Finally knowing the real reason why Zhuge Liang did not assist Cao Cao was not without a position
Introduction: In the early years, Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion in the grass house, not really asking about sheji, but in order to wait for a person worthy of his assistance and show his ambition. Cao Cao recruited talented people in the world, and had the reputation of loving and cherishing talent, but he did not take Zhuge Liang under his command when he was in a high position. Looking at Liu Bei again, when Zhuge Liang defected to him, there were few available people under his command, and his strength was not as strong as Cao Cao's, but Zhuge Liang was willing to follow him with a dead heart. So what was the reason why Zhuge Liang did not choose Cao Cao?
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Liusun and his three men occupied a piece of land, at that time Cao Cao's strength was the strongest, and Liu Bei's strength was the weakest, and it was precisely because of this that many able people defected to Cao Cao, and Liu Bei's men were left with Xu Shu except for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's two brothers. However, Xu Shu was eventually threatened by Cao Cao and went to Cao Ying, at this time Liu Bei did not have a single adviser under him, and when Xu Shu was leaving, he told Liu Bei to ask Zhuge Liang for help, so Zhuge Liang became Liu Bei's adviser.
Some people think that Zhuge Liang will assist Liu Bei because of the face of Xu Shu's friends, and some people think that Zhuge Liang feels that There are too many people under Cao Cao, like Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Jia Xu, etc. are all the same talents as him, even if Zhuge Liang has a talent in the world, he may not be able to highlight himself when he gets there, it is likely that he will be buried because of the late arrival, so he simply assists Liu Bei, who is poor and white, but if he has a little achievement, he can make him famous all over the world. Some people also believe that Zhuge Liang is loyal to the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei claims to be a descendant of the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao is considered to be a cao thief by everyone, so for the sake of good name, Zhuge Liang is also willing to assist Liu Bei.
In fact, the above three speculations are reasonable, but it is not all the reason why Zhuge Liang did not choose Cao Cao, more importantly, this hidden feeling, I want to come to Cao Cao is also aware of Zhuge Liang's thoughts, so he did not forcibly recruit him. At that time, Zhuge Liang was still a teenager, and his parents died when he was eight years old, so he followed Zhuge Xuan out of his hometown of Langya to become an official in other places. In the past few years since Zhuge Liang left Langya, great changes have taken place in Langya.
At that time, Cao Cao's adoptive father Cao Song was a very powerful eunuch in the dynasty, who had assisted four Han emperors, and it was cao Cao's light that was able to gain a foothold in the dynasty. Later, Cao Cao raised an army, and Cao Song was worried that he would fail to implicate him, so he left him with his younger son Cao De and went to Langya. In 194, Cao Cao's power grew, and even Yanzhou was his territory, so Cao Song and Cao De came to him again.
Langya belonged to Xuzhou, and Xuzhou Mutaoqian was resentful because Cao Cao had repeatedly attacked Xuzhou, and when he learned that Cao Song was leaving, he took his men to kill Cao Song. After Cao Song was killed by Tao Qian, Cao Cao was very resentful, so he slaughtered Xuzhou City in a fit of rage. Zhuge Liang watched his hometown being slaughtered, and although he had left his hometown for five years at this time, it still had a great impact on him, and he thought that Cao Cao was too fierce, so he firmly assisted Liu Bei in appreciating him.
Conclusion: Although Cao Cao is a generation of tyrants, he has a great shortcoming, that is, he kills people when he is not happy. In his heart, he would rather bear the people of the world than the people of the world, so although Cao Cao developed rapidly in the early stage, it was easy to lose the people's hearts in the later stage, and it was difficult to achieve great things. Zhuge Liang was precisely aware of this that he was unwilling to assist him, and at the same time they also had a deep hatred in the blood sea, so how could Zhuge Liang assist the enemy?