Today's Three Kingdoms idiom story is found in the tenth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after the murder of Cao Cao's father Cao Song, and the characters involved are Cao Cao, Tao Qian, and Chen Gong. The original text is as follows:
Cao Cut His Teeth said, "Tao Qian's arsonists killed my father, and this vendetta does not wear heaven!" I have now raised a large army, washed Xuzhou, Fang Xue I hate! Xun Yu and Cheng Yu led 30,000 troops to guard Juancheng, Fan County, and Dong'a County, and the rest killed All of Them in Xuzhou. Xiahou Huan, Yu Ban, and Dianwei were the vanguards. Command: But the city will be slaughtered, and the people of the city will be slaughtered to avenge their father. When Jiujiang was too defensive and friendly with Tao Qian, he heard that Xuzhou was in difficulty, and he brought five thousand soldiers to rescue him. Fu Wen's anger made Xiahou Huan intercept and kill him on the road. Shi Chen Gong worked for Dong Jun, and also befriended Tao Qian; Wen Cao Cao raised an army to avenge himself, wanting to kill the people, and the starry night came to see Cao.
Cao Zhi was a lobbyist for Tao Qian, and he wanted to stay away, but he couldn't destroy the old grace, so he had to ask him to meet in the account. Gong Yue: "Now that Ming Gong came to Xuzhou with a large army to avenge his father's revenge, he wanted to kill the people as much as he could, so he came to speak." Tao Qian is a benevolent gentleman, not a good man and a righteous person; the murder of his father is the evil of Zhang Min, not a humble sin. And the people of the prefecture and county, what is the enmity with the Ming Gong? The killing is ominous. Think twice. Fu Fu said, "Gong used to abandon me, but now what face is there to see me again?" Tao Qian killed my family, vowed to pluck the guts and cut off the heart, and hated xuewu! Although Gong lobbied for Tao Qian, he did not listen to him! Chen Gong resigned and sighed, "I have no face to see Tao Qianye!" Sui Chi Ma tossed Chen to stay too guarded zhang mi and went.
According to the plot of the novel, Cao Cao's father Cao Song transited through Xuzhou, and Tao Qian sent Zhang Min to lead an escort. Subsequently, Zhang Min saw the wealth and killed Cao Song's entire family. Cao Cao was furious when he heard the news, and led his troops to wash Xuzhou in blood, and Jiujiang Taishoubian let him lead his troops to support Tao Qian, but was killed by Cao Cao. Chen Gong was originally close to Tao Qian, and when he heard the news of Cao Cao's invasion of Xuzhou, he rushed to dissuade Cao Cao. However, Cao Cao did not heed Chen Gong's advice, and Chen Gong felt that he was ashamed of Tao Qian, so he turned to Chen Liu to guard Zhang Mi.
The idiom to be introduced in this article is the "good profit and forget righteousness" in Chen Gong's mouth, which means to covet profits and disregard morality. This is also an idiom pioneered by Luo Guanzhong, the author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
As I said in a previous article, the plot in the novel in which Tao Qian was killed by Cao Song due to negligence is fictional, and the historical killing of Cao Song was deliberately done by Tao Qian. In order to take revenge, Cao Cao washed Xuzhou in blood, which made the people of Xuzhou frightened. In order to save Xuzhou, Tao Qian asked his ally Gongsun Zhan for help, and Gongsun Zhan sent Liu Bei to Xuzhou for reinforcements. Except for Liu Bei, no other allies supported Xuzhou.
What about the Jiujiang Taishou Bianrang in the novel? Bian Let his people have a legend in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. He was not only a famous scholar at the end of the Han Dynasty, but also held the position of Jiujiang Taishou, but in the second year of Emperor Chuping (191 AD), he resigned his official duties and returned to his hometown of Yanzhou Chenliu, where he was later killed for publicly mocking Cao Cao, which had nothing to do with Tao Qian.
If the fiction of the death of Cao Song and Bian Rang is for the sake of the plot, the author's other fiction in this story reflects the author's lack of understanding of the official position at the end of the Han Dynasty. As mentioned above, it is mentioned in the novel: "Shi Chen Gong is engaged in the East County. "That's a glaring mistake. Engaging in this official position originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a subordinate official of the state assassination history, according to the political division at that time, this occupation should belong to Yanzhou, that is, Yanzhou. The East County mentioned in the novel is a county under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, and the county level does not engage in this position, but should be a position such as a county clerk, Gong Cao, or a postmaster. The author's lack of understanding of the official positions at the end of the Han Dynasty led to such outrageous mistakes.
Reference Books: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of the Three Kingdoms