In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's father Cao Song led a family of old and young and money through Xuzhou, Xuzhou Mutao wanted to seduce Cao Cao, and Zhang Min, a special lieutenant, escorted five hundred soldiers. When Zhang Min saw that Cao Song had a lot of gold and silver jewelry, he became greedy, killed Cao Song's entire family, took his belongings, set fire to the temple, and fled to Huainan. However, what is puzzling is that after Cao Cao became a chancellor, why did he not seek revenge on Zhang Min for killing his father?
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Cao Song had been living in Langya County, Xuzhou for several years, and Tao Qian had many opportunities to hunt down Cao Song, but Cao Song had always lived well. And Taishan Taishou Yingshao, who was sent by Cao Cao, once fought side by side with Tao Qian in the third year of Chuping to fight against Li Dai, and the two had a lot of feelings. Judging from these points, Tao Qian sent people and horses to protect Cao Song and show goodwill to Cao Cao was the most likely situation.
Unfortunately, the problem was with the generals guarding them. Cao Song traveled from Langya to Yanzhou, carrying more than a hundred gold and silver, which was really eye-catching. Many of Tao Qian's subordinates are Yellow Turban generals, and it makes sense that Zhang Min is set up in this way. In addition, in the Huaxian and Feixian areas, there are many rebels gathering, the public security situation is very bad, Zhang Min pretends to be a thief soldier, and there is also an excuse to fish in muddy waters.
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More importantly, after Zhang Min killed Cao Song, Cao Cao did not do his best to go to Huainan to hunt down and kill his father's enemies, but instead poured all his anger on Tao Qian in Xuzhou, captured more than ten cities in Xuzhou, and even slaughtered the city and killed all the people. The whole of Xuzhou was terrified, but fortunately, Qingzhou's assassin Shi Tiankai and Pingyuan Xiang Liu Bei led troops to rescue Xuzhou and barely resisted the cao army's offensive. At this time, Zhang Mi, Chen Gong, and others joined forces with Lü Bu to launch a rebellion in Cao Cao's old lair, Yanzhou, and captured most of the counties and counties of Yanzhou. Cao Cao did not want to fight chickens and eggs, so he could only withdraw his troops, and Xuzhou was saved.
And Zhang Min, after defecting to Huainan, did not disappear. Huainan was Yuan Shu's territory, and Yuan Shu and Cao Cao were at odds, not to mention that Zhang Min had hundreds of cars of gold and silver, how could Yuan Shu not accept Zhang Min? The Book of Later Han quotes Xie Cheng as saying: "Yuan Shu sent Zhang Minyang to Chen, Zhi (Luo) Junshou, junxiang drank alcohol, because of the fraudulent killing of Jun, a county official mourned like the loss of his parents. It shows that Zhang Min did defect to Yuan Shu and served as the assassin of Chen Guoxiang Luo Jun under Yuan Shu. Being a killer is Zhang Min's strong point.
At that time, Cao Cao could not have known the whereabouts of Zhang Min, but at this time, Yuan Shu was still very powerful, once the two sides fought, Cao Cao could not take advantage of anything, but Xuzhou was different, as long as there was no outsider interference, taking Xuzhou was almost an easy task, and Cao Cao could also take this opportunity to connect Yanzhou and Xuzhou together, and the Eastern Front would no longer have any worries. It was that Cao Cao did not pursue and kill his father's enemy Zhang Min, but locked his eyes on Tao Qian in Xuzhou, destroyed Tao Qian, and occupied Xuzhou, without spending a lot of effort, but he could greatly increase his strength. Moreover, if the army is sent on the grounds of revenge for the father, and the division is famous, the chances of the other princes forcibly interfering will be greatly reduced, and the morale of the whole army will inevitably be greatly boosted.
It can be seen from this that Cao Cao's abacus hit very loudly, but unfortunately, he did not expect Lü Bu to stab him with a knife, and this knife was inserted very deeply, almost killing Cao Cao. The matter of avenging the Father is naturally gone.