Since ancient times, those who have achieved great ambitions must have some loyal generals to assist them wholeheartedly, and the Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty founded the Han Dynasty with the assistance of Zhang Liang, Han Xin and others. If Zhu Yuanzhang had not been born and died with Him, such as Chang Yuchun and Xu Da, then it would have been a fool's dream for him to change from a beggar who everyone hated to an emperor of the Nine-Five-Year-Old.
Perhaps it was precisely because the story of the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty inspired later generations, so during the turbulent period of the Three Kingdoms, those far-sighted princes began to do their best to recruit talents, and Cao Mengde was a typical representative of these people.
Cao Mengde's love for talents is well known, and it is said that Liu Bei came to him when he was cornered, but one of his advisers said: "Liu Bei is very ambitious, why didn't the lord kill him?" ”
At that time, he listened to these words: "Liu Bei came to me today because he felt that I was open-minded and sincerely recruited talents. If I kill him, won't I frighten those who want to come to me? Who will dare to join me in the future? ”
It can be seen from this that the reason why he did not kill Liu Bei was to prevent those who had the intention of coming to him to be afraid. It can be seen that in Cao Mengde's mind, Liu Bei is not enough to be compared with the first-class talent in his mind. In order to attract those unknown talents in the future and let go of Liu Bei, who may become the main threat in the future, it can be seen that his tolerance is not small.
That was why he was able to tolerate Guan Yunchang after the three brothers in Taoyuan were scattered.
When Guan Yun Changwen beheaded Huaxiong and Sanying to fight Lü Bu, he was there, and he had always admired guan Yun's spirit of Changyi Bo Yuntian. Such a person is any ambitious prince who wants to take it under his wing for his own use.
He finally waited for such an opportunity, and he temporarily took Guan Yunchang under his wing through negotiations, hoping to impress him through a period of time and finally accept him.
Cao Mengde was well versed in the routine of recruiting talents for his own use, so after Guan Yunchang entered cao camp, he began a fierce offensive, sending gold and silver treasures, sending mansions, sending beautiful women, sending Chinese clothes, and also sending a red rabbit horse, any courtier faced with this treatment of the monarch, he could not persist for three months and would be surrendered, but Guan Yunchang was Guan Yunchang, and he was definitely an exception.
Liu Bei and he are the brothers of Taoyuan Jieyi, although not biological brothers, but in fact closer than their own brothers. After the three of them had married, they ate at the same table and slept in the same bed, a friendship that had long since gone beyond the etiquette of the so-called monarch and minister, and there was real affection between them. To put it bluntly, this is Liu Bei's way of "retaining talent" for him. He was just a poor dick selling straw shoes before, and the way he built his network was to rely on him to impress others a little bit. And Cao Mengde has a wealth, Liu Bei this method she can not learn at all, Guan Yunchang is a very moralistic person, very serious about righteousness. Therefore, all the external things given by Cao Mengde could not impress him at all.
Therefore, it is also reasonable that Cao Mengde cannot keep him, and he will never understand the kind of friendship established between Liu Bei and Guan Yunchang in the "lowest level of society". It is a friendship that transcends money and blood. Guan Yunchang practiced this feeling thoroughly, preferring to offend Cao Mengde to liu bei, and Liu Bei used his national strength to destroy Sun Liu's alliance after he was killed by Sun Wu.
Do you think Cao Mengde would do this for any of his subordinates?
Thinking about it with your toes knows that this is impossible. Therefore, Cao Mengde could not keep him.