During the Three Kingdoms period, why did Cao Cao execute Kong Rong?

The story of "Kong Rong Lets Pears" has almost become an indispensable typical example in modern education, and Kong Rong has thus left the world with a beautiful image of being kind and respecting his brother since childhood. However, the 4-year-old's act of giving up pears is only a fleeting fragment of his life. When Kong Rong grew up, he failed in politics in the chaotic world, and was executed for the crime of filial piety and rebellion, leaving the world with another difficult mystery: Why did Cao Cao have to execute Kong Rong?

There must be a reason for the occurrence of things, and the most fatal cause is Kong Rong's arrogance and arrogance under his fame, and his reckless advice without knowing the times.

Kong Rong was indeed a well-informed and talented scholar and scholar, but he was by no means a politician who was proficient in practice and good at using people. Those who do not have political talents still want to mingle in the official arena, and those who have a little self-knowledge should restrain their actions and act with an open mind, but Kong Rong, who is quite talented, holds a sharp pen and is empty of everything. Although he was quite familiar with the ancient governing strategy and indoctrination policy, he debated and quoted the ancient and modern with others, reaching the level of "playing and chanting", and thus deeply admired by Cao Cao. But he confronted people everywhere, sharply satirizing and sarcastic, and over time, the disaster finally came out of his mouth.

In 197, Yuan Shu was proclaimed emperor in Shouchun. Cao Cao was unable to annihilate him for a while, and his anger had nowhere to vent, so he became angry with Yang Biao, the eunuch who was married to Yuan Shu, and framed Yang Biao for attempting to depose Tianzi, and Shangqu Shu requested that he be arrested and imprisoned, and sentenced Yang Biao to the crime of rebellion. After Kong Rong heard about it, he immediately looked for Cao Cao's theory, quoting the Book of Zhou as saying that "father and son are brothers, and crimes are not compatible", not to mention that Yang Biao and Yuan Shu are only relatives! Cao Cao pushed back that it was the emperor's will. Kong Rong also compared it to "The regency of the Duke of Zhou, the king of Cheng killed the Duke of Zhao, how could the Duke of Zhou not know", the words were sonorous, the sentences were reasonable, forcing Cao Cao to be speechless, and in desperation, he had no choice but to let Yang Biao go.

Kong Rong single-handedly prevented Cao Cao from framing Yang Biao, and did not know how to introspect himself to settle down, but instead became complacent, and at the first opportunity, he contradicted Cao Cao in a sarcastic and sarcastic way. In the year of war and chaos, disasters and famines occurred frequently, and in order to meet the needs of the war and the vitality of the people, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu had issued prohibition orders on alcohol many times. However, as soon as Cao Cao promulgated the prohibition order, he was opposed by Kong Rong, and he openly said: "If alcohol can be banned because of the chaotic world, then why are they only forbidden to marry now because of the destruction of the country?" With Kong Rong's fame at the time, such an approach was extremely detrimental to the implementation of Prohibition. But Cao Cao considered that Kong Rong was just trying to make a splash, and reluctantly endured. After pacifying the north, Cao Cao ordered a southern expedition to prepare for a crusade against Liu Bei, Liu Biao, and Sun Quan. Kong Rong strongly dissuaded and argued strongly. First of all, liu Bei and Liu Biao said that they were relatives of the Han dynasty and could not be crusaded; they also said that Sun Quanhu was in Jiangdong and was not easy to attack; and even bluntly said that if he attacked, he would be a teacher without righteousness, and there would be a loss of popular hope. Cao Cao finally couldn't bear to rebuke Kong Rong and ordered that anyone who obstructed him should be executed. After Kong Rong walked out of the Cao Mansion, Yang Tian sighed, "Is there any reason to be undefeated by using the unrighteous master to fight against the benevolent and righteous master?"

Cao Cao heard such wild words, coupled with the fact that he had been repeatedly and repeatedly ridiculed by Kong Rong, and in anger, he sent people to secretly search for Kong Rong's arrogant words, and finally put him to death on charges of filial piety and conspiracy to rebel. No matter how prestigious Kong Rong's reputation was in his lifetime, he was just a talented, unintelligent, arrogant and arrogant student. Born in a chaotic world but without the talent to rule the world, the name is higher than the truth but do not know self-examination, no wonder Cao Cao wrote in the bulletin of the public world: "Melting against the heavens and the contrary, defeating the morality and etiquette, although the city is wanton, it is still late." ”