In people's impression, Cao Cao is a talented and stubborn person.
He started from scratch almost from scratch, and gradually merged with the northern powers, occupying most of China's territory.
If it weren't for losing to the Sun and Liu coalition in in the Battle of Red Cliff , Cao Cao would have already unified the world and achieved the imperial career.
He is also known as "a capable minister in governing the world, a traitor in troubled times". He once wisely brought Emperor Xian of Han to Xuchang , and destroyed the northern powers by using the emperor to command the princes to destroy half of the country.
But what is little known is that as the leader of a political group, Cao Cao also has certain weaknesses in his personality, such as being suspicious and repaying grudges, etc.
Cao Cao once went to his concubine's room one day. After , he slept until he woke up naturally, but he killed his concubine who had served him all night. showed no mercy at all.
So, why did Cao Cao attack a weak woman who served him wholeheartedly?
When I woke up, I angrily killed my concubine
Cao Cao achieved such extraordinary achievements in his life, and his experience has been widely praised by later generations. Some interesting things related to him are also inevitable.
According to legend, during a war, Cao Cao and his concubine slept in the room.
Because Cao Cao wanted to return to the tent in the morning and discuss matters with the generals on the second day, he told his concubine to wake him up at the third update.
After the instructions were finished, Cao Cao fell asleep.
By the third update of the next day, my concubine should have asked Cao Cao to get up on time, but everyone has greed, especially the concubine who has lived in the harem for a long time and is looking forward to getting Cao Cao's favor.
Because Cao Cao has many concubines, This concubine believes that it is already very difficult for him to serve Cao Cao once.
If you don’t take advantage of this opportunity to make a big fuss, over time, you will not have the chance to get ahead. As people become old and old, they will sooner or later be abandoned.
is better to let Cao Cao sleep until he wakes up naturally, which will not have much impact on Cao Cao's war leadership.
If Cao Cao slept with him until he woke up naturally, he could also bring the outside world a feeling that Cao Cao loved and nostalgic for himself.
Even if Cao Cao doesn't come to stay overnight, his status among his sisters will be very high, and he will no longer have to worry about someone bullying him.
After a psychological struggle, the concubine decided to execute according to her own ideas and did not wake up Cao Cao.
As a result, Cao Cao woke up naturally after sleeping and did not wake up slowly until dawn.
At that time, the concubine was lying proudly beside Cao Cao, preparing to get up with Cao Cao to wait for Cao Cao to change his clothes.
Later, Cao Cao gradually woke up and knew that his concubine had not followed his orders to wake him up, and his arrangements had been delayed.
He was furious in an instant, and immediately pushed away the concubine beside him, picked up his sword without saying a word, killed the concubine, and then left.
Things have come to this point. Perhaps the concubine never thought about why she ended up like this until she died.
In fact, this concubine's idea was a bit too self-righteous. She was wrong that she only considered her needs, but did not consider Cao Cao's idea, and did not understand Cao Cao's style of conduct.
Cao Cao hated others the most in his life that he did not obey his orders, and he always wanted to fulfill his words.
So, Cao Cao killed this concubine without hesitation and defended his arrogant authority.
The experience of the concubine and Cao Cao being killed after sleeping is very representative, and it is easy to remind people of a very classic sentence from Cao Cao in the film and television dramas.
That is what said in the big tent when he fought with Hanzhong and Liu Bei . He reconciled the accounts in the big tent, "I like to kill people in my dream."
In fact, Cao Cao's purpose of saying this is not to joke with his ministers, but to be afraid that others would imitate his actions of pretending to offer a knife and actually assassinate him. He hoped that others would not approach him when he was sleeping.
Cao Cao's words are not just words. In order to make the ministers very convinced by what they said, Cao Cao planned to prove to the outside world that what he said was not a lie.
One night later, Cao Cao deliberately pretended to fall asleep while sleeping, and kicked off his quilt. Seeing this, the servant beside him quickly picked up the quilt and helped Cao Cao cover it again.
Cao Cao suddenly stood up, and without saying a word, he picked up the sword beside the bed and killed the attendant with one sword. Everyone heard the sound and entered the tent one after another.
When everyone saw Cao Cao, they really killed someone in their sleep, and remembered what Cao Cao said before, and from then on, they believed in Cao Cao's words. Only the chief clerk at that time, Yang Xiu , saw the tricks in the matter.
He saw that Cao Cao wanted to establish authority through this matter and let people understand that he was the only one and facilitate the management of subsequent ministers.
and are just a chess piece for Cao Cao to achieve his goal.
Therefore, Yang Xiu sighed that "it is not the prime minister in his dream, but the lord in his dream."
Dreams during the day are too strange. I am unjustly killing my uncle Lu Boshe
Cao Shuo is a suspicious person. Not only do he like to kill people in his dreams, but he also likes to kill people based on his suspicion during the day, which is "dreaming in the day".
Western Jin famous historian Chen Shou records that after Cao Cao failed to assassinate Dong Zhuo, he fled to Zhongmu County and was recognized by the county magistrate Chen Gong.
Cao Cao was very arrogant to Chen Gong, and Chen Gong was also very angry with Cao Cao.
However, after learning about Cao Cao's feat of assassinating Dong Zhuo, Chen Gong was deeply impressed, so he made up his mind to let Cao Cao go and followed Cao Cao on the road of escape.
Later, Cao Cao came to his father's close friend Lu Boshe's home to hide.
Lu Boshe treated Cao Cao very enthusiastically because of his friendship with Cao Cao's father. He not only took Cao Cao in at the risk of being discovered by the court and killing the whole family, but also prepared to kill pigs and stew to treat Cao Cao.
Then, Lu Boshe found that there was no alcohol at home, so he rode a donkey to the town to buy wine.
Cao Cao has only been fleeing in a hurry for several days, and he has long been exhausted, so he was unable to get rid of his sleep while waiting for his uncle, so he fell asleep.
In my sleep, Cao Cao vaguely heard the sound of sharpening the knife, and also heard someone in the next room saying the word "kill".
Cao Cao did not hesitate and pulled out his sword without saying a word to the back hall. He killed everyone he saw and chopped them up, killing all the young and old Lu Boshe. After
was finished, I found that there was a pig tied to the ground. Lu Boshe's family wanted to kill the pig to be lenient to themselves, not to kill them.
Cao Cao was suspicious at first, mistakenly thinking that Lu Boshe wanted to harm him and killed his family.
But this is not over yet. Then, Cao Cao met Lu Boshe who returned from buying wine in the town on the road.
Cao Cao lied that he wanted to go on the road and continue to flee. He was afraid that Lu Boshe would take revenge after he found out that all his family was killed, so he took advantage of Lu Boshe's unpreparedness to kill Lu Boshe and said the famous saying "I would rather let the people of the world betray me,"
This sentence seems to be full of heroism, but in fact it is particularly angry.
This also made Chen Gong, who had always regarded Cao Cao as the wise ruler and followed him desperately, also decided to leave Cao Cao and defect to Lu Bu and .
Cao Cao's self-conceited personality is often reflected, Yang Xiu and Hua Tuo both died because of this
Cao Cao is the leader of a regime, just like the very famous founding kings in my country's history, Liu Bang , Li Shimin , Zhu Yuanzhang and others.
He was born in a chaotic world and competed with other ambitious people. He finally stood out with his extraordinary talents, thus creating a foundation.
However, Cao Cao's personality is different from other entrepreneurial monarchs, and it is also very strange. This is mainly related to Cao Cao's background.
Cao Cao was born into a family of eunuchs. His father, Cao Song, was originally surnamed Xiahou, and was the adopted son of the eunuch.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs were favored and often held control and were in great importance. They also had many conflicts with court ministers headed by foreign relatives and had constant disputes.
In the eyes of foreign relatives, eunuchs are inferior people, so ministers who have conflicts with Cao Cao often call Cao Cao the "grandfather of the eunuch", which made Cao Cao develop an inferior, selfish and suspicious personality.
Cao Cao's personality led to many of his subordinates being killed in subsequent experiences, and even he was assassinated because of this, almost losing his life. Yang Xiu mentioned above is a good example.
Yang Xiu is the Mubin of Cao Cao's son Cao Zhi . He is very smart and smart, and is good at guessing Cao Cao's thoughts.
According to legend, once, Xiliang gave Cao Cao a box of nuts. After Cao Cao saw it, he wrote the three words " Yihe Ku " on the box and then put it aside.
Later, the servants saw it and didn't know how to deal with it. They were afraid that if they asked Cao Cao for advice, they would disturb him and cause death.
At this moment, Yang Xiu, who was the chief clerk, came and saw the three words "Yihe Ku" on the box. He opened the nut box without saying a word, picked up the nuts inside and ate it, and distributed it to everyone.
Everyone was very surprised after seeing it, afraid that Prime Minister Cao Cao would blame him.
Yang Xiu said that "one-fold crispy" was opened and it was a bite of crispy one person. Prime Minister Cao means that everyone can eat it separately. After everyone knew about it, they all expressed their admiration for Yang Xiu's cleverness.
Later, Cao Cao also learned about this. praised Yang Xiu for his intelligence on the surface, but in fact he felt a little jealous in his heart. laid the foreshadowing for the subsequent killing of Yang Xiu.
Yang Xiu's intelligence is revealed to the outside world. He does not know how to be low-key. He can see other people's thoughts clearly, but cannot see his own future clearly.
Later things also happened when Cao Cao personally conquered Liu Bei in Hanzhong. Cao Cao's army was defeated by Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang many times. Most of the land in Hanzhong was lost. The favorite general Xiahou Yuan was also killed by Liu Bei's general Huang Zhong .
Seeing that the army's rations were about to run out, Cao Cao also wanted to retreat.
One night, Cao Cao was hesitating whether to withdraw his troops and the generals entered the tent and asked Cao Cao for the order tonight.
Cao Cao looked at the chicken ribs that had not been eaten in the bowl and said the "chicken ribs".
After Yang Xiu learned about it, he quickly asked the people around him to pack his luggage and said that Cao Cao would order the troops to withdraw soon. If he did not prepare in advance, he would probably lose his property because the troops were too hasty.
Everyone was puzzled and asked Yang Xiu why he wanted this.
Yang Xiu said that if you eat chicken ribs, it is a pity to eat them. This situation is very similar to the military situation of our army in Hanzhong.
Therefore, Prime Minister Cao must have the intention of retreating.
Everyone was impressed by Yang Xiu's intelligence and began to pack their luggage.
However, Cao Cao discovered everyone's actions.
Cao Cao was furious and only after asking questions did he realize that it was because Yang Xiu guessed his thoughts in advance that everyone thought about it.
Then, Cao Cao could not tolerate his thoughts being seen through and killed Yang Xiu in anger.
At the same time, in order to prove that Yang Xiu's guess was wrong, Cao Cao conveyed his determination to never retreat to the generals and ordered a large-scale march.
was defeated by Liu Bei and fled. He was almost killed by Ma Chao and , so he could only escape back to Xuchang in a very embarrassed manner.
Cao Cao suffered from severe head wind disease in his later years, and had a split headache.
At that time, he invited Hua Tuo, a famous doctor from the Three Kingdoms period, to treat it. Unexpectedly, Hua Tuo boldly proposed a treatment plan for craniotomy.
But Cao Cao did not trust Hua Tuo, thinking that Hua Tuo was probably here to harm him.
So, Cao Cao locked up Hua Tuo and finally sent someone to kill Hua Tuo. He not only killed the miracle doctor in vain, but also missed the last chance to survive.
Not long after, Cao Cao passed away.
This shows that Cao Cao's character is destined to not allow others to disagree with him.
Looking at the people Cao Cao killed, Xun Yu , Hua Tuo, Xu You , Lu Boshe, Yang Xiu and even his concubines were all killed by Cao Cao for this reason.
The saying that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger can be fully demonstrated in Cao Cao.
Conclusion:
In the most chaotic world like the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao was able to win the world and establish the foundation of Wei State , and his talent is naturally very commendable.
From Cao Cao's life experience, it is not difficult to find that although Cao Cao was actually the leader of a country, he was not in a hurry to fulfill his ambitions and promoted to emperor, but achieved "if the destiny is with me, I will learn from Zhou Gong."
is close to you, but Cao Cao is unmoved, which is indeed very admirable.
However, through the laws of history, we can also understand that the greater a person, the more unique his personality traits are.
Cao Cao's personality trait is that he is arrogant and suspicious, which also makes Cao Cao never allow others to disobey his orders. The concubine did not wake him up on time. If she put it on others, she would definitely laugh it off when facing his beloved concubine's spoiled behavior.
Not only did Cao Cao not leniently kill his concubine, but instead killed him immediately, which was surprising.
Perhaps it was precisely because of Cao Cao's strange behavior that later generations praised and criticized him and talked a lot.
