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Foreword
In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Cao Cao's image of a traitor is deeply rooted in people's minds, especially when he is on the road to escape and kills Chen Gong by mistake The Lu Boshe family created his image as a "traitful hero in troubled times," and later generations invented Cao Cao's wise saying: " would rather I lose the world, and let the world lose me ."
But looking through all the historical materials about Lu Bosu, I found that all of them are very different from film and television dramas. Regarding the chapter about Lu Boshe, Cao Cao seems to have carried a scapegoat for thousands of years.
even later historians bluntly said: "The Lu Boshe family died unjustly"!
"Book of Wei" records that Cao Cao killed himself in self-defense
about Cao Cao's destruction of his benefactors and his family. "Book of Wei" records:
Taizu Yizhuo will eventually be defeated, so he will not worship and fled back to his hometown. The old deceased Chenggao Lu Boshe from the number of rides; Bo She is not there, and his son and the guests rob Taizu together, fetch horses and things, Taizu kills several people. Z6z
translated this passage into the vernacular and probably means this: Cao Cao passed by his father's old friend Lu Boshe's house in order to escape, and Lu Boshe himself was not at home. His son wanted to rob Cao Cao, so Cao Cao rose up and killed his family.
According to this record, Cao Cao was forced to be helpless, and he did not kill Lu Boshe.
Seeing the name "Book of Wei", the first reaction of many people at was not credible, because it was compiled by the descendants of Cao Cao, and it would naturally beautify Cao Cao appropriately. This kind of thinking also agrees with , because Wang Shen, the editor of "Book of Wei", is indeed Cao Shuang's clientele, so he naturally didn't dare to write nonsense when he wrote Cao Cao.
Some people still suspect that Cao Cao has become a fugitive. What treasure is there to make people remember? But this kind of thinking, the history man dare not agree with. Although Cao Cao was a fugitive, he had a sword and a horse under his hips. These things were enough to make people take risks during the Three Kingdoms period.
According to the "Wei Shu" record, Cao Cao was on his back, and did not kill Lu Boshe , but the credibility of this record is not high, how about other historical records?
"WeiJin Shiyu" records that Cao Cao's suspicious illness caused
about Cao Cao's killing of Lu Boshe's family, "WeiJin Shiyu" also records:
Taizu Guo Boshe. Uncle She is traveling, and the five sons are all there, ready for the guest to officiate. Taizu thought that he was destined for his life and suspected himself, he killed eight people at night with a sword .
This passage translated into vernacular probably means this: Cao Cao passed by Lu Boshe’s house, and Lu Boshe was not at home, but his son treated Cao Cao graciously and even nodded too much, which reminded Cao Cao of his hospitality for Dong Zhuo. Because of this, it is suspected that these people are plotting wrong, and they killed eight people at night.
The author of "Wei Jin Shi Yu" is Guo Beng. There is almost no record of this person in history, and there is no relationship between him and the Cao Wei family, so there is no need to cover Cao Cao.
The two historical materials mentioned above are the only records of the manslaughter of Lu Boshe. As for the more convincing "Three Kingdoms", the author Chen Shou directly does not record the murder of Lu Boshe, so this is also given. Later generations imagined more room for play.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" not only added the plot of Lu Bosu's murder, but also the logic does not make sense. The two versions of historical records above
all said that Lu Bosu was not at home, which means that Cao Cao did not kill this "uncle". ". But in the novel, the story changes:
is about Cao Cao passing by Lu Boshe's house. Lu Boshe is not only at home, but also instructs his family to kill pigs and entertain him by going to the West Village to buy wine. But when Cao Cao and Chen Gong were resting. Hearing the sharpening of the knife outside, he was suspicious of killing Lu Boshe's family by mistake. When
left, he happened to meet Lu Boshe who came back. Although Cao Cao knew that he had killed the wrong person, but because of fear of being accused by Lu Boshe, he could only make mistakes again and again and killed Lu Boshe with a sword.
Therefore, Chen Gong parted ways with him, and Xiu called the people of the world to bear my famous words and became famous throughout the country. Although the story of
looks very memorable, it has many problems. First of all, if Lu Boshe wanted to entertain Cao Cao graciously, how could he buy wine by himself, and it hasn’t been so long?Come back? must know that if the guest is very important, the host must accompany the guest personally, whether it is ancient or modern. The small matter of buying wine is enough for the servants. The matter of leaving the guest on the side is not consistent from ancient times to the present. Hospitality.
Since Cao Cao is a fugitive, it is better to cause less trouble, so he will not take the initiative to ask for trouble. If it weren't for Lu Boshe or his family to push him too hard, I am afraid Cao Cao would not cause trouble.
More importantly, as the only witness, Chen Gong, it is impossible for him to know about Cao Cao and Lu Boshe. At this time, the magistrate of Zhongmu was Yang Yuan, and he did not have the experience of staying with Cao Cao at Lu Boshe’s house overnight. .
Conclusion
From the above, it can be seen that Cao Cao didn't kill Lu Boshe himself. As for the murder of Lu Boshe's family, it may be true, but is definitely not like the manslaughter of the movie and TV drama because of the killing of pigs.
Cao Cao himself is very satisfied with the evaluation of "the hero in troubled times, the minister who can govern the world". He doesn't think that the hero is a derogatory term. Therefore, the prince of history believes that there is no need for the descendants of the Cao family to cover up Cao Cao's accidental killing of Lu Boshe. As for the reason that there is no record in historical data, is probably because Cao Cao did not kill Lu Boshe, and naturally it will not be recorded. As for later generations to use this to discredit Cao Cao, it is to better shape Cao Cao's heroic image.
I don’t know how you judge, how do you think about Cao A’s murder of Lu Boshe?
References: "Three Kingdoms", "Wei Shu", "Wei Jin Shi Yu", etc.
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