At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, Cao Cao was born in this era, Cao Cao was born in 155, and by 184, Cao Cao was 30 years old, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in this year.
Cao Cao had previously entered the post at the age of 20, he had entered the career in the form of filial piety, and at first, he was the most junior official in the civil service of the Great Han Dynasty, with the title of Lang Guan, and his specific position was the northern lieutenant of Luoyang City, equivalent to the chief of security in the capital's Beicheng District, and the person who recommended him was Sima Yi's father, Sima Fang. Sima Fang was then serving as Jing Zhaoyin, equivalent to the mayor of the capital, and he recommended Cao Cao to the northern part of Luoyang to be the chief of security, because this place was the capital, and all the dignitaries were dignitaries. The political situation in the last years of the Han Dynasty was very chaotic, and under the feet of the Son of Heaven under the roots of the imperial city, these royal princes and nobles broke the law and discipline a lot. The people who were sent there in the past basically turned a blind eye and did not dare to care about them.
After Sima Fang sent Cao Cao, Cao Cao carried out his work very seriously in accordance with the laws and regulations, and he specially made a very thick and long five-color rod and hung it in front of his official office, and anyone who violated the law and discipline used this rod to beat mercilessly. In this way that Cao Cao killed decisively, he dared to make a move, and soon managed this part of northern Luoyang in a sound and orderly manner.
Of course, in this process, because Cao Cao was not afraid that these people would have connections, he also offended some people in power, and then he was persecuted, and he was paid away, far from the capital, to become a county magistrate in a distant place, and he still did a good job in his jurisdiction.
In 184, after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Eastern Han court urgently needed to hire people, because Cao Cao's official was straightforward, organized, and not afraid of the powerful, and he was relatively brave, so he was called up by the imperial court to fight the Yellow Turban Army.
In the process of fighting the Yellow Turban Army, you say that he is ruthless, you say that he kills decisively, that is, he is very brave, beheading tens of thousands, and he performed very well in quelling the Yellow Turban Uprising. After the Yellow Turban Uprising was suppressed, because of his merits, the imperial court gave him a reward and gave him a piece of territory, and he became the chancellor of Jinan, equivalent to the administrator of Jinan, under the administration of more than a dozen counties. In this place, he is still vigorously tidying up in his jurisdiction. Because almost all parts of the country were in chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the law was relaxed, and there were many violations of law and discipline, Cao Cao still let go and vigorously purged it, politics and religion were in full swing, and a county was cleaned up. That is to say, the more than a dozen counties under his control in Jinan, which was in chaos, were soon managed in a decent and orderly manner.
In recent years, in general, the whole world has been in chaos. Jizhou, that place in Hebei, there is a thorn in Jizhou called Wang Fen, he wants to start a rebellion, he wants to abolish the emperor Han Lingdi at that time, and establish a new monarch, of course, Han Ling Emperor is indeed very mediocre and rotten. But to overthrow the imperial court was a rebellion, and in the process, Wang Fen wanted to win over Cao Cao, but Cao Cao refused. And Wang Fen's matter did not succeed, and he committed suicide after the matter was revealed. Fortunately, Cao Cao was clear-headed, and he probably thought that Wang Fen would not be able to do anything, and besides, he was still a courtier of the Han Dynasty, and he would not do anything to overthrow the imperial court. This time, Cao Cao did not stand wrong.
Soon, in the northwest of Jincheng County, which was on the Lanzhou side, Bian Zhang and Han Sui rebelled, first killing Shi Shi and Taishou, and then mastering more than 100,000 troops and began to rebel against the imperial court. The imperial court hurriedly sent people to suppress the border rebellion in the northwest. Of course, it was suppressed, but the last years of the entire Han Dynasty were basically pressed on the gourd, and rebellions rose one after another.
In 188, when Cao Cao was 34 years old, he was requisitioned by the imperial court with the official rank of military captain, and he was a very important military attaché.
A year later, in 189, Emperor Han Ling finally died, why is it said that he finally died, because he was quite bad as an emperor, he was an emperor for 21 years, he always called eunuchs as parents, and the eunuchs were rampant, and the ten constant attendants around him made a mess of the imperial government. He was not only controlled by eunuchs, but also by foreign relatives, civil officials, and military generals. With his death, the great general He Jin wanted to take advantage of the national funeral to destroy the huge eunuch group that was all evil and powerful. But as a powerful minister, his strategy is insufficient, he is a meat seller, and he has more than enough success and failure, and even greater disasters are about to come.