? Cao Cao is a descendant of eunuchs, and his grandfather was once a powerful eunuch. Eunuchs were extremely powerful at that time. Therefore, Cao Cao has such a background, and of course he can live well without food and clothing. He can even become a big official, carefree and well-fed. But the question is, is such an animal good to him? If Cao Cao wants to be an official, his background is undoubtedly the best, because eunuchs are so powerful, and so is his grandfather. Therefore, Cao Cao Can will soon become a big official in the name of the descendants of eunuchs, and he does not need to have extraordinary talents or pass the exam. However, the reputation of eunuchs is extremely bad. They are always by the emperor's side. It can be said that they are also defending imperial power. They also have real power in their hands, even more power than emperors and eunuchs. This situation also made the literati at that time dissatisfied. They think that eunuchs have no power and ability to make such a move, but they think that they are truly talented people, so many contradictions and conflicts inevitably occur between the two factions, and scholars sneer at them. Cao Cao is a descendant of eunuchs, so he will be implicated in some ways. If the eunuch makes any trouble, it will have a great conflict with the scholar-officials. Even if Cao Cao does nothing, he will be implicated and suffer the same blow. This is extremely unfavorable to Cao Cao's situation. Obviously, he is very passive. All the fate is in the hands of other eunuchs, and he can't control it at all. However, Cao Cao's grandfather and he did not have any contradiction with the literati, so Cao Cao's life was relatively stable.
? But later, the eunuch once again had a contradiction with the scholar-officials. This contradiction can be said to have completely aroused the anger of the two factions, which is the curse of the famous parties in history. The scholar-officials were dissatisfied with the right to exchange, so they started a party struggle with the eunuch, but each time they failed, but they were banned by the eunuch for life. At this time, the contradiction between scholar-officials and eunuchs is impossible to resolve, and it will only become more and more intense. This time, Cao could not avoid the crisis anyway. He will be greatly implicated, and people related to eunuchs will definitely be regarded as opponents by literati. There is no doubt about it. Cao Cao is faced with a great choice. At this time, he will continue to follow the eunuch or leave the eunuch directly, indicating that he is innocent and has nothing to do with the eunuch. In the end, Cao Cao chose the latter. He decided not to have anything to do with eunuchs, otherwise he would be extremely dangerous and might be retaliated at any time. So what is he going to do? First of all, he needs an official position, but this official position cannot be obtained from eunuchs, otherwise people will say that he is a descendant of eunuchs, and he must obtain an official position from literati by his own ability. As a result, Cao Cao studied hard and studied hard, and was successfully promoted to filial piety and obtained an official position.
? Although Cao Cao's official position is not big, he still has real power. These powers must be used by Cao Cao. So he began to clean up eunuchs and suppress those powerful nobles and unruly. This behavior also fully shows that he broke off relations with eunuchs. Of course, people think that he has nothing to do with eunuchs, but this behavior will inevitably make Cao Cao offend many eunuchs. Cao Cao's move, strict discipline can be said to make eunuchs quiet a lot, which plays an important role in his future development.
? Blades is a consort and has been at odds with eunuchs. He believes that eunuchs are the biggest scourge of the imperial court, which is deeply rooted and difficult to remove. But if it is not cleaned up as soon as possible, there will be great problems in the future, so he decided to kill all the eunuchs. The Empress Dowager will definitely not agree with this decision, because without the restaurant who will serve her, her rights will naturally be small. But blades finally decided to kill all the eunuchs to get rid of future trouble. Based on his previous anger, he directly led the soldiers to kill him in the palace and beheaded all the bearded people. All eunuchs were slaughtered instantly, and everything became cleaner than ever. But this time, Dong Zhuo was also involved. He doesn't have much strength. He took this opportunity to subdue other soldiers in one fell swoop in the process of chaos and seized the power of the central court. The whole Central Army and all kinds of resources are also in his hands, which is the benefit of fishermen. After he mastered all the power, he even changed the emperor, abolished the original emperor and replaced it with a smaller emperor. The emperor is like a puppet with no real power, and the whole central government is Dong Zhuo's world. At this time, Cao Cao was faced with a choice. Dong Zhuo's power is enormous. If he doesn't follow Dong Zhuo and rebel, he will definitely punish Cao Cao. Dong Zhuo's terminating is also because he has no firm power in the imperial court. His background is even similar to that of Manchu barbarians. In the eyes of the central authorities, he is looked down upon, so he can only use cruel means to forcibly suppress people. Those who follow me will be happy, and those who oppose me will die. But must Cao Cao follow Dong Zhuo for this reason? I don't think so, because Dong Zhuo seems to have a great influence now, but he has no foundation and is unstable. Moreover, his oppression of the people will inevitably make some people resist and will be suppressed sooner or later. So this choice is unwise and risky. Cao Cao's only choice at this time is to escape. He can stay away from the central government first, and then gather some forces to crusade against Dong Zhuo. At this time, various governors responded to Cao Cao in succession, and Yuan Shao, led by him, also decided to lead troops to crusade against Dong Zhuo. But at this time, a very strange thing happened. When all the governors got together, they stopped fighting. What's going on here? If you don't want to fight, why did you come? But their choice is completely understandable, because in the troubled times at that time, whoever has the strength is the boss, and there is no moral justice in the world. Therefore, if we attack Dong Zhuo at this time, it will inevitably consume their strength, and they must accumulate strength. Crushing Dong Zhuo didn't seem to have much practical significance at that time, and such a move was too risky. If it fails, the loss will be hard to make up. No vassal is willing to take such a risk, so he can only think of himself first. Seeing that everyone refused to send troops, Cao Cao was very anxious and decided to take the initiative to send troops. You know, Cao Cao's case was very weak at that time. Maybe the total strength at that time was only about 5000 people. It is a very important problem to defeat tens of thousands of Dong Zhuo with only a few thousand people, and finally it was defeated with extremely painful results, and its strength was even weaker.
? Cao Cao lost more than half of his troops, making his already weak troops even more vulnerable. In this troubled times, if you want to survive, you can only rely on your own strength and strength. So the main problem that Cao Cao needs to solve now is the army. He needed his own territory, but when Cao Cao looked for Dong, the territory of the world had been divided equally among the princes. Where will he get the territory? Fortunately, there is still a glimmer of hope at this time, that is, the Yellow Scarf Army. Although the yellow turban insurrectionary army is very powerful, most of the troops are only peasant troops, and their combat capability is not very strong. Cao Cao successfully defeated a city with his thousands of troops and his own fighting capacity. At this time, Cao Cao had his own territory and finally stabilized. Later, Cao Cao made a famous move, that is, holding the emperor as a minister. He welcomed the emperor at that time. But at that time, no vassal was willing to do this, because it was negative assets and had no practical significance. It will also make your reputation decline and cause dissatisfaction among various governors. At that time, the emperor was a puppet, and it was impossible to hold the emperor as a vassal. Which vassal will listen to you, but will resist because of dissatisfaction. So what did Cao Cao think? Why make such a choice? Who would admire the son of heaven at that time? Obviously, it is those scholars, especially those who are mainly Confucianism, because they advocate the concept of respecting the monarch. Because Cao Cao has few military commanders at this time, he can find some scholars to make suggestions. His respect for the monarch will also be seen by scholars, who will naturally turn to him. At this time, instead of holding the son of heaven as a vassal, he served the son of heaven as a minister.
? In this way, Cao Cao's strength continued to increase and he recovered the north in one fell swoop. But when he went south to unify the Central Plains, Liu Bei and Sun Quan formed an alliance with him in the Battle of Chibi. Cao Cao may be underestimating the cause of his enemy. He was defeated. At this time, Cao Cao's dream of unifying the world was shattered, so there was a situation that Wei Shuwu was divided into three parts, and the Three Kingdoms era officially began.
? Now that Cao Cao is old, it's time to think about the future. The most important thing, of course, is the heir. He has to choose whether to give these powers to the Han Dynasty or to his own children. If he wants his son to inherit and he still wants to be emperor, what will he choose? Finally, he gave the position to his son. After all, if he gave it to Han, his contribution would be like a waste.
? Cao Cao made many choices in his life and developed step by step, but what kind of person is he? What can be seen from these choices? Cao Cao often only realized the real problem, just like when he crusaded against Dong Zhuo, everyone knew that it was a cancer, but everyone chose not to crusade for their own interests, but at this moment, Cao Cao decided to fight even though his troops were extremely limited. Later, Cao Cao held the emperor to make the princes. Does he just consider his own interests? I don't think so. He may be loyal and want to help the Han family. So Cao Cao is actually very complicated. You can't define him just by his appearance. Sometimes you need to go into your heart through appearances to understand how he chose and why.