Who killed the famous doctor Hua Tuo, and how did the famous doctor Hua Tuo die

Cao Cao, the famous divine physician Hua Tuo in Chinese history, was killed by Cao Cao, according to literature. Why did Cao Cao kill a doctor who could cure him? There are two main ways to say this:

said that Hua Tuo wanted to blackmail Cao Cao in order to get an official position, which annoyed Cao Cao; One said that Cao Cao suspected that Hua Tuo wanted to kill himself and avenge Guan Yu. It is the historian who advocates the threat. Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" and Chen Shou's "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" both say this.

Fan Ye believes that Hua Tuo treats Cao Cao's headache as a bargaining chip with Cao Cao's important officials. Chen Shou seems to have this meaning, but he doesn't say it conclusively. Cao Cao said that Hua Tuo "the villain raises my illness and wants to respect himself", which can also be understood in a variety of ways, not necessarily just to ask for an official position.

According to Cao Cao's flexible character, in order to survive, he should not be so stingy that he is reluctant to give Hua Tuo a half-official position. It was Luo Guanzhong who proposed revenge, because Cao Cao suspected that Hua Tuo had given him a craniotomy and put himself to death in order to avenge Guan Yu. In order to build a new palace, Cao Cao went to a temple and cut down a huge pear tree.

As a result, he angered the sacred tree and fell into the disease of headache (head wind). I tried to seek a good doctor, but I couldn't**. After Hua Tuo's diagnosis, the following ** plan was proposed:

After anesthesia, a craniotomy is performed. When Cao Cao heard this, he was immediately furious and asserted: "The arm pain can be scraped, and the head can be cut off?"

You will be familiar with Guan Gong, take this opportunity to take revenge! On the spot, he ordered Hua Tuo to be put in prison and interrogated. Soon after, Hua Tuo was killed in prison.

I think there are inconsistencies between the above two statements. Let's take a look at the coercion first, the biography of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty records that Hua Tuo is "a hundred years old, and he is still magnificent, and people think he is an immortal." It is hard to imagine that a person who is nearly 100 years old would be so enthusiastic about his career as an opportunity to claim an official position.

How can a generation of famous doctors be so indifferent to their own medical reputation? Look at revenge again. The doctor wants to put Cao Cao to death and cut off Cao Cao's head with a sharp axe, ** is more light and convenient than adding a little thing (such as poison) to the medicine, and the gods don't know it?

In contrast, the other argument is more reliable. This argument can be called the doctrine of bringing to justice. According to the Han law, Hua Tuo committed two crimes:

One is the crime of deception, and the other is the crime of not being conscripted. Cao Cao executed Hua Tuo in accordance with the law at the time. Judging from the poems such as "Zhou Gong vomits and feeds, the world returns to the heart" ("Short Song Xing") and "The martyr is in his twilight years, his heart is strong" ("Turtle Although Shou"), Cao Cao is undoubtedly a person with great ambitions and a desire to make contributions; In order to do things, he needs to order and prohibit, and of course he will not be soft on those who dare to go against his will.

This makes more logical sense. However, there is also a problem: killing Hua Tuo should be Cao Cao's later years, and at this time, Cao Cao may not care so much about prohibiting it.

Judging from the record of Hua Tuo's biography in "Three Kingdoms", I think that the reason why Cao Cao decided to kill Hua Tuo was not only "angry and disrespectful", but also "felt useless".

Cao Cao killed, he mistakenly thought that Hua Tuo performed a craniotomy on him to harm him.

In 208 AD, Cao Cao took control of the government and became the prime minister, Cao Cao was brutal by nature and asked Hua Tuo to stay in his mansion, and no other work was allowed to be done, so he could only concentrate on being his doctor. Hua Tuo saw Cao Cao's cruelty clearly and was unwilling to do things for him, so he found an excuse to ask Cao Cao for leave to return to his hometown, and never returned to Cao's mansion after he returned.

Cao Cao wrote to Hua Tuo many times urging him to go back, and even asked the local county order to find Hua Tuo and ask him to return to Cao Cao, but Hua Tuo refused on the grounds that his wife was not in good health. So Cao Cao, who was annoyed and angry, sent people to Hua Tuo's hometown to arrest Wu Tuo and arrest him.

After Hua Tuo was arrested, he was severely tortured, and Cao Cao insisted that Hua Tuo do things for him, but Hua Tuo remained loyal and refused to give in. In the end, Cao Cao ordered Hua Tuo to be executed, and many people interceded for Hua Tuo, thinking that his medical skills were superior and it was a pity to be executed, but Cao Cao ignored it, and Hua Tuo was executed by Cao Cao.

And the widely circulated saying in history is that after Hua Tuo cured Cao Cao's headache, Cao Cao was worried that he would ** in the future, so he forcibly kept Hua Tuo by his side, and Hua Tuo would rather be executed if he didn't obey. However, the explanation of the cause of Hua Tuo's death in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is that Hua Tuo thought that in order to cure Cao Cao's headache, it was necessary to cut open the head and remove the saliva in the head, so that it could be cured. But Cao Cao thought that Hua Tuo wanted to take his life, so he put Hua Tuo in prison and later killed him.

How did Hua Tuo die, there is no clear answer yet, and some people say that Hua Tuo was giving Cao Cao ** a headache, and he was poisoned to death when he tested the poison.

It is recorded in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms that when Hua Tuo was treating Cao Xiang's illness, he did not return after the deadline set by Sou Jingding, which caused Cao Cao to be furious and ordered Hua Tuo to be executed. It can be seen that no matter how Hua Tuo died, it has a lot to do with Cao Cao.

1. Hua Tuo was killed by Cao Cao, who threw him into prison and tortured him to death.

2. Cao Cao heard that Hua Tuo's medical skills were very superb and he had the ability to bring the dead back to life, so he sent someone to invite him to the house to be his personal doctor. Hua Tuo stayed in Cao Cao's mansion for a while, and then asked for leave to go home on the grounds of missing his family. After that, Cao Cao wrote many times to ask Hua Tuo to return to Cao's mansion, but Hua Tuo said that his wife was sick and did not want to go.

This incident aroused Cao Cao's suspicions, and Cao Cao sent someone to Hua Tuo's house to find that Hua Tuo's wife was not sick. At this time, Cao Cao understood that Hua Tuo was waiting for the price to sell, wanting to seek a higher official position. So Cao Mengdu, in a fit of rage, sent someone to arrest Hua Tuo and put him in prison, and finally Hua Tuo was tortured to death in prison.

In his later years, because he was suspected by Cao Cao, he was tortured to death in prison.

Cao Cao had a head stroke and asked the famous doctor Hua Tuo to be him**. Hua Tuo said to Cao Cao, the root of your head wind disease is called "wind saliva", which grows in the brain, and only by taking "Ma Boiling San" first, and then splitting the head with a sharp axe, can you take out the "wind saliva" and completely cure your head wind.

Cao Cao has always been very suspicious, and when he heard Hua Tuo's ** plan, he was furious. He thought that Hua Tuo wanted to take the opportunity of the knife to kill himself. Enraged, Cao Cao immediately threw Hua Tuo into prison and eventually killed Hua Tuo.

After decades of medical practice, Hua Tuo has mastered the best means of health preservation, prescription medicine, acupuncture and surgery, and is proficient in internal, external, gynecological and pediatric departments.