Speaking of Cao Cao, I believe that everyone must be very familiar with it. Some people say that Cao Cao is a truly hypocritical villain, but others say that Cao Cao is great, bold, talented, and an admirable hero. The world has a lot of evaluation of Cao Cao, and everyone has their own opinion, good or bad. So what kind of person was Cao Cao?
In my opinion, Cao Cao is a hero, a hero who has endured hardships and has been completely surviving on the military horse all his life.
One heart for the country, big ambitions, difficult to reward.
Cao Cao, the character Meng de, Pei Guoqiao people, today in Bozhou, Anhui. At the age of 20, he was called filial piety. His first official position was northern lieutenant of Luoyang, equivalent to a county magistrate. The person who recommended Cao Cao as an official was Sima Fang, who later became known as Sima Yi's father.
At that time, Cao Cao was full of ideals and ambitions, serving the country wholeheartedly, and especially wanted to do some things. After Cao Cao took office, he immediately issued orders, strictly abided by the law and discipline, and made five-colored sticks. No matter how strong he was, he killed him with a stick whenever he broke the law. Soon after, there was an uncle of the great eunuch Jian Shuo in the imperial court, who looked very tall and walked down the street at night, regardless of laws and regulations. The young and energetic Cao Cao knew that no matter 3721, he directly ordered the killing.
As a result, Cao Cao offended the magnates, causing him to be transferred frequently. During this period, Cao Cao wrote to the imperial court many times, telling the story of the current chaotic situation in the country, the treacherous courtiers, and the people's complaints. Then he hoped that the imperial court would be close to the wise and the distant, honest and loving the people, but the Ling Emperor was always indifferent.
At this time, Cao Cao could not show his talent, and his blood could not be released. Seeing that the broken mountains and rivers were coming to an end and could not be saved, Cao Cao was also worried that the suffering people around him could not help. But there was no way, in the face of the faint and corrupt imperial court, Cao Cao could only wait, can only endure.
The crowd rises together, with a big heart but a light speech.
Time flies, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion coincides. Cao Cao felt that the country had reached a moment of crisis and survival, so he joined the army to serve the country. At this time, Cao Cao was already 30 years old. At the same time, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who had just married, also joined the army.
After the war calmed down, Cao Cao moved to Jinan and was in charge of more than a dozen counties. But after arriving in the area, it was found that the county officials, who were flattering and greedy people, built temples and the atmosphere was corrupt. So Cao Cao was very angry, avoided more than half of the corrupt officials, banned obscenity, and vigorously arrested fleeing criminals, so the county was sudden, and the atmosphere was very serious.
But not long after, Cao Cao felt powerless again. Faced with a dying country, he could not be saved, so he resigned again and returned home, full of disappointment in the imperial court.
A few years later, Jin Chengbianzhang and Han Sui rebelled again, and the world was in turmoil, so he conquered Cao Cao as a lieutenant of the military academy and made his leader quell the rebellion. As a result, the Han Ling Emperor happened to die. Subsequently, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, deposing liu jie, the king of the red farmers, and Liu Xie, the king of ChenLiu, as emperor of Han, and Kyoto fell into chaos. In addition, Dong Zhuo is cruel and unkind, and does no evil. Therefore, the princes of all over the world formed alliances and attacked together.
Among them, the later generals Yuan Shu, Jizhou Mu Hanfu, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Zhou, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai, Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao, etc., and recommended Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance. At the same time, Cao Cao was appointed a general at the age of 35.
It can be reasonably said that the princes of all walks of life formed an alliance to jointly attack Dong Zhuo. Cao Cao should be happy to see so many righteous people serving the country, but on the contrary, Cao Cao was even more disappointed. After people from all walks of life got together, they all had ghosts, drank all day, and had no sense of attacking Dong Zhuo.
Cao Cao was helpless, and in a fit of anger, he had to take a small number of people and horses with him and go straight to Dong Zhuo's army. As a result, it can be imagined that Cao Cao, who had few troops, was directly defeated and almost lost his life.
Cao Cao failed, returned to the Alliance barracks, saw that the people were still the same, the anger in their hearts, immediately erupted, generous clichés, wanted to persuade everyone again to attack Dong Zhuo quickly, do not miss the opportunity, but every ghost man, as always, indifferent.
Cao Cao had no choice but to go home, sell his property, re-recruit people, and slowly accumulate his strength, hoping that one day, he could save the broken rivers and mountains.
The son dies and the nephew dies, and the embroidery is made for the overall situation.
Later, Situ Wang Yun murdered Dong Zhuo, and the Allies dispersed due to internal discord.
After several years of accumulation, Cao Cao finally had his own strength. Shortly after Dong Zhuo's death, Cao Cao defeated the Yellow Turban Army, collected his team, and had his first base, Yanzhou.
From then on, Cao Cao endured, had the strength to challenge others, and then defeated Yuan Shu, Tao Qian, Liu Bei, and Lü Bu.
After more than ten years of struggle, Cao Cao finally did not have to endure others, and finally survived and welcomed back the Tianzi Han Xiandi, who could use the Tianzi to order the princes, and the moment was the scenery.
Unfortunately, Cao Cao was also a man. If he had strength, he would float and be proud. For example, in the process of attacking Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu was afraid of Cao Cao's strength and believed that Cao Cao was also the Lord of Ming, so he surrendered smoothly.
But Cao Cao, who began to be proud, began to feel good, and before Zhang Xiu was completely stable, he recklessly forced Zhang Xiu's aunt, which made Zhang Xiu particularly humiliated, so he resented, unexpectedly, and directly rebelled against Cao Cao.
This incident directly led to the death of the eldest son Cao Ang, the death of his nephew Cao Anmin, and the death of Cao Cao almost death.
Moreover, the matter is not over. Cao Cao's original wife, Lady Ding, decided to leave Cao Cao because of Cao Ang's death. Even Cao Cao was talking when he was dying. I killed Zi Xiu (Cao Ang). How can I face my Mrs. Ding?
As soon as Cao Cao had time, he attacked Zhang Xiu and wanted revenge. At this time, Cao Cao must have hated Zhang Xiu very much, otherwise he would not have attacked several times.
However, before Cao Cao could defeat Zhang Xiu, Yuan Shao in the north was the opposite. He wanted to fight Cao Cao to the death, later the Battle of Guandu. Zhang Xiu's adviser Jia Xu presented Zhang Xiu with a plan at this critical moment. They decided to surrender to Cao Cao.
In the face of the life and death of the country, Cao Cao is Cao Cao after all. At this moment, he showed his excellent royal demeanor. He endured private hatred and inner reluctance, and accepted Zhang Xiu again at a critical moment. Later, Zhang Xiu was rewarded by Cao Cao, which was the most among many generals. Lamenting that Cao Cao really endured too many grievances for the country.
Bear with it, bear with it, the light is in front of you.
Seeing this, do you feel that Cao Cao's suffering is over? No, no, this is just the beginning.
As we all know, Cao Cao is a very optimistic and atmospheric person, which can be reflected in Cao Cao's poems, such as the Eastern Critical Stone, Guancang Sea, Water He Light, and Wide Mountain Island.
However, Cao Cao was so atmospheric, but in the Battle of Guandu, he wanted to retreat. Seeing the soldiers trying to transport food, Cao Cao comforted and said, You insisted for ten days, no matter whether you win or lose, we will not fight. At the same time, he wrote to Yu Xun, saying that he did not want to fight, that it was too difficult to retreat. Yu Xun comforted: Cao Gong, if you persist, the situation will improve. Although it is difficult now, Yuan Shao's talent is not as good as Cao Gong, and you will win!
So Cao Cao clenched his teeth again until Yuan Shao's adviser Xu Youlai defected, and then raided Wuchao and won the Battle of Guandu.
Later, Cao Cao fought the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao Xing's division came to the crowd, and as a result, he was defeated by Sun Quan and Liu Bei, and Cao Cao was ambushed by Guan Yu on the way to escape, and it seemed that he could not go. Seeing that Cao Cao was completely finished this time, but at the critical juncture, Cao Cao did not care about his identity, put down his face, and begged Guan Yu to let him have a way to live, only because at that time, he had let Guan Yu go once.
In the end, Guan Yu agreed, and then Cao Cao successfully retreated and eventually separated from Sun Quan and Liu Bei.
It is said that Liu Bei has been bitter all his life, and it is not easy to live a lifetime, but cao Cao's whole life, is it not easy? Didn't it also go through countless hardships and experience the great cause of 9981?
In fact, no one's life is not easy, whether it is great or ordinary, whether brilliant or ordinary, step by step, facing pain, endure, always past, facing difficulties, endure, always bright.