Should Cao Cao kill Yang Xiu, why

Our Chinese teacher said not necessarily.

Yang Xiu's death is the inevitable result of the long-term accumulation and intensification of the contradictions between him and Cao Cao, and it is also the tragedy of Yang Xiu's character who is open-minded, ignores etiquette and law, and ignores the dignity and humility. The last three paragraphs are the end of the story. Cao Cao killed Yang Xiu, and regardless of the military situation, he attacked on a large scale, and finally was defeated and wounded, and fled in embarrassment.

This was his annoyance and anger at Yang Xiu's insight into his intentions, and it was also the heavy price he paid for killing Yang Xiu.

This is a question that does not have a uniform answer, everyone has their own opinions and understandings, and when considered from different perspectives, they will also come to different conclusions. On this issue, we must look at it from two aspects: Yang Xiu's killing is the inevitable result of his historical grudge with Cao Cao, and it is the result of Yang Xiu's cleverness, mischief, and even participation in Cao Cao's housekeeping problems.

As "Cao Cao, who coerced the Son of Heaven and ordered the princes", he had his dignity, Yang Xiu always violated his dignity intentionally or unintentionally, teased him, and even acted clever when he was marching and fighting, and deciphered the "chicken rib code", so that "all the generals in the village are ready to calculate", from this point of view, he is at fault. But he didn't kill by mistake, Cao Cao executed Yang Xiu for the crime of confusing the army's heart, which was a personal vendetta in the communiqué, making a big fuss, and venting his anger at committing his own taboos in the past in the name of "confusing the army's heart". Therefore, Yang Xiu's death is even greater than Cao Cao's fault.

Therefore, the following statement is more general and comprehensive about the cause of Yang Xiu's death: Yang Xiu intervened in the succession dispute of the Cao family brothers and deceived Cao Cao, so he was killed.

Although Yang Xiu has a full stomach and quick thinking, but there are few times to give advice to Cao Cao, he did not plan a clever strategy for Cao Cao to retreat from the enemy at a critical moment, but when Cao Cao was in a dilemma and hesitated, he bewitched the army's heart, and guessed that Cao Cao would soon return to the court from the night password "chicken ribs", so he packed up his bags in advance, so that the military camp sorted out his clothes and prepared to return to the court. Led to the discouragement of the army. At the moment of the great enemy, this is a big taboo, Yang Xiu, as the master of the march, doesn't he even understand these common sense?

It can be seen that he was so open-minded that he eventually attracted the disaster of killing.

From a certain point of view, Yang Xiu is more stupid than a fool.

From the perspective of historical facts, if I were Cao Cao, I would also kill Yang Xiu. But from the literary point of view of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I don't think it should be killed - but not necessarily. Hard!

Yang Xiu is too smart, self-righteous, and arrogant. Death is inevitable. What does it matter who kills him?

If I were Cao Cao, I would have come to me and ask, "Can I ask if Sir can plan to help me break the enemy?" "If there is, I will spare it, and if not, I will kill it. Such a little cleverness will be punished if it causes chaos in the hearts of the army!

The charm of history is this.

You shouldn't kill Yang Xiu if you have a small amount of energy.

Cao Cao killed Yang Xiu for the following reasons:

1, Yang Xiu is proud of his talents, he loves to show off in front of Cao Cao, and he wanted to be appreciated by Cao Cao and reused, but it backfired, and Cao Cao was very dissatisfied with Yang Xiu's behavior.

2. Yang Xiu participated in the major event of Cao Cao's establishment of the prince, which undoubtedly touched Cao Cao's bottom line, but Yang Xiu still did not know how to restrain himself, and finally guessed Cao Cao's thoughts in the name of chicken ribs in the Battle of Hanzhong, and was executed by Cao Cao.

Anecdotal allusions about Yang Xiu:

Cao Cao, the king of Wei Wu, once passed under the Cao E monument, and Yang Xiu followed him. I saw the back of the stele written "Yellow silk young woman, grandson mortar" eight words. Cao Cao asked Yang Xiu:

Do you know what that means? Yang Xiu said, "I know."

Cao Cao said: "Don't say it yet, let me think about it." After walking thirty miles, Cao Cao said:

I've figured it out. ”

He asked Yang Xiu to write down his understanding separately. Yang Xiu wrote: "Yellow silk is colored silk, and the colored silk is synthesized into a 'absolute' character;Young woman, is the meaning of the girl, the girl synthesized a 'wonderful' word;The grandson is the son of the daughter, and the woman synthesizes the word 'good';Mortar is a matter of hardship.

Painstakingly synthesized into a 'word' (辤): this is the 'wonderful word'. Cao Cao also wrote down his understanding, and the result was the same as Yang Xiu's, so he sighed and said: "My talent can't catch up with you, so I thought about it for thirty miles more." ”

1. Cao Cao is suspicious, vicious and cruel by nature.

Cao Cao is a person with extremely high talent and power, he is jealous, insecure, and impulsive, so he has created a suspicious, vicious and cruel character.

Cao Cao's suspicious personality trait was vividly demonstrated in the incident of avoiding the killing of Yang Xiu. Cao Cao valued talented people, but avoided them. Yang Xiu was a very smart man, and later Yang Xiu assisted Cao Zhi in his fight against Cao Pi, which made Cao Cao suspicious.

Cao Cao believed in the life principle of "I would rather make the world bear, and stop teaching the world to bear me", so Yang Xiu had to die.

2. Cao Cao is a meritocracy, knowing people and being good at their duties.

Take Guan Yu as an example. Cao Cao was looking for a fight and a plus for Guan Yu, he knew that Guan Yu would inevitably become a big trouble after leaving, so he was very polite to Guan Yu. This also reflects Cao Cao's strategy of using talents.

Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, and his favorite general Dian Wei all died at the hands of Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, and even Cao Cao almost couldn't escape. But when Zhang Xiujia surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao reused them as much. It can be seen how eager Cao Cao loves talents.

In addition, Cao Cao also reused Zhang Liao, Zhang He and others, from this point of view, Cao Cao's talent appointment reputation is very calm and objective, he is meritocracy, meritocracy, breaking the concept of secular family. This trait of his character supported him for most of the Wei State.