Portrait of Cao Cao
“Love extramarital affairs, eat abalone, love self hype, love gentlemen, love little people, love all creatures in the world, and love poetry. I’m not what you call a traitor, I’m a despicable saint, Cao Cao!”
Recently, the popular best-selling book “despicable Sage: Cao Cao” has aroused heated discussion among Cao Cao fans because it restores the daily face of a generation of villains in real history. Some readers even use the above-mentioned ordinary objects to summarize Cao Cao in the book. Yesterday, on the occasion of the publication of the third book, the author Wang Xiaolei said in an interview with reporters: “the traitors and loyalists in history are similar, only Cao Cao is very different. If you don’t understand Cao Cao in daily life, you can’t understand what he did.”
Reader: don’t marry Cao Cao if you marry someone
The true face of Cao Cao has always been a topic of great interest to Chinese people. Wang Xiaolei, the author of the despicable Sage: Cao Cao, said, “I just tell him from the eyes of ordinary people, neither looking up nor overlooking. From the constantly changing Cao Cao, I restore the ‘daily face’ of the generation behind the historical events, so that readers can see the most real and vivid Cao Cao.”
In order to restore the daily face of Cao Cao, Wang Xiaolei devoted himself to studying Cao Cao for more than ten years, and broke through the clues about Cao Cao in the ancient books and documents in history. Wang Xiaolei said, “it is not easy to read the collection of the annals of the Three Kingdoms. There are no punctuation marks in classical Chinese with three fonts. Fortunately, I have a magnifying glass.” It is in-depth study of historical materials that Wang Xiaolei successfully restored the “daily face” of the generation of villains behind the historical events, which also exposed the privacy of Cao Cao, who was originally hidden in the vast sea of history.
In the third book of the just released “despicable Sage: Cao Cao”, Cao Cao became “selfish”. In order to get rid of Dong Zhuo, he fled Luoyang in a hurry, regardless of the life and death of his wife Bian and son Cao Pi. This made some female readers very indignant, and defended Bian’s mother and son who were trapped in the capital: “Cao Cao is not a thing. Don’t marry Cao Cao when you marry.”
Last words: if the wife wants to remarry, remarry
Wang Xiaolei listed Cao Cao’s “Ten Secrets” in his book. He is greedy for beauty and has taken beautiful widows for himself many times. Because of having an extramarital affair, he didn’t hesitate to kill his eldest son Cao ang, and he nearly died. The original Mrs. Ding was angry about this, and beat and scolded Cao Cao in public. Cao Cao was angry and drove the Ding family away, and because of the anxiety of conscience, he ran to the Ding family, stroked his wife’s back and soft spoken words to ask her to go back; Protect the short and love face. Cao Cao always protects the short. When Chibi loses, he says he set fire by himself; He likes eating abalone, advocates frugality in public but pays attention to diet, secretly eats extravagantly, and even writes a lot of lists of delicious fish from all over the world, especially eating abalone; After the “jade belt imperial edict incident” was exposed, Cao Cao slaughtered the planner’s family, regardless of reason, and even dragged Dong Guiren out of the palace with his baby. The split of he and Guan Yu originated from “Diao Chan”. Cao Cao promised to give Guan Yu the beautiful lady Du. However, seeing that Du Shi was extremely beautiful, he destroyed himself and vowed to take him as his own, which made Guan Yu doubt himself and lost the best opportunity to win over this general. And this Du Shi is the character prototype of Diao Chan.
To provide funds for the army, Cao Cao once set up a tomb robbing organization to direct the treasure taking on the scene. Cao Cao often hypes himself. He has a strong sense of inferiority. He came from a eunuch family, so he always wants to get rid of the stain and hype himself. The last words are very gentle: wives should learn to make shoes to sell, earn money to support themselves, and remarry if they want to remarry.