There is an old saying that "all things are destined for heaven, half a point is not by people", now in our daily life, we can often hear similar sayings, such as "the reason why I mix worse than him, it is because he has a good life, who tells people to have a good father" and the like, this language and thinking are what we can often see, but in fact, the reason why people mix well is really because people have a "good fate"?
In fact, the truth is not necessarily so, whenever we envy their wealth and good fortune, look at Cao Cao's appearance when he was 31 years old, we will understand two very important things: that is, how our fate will affect our own lives; and how should we get along with our own destiny and face our fate with what kind of posture.
In 186 AD, the 31-year-old Cao Cao returned to his hometown to study in seclusion, and returned to his hometown at the age of just meritorious service, even if it is put today, it is inevitable that people will look at it, and it is even more difficult to understand in ancient times, especially Cao Cao, a figure with "few ambitions", so after he returned home, he "wanted to study in autumn and summer, shoot and hunt in winter and spring, seek the land below, want to cover himself with muddy water, and never hope for guests to come and go", easily no longer go out, even relatives and friends did not come and go much.
At this time, Cao Cao was actually in a very discouraged state when facing his own fate, because he returned to his hometown under the condition of last resort, and if he did not return home, he might not even be able to save his life, because a big person he had offended in his early years would once again attack him at this time.
It was in 174, the 20-year-old Cao Cao was recommended as "filial piety" and was able to enter the dynasty as an official, at that time Cao Cao was exactly the age of enthusiasm, after he became the northern lieutenant of Luoyang, he built more than a dozen five-colored sticks outside his own gate to warn the world not to violate the law and discipline, but the eunuch Jian Shuo's uncle Jian Tu openly violated the ban, and Jian Shuo interceded for him for a long time, and was still executed by Cao Cao with a five-color stick.
At that time, Cao Cao was demoted, and then his brother-in-law eunuch was killed, and he himself was completely dismissed, and he had no choice but to return to his hometown to farm, which was the first time Cao Cao wondered about the justice in his heart, why did he do the right thing, but he fell to this point? At the age of 25, Cao Cao was recruited by the emperor to serve as a councillor with an official rank of 600 stones, who could interfere in the government affairs.
After Cao Cao saw the corruption of the imperial court, he wrote to the emperor many times, stating that some loyal and virtuous people and what should be done, but the emperor still appointed those evil and incompetent people, and Cao Cao began to completely lose confidence in the Han court. By the time the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, the 29-year-old Cao Cao followed the famous general Emperor Fu artemisia to make many military achievements, and at the age of 30, he had already become a knight lieutenant with the rank of 2,000 stones and became a famous general of the Han Dynasty.
However, at this time, he had offended Jian Shuo in his early years, and once again found this young man who had already been punished that year, and found that this young man had developed more and more to make an appointment, and under fear, he had begun to find a killer and was ready to kill Cao Cao, cao Cao resigned overnight after getting the news, and returned to his hometown, he said, "From then on, he went for twenty years to wait for the world to be cleared."
Of course, Cao Cao did not ascend to the throne for 20 years in the end, he scattered his family wealth at the age of 35, created an extremely powerful army, made himself a prince at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and finally unified the north, becoming the founder of the Cao Wei regime, and the turning point in his heart was actually the year when he was 31 years old.
What exactly is "fate"? Take it apart, that is, a person, a mouth, a knife, when Cao Cao began to live in seclusion, it was because other people's conspiracies and calculations and other people's knives could threaten his own life, and when he decided to go out of the mountain and no longer live in seclusion, it was because he decided to use his own calculations and knives to control his own destiny, and this is two things we need to understand.
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Despicable Sage