What are the facts in the Three Kingdoms that can prove that Cao Cao was meritocracy?

In the battle of Chibi, Pang Tong skillfully offered a series of schemes, Pang Tong looked ugly, Sun Quan and Liu Bei saw his appearance, but they were not hired, and Cao Cao was close.

In the first year of Jian'an (196), one of Cao Cao's most important strategists, Xi Zhicai, died. In addition to being sad, Cao Cao wrote to Xun Yu and asked him to recommend a strategist who could replace Xi Zhicai. So, Xun Yu recommended his friend Guo Jia to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao summoned Guo Jia to discuss major events in the world, and after the discussion, Cao Cao said: "The person who can help me achieve great things is him!" After Guo Jia left the camp, he was also overjoyed and said:

This is my true master! ”

From then on, Guo Jia became Cao Cao's staff and military officer-the military advisor sacrificial wine, and offered advice and loyalty to Cao Cao's Quartet campaign.

Among Cao Cao's many strategists, only Guo Jia knew Cao Cao best, and the two had a close relationship, like friends. According to the car, the two people are in the same car, and they sit in the same seat. In Cao's tent, which is strict with the army, Guo Jia has a lot of unconventional behavior, but in the eyes of Cao Cao, who prefers him, "This is an extraordinary person, and it is not appropriate to detain him with common sense."

Cao Cao has a discipline inspector named Chen Qun, who once played a copy of Guo Jia because of his lack of inspection. However, Cao Cao praised Chen Qun for his meritorious reporting, but on the other hand, he ignored Guo Jia. Not only that, Cao Cao also secretly applauded Guo Jiayi's old style of life.

In his long career, Cao Cao always took Guo Jia with him, so that he could learn from each other at any time and act when the opportunity was right. Whenever there is a major military event, Guo Jia's strategy has never miscalculated. Cao Cao placed infinite hopes on the young Guo Jia, and planned to entrust Guo Jia with the important affairs of governing the country behind him after pacifying the world.

Cao Cao is not a meritocracy, the meritocracy is his grandfather, Cao Teng, because he has Dong Zhuo, because he Yuan Shao can be known as a nobleman, Cao Cao is employed, ruled, for the current leadership If there is Cao Cao's leadership art, his subordinates will be able to do what the people want, once Cao Cao went on an expedition, passing through a wheat field, the wheat field was just ripe, Cao Cao ordered the brothers not to trample on the wheat field, otherwise they would all be executed= Very serious, but Cao Cao's horse just doesn't have a long memory, just run to step on a few times, this step, Cao Cao got off the horse and said to the brothers, I should be responsible for the rules I set, but when he picked up the knife in his hand and killed himself, Guo Jia stopped him, he said that the lord here you are the boss, without the boss you, who will manage the world in the future, who will save the people of Li who are in the sea of suffering. Cao Cao immediately picked up a knife and cut off the hair on his head, saying that I will take the lead with my hair.

Cao Cao has only this way, this is the art of leadership, such as political leadership, enterprise leaders should have this kind of talent management, do not use suspicious people, and do not doubt people.

Meritocracy? It's right to be jealous.

Because of Cao Cao's strategy of employing people, talent is basic, but more importantly, in terms of talent, you must obey Cao Cao's orders, preferably Cao Cao's cronies. How so? Cao Cao issued several recruitment orders, all of which were when there was an urgent need to restore the morale of the army and make strategic changes after a major defeat.

At this time, Cao Cao's thirst for talents was the deepest. But it does not mean that the character of the talent will affect Cao Cao's employment, Cao Cao does not care about the character of the talent, on the contrary, he attaches more importance to the loyalty of the other party and can contribute to his hegemony.

Cao Cao Zai seems to have always been hungry for talent, especially those generals. For example, when he attacked Lü Bu, he persuaded Lü Bu's general Zhang Liao to surrender. Another example is that he fought against Liu Bei and besieged Guan Yu, but he was bent on persuading Guan Yu to stay in Cao Ying, and finally let him go because he couldn't bear to kill a general like Guan Yu.

When Guan Yu was forced to stay in Cao Ying, Cao Cao was really very good to him, and even some veterans felt very jealous. From here, it can be seen that Cao Cao knew that in order to strengthen his power, talent is indispensable.

But Cao Cao doesn't just value the ability of talents. Xun Yu was an important military advisor after Cao Cao's rise. He contributed greatly to Cao Cao's early rise.

However, because he did not approve of Cao Cao's self-establishment as the Duke of Wei, Xun Yu lost Cao Cao's trust, was left in the place, and finally died of depression. Some people also say that Cao Cao sent him an empty food box, implying that it was impossible for Xun Yu to eat the Han family, so Xun Yu committed suicide for this. Of course, no matter why he died, the most important reason why Xun Yu was rejected by Cao Cao was that he opposed Cao Cao.

In fact, Cao Cao's cronies are all people who are completely loyal to him, and even those who are related to him Cao Ren, Cao Hong, and Cao Zhen are all generals he has trusted very much for hundreds of years, while Zhang Liao and other people who have taken refuge in Cao Cao can only obey Cao Cao's cronies. Only those who obey him and will never betray him.

Although Cao Cao likes talented people very much, he is also very afraid of talented people, because he is an extremely selfish and hypocritical person, and wants a very talented person to assist him, but he is afraid that this person's power is too high to resist himself, so he is also very wary of talented people.

Because he only reuses those who are loyal to him, and for those who are not loyal or unwilling to be used by him, Cao Cao will kill them all, and if he is brought under the command of others, that is, to promote the forces of other countries, which is certainly not what Cao Cao wants to see.

Cao Cao is a meritocracy for talents, of course, the first premise is that this talent must be used by him, if it is a hostile talent, he will also erase him mercilessly, so as to eliminate the hidden danger in the cradle.