It’s hard to compare, but I prefer Cao Cao. In this complicated era of the Three Kingdoms, whoever is not cunning will suffer, haha! Cao Cao was a very complicated person.
He is cunning yet honest, tender yet vicious, tolerant yet vengeful.
If you only read one story about Cao Cao, and only look at one side of Cao Cao, the conclusion you will draw is that a blind man feels the elephant, which is not comprehensive.
In our opinion, Cao Cao may be a person with the most complex personality and the most diverse images in Chinese history.
He is a man who is extremely smart but also stupid, cunning and treacherous, but also frank and sincere, open-minded and suspicious, magnanimous and narrow-minded.
It can be said that it is the demeanor of everyone, the face of a villain; the heroic spirit, the feelings of children; the temper of the king of hell, the heart of a bodhisattva.
He is such a person. He seems to have many faces on his body. This face appears for a while, and another face is shown to us for a while.
But everyone should pay attention to one thing: no matter which face, it belongs to Cao Cao and will not be recognized as someone else's.
Being able to unify such a complex character into one person is an amazing thing in itself.
What does it embody? It reflects Cao Cao's atmosphere.
What is atmosphere? The sea accepts all rivers, and it is great to be tolerant.
Cao Cao is just a tolerant person, a very large-capacity person, and all kinds of contradictory things are unified with him.