"I'd rather bear the people of the world, and Hugh asks the people of the world to bear me" is Cao Cao's words in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the sentence shows the true color of the adulterous male.
When Cao Cao was wanted, on the way to flee with Chen Gong, he stayed at the home of his father's friend Lü Bohao, who welcomed him warmly and went to the town to buy wine for hospitality. At this time, Cao Cao heard the Lü family's people sharpening their knives outside, and talked about "first tie them up and then kill them", thinking that the Lü family was going to betray him, so he drew his sword with Chen Gong and killed everyone in the Lü family. Only then did he find a pig tied up in the backyard, and he knew that the Lu family was not going to betray him, but to kill the pig to entertain him. Cao Cao and Chen Gong quickly fled, and on the way they met Lü Bohao, who had returned from buying wine, so Cao Cao killed Lü Bohao as well. Chen Gong blamed Cao Cao and said, "Just now it was a misunderstanding, so I killed Bo Hao's entire family; now that I know that I killed it by mistake, why do you want to kill Lü Bo Hao?" Cao Cao said: "After Bo Hao returned home and saw that his whole family had been killed by us, he would definitely report to the officials, and the official government would chase after him, so it would not be easy for us to escape." Cao Cao saw that Chen Gong was uncomfortable and said again: "I would rather bear the people of the world, and Hugh will let the people of the world bear me." Chen Gong saw that Cao Cao was so and fierce, knew that this was a wolf cub, and regretted saving him and following him, so he abandoned him.
Why was Cao Cao so anxious to kill Lü Bohao's family? In fact, Cao Cao listened to Lü Bohao say, "I heard that the imperial court was full of documents, and I was in a hurry to catch Ru, and Ru's father had already avoided Chen and stayed." "It's already murderous. Because Lü Bohao knew where Cao Cao's family had gone. Once the imperial court couldn't find Cao Cao's family, he would definitely find Lü Bohao, no matter how deep his friendship with his father was, if lü Bohao was tortured, would he still be able to take care of so much? What made Cao Cao feel even more creepy was the words that Lü Bohao said to Chen Gong: "If the little nephew is not an envoy, the Cao clan will be destroyed." Cao Cao's father had already taken refuge in Chen Liu, and only Lü Bohao knew about it. If Chen Gong hadn't helped Cao Cao, and handed him over to the imperial court, he would have been killed alone, so how could he have been destroyed? If the Cao family wants to destroy the door, Lü Bohao is a breakthrough. So cao cao killed their entire family. In fact, Lü Bohao is a person with great affection and righteousness, and he really has no intention of harming people at all. Seeing cao Cao, who was a repeat offender of the imperial court, he still treated him as a relative, did not have a little wariness against him, and spoke so casually. Lü Bohao just wanted to go to the wine and buy vegetables immediately, did not consider Cao Cao's suspicious and fierce personality, nor did he realize that this outlaw did not treat him As a relative. What Cao Cao thought was: "Lü Bo is not my close relative, this is suspicious." As a result, Lu Bohao's kindness led to the disaster of killing himself. Cao Cao's move was actually to shock Chen Gong, and after Chen Gong saw through Cao Cao's personality, he threw himself elsewhere.
In fact, when Cao Cao killed the wrong person, his heart was also extremely guilty, we perceive this context, Cao Cao said this is a kind of self-comfort, self-explanation, so he reluctantly made a defense for his wrong behavior. In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he became righteous and strong, and added two words in front of "Rather I bear people, no one bears me", which is very different. Cao Cao said this at that time just on the matter, although I was wrong, I killed people wrongly, I am sorry for others, I have no way now, I am cornered now, I have no choice but to be willing to be sorry for others, not to let people be sorry for me. It should be said that he still retained a part of his goodwill in it, and in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" became a righteous and bold way to say that I am sorry for the people of the world, and I cannot be sorry for the people of the world, that is a big traitor. Therefore, Cao Cao's treacherous and vicious point should be said to be questionable. But even so, Mao Pi of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms also said such a thing, what did he say, he said, "This is also the superiority of Meng De." He said that even so, this is where Cao Cao is different from the average person and surpasses us! He said why, he said that if you change others, you must say, I would rather the people of the world be sorry for me, not that I am sorry for the people of the world. He said that everyone else would say this, but what about it? In fact, what they did was Cao Cao's business, and only Cao Cao alone said this frankly.
Although Cao Cao was treacherous, there was also honesty in his treachery, and he at least dared to say his treacherous words openly, he was a real villain, not a hypocrite. So he said that this is where Cao Cao surpassed others, because there are too many hypocrites in this world. There are many theories about Lü Bo's destruction of the gate, generally pointing to Cao Cao's unkindness and injustice, but the earlier related accounts do not support this view. There is sincerity in treachery, which is precisely a characteristic of Cao Cao's character.