Cao Cao is a man of great talent and tactics. He is jealous, insecure and impulsive, which makes him suspicious and cruel.

Cao Cao's suspicious nature was vividly demonstrated in Yang Xiu's murder avoidance incident. Cao Cao paid attention to talents, but avoided them. Yang Xiu is a very clever man. Later, Yang Xiu helped Cao Zhi fight against Xelloss, which made Cao Cao feel suspicious. Cao Cao believed in the life principle of "Better die than die", so Yang Xiu had to die.

The battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's killing of Yuan Jun and 80,000 deaths show the cruelty of Cao Cao's character. In A.D. 193, Cao Cao directed a massacre of innocent "people who only suffered from war", which implicated countless people. The situation was simply terrible!

In The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are other events that reflect Cao Cao's suspicious and cruel nature, such as killing Lv Boshe, swindling and cheating, begging from Xu You, burning books and burying Confucianism, killing people in dreams, pretending to be crazy and selling stupidity, etc. These events reappeared Cao Cao's treacherous nature.

Two. Extraordinary open-minded self-confidence

In the first time of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it was written as follows: Xu Shao of Runan, who has the name of a knowledgeable person, went to see him and asked, "How do I behave?" Shao Yue said, "Zi can rule the world, and traitors in troubled times." Cao Cao was overjoyed, and Xu Shao summed up Cao Cao's greatest advantage, which was leadership. This also laid the groundwork for Cao Cao to become a real emperor in the future. It is also an affirmation of his personality. His leadership temperament is mainly manifested in three aspects: ① effective behavior; 2 open-minded and confident; 3 know people and be good at their duties. When you first enter the official career, you don't have the pleasure of a dude. I am bent on getting rid of bad politics and implementing the rule of law.

Three. Cao Cao is a talented person, knowing people well and doing his duty well.

How to use talents is very important to the war, and the best way to win the world is to use talents. Among the three countries, Cao Cao is a model who can use talents. Cao Cao really loves talents. Therefore, talented and good at treating others is also a major feature of Cao Cao's character.

Take Guan Yu as an example. Cao Cao was kind to Guan Yu. He knew that Guan Yu was bound to become a menace after he left, so he was very polite to Guan Yu. This also shows that Cao Cao's ability to use talents is only a fact.

Cao Ang, Cao Cao's eldest son, and Dian Wei, his beloved, both died at the hands of Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, and even Cao Cao was almost in born to die. But when Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao paid equal attention to them. It can be seen that Cao Cao loves talents like life and is so eager.

In addition, Cao Cao also reused Zhang Liao, Zhang He and others. From this point of view, Cao Cao's talent appointment is calm and objective, meritocratic, meritocratic, breaking the secular concept of family background. His personality characteristics have propped up most of Wei State for him.

Four. Cunning and treacherous

Although Cao Cao's character is various, his cunning and treachery are the most prominent. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao always embodies his personality whether he is doing things or being a man.

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Evaluation of Cao Cao's history books

Chen Shou's "The History of the Three Kingdoms": "At the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the heroes rose together. Yuan Shao regarded the four States as strong and invincible. Mao strategized, castigated the magic of Shen and Shang, used the unique tactics of Han and Bai, and granted official materials, each for his own purposes, melodramatic, and forgot the old evils. In the end, he was able to conquer the imperial court machine and become a flood maker, but it was only slightly better. I can be described as an extraordinary person and a peerless hero. "

Shu Wei of Wang Shen: "Mao has been in the imperial army for more than 30 years and has never given up his books." The book talks about the art of war and thinks about classics at night. Climbing mountains requires poetry, new poems and orchestral strings. "

References:

Cao Cao-Baidu Encyclopedia