The Three Kingdoms period can be described as a very wonderful period in Chinese history, during which many famous figures appeared, some of whom were scheming strategists or some of whom were martial artists. These characters have their own factions, and they conspire with other factions to fight each other, and eventually win a side in the chaotic world.
Many of the stories and wonderful scenes depicted in Romance of the Three Kingdoms can still be exciting even today. It is said that "heroes in a chaotic world" are indeed the case, and the Three Kingdoms period produced a large number of heroes and good men, among which Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Zhuge Liang were taken as examples. Speaking of Cao Cao, the first thing that comes to mind is his politician and military side, but few people know his literary side.
Cao Cao can be said to be a generation of tyrants in the Three Kingdoms period, and he is also a heroic and heroic figure among them. Cao Cao is very ambitious, and such ambition is not difficult to find in Cao Cao's literary works, for example, "Old Ji Futuo, ambition in a thousand miles" is Cao Cao's ambition and helpless mood after aging.
Cao Cao's literary popularity also makes his character image more rich and fulfilling. But in fact, we all know that Cao Cao is also a person who loves talent very much, and when it comes to this, it is curious, why did Cao Cao look down on Zhuge Liang in his early years? Why did he just let him assist his opponent Liu Bei? If it was not Liu Bei but Cao Cao who was the three Gu Maolu at that time, would the situation change?
The story between the three of them that we are most familiar with is that Liu Beisan Gu Maolu invited Zhuge Liang out of the mountain at that time. Because Zhuge Liang at that time actually did not want to go out of the mountain, but under Liu Bei's repeated requests, he touched Zhuge Liang with sincerity, and finally came out of the mountain.
At that time, Cao Cao was indeed a person who cherished talents very much, as long as someone came to him, no matter what he was doing at that time, he would come out to greet him, which can be said to be love as fate. Even at that time, Cao Cao was very appreciative of Guan Yu, and even if Guan Yu did not want to join him, he did not kill Guan Yu. But cao cao aicai has another personality trait that is very suspicious.
Although Cao Cao welcomed them with open arms in the face of those who came to defect, he would also create some things to test them to see if they were sincerely surrendered. The most critical reason why Cao Cao did not go to recruit Zhuge Liang was that Zhuge Liang was too smart, Cao Cao did not have enough self-confidence to make Zhuge Liang his confidant, and even feared that Zhuge Liang would cause irreparable damage to himself.
And another reason is that at that time, Cao Cao already had many famous strategists around him, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, Xun Yu, Xun You, the five major strategists were very powerful, especially Guo Jia and many other people believed that their talents were not inferior to Zhuge Liang. Since this was the case, Cao Cao did not have to go to great lengths to recruit a military division that he was not very sure about. In fact, this is also Cao Cao's cleverness, although he cherishes talented people, but he is suspicious, so "suspicious people don't use" just balances his shortcomings