Cao Cao has a very famous sentence, "Ning taught me to bear the world's people, Hugh taught the world's people to bear me", of course, this is Luo Guanzhong adapted for him, the original words are actually, "Rather I bear people, no one bears me", adding the two words of the world Instantly, this context is "sublimated". Although Cao Cao killed many celebrities in his lifetime, such as Kong Rong, Yang Xiu, etc., Cao Cao himself actually cherished talents very much, which is one of the reasons why he accounted for the most military generals.
As Cao Cao's son, Cao Pi's attainment in power was comparable to Cao Cao's, but his mind was much worse than Cao Cao's. So many of the names left by Cao Cao will be killed by Cao Pi, and today we will talk about the three most tragic famous generals who were killed by Cao Pi.
The first, Xiahou Shang
Xiahou Shang was one of the generals who followed Cao Cao in the early days, his uncle was the famous general Xiahou Yuan, who was also a general of Cao Cao's love, Xiahou Shang himself was also very capable, following Cao Zhang to quell the rebellion of Wuhuan in Dai County, so he was also very important, cao Pi also recognized his ability, and the two had close contacts.
After Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi ascended the throne, and Xiahou Shang decisively attacked the three counties and nine counties of Shangyong in Shu Han, and successfully achieved it, and was enfeoffed as the General of the Southern Army. Later, he followed Cao Pi to Wancheng, was ordered to attack, defeated Zhuge Jin at Jiangling, and entered Jingzhou Mu.
To say that such a hero with outstanding military achievements is Cao Pi's friend for many years and deserves to be treated kindly, but in the end he was killed by Cao Pi.
This has to start from a woman, saying that Xiahou Shang has a proper wife, cao Cao's righteous daughter, Cao Zhen's sister Cao Shi, it is reasonable to say that this relationship is basically a political marriage, one is the importance of Xiahou Shang, and the other is to make Xiahou Shang more deadly for Cao Wei through marriage.
I don't know whether it's because Cao's old age and decline, or his appearance is flat, anyway, this Xiahou Shang married a concubine again, but at that time, it was normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, but this Xiahou Shang was too fond of concubines, and snubbed Cao's, this Cao Pi was very unhappy to learn about this matter, how to say that this Cao Clan is also Cao Cao's righteous daughter, how can a concubine bully to the head? So he ordered him to be hanged, and you said that this Cao Pi was not too wide.
To say that this Xiahou Shang is also a seed of infatuation, after the concubine was killed, he could not take revenge, and as a result fell into infinite thoughts, and finally depressed.
Second place, Zhang Embroidery
Zhang Xiu, as the gun king of the northland in folklore, is also a young hero, and later when he first fought with Cao Cao, he chose to surrender to Cao Cao because he did not want to be killed, but Cao Cao deceived people too much, and even occupied his aunt, which made him angry from the heart to be afraid, under the advice of Jia Xu, the night against Cao Cao, resulting in Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin was killed, and the fierce general Dianwei was killed.
A year later, he once again heeded Jia Xu's advice and surrendered to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao did not care about his previous suspicions, received him very warmly, and also let his son Cao Jun marry his daughter, and the two were considered to be married.
To say why Cao Cao can ignore the previous suspicions, mainly because Zhang Xiu's surrender has great significance, first, at this time Cao Cao is preparing to fight yuan Shao, Zhang Xiu's surrender relieves the threat of his flank rear; second, Zhang Xiu can contain Liu Biao; third, Cao Cao can also show a position to the world, a person who killed my son I can forgive, then what other person I can't accept?
Zhang Xiu also lived up to expectations, helping Cao Cao win the Battle of Guandu, although Cao Cao was very good to Zhang Xiu, but Cao Pi was different, at that time Cao Pi was young and vigorous, and he was worried about the death of his brother Cao Ang, and said to Zhang Xiu, "You killed my brother, what face do you have in the world?" Zhang Xiuyi looked at Cao Wei's future successor and said so, after Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, he would have to involve his family, he had to die, but what he did not expect was that his son was eventually killed, if Cao Pi wanted to kill Zhang Xiu because of Cao Ang's death, but did Cao Pi ever think that if Cao Ang did not die, Cao Wei would still have you Cao Pi
The third place, yu forbidden
As one of the five sons of Cao Wei, Yu Ban can be said to have made many military achievements for Cao Cao in the first half of his life, and once killed his former friend in order to maintain military discipline, and was praised by Cao Cao as "better than the famous generals of ancient times".
At the time of the Battle of Guandu, Yu Ban was willing to serve as a first deng, what is the first deng? Dead soldiers, that is the person who rushed to the front, do you say that Yu Forbidden is afraid of death? At this time, Yu Ban is naturally not afraid.
When Hou Changfeng rebelled, because Yu Ban had a reason to make friends with him, he surrendered to Yu Ban after being besieged, and when everyone felt that Yu Ban would let Chang Feng have a way to live, Yu Ban said, "Cao Gong has an order, those who surrender under siege cannot be pardoned, although Chang Feng is my old friend, how can I lose my temper because of this." So he shed tears and cut Chang Feng, and Cao Cao was moved to hear it.
It's just a pity that this young man was not afraid of death, and half of his life was observant, and after the Battle of Fancheng was flooded by the Seventh Army, he actually surrendered to Guan Yu, which was quite suspicious, many people felt that Yu Ban surrendered in order to save the lives of soldiers, but in any case, this also became a stain on his life.
Later, Guan Yu was killed by Eastern Wu, Yu Ban went to Eastern Wu, and was repeatedly humiliated by Yu Tuan, which is to say, after Cao Pi took the throne, Sun Quan claimed to be a vassal and repatriated Yu Ban, Cao Pi was superficially very polite to Ban, and also appointed him as the general of An yuan, but secretly painted a humiliating painting of him worshipping Guan Yu, and Yu Ban died in shame after seeing it.
Although Cao Pi did not directly kill these three famous generals, but all three of them died because of it, they all said that the companion is like a companion of the tiger, since ancient times, whether you are a meritorious or an old friend, if you are not satisfied, there will be a disaster of killing, which is really unbearable.