Speaking of the name Cao Cao, I think everyone must know it. In the long history of more than a thousand years, some people have admired him and some people have scorned him.
In that chaotic world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He first established his own base area in Yanzhou, and then began to campaign around on this basis, gradually eliminating the large and small forces surrounding Yanzhou. After that, tianzi was ordered to order the princes to enlist Yuan Shu in turn, destroy Lü Bu, and finally defeat Yuan Shao at the Battle of Guandu and establish his hegemonic position.
Unfortunately, the Battle of Chibi made Cao Cao lose the opportunity to unify the world, and he could only become the "King of Zhou Wen", and eventually divided the world. Unfortunately, Cao Pi was not the "King of Zhou Wu", and Sima Yi was not Cao Pi's "Jiang Ziya".
In the end, the Sima clan stole the Cao Wei Jiangshan, and thus Cao Wei was destroyed in the long river of history, and the great cause of unifying the world was finally completed by the Sima family, which can also be said to be providence.
I also have my own views on such a controversial figure, but as I come into contact with more and more things, I feel more and more about Cao Cao, and in the end I don't know how to correctly look at this person.
But if I had to create a word for Cao Cao, it would be: Multi-Faceted King.
In short, Xiaobian sometimes thinks that he is a very contradictory person, of course, this contradiction may be caused by his family lineage and the environment at that time.
<h1>He was a powerful vassal of the Great Han</h1>
Cao Cao was born into a family of eunuchs, and was often criticized in his early years because of his poor origins.
At that time, the inspection system was on the verge of collapse, and this mechanism of selecting officials in the Han Dynasty was gradually monopolized by the family giants, which made it difficult for the students of the cold door to emerge.
At this time, the phenomenon of eunuch chaos in the middle of the country intensified in the Eastern Han Court, and these family tycoons were also fighting with regular eunuchs. However, the fiasco of the two party disasters made the scholars deeply resentful of the eunuchs, and Cao Cao was criticized for his origins, although he himself did not do anything wrong.
In his early years, Cao Cao was also a promising young man who wanted to support the country. During his tenure as a lieutenant in northern Luoyang, he was not afraid of the magnates, and formulated a set of strict laws and regulations hoping to improve the law of Luoyang.
At that time, Luoyang was mixed with fish and dragons, and a random person on the street might be the prince of a courtier. Sure enough, soon after, there was a head bird who dared to challenge Cao Cao's prestige, the uncle of the Great Eunuch Jian Shuo.
For Cao Cao, who had just entered the army, since he had formulated a set of laws, there was no point in not enforcing them. Therefore, Cao Cao did not spare this head bird in the end, and beat him to death with the five-colored stick he made.
Some people may say that Cao Cao relied on his family lineage to dare to kill Jian Tu, but before this, was there really no one who had a good family lineage to serve the people? Didn't Cao Cao know that killing Jian Tu would offend Jian Shuo? I'm afraid not. Therefore, it is not whether to dare to care, but whether to be willing or unwilling.
At that time, although the struggle between the family and the eunuchs was extremely fierce, if you changed someone to this position, do you think someone would do better than Cao Cao? It is precisely because of the ambition in the heart that it is not afraid of the forces behind it.
After this incident, Cao Cao was suppressed by the powerful people in the dprk, and there were several ups and downs in the dprk.
However, even so, Cao Cao still did not change his original intention and sought his own government in his position. During his tenure as a councilor, he sent the Han Ling Emperor to the people who had been suppressed in the disaster of the party; when he was the minister of Jinan, he worked diligently in his position, vigorously rectified the administration of officials, and for a time made the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the corrupt officials fled in despair, establishing the last pure land for the corrupt Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, later Dong Zhuo chaotically ruled the government, and the world was in chaos. And those loyal ministers who talk all day long about wanting to support the Han Dynasty and mountains are somewhat attached to Dong Zhuo, and some are trembling and trembling, and Mingzhe is protecting themselves and allowing Dong Zhuo to cause trouble to the government.
Cao Cao, unwilling to join Dong Zhuo, found an opportunity to sneak out of Luoyang to join Yuan Shao's alliance with Dong.
However, the internal intrigues and rivalries within the Dong Alliance made Cao Cao feel chilled, and at this time he had already seen that the Eastern Han court was no longer in favor.
<h1>He was the gravedigger of the Great Han</h1>
After the dissolution of the Dong Alliance, Cao Cao also began to chase after the Central Plains, and he in turn cleared the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in Yanzhou to seize a base area of his own.
In the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao welcomed emperor Xian of Han, and from this moment on, Cao Cao's strength increased greatly. But it was from this point on that Cao Cao changed from a capable vassal of the Han Dynasty to an authoritarian traitor:
First of all: elevate the Emperor of Han and blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes
From the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao began to conquer the four sides in the name of Tianzi. He first purged Yuan Shu and Lü Bu, who were entrenched in Huainan and Xuzhou. For Ma Chao, Liu Biao and others in Liangzhou and Jingzhou, they temporarily adopted a policy of Huairou to consolidate their rear, and after everything was stable, they were cleaned up.
All the princes knew that it was Cao Cao's trick, but they could only break their teeth and swallow into their stomachs. At that time, the name of the Han Room was still somewhat useful, and if it refused to accept it, it would be tantamount to making an enemy of the Han Room.
The second is to kill Dong Cheng and others and completely eliminate the influence of the Han Chamber
Cao Cao's move to blackmail Tianzi in order to order the princes caused dissatisfaction among a cadre of people led by Dong Cheng in the court at that time, so Dong Cheng went around contacting a group of important officials in the court at that time to plot to get rid of Cao Cao.
But Cao Cao was not Dong Zhuo, and his means of stealing the country were much more advanced than Dong Zhuo's. Dong Cheng's small actions naturally concealed Cao Cao, and finally after the matter was leaked, Cao Cao executed all of Dong Cheng's cadres, even Dong Guifei, who was already pregnant, and only Liu Bei escaped the disaster.
Dong Cheng's death also means that there really are no trustworthy people around Emperor Xiandi of Han from now on, and emperor Xiandi of Han is a puppet in the true sense.
After the Emperor of Han was overthrown, Cao Cao after killing Dong Cheng was no longer the Cao Cao who had just entered the career, and at this time Cao Cao had completely become a traitor in the chaotic world. Everything he did was no longer for the Sake of the Han Dynasty, but more for himself, for the Cao Family.
<h1>He was a generous lord</h1>
Cao Cao has experienced dozens of battles from Chen Liu to the Battle of Hanzhong, and although there are victories and losses in them, it also makes people see his outstanding military talent.
Cao Cao was able to succeed in the chaotic world, in addition to his own outstanding military talent, but also his achievements in employing people. Among Cao Cao Liu Bei and Sun Quan, Cao Cao can be said to be the most skilled of the three of them, and therefore many talents have taken the initiative to go to the aid, of course, this also has a lot to do with himself:
One: a broad heart
Speaking of this, I have to mention two people, one is Chen Lin and the other is Zhang Xiu.
Chen Lin was once a subordinate of Yuan Shao, a great talent with a high degree of literary attainment.
In ancient times, when troops were sent to fight, they would write a war text, and the text was also a war book from another level.
The person in charge of this project at that time was Chen Lin, who was a great talent and naturally brilliant in literature, and scolded Cao Cao's ancestors with a bloody head in the text.
Cao Cao himself was also a great literary hero, and after seeing this article, his first reaction was to kill it quickly, but when he carefully read this article, he was amazed by it.
Later, after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, he captured Chen Lin alive, but did not blame him for this, but left him to work.
The same Wancheng waiting for Zhang Xiu was also, Zhang Xiu in the Battle of Wancheng because Cao Cao asked his aunt to go to bed, which immediately angered Zhang Xiu.
Zhang Xiu attacked Cao Cao at night under the strategy of the "poison warrior" Jia Xu, and Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang and the general Dianwei were killed in battle, and most of the Qingzhou soldiers were killed, thus Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao formed a great vendetta.
When the Battle of Guandu broke out, Zhang Xiu was co-opted by Yuan Shao because he was on Cao Cao's back.
However, at this time, Jia Xu asked Zhang Xiu to surrender to Cao Cao, and Zhang Xiu was a little hesitant at first. But Jia Xu believes that Cao Cao is determined to be in the world and will not anger you because of this small matter. Sure enough, after Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao smiled and took revenge, and emperor Xian of Shangshu han made him a marquis.
Second: do not ask about origin, know people and do good job
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the inspection system for selecting officials in the imperial court was on the verge of collapse, and a large number of talented han disciples could not be reused.
Although Cao Cao himself stood out because of the inspection and examination system, he himself was not interested in this official selection system, and his criteria for selecting talents were only one "meritocracy".
As long as you have talent, no matter what you came from before, you are not to blame for what you used to do.
For example, Cao Cao's well-known "Five Sons of Good Generals", in addition to yu Ban Le forbidden two people to follow Cao Cao earlier, the other three were halfway to Cao Cao.
Zhang Liao was once Lü Bu's subordinate, and Zhang Gao was Yuan Shao's subordinate, and they had fought against Cao Cao on the battlefield. Even Yu Ban and Le Ban, who followed Cao Cao in their early years, were both from small soldiers.
However, Cao Cao did not ask about their past and entrusted them with heavy responsibilities, which led to Zhang Liao's Wei Zhen Xiaoyaojin and Zhang Gao's street pavilion.
It is also because of the importance of talents and the broad-mindedness that Cao Cao can become the most powerful of the three parties of Wei Shu and Wu.
<h1>He was a butcher</h1>
Wei Wucao cao is indeed a great talent, but he also has his bad side, and it is precisely this that makes him unable to dominate the world in the end. Although he gradually revived the war-torn land, on the other hand, he was also a butcher.
Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was killed by Tao Qian's subordinate Zhang Min, and Cao Cao launched a major campaign against Tao Qian in Xuzhou because of this.
Originally, the Three Kingdoms period was a period of struggle, and the world of great strife competed for strength. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Cao Cao took advantage of the opportunity to capture the city in the name of revenge for his father.
However, it was the Battle of Xuzhou that made the world see clearly the terrible side of Cao Cao," "Slaughtering Xuzhou."
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and Emperor Wu records: "In the spring of the first year of Xingping, Taizu returned from Xuzhou, and at the beginning, his grandfather Song returned to the government, and Dong Zhuo's rebellion, taking refuge from Lang evil, was victimized by Tao Qian, so Taizu was determined to restore the Eastern Expedition." Xia, so that Xun Yu and Cheng Yu guarded Juancheng, re-conquered Tao Qian, pulled out five cities, and then slightly reached the East China Sea. After returning to Tan, Qian sent Cao Bao and Liu Bei tun Tan Dong to taizu. Taizu broke through it, so he attacked and pulled out Xiang Ben, and he was killed by too much.
Although this sentence is understated, the "too much cruelty" in it can prove that Cao Cao's slaughter of Xuzhou was not a matter of doing nothing.
As the old saying goes: "He who wins the hearts and minds of the people wins the world." This famous saying that has been circulating since ancient times has its own certain truth, it is easy to win the world, but it is difficult to win the hearts and minds of the people. Qin II died, why? Because he did not adjust the law in time after reunification, the harsh government forced the original subjects of the Six Kingdoms to rebel.
Cao Cao's slaughter of Xuzhou did shock the people of Xuzhou at first. Later, after the grief, Cao Cao also met with strong resistance from the people of Xuzhou. Originally, Cao Song's death had nothing to do with the people of Xuzhou, but just because he could not attack Xuzhou for a long time and therefore killed him, countless unarmed People of Li died tragically under Cao Cao's butcher's knife, which also caused the indignation of the people of Xuzhou.
Later, although Cao Cao successfully occupied Xuzhou, because of Cao Cao's slaughter of Xuzhou, his reputation in Xuzhou was very bad, and Cao Cao had no choice but to use Zang Bachen Deng and other Xuzhou natives to govern Xuzhou.
Cao Cao is a person who is difficult to describe in detail in a few articles, and his life has had great ups and downs, and there have been times of glory and downfall, and the above points are only a trivial part of his life.
He is a leader in literature, politics, and military, and the words hero and hero are actually not very suitable for him, and perhaps the adulterous male is the most real side of him.
Because it is a traitor who will be cunning and changeable, because it is cunning and changeable, it will make people unable to see what kind of a person he really is.