The reason why Cheng Yu refused to work for Liu Dai at that time was because Cheng Yu believed in his own vision and knew that although Liu Dai was a member of the Han family, in today's chaotic era, the influence of the Han family was not as good as before, and Liu Dai was still a person who was indecisive and looked forward to the future, and he was really not a suitable lord, so Cheng Yu chose to return to his hometown and continue to wait for opportunities. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon after, Liu Dai was killed by the Yellow Turban Army, at this time Cao Cao took the opportunity to set off to Yanzhou, after learning the news of Cheng Yu, he summoned Cheng Yu, and this time Cheng Yu agreed without hesitation, so when Cheng Yu was about to go, Cheng Yu's villagers were very puzzled, and asked Cheng Yu: "Why do you behave so much before and after?!" Cheng Yu just laughed, but it was obvious that Cheng Yu was very optimistic about Cao Cao's performance in this troubled world.

When Cheng Yu first arrived, Cao Cao talked to him about major matters, and the discussion was very happy, so he took Cheng Yu as the longevity Zhang Ling, and when Cao Cao conquered Xuzhou, he also ordered Cheng Yu and Xun Yu to stay in Juancheng together, which shows that Cao Cao valued Cheng Yu and Xun Yu equally much at that time.

At that time, Zhang Miao and other troops launched a rebellion to welcome Lü Bu into Yanzhou, and the surrounding counties responded with clouds, only Juancheng, Fanxian, and Dong'e did not waver.

Soon after, there was a surrender of Lu Bu's army, reporting to Xun Yu and Cheng Yu that Chen Gong wanted to lead troops to take Dong'a, and sent Fanwei to take Fan County.

At that time, Xun Yu told Cheng Yu: "Now that Yanzhou is rebelling, only these three cities can be preserved." Chen Gong and others are coming to the city with heavy troops, if they can't work together, the three cities will definitely not be protected, and you are the hope of the people, now go back to lobby them, you will definitely succeed! ”

To put it simply, Cheng Yu's reputation in Yanzhou at that time was already unmatched, so Xun Yu hoped that Cheng Yu could come forward to appease the people and ensure that when Lu Bu's army attacked these three counties, he would not defeat himself without a fight.

Cheng Yu then returned to Dong'e first, at that time Lu Bu's army was already in Fan County, this Pan Ling was a Du Bo under Lu Bu at that time, for Lu Bu's army at that time, Du Bo was already a high-level official in Lu Bu's army, and he was also a messenger sent by Lu Bujun to surrender Fan County, which can be described as Lu Bu's face, as a result, Jin Yun, the county commander of Fan County, ambushed and assassinated Pan Ling after Cheng Yu's encouragement, and at this time, Fan County could not surrender Lu Bu again.

Then Cheng Yu sent another army to occupy Cangtingjin, and Chen Gong's army could not cross the river for a while, which greatly delayed the marching speed of Lu Bu's army, and when Cheng Yu came to Dong'e, Dong'a Ling Zao had already led the people to refuse to hold the city, and Yanzhou was engaged in Xue Yi and Cheng Yu's conspiracy, so Cheng Yu stayed in Dong'e, and finally held the three cities, waiting for Cao Cao to return, and when Cao Cao returned to Yanzhou, he once held Cheng Yu's hand and said: "If it weren't for Cheng Qing's strength, I would have nothing to go to." After that, Cao Cao was even more on the table Cheng Yu as the East Ping Xiang, and he was stationed in Fan County.

And at this moment, Cao Cao learned of Cheng Yu's strange dream, so he changed Cheng Yu's name from "Cheng Li" to "Cheng Yu".

In the first year of Xingping (that is, in 194 AD), Cao Cao and Lü Bu fought in Puyang, and lost several times, but because of the locust plague in the whole territory of Yanzhou at that time, the troops on both sides of Cao Cao and Lü Bu lacked food and grass, so the two sides tacitly led troops to go temporarily.

At this time, Yuan Shao also sent people to lobby Cao Cao Lianhe, hoping that Cao Cao could move to Yecheng, when Cao Cao saw that most of his Yanzhou had been lost and the military rations would be exhausted, so he wanted to agree to Yuan Shao's request under the discussion.

Cheng Yu felt that Yuan Shao must be calculating something, so he said to Cao Cao: "I heard that the general wants to send people to Qianye City and make peace with Yuan Shao, is there such a thing?" ”

Cao Cao is also an upright person, and Cao Cao also trusts Cheng Yu very much, so he said directly: "Yes." ”

So Cheng Yu immediately admonished: "I think that the general is just afraid of things for a while, otherwise how can you be so inconsiderate?" Yuan Shao now has the land of Yan and Zhao, and has the heart to annex the world, but his wisdom can't help him, and he is narrow-minded, does the general think he can do things under Yuan Shao? General, do you have the power of a dragon and a tiger, can you do what Han (here refers to Han Xin) and Peng (here refers to Peng Yue) who surrender to others? Although Yanzhou is now ruined, there are still three cities to defend, and there are no less than 10,000 people who can fight. With the general's divine martial arts, plus the assistance of me and Wen Ruo (that is, Xun Yu, it can be seen that Cheng Yu thought that Xun Yu could be compared to himself) and others at that time, and collected the original soldiers of the city and used them, then the cause of the overlord can also be achieved. I hope the general will think about it carefully! ”

So, under Cheng Yu's persuasion, Cao Cao gave up the idea of Lian and Yuan Shao.

And after that, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, Emperor Han Xian in the capital of Xu County, then Cheng Yu as the book, Yanzhou at that time has not yet been appeased, so Cheng Yu as the East Lang general, leading Jiyin Taishou, all supervise the affairs of Yanzhou.

In the third year of Jian'an (that is, in 198 AD), Liu Bei had an unstable foothold in Xuzhou, and did not really take over the soldiers and horses left by Tao Qian, and then lost Xuzhou because he believed in Lu Bu, so he had to come to join Cao Cao, at this time Guo Jia and Cheng Yu were persuading Cao Cao to kill Liu Bei, but the confident Cao Cao did not listen.

In the fourth year of Jian'an (that is, in 199 AD), Cao Cao sent Liu Bei to Xuzhou to intercept Yuan Shu, Cheng Yu and Guo Jia suggested to Cao Cao again: "The Ming Duke did not get rid of Liu Bei the day before yesterday, and now he is borrowing troops from Liu Bei, Liu Bei will definitely have different intentions." ”

As a result, Liu Bei also knew that Cao Cao's subordinates were originally Longtan Tiger's Den, and Liu Bei also understood that Cheng Yu and others wanted to kill him, so Liu Bei quickly left after getting Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, so Cao Cao regretted it very much, but it was already too late to catch up, and sure enough, after Yuan Shu died of illness, Liu Bei came to Xuzhou, killed the Xuzhou Assassin appointed by Cao Cao at that time, and raised troops to rebel against Cao Cao.

Then in the second year of Jian'an, Cheng Yu was promoted to General Zhenwei, when Yuan Shao was in Liyang ready to lead troops to the south to attack Yanzhou, and Cheng Yu was only 700 soldiers guarding Juancheng, Cao Cao knew that the situation was critical, so he ordered someone to tell Cheng Yu that he wanted to send 2,000 soldiers and horses to Juancheng to help defend it, and Cheng Yu refused to accept it, and analyzed to Cao Cao: "Yuan Shao has 100,000 troops this time, and he thinks he is invincible. But if I increase the number of soldiers under my command at this time, too many of them must not be attacked, and if you want to attack them, you will only lose their momentum, so I hope Ming Gong will not doubt it! ”

So Cao Cao followed it again, Yuan Shao heard that Cheng Yu's soldiers were few, not even a thousand soldiers and horses, and he really didn't dare to enter the army, Cao Cao heard about it, and couldn't help but say to Jia Xu: "Cheng Yu's courage surpasses Meng Ben and Xia Yu." ”

The two people mentioned by Cao Cao were both famous warriors in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Meng Ben was even more because of his "water travel does not avoid dragons, land travel does not avoid tigers and wolves, anger and exhalation, and the sound moves the sky." Taste in the wild to see two bulls fighting, Meng Ben from it with his hands, a cow on the ground, a cow still touched. He was angry, and pressed the head of the ox to the right and left, and plucked out its horns with his right hand, and the horns came out of the ox and died. So he became the guard of King Wu of Qin... That's right, it's the Qin Wu King who was idle and had nothing to do to lift the world's nine tripods, and then succeeded in dying, this young and strong Qin Wu King, grabbed a dragon pattern red tripod and lifted it violently, but he didn't know that this tripod was too heavy, and finally because of his lack of strength, he was tired and his eyes bleed, and then he did his best, and smashed the bones of Qin Wu Wang, as a result, Qin Wu Wang died and lost his throne, and the innocent melon eater Meng Ben was also convicted and killed by the nine clans, and the death was not unjust, and originally Qin Wu King was able to unify the world, As a result, at the age of twenty-three, he committed suicide, and had to hand over the opportunity to unify the world to his descendant, Qin Shi Huang...

However, it can be seen how high Cao Cao's appreciation for Cheng Yu is.

In the following eight years of Jian'an (that is, in 203 AD), Cheng Yu entangled a group of mountain people and outlaws, so as to obtain thousands of elite soldiers, so he led the army to join Cao Cao in Liyang, crusading against Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, Cao Cao sent Li Dian and Cheng Yu to transport military rations by boat and water.

At this time, Wei County Taishou Gao Fan put his troops and horses on the river and cut off the waterway, so Cao Cao said to Li Dian and Cheng Yu: "If the boat can't pass, you can go down the land road." ”

At that time, Li Dian discussed with the generals and said: "The enemy army is weak and has a slack heart, and it will be defeated." Cheng Yu also thought so, so he went north to cross the river to break Gaofan, and the waterway was clear, and after the two Yuan broke away, Cheng Yu was worshiped as the general of Fenwu and was named the Marquis of Anguo.

In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (that is, in 208 AD), after pacifying the Hebei region, Cao Cao began to conquer Jingzhou, and Liu Bei went to Dongwu for help, so some people thought that Sun Quan would kill Liu Bei, but Cheng Yu thought: "Sun Quan's new reign has not yet been feared by the sea, and Cao Gong is invincible in the world, the first Jingzhou, the power of the river, although Sun Quan has a plan, he can not resist alone, Liu Bei has always been famous, Liu Bei's two righteous brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are the enemies of ten thousand people, Sun Quan will definitely come to their aid to defend our army. After that, they parted ways, but Liu Bei had already received actual funding, and Sun Quan couldn't get Liu Bei and killed him. ”

As Cheng Yu said, Sun Quan really funded the supply army to Liu Bei to resist Cao Cao's attack.

After Cao Cao captured Jingzhou, the Central Plains was largely pacified, and Cao's army was gradually and steadily expanding.

Once, Cao Cao stroked Cheng Yu's back and said, "If I hadn't listened to your plan after the defeat of Yanzhou, how could I have come here?" ”

But Cheng Yu heard Cao Cao's voice, so he replied very decisively: "The so-called 'contentment without disgrace' (from the forty-fourth chapter of the Tao Te Ching, which means that as long as a person knows how to be content, he will not end up humiliated because of excessive greed), and now it is time for me to retreat rapidly." ”

So Cheng Yu officially said that he would return the military power from now on and would not go out.

In 211 AD, that is, in the sixteenth year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao was in the conquest of Han Sui and Ma Chao, Cao Pi was responsible for staying behind, so he invited Cheng Yu to participate in the military, because at this time Tian Yin, Su Bo and others rebelled in the river, and Cao Pi sent the general Jia Xin to investigate.

After the rebellion, more than 1,000 rebels asked to surrender, and the ministers of the DPRK and China all believed that they should surrender the army according to the old law, but Cheng Yu said at this time: "The reason why we wanted to kill those who surrendered in the past was because the situation was turbulent at that time, the world was in chaos, and when attacking the thieves, the policy of 'those who surrender after encircling and surrendering will not be pardoned' was adopted, the purpose was to show the other rebel parties the consequences of not surrendering as soon as possible, so that all enemies were afraid, and surrendered before the siege, and then there was no need to besiege the city with troops in the future." For example, the situation has generally settled down today, and the battle is taking place in the territory this time, these are all thieves who have not formed a climate, and there is no place to demonstrate and show fear if they are killed, and they have lost the strategic significance of the previous surrender. Therefore I do not think that these troops shall be killed; Even if you want to kill them, you must first ask Cao Gong's opinion. ”

However, the ministers at that time were basically Cao Pi's cronies, so they all thought that "we can make our own decisions on the military, and we don't need to tell Cao Gong about everything!" ”

After Cheng Yu heard this, he no longer responded, until after the court meeting was over, Cao Pi left the hall, specially introduced Cheng Yu, and asked him: "You seem to be unfinished?" ”

Cheng Yu thought for a moment before he said: "The so-called 'self-decision' system refers to the need to make a decision as soon as possible in the face of temporary urgency. Now that the thief has been subdued by Jia Xin, this matter will not suddenly change too sharply. Therefore, the old minister did not want the general to be in a hurry to make his own decisions and do autocratic things. ”

Cao Pi understood Cheng Yu's hard work, and couldn't help but sigh: "Cheng Jun is really thoughtful!" ”

So Cao Pi immediately explained the rebellion in Hejian to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was persuaded by Shi Guoyuan, the governor of the residence at the time, and really ordered those who did not surrender, Cao Cao also knew the ins and outs, and said to Cheng Yu: "Cheng Qing is not only good at military strategy, but also good at dealing with things between other people's fathers and sons." ”

After the establishment of the Wei State, Cheng Yu was the Wei Wei, for some reason and was deposed, and so on to the first year of the Huang Dynasty, that is, in 220 AD, Cao Pi officially called the Han Emperor, Cheng Yu reverted to the Wei Wei, entered the Feng An Xianghou, increased the Yi 300 households, and a total of 800 households, and divided the young son Cheng Yan and Sun Cheng Xiao as the liehous, just in the imperial court is about to take Cheng Yu as the public (after all, among the old ministers of Cao Wei at that time, Cheng Yu can be said to be the highest prestige and merit), Cheng Yu died at this time, Cao Pi also shed tears for it, posthumously presented the general of the car cavalry, and said that Su Hou, His son Cheng Wu was appointed as the heir, after Cheng Wu died, his son Cheng Ke was appointed as the heir, and after Cheng Ke died, his son Cheng Liang was appointed as the heir, which shows Cao Wei's favor to Cheng Yu, and in 233 AD, that is, the first year of Qinglong, Cheng Yu began to worship in Cao Cao's temple, which is the highest reward for courtiers.

Of course, there are many people who say that Cheng Yu is not in his position, and he has not been ranked among the three princes in his life, and the biggest reason is Cheng Yu's black history, that is, in the early days, Cao Cao's army was seriously short of food, when Cheng Yu tried to solve the problem for Cao Cao, so he forcibly seized grain in his hometown Dong'e County to supply Cao Jun with food for three days, and it is said that there are a lot of human flesh among these grains, which caused Cheng Yu's reputation to suffer a serious blow, after all, in terms of the situation at the time, reputation determines where a person's upper limit is, so Cheng Yu, who has a bad reputation, has never had the opportunity to be promoted to the position of the third prince.