Search God Story: The famous scene in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zuo Ci throwing a cup play Cao Cao, originally began to black Cao Cao in the Jin Dynasty

The famous scene in the Three Kingdoms, the legend of Zuo Ci playing Cao Cao, originally existed in the Jin Dynasty

Zuo Ci Zuo Yuanfang was a native of Lujiang at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He has been proficient in fairy magic since childhood. Once, Zuo Ci was invited to cao cao's banquet. Cao Gong smiled and said to the guests: Today's banquet, high-level friends are full of rooms, mountains and treasures and seafood are complete, the only fly in the ointment is that there is one less hard dish: sea bass from Wuguo Songjiang. Zuo Ci replied that Songjiang perch could have. Saying that in front of everyone, he took out a copper plate and put it on the table, poured it full of water, and in full view of everyone, hung the bait with a fishing rod and began to fish, and after a while he caught a perch from the basin. Cao Cao clapped his hands in amazement, and then said to Zuo Ci: One is not enough to entertain all the guests present, and another one is needed. Zuo Ci did not hesitate, and fished out one from the basin, and the two perch were three feet long and very fresh. Cao Cao was ready to personally cook a hand and invite the guests to taste the craftsmanship, but suddenly remembered one thing and said to Zuo Ci, now that the fish is there, but there is still ginger in Shudi. Zuo Ci said that ginger can also be had. Cao Cao was afraid that Zuo Ci would go out and buy a piece of ginger nearby to fool around, so he increased the difficulty of the project and said, I sent someone to Shudi some time ago to buy color brocade, and when you bought ginger, I told him to buy more than four zhangbu for me. Zuo Ci went out, and after a while he brought the ginger back, and reported to Cao Cao that he had already seen the messenger who bought the cloth at the market, and told him to buy four more zhang. A year later, the emissary returned to Xudu, and sure enough, he bought four more pieces of cloth. Cao Cao asked the emissary why he bought more cloth, and the emissary replied: One day last year, I met a person at the market and conveyed Cao Gong's orders to me.

One day Cao Cao led hundreds of his officials on an outdoor outing, zuo ci was also among the entourage, holding a pot of wine and a piece of jerky in his arms, Zuo Ci invited each official to drink wine and eat meat, one by one, all of them were full of wine and food, and Zuo Ci always had only a pot of wine and a piece of jerky in his hand. Cao Cao felt strange, so he sent someone to secretly investigate the reason, and learned that last night, the wine and meat in a shop had inexplicably disappeared. Cao Cao was very angry about this and killed Zuo Ci, so he secretly ordered the soldiers to prepare to arrest Zuo Ci at the banquet. Zuo Ci seemed to feel something, got up and disappeared into the wall. The sergeant who had come to capture Zuo Ci pounced. So Cao Cao offered a reward and arrested Zuo Ci. Some people reported that they had found Zuo Ci's traces in the market, and when the captured soldiers arrived, they found that the streets were full of Zuo Ci's appearance, and zuo Ci's traces were quickly lost. Later, it was reported that Zuo Ci appeared at the top of Yangcheng Mountain, and when the arresters of Zuo Ci arrived, Zuo Ci disguised himself as a sheep and mixed with the sheep under the mountain. When Cao Cao learned of the situation, he had a plan and sent an emissary to the sheep and said: Cao Gong just wanted to test Zuo Xianren's spells, and did not really intend to kill Zuo Xianren. Now that Zuo Immortal had already proved his spell, he also asked Zuo Immortal to show up to meet him. Suddenly, one of the rams in the flock stood up and spat out words: Not so. The messenger hurriedly said to the left and right soldiers that this ram and sheep was Zuo Ci, and quickly caught him. The soldiers rushed up, and as a result all the sheep became rams, and one after another stood up and said: "No, this will not happen, and then the flock will scatter." Cao Cao was unable to capture Zuo Ci in the end.

Comment: The story of Zuo Ci throwing a cup at Cao Cao is recorded in the Jin Dynasty's "Search for God", and in the Ming Dynasty Wu Cheng'en's novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the relevant plot becomes more detailed and perfect. Cao Cao was also frightened by Zuo Ci's teasing. It can be seen that Black Cao Cao, in the Jin Dynasty, had been tacitly approved by the imperial court and became a kind of political correctness. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that Sima Shi usurped power from Cao Wei, and in order to prove the legitimacy of his own wei, it was naturally right to smear the former dynasty, just like the Qing rulers wrote a book about the emperor of the Ming Dynasty after entering the customs. Putting aside the consideration of political factors, as far as the plot of "Search for God" is concerned, from the perspective of Zuo Ci's ability, if Zuo Ci really wants to assassinate Cao Cao, I am afraid that ten Cao Cao will not be enough to kill. Do not kill Cao Cao but tease, it may be that Cao Cao also has his own external forces behind the support, only allow Zuo Ci to scare Cao Cao, but not allowed to hurt Cao Cao's life, the side shows that Cao Cao actually has a mandate of heaven. Xiaobian has always had a conjecture that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms may be an upgraded version of the Trojan War, and behind it is also a game of a bunch of gods, and Wei Shuwu has the support of alchemists behind him.

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Original text: Zuo Ci character put, Lujiang people also. There are few magical powers. Tasting at the Cao Gong Seat, gong smiled at Gu Zhongbin: "Today's high meeting, Zhen Shame is a little prepared." Of all the few, Wu Songjiang perch is a bass. "This is easy to hear." "For the copper plate is sought, the water is stored, and the bamboo rod bait is used to fish in the plate, and a perch is drawn out." The Grand Duke clapped his hands, and everyone in the congregation was shocked. Gong Yue: "One fish does not sit around, two is better." "Let it go and re-bait it." Whiskers, ejected, all more than three feet, fresh and lovely. The public is from the front, and the week gives seats. Gong Yue: "Now that you have a perch, you hate the ginger ear in Wushu." "You can also get it." The public feared that he would buy it in the near future, because he said: "I used to make people go to Shu to buy gold, but I could tell people to make me make it to the second end of the market." "When a man goes, he must return it, and he will get ginger." Youyun: "See the minister under Yu Jinhao, and have increased the second end of the city." "After the years passed, the minister returned, and the fruit increased at both ends. Asked, Yun: "On a certain day in the past month, I saw people in a wanton manner, and I told them in public." "After the public out of the suburbs, there were hundreds of scholars. Put a poppy of wine, a piece of breast, a hand pouring out, a hundred officials who drink wine, and a hundred officials who are not drunk. Male monster, make the reason for it. Xingshi Gu restaurant, yesterday learned of its drunkenness. Public anger, yin desire to kill and release. Put it on the public seat, will receive it, but into the wall, Huo Ran disappeared. It is to be collected. Or seen in the city, want to catch it, and the city people are put in the same form, do not know who is. Later generations were placed on the top of Yangcheng Mountain, and they were expelled. So he walked into the flock. The public knew that it was not available, but ling told him in the sheep, saying: "Cao Gong will no longer kill each other, this test of the King's ear." Now is the test, but I want to meet with it. Suddenly, an old man bent his knees, and the man stood up and said, "As promised." Man is the cloud: "This sheep is." "Race to the top. And the flock of hundreds, all became a sheep, and bent their knees, and the people stood, and the clouds were clouded: "As promised." So I didn't know what to do.

Disclaimer: The Book of Search for God is a book by the Eastern Jin Dynasty historian Gan Bao (?) —336 AD) created a novel, in terms of the age of creation, there are nearly 1700 years of history, during this period, Chinese mythological stories are also a process of continuous evolution and completion, the character image described and the mainstream image of today will inevitably deviate. Therefore, this article is mainly for the reading notes made in the original text of the Search God Record, mainly based on the translation of the original text and the filling of the brain hole. Due to the limited level of personal knowledge, the translation of some words is inevitably not accurate enough, and for some of the character stories in the text, the record outside of "Search for God" is not too comprehensive, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions when narrating.