Cao Mengde is Cao Cao, a powerful minister in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the founder of the Cao Wei regime. The son of Taiwei Cao Song.
Cao Cao (155-March 15, 220), whose surname was Mengde, auspicious, and Ahao, was originally named Xiahou and was a native of Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou City, Anhui Province). An outstanding statesman, military strategist, writer, and calligrapher in ancient China. Cao Cao was a young man who was alert, allowed his heroes to be debauched, and did not rule his profession. When he was twenty years old, he promoted Xiaolian to the rank of Lang and was awarded the title of Lieutenant of the North of Luoyang.
Cao Cao employed people based on their talents, restrained tyranny, strengthened centralization of power, and built water conservancy projects, which promoted the recovery and development of the social economy in the late Han Dynasty. He knew the art of war and was good at poetry and prose. He often expressed political ambitions and reflected the suffering of the people in the late Han Dynasty. He was generous in speech and started the style of Jian'an literature. Today's collection of works is compiled by Cao Cao. There is also "Sun Tzu's Brief Explanation" handed down from generation to generation. Cao Cao was also good at calligraphy, and his calligraphy was rated as "wonderful" by "Shuguan".
Main impact:
During the warlord wars in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the social economy of the Huanghuai River Basin suffered unprecedented destruction. The people were massacred, the land was barren, and the survivors were forced to leave their homes and live in other places. . It can be said that "the name is empty but there is no residence, and there are countless people who live hundreds of miles away without people." "The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles."
Faced with this tragic scene, Cao Cao implemented a series of policies to restore the economy and stabilize the situation during his lifetime. Judging from Cao Cao's political, military, and economic performance, such as promoting farmland, building water conservancy, and implementing the official sale of salt and iron system, it played a positive role in the recovery of social economy and economic rectification.