"There are fireworks in the open in the battlefield, there are swords and guns in the shadows, cooking wine, talking, laughing, and poetry, and insisting on military tactics."
When it comes to the history of the Three Kingdoms, we have to mention a well-known figure, he is Cao Cao. Most of us generally learn about the character of Cao Cao in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or in the TV series adapted from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
In the work "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", our impression of Cao Cao basically stays on cunning and treachery. Although Cao Cao achieved some hegemony, he gave people an image of "adulterous male".
But in fact, there is a big difference between the historical figures in literary works and the reality, after all, in literary works, the author should pay attention to the drama of the story, so the description of the characters will have some exaggerated techniques.
In fact, in the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Cao was not a complete villain, on the contrary, he could definitely be called a great and outstanding politician and military expert.
There are many legendary experiences of Cao Cao, and what we want to say today is that when he was young, he once offended a high-ranking official and powerful person, but Cao Cao's career was not affected, but he was finally promoted to an official position.
First, enter the career and emerge
Every person who has achieved a great cause has a personality that is different from ordinary people, and Cao Cao was very personal when he was young. He was fierce and unruly, and he hardly looked anyone in the eye.
The reason why Cao Cao can have such a wayward and uninhibited personality is actually largely due to his family background. Cao Cao was a "second generation official" at that time, and Cao Cao's father and grandfather were famous eunuchs in the imperial court, so Cao Cao was born a clumsy disciple who grew up with a golden spoon.
Cao Cao did not love to learn, did not cultivate character, and liked flying eagles and lackeys, but his career path was very smooth, because of his family background, Cao Cao's first official position in the career was luoyang northern lieutenant. Most people may not know how high the gold content of the official position of northern lieutenant in Luoyang is, in fact, this official position is now equivalent to the director of a deputy county-level public security bureau.
Many people may think that there is something remarkable about a small sub-county level, but we must know that at this time, Cao Cao was only twenty years old and sat in this position that ordinary people could not hope for.
Second, new officials take office and establish prestige
Cao Cao's starting point in his career was very high, but it was not easy for the northern lieutenant of Luoyang to make a young man in his early twenties. In the Han Dynasty, Luoyang was the largest city in the country and the center of national politics, equivalent to our current Beijing.
In such a big city, the city is full of officials and second generations of rich people. At that time, the society was not as perfect as the legal system as it is now, and at that time, these high-ranking officials and dignitaries were running amok in Luoyang City, and the director of the Public Security Bureau did not pay attention to it at all, so Cao Cao's work in Luoyang City was not simple.
But Cao Cao did not worry about hesitating anything before taking office, after all, the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and Cao Cao was still very confident in his career path.
It is often said that "there are three fires for a new official to take office", and Cao Cao also quickly took some measures after taking office. First of all, the first thing Cao Cao did was to renovate his work unit. After some renovation, the entire "Public Security Bureau" has indeed become more serious and solemn.
And after having a good working environment, Cao Cao is more motivated to work. Cao Cao then repeatedly emphasized the laws of the country to the people, and told the people that anyone who violated the law and committed adultery would be severely punished.
3. He broke the law and was executed by Cao Cao
Cao Cao's edicts did not make any waves in the local area at first, and everyone dismissed the newly appointed official, and the magnates with the backstage behind him were even more dismissive of Cao Cao.
Soon, someone began to challenge Cao Cao's authority. One night, while Cao Cao's men were conducting their daily patrols on the street, they suddenly noticed a drunkard wandering around the street. In ancient times, the imperial court would impose a curfew in order to better manage the people and maintain law and order in the city.
Late at night, people are forbidden to go out and move around on the streets. So the drunkard broke the law and committed the crime of nocturnalism. And this drunk man also carried a knife on his body, and the crime of carrying a knife at night was added to the first class, so the law enforcement officers brought this drunk man to Cao Cao.
When Cao Cao learned of the situation, he decided to severely punish him, so he immediately held a trial. However, what Cao Cao did not expect was that this drunk man came to the lobby of the "Public Security Bureau Chief" and still looked like a hanging child Lang Dang, and did not take Cao Cao seriously at all.
At this time, Cao Cao realized that this drunk man was not an ordinary citizen, his name was Jian Tu, and he was the uncle of the eunuch Jian Shuo of the imperial court. Jian Shuo had great power in the imperial court and was a big red man in front of the emperor. With such a big backstage, Jian Tu dared to be so fearless, and he also looked like a bull in front of Cao Cao.
Cao Cao looked at this lawless drunk man in front of him, and thought to himself that he must not have done less illegal and disorderly things in normal times, and if he was not severely punished, he would have no prestige in the local area, so Cao Cao ordered that He Tu be beaten to death.
Fourth, offending the powerful, Cao Cao was also promoted
Jian Shuo's uncle was executed for violating the curfew, which caused quite a stir at the time, and everyone sweated for Cao Cao, thinking that he would definitely be retaliated against by Jian Shuo.
However, what people did not expect was that after the incident, Cao Cao was not greatly affected, what was going on? When Jian Shuo heard that his uncle had been executed by Cao Cao, he must have been very angry in his heart, and he was eager to immediately cut Cao Cao's corpse into ten thousand pieces.
But it had happened, and the fact that his uncle had been executed was irretrievable. Moreover, Cao Cao's father was such a big official, he was definitely not good at taking Cao Cao's hands. In addition, after all, it was his uncle who violated the law first, Cao Cao belonged to the law, and this matter also won the support of many ordinary people.
Therefore, Jian Shuo really had no way to take Cao Cao, only to "dumb eat Huang Lian, and there is bitterness that cannot be said." In addition, Cao Cao's father also tried to find a way to settle the matter for Cao Cao behind his back.
It had been two days since Cao Cao's father had learned of this, and he was very angry at Cao Cao's behavior and blamed him for acting impulsively. But Cao Cao had a whole bunch of reasons to refute his father: "My father has been an official in the imperial court for so many years, doesn't he know that there is a strict curfew in the city?" I didn't know he was Jian Shuo's uncle, and in my eyes, he was a criminal who violated the law. And there is no official business, nor is there an emergency such as practicing medicine and buying medicine, and hanging out late at night should be punished. Cao Cao's father knew that he was wrong and had nothing more to say.
Since his son had run into such a catastrophe, he had to quickly find a way to find an opportunity for Cao Cao to make up for it. Cao Cao's father had a lot of power in the imperial court, because he also accumulated a lot of connections. This time, Father Cao found Zhang Rang, the zhongchang attendant. Zhang Rang made a plan for Cao's father, that is, to transfer Cao Cao to another place to calm down.
Father Cao heard that this was a good idea, so he transferred Cao Cao to Dunqiu County as a county commander. Although it is external, it is actually a promotion, and Cao Cao's Feng Lu has risen a lot.
epilogue:
Leaving the capital and coming to a secluded corner, Cao Cao not only naturally promoted the official, but also solved such a big problem, which was indeed a foolproof strategy. Although Cao Cao was a debauched and unruly prince who did not study, he also had a political ambition from an early age.
Therefore, when Cao Cao was an official in Luoyang, he often encouraged himself to strictly enforce the law and not fear power. Although Cao Cao executed The Dragon Chart with the Great Backstage. However, Cao Cao, with the help of his father, finally succeeded in settling the matter, not only was his career not greatly affected, but he was also promoted in the open and secret, and was transferred to Dunqiu County and promoted to an official.
Cao Cao was such an extraordinary, courageous and resourceful man, so he became a generation of tyrants in the subsequent disputes.
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