Xu Tian’s image of Cao Cao during the siege: arrogant, domineering, rebellious, and wanted to replace him as the emperor.
When Xu Tian was fighting a siege, Cao Cao borrowed the emperor's precious eagle bow and shot a deer. The civil and military ministers who followed thought it was the emperor who had shot it. The mountain shouted long live, and Cao Cao actually stood beside the emperor. He received long live cheers before, and he took the precious eagle bow and refused to return it to the emperor afterwards. The image of Cao Cao in the whole incident gave people the impression of being arrogant, domineering, rebellious, and wanting to replace the emperor.
Cao Cao (155-March 15, 220), whose courtesy name was Mengde, whose last name was Jili, and whose nickname was Amo, was from Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou, Anhui), and was of Han nationality. He was an outstanding politician, militarist, writer, and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms. In the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, he conquered the four directions, eliminated the separatist forces such as Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Ma Chao, and Han Sui internally, and surrendered the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc. externally, unified northern China, and implemented a series of policies to restore economic production. and social order, laying the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei. When Cao Cao was alive, he served as the Prime Minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later as the King of Wei. After his death, he was given the posthumous title of King Wu. After his son Cao Pi became emperor, he was honored as Emperor Wu, with the temple name Taizu.
Cao Cao was skilled in military tactics and good at poetry. He expressed his political ambitions and reflected the suffering life of the people in the late Han Dynasty. He was majestic, generous and desolate. His prose was also clear and neat, which opened up and prospered Jian'an literature and gave it to later generations. He left behind precious spiritual wealth, known as the character of Jian'an in history, and Lu Xun evaluated him as "the founder of reformed articles." At the same time, Cao Cao was also good at calligraphy, especially Zhangcao. Zhang Huaiguan of the Tang Dynasty rated it as a "wonderful product" in "Shu Duan".