Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Why did Cao Cao kill Xun Yu

Xun Yu's ideal is to assist a hero like Cao Cao to re-stabilize the country and let the Han Dynasty continue, which is Xun Yu's ideal.

But Xun Yu didn't expect that people would change, and as Cao Cao's credit grew, so did his power; As his power grew, so did his ambitions. When he was determined to seal the Duke of Wei and build the Wei State, Xun Yu, who was extremely sensitive politically, immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and he believed that the relationship between Cao Cao and the emperor would change fundamentally at this time, because once he sealed the Duke of Wei, he would establish an independent principality, and the relationship between this independent principality and the Han Dynasty would be a state-to-state relationship, it was not a relationship between the country and the locality, it was a relationship between the country, and Cao Cao and the emperor were the relationship between the duke and the emperor. Of course, there is a little subtlety here, that is, at this time, the Han Dynasty is the suzerain, and the Duchy of Wei is the canonized state of this suzerain, but the relationship with the county and ** is very different.

If this is not done well, it will change, because at this time, the Han Dynasty is an empty shelf, there is nothing, and Cao Cao can destroy the Han Dynasty with a single effort, so Xun Yu is unacceptable.

In such an unacceptable situation, he is faced with the choice of his own destiny and path, what should he do? But there is no alternative. What about him?

He now found that Cao Cao was not the person he could have high hopes for, who was? Liu Bei is? Even if Liu Bei is, can he defect to Liu Bei?

Can he still defect to Liu Bei at this time? No. Then follow Cao Cao and continue to do it, the more he helps Cao Cao, the more he goes to the opposite side of his wishes, and the more he helps Cao Cao, the more he goes against himself.

He can't help Cao Cao now, he can't help Cao Cao, he can't betray Cao Cao or not betray Cao Cao, so I call it a loss of ground, and there is only a dead end. What's more, we can imagine that Xun Yu's heart was very painful at this time, because for a person with ideals like him, there is nothing in the world that makes him more painful than the shattering of his ideals, so whether he dies of depression or commits suicide by taking poison, he must be very painful before he dies. I even suspect that he himself is going to kill himself.

It is very likely that Cao Cao sent this empty food box, because Cao Cao likes to do this kind of thing, so it is entirely possible to send a box to Xun Yu and open it to see that it is empty; But being empty does not mean that you are dead, it can also be understood as not talking, keep your mouth shut, as long as you don't speak, there is still food to eat. You can explain it in a variety of ways, but if Xun Yu gets this food box and he immediately chooses to die, he will use his death to tell Cao Cao: I must not approve of you doing this!

It is to show such an attitude.

So I think there may be another reason why Cao Cao did not call himself emperor in his life, that is, he can't forget Xun Yu's melancholy eyes.

No boss likes a subordinate who is smarter than himself.

Of course, this was not killed by Cao Cao, and it is not recorded in the history books.

Yes, because there were a series of conflicts between each other at that time, and it was also because the relationship between the two parties was limited to a certain extent, so they chose to kill each other in this case.

Not necessarily, because many film and television works are designed like this, just to highlight Cao Cao's character, but the real cause of death has not been investigated.

Because Xun Yu was originally Cao Cao's subordinate. Later, Xun Yu asked Cao Cao to take Emperor Han Xian back, but Emperor Han Xian named Cao Cao as a general and Xun Yu as a squire, and then these two people were on an equal footing, which made Cao Cao feel that Xun Yu had betrayed him.

Because of his opposition to Cao Cao's claim to be the Duke of Wei, he was jealous of Cao Cao, transferred from the center, and died of depression in Shouchun.

The cause of death is unknown!

Feng Xunyu is a servant, a doctor of Guanglu, holding a festival, and participating in the military of the prime minister. Cao Cao's army was wet, Xun Yu stayed in Shouchun (now Shou County, Anhui) due to illness, and soon died of anxiety (about Xun Yu's death, there is such a saying in the history books: Cao Cao gave food to Xun Yu at that time, Xun Yu opened the food vessel, and saw that there was nothing in the vessel, so he was forced to take poison and commit suicide), at the age of 50.

Zhen Jinghou, his son Xun Yun's heir, and the later official to the Tiger Ben Zhonglang General. In the second year, Cao Cao was crowned King of Wei.