It can be said that it is a problem of Cao Cao’s character.
The person with the most complex personality and the most diverse images in history. He is extremely smart, but also stupid, cunning, yet frank and sincere, open-minded, yet suspicious, magnanimous, yet narrow-minded. It can be said that he has a noble demeanor and a villain's face; a heroic demeanor and the feelings of children; the temper of the king of hell and the heart of a bodhisattva. It seems that Cao Cao seems to have several faces, but they all appear on his body. There is no contradiction at all. This is really a miracle. In fact, Cao Cao is real and true to nature. Including his treachery, cunning, cruelty, and tyranny, they all appeared calm, generous, sincere and calm.
Cao Cao (King of Wei in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and founder of Cao Wei)
Cao Cao (155-March 15, 220) had the courtesy name Mengde, an auspicious name, and a small name of Ah Man. A native of Qiao County, Peiguo (now Bozhou, Anhui). He was an outstanding statesman, militarist, writer and calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos. In the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao conquered all directions, internally eliminated the separatist forces such as Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Ma Chao, and Han Sui, and externally surrendered the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc. , unified northern China, and implemented a series of policies to restore economic production and social order, expand farmland, build water conservancy projects, reward farmers and mulberry trees, attach importance to handicrafts, resettle the exiled population, and implement "rent modulation", thus gradually stabilizing the society and economy of the Central Plains. There's a turning point. Under the rule of Cao Cao, the Yellow River Basin experienced a certain degree of political clarity, the economy gradually recovered, class oppression was slightly alleviated, and the social atmosphere improved. Some of the measures taken by Cao Cao in the name of the Han Dynasty had a positive effect.
When Cao Cao was alive, he served as the prime minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty and later the king of Wei, laying the foundation for the founding of Cao Wei. After his death, his posthumous title was 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. Zhang Huaiguan of the Tang Dynasty rated Cao Cao's calligraphy as "wonderful" in "Shujuan".