Heroes are not fearless, but able to overcome fear. Cao Cao was a traitor, a tyrant, and a hero, and his talent was rough, and even those who respected Liu And Cao had to admit that during the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty, the most powerful person was Cao Cao, Liu Bei gave him a follow-up, Sun Quan wrote a table to persuade him to be emperor, and the result was irony by him.
Cao Cao was powerful, but he was not fearless. Cao Cao was not afraid of Cao Mang Dong Zhuo, nor was he afraid of Yuan Shao, but he could not but be jealous of the other four people of the same period - these four people certainly did not include Sun Quan, "having a son like Sun Zhongmou" is just admiration, which means that this blue-eyed purple-haired guy can be my son, as an opponent, and he is almost perfect.
Cao Cao's attitude toward the four people he was most jealous of in his life was also different: one did not have to kill, two were reluctant to kill, and one had to be killed. So we have this question: these four people made it difficult for Cao Cao to sleep and eat, why did he want to kill only one?
In fact, when Cao Cao was alive, there were no Three Kingdoms at all, and even if there were, it was not Wei Shu Wu: Cao Cao had always been flying the banner of the Han Army, Liu Bei would never call himself "Shu", only Sun Quan gave himself the name of "Wu".
At that time, Cao Liusun's three families were vying for hegemony, and their respective titles were Great Han Cheng Xiang, Wei Wang Cao Cao, Great Han Sima and Hanzhong Wang Liu Bei, Xingche Riding General, LingXu Mu, wu hou (Cao Pi made him a general, holding the festival to supervise Jiaozhou, leading Jingzhou pastor, Jia Jiuxi, Wu Wang) Sun Quan. If anyone had refused to admit his identity as a courtier of the Great Han Dynasty, he would have been besieged by other warlords.
It was also for this reason that Cao Cao, who had once aspired to be a loyal subject, did not have much respect for Liu Xie, the son of the Great Han Dynasty (Cao Cao did not know that Liu Xie's title was "Xian", nor did he know that Liu Bei would call him Emperor Xiaoxuan), but he could not help but be jealous, so the Book of Later Han left such a record: "Old Yi, the three dukes led the troops to see him, and made Hu Ben hold the blade. out, take care of the left and right, sweaty, since then do not dare to return to the court please. ”
In that year, Cao Cao killed Liu Xie as easily as a palm, but in the face of the steel knife of the Tiger Army, he could only be shocked and "lost his color and leaned out." If Emperor Xian of Han had turned his face desperately, Cao Cao would not have been able to get out of the palace that time.
Liu Xie did not drink the sword in the hands of the Tiger Ben army like Kangxi Qiubai, and he was also jealous: "Su Wei Bing, can not be the old in-laws of the Cao Clan Party." ”
Liu Xie didn't know whether the Tiger Ben Army was posing to threaten Cao Cao with its blade, and he didn't know whether the gang listened to his own words, but he knew one thing: Cao Cao was dead, and Liu Cao's grandson Cao Yuan Cao appeared, and the emperor's fate of being overthrown was already doomed.
Cao Cao could have killed Liu Xie, or he could have made Liu Xie emperor and supported his son (Liu Xie had no real power, it did not affect his having children, he had seven sons and three daughters), but Cao Cao did not take that step in the end, because it would give someone a handle, and he might become a second Dong Zhuo.
Cao Cao was jealous of Liu Xie, the son of the Great Han Dynasty, and finally had to avoid meeting, indicating that he did not want to completely tear his face with the emperor, and that being a ruler and not an emperor was Cao Cao's bottom line, cleaning up such things as the Great Han Tianzi and even the Han family, he left it to Cao Pi to do: "To administer the government is also to govern (this is Confucius's famous saying, Cao Cao means that I have done the work of the emperor, even if I am not called the emperor, I am also the emperor). If the Destiny of Heaven is in me, I am king of Zhou Wen. ”
Cao Cao was jealous of Liu Xie, but he did not want to eliminate this threat, but adopted a passive response method of "not being able to afford to hide", silently accumulating strength and popularity, adding Jiu Xi and the King of Jin and Wei, all of which were paving the way for his son Cao Pi, cao Pi did not live up to his father's expectations, successfully pulled his brother-in-law off the horse, and incidentally also took in his brother-in-law's two daughters, and did not know whether the two people met, whether it was Emperor Cao Pi of Wei who managed Shanyang Liu Xie called his father-in-law, or Liu Pi who managed Cao Pi as his uncle.
In addition to being jealous of Liu Xie, in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao also attached great importance to and was jealous of the other three people, and the first person in the list was of course Liu Bei Liu Xuande: "The hero of the world, only the king and the ear." Liu Bei, Wu Li also. ”
From the time Qingmei was cooking wine, Cao Cao regarded Liu Bei as a lifelong rival.
The relationship between Cao Cao and Liu Bei is always reminiscent of a dog blood bridge in the TV series: two good friends finally show their identity as sworn enemies and decide whether they are dead or alive, and at the last moment, one holds the other's hand, indicating that "in the next life, they will still be brothers."
Cao Cao had a great opportunity to do away with Liu Bei, but he let it go on a reason that even he would not believe it: "When Fang Jin received the hero, he also killed one person and lost the heart of the world. ”
Cao Cao's favorite thing to do in this life is to fight with Liu Bei. Yuan Shao's 100,000-strong army pressed the territory, and Cao Cao was not in a hurry to meet the battle, but personally went out on horseback to fight Liu Bei: "Husband Liu Bei, Ren Jieye, if you don't attack now, you will be in trouble." ”
Cao Cao's many pro-expeditions were related to Liu Bei, either helping Liu Bei or beating Liu Bei, lü Bu and Yuan Shao were just two rabbits he hit when he was holding the grass.
Cao Cao's enmity and resentment continued until Cao Cao's death, and when Cao Cao died, Liu Bei also sent emissaries to mourn with gifts—this was not Zhuge Liang crying Zhou Yu, but a real event clearly recorded in the zhengshi: "Prepare for Cao Gongxue, send Han Ran to hang the book, and give gifts." ”
If Liu Bei died before Cao Cao, it is estimated that the same situation will happen, and Cao Cao may have to cry: "Such a good opponent, but unfortunately died too early!" ”
The hero without an opponent is lonely, Cao Cao does not want to kill the Great Han Tianzi Liu Xie, he is half loyal and nine and a half worried, and he does not want to kill Liu Bei so quickly, it should be a hero who cherishes the hero, and the opponent is rare.
One is not very dare to kill, one is reluctant to kill, and the other two people who make Cao Cao jealous, the reader Zhujun will know by looking at two sentences in the history: "Yu Wei shook Huaxia, and Cao Gong proposed to move xu to avoid his sharpness." "Horses don't die, I don't have a burial ground."
Guan Yu's crushing defeat in Jingzhou, if it fell into cao Cao's hands, would at best be imprisoned for life, and there would be no fear of life, but Cao Cao strictly ordered his men not to pursue him poorly: "The king of Wei Cao Cao heard that Yu was gone, and he was afraid that the generals would chase him, and the disease was made by Ren Ru (Zhao Yu, who had conveyed Cao Cao's intention not to pursue Guan Yu). ”
Cao Cao did not want to kill Liu Xie, Liu Bei, and Guan Yu for different reasons, but for Ma Chao And Ma Mengqi, he hated it so much that he wanted to get rid of it quickly.
In the main history, Cao Cao was not killed by Ma Chao to cut off his robes, he would rather surrender Han Sui than use Ma Teng as a chip to blackmail Ma Chao to surrender, probably disgusted with Ma Chao: "Your father and your brother are still officials in Xudu, but you are rebelling in Xiliang, and it is clear that the six relatives do not recognize it!" ”
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms reverses the chronological order in which Ma Chaoqi and Ma Teng were killed, and the Later Han Shu, Volume IX, And The Chronicle of The Emperor Xiaoxian is very clear: "In the autumn of the sixteenth year, in September of the sixteenth year, Cao Cao fought with Han Sui and Ma Chao in Weinan, and then suffered a major defeat, and Guan Xiping was defeated. In the summer of the seventeenth year, in May, He Wei Wei Ma Teng, Yi San. ”
Ma Chao divided the side in order to support the army and respect himself, and even disregarded the safety of his father and brothers, such a contrarian son, Cao Cao did not want to stay or dare to stay, of course, he would not be used heavily.
In fact, it is not only Cao Cao who does not want to see Ma Chao, but also Zhang Lu Liu Bei, who is also defensive against Ma Chao: "If someone does not love his relatives, can he love people?" ”
Kill Liu Xie, Cao Cao did not dare; kill Liu Bei, Cao Cao did not give up; kill Guan Yu, Cao Cao was distressed. Only by killing Ma Chao, Cao Cao's eyelids would not blink.
But there is also a question here: the same four obstacles or fierce enemies that make Cao Cao difficult to sleep, why does Cao Cao only want to kill Ma Chao, is it just because he is not filial piety?
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