"Slaughter" means domination, and "Xiang" is originally a person who salutes each other. From this sentence, it can be easily understood that the prime minister assisted the king, that is, the highest official under the ancient monarch, usually the confidant of the emperor, to help the emperor manage government affairs. There have been talented prime ministers in history, and they have been praised as "sages through the ages" by later generations.
There are relatively many such talents. For example, Wei Zhi and Zhuge Liang, whom we are very familiar with, are wise men from generation to generation. However, both Wei Zhi and Zhuge Liang made immortal contributions to the position of prime minister. However, there is such a prime minister in history. He served as prime minister for three years and ate meat for three years, which can be said to be the most incompetent prime minister in history, but he was praised by the people after his death.
This man is Cao Can, whose name is Jing Bo, Han nationality, Pei Ren, the founding hero of the Western Han Dynasty, a famous soldier, and the official to the Prime Minister of Emperor Huidi of Han Dynasty. He is the second prime minister of the Han Dynasty after Xiao He, and is known as "Cao Guo Xiang" in history.
Cao has been in his position for three years. Strangely, during Cao Can's reign, he drank all day, ate a lot of meat and did nothing. Moreover, Cao Can has always handled its daily affairs according to the policy left by Xiao He, and it will never change. In the fifth year of Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, Cao Can died. People were very sad when they heard the news of his death. They all miss him very much and praise him deeply. This is very strange. He served as prime minister for three years and ate meat for three years. Why do people still praise him? It turned out that Cao knew that the Han Dynasty at this time could not stand the ordeal and needed to recuperate most.
Han Huidi didn't understand, but later Han Jingdi certainly did, so he continued to recuperate and frivolous, creating "the rule of the literary world".