I have heard of the story of "Kong Rong Ren Pear". This is an example of what we have learned in Chinese textbooks since we were a child, and it is also one of the classic stories that promote Chinese virtues.
" Four-year-old Kong Rong always takes the smallest every time he eats pears, so as to give the older one to his brother." This paragraph was also included in the "Three Character Classic": "Rong can give up pears at the age of four." As a model for educating children to know how to abide by the public order and good customs of for thousands of years.
is such a child who has good virtues since childhood, but when he grew up, he was executed by Cao Cao for killing his mother. What is going on? What happened in the middle?
Kong Rong, whose courtesy name is Wenju, was a native of Lu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a famous writer, one of the " Jian'an Seven Sons ", and the 20th generation grandson of Confucius . He has served as the Chief Marquis of the Northern Army, the Chief General of the Tiger Ben, the Chief General of the Northern Army, the Taizhong Doctor, etc. He has a strong and upright personality, likes to make friends with famous scholars, and has gradually become the representative of them.
The contradiction between Kong Rong and Cao Cao arises from different political positions.
Kong Rong, as a firm supporter of the orthodox Han Dynasty , has always been unable to stand Cao Cao's "arrogance and domineeringness". However, in the past, they were all fighting openly and secretly, and the relationship was still acceptable. Cao Cao even wrote a book to express his "reconciliation" to Kong Rong.
According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Kong Rong", the reason why the conflict really aroused and the relationship between the two was that Kong Rong believed that Cao Cao was "heroic and deceitful". Cao Cao had always had the idea of "using the emperor to command the princes". As his power gradually expanded, this intention was exposed more clearly.
Kong Rong had satirized this many times, which led to the "number cannot be defeated" incident at that time.
One of the reasons was that there was a shortage of food at that time, and the army wanted to fight, but the food was insufficient. Cao Cao hoped to implement the ban on alcohol to save food. However, Kong Rong learned about this suggestion, and he opposed it. He also believed that no one who accomplished great things would not drink. In short, he believed that Cao Cao's ban on alcohol was very ignorant, which made Cao Cao very upset.
The second is that after Cao Cao's biggest enemy, Yuan Shao, died, Cao Cao asked his son Cao Pi marries Yuan Shao's daughter-in-law Zhen Ji as his wife. This was originally an action for Cao Cao to win over the other side's forces. As a result, Kong Rong wrote an article to mock him and compared the matter of King Zhou to sarcasm with him. I believe Cao Cao was also very angry at that time.
The third is that when Cao Cao attacked Wuhuan, Kong Rong immediately sang a song behind his back, mocking Cao Cao's army for being unknown, believing that he would definitely return without a defeat in this battle. Think about it, when you have not started doing something, someone will say behind your back: "Give up, you will fail soon"? At this time, Cao Cao's forbearance must have reached its limit.
But after all, Kong Rong is a representative of famous scholars and has a special identity. Even though Cao Cao is in power now, if he wants to kill him, he cannot find a suitable reason. Unexpectedly, Kong Rong hit the gun himself and came.
Kong Rong, who has always been unruly speaking, directly said the "parents have no grace", which means that there is not much affection between children and parents, and parents do not have grace to their children. He also said that he had food and would not give it to his parents even if he gave it to strangers.
is such a remark that brought Kong Rong a "bad of death".
Cao Cao was immediately happy when he heard this: he finally found a reason to kill Kong Rong. Because Kong Rong's remarks are contrary to the traditional Confucianism , and subverting the traditional concept of father's kindness and filial piety, Cao Cao directly found Kong Rong for unfilial and disrespectful crimes, saying that he was "destruction of his father and mother", so he executed him, along with his two young sons.
This famous scholar Kong Rong, who knew how to be humble at the age of four, provoked and ridiculed him many times because of his political position, and was eventually executed by him on the charge of "killing his father and mother" because of his different political stance!
