Looking for some unofficial history about Cao Cao

Cao Cao’s surname was not Cao. In order to curry favor with the eunuchs who were in power in the palace at that time, his own grandfather adopted his father to a father-in-law named Cao. Later, Eunuch Cao gradually developed into a pervert because of his own shortcomings. He renamed everything that belonged to him, and the new names were related to the kind of things he couldn't do. At first, he was relatively secretive. For example, he changed his name from Cao Teng to Cao Tong. Changed Cao Cao's father's name from Cao Song to Cao Song. But after Cao Cao was born, Eunuch Cao became more serious and insisted on naming the child. As a result, Cao Cao was named like this.

Ever since Cao Cao can remember, he has been laughed at by children because of his name. He hated this name so much that every time someone asked him his name, he would do everything possible to conceal it. The adults tried their best to get his name out of his mouth. It was easy to deceive him at first. Later, Cao Cao became more and more cunning as he learned from repeated failures. In the end, even the smartest adults didn't know his name. When everyone mentioned him, they all said, "Who is that, that kid who always hides his name and tells lies...". Gradually, people simply called him "Amao".

Cao Cao, who has lived in such an environment since he was a child, was deeply hurt mentally. After he reached adolescence, no one dared to marry their daughter to him because of his reputation as a liar. As a result, he had to marry an ugly-looking woman with a bucket-shaped figure from out of town. However, this woman was good at debating and made Cao Cao lose his temper. People call her "Mrs. Bian". Because of this marriage, Cao Cao had a soft spot for female singers and dancers with beautiful faces and slim figures throughout his life. His rebellious, suspicious, loquacious and lustful character was developed from childhood to adolescence.

After getting married, Cao Cao’s life became increasingly miserable. Due to his bad reputation, he has been unable to find a job. There is also a "three-hearted" wife at home (take it to the street to save worry, leave it at home for peace of mind, but it looks disgusting to yourself), and she is always in trouble with him. During this difficult period, Cao Cao, who was on the verge of a mental breakdown, wrote a poem that truly recorded his predicament:

A grain of rice is not enough to pound. Not enough cloth to sew.

There is no bucket of storage in the opium. The hair basket has no ruler.

Friends come and borrow from me. Don't know why.

——Cao Cao's "Rumors and Folk Songs"

No one knows how Cao Cao made up his mind and completely embarked on the road of gangsterism. All we know now is that from a certain day, Cao Cao no longer cared about others knowing his name. In fact, he came to want others to know his name. Later generations said that he received enlightenment from a master while dreaming, so he was also called Cao "Mengde". I personally think that he probably thought that no matter how bad things got, he couldn't get any worse, so he simply broke the pot and gave it a try. At this point, Wang Shuo understood Cao Cao very well. He once said for Cao Cao: "I am a gangster, who should I be afraid of!"

The first thing Cao Cao did after becoming a gangster was to gather people to fight. With his short stature, he fully understands the true meaning of "the people, and only the people, are the stepping stones that can be used." He incited a group of local gangsters to engage in a fight with another group of gangsters wearing yellow handkerchiefs on their heads. Although he hid behind and did not do anything, his reputation was so great that the local peace-loving intellectuals knew that only Ah Man had the ability to deceive the masses into fighting against the masses. In order to avoid intensifying the fighting, they jointly recommended Cao Cao to the emperor, hoping that he would become an official in the capital and leave here as soon as possible. Not long after, the emperor issued a decree for Cao Cao to go to Beijing and become the captain.

Cao Cao took office with great joy. Who would have thought that he would not know until he arrived in the capital that he was a junior official. It turns out that the captain is just a small character like Bima Wen. He wanted to make a big splash, but he was unwilling to live his life so honestly. After research, he decided to assassinate Dong Zhuo and make a big case of the highest caliber to show his true nature as a gangster. Dong Zhuo was the Grand Master at that time. Apart from the puppet emperor who was under house arrest in the palace, he was the highest official. So Cao Cao made up his mind to attack Dong Zhuo.

It is easy for young people to take things seriously. The same goes for Cao Cao. He was determined to kill Dong Zhuo. He planned in detail for this purpose and even borrowed a sword from Situ Wang Yun.

But he forgot about Dong Zhuo's newly adopted son, Lu Bu, who ranked first in martial arts and third in mental retardation. As a result, everyone knew that not only did he lose his sword in vain, but he also had to live on the run from now on. However, he himself was quite satisfied with his failed action. In the "Wei Wu Art of War" that he plagiarized from others, he specially wrote a chapter himself called "Killing with a Borrowed Knife."

On the way to escape, Cao Cao uttered a famous saying that later became the motto of countless gangsters: "I would rather teach me to betray the world than teach the world to betray me." This sentence geniusly, creatively and comprehensively inherits, defends and develops our country's hooligan theory, reaching the highest realm of hooliganism. Moreover, what is worse than the average gangster is that Cao Cao not only said this, but also did it. When he was resting at his friend Lu Boshe's house, he overheard the servants in the kitchen talking about being tied up and beheaded, thinking that they wanted to catch him and ask for credit. So they went on a killing spree and killed everyone in the Lu family. Even when he saw a pig tied up for slaughter in the kitchen and knew that he had misunderstood its kindness, he did not stop. His behavior chilled Chen Gong, his fellow gangster who was with him, and abandoned him under the cover of night.

Cao Cao returned to his hometown in the countryside alone and gathered a group of his original disciples to start a rebellion. These are troubled times, and it's a good time for gangsters like him to fish in troubled waters and make a name for themselves. According to the statistics of "Gangster Telef", the special representative of the International Federation of Gangsters living in China at that time, there were as many as 28 and a half people in China who had understood the gangster theory. However, according to Cao Cao's standards, there are only two real gangsters in the world: Liu Bei and himself. I guess his criterion is that both of their wives are equally ugly. The descendant Fei Zhaobing (a distant relative of Xin Qiji) gave a relatively comprehensive summary of the domestic situation at that time. He said: "Who is the rival of the gangsters in the world? Cao Cao, Liu. The one who pretends to be a grandson is Sun Zhongmou!"

As more and more of his followers and territory became larger and larger, Cao Cao became more and more courageous. When he was older, he began to blatantly use his power to mess with the relationship between men and women. In Wancheng, after he led his army to surrender Zhang Xiu, he ordered his counselors to find a woman for him. It was at this time that he proposed the famous "Three Represents" theory: the most beautiful people in the city must be represented, the highest class in the city must be represented, and the richest families in the city must be represented. According to this standard, the counselors actually found one, Uncle Zhang Xiu's beloved wife, Zou, who was a former actress. Cao Cao was overjoyed to see Zou and immediately left her in his tent. He knew that his subordinates would be jealous, so he ordered Dian Wei, who was ranked third in martial arts and ranked first in mental retardation, to guard the door for him. No one else was allowed in except those bringing food and wine. He himself stayed in the tent with the Zou family day and night.

There is no airtight wall in the world. Within a few days, Zhang Xiu found out about this. He was immediately furious and vowed to kill Cao Cao to avenge his humiliation. That night, he led his troops to sneak attack Cao Cao's camp and defeated Cao Cao with lightning speed. Cao Cao suffered a big loss in this battle: the fool Dian Wei died, even Cao Cao's own eldest son Cao Ang and nephew Cao Anmin died in the rebellion. However, if you think that Cao Cao will change his ways after such a big setback, it means that you have not yet understood the realm of a gangster. In fact, Cao Cao had no intention of repenting. When he heard that there were two beautiful beauties in Sun Quan's territory in Jiangdong, he immediately led his team to marry them. At the same time, he ordered people to set up the bronze bird stage and prepared to bring the beauty back and hold a dance. Unfortunately, Cao Cao still lost his troops this time. If Guan Yu hadn't missed the old days and let him off Huarong Road, Cao Cao's life would have been sealed there.

Faced with the harsh reality, Cao Cao did not lose his will. In order to reflect on himself theoretically, he began to write poetry. As I said before, in addition to being a big gangster in history, Cao Cao was also a writer. His literary talent was unique because of his hooligan habits. It can be said that he pioneered "writing with the lower body". For example, in the poem "Mo Shang Sang", he describes the way of men and women like this:

"... make friends with Chisong. And the Xianmen. Receive the secret Tao love spirit. ... Absolute human affairs. Travel Hun. Yuan. If the wind blows, the scenery has not moved.

..."

In another, more famous poem, the old Cao Cao even borrowed a turtle to show off his abilities:

"Although the turtle is long-lived, the turtle has a long life. When it happened. A soaring snake rides on the mist, but ends up in ashes.

The old man is still ambitious, but his ambition is thousands of miles; the martyr is full of ambition in his old age.

The period of profit and contraction is not only in heaven; the blessing of nourishing happiness can lead to eternal life. ..."