In his youth, Cao Cao was resourceful, alert, willful, chivalrous, unruly and unlearned. Therefore, people at that time did not think that he had any special talents. Only Qiao Xuan and others in the beam think he is different. Qiao Xuan said to Cao Cao, "There will be chaos in the world, and people who are doomed can't help it. What about those that can be safe? " He Qing of Nanyang said to him: "The Han Dynasty will die, and the person who lives in the world must be this person!" Xu Shao of Nanyang is famous for knowing people. He once said to Cao Cao, "A traitor who keeps his place is a hero in troubled times."
In his early years, Cao Cao showed his love and talent for martial arts, read widely and especially liked the art of war. He copied the strategies of various ancient art of war, and the book Wei Wu's Notes on Sun Tzu, which annotated the art of war, was handed down from generation to generation. These laid a solid foundation for his later military career.
Cao Cao (founder of Wang Wei and Cao Wei in the late Eastern Han Dynasty)
Cao Cao (155-0315,220) was born in Mengde, a lucky man and a small character, Asan, from Peiguoqiao County (now Bozhou, Anhui Province). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was an outstanding politician, strategist, writer and calligrapher, 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 Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao conquered all directions, wiped out the separatist forces such as Er Yuan, Lu Bu, Liu Biao, Ma Chao and Han Sui at home, surrendered to Xiongnu, Wuhuan and Xianbei in the south, unified northern China, and implemented a series of policies to restore economic production and social order, expand reclamation, build water conservancy projects, reward farmers and mulberry, attach importance to handicrafts, resettle refugees and implement ". Under Cao Cao's rule, the Yellow River basin was politically clear to a certain extent, the economy gradually recovered, the class oppression was slightly alleviated, and the social atmosphere improved. Some measures taken by Cao Cao in the name of Han have positive effects.
When Cao Cao was alive, he served as the prime minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty and later as Wang Wei, which laid the foundation for the establishment of Cao Wei. After his death, posthumous title became King Wu. After his son Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he was honored as Emperor Wu, with the temple name Mao.
Cao Cao is good at writing poems, expressing his political ambitions with great boldness of vision, generosity and sadness, and reflecting the miserable life of the people in the late Han Dynasty. Prose is also neat, which opens and prospers Jian 'an literature and leaves precious spiritual wealth to future generations. Historically, it was called Jian 'an Style, and Lu Xun rated it as "the founder of reforming articles". At the same time, Cao Cao is also good at calligraphy, and Zhang Huaiguan in the Tang Dynasty rated Cao Cao's Cao Zhang as a "wonderful work" in "The Story".