When it comes to the fierce and vicious people in the Three Kingdoms period, many people may easily think of Jia Xu, because his nickname is "PoisonEr". In reality, he was also a vicious person, when Li Dai and other rebels in Shandong instigated Zhang Xiu to beat Cao Cao, and then induced him to surrender to Cao Cao. As a result, Zhang Xiu was killed by Cao Cao, and Jia Xu spent the rest of his life as he wished.
In such a turbulent world as the Three Kingdoms, there is nothing wrong with following the principle of "people do not perish for their own sake", after all, in such an environment, it is already the best wish to register.
There is another person like him, that is, Guan Yu, who is very capable but has a very arrogant personality. He has always been a cross-brow and cold attitude toward those literati and inkers, and even veterans like Huang Zhong are not worth mentioning in his eyes.
Guan Yu was eventually killed by Dong Wu, which may be related to the story that he once insulted Sun Quan as a dog. A person with an arrogant personality like Guan Yu, even in modern society, is difficult to get along with colleagues, and he will naturally be isolated by colleagues. In the end he could only resign. However, during the Three Kingdoms period, there was such a person in Cao Cao's army, who combined the shortcomings of Jia Xu and Guan Yu. He is more arrogant than Guan Yu, and his tactics are more poisonous than Jia Xu's. However, he mixed very well, and even Cao Cao had to give three points of courtesy not to dare to offend him.
This person is Cheng Li, and perhaps many people do not know Cheng Li. After following Cao Cao, he dreamed many times in his sleep that he was holding the sun on the top of Mount Taishan, so he told Xun Yu about the situation in the dream, and Xun Yu could not explain it, so he went to tell Cao Cao. Cao Cao pondered this dream for a moment, holding the sun on the top of the mountain? He should have added the word "day" to his name (this God logic is really difficult to understand). Therefore, Cheng Li changed his name to Cheng Yu. Seeing this name is not a lot familiar, hehe.
Maybe when you watch "New Three Kingdoms" you will think that Cheng Yu is very honest, but in fact he is a cruel hearted and fierce person.
According to historical records, the evaluation of Cheng Yu in the history books is:
Yu is tough and tough, with many people.
It can be seen from this sentence that Cheng Yu has a very irritable personality, he will be constantly irritable, and full of anger. He had conflicts with many people, even more serious than Liu Bei's Fa Zheng, who at least knew that if there was kindness, he would repay it, and if he had a vendetta, he would repay it, but Cheng Yu had been offending everyone around him. Of course, his personality is not good for Cao Ying.
However, Cheng Yu performed well under Cao Cao and mixed very well, mainly because he achieved a lot of achievements. For example, during the Yanzhou rebellion, Cao Cao and Lü Bu were at war, Zhang Mi took the opportunity to rebel, and Cheng Yu had been wandering between many cities in Yanzhou and defending Cao Cao's base camp, but at that time Yanzhou was plagued by locusts, and Cao Cao was in urgent need of rations, what should he do? At this time, Cheng Yu's insidious plan appeared.
According to the history:
Yu ordered its own county to provide three days of food, quite miscellaneous to human breasts.
In other words, Cheng Yu mixed human flesh in his military food, you can imagine the fierceness in his heart, I'm afraid even Jia Xu can't think of this sinister strategy, but Cheng Yu didn't have any scruples because of such fierceness. Although he helped Cao Cao get through the difficulties, Cheng Yu's approach was very immoral in today's terms.
When Cao Cao and Lü Bu fought, the two sides reached an impasse. Yuan Shao jumped out and surrendered to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was a little moved and planned to run to the past. At this time, Cheng Yu stopped him from doing such a stupid thing. In the end, Cao Cao finally defeated Lü Bu. It can be seen that Cheng Yu's loyalty to Cao Cao. Later, someone informed Cao Cao that Cheng Yu was going to rebel, and Cao Cao killed the person who filed the complaint without even investigating, and provided Cheng Yu with a lot of things.
Cheng Yu's insidiousness was more terrifying than Jia Xu's, and his personality was even more arrogant than Guan Yu's, but no one in Cao Ying dared to offend him. After all, Cao Cao trusted him very much and he did a lot of work for Cao Ying. He knew how to judge the situation, and he didn't want to oppose Cao Cao's royal power like Xun Yu, so Cheng Yu mixed well in Cao Ying and lived until his natural death at the age of 80.