As the saying goes, "no one is a saint or a sage", whether you are a prince or a pauper, whether you are a millionaire or a destitute pauper. No one can guarantee that their life cannot go wrong.
After Cao Cao ruled the world, he vigorously built water conservancy, loved his generals, and stabilized the army, and he could be called a wise monarch.
But it was such a wise and martial person who missed the plan to dominate the world because of several mistakes.
1. Mistakenly kill Kong Rong and Hua Tuo
Cao Cao first missed and killed a person, Kong Rong. This person is a rare talent, and good friends, similar to Bao Zheng, honest and fair. What he likes to talk about most is the affairs in the court, and his words are sharp, even in the face of the emperor and generals, he will not show mercy to his subordinates.
There were three reasons why Cao Cao wanted to kill Kong Rong. The first point is that in the battle to capture Yecheng, Cao Pi and Yuan Xi's wife privately agreed for life. In this age of emphasis on female extradition, he violated human morality. Although many people did not dare to say anything, they still gave Cao Cao a lot of advice, saying that what Kong Rong did was similar to what Cao Cao did, and there was a similar wonder, a similar work, and a similar skill.
When Cao Cao was in the northern expedition to Wu Huan, he thought that alcohol would cause harm to the country, so he repeatedly played and demanded that drinking be banned. But Kong Rong sneered at him and did not give face at all. The death of Xia Wei and Shang Ren all died because of the woman who had Daji, why don't you learn the art of women well? This is already the second confrontation.
Cao Cao ruled the world and his strength increased day by day, but it also gave him an extra cunning face. Kong Rong, an honest person, couldn't stand it, Cao Cao, a person who could do everything on the battlefield. He gave advice several times to offend Cao Cao.
Especially at the time of the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao was in the middle of his business, and it would take time for the situation to recover from productivity. The strength of the troops was also far inferior to Yuan Shao, and there was also a clear shortage of food and grass supplies. Kong Rong disapproved of Cao Cao's adventure. However, where could the ambitious Cao Cao listen, but fortunately, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao with fewer victories in this battle. This made Cao Cao even more determined to kill this person who worked against him every day.
Cao Cao, who had accumulated a stomach of resentment, eventually instructed Prime Minister Cheng to kill all Kong Rong's family in 208 for "recruiting disciples and attempting to rebel", even his seven-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son who were fostered in a friend's house were spared.
As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel some sympathy for Kong Rong, and also regretted a little, why he was not born in an era when he should not have been born and met Song Zhenzong.
In the end, Cao Cao, despite his own notoriety, decided to get rid of Kong Rong and get rid of him. According to historical records, Kong Rong died in a crucial year in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and also a key year in Cao Cao's success or failure.
Although Kong Rong was a civilian, he was able to survive in Cao Cao's army unharmed, and was obviously a good commander and a good commander. After Kong Rong's death, many loyal ministers chose to remain silent and obey his orders. On the surface, their people are united. In fact, it was Cao Cao who really made the decision. No one wants to go against him. This was also an important factor in Zhou Yu's defeat of Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of horses in the Battle of Chibi with 30,000 people.
In addition, Cao Cao mercilessly killed Hua Tuo, a generation of our Huaxia grandmasters. He has a deep research in medicine, especially in pediatrics, internal medicine and acupuncture.
Hua Tuo, like all literati and scholars, wanted to mix an official and a half-job in the officialdom. It's just a pity that he is just a civilian and has no opportunity to serve the country. He was forced to work in medicine.
He was not afraid of fatigue, or studied hard, or traveled around the world. He had seen too many illnesses. Later, he scraped Guan Yu's bones to cure poison, which made him famous.
Cao Cao, on the other hand, was beaten dizzy and had a headache after the Battle of Chibi. So, someone introduced Hua Tuo to Cao Cao. Hua Tuo administered needles to Cao Cao and cured his illness. Cao Cao originally planned to keep Hua Tuo by his side. Unfortunately, Hua Tuo's original intention was not to study medicine, but to threaten Cao Cao and make him prosperous in the imperial court. Cao Cao felt that Hua Tuo had a bad intention, and if he threatened himself now, he might betray himself for the sake of fame at some point. This is also a reason why Cao Cao wants to get rid of it.
Secondly, when Cao Cao had a headache, Hua Tuo refused to treat Cao Cao on the grounds that his wife was sick. There is another reason why Cao Cao wants to kill him, that is, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die.
When Cao Cao's condition improved, Hua Tuo asked him to undergo surgery again. Cao Cao had already tolerated Hua Tuo repeatedly. He suspected that Hua Tuo's move was to kill himself. This was Cao Cao's third thought.
Although Xun Yu, Cao Cao's aide, had advised Cao Cao more than once not to kill Hua Tuo, otherwise no one might be able to cure his headache in the future, but Cao Cao was a person who only wanted me to bear the burden of the world, and did not want the world to fail me, and he could not allow the little person Hua Tuo to challenge the limits of his patience again and again. Hua Tuo's end is like this.
In 208, Hua Tuo was imprisoned, fearing that he would not have a future in his medical skills in his life, so he wrote down all he had learned in his life. It was supposed to be given to the text, but the owner of the book refused to accept Hua Tuo's gift, and Hua Tuo was desperate and burned everything to ashes.
2. Cao Cao covets beauty and sleeps with 1 wrong person
Cao Cao has always been surrounded by countless beauties, but he never thought that he would almost lose his life for such a beauty.
In 1917, Cao Cao fought a big battle with Zhang Xiu, and as soon as they clashed, Zhang Xiu knew that he was invincible, so he led his subordinates and surrendered to Cao Cao without any resistance. This is undoubtedly a very cost-effective thing for Cao Cao. But Cao Cao was very arrogant, and after drinking and eating, he even ran out to find flowers and ask Willow. But now, my nephew said that there is a girl named Zou, who is a rare beauty in the world, and her appearance is also very cute. The woman is Cao Cao's favorite woman. Coupled with the praise of these people around him, he also had some waves in his heart. That's why he sent someone to bring this letter here.
This woman looked eager to try, gentle, dignified, and gentle, which was very much in line with Cao Cao's taste. Cao Cao was afraid that the Zou clan would not be convinced, so he took the opportunity to say to her: "If it weren't for your face, I would have razed Wancheng to the ground and slaughtered your nephew Zhang Xiu." ”
So Cao Cao snatched Zhang Xiu's aunt away. It took a few more days for Zhang Xiu to know the news. Zhang Xiu felt sorry for the ancestor of the Zhang family. Such a humiliating thing, how can it be so calculated. So, taking advantage of Cao Cao's lack of a foothold, he launched a rebellion against Wancheng. Cao Cao almost died in this battle.
It was supposed to be a victorious battle, but Cao Cao paid such a big price for sleeping a woman by mistake.
3. Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone, and Cao Cao left 1 wrong person.
Sima Yi survived Cao Cao, Cao Cao, Emperor Wei Pi, Emperor Wei Ming, the generals who loyally defended the Cao Chamber, the loyal generals, and his own life.
Sima Yi had already shown extraordinary courage when he was young. When Cao Cao became his boss, he wanted to draw him to his side. Sima Yi saw that the Cao clan had long held power in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He also did not want to compromise with Cao Cao, so he used illness as a reason to resign from this errand. So Cao Cao secretly sent someone to find out. The spies reported that Sima Yi lay there motionless, no different from the stroke.
Seven years later, Cao Cao sent someone to summon Sima Yi and ordered him, "If Sima Yi is still lying on the hospital bed, he will be arrested." "
In this way, Cao Cao used his power and forced Sima Yi to accept the position. Cao Cao sent him to assist the crown prince. The so-called road knows horsepower, which is the truth of the long days. Over time, Cao Cao discovered Sima Yi's "wolf care" and "ambition", and his wariness towards him became even heavier. So, he said to Cao Pi: "Sima Yi is not a person who is willing to help you, he will definitely interfere in the affairs of the Cao Chamber in the future, you have to be careful." "
Cao Pi was already obsessed with Sima Yi, and his trust in Sima Yi made him willing to help him. After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he wanted to go to the next level, but fate played a joke on him and caused him to die young. Before Cao Pi died, he entrusted his last wish to Sima Yi. Who knows, the later emperor Cao Rui died at this time.
Sima Yi served Cao Pi, assisted the imperial court, and quelled the rebellion, and when Cao Pi was away, he was in charge of Xu Chang's affairs, and Cao Rui was responsible for capturing and executing Meng Da. He can be regarded as a meritorious minister. He was bent on reviving the Sima family, but at the age of eight, Cao Fang succeeded to the throne, and together with Sima Yi, assisted Cao Fang's Cao Shuang, repeatedly suppressed Sima Yi, and even degraded Sima Yi to a national teacher. The position of Taifu looks big, but in fact, it does not have any power.
There is a good saying, seventy-three eighty-four, the king of Yan came uninvited, and he was over sixty years old, in order not to arouse the suspicion of Cao Shuang and others, he lay on the bed for three days and two heads, which was also the biggest time in his life to pretend to be ill. He had intended to live like this for the rest of his life.
Who knew that Cao Shuang did not know the situation of the war at all, so he asked the young Cao Fang to attack Shu. The king, who had not yet grown up, did not realize this, so he launched a war against Shu despite Sima Yi's opposition. This battle, just as Sima Yi expected. Since then, Cao Wei has been in a slump. Over time, many people also became suspicious of Cao Wei, believing that only Sima Yi, a powerful man, was capable of turning the tide.
Sima Yi knew very well that once he died, Cao Shuang would definitely find trouble with the Sima family. At this moment, solidarity with him sounded again in the court. Now that the time has come, he has simply opened up and fought to break the net.
Cao Fang was not in Luoyang, and sacrificed to Cao Rui, and Sima Yi took advantage of this opportunity in the first year of Jiaping to seize Kyoto. Since then, Cao Wei has been an empty shell. Cao Cao never defeated a single person in his life, but after his death, Cao Wei was defeated in his hands.
4. Cao Cao boiled wine on heroes, mistested loyalty, and misplaced one person.
Cao Cao missed one of the most important people in his life, Guan Yu, and Guan Yu was Liu Bei's follower. From this point of view, Cao Cao will definitely not let Liu Bei go.
Liu Bei depended on his mother since childhood, living by weaving mats and fabrics. He was originally going to rely on his own ability to get ahead in the court. But this is the case, Liu Bei was only in his early twenties, and he had already made great battle merits, and after quelling Zhang Chun's rebellion, he barely fulfilled the county order. Who knows, the court is changing too quickly, and those who are promoted to officials by merit in the army will all be brushed down. He originally wanted to explain it clearly to the Governor (the official in charge of supervision), but he did not expect that this Governor was a shrunken turtle, and he did not want to ask about this at all, and refused to meet Liu Bei on the pretext of being unwell.
Liu Bei was so angry that he beat Nasi with two hundred sticks. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei fled together. Liu Bei realized that if there was no backstage, it would be too difficult to gain a foothold in the imperial court based on battle merits alone. So, he went to Luoyang and met his teacher Lu Zhi, where Liu Bei and Cao Cao met.
When Liu Bei was in distress, he defected to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao also liked Liu Bei, Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, and once drank a glass of wine with Liu Bei, wanting to see if Liu Bei was sincere, but he pretended to throw down the chopsticks in his hand and escaped Cao Cao's test. By this time, Cao Cao already knew that Liu Bei was not a person who was willing to subordinate to others. He was an ambitious man. Cao Cao's military commander, Guo Jia, also advised Cao Cao to kill Liu Bei to avoid any trouble later.
However, now Cao Cao needs manpower. If he killed Liu Bei, then there would not be so many talents to trouble him. Likewise, it will make the soldiers frustrated.
Yuan Shu was originally a brilliant strategist. After he occupied Huainan, instead of recovering, he began to collect a large number of taxes, spending all his wealth on himself. Let the people suffer a lot. He was already unpopular, and he tried to claim the throne. Even Lü Bu rebelled. Even, even Sun Ce next to him expressed dissatisfaction with this. In such cases. In desperation, he could only lead his army to find his good brother Yuan Shao.
At this time, Liu Bei requested that someone be sent to hunt down and kill Yuan Shu. Cao Cao ignored the objections of his ministers and insisted that Liu Bei lead his army to pursue and kill him. Unexpectedly, instead of blocking the attack, Liu Bei led his army to attack Cao Cao Xuzhou and became the standard-bearer himself.
Cao Cao can only eat Huang Lian with words of suffering. It can be said that he lost his wife and broke the army.
5. Cao Cao, relying on his own experience, mistrusted Huang Gai
In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was severely injured by Huang Gai. How could Cao Cao, a suspicious person, think so easily that Huang Gai really wanted to be loyal to himself?
In the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's ammunition had been exhausted, and Yuan Shao's eyeliner also got the news. Cao Cao's military commander Xu Yu decided to secretly attack Xuchang in order to achieve a quick victory, leaving Cao Cao's base camp in chaos, while Yuan Shao fought steadily and without hurry, and dealt with Cao Cao. No matter what style of play he used, Yuan Shao was completely sure. However, on strategic issues, the two sides had a fierce dispute, and Xu Yu surrendered to Cao Cao in anger, and Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao.
Cao Cao mistakenly thought that Huang Gai would be the second Xu Yu, and at this time, Cao Cao was already a big business, and he felt that even if Huang Gai was not sincere, it would not have much impact on him. Who would have thought that Huang Gai would carry dozens of ships full of salarygrass anointing, with the power of the east wind. More than half of Cao Cao's ships and soldiers connected with iron chains were burned. It was also Cao Cao's mistrust this time, allowing him to completely lose to Sun and Liu.
If it were not for these five major affairs of Cao Cao, I believe that there would not have been a three-legged period at that time. It's a pity that Jin Wuzu is not perfect, and it is also because of his imperfection that the wonderful Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been achieved.