Daily Reading: Reading Wang Xiaolei's Despicable Sage: Cao Cao, Chapter 3

Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles. This channel will continue to update the reading series, the first book in this series, "Despicable Sage: Cao Cao", by Wang Xiaolei; let's read this book from the perspective of an ordinary person and enter the perspective of Cao Cao. Read Chapter 3 in this issue and return to Luoyang after four years

What is written in this chapter is exactly the verification of my speculative interpretation of Cao Song and Cao Yin at the end of the previous chapter.

The story written in this chapter is that in the fourth year after Cao Cao returned to his hometown to study, the Han Ling Emperor came of age and established the daughter of Song Feng as Empress Song. Because Empress Song was born well, the Fufeng Song clan intermarried with the clan for several generations, and Empress Song was not favored by the Han Ling Emperor, but was in the right position. Cao Ding's eldest daughter had earlier married Song Qi, the nephew of Song Feng, and the chicken dog ascended to heaven, and Cao Ding also rose to the top.

When Cao Ding returned to his hometown, he was extravagant, like an upstart posture. There is a dramatic scene in it, the seventh uncle Cao Yin and the fourth uncle Cao Ding, Cao Yin does not want Cao Cao to meet Cao Ding, Cao Yin thinks in his heart, the Cao family is because of the eunuchs, the world has a lot of criticism of their family, in today's words, it is wearing colored glasses. Since this was the case, Cao Yin felt that it was even more important not to embezzle bribes and loot the people's wealth, believing that Cao Ding, from Wu County, with a lot of property to flaunt the market, would teach people to use their tongues, which was to lose the face of the Cao family, angrily rebuke the clan for not having long morale, tending to be inflammatory, and lamenting the injustice of the world.

It can be seen from this that Cao Yin is indeed as I thought, he is honest and upright, his learning and character are outstanding, and I think this is also the most important reason why Cao Song sent Ah Yin to Cao Yin for discipline.

Cao Yin later told Cao Cao about Cao Cao's lineage, the Cao family was first cao ginseng as a minister, and then all the way to the generation of Cao Cao's grandfather, the Cao family ate a lawsuit, the family completely declined, just in time for the Zhongchang servant Zheng Zhongfeng Marquis, the Cao family thought about it, sent the youngest Cao Teng into the palace, Cao Teng was not mixed well in the palace at the earliest, and later 2 years later, Cao Cao's grandfather died of illness, and a cadre of relatives of the Cao family divided up all of Cao Cao's grandfather's estate, and no one cared about Cao Teng who was still in the palace. There are many slaughtered dogs in the world, from ancient times to the present, bustling, all for the sake of profit and profit, and the affection of relatives in that era was not worth anything at all.

Once Cao Teng accompanied the eunuch through his hometown. He wanted to go home to see, but the people in the clan robbed him of his field property and no one recognized him, only Xiahou Huan's grandfather entertained him with the love of his childhood. This incident touched him greatly, so after he developed, he would rather give his life's wealth and favors to the Xiahou family than to cheapen the Cao family. Later, the Han court was turbulent, the royal family changed back and forth, and Cao Teng gradually survived in the court full of sewage, and gradually, he also occupied a high position, at this time, the people in the family who had abandoned Cao Teng began to shamelessly seduce him. Because of the great merit of Cao Teng, who was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Fei Ting and promoted to the throne of The Great Changqiu, all the clans gathered around Cao Teng again. However, Cao Tengwu was no queen, and sooner or later he was going to inherit a son, and everyone in the Cao family was looking forward to his own children inheriting the past. Cao Teng remembered the past and refused to pass on the children of his successors, so he raised Cao Song from the Xiahou family.

Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, do not deceive the poor. The personnel affairs of the world are bustling for profit, and the blood relatives of the family, in the face of interests, can not compete with that acre of money and grain after all, this is how sad. The greedy nature of human nature was even more vividly exposed in that chaotic era.

There is also a detail in this chapter, Cao Cao because this time to be taken back to Cao Song's side by Cao Ding, so Cao Yin originally did not agree, the two had a variety of big quarrels, but afterwards, they all privately said to Cao Cao about each other's words, but combined with Cao Teng's previous encounters, basically can make people feel that "the economic base determines the superstructure" is indeed reasonable, although this sentence is not used here, but it can be understood: The era when Cao Teng was abandoned was the darkest time of the Cao family, and even the food was not enough, In order to survive, for half a bowl of rice, everyone can abandon their family affection. And between Cao Ding and Cao Yin, there is a trace of family affection, Cao Yin cursed Cao Ding, just a residual conscience in his heart, he did not want to come out, hoping to wake up Cao Ding, let him restrain his behavior, Cao Ding also cared about Cao Yin's body, they were already not worried about eating and wearing at this time, they were also local clans, decent, the economic foundation has begun to take shape, so there is a certain demand for such superstructures as family affection.

Or that sentence, you are going to starve to death, what to talk about poetry and song, wind and snow?