Xun You's refusal to reward begins and ends

Xun You, Cao Cao's courtier. Early Yuan Shao, Nai Yuan Shao zhi is talented, suspicious by nature, undecided, rigid and self-employed and difficult to achieve big things, and has long had the intention of going. His uncle Xun Yu was a strategist of Cao Cao, and recommended him to Cao Cao, and Cao Yu was overjoyed to see Xun You, saying: I Mu Ru Jiuyi, come to vote today, see each other and hate late. So a feast was set up, and the wine was very happy.

Xun You served as a strategist in the operation office and joined the military plane. For the twelve wonders of the exercise, invincible. Yuan Shao was suppressed in the north, Lü Bu was destroyed in the east, Zhang Xiu was demoted in the south, and Ma Teng and Han Sui were rejected in the west. He made great achievements for the Cao Wei regime. Cao Cao said to Xun You affectionately: Since you succumbed to me, every battle will be won and its merits will be great. When Gao Zu first established, he sealed Zhang Liang's 30,000 households, and I also did as you pleased. Xun You was not overjoyed after hearing this, and after a little contemplation, he said: Thank you for your kindness. I am yuan shao's old subject, I have not given up on it, I have entrusted myself with heavy responsibilities, I am full of gratitude, and it is my share to serve the minister, how dare I hope for a reward. Xun Youjian did not accept it, and he praised it: True Righteous Shiye!

Since then, Xun You has been very secretive about the, and whenever he goes to the court, he will play when there is something, and he will not say a word about anything. No friends outside, no pick-ups inside. Often hidden in the house, accompanied by books, all day long.

Xun You had a son-in-law, Xin Yun, who asked him about pacifying Yuan Tan, and Xun You said: They are all foresight and wisdom, so they have won this victory. I just carried out the intention of the Prime Minister, and I didn't have any merit. After this matter reached Cao Cao's ears, Cao Cao sighed: On the surface, Xun Youyu was foolish, but in fact he was brilliant and timid on the surface, but in fact his courage was commendable, and his surface was weak, but in fact he was strong! And instructed his son Cao Pi: Xun You can be a teacher, and you should be courteous to him. Later, when Xun You was seriously ill, Cao Pi personally visited and supported him, and took medicine to feed him. Xun You also lived up to expectations, and still cared about the affairs of the imperial court when he was seriously ill, and fulfilled his duties. In 214 AD, during the Eastern Expedition against Sun Quan, despite his advanced age, he took an illness with the army and died of illness at the age of 58.

Xun You made countless contributions and was deeply respected by Cao Cao, but he knew well the way of rabbit and dead dog cooking, and avoided the footsteps of Wu Zixu, Yue Zhiwen, and Han Zhi Han Xin, and hid deeply, so he could die well. Its descendants continued for more than three hundred years, Andi Zhiya!