Today, Xiaohui will tell you a story about Cao Cao who killed Hua Tuo even if he didn't cure his illness. Cao Cao's killing of Hua Tuo seems to be a self-defeating way out, so future generations have many doubts about it. The author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a general of the anti-Cao faction, and he writes that Cao Cao's son and himself showed a satisfied look when he repented of killing Hua Tuo, a detail that cannot be concealed.
However, we must know that many of the stories in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are fictional, such as the story of Guan Yu scraping bones to cure poison, which does exist, but it was not done by Hua Tuo. It is difficult to conclude whether Cao Cao treats people leniently or harshly, some people repeatedly do evil but he tolerates them, and some people are killed by him for trivial things, probably because Cao Cao is the most unwilling to be bullied by others with his wisdom and self-improvement.
Cao Cao had a chronic headache disease, which Hua Tuo may have exaggerated when treating his illness, so Cao Cao thought that Hua Tuo could actually cure his illness, but he was unwilling to treat him at the root of the disease, but wanted to show his majesty by using it. Cao Cao was resentful and would rather endure a headache than be threatened by a "villain", so he chose to kill Hua Tuo.
For chronic headache diseases, the causes are complex and diverse, some can be identified and some cannot be explained, and it is difficult to cure. But Cao Cao would have wondered why Hua Tuo's headaches had been cured of all kinds of rare diseases since he was so skilled.
Hua Tuo was born into a family of scholars, and later established himself as a doctor, but at that time the status of a doctor was not noble, which made him dissatisfied, he was short-tempered and not good at pleasing others. After living in the capital for a while, he had the idea of returning to his hometown, and he found an excuse to return home. Cao Cao summoned him several times, but he refused to come out, saying that his wife was sick and could not go.
Cao Cao sent someone to verify that if Hua Tuo's wife was really sick, he would give him forty small beans, and if he was fake, he would be arrested and imprisoned. Whether Hua Tuo's wife was really not sick, or the messenger deliberately framed him, Hua Tuo was finally arrested in Xuchang and tortured, and this generation of famous doctors died in prison.