Hua Tuo
In 208 AD, Hua Tuo, who was 63 years old at the time, died in prison!
As a divine doctor at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo's name was widely known. There were countless dignitaries who had been healed by him, but he absolutely did not expect that he would eventually die at the hands of Cao Cao, a dignitary and dignitary!
In fact, Cao Cao's decision to kill Hua Tuo was also very difficult, because there were many people who were interceding for Hua Tuo at that time, and he himself needed Hua Tuo to treat him!
After Hua Tuo's death, Cao Cao also drove the crane to the west 12 years later! Until this time, many people understood that Cao Cao's vision was very advanced, and his decision-making was incomparably correct!
So, why did Cao Cao kill Hua Tuo? Why did a controversial decision only gain acceptance after Cao Cao's death?
The exploits of physician Hua Tuo
Hua Tuo (Chinese: 華佗; pinyin: Wáng Tuo), a chinese scholar from Peiguo County (present-day Bozhou, Anhui), was a famous physician of the late Eastern Han Dynasty. After decades of medical practice, Hua Tuo is proficient in health care, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, surgery and other treatment methods, due to the treatment of diseases, one person, even if two people have the same symptoms, he will also prescribe different prescriptions according to the different internal symptoms of the two people, so every time it is a medicine to the disease, it is regarded as a "divine doctor" by the world. Huatuo's hometown of Bozhou, has now become the "capital of medicine" and is an important producer of traditional Chinese medicine in the mainland.
Hua Tuo pioneered the use of general anesthesia to perform surgical procedures, and was respected by later generations as the "originator of surgery". He traveled to various places to investigate, consulted with many doctors, picked Chinese herbs with anesthetic functions, mixed them in different proportions, and fired them with wine, and the patients would lose consciousness after taking them. During this period, Hua Tuo performed open surgery for the patient, removed the stubborn disease, and sutured with mulberry skin thread, applied ointment, and after dozens of days, the patient would recover his health, which was amazing to the world. Therefore, Hua Tuo named this medicine "Ma Boiling Powder", which was a very advanced medical prescription in China and even in the world at that time.
In addition to being good at conditioning and surgery, Hua Tuo also compiled a set of fitness gymnastics called "Five Birds Play", which is a fitness method modeled on the physical activity of animals to achieve exercise effects. One is called tiger play, two is called deer play, three is called bear play, four is called ape play, five is called bird play, and the current gymnastics has similarities, people can be refreshed after doing it, numb hands and feet, relieve fatigue.
Five-fowl play
Hua Tuo was intoxicated with medicine all his life, did not seek fame and fortune, and immersed himself in the study of medicine, combining theory with practice, and achieved quite high achievements in medicine at that time! However, "people are afraid of being famous pigs are afraid of being strong". Because of Hua Tuo's kindness, even the common people regarded him as equals, and over time, the name of "divine doctor" was far and widespread, and this also brought him misfortune!
Repeatedly refused to allow Cao Cao Huatuo to be killed
Cao Cao was too worried about his years of conquest, and he often had unbearable headaches, and many doctors around him were helpless against his illness. Because he had long heard of Hua Tuo's name, Cao Cao asked Hua Tuo to heal him.
Hua Tuo used acupuncture, and after many treatments, Cao Cao's condition improved. However, head wind disease has become a stubborn disease for many years, and it is very difficult to completely cure it in the short term.
Cao Cao asked Hua Tuo how to minimize the pain, and Hua Tuo said: If you want to completely cure it, you need to do craniotomy to remove the lesions in the brain. In this way, the effect can be achieved once and for all!
Cao Cao
Cao Cao heard the anger and split his head, which was tantamount to wanting to take his life. Because Hua Tuo's method was too frightening, completely beyond people's understanding of medicine at that time, Cao Cao thought that Hua Tuo was fooling him, and he was a little angry.
Seeing that Cao Cao did not agree with the method of radical cure, Hua Tuo proposed another method, that is, long-term acupuncture. Although it cannot be cured, it can greatly alleviate headaches.
For this relatively more moderate approach, Cao Cao did not resist. However, due to the repeated attacks of his head wind disease, Cao Cao needed Hua Tuo to always follow him and treat him at any time. In this way, Hua Tuo almost became Cao Cao's imperial physician.
Later, because Hua Tuo was not accustomed to Cao Cao's personality and style, he was even more disgusted by his arbitrary behavior, so after spending some time with Cao Cao, he said that he was overly homesick and wanted to go home to visit.
Cao Cao didn't think much about it at that time, in his opinion, Hua Tuo had not returned home for many days, and it was normal for people to miss their relatives at home! So he quickly approved Hua Tuo's request, just hoping that he would be able to return quickly after visiting his home!
However, Hua Tuo's walk was a long time, and he still did not return at the agreed time. After that, Cao Cao's head wind often attacked, torturing Cao Cao unspeakably!
Therefore, Cao Cao sent someone to invite Hua Tuo and give hua Tuo a lot of treasures. But Hua Tuo did not want to be bound by him, he wanted to continue to live the days of traveling in all directions and heal more ordinary people. So Hua Tuo once again rejected Cao Cao's emissaries on the grounds that his wife was ill.
This time Cao Cao was really angry, and Yi Jie Bu Yi dared to reject the overlord again and again. Therefore, Cao Cao sent someone to investigate whether Hua Tuo's wife was ill, and later learned that his wife was only pretending to be ill, and Cao Cao, in a fit of rage, took Hua Tuo to a large prison and tortured him all day.
However, at that time, Hua Tuo was already over the age of flower armor, and even if he could withstand this torture, he was quickly beaten and scaled all over his body. However, even so, Cao Cao still did not lose his temper and wanted to kill Hua Tuo. At this time, his subordinates dissuaded one after another, believing that Hua Tuo was a doctor unparalleled in the world, and besides, who could cure Cao Cao's head wind disease after Hua Tuo's death? But Cao Cao stubbornly believed: There is no such rat generation in the world? So he killed Hua Tuo quickly.
After Hua Tuo's death, due to the suffering of head wind, Cao Cao also died 12 years later! At this time, many people remembered Hua Tuo, and in their opinion, if Cao Cao had not killed Hua Tuo in the first place, under Hua Tuo's healing, Cao Cao might have been able to live for a few more years!
Cao Pi
However, Cao Pi, who inherited Cao Cao's power, did not think so. In his opinion, his father's measures were not only incomparably correct, but also decisive!
So, why did Cao Cao have to put Hua Tuo to death? Why did this decision seem so correct to Cao Pi?
The reason for Hua Tuo's murder is revealed
In fact, Cao Cao killed Hua Tuo, and there were very complicated factors behind it.
First of all, we must start with Cao Cao's character.
As we all know, Cao Cao's defensive heart is very heavy. He once told his men that he was killing people in his dreams and not to approach him when he slept. One day, he kicked open the quilt and pretended to be frozen without knowing it. A servant covered him with a quilt, but was stabbed to death by Cao Cao's sword, and then continued to sleep. The next day, Cao Cao asked who had killed the attendant, and the others told him that he had killed the man in his dream. Cao Cao wept bitterly and buried the attendant. From then on, others did not dare to approach Cao Cao while he was sleeping, which reduced the possibility of being assassinated by others.
In addition to being defensive, he was also very suspicious.
Cao Cao had killed several strategists out of jealousy, the most famous of whom was Yang Xiu. Yang Xiu was a famous literary scholar at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was erudite and versatile since childhood, and had access to ancient and modern times. Cao Cao greatly valued him and promoted him to the rank of military master.
Later, Yang Xiu assisted Cao Zhi in participating in the battle for concubines, and repeatedly helped Cao Zhi pass Cao Cao's test, Cao Cao originally wanted to establish Cao Pi as his successor, but was very angry after learning that Yang Xiu secretly helped. Cao Zhi became more and more proud because of Yang Xiu's help, and even crossed the Sima Gate after drinking. Although Cao Cao loved Cao Zhi and admired his talent, it was not enough to have talent but did not pay attention to measure and strategy, so Cao Zhi lost Cao Cao's heart. Later, due to the "Chicken Rib Incident", Cao Cao even killed Yang Xiu on charges of shaking the hearts of the army!
Yang Xiu stills
Therefore, even a person like Yang Xiu, Cao Cao, could not be killed, let alone Hua Tuo Yijie. Although Hua Tuo was revered as a divine doctor, in the feudal era, the healer belonged to the "Fang Ji", a person at the lowest level of society. Most of the healers have no place to live in the four directions, belong to the lower nine streams, and are relatively lowly professions.
And it is precisely such a lowly practitioner who dares to ignore the orders of the prime minister, and even openly violate them. If Cao Cao could bear all this, then how could he control so many unruly talents under his command?
Second, according to the law at that time, Hua Tuo lied that his wife was ill and had committed the crime of deceiving the king. Zhang Ge wrote in "Cai Jing's Descending Prince Shaobao Zhishi System": "The government affairs are particularly strict, the curse of misleading the country, the adultery of people and subjects, and the crime of deceiving the king." Hua Tuo deceived Cao Cao, which also reflected Hua Tuo's lack of attention to Cao Cao. Although Cao Cao was not a monarch at that time, he had greater power to kill than a monarch!
In Cao Cao's view, Hua Tuo dared to deceive him with lies, which was a crime worse than deception!
Hua Tuo treats Cao Cao's illness and stills
It should be known that at that time, Cao Cao was preparing to fight the Battle of Chibi, and he needed to recruit a large number of soldiers and generals. There are many treacherous people among these people. The reason why he came to surrender was only to value Cao Cao's mighty power and seek a temporary shelter!
If Cao Cao is confused and gets by in the matter of Hua Tuo, then these people will think that Cao Cao is not the lord, then there will be more and more corrupt people under his command, and Cao Cao's desire to complete the great cause will become a fool's dream!
However, Cao Cao's decisive disposition, although he killed Hua Tuo, also shocked some small people, and created a wise image of Cao Cao who killed decisively. So for a while, the Cao Army continued to grow, laying a solid foundation for the great war!
Therefore, in Cao Pi's view, if his father had been soft-hearted and let Hua Tuo go, then he might have lived for a few more years, but it might have lost the hearts of the people in the world, so that the establishment of the State of Wei and his own title as emperor would have become delusional!
From Hua Tuo's point of view, Hua Tuo's refusal to give Cao Cao medical treatment was actually a misjudgment of the situation and people. As a famous doctor, Hua Tuo inevitably regards himself as high. In addition, Cao Cao was not a model of the Lord in Hua Tuo's heart, and the reason why he came to heal was only out of the benevolence of a healer!
But Cao Cao's attempt to bind him to his side was something that Hua Tuo could not accept! In Hua Tuo's view, he may be a phoenix, but Cao Cao is not a sycamore! Therefore, I want to show my attitude by retreating, so as to avoid disasters in the world!
However, what Hua Tuo did not expect was that although Cao Cao was called a tyrant, he did not have full endurance! For Hua Tuo's small willfulness, he did not give appeasement, but on the contrary, he directly sent Hua Tuo to Huangquan Road with a knife in his hand, which had to be said to be a complete tragedy!
Hua Tuo stills
Epilogue:
"The ancients said: 'Companions are like companions of tigers', and we must be careful at all times." This means that when working with the ruler, we must be careful, be good at observing the color of words, and speculate more about the meaning of the superiors, so as to better protect ourselves. The person who knew the times was Junjie, and Hua Tuo misjudged the situation when Cao Cao's strength was at its peak, did not grasp the personality of those in power, regarded himself as high, and ended up in this tragic end, and buried the bones in the wilderness and mountains, which was really regrettable.
We are dust, and we will eventually be dusty. As a non-political healer, such a senseless sacrifice is unnecessary. And Cao Cao was in a position of high power, for him, the strategists had to be killed, not to mention a doctor, it didn't matter if there was one more doctor or one less doctor. Two personalities collide together, and Hua Tuo, who is small and light-hearted, is bound to be imprisoned.
As a feudal overlord, Cao Cao's approach was based on many considerations, and it was still relatively wise in terms of the development of the Wei state in the long run, and the rule of the eldest son Cao Pi was greatly benefited. Ordinary people, on the other hand, should clearly recognize their identity and situation in order to be spared from danger.