Cao Cao is a traitorous male, none of the generals under him are vegetarians, no matter which one is singled out, he is a high-class person who dominates the world, Wu can govern the country and secure the country, and Wen's strategy and strategy can stabilize the party.
But it's too lively to get these capable people together, more than a dozen capable employees to assist a big boss, and there must be thousands of them?
Yang Xiu and Yang Biao in the Hongnong Yang family are typical representatives of these capable ministers, and their father and son have completely different ways of doing things, so the ending is destined to be different.
01 Lieutenant Hirohito
Yang Biao and Yang Xiu were father and son, and they first served under the emperor of the Han Dynasty and later followed Cao Cao.
In the Han Dynasty, where there was no imperial examination, it was not uncommon for two generations to be officials in the court at the same time, but the Yang family was still amazed by the contemporaries.
It turned out that Yang Xi, the ancestor of the Hongnong Yang family, was promoted to the rank of knight because of his meritorious work in chasing and killing the remnants of Xiang Yu, and from this time on, the Yang family began to develop.
Among the descendants, Yang Bao is a great Confucian, and he is also the protagonist of the "Rank Ring" of "Knotted Grass Rank Ring", probably because of the yellow bird's repayment, to Yang Biao, there have been 3 generations of officials in the court.
Starting from Yang Biao's great-grandfather Yang Zhen, until Yang Biao is the captain in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, it is equivalent to the head of the world's military attachés.
And Yang Ci also served as the Sikong, the Marquis of Jin, and the people of the time called Hongnong Yang "the fourth Taiwei", and the Yang family has been more noble since then.
It is in such a famous family that it is a trivial matter to find an official position in the court, but the men of the Yang family are all talented and rich.
Yang Biao was awarded the title because he was appreciated by officials because of his erudition, and Yang Xiu also sat on the official position of Langzhong through filial piety.
That is to say, if they don't make too many enemies in the court, be careful and have the protection of their ancestors, they can be smooth until they retire.
But this Yang Xiu later worked for Cao Cao, but he could always guess the master's thoughts, and he had to talk about it, which was a big taboo.
Once Boss Cao passed by Cao E's monument and saw a few words, "Yellow silk young woman, grandson mortar", he didn't know what it meant after meditating, so he asked Yang Xiu next to him, and Yang Xiu said that he already knew the answer.
Boss Cao said not to give the answer first, so Cao Cao continued to walk for thirty miles, and then he thought of the meaning, so he asked Yang Xiu what he meant, and Yang Xiu said: "The meaning of wonderful words."
When Cao Cao heard the same answer as himself, he sighed that he was talented, but he was very unhappy in his heart.
02 Yang Xiu, who is proud of his talents
Another time, Boss Cao got a box of shortbread and wanted to share it with his soldiers, so he wrote the word "box" on it.
Just when everyone was at a loss, Yang Xiu stood up and directly distributed it to everyone, he said: "One person has a mouthful of crisp, this is what the prime minister meant."
Although Boss Cao had a smile on his face at this time, he had already begun to hate Yang Xiu in his heart.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Luo Guanzhong also fictionalized the story of Cao Cao's murder in a good dream, and it can still be seen from this story that Yang Xiu has a seven-trick exquisite heart and insight into people's hearts.
Cao Cao first told others that he could kill people in his dreams and told others not to come near him while he was sleeping, and then once, in his sleep, Cao Cao jumped up and killed the attendant who covered him with a quilt.
The next morning, Cao Cao saw it, was in pain, and ordered a thick burial. Since then, people have known that Cao Cao did kill people in his dreams.
At this time, only Yang Xiu stood up and said, "The prime minister is not in a dream, I am in a dream!" After this incident, Cao Cao disliked Yang Xiu even more.
What killed Yang Xiu was because he was not low-key and showed his talent.
In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Boss Cao attacked Hanzhong, and he couldn't attack for a long time and wanted to think about it in the long run, so he passed the password "chicken ribs".
Yang Xiu packed his luggage when he heard this, and when others asked him, he explained: "Chicken ribs, this thing is tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it, this refers to Hanzhong, so I know that I have to withdraw my troops." It didn't take long for Cao Cao to retreat.
As the saying goes, "small wisdom and great wisdom", people with great wisdom generally do not show off their talents, and learned people generally hide and take them out at critical moments, so that they can be respected by others.
However, Yang Xiu should not understand these truths, in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are 7 things that make Boss Cao feel disgusted.
In the end, Cao Cao said that Yang Xiu was Yuan's son-in-law, and finally died at the hands of the boss.
03 The sophisticated and low-key Yang Biao
As Li Zhen of the Ming Dynasty wrote when commenting on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "Anyone who is smart and easy to show is enough to kill him."
In fact, Yang Xiu also knew that he would die in the hands of Cao Cao sooner or later, and sighed before he died: "I am enough to die late."
After Yang Xiu's death, Cao Cao specially condoled Yang Biao and asked him how he lost weight?
How should Yang Biao answer at this time? To tell the truth, because he misses his son, he can't eat tea and dinner every day, so he loses weight?
If he said so, Cao Cao's goal would have been achieved, and what he wanted to test was whether Yang Biao had any opinion on him, and if Yang Biao complained about Cao Cao a little in his words, then his head would not be guaranteed.
Jiang is still old and spicy, Yang Biao rolled his eyes and said: "I am ashamed of the foresight of the sun, and I still cherish the love of the old cow licking the calf."
The translation is, "I'm ashamed that I don't have the foresight of Kim Il-pan, and I still have the love like an old cow licking a calf."
This sentence is really brilliant, what is Jin Riyan's foresight, this is an allusion, Jin Riyan, an assistant minister of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, saw that his son was loved by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and he was very angry with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Later, when his son grew up and began to flirt with the palace maid, Jin Riyan prevented his son from causing a big disaster in the future and killed his son directly.
This is what Yang Biao calls "foresight". Yang Biao replied, Cao Cao is also erudite, how could he not know, so this crisis was resolved.
Yang Biao's way of doing things is sleek and sophisticated, and Yang Biao also has an in-law relationship with the Yuan family, but the killing did not fall on Yang Biao's head.
During the period of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Yang Biao escorted Cao Cao back to Luoyang, on the way, Cao Cao refused to enter Huayin because he suspected that Duan Xuan was antipathetic, and someone next to him coerced Yang Biao and said: "The superintendent of Hongnong County knows that Guo Yan has entered the city." Cao Cao entered the city at this time.
From this paragraph, it can be seen that Cao Cao believes in Yang Biao's words very much, just like believing that an honest person will never deceive people.
Therefore, Yang Biao had many friends to help, and when he fell into the criticism of having an in-law with the Yuan family, Cao Cao originally wanted to kill him, but it was because of Kong Rong's extreme desire to intercede that Yang Biao escaped death.
This is that the enlightened people help the unenlightened and have little help, and his son Yang Xiu will inevitably die if no one intercedes for him, and the old father is saved from the death penalty because of his humility and carefulness.
brief summary
"Licking calves" came from Yang Biao, as a parent, there is no one who does not feel sorry for his children, but if he does not answer well, the master is angry, and he is afraid that the life of the whole family will not be guaranteed.
Therefore, high emotional intelligence can save people's lives at critical moments, but then again, arrogance will not have good results anywhere, only humility will have noble people to help at critical moments.