At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three kingdoms of Shu, Wu and Wei were at their peak, and there were many years of war and chaos, and many heroes Haojie came into being. Among them were military generals such as Guan Yu and Lü Bu, as well as courtiers such as Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.
However, the companions are like the companions of the tigers, and some of the generals and strategists have no blood to sprinkle on the battlefield, but they are beheaded and paraded in public because of the emperor's affairs. At that time, there was a great talented son Yang Xiu who was beheaded by Cao Cao for participating in the struggle for the son of the world, and his father Yang Biao was becoming increasingly emaciated after the death of his son.
Yang Xiu's great-grandfather Yang Zhen was a famous earthquake at that time, a sentence of heaven knows, you know I know that it has been passed down through the ages, and Yang Xiu's father Yang Biao was a lieutenant of the dynasty, and his mother was still a rich and famous family member of the Yuan clan at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so Yang Xiu's background was comparable to that of the imperial family.
Due to the relatively good family conditions, Yang Xiu's education from childhood was taught by the best teachers, and Yang Xiu was brilliant, and soon Yang Xiu became a university scholar when he became an adult.
Yang Xiu's family reasons made him contact with a lot of official affairs, and he also felt that people who read books should serve the country. A person of a noble background like him is naturally a good talent that many people want, and at that time, Cao Cao vigorously promoted himself as a person who cherished talents. Therefore, by chance, under the recommendation of others, Yang Xiu became the main book of Cao Cao's government, and the so-called main book was the secretary.
After Yang Xiu became Cao Cao's secretary, he worked hard and complained, and he also obeyed Cao Cao. Cao Cao felt that Yang Xiu was honest and clever, and he also appreciated his talent. Later, Cao Cao coerced Tianzi to order the princes to smoothly grasp the right to speak in the Central Plains, and Yang Xiu also rose to the top and became an important minister around Cao Cao.
During a period of going out to fight, Cao Cao tried to test whether there were people around him who could understand his own thoughts and solve problems for him. Cao Cao then had a plan, gathered his men together, and said that they wanted to discuss strategies against the enemy, and everyone had already arrived in the big tent, but they did not see Cao Cao's shadow.
The generals wondered in their hearts that Cao Cao was a punctual man who had never been late for deliberations. Just as everyone was talking, Cao Cao walked in, carrying a snack box with a note on it that read a box of puff pastries. Cao Cao walked in and put the box on the table, and without saying a word, he went out again, which made everyone confused the second monk.
Just when everyone was confused, Yang Xiu opened the box and took out a piece to taste it, and said to everyone, Cao Cheng Xiang means one bite for each person, and after saying it, everyone suddenly realized. Cao Cao outside the account listened to it sincerely, and praised Yang Xiu in his heart for not failing to be intelligent, and Yang Xiu further promoted his career.
After several years of conquest, Cao Cao was proclaimed king, and the title of king was Wei, and Yang Xiu became an important courtier in the court. After Cao Cao became king, he decided to attack Liu Bei in person, and Liu Bei was in a state of flux at the time, and he was simply unable to resist Cao Cao and was beaten to hide in Tibet.
But Liu Bei eventually occupied Jingzhou and then began to grow and develop in the southwest. At that time, Cao Wei was still constantly attacking Shu Han, and one day the general Xiahou Huan asked Cao Cao for the night password of the barracks, and then went to the big tent to ask Cao Cao for advice, and Cao Cao was eating.
Cao Cao did not answer positively, but instead picked up a chicken rib from the chicken soup and placed it on the table, and then looked at Xiahou Huan without saying a word. But at this time, Yang Xiu, who was beside him, understood Cao Cao's meaning, so he went back to pack up his things and prepare for the return of the class teacher. Xiahou Huan was very confused, wasn't he going to fight Liu Bei for a decisive battle? How suddenly do you want the class teacher to return to the dynasty.
Yang Xiu said that Cao Cao gave a chicken rib, referring to the pity of tasteless abandonment of food. This means that the current Shu Han has become a climate, and it is too wasteful to attack but not to attack and not to allow him to develop freely, so he still has to return to the dynasty first, and then consider the long term.
Although Yang Xiu guessed Cao Cao's thoughts, but Cao Cao was suspicious of life, and he had the personality of rather than taking the world to teach the people of the world to bear me, although Yang Xiu helped Cao Cao to forward the meaning, but Yang Xiu took the initiative to pack his bags and disturbed the hearts of the army, making Cao Cao feel that Yang Xiu was too smart and had a wary heart.
Moreover, with the continuous elevation of his official position, Yang Xiu began to show his original form, acted more and more high-profile, and began to become proud and complacent.
Cao Cao had two excellent sons at that time, Cao Zhi and Cao Pi, and had always had a headache about establishing that son as his son Cao Cao. When Cao Cao was at a stalemate, he decided to let his two sons develop freely and compete with each other, and then test them with some things.
At that time, Yang Xiu chose to support Cao Zhi, because Cao Zhi's achievements in literature were also quite high, and he once wrote Luoshenfu. For Cao Cao's various tests, Yang Xiu offered advice to Cao Zhi, so that the results of each test were very satisfactory to Cao Cao.
For Cao Zhi to establish the world's son, Yang Xiu was confident, and Cao Zhi had begun to feel that he was the son of the world, becoming arrogant, and finally the East Window Incident occurred, and Cao Cao learned that Yang Xiu was behind Cao Zhi's advice. Cao Cao calmed down and pondered carefully, feeling that Cao Zhi was not suitable for being a son of the world, and he was also damaged by Yang Xiu, and in a fit of anger, Cao Cao ordered Yang Xiu to be beheaded.
After Yang Xiu's death, Yang Xiu's father, Yang Biao, grew older, after all, he had lost such a talented son, which made his heart ache. In order not to offend the Yang family, Cao Cao also pretended to come to the door to comfort Yang Biao, seeing that Yang Biao was emaciated, he falsely asked Yang Biao why he had become so thin, and explained that Yang Xiu was proud of himself, repeatedly persuaded him not to listen, and also did absurd things to insult the palace women, and only when he was forced to order Yang Xiu to be killed.
And Yang Biao did not blame Cao Cao, saying such a sentence, ashamed of the foresight of the sun, still cherishing the love of the old cow licking calves.
This sentence refers to the fact that the Xiongnu leader Jin Riju had two sons, the eldest son often accompanied Emperor Wu of Han, and the children were stubborn in nature, and it was inevitable that they would sometimes do something out of the ordinary. As a prisoner, Jin Ilju was afraid of angering Emperor Wu of Han, and after his son grew up and committed some adulterous acts against the imperial court, he killed his own son.
When Emperor Wudi of Han heard this, he was shocked and asked Jin Ilju why he did this. Kim Il-seo replied that he was afraid that his son would make a big mistake and affect the whole clan, so he had no choice but to kill him.
And what Yang Biao meant by saying this to Cao Cao was that I didn't have the foresight of Jin Ilju and didn't discipline Yang Xiu well, but after all, he was his own son, and he missed him too much after his death to become thin like this. Cao Cao also did not want to provoke the Yang family, comforted Yang Biao and left, and the matter ended here.
There are many talented people in history, and there are countless powerful people. Yang Xiu's mistake was that he was too proud, should not meddle in the struggle for the throne and speculated too much about Cao Cao's thoughts.
Therefore, it is good that people have talent, but they must understand the principle of dealing with the world, and they must also be humble and low-key, otherwise they will end up being beheaded and shown to the public just like Yang Xiu.