Introduction: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is well known to everyone, among which Cao Cao is a household name, and the image of Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a traitor.
In fact, Cao Cao in the real history may not be so treacherous, and although Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is treacherous, he is also capable of excellence, so he is called a traitor.
Cao Cao's personality is completely opposite to Liu Bei's, and Cao Cao would rather bear the people of the world than let the people of the world bear himself. This can be seen in Cao Cao's fierceness.
[1] Cao Cao's outlook on life
Exquisite egoism.
Cao Cao was an exquisite egoist, and the reason why he became such a person was inseparable from his life experience, and Cao Cao did not have a strong background.
There is no prominent family lineage, Cao Cao's final success is completely dependent on his own hard work, along the way to suffer a lot, but also full of hardships in the world.
Cao Cao had courage, as can be seen from the fact that he single-handedly assassinated Dong Zhuo. Although the assassination mission failed, it was enough to see his courage.
In his escape map, because of his own suspicions, he mistakenly killed the benefactor. But Cao Cao showed no remorse or remorse, because he knew that these emotions had no meaning for the future.
Simply make a decision on the spot, cut the grass and remove the roots. Cao Cao's practice is incomprehensible to the world, believing that Cao Cao is a wolf with a heart and a dog's lungs, and is a fierce person.
It is also true that Cao Cao officially relied on this cunning and strategy to dominate one side. Judging from the final result, Cao Cao's character has made him.
This kind of personality of Cao Cao is difficult to be copied, Liu Bei is completely different from Cao Cao, and Liu Bei is based on benevolence and righteousness. It also worked well.
[II] Cao Cao's treachery
The first traitor of the Three Kingdoms.
Cao Cao's treachery can be profoundly reflected in one thing, that is, the phrase "borrow Rutou, An Junxin" that has been passed down to this day.
Yuan Shu made a mistake and obtained the Chuanguo Jade Seal. In Yuan Shu's view, getting the Chuanguo Jade Seal meant that he could be called emperor. This shows Yuan Shu's stupidity.
In fact, in that period when the princes were divided, who could be called emperor did not rely on whether there was a national jade seal, and had to rely on absolute superiority to be called emperor.
There are so many princes who are stronger than Yuan Shu, everyone dares not make a head bird to call the emperor, but Yuan Shu does not know the height of the sky, and the information of Yuan Shu calling the emperor is released.
Immediately attacked by the princes, Cao Cao naturally would not give up this opportunity to crusade against Yuan Shu, but Cao Cao faced a problem, his military food was not enough.
In ancient times, the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, which shows the importance of grain and grass. Cao Cao's military food was simply not enough to support him in destroying Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao had no choice but to come up with a treacherous plan.
He asked Wang Yuan, who was in charge of military food, to use Xiao Huo to divide the grain, so that he could save military food, and Wang Que was not a fool, he said that if he let the soldiers know, he would not want to rebel.
[3] Ru's wife I raised
Is it a favor or an insult?
Cao Cao told Wang Gao that he had his own way. The soldiers found that they had been given less military food than before, and after a long time, everyone couldn't help but explode.
At this time, Cao Cao said to Wang Gao that he wanted to use Wang Gao to stabilize the hearts of the army, and hoped that Wang Gao would not resign. Wang Gao asked Cao Cao what it was, and Cao Cao said it was your head.
Cao Cao said that he knew this, but only his human head could stabilize the hearts of the army, and told Wang Gao that Ru's wife was raised.
Translated into the vernacular, that is, you can rest assured to go, and your wife and I will come back to raise. Unable to argue, Wang Gao was killed by Cao Cao, who blamed Wang Gao for the lack of food.
Naturally, the generals had nothing to say. Through this incident, we can see Cao Cao's treachery, exchanging Wang Gao's life for the stability of the military's heart, although it seems that the price is very small.
But this was a great injustice for Wang Gao, and Cao Cao's promise of "Raising My Wife and Me" seemed to be a favor to Wang Gao at the time.
But from our modern point of view, the insult of this sentence is really huge. We know that Cao Cao had a special fetish, he liked other people's wives.
From this point of view, Cao Cao took the initiative to promise to raise Wang Gao's wife, which was really not kind. If it wasn't for Cao Cao, he would have killed Wang Gao.
Why did Wang Gao's wife need Cao Cao to raise her? Cao Cao's phrase "Ru's wife I raise her" was said not only this time, but also made this promise to Chen Gong when Cao Cao killed Chen Gong.
Chen Gong did not care about Cao Cao's hypocrisy, and he generously died at the last moment. After all, from the very beginning, Chen Gong did not despise people like Cao Cao.
【Conclusion】
In short, Cao Cao twice said to the person who wanted to kill: Whether it is a favor or an insult to Ru's wife, I think Cao Cao may think that it is his own favor, but it is an insult to the listener.
bibliography:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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