In 191 AD, with Xun Yu joining Cao Cao's group and making up for Cao Cao's shortest shortcomings, Cao Cao got rid of the bad luck of failing in the first stage of his life and began the second stage of his life. This is Cao Cao's most splendid period, five defeats of Yuan Shu, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, capturing and killing Lu Bu, destroying Yuan Shu, and Liu Bei Qingmei cooking wine and talking about heroes, recruiting Guan Yu ......In the battle of Guandu in 200 AD, the most powerful Yuan Shao group ...... was defeated in one fell swoopIn less than 10 years, Cao Cao almost dominated the north!Many people like to take Liu Bang to kill Xiang Yu in about 4 years, and Cao Cao in the past 10 years, the conclusion is naturally that Cao Cao is too far worse than Liu Bang, in fact, this comparison is not very illustrative, which we will discuss in detail later. 
And today's article, because it is the beginning of the second stage of Cao Cao's life, there must always be a core, so that readers can understand why Cao Cao is so awesome in the second stage of his life, and how did he do it?It just so happens that the author knows that Cao Cao left us two words, which is the only authentic calligraphy of Cao Cao that can be seen at present, but there is still a typo, so why did Cao Cao write down a typo?These two characters were written by Cao Cao in 219 AD, and Cao Cao died the following year. This makes these two words play a pivotal role in the study of Cao Cao. And since these two characters are inscribed in the stone gate of Baogu in Hanzhong, it can be inferred that this is the ...... written by Cao Cao and Liu Bei in the battle of Hanzhong
From 217 to 219 AD, the battle between Cao Cao and Liu Bei in Hanzhong meant bitterness to Cao Cao, Liu Bei, the opponent of his life, finally defeated him once in front of the gong, although Cao Cao "educated" Liu Bei countless times in his life, but he did not expect that in the last stage of his life, he let Liu Bei give an education. In front of him, the Bao River was drained down, rushing against the stone wall and raising mist, like broken snow fluttering, looking far away, the surging river was unstoppable to the east, Cao Cao's eyes were watching for a long time. What was he thinking?I'm afraid I'm thinking about this Hanzhong battle with Liu Bei, why I fell into such a passive situation, so that I couldn't advance or retreat. Cao Cao finally retracted his gaze, picked up his pen and wrote two words on the stone wall: ...... as shown below
This gave rise to a folk legend, it is said that after Cao Cao just finished writing these two words, the people around him began to feel uneasy, because the word "roll" is obviously a typo, missing three points of water. Finally, someone shouted, "Boss, it's wrong!."Cao Cao asked strangely, "What's wrong?"People scrambled to reply: "This rolling word, three points of water is missing!."Cao Cao looked back at these two words again, looked up to the sky and laughed, pointed to the Bao River flowing eastward, and said, "Is it wrong?"What's wrong, you see, isn't this just water? ”
The subtext of this sentence is: You don't understand me at all!Maybe some people will despise this, what is this?Isn't it just a play on words, and it's worth it for you to go around like this?But the author wants to ask a rhetorical question: If such a word game throws you, me, and him into the Three Kingdoms period, do we dare to clap our chests and scream, I can also play it!It is important to know that Cao Cao can be called the originator of this kind of wordplay, and even the inventor. The routines we are familiar with today are almost all developed by Cao Cao. So this actually illustrates three things. The first point is that Cao Cao still dares to be the first in the world!Not much to talk about here. 
The second point: we all know that words are a way of communication, so words are our way of thinking, and no one objects to this, right?Okay, then looking at Cao Cao's two words, he deliberately removed the three points of water from the word "roll", because he thought that he was guarding the Bao River around him, so why should I do this?What's it called?It's called "borrowing"!For example, since Cao Cao joined Xun Yu, he has risen rapidly with the help of Xun Yu's wisdom and the background and power of his eldest brother Yingchuan. It is difficult for a person who does not think about the word "borrowing" to succeed. Because the other way around, I thought: Why should I let you borrow it?For example, Guo Jia, as mentioned in the previous article, he has a famous saying about reverse thinking: The wise man judges the master!
That is: you want me to assist you, why?So Guo Jia discarded Yuan Shao, but in the end, under Xun Yu's recommendation, he became Cao Cao's most relied on think tank. So you can borrow if you want?That's not a joke!This requires its own attraction, that is, whether it can bring hope to the other person, give the other person a future or say "positive results"!The third point is derived from the first two points: the reason why Cao Cao was able to almost unify the north in the past 10 years was because of his courage and ability to "dare to be the first in the world", with the help of the contradictions between the princes at that time, crisscrossing it, suddenly uniting, suddenly using, and suddenly crusading. For example, taking in Liu Bei, uniting and using Yuan Shao, but finally killing Yuan Shao and so on. 
With the help of the wisdom of the strong people in various fields around him (Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, etc.) and combat power (represented by Wuziliang General, as well as Guan Yu of the enemy), of course, there are many administrative talents, but in troubled times, it is not as important as resourcefulness and combat power. Cao Cao is not a god, he created a magnificent chapter in his life because he would "borrow". And the most telling thing is the word "roll" that is missing three points of water!In fact, this also has a considerable enlightening effect on guiding our life or career, for example, I want to "borrow", but why don't people ignore me?In fact, the answers to these questions can be found in Cao Cao.