Military Colonel Cao Cao, character Mengde, small character A Qiao, was a figure in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and also a controversial generation of heroes in Chinese history.
Cao Cao was born into a family of eunuchs in Peiguo (present-day Bozhou, Anhui). His adoptive grandfather, the eunuch Cao Teng, served four generations of emperors, and was made a marquis by the time of Emperor Huan, and had a certain prestige. Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was Cao Teng's adopted son, and he was an official to the imperial lieutenant of Emperor Ling, equivalent to today's chief of the General Staff.
Although Cao Cao was witty and alert when he was young, he was willful and virtuous, and he was bohemian. He neither practiced character nor studied his studies, and almost no one looked favorably on him at that time. Only Qiao Xuan, who had served as a lieutenant, thought that Cao Cao was extraordinary.
Qiao Xuan also suggested to Cao Cao: "You'd better go and make friends with Mr. Xu Shao, it's good for improving your popularity." Mr. Xu has a high emotional intelligence and is good at identifying the character and ability of others.
Xu Shao commented on Cao Cao: "The son is a powerful minister who rules the world, and a traitor in a troubled world." ("Three Kingdoms Zhi Weishu Wudi Ji" notes "Similarities and Differences") Cao Cao laughed after listening to it. This sentence also became a comment on Cao Cao's life.
At the age of twenty, Cao Cao was raised as filial piety and came to Luoyang, Kyoto, to become a lang official. Soon after, he was appointed magistrate of northern Luoyang (equivalent to the current head of the public security sub-bureau).
As soon as Cao Cao, a "Beijing official," took office, he immediately affirmed the ban and strictly disciplined the law. He also made more than a dozen five-colored sticks to hang on the left and right of the Yamen, stating that "whoever violates the ban, kill them with a stick." The uncle of the great eunuch Ji Shuo, who was deeply trusted by the emperor, was forbidden to walk at night, and Cao Cao mercilessly beat him to death with a five-color stick. Cao Cao even dared to beat the emperor's favored uncle to death, and no one dared to violate the imperial court ban anymore. However, Cao Cao also offended a group of powerful people such as Ji Shuo. Because of the face of Cao Cao's father Cao Song, the magnates sent Cao Cao to Dunqiu, far away from Luoyang, to serve as the county commander. This year, Cao Cao was twenty-three years old.
After the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Cao's official worshipped the capital lieutenant and was ordered to join forces with Huangfu Song and others to attack the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army, beheading tens of thousands and winning a complete victory. Cao Cao was also successfully promoted to the post of minister of Jinan, overseeing Jinan's domestic affairs. At that time, at the darkest time of Eastern Han politics, the imperial court openly sold official titles. Because Cao Cao refused to cater to the powerful, he returned to his hometown under the pretext of illness and lived a secluded life of reading in spring and summer and hunting in autumn and winter. It was not until after the Yellow Turban Rebellion subsided, in order to consolidate his rule, that Emperor Ling of Han set up the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan, and Cao Cao was appointed as a military captain among the eight lieutenants because of his family lineage, and returned to Luoyang, the capital division.
Regarding Yuan Shao's proposal to recruit all the powerful people into Beijing and threaten the Empress Dowager to eradicate the eunuchs, Cao Cao felt that this was simply a short-circuited act in his mind, He Jin was a great general, holding the power of the forbidden army, as long as he planned carefully, getting rid of the eunuchs was a matter of hand. But by now, He Jin has indeed short-circuited his brain. Ignoring the opposition of the people, he vigorously recruited fierce generals from all over the world to enter Beijing. Among them, there was a person named Dong Zhuo, and then there was really a big movement
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