The doctor who every patient hopes to treat himself is Hua Tuo, but ironically, Hua Tuo is the first doctor in Chinese history to die of "medical trouble".
If you want to investigate the real reason why Cao Cao killed Hua Tuo, you must consider the historical background in which Hua Tuo is located, and you can't just consider the reason for Cao Cao, Cao Cao is in charge of life and death, but Cao Cao also loves talent and cherishes talent, and will not kill Hua Tuo for no reason.
Hua Tuo lived in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with warlords divided and warriors. In that era, "learning and excellence" was the ideal goal of many readers, and Hua Tuo was one of the many readers, he was originally a "Shi ren", and becoming an official was also Hua Tuo's ideal of life.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the boom in studying as an official has reached its peak, during the Han Shun Emperor's period, the number of students has reached more than 30,000, and it has become a social trend to study Confucianism and read the scriptures as an official, while although medical technology is needed by the emperor and the people down, it is despised by scholars, the social status of doctors is not high, there are many examples of famous doctors abandoning medicine to engage in politics, and Hua Tuo often feels remorse in his heart even though he is a doctor.
You might say that there is not a passage in the Book of Wei in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms that records Hua Tuo's experience of being recommended as an official? At that time, Chen Jue, the minister of peiguo, recommended Hua Tuo as a filial piety, and the taiwei Huang Huan recruited him to be an official, didn't Hua Tuo also not go?
As for the reasons for this incident, Lin Zhenqing pointed out in his article that there may be two reasons: First, Hua Tuo is talented and very conceited, and the official position recommended by Chen Jue and Huang Ju is too small for Hua Tuo to look up to; second, Hua Tuo may be obsessed with practicing medicine, and it is not worth abandoning medicine for the sake of petty officials.
The real reason is that Chen Shou, the author of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", specially revealed in the "Biography of Fang Ji" that "ran the original writer, saw the profession with medicine, and often repented of himself", which broke Hua Tuo's mentality of embarking on the road of practicing medicine. In the process of practicing medicine, he often felt that his status was inferior, although Hua Tuo's medical skills were superior, and there were many dignitaries who sought him to see a doctor, the more he communicated with these people, Hua Tuo's sense of loss would be stronger, and over time, his personality would become strange and difficult to get along with people. Therefore, Fan Ye said unceremoniously in the "Later Han Shu Fang Shu Lie Biography": "It is rare for human nature to be evil."
In the process of regret and constant self-blame, Hua Tuo waited for the opportunity to become an official finally arrived.
Cao Cao was busy with war all day, often headaches, after being recommended by the divine doctor Hua Tuo to cure this disease, sure enough, Hua Tuo used a needle to heal the acupuncture points, the effect was very good. As the government affairs and military affairs became busier and busier, Cao Cao's head wind disease became more and more severe, and he was also called Hua Tuo to cure it. Hua Tuo said this time: "This is difficult to help, constant attack and treatment, can prolong the years", which means that your disease cannot be cured in the short term, even if it is long-term treatment, it is only to prolong life, the implication is that it is time to count down.
Although Hua Tuo was a divine doctor, it was not surprising that some diseases could not be cured, but directly telling Cao Cao that the time of death was approaching was inevitably a bit alarmist and full of threats.
Lin Zhenqing once pointed out in the article that Hua Tuo lent Cao Cao the opportunity to treat his illness and used medical skills as a means to blackmail Cao Cao into giving him the title of official. Cao Cao said afterwards: "Tuo can cure this, the villain raises my illness, so as to respect himself", which means that Hua Tuo wants to take this opportunity to treat me to increase my value, but Cao Cao did not immediately agree.
Hua Tuo went back to his hometown on the grounds that he had received a letter from his family. After arriving home, he used the excuse that his wife was seriously ill and had no one to take care of him, and he never returned, and threatened Cao Cao again.
Cao Cao had repeatedly ordered Hua Tuo to return to the capital, but Hua Tuo had been excused by his wife to fall ill and refused to go back, implying that when Cao Cao gave him the title of knight, he would go back. Cao Cao was very angry and sent someone to check on him, and if Hua Tuo's wife was really seriously ill, give him some money to buy some supplements and relax the time limit. If Hua Tuo lies, get him back.
As a result, Hua Tuo really lied, and Cao Cao sentenced Hua Tuo to death for "deception" and "disobedience to conscription" in accordance with Han law, and Hua Tuo finally confessed to the crime.
In the "Book of Han, Shen Tujia Biography", it is recorded that "Tong Xiaochen, on the theater, great disrespect, when beheaded", "great disrespect", there are many cases of "great disrespect", of which "conscription can not be great disrespect" applies to the crimes committed by Hua Tuo.
Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" praises Liu Cao's meaning, the world knows, so people generally think that Cao Cao is a "bad person", everything he does is a "bad thing", and naturally positions Hua Tuo as a "good person", preconceived that the reason why Cao Cao killed Hua Tuo is that Cao Cao is suspicious, but history is written by posterity, it is inevitable to mix personal emotions, and the novel is not history!