Cao Cao s biggest mistake in his life, he missed the opportunity to unify the world, and what idioms

After Cao Cao occupied Hanzhong, the strategists suggested that he attack Shu, because Liu Bei had just obtained that territory at this time, and the people's hearts were still unstable, so there was a great chance to defeat it. But Cao Cao said that people can't be too greedy, "People are bitter and insufficient, and they have Long, and they look back at the evil of Shu!" What he meant was that just after getting Hanzhong, don't go to Shu again.

However, if he attacked Yizhou at that time, Liu Bei would probably not be able to defend it, so Cao Cao missed an opportunity to dominate the world. The idiom "Delong Wangshu" has also been passed down to this day, and is used to describe people who are very greedy.

People often think that after the Battle of Chibi, the world is a three-legged situation. In fact, after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei's west was still Liu Zhang of Yizhou, and Liu Zhang's north of Liu Zhang was Zhang Lu of Hanzhong. Seven years after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao conquered Hanzhong, and Zhang Lu knew that he could not defeat him, so he surrendered.

Cao Cao easily obtained the strategic land of Hanzhong, which was very close to Yizhou.

At that time, Liu Bei also happened to capture Yizhou of Liu Zhang, who was also a member of the clan. However, the human heart is not yet fully attached。Sima Yi and Liu Ye under Cao Cao told Cao Cao that it was now very suitable to take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Yizhou.

Because Liu Bei has just captured Yizhou, the people's hearts are unstable, and the foundation is not deep, and it is very likely that he will make another big progress in this battle.

But Cao Cao thought that this was too aggressive, and felt that people should not be too greedy, so he said the words of Long Wangshu and rejected the advice of the strategist. From ancient times to the present, many people believe that Cao Cao's decision this time was wrong. If he takes advantage of the victory to pursue, it is very likely that he will eliminate Liu Bei, and then go down the river to clear Eastern Wu, so as to dominate the world.

In my opinion, the biggest mistake in Cao Cao's life was to underestimate Eastern Wu, let alone take Sun Quan, the ruler of Eastern Wu, seriously, which led to the defeat of Chibi and the loss of a great opportunity to dominate the world.

Cao Cao marched south, seized Jingzhou and drove Liu Bei away, and achieved a very favorable position in the strategic situation. Jingzhou was equivalent to the gate and outpost of Eastern Wu, occupied by Cao Cao, and was very passive for Eastern Wu. In other words, the Yangtze River natural insurance that Soochow relied on had been taken by Cao Cao in half.

Liu Bei met Liu Biao's son Liu Qi at that time and fled to the Jiangxia area, the army was only 20,000 people, and it was a new defeat, and the morale was not high. This was the perfect time for Cao Cao to eliminate Liu Bei's group. If Cao Cao united with Eastern Wu at this time to jointly eliminate Liu Bei, or give Eastern Wu some benefits to keep them neutral, then Liu Bei's group would definitely fall.

The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and Liu Bei is completely isolated after Dongwu is finished. If he attacks Eastern Wu again, Cao Cao will also win. It's called pulling one hit the other.

Cao Cao was carried away by the victory of unifying the north and capturing Jingzhou, and was complacent, believing that he was invincible, and forced Sun Quan to surrender while Liu Bei's clique still existed. Sun Quan was forced to have no choice, so he had to unite with Liu Bei, who had no relationship with him, to resist together, and finally defeated Cao Cao.

Sun Quan is outstanding, and good at employing people, he is a capable and effective overlord, far from being comparable to Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Zhang Xiu, Liu Biao and others. Cao Cao didn't take him seriously at all at that time, relying on the strength of the army and the strength of the horses, arrogant and conceited, how could he not be defeated?

It is Cao Cao who got this and wanted that, but he didn't look at his own strength, and it became the idiom of Long Wangshu.

This idiom is Delong Wangshu, he is too greedy and should come step by step.

De Long Wangshu", it is because Cao Cao's desires will never be satisfied, so there will be such a result.

This idiom is "Delong Wangshu", which means that he will never be satisfied, and finally lead to his death without a place to be buried.

Regarding the reason for the division of the world in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, many people may say that it was formed because of the Battle of Chibi. In fact, the Battle of Chibi could not become the dominant reason for the three circles of the world, because after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei's territory was only in the Jingxiang area, and his west was also beneficial to Liu Zhang, and Liu Zhang's northeast was also Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, so the situation in the world was still unclear at that time. So what is the reason for the situation of three points in the world?

In fact, it was due to a major mistake by Cao Cao, which became an idiom in later generations.

In the twentieth year of Jian'an (215), seven years after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao conquered Zhang Lu, who was defending Hanzhong. Zhang Lu knew that his strength was limited and he was not Cao Cao's opponent, so he surrendered to Cao Cao. At this time, Cao Cao got a large piece of land in Hanzhong.

This Hanzhong is a strategic place, known as the gateway to Bashu since ancient times, and is the bridgehead for the northern regime to conquer the southwest. As long as Cao Cao gets Hanzhong, he may occupy Yizhou. At this time, the situation is that Liu Bei has just usurped the foundation of Liu Zhang, who is also a clan, in Yizhou, and the people's hearts have not yet been completely attached.

Therefore, after Cao Cao occupied Hanzhong, two of his advisers, Sima Yi and Liu Ye, jumped out. At that time, Sima Yi and Liu Ye, as the prime ministers of the army, both advocated taking advantage of the victory to enter Shu: Sima Yi thought that Liu Bei had just defrauded Liu Zhang to gain Yizhou, and the Shu people were not attached, so this opportunity could not be lost.

Liu Ye also thinks that Cao Cao has raised troops to shock the world and take overseas, if he takes advantage of the situation, Shu can pass on the throne, and thinks that Liu Bei is also a master, if he is slow, he will borrow Zhuge Liang to rule, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei Yongguan The three armies will be in danger and defend the essentials, and if they do not take advantage of the situation, they will be worried. Liu Ye and Sima Yi persuaded Cao Cao to attack Liu Bei's newly occupied Shu land.

But Cao Cao said: "People are bitter and contented, and they have Long, and they look back at the evil of Shu!" "What do you mean?

Here Long represents Hanzhong, and Shu represents Yizhou, that is to say, Cao Cao took "people are just suffering from not being satisfied, they have already gotten Longxi, and they still want to get Shu" as the interface, and did not follow the advice of Sima Yi and Liu Ye. From ancient times to the present, people have commented on Cao Cao's move, and many people think that Cao Cao missed a great opportunity to unify the world, such as Pei Songzhi of the Southern Dynasty who believed: "After Wei Wu, Keping Zhang Lu, Shuzhong was shocked dozens of times a day, although Liu Bei cut it and could not stop, he did not need Liu Ye's plan to lose the sweeping meeting."

>Therefore, most of them believe that Cao Cao was not able to rule the world, and the important reason was that this time the decision was wrong, if Cao Cao could take advantage of the victory to attack Yizhou, it was very likely to eliminate Liu Bei, and then go down the river to sweep the Eastern Wu and set the world. It is said that after Cao Cao withdrew his troops from Hanzhong, he regretted it, and asked Liu Ye if it was too late to attack Yizhou now? Liu Ye said that the opportunity had been missed, Liu Bei had already taken precautions, and it was too late.

Because of Cao Cao's major decision-making mistake, there was an idiom later-Delong Wangshu, which is used as a metaphor for inches, greed is not satisfied, and greed is insatiable.

Hopefully, plum quenches thirst with this idiom. When Cao Cao went out to fight, there was no water on the road, and the soldiers could no longer hold on. He came up with a way to say that there was a plum grove in front of him, and there were plums. The warriors listened to him and remembered the taste of plums and were not thirsty.

After Cao Cao took Hanzhong, he did not go straight to Sichuan, and he also ridiculed the insatiable ** who persuaded him to enter Shu, thus losing the best opportunity to dominate the world, resulting in a situation where the Three Kingdoms were established. This created an idiom of "Delong Wangshu", which means that you have to get an inch, you are greedy and you don't know how to be satisfied, and you get one and go to Xiao to think about another.

It is the idiom of Delong Wangshu that expresses Cao Cao's own indignation.

Cao Cao was able to rely on his own strength to become a hegemon and unify the north, but in the end he did not unify the world, but became a member of the three-legged tripod. This is mainly related to four people, two of whom Cao Cao should not have killed Hua Tuo Yang Xiu, but they actually died in the hands of Tao Cao Cao. Liu Bei and Sima Yi should have been executed by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao let them go.

This is because Cao Cao made a mistake in handling it, and his great cause was not unified.

One is the loss of Dian Wei because of his lust, Cao Cao felt very sad. And at that time, Dian Wei died very miserably, and was killed by random arrows. The second is the death of the eldest son, which not only caused his wife, Mrs. Ding, to have no good impression of him.

It also led to infighting among many sons over inheritance issues.

1.In the process of recruiting Zhang Xiu, his beloved general Dian Wei and his son, his eldest son and nephew also died, and he also lost his soldiers.

2.Because of arrogance, it led to blind self-confidence and a crushing defeat in the Battle of Red Cliffs, so Cao Cao lost his last chance to unify the country.

Cao Cao failed to dominate the world, I think he made two main mistakes, one is not to kill Liu Bei and let Liu Bei escape, and the other is to fall for Zhou Yu's counter-plot to bury his army in Chibi and lose a good opportunity to attack Wu in the south.