There is a legendary figure in Chinese history whose family is quite prosperous, in his lifetime he has bred a total of 25 sons and seven daughters for their family, and these children are all very intelligent, this person is Cao Cao in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao is not only a personal talent, his sons are also famous talents in the Three Kingdoms period, of which Cao Pi and Cao Zhi are even more talented. However, many people have ignored the young prodigy Cao Chong, Cao Chong,Cao Chong was already known as a genius brain hole at the age of six and has been passed down to this day, but she died unfortunately at the age of 13, when the world felt very sorry for Cao Chong's premature death, When Sima Yi sighed at the height of heavenly jealousy of talent, Sima Yi had a unique evaluation of Cao Chong He thought: Cao Chong is not smart, but really stupid, why does Sima Yi have such an evaluation of Cao Chong? Let me listen to the details of the three stages.
Phase I
Cao Chong was six years old and called the elephant to show a genius brain hole, Cao Chong was the most favored of Cao Cao's many sons, although Cao Chong's mother was Cao Cao's concubine Lady Huan, but she presented to everyone since she was a child, she presented to everyone a talent that was obviously superior to her peers, Cao Chong's good story was widely spread, cao Chong said that Sun Quan of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period sent an elephant to Cao Cao who was deeply loved by Cao Cao, and the huge body of the elephant was cao Cao involuntarily became interested in its weight, but the question immediately came how to obtain the weight of the elephant. This question left all the ministers helpless. At this time, Cao Chong, who was only six years old, gave a way to obtain the weight of the elephant. Cao Chong said at that time: You can drive the elephant to the boat, after the ship sinks, mark the part of the ship's draft, and then drive the elephant off the ship, put the cargo on the ship until the weight of the cargo reaches the mark of the draft before the water, you can know the weight of the elephant, Xiao Cao Chong came up with this method, Cao Cao was very happy to immediately order people to do it, in the absence of any modern physics foundation, the weight of the elephant was quickly accurately measured. And it was at such a young age that he actually understood and came up with this physical weighing method to be really very high IQ, of course, in addition to the world-known Cao Chong weighing elephant, there are many anecdotes about Cao Chong, such as the origin of "wisdom to save officials", "Gu Ying self-pity", etc., these deeds fully reflect Cao Chong's genius brain hole and wisdom. It is no wonder that the little one is deeply loved by her father Cao Cao, and Cao Cao does not shy away from his love for Cao Chong.
Phase II
Cao Cao assassinated the examination school, and Cao Chong stood out from the crowd. In the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao was defeated and seriously injured, and Xiliang Ma Teng wanted to take the opportunity to enter, and the capital city of Xuchang at that time was in danger, in order to prevent Xuchang from being captured by Cao Cao, he let the wind go out and claimed: Personally led 100,000 troops into the capital from the south gate, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi and the ministers waited bitterly at the south gate for three days after learning the news. Only Cao Chong waited for Cao Cao at the West Gate, and Sima Yi was also present at that time. It turned out that Cao Cao used the blindfold method to deliberately lure the assassins to the south gate, but he quietly returned to the capital from the west gate, and after the assassins won the hand, Cao Pi Xun Yu learned that Cao Cao was in the west gate, and then Cao Cao's three sons Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, Cao Zhang, and Xun Yu arrived at the west gate, so Cao Cao used the assassination to test the four sons, and he asked at that time: How can the assassins in the city do it well. Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi replied: Close the city gate and arrest it with a lot of money, while Cao Pi echoed it and called out what he said. At that time, Cao Chong replied: The city gate is wide open for assassins to go out. Cao Cao was overjoyed after hearing Cao Chong's words, although Cao Chong's answer at that time was deeply rooted in Cao Cao's heart, but he did not know that it was his own answer that also pushed him to the land of no return, originally there was only Cao Chong waiting for Cao Cao at ximen, and Cao Chong stood out again in Cao Cao's assassination examination, which undoubtedly showed that Cao Cao's other three sons were somewhat incompetent, so how could they not attract jealousy and annoyance, and they were born in the Imperial Family, and it was necessary to know that the Imperial Family had no siblings.
Phase III
Sima Yi hid his ambition to show Cao Chong's swagger, and continued to say that Cao Chong should talk about Sima Yi before he said that Sima Yi was also born smart, and his father Sima Fang also had high hopes for his son, so he disciplined him very strictly. As early as Sima Yi's childhood, his father began to teach him, lead his traces, hide his heart, and Sima Yi's teachings for his father are also kept in mind, throughout history, Sima Yi did indeed do this, and it is precisely because of the education he received from childhood, Sima Yi will have a unique evaluation of him after seeing Cao Chong's talented but exposed, Sima Yi was born in a chaotic world, in a chaotic world, strong people are numerous, it is not easy for him to want to do something, Cao Cao at that time heard of his talent, Because he was thirsty for talents, he immediately sent people to requisition land, but sima Yi refused on the spot. Sima Yi hid it, why was it? In fact, although Sima Yi lived in seclusion at home all day with books as a companion, he had a deep blood in his heart, and he was always highly concerned about the changes in the situation between the government and the opposition, and he wanted to wait for the time to be ripe before making plans. Sima Yi's initial hidden patience reached several years until Yuan Shao was defeated, Sima Yi thought that the time was ripe to come out of the mountain, but Sima Yi did not rush to the Xiang mansion and was still silent, fully demonstrating his hidden skills, silently observing the current situation, just after Cao Chong's death, Sima Yi personally asked for his order to guard his spirit for three years, Cao Chong as Cao Cao's favorite son, Sima Yi's move was enough to make Cao Cao moved. In addition, during the period of guarding the spirit, Sima Yi was able to carefully observe which of Cao Cao's other sons was more outstanding, and which one was the most promising to succeed to the throne. Sima Yi could make predictions and then find a place for his career, Sima Yi's years of secrecy and waiting finally decided to choose to secretly assist Cao Pi, but whether it was for Cao Cao's strategy or for Cao Pi's advice, he never showed that the mountains were leaking, and he would not compete, but just as a courtier, he tried to do his part, so it was Sima Yi's conspiracy to enter Tibet and make his career path more and more smooth and eventually became the last and biggest winner in the history of Cao Wei's regime. In Sima Yi's view, the really smart people will not let others see their wisdom, and Cao Chong's various behaviors are too ostentatious and eventually bring great danger to himself, although there is no record in history to prove that Cao Chong died of murder, but there have always been different voices about Cao Chong's real cause of death, is Cao Chong really sick and dying or was killed? If you think about it carefully, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi actually did not have much reason to frame Cao Chong, feeling that Cao Chong could not threaten his two eldest brothers at all, and in ancient times, they were generally standing long, otherwise there was a lack of etiquette, it is likely that Cao Chong's death was really just an accident, but Cao Cao once said to Cao Pi: "This is my misfortune, and Ru Zhi is lucky." There are many more controversial places that make the world think about it.
Finally, why Cao Chong was so ostentatious, in fact, the reason is very simple, that is, Cao Chong was still young at that time, he may just want to get his father's appreciation and love, he may not know much about some of the dangers of being born in the imperial family, and no one has ever taught him to be good at hiding his sharp edges early, and it is precisely because of this simple and unintentional publicity, coupled with Cao Cao's love for Cao Chong, he did not have the slightest intention of avoiding it, and finally brought Cao Chong more jealousy and jealousy of others. Perhaps Cao Chong died of murder, or perhaps he died unexpectedly, through a careful analysis of history, saying that the talent of heaven is obviously untenable, Sima Yi said that Cao Chong was stupid is not referring to Cao Chong's IQ problem, but to Cao Chong's inability to conceal his intelligence. It is precisely because Cao Chong is not good at hiding, even if it is really an accidental premature death, if he does not die and continues to not converge, he is likely to suffer a big loss or even suffer a big disaster.