-Cao Cao

Modern people say that Cao Cao is a traitor, but before the Song Dynasty, most people wrote that he was a hero. Cao Cao, whose name is Meng De, is a lucky man with a beautiful animal skin. He was a famous strategist, politician and poet in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, warlords around the country fought each other for a long time, and many places were barren. At this time, Cao Cao grew in strength and gradually became the founder and main founder of Wei State in the Three Kingdoms period, followed by Wang Wei. After his son Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he was honored as Wei Wudi.

Cao Cao struggled all his life to unify the whole country as soon as possible, and extensively reclaimed land and built water conservancy projects in the north, which played a certain role in the recovery of agricultural production at that time; Secondly, he taught students in accordance with their aptitude, broke the concept of family, suppressed the strongmen, restored and developed the social economy of the areas he ruled, and promoted the development of history. In addition, he is also good at the art of war, and has written works such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, Sun Tzu's Art of War, and Meng De's New Book. As a lean man, he is proficient in temperament, good at writing poems, expressing political ambitions, reflecting the tragic life of the people in the late Han Dynasty, generous and sad, and his political achievements are extraordinary.

Cao cao's positive role in unifying the north. As mentioned earlier, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to political darkness, social production was seriously damaged, and people could not live, and finally a vigorous Yellow Scarf Uprising broke out. However, under the historical conditions at that time, the peasant uprising could not achieve the final victory, which was followed by the disintegration of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the warlord scuffle. In the scuffle, not only Dong Zhuo, Li Jue and other Liangzhou warlords slaughtered people and robbed property everywhere, but also the eastern generals under the banner of diligent king. Therefore, there is a bleak scene of "people eat people and the state is depressed". Apart from the reactionary rule in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is unforgivable to suppress the peasant uprising and the warlords who destroyed social production. But relatively speaking, there are still differences between warlords. Take Cao Cao as an example. Although he suppressed the peasant uprising and killed innocent people, from his political, military and economic performance, he was better than the warlord he eliminated. For example, he reclaimed land, built water conservancy projects and implemented the system of selling salt and iron by officials, which played a positive role in social and economic recovery and economic rectification.

Cao Cao is a maverick reformist, but his means and measures are illegal, rational, arbitrary and heartless. Although he shocked the world by "relying on the emperor to make the princes", he always carefully protected the representative of the old forces, the Liu Han Dynasty, until his death, giving up the complete revolution from content to form and falling into a halfway ending.

Cao reclaimed land, built water conservancy projects, advocated frugality, neglected taxes, restrained strongmen, and did many good things for the people all over the world. However, endless power and profit struggles, meaningless warlord scuffles and a large number of soldiers and laborers were killed, which further aggravated people's suffering and hindered social progress. The stick stretched out to try to reform hit him on the head, leaving only more bones, more refugees and more cries of hunger and cold in the field.

Cao Cao is eager for talents and accepts kindness. He ordered more than once to recruit talents and talents, which really brought a fresh wind to the dirty society at that time, and let those who had the heart to retaliate against the world see a glimmer of hope. However, his first requirement for the talents he recruited was to serve Cao Shi Group unconditionally, obey him and be driven by his selfish ambition. Otherwise, a little meticulous will be punished. This means and mentality have greatly undermined the development of talents. Kong Rong, Yang Xiu, Yu Xun and Hua Tuo, rare wizards in the world, all died in his hands, completely tearing up his hypocritical face.

So I think that Cao Cao does more harm than good. Cao Cao is a pioneer in the new historical period, and he should have brilliant achievements. Both content and form should be substantial and complete. But his contradiction determines his lack of confidence in making decisions on key issues. It is recorded in Wei Chunqiu that Xia Houdun tried to persuade Cao Cao to let Wei go to Han. Cao Cao replied, "If fate belongs to me, I should be Zhou Wenwang." At an important historical turning point, he took a detour with a little complacency and gave the old man a hard back.

At that time, the general trend of the world really needed Cao Cao to make a decisive and bright image. If so, the later history will be different. But Cao Cao is brave without this. He is a flower firmly established on the old foundation, with brilliant colors, but with decadent roots.

Therefore, Cao Cao's flogging of Yu Yu is only an inevitable act of cleaning the historical palace. At best, he himself is a conscientious servant, a middle-stream runner holding the second relay race in the process of alternating between the old and the new. As Mr. Lu Xun said, Cao Cao is a very capable person, at least a hero, but that's all.