Cao Zhi has made great achievements in literature, but only in political struggle, his ability is really insufficient, otherwise he would not have made a good hand.
Cao Zhi can recite poems since he was a child. Whenever Cao Cao visited him, he was eloquent and loved his son Cao Cao very much. After Cao Chong's death, Cao Cao pinned the hope of his heirs on Cao Zhi and Cao Pi, but judging from what Cao Cao did at that time, he obviously valued Cao Zhi more.
Cao Zhi's literary talent is brilliant, but he lacks the baptism of war, which leads to more acid corrosion of literati and less blood of soldiers. In order to cultivate Cao Zhi, Jian 'an went out with Cao Cao in sixteen years, and was renamed Linzihou after the war. When Cao Cao conquered Sun Quan, he specially ordered Cao Zhi to stay in Yecheng, and specially sent Rockett, Ding Ke, Yang Xiu and others to assist him.
However, the result disappointed Cao Cao. The baptism of war did not change the character of Cao Zhi's literati. Cao Zhi often acts recklessly, drinking and having fun. In the twenty-second year of Jian 'an, during his stay in Yecheng, Cao Zhi launched a drunken frenzy and rode on the forbidden road in royal chariots and horses. Cao Cao was very angry when he learned about it. From then on, Cao Zhi lost Cao Cao's favor, and in October of the same year, Cao Pi was made a prince. In the twenty-fourth year of Jian 'an, Cao Cao appointed Cao Zhi as a corps commander to rescue the besieged Cao Ren, but Cao Zhi was drunk and unconscious at that time, completely extinguishing Cao Cao's last hope.
After Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he guarded and restricted his younger brother everywhere. Cao Zhi was moved several times, and his title dropped again. In fact, Cao Pi originally wanted to kill Cao Zhi, but Cao Zhi's two poems changed his mind. Needless to say, this poem "Seven Steps Poetry" is familiar to everyone, and the sentence "This is from the same root, why bother to fry each other" is regarded as a classic. The seven-step poem was written by Cao Zhi. In fact, before this, Cao Zhi wrote an equally classic poem because of Cao Pi's dilemma.
At that time, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi were traveling together. On the way, Cao Pi saw two bulls fighting, one of which was defeated and pushed into the well and died. So he deliberately embarrassed Cao Zhi and asked him to write poems in this scene, but he could not recite the words "cow, well, bucket and death". Cao Zhi takes a hundred steps, and if he doesn't write forty words, he will be beheaded. Cao Pi's murder is obvious. Cao Zhi galloped his horse and shouted as he walked, "Two meats are on the same track, and a cross bone is on his head. At the top of the mountain, it was abrupt. Second, the enemy is not afraid of being just, and a meat lies in the hole. The strength is not as good as it is, and it can't be put down. " "Dead Cow Poetry" in one go, let's save our lives.
Although he was not killed, Cao Zhi became unhappy from then on, losing his former literati character every time. In the sixth year of Taihe, Cao Zhi should be Chen Wang again, and Cao Zhi, 465,438+0 years old, died of depression.