In the thousands of years of historical development of our country, there have been many outstanding figures, some of whom have become famous at a young age and are called genius teenagers. For example, Xiang Qi, Ganluo, and Cao Cao's beloved son Cao Chong, etc., they are all extremely intelligent. But they all died tragically young. Among them, Cao Chong's side was also a man who was also a genius teenager, who offered Cao Cao ten strategies, and as a result, Cao Cao took a city with only one of them, but then he killed this clever teenager.
This person is Zhou Buxi, who has been gifted since childhood and likes to learn. He was Liu Xian's nephew, and after knowing that his nephew was so smart and studious, Liu Xian wanted him to study with Liu Ba, but liu Bawan refused. Later, Cao Cao attacked Jingzhou, Liu Chunju surrendered, and Jingzhou was occupied by Cao Cao. Cao Cao was a man of love for talent, and naturally loved Zhou Buxi, and wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law, but Zhou Bu did not agree.
For Zhou Bu to be so intelligent at a young age, Cao Cao also did not believe it, so it was like "seeing is believing". One day, a "white bird" just flew in the sky, and Cao Cao asked Zhou Buxian and others to express this matter in articles. In the end, Zhou Buxian quickly wrote an article, and the literary style was soaring, which made Cao Cao very shocked and admired. It is said that when Cao Cao attacked Liucheng, many attacks have not been captured, and Zhou Buqi gave ten strategies, and finally Cao Cao only had one of them, and easily took the city.
Cao Cao had a son named Cao Chong, who was also a young genius who was famous for his deeds of "Cao Chong calling himself an elephant" when he was about five or six years old. After Zhou Buxi arrived in Xudu, he and Cao Chong had fun, and the two became friends. This is also something that Cao Cao is happy to see, which is of great help to Cao Chong. Cao Cao had many sons, but he liked Cao Chong the most and also intended to make Cao Chong his heir, so he was also choosing a usable person for him.
However, Cao Chong died of illness, when he was only thirteen years old, and his favorite son was gone, and Cao Cao's grief could be imagined. Later, whenever he saw Zhou Buxian, he thought of his dead son, and even thought that Zhou Buxian had such an extraordinary wisdom that he might become a threat in the future. Therefore, Cao Cao immediately wanted to get rid of him, Cao Pi knew and rushed to dissuade him, Cao Cao instead trained Cao Pi, saying that Zhou Bu was not something that Cao Pi could control, and he thought that only Cao Chong could control this person, so Zhou Bu, who was only seventeen years old, was assassinated and killed.
Cao Cao was originally a person who cherished talents and loved talents, but he was also suspicious by nature, and he also killed many talented people, such as killing The Close Attendant in a dream, Cao Cao suspected that the Close Attendant was plotting to kill him and killed the Close Attendant; Cao Zhi was ordered by Yang Xiu and behaved well in front of Cao Cao, which caused Cao Cao's doubts, and Later Yang Xiu was killed; and Hua Tuo also died because of Cao Cao's suspiciousness. It can be seen from this that even if Zhou Bu was a rare genius, it was difficult to do anything when he met such a suspicious person as Cao Cao, and later in order to eliminate the troubles forever, Cao Cao did not hesitate to kill him.