Chapter 314: Eight Buckets of Talent

"Later generations often say that it is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family, as if the poor door is the home of ordinary people, in fact, everyone is mistaken, in ancient times, the cold door is also unattainable for ordinary people."

"To talk about it, Cao Cao is also from a poor family. Even if his father Cao Songguan is a captain, but because he is a eunuch, he cannot be called a wealthy family, but can only be a poor family. ”

Cao Cao's grandfather, Cao Teng, served four generations of emperors and was a prominent eunuch in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Cao Song was Cao Teng's adopted son. There is a theory that Cao Song's original surname was Xiahou, but this statement is not credible, and there is also a theory that Cao Cao is a descendant of Cao Shen, the famous minister of the early Han Dynasty, and I don't know if this is not. ”

"Cao Cao persuaded himself to be smart and alert, but also ambitious, at the age of twenty he raised filial piety, and later because his cousin-in-law Song Qi was killed by eunuchs, Cao Cao was implicated and removed from his official position, and could only return to his hometown to stay at home, and after waiting for two years, he was reinstated again."

After the Yellow Turban Uprising, the world was in turmoil, Cao Cao saw too many people's livelihood in the troubled times, and he also wanted to help the world, but unfortunately the government at that time was extremely dark, and Cao Cao was unwilling to cater to the powerful, so he had a period of seclusion. In 189 AD, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing to take charge of the government, Cao Cao was unwilling to join Dong Zhuo, so he went to Chen Liu, scattered all his family wealth, and raised troops in Chen Liu, calling on the heroes of the world to fight against Dong Zhuo. ”

In 192 AD, Cao Cao defeated the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and obtained more than 300,000 surrendered soldiers, with a population of more than one million.

"With a strong military force, it is natural to occupy territory, there is a population and territory, in order to have a better and more stable development, Cao Cao began the battle of the Central Plains, he conquered Xuzhou, broke the state, welcomed the Han Emperor, and ordered the princes to serve the Son of Heaven, and in 199 AD, Cao Cao's power has developed to the north of the Yellow River."

"At that time, Hebei and other places were still Yuan Shao's territory, and at this time, the war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao was inevitable, but what about the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, Yuan Shao was stronger than Cao Cao in terms of military strength, talent reserves and financial resources, and he didn't take Cao Cao in his eyes at all."

"This is the famous battle of Guandu in history, in which Cao Cao completely defeated Yuan Shao, and the general trend of unifying the north has been achieved."

"After Cao Cao went on an expedition to Wuhuan, defeated Yuan Shao's remnant forces, and in 208 AD, Cao Cao abolished the three dukes and restored the prime minister system, and he appointed himself as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

"At that time, the entire Han Dynasty had been divided into three of the most powerful forces, namely Cao Cao, who occupied the north, and Sun Quan and Liu Bei, who occupied Jiangdong, among which Cao Cao was the most powerful, he wanted to take down the other two and unify the Central Plains, of course, those two were unwilling, so Sun Quan and Liu Bei united to resist Cao Cao, and there was also the famous Battle of Chibi in later generations."

This battle ended in Cao Cao's defeat, and he had to retreat to the north, and in 211 AD Cao Cao defeated the Guanzhong coalition army and pacified Liangzhou. At this time, Cao Cao's power was getting heavier, and he had long since stopped taking Emperor Han Xian in his eyes. In 213 AD, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty named Cao Cao the Duke of Wei. In 216 A.D., Emperor Han Xian canonized Cao Cao as the king of Wei, and in 217 A.D., Emperor Han Xian gave Cao Cao the crown of two out of ten, taking the golden root car, driving six horses, and setting up five times the deputy car, although Cao Cao did not have the name of the emperor at this time, there was an emperor. ”

And this period of time was also the time when the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu were fighting against each other in the Central Plains, and the three kingdoms often waged wars, winning and losing each other. But in such a troubled era, even if the Three Kingdoms fought again and died, they did not let the aliens enter the Central Plains. ”

"In 220 AD, Cao Cao died of illness in Luoyang, at the age of sixty-six, nicknamed King Wu, in the same year, his son Cao Pi replaced the Han Dynasty, established himself as the emperor, the country name Wei, posthumously named Cao Cao Wu Emperor, the temple name Taizu."

Carefree paused for a moment at this point.

She looked at the camera and whispered slowly: "Speaking of Cao Cao, there are also some idioms, such as Wangmei quenching thirst, such as cutting hair and acting as the head, etc., let's talk about this later, it's not interesting to always say some such boring things, next, let's talk about the stories that happened to Cao Wei that are still talked about after thousands of years, of course, it may not be the truth, after all, after so many years, one pass ten, ten pass hundred, and it will be distorted when it is passed around, which is understandable." ”

If you want to talk about this, you won't be tired.

They all froze.

I want to hear what else is interesting.

"First of all, let's talk about the seven-step poem."

"Cao Cao was a very talented poet, and his sons Cao Pi and Cao Zhi were also literary masters, and with their father and son as the center, a very famous literary genre was formed, which was Jian'an literature. And among the three fathers and sons, Cao Zhi's talent is even greater, and later generations will describe him as talented. ”

"Why do you say that you are talented and have eight buckets, because Xie Lingyun, a very talented literati during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, said that there is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian has eight buckets, and I have one bucket, and the world has one bucket."

"Xie Lingyun is a very conceited person, and he also thinks that he is unparalleled in talent, but he is such a person, and he also thinks that Cao Zhi monopolizes the eight buckets in the world, which shows how talented Cao Zhi is."

"Cao Zhi is talented and smart, and Cao Cao must like it too, so Cao Zhi has always been a very strong competitor of Cao Pi. It is rumored that Cao Pi can't tolerate Cao Zhi, and after he ascended the throne and became emperor, he wanted to kill Cao Zhi, but how to kill Cao Zhi, he had to find an excuse, so he said to Cao Zhi Aren't you very capable, aren't you very good at writing poems, and now you are limited to writing a poem within seven steps, and you will be forgiven for your innocence if you write it. ”

"Look, isn't this embarrassing?"

Under the canopy

Many people who had never heard of such a thing were outraged.

"It's really embarrassing, how can you become a poem in seven steps?"

"Isn't it, even my own brothers can't tolerate it, and this Cao family really can't do it."

"His father is a traitor, and he is no better."

"Fairy, has this Cao Zhi written it?"

Many people are concerned about the question.

Wu Wu smiled when he saw these messages: "Naturally, it was written, otherwise, it would not be Cao Zijian." ”

"At that time, Cao Zhi took two steps and began to read, boiling beans and burning beans......"

After reading the poem without worry, he sighed: "That sentence was born from the same root, and it was too anxious to fry each other to move Cao Pi, Cao Pi did not kill Cao Zhi, but it was impossible to reuse Cao Zhi, began to suppress him, and sealed him several times." ”