Why did Cao Cao have to kill Lü Bu in the Three Kingdoms? Just look at a sentence that Lü Bu said after he was captured
Lü Bu, as a "generation of tyrants" at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, also stirred up the chaotic world. However, it is such a "hero" that people have mixed evaluations of him, and some people think that Lü Bu is a capricious villain, often humiliating him with the deeds of his two righteous fathers, Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo.
And there are also people who believe that Lü Bu's name is full of fame in the world, known as "Lü Bu among people", who once shot at the door and killed dong Zhuo, a thief of the country, and also contributed to the Han court, and his deeds were heroic.
However, it was such a "two-faced figure" who was beheaded by Cao Cao after his death, so why did Cao Cao have to kill Lü Bu? In fact, we have found the answer from a sentence uttered by Lü Bu after he was captured.
The last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty were an era of heroes, and there were many heroes who affected the situation during this period, however, the more heroes there were, the more chaotic the country would be, because they all had a common characteristic: arrogance, almost no one obeyed anyone, and everyone wanted to seize the territory of the co-lord of the day.
However, when the fanatic also needs to be dressed up by occasion and person, if it is crazy for the sake of righteousness, the madness is reasonable, then at least it will be admired by people, such as Guan Yu, he is a fanatic, who regards the heroes of the world as grass mustard, once ridiculed Yan Liang, Wen Ugly's martial arts are "inserting the bidder and selling the head", looking down on Sun Quan of Jiangdong, thinking that he is a dog.
However, Guan Yu was crazy and had to admit that he did have the ability, first, people with ability will naturally be feared, and second, his madness occupies righteousness, he did not go crazy with capriciousness, but served a master all his life, this ability and loyalty were praised by people, and his arrogant personality was often thrown aside.
But arrogance can sometimes kill people, and lü bu is the best proof at this point, although the world has given him a very high evaluation, thinking that he is "Lü Bu among people" and the strongest warrior in the Three Kingdoms, but it is these 4 words that have caused Lü Bu to lose his life, and Guan Yu cannot match him in terms of arrogance.
It is said that Lü Bu was originally Ding Yuan's righteous son, who won many battle achievements in the front line when fighting with ethnic minorities, and was called a "flying general" by the enemy, but Ding Yuan only gave him a civilian position of marching master, and did not reuse him, to put it bluntly, he used Lü Bu to fight but did not give him benefits, for a long time Lü Bu's dissatisfaction fermented in his heart, and all this was seen by Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo finally exchanged a good horse and official position for Lü Bu, and got rid of his old enemy Ding Yuan.
Coincidentally, Wang Yun exchanged the beautiful mink cicada for Lü Bu's loyalty and assassinated Dong Zhuo in full view of everyone, and Lü Bu assassinated them one after another because he had successively defected to the two masters, which caused the contempt of the people in the world, believing that he was ruthless and reckless, which was also the reason why the waitress did not want to see him after Lü Bu went it alone.
But in the same way, after assassinating Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu also quickly became famous, became heroes of the Han Dynasty, and also became local real power figures. And we know that Lü Bu was ostracized everywhere in Ding Yuan, it can be said that he was depressed and useless, and now, he not only had a powerful army in his hands to serve, but also nominally became a loyal vassal who reversed the fate of the Han Dynasty, which can be said to be a famous dynasty known to the world, and Lü Bu's personality also became more and more arrogant during this period, and later became the reason why Cao Cao must kill him.
Why did Cao Cao kill Lü Bu? Just look at the sentence that Lü Bu said after he was captured.
At the beginning, Lü Bu came to Xuzhou because of the defeat of the army, Liu Bei did not care about the previous suspicions to treat each other with courtesy, at this time Lü Bu originally belonged to the people who were begging for help, and he should have lowered his posture as a prince to plead for acceptance, but what did Lü Bu do? After entering the city, he and Liu Bei worshiped as brothers, and also called themselves brothers, and they also suppressed Liu Bei in terms of generations, which was simply anti-guest-oriented, which was really arrogant.
Although Liu Bei was calm on the surface, he must have been very unhappy in his heart, and afterwards Lü Bu did something capricious and seized Liu Bei's Xuzhou, and it was precisely because Lü Bu was arrogant and repetitive, so after being captured, Liu Bei insisted on not saving him and stabbed him in the back.
If Liu Bei was bullied by Lü Bu because he was good at talking, then Cao Cao was different from Lü Bu, Lü Bu finally paid the price for his arrogance, Lü Bu was tied up and sent to Cao Cao under the White Gate, Cao Cao did not speak Lü Bu was anxious to ask for forgiveness, and also claimed that he could calm the world for Cao Cao, and the only person Cao Cao was afraid of was him Lü Bu, and now he was willing to surrender as a general.
It can be said that until this time Lü Bu was still very arrogant, raising his ability and status to a very high level, and even felt that he was equal to Cao Cao's status, and Cao Cao was afraid of only Lü Bu, and he could negotiate conditions very fairly. But who is Cao Cao? He is a generation of tyrants, and he will never allow an equal opponent to live, let alone a villain like Lü Bu who is famous for his repetition. Lü Bu was eventually beheaded by Cao Cao after his death, which can be said to have paid the price for his arrogance.