The story of the Three Kingdoms fulfills the dreams of wise kings, wise men, and knights for some readers, and also provides a lot of scheming, calculations, tactics, and strategies to other readers. Romantic and practical.
However, the charm of the Three Kingdoms story does not end there. When we are tired of good guys who are too good to be human and bad guys who are too bad to be human, the classic villain Cao Cao's family comes into our sight. As a result, the mental prison of black and white, right and wrong began to collapse, and the facial makeup and flat characters became fuller.
Since Cao Cao’s deeds are extremely well-known, this issue will tell you about the most powerful family in the Three Kingdoms - Cao Cao’s family by abbreviating his deeds and discussing issues in detail!
Chairman Mao once He had a positive evaluation of Cao Cao. Not only did he have the poem "Thousands of years have passed since the past, Wei Wu wielded his whip, and Jieshi in the east has a posthumous chapter", he also publicly praised Cao Cao in 1954 and said: "Cao Cao was a great statesman and military strategist, and also A great poet...Cao Cao unified northern China and founded the Wei State. At that time, the Yellow River Basin was the central area of ??China. He reformed many evil policies of the Eastern Han Dynasty, suppressed powerful people, developed production, implemented the farming system, and promoted land reclamation and the rule of law. , promote frugality, and enable the society that has suffered great damage to begin to stabilize, recover, and develop. Shouldn't these be affirmed? Isn't it amazing? It is said that Cao Cao is a white-faced traitor. It is written like this in the book, acted like this in the play, and the people say so. The unjust cases caused by feudal orthodoxy, as well as those reactionary gentry, are the monopolists of feudal culture, and they write to maintain feudal orthodoxy."
Lu Xun said: "Cao Cao at least is. A hero. "Cao Cao was a great military figure of his generation who made significant contributions to Chinese military thought. Cao Cao sought to centralize power, used both rituals and punishments, and relied on talents. He did not believe in the destiny of heaven and other ideas. He cultivated land peacefully and used both military food and punishment. He was meritocratic. Therefore, the propositions such as disbelief in the destiny of heaven, peaceful cultivation of farmland to feed the army, suppression of annexation, and many other economic propositions such as giving taxes to the weak people, as well as efforts to eradicate bad social habits, and the teaching and literary propositions of the ancient kings, are all detrimental to Chinese politics. , economic, education, culture and other ideas inheritance and development.
The hero of troubled times! Over the past thousands of years, Cao Cao has received mixed reviews. Those who praised him are the heroes of the world, and he is said to be the first-class politician and military officer in Chinese history. Home, writer. Those who destroy him are called traitors and traitors. I agree that Cao Cao is a military strategist. Cao Cao had the historical merit of unifying the north. This is a historical fact that cannot be erased. I agree that Cao Cao is a poet. Because poems like "Singing over wine and singing, what is life like?... The Duke of Zhou spits out nourishment, and the world returns to its heart" is not a literary artistic conception that ordinary literati can achieve. To say that Cao Cao is a politician, I think some of the evaluations are too high: First of all, Cao Cao committed atrocities of massacring people. He massacred hundreds of thousands of people, which was the biggest stain in Cao Cao's life. Secondly, there are also big problems with Cao Cao's personal style. Cao Cao is a very lustful person. Cao Cao really goes crazy for women. During the campaign against Zhang Xiu, he captured his aunt, and during the campaign against Lu Bu, he captured the wife of his general Qin Yilu. In the end, Cao Cao massacred many civil servants and generals in order to gain his own power by "coercing the emperor to order the princes". It proves the bad style of feudal rulers who can keep things for my own use and kill them if they are not used. Lu Xun, whom our countrymen admire, believed that Cao Cao was ‘at least a hero.’ What exactly is Cao Cao’s hero? He did not say it clearly. Any extreme view of evaluating Cao Cao is wrong. We should evaluate and understand Cao Cao more dialectically and fairly. Although I don't like Cao Cao very much, I have to admit that I like his character very much. In fact, each of us is the same as Cao Cao, with selfishness and ambition, but we don't have Cao Cao's courage and persistence. .
If we can be like Cao Cao and express ourselves bravely without caring about other people's opinions, if we can also be consistent and persistent like Cao Cao, we must stick to our dreams even if we are the enemy of the world. , perhaps we have already escaped from the current environment. Although there is no hope of reaching the sky in one step, down-to-earth efforts are indispensable.
At the age of 63, Yoshimoto, the president of the Royal Medical College, conspired with a small group of loyal officials of the Han Dynasty to create a rebellion in Xudu, trying to kidnap Emperor Xian and defect to Guan Yu. Cao Cao's secretary-general Wang Bi died of serious injuries after the rebellion was quelled. At the age of 64, Cao Cao's favorite general and brother-in-law Xia Houyuan was killed by Liu Bei's army at Dingjun Mountain. Hanzhong was lost and Liu Bei became the King of Hanzhong. Guan Yu surrendered to the ban, killed Pang De, flooded the seven armies, and shocked China. The defender of Wancheng rebelled against Guan Yu. At the same time, there was a super orator in Yecheng, Wei Xi, who incited a large number of second-generation officials to prepare for a coup. At the age of 65, Guan Yu was defeated in Maicheng under the joint strangulation of Cao Cao and Sun Quan's armies. Sun Quan sent Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao with ulterior motives. Cao Cao saw the move and buried Guan Yu in Luoyang with the courtesy of a prince.
After the funeral, Cao Cao fell ill in Luoyang. Cao Pi was in Yecheng at that time, but Cao Cao sent people to Chang'an to urgently summon Cao Zhang, who had performed well in the military in recent years. After his death, his motives have become an eternal mystery. Before his death, Cao Cao published his famous last words titled "Divide the fragrance and sell the shoes." It did not involve a single word of military and national plans, but only nagged arrangements for how the concubines should live their lives in the future.
In Cao Cao's view, the military and state plans have been arranged long ago. Farming has ensured food, meritocracy has ensured the echelon construction of talents, no one in the Han Dynasty can be used, and Sun and Liu have turned against each other. What else does he have to worry about?
Cao Cao could not imagine how much trouble the system he was proud of would be in Cao Pi's eyes. Cao Cao fully considered that those who were not loyal to him had been eliminated, but he did not fully consider that those who were loyal to him would not necessarily be loyal to Cao Pi...
Before starting the Cao Pi era, as usual, I should give Cao Cao a comment. I originally wanted to write a lot of comments, but in 1954, the only *** who had the same profound attainments in politics, military, poetry, and calligraphy as Cao Cao had become Cao Cao. I wrote a poem that could not be surpassed, so I decided to excerpt it honestly as follows:
Thousands of years have passed since then, Wei Wu whipped his whip, and there is a posthumous chapter in Jieshi in the east. The bleak autumn wind is here again, and the world has changed.