down, he asked someone to put stones on the ship. When the hull descended to the same draft position, the weight of the stones on the ship was the weight of the elephant.
This is a very clever method. Cao Cao was immediately very pleased with Cao Chong's wisdom, and the ministers present also gave Cao Chong a thumbs up.
news reached the south, and people were surprised that Cao Cao had such a son. Soon after, ethnic minorities in the southern mountainous areas also paid tribute to Cao Cao, and among the tribute was one pheasant .
The messenger said that this pheasant would dance when he saw his companion, but unfortunately another pheasant died on the road, so he could not let the pheasant dance.
Cao Cao felt very sorry when he heard this. He also wanted to see the pheasant dancing. This is another problem. No one can turn a pheasant out of thin air.
Cao Chong, who was still beside him, heard it and waved his hand: "What's the difficulty?"
He saw someone bringing a bronze mirror and standing in front of the pheasant. When the pheasant saw the "companion" in the mirror, he immediately spread his feathers and danced gracefully. His serious and intoxicated look was completely unaware that he had been deceived. This incident later extended the idiom "Seeing the Shadow and Pity".
Cao Cao saw that his son was so smart, and he was moved to the point of making Cao Chong the crown prince, and he also wondered if he should find someone to assist Cao Chong.
But who knew that Cao Cao didn't have to worry about this matter. Birds of a feather flocked to each other. The prodigy Cao Chong had long attracted another prodigy to assist him.
A cold prodigy
This is when Cao Chong was only eight or nine years old, Cao Cao saw him playing with a boy who looked five or six years older than Cao Chong, so he asked who the child was. He answered that this was Jingzhou Don’t drive Liu Xian ’s nephew, Zhou Buyi.
This week, it is undoubtedly also a famous child prodigy in Jingzhou. He has been able to remember and express everything since he was a child.
When Zhou Buyi was eight years old, Liu Xian was reading official documents. Zhou Buyi was watching his uncle play by himself, and from time to time he would also see what his uncle was writing.
Two or three days later, when someone asked about Liu Xian’s official document, Liu Xian slapped his head, "Oh, I forgot what I wrote, I'll go to the office to look for it later."
At this time, Zhou Buyi said: "Uncle, you wrote it at that time... There are two places to delete and modify it... But I feel you should..."
said something that shocked everyone present. What was this child saying? He could actually remember the official documents, he could actually understand the official documents, and he could even make suggestions to the official documents?
Is this an eight-year-old child?
After that, Zhou Buyi's name was confirmed. Liu Xian also held his precious nephew in his palm. If he wanted to train him well, he found Jingzhou celebrity Liu Ba as a teacher.
But who knew that Zhou Buyi's "cold and arrogant" personality began. What did this old man do? I didn't listen to his lectures. I became a self-taught talent.
Liu Xian was stunned. When Liu Ba heard this, he was so angry that he glared at him. He directly "rejected" Liu Xian's attempt to stay and left.
From then on, Zhou Buyi began his own "self-taught" journey, and later he came to Xudu . He met Cao Chong, who was also a child prodigy, and the two little prodigy played together, and their relationship became more and more intimate, and they began to talk about everything.
After Cao Cao heard about this, he also loved Zhou Buyi. In addition, Zhou Buyi had such a good relationship with Cao Chong, and Cao Cao treated him differently, allowing him to come to Cao Chong to play at any time.
Once Cao Cao took his sons and a group of civil servants to drink and write poems. One of them claimed that the white birds sing in the trees recently appeared among the people, which is auspicious sign.
Cao Cao burst into laughter when he heard this. The hero who was riding on the horse and dismounting his horse to write poems suddenly felt poetic. He asked the guards to take paper and pen to put it in front of everyone, and asked them to write a poem with the title of the white bird.
Zhou Buyi saw that a set of paper and pen was placed in front of him, and he immediately wrote it with the pen. After a moment, everyone's works were completed. Cao Cao picked them up and read them, but he was attracted by Zhou Buyi's works. After learning that it was written by Zhou Buyi, Cao Cao praised him even more.
Just like that, as Zhou Buyi showed more and more talents, and as his relationship with Cao Chong became better and better, Cao Cao was also optimistic about him, and he regarded him as his own. Later, Cao Cao even wanted to marry his daughter to him and make him a "family" with himself.
But who knew that this week, I was "cold" again - I am not worthy of your daughter, I will not marry you.
is generally a humble statement, and everyone is a few polite arrangements. In the end, the man and the woman get married, and everyone is happy. This is a relatively normal script.
But this week, I didn’t marry Cao Cao’s daughter in the end. If you don’t deserve it, you won’t say anything. This result is clearly that Cao Cao’s daughter is not worthy of him.
Cao Cao was of course angry when he saw this, but he did not immediately get angry. Instead, after a while, he asked Zhou Buyi to grant him the position of a congressman, but Zhou Buyi refused this time.
This made Cao Cao very angry. You don’t want anything like this. Do you want to stand on the same boat as me? Do you have any other thoughts?
Ten "tricky tricks"
For a moment, Cao Cao was very annoyed by Zhou Buyi, but fortunately, Cao Chong performed better and better at this time, not only was he smarter and more resourceful than before, but he was also very kind.
At that time, Cao Cao's saddle was placed in the warehouse, but it was bitten by a mouse. The officials who managed the warehouse were extremely afraid and even wanted to surrender and committed suicide and apologized.
All this was seen by Cao Chong. He couldn't bear it and helped these officials speak repeatedly to clear their guilt. Cao Cao couldn't help but feel relieved when he learned about this. He was a hero because he had to use iron-blooded means to survive in this chaotic world. But his son was a benevolent king, so he would definitely be able to defend his foundation.
Thinking of this, Cao Cao was much less annoyed by Zhou Buyi. After all, he was the general friend of his son, and he would definitely be able to help his son in the future. Why should he target him?
But all this seemingly balanced scene disappeared soon after.
Shortly after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao died. His sons fought for the territory left by Yuan Shao. Yuan Tan lost and surrendered to Cao Cao. Cao Cao also sent troops to help, fighting Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi fled to the Wuhuan tribe.
In order to completely wipe out the Yuan family's forces, Cao Cao went to Wuhuan in the 12th year of Jian'an and attacked Wuhuan's old nest Liucheng.
This Liucheng is the base camp of Wuhuan. The city was built so tall and straight, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Cao Cao thought hard about this, and his hair was so sad that he turned white.
At this time, Zhou Buyi was also in the army. Seeing that Cao Cao was trapped by this, he climbed up to look around, saw the situation in the city clearly, and then wrote ten suggestions for breaking the city to Cao Cao.
After Cao Cao looked at it, he found that some of them were what he had thought of, some were incredible, and some were simply incomprehensible.
But no matter what, this opinion letter finally gave Cao Cao some inspiration. After careful consideration, Cao Cao adopted one that he and Zhou Buyi thought of.
Soon, Cao Cao used the trick of luring the enemy to lead Wuhuan out of the city. On the battlefield, Cao Cao took advantage of the situation of the Wuhuan soldiers' formation and sent Zhang Liao to launch a raid, defeated the Wuhuan tribe in one fell swoop, and killed Tadun Shanyu. The Yuan Shang brothers fled to Liaodong Gongsun Kang.
At this moment, Cao Cao suddenly waved his hand, no longer hitting or chasing, and went home directly.
Everyone was puzzled when they heard this. If they defeated Gongsun Kang, they would be able to take down the Yuan brothers and completely eliminate Yuan Shao's power. Why are they going home at the last moment?
Cao Cao was not concerned about this and said to everyone confidently: "Don't worry, go home. Maybe the heads of the Yuan brothers will arrive home first than us."
Sure enough, not long after, Gongsun Kang killed Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi, sent their heads to Xudu, and bowed to Cao Cao to surrender.
Everyone admired Cao Cao's complete plan when he saw this, but Cao Cao smiled and said, "If I pressed him step by step, the Yuan brothers and Gongsun Kang would definitely hug each other tightly against me, but I don't care about them, and they will start to suspicion in themselves first."
In this way, Cao Cao completely unified most of the northern regions, but at this moment, a bad news came.
Child prodigy fell
Just shortly after Cao Cao returned to Xudu, his favorite son, Cao Chong, who was only thirteen years old, was seriously ill. Cao Cao was waiting by Cao Chong day and night, waiting for God to pity himself, cure this son, and even willing to use his life to exchange for his son's life.
But unfortunately, Cao Chong died in the end.
Suddenly, Cao Cao only felt that his world had collapsed.
Cao Chong walked out of Cao Chong's bedroom in a daze, looked at the Cao Zhi , Cao Pi and others who were kneeling aside and waiting for the news, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "You are lucky, only I am sad."
After that, Cao Cao missed Cao Chong all the time, especially when he saw Zhou Buyi, he felt even more sad. He thought of Zhou Buyi's various behaviors in the past, and Cao Cao also had the intention to kill him.
It took a while, and Cao Cao finally made up his mind to kill Zhou Buyi. After Cao Pi heard about this, he immediately ran to Cao Cao's palace to plead for Zhou Buyi. Cao Cao gave him a blank look when he heard this: "If Chong'er is here, why should I kill him, but now he has to eliminate him. This kind of person is not something you can deal with."
But Zhou Buyi is only seventeen or eighteen years old now, and he is not very arrogant on weekdays. It is difficult to kill him by finding his fault. In the end, Cao Cao, who couldn't wait, directly sent an assassin to assassinate him. (Taizu said: "This person is not something you can control." So he sent an assassin to kill him. - "The Three Kingdoms: Biography of Liu Biao")
A generation of child prodigy eventually died.
In fact, Zhou Buyi's death was largely a result of his character. If he had agreed to marry Cao Cao's daughter and become the son-in-law of the Cao family, Cao Cao might not have killed him; if he accepted Cao Cao's recruitment and had political interests with Cao Cao, Cao Cao might not have killed him.
It’s a pity that he just played well with Cao Chong. He put all the eggs in a basket. Once Cao Chong died, Zhou Buyi’s biggest reliance was gone, so he naturally had to take care of them.
Moreover, what Cao Cao said about Cao Pi may not be that Zhou Buyi's talent is too high, and he may subvert Cao Wei. After all, no matter how high Zhou Buyi's talent is, he has no power, no power, no soldiers or generals. What Cao Cao said is likely to be his personality.
In Cao Cao's heart, this person can't even win over me. He doesn't even give me my face. How could he give you (Cao Pi) the face? If you get along with him in the future, you will be refuted by him everywhere. This is the real meaning that is difficult to control.
