It is better for me to be responsible for the world than for the world to be responsible for me, this sentence can be seen as a high-level summary of Cao Cao's natural suspicion and murderous behavior. Cao Cao killed Lu Boyao because of a misunderstanding (suspicion); Killing Kong Rong is because of disrespect; Killing Yang Xiu was because Old Yang was too smart. In Cao Cao's time, people in high positions of power did not need a reason to kill people, and even if there was a reason, it is not a reason in today's view—because killing people too casually is simply rushing people's lives. Cao Cao's "talent" for killing people was mainly manifested after he became prime minister. One year, the Xiongnu sent envoys to present their credentials to Cao Cao, who thought that his appearance was not enough to deter the Fanbang, so he asked his subordinate Cui Yan to receive the Xiongnu envoys in his place, but he stood beside Cui Yan dressed as a guard carrying a sword. Afterwards, Cao Cao sent spies to the state guest house to ask the Xiongnu envoys what their impressions of him? This envoy truthfully said that King Wei's reputation was very high and extraordinary, but the man standing next to him with the sword was the real hero! Originally, people were praising Cao Cao, although he did not know that the person carrying the knife was King Wei himself, but Cao Cao did not know which nerve was in his head, and ignored the requirements of international codes of conduct, and immediately sent people to hunt down and kill the Xiongnu envoys. As the saying goes, the two countries do not fight each other, not to mention that the two countries have not yet exchanged troops! Cao Cao's style is really not understandable to ordinary people.
Cao Cao is a politician, military strategist and literary scholar, and he is also very enthusiastic about literary and artistic entertainment, especially singing and dancing, so there are many singers and dancers in the house.
Although this singer did not die of sin, but finally there was a reason, the following two died a little unclear. Once, Cao Cao said to one of his close attendants, "You have a knife hidden in your arms and quietly come to me, and I will definitely say "heartbeat." If I have people arrest you and execute you, you have to be afraid, as long as you don't say that I made you do this, I won't really kill you, and I will reward you again. This attendant was convinced of Cao Cao's words and was escorted to the execution ground, and did not feel afraid, but he was really killed!
Cao Cao himself had assassinated Dong Zhuo, and knew that his practice of holding the Son of Heaven hostage to the princes would surely provoke the anger of some loyal Han dynasty. For this reason, he often warned the people around him not to approach him casually while he was sleeping, because he was murderous in his dreams, but he didn't know anything afterwards. One day when he went to sleep, Cao Cao deliberately did not cover the quilt and pretended to be asleep. One of his personal servants, who usually served him, was worried that Cao Cao would get cold, so he quietly walked to Cao Cao's bed and covered Cao Cao with a quilt. At this stall, I didn't expect that Cao Cao suddenly swung his knife and slashed, and this pro-slave couldn't dodge, and he was killed immediately! Cao Cao continued to lie on the bed as if nothing had happened, and fell asleep. At that time, Cao Cao, in the eyes of ordinary people, was already a god-like existence, coupled with the occurrence of "heartbeat killing" and "dream killing", many people thought that Cao Cao really had special functions, so those who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get close to Cao Cao to assassinate them dispelled this idea. And the people who work around Cao Cao have to be more careful, like walking on thin ice, worried that if Cao Chengxiang suddenly "heartbeats", his head will have to move!