For the night that Cao Cao killed Lü Bohao's family, the story description in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is roughly as follows:
Cao Cao's father's brother-in-law Lü Bohao went out to buy wine to welcome Cao Cao's arrival, Cao Cao waited for a long time and heard the "sound of sharpening the knife", Cao Cao was suspicious, thinking that Lü Bohao was not his close relative, quite suspicious, so he went to eavesdrop on the conversation, and happened to hear someone in the kitchen saying: "Tie it up and kill it, how about it?" ”
Cao Cao was sure that the other party was going to do something to him, so he broke in and killed eight men and women, at this time he saw a fat pig tied up in the kitchen to be killed, Cao Cao and Chen Gong knew that they had killed the wrong person, and they escaped all the way, just happened to meet Lü Bohao, and killed him as well.
The later story, the description in the fourth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "Deposing the Han Emperor Chen Liujian and Plotting the Sacrifice of the Sword by Dong Thief Meng De", is very subtle:
it, just ride the horse. After a few steps, he suddenly drew his sword and returned, calling Bo Haoyue, "Who is this person?" When Bo Hao looked back, he wielded his sword and slashed Bo Hao under the donkey.
Cao Cao took a few steps in spite of Lü Bohao's retention, suddenly drew his sword and returned, stopped Lü Bohao, and had to "trick" him, and when he turned back, he only cut it with a sword, the whole process had a strong sense of picture, this first persisted, then hesitated, and finally the process of being cruel was extremely layered, making the audience feel as if they were looking at the people around them.
Further to derive Chen Gong's accusations against Cao Cao, Cao Cao then replied with "Ning taught me to bear the world's people, and Hugh taught the people in the world to bear me", and the image of great treachery and great evil jumped on the paper, which belonged to the typical "knowingly committing crimes, adding one crime to the first", and Cao Cao's "human design" in the whole novel was "established" and can be regarded as the "divine pen" of literary creation.
The "strengths" of literature are precisely the "shortcomings" of historical events, because the absolute "simplification of complex issues" to obtain "empathy" and dissemination, real historical events, often much more complex, need much more background knowledge to understand.
See pei's notes on several records of this matter in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1, The Chronicle of Emperor Wu:
The Book of Wei says: Taizu Yizhuo will eventually be defeated, so he will not worship and flee back to the countryside. In the absence of Bo Hao, his son and his guests robbed Taizu, took horses and objects, and Taizu killed several people with his blade.
"World Language" said: Taizu over bo luxury. Bo luxury travel, the five sons are there, ready to be the guest officiation. Taizu thought that he had betrayed his life, suspected himself, and killed eight people in the night with his sword.
Sun Sheng's "Miscellaneous Records" said: Taizu heard the sound of his eating utensils, thought that he was trying to be himself, and killed him at night. And he said sadly, "I'd rather bear others than people bear me!" "Go ahead.
The accounts of these three historical sources have their own emphases:
First, lü Bohao's son plotted against Cao Cao and others' horses and belongings, and was killed by Cao Cao himself;
Second, the five sons of Lü Bo's family were warmly entertained, and Cao Cao suspected that he had deceived himself, and personally killed eight people with a sword and left;
Third, Cao Cao heard the sound of eating utensils and thought there was an ambush, so he killed people and left.
These three historical materials seem to be unrelated, but in fact, they are records of three perspectives of an event, the first is "Lü Family Motive", the second is "Cao Cao's psychology", and the third is "the cause of the incident".
The complete refactoring should look like this:
Cao Cao took Cao Chun, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei (see the previous article "Ning taught me to bear the people of the world, and Hu taught the people of the world to bear me", who did Cao Cao say this to?). The others came to his friend Lü Bohao's house, Lü Bohao himself was not at home, only five sons were there, but he was very enthusiastic about Cao Cao, who was a wanted criminal, which aroused Cao Cao's suspicions, and the reason why these five sons were like this was that they coveted the horses and belongings of Cao, Liu and others, and wanted to come to a "black eat black", anyway, the wanted criminals could not go to the government to report to the officials.
Unexpectedly, when Lü Bohao's son and the guest part had not yet been "launched", Cao Cao and others, because they heard the "sound of eating utensils", thought that it was a collision of swords and swords, and the first attack was strong, and the battle situation was also very tragic, even Cao Cao himself had eight blades in his hand, and it is conceivable how many lives Liu Guanzhang and other Xiao generals had to leave behind.
After killing people, Cao Cao and others must have learned of lü Bohao's son's plot through "interrogation", otherwise, the records in the Book of Wei would not have been handed down at all, which is equivalent to a two-fold reversal of the facts, because of "accidents" and killing people, and because of killing people to expose the "conspiracy", so Cao Cao's "miserable knowledge" can be regarded as targeted.
The "I'd rather bear the burden than the other person bears me" here is actually a helpless statement about this "dog blood" incident, and even without any "happiness", translated, that is, "I would rather be stronger than the first to attack than to suffer later", but also "miserable" attitude, it can be seen that Cao Cao still has a "compassionate heart".
As for the translation of "negative" into "shouldering heavy responsibilities" and the like, it is complete nonsense, just a dream that does not understand the background of the event.
Finally, why is the son of Lü Bohao so "li lingzhi dim"? You are a big family with a manor and guests, why are your eyelids so shallow?
The root is in the price of horses at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Han Ling Emperor Guang and four years of searching for horses in the world, the price of a folk horse was as high as 2 million yuan, the gold price at that time was about 10,000 yuan / jin, and the Han system was about 250 grams, that is, a horse was worth 50 kg of gold, and at a gold price of 300 yuan / gram, a horse was worth 15 million yuan today.
Considering that Guanghe was still four years before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Cao had Lü Bohao, and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, horses were more scarce, and Cao Cao was a higher official than two thousand stones, equivalent to today's "vice provincial" leader, and his riding was naturally a horse, so the price would only be higher, Liu Bei started as a cavalryman, and had interacted with horse dealers, and there were many Youzhou cavalry under his command, then his mount would not be "mortal".
That is to say, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Cao Chun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other 5 people, each drove a Bugatti worth 15 million yuan into the Lu family's manor, the total price of 75 million to 100 million yuan, this wealth in the north, Guangzhou, Shenzhen to buy a good villa is almost meaningless, but if in "Chenggao", it is equivalent to today out of Beijing to Hebei Hengshui to buy a house, buy a manor, it should not be difficult.
The so-called wealth is touching, moreover, Cheng Gao is still under the control of Dong Zhuo, as the identity of these five wanted criminals, the Lü family can be said to be able to reach out and get this huge wealth, Cao Cao is only a friend of Lü Bohao, and if they ask for money and not harm their lives, they can also account with their father, so why should they not be happy?
Therefore, Cao Cao's feelings may also be unwilling to "the world is under the wind, and people's hearts are not ancient"...
As for the three brothers of Liu Guanzhang, and not young people who have just entered society, judging from their relatively familiar life experience of the "low-level society", I am afraid that even Cao Cao's poetic feelings of such "children of high-ranking officials" will not have, otherwise they would have been killed by the "years of wandering", where is there "Liu Xian lord" who has repeatedly lost and fought?