Hello everyone, I am a fish who loves to read, today we are going to talk about the story of Cao Cao's green plum cooking wine on heroes. Liu Bei was attacked by Lu Bu and had to defect to Cao Cao, Cao Cao treated Liu Bei quite favorably, he appointed Liu Bei as the pastor of Yuzhou, and allocated him grain and grass for him to collect the remnants. After eliminating Lu Bu's forces, Cao Cao took Liu Bei and others back to Xudu to meet the Son of Heaven. Cao Cao recommended Liu Bei as General Zuo, and when he went out to play, he and Liu Bei rode in the same car, and sat on the same banquet for dinner. Cao Cao cherished Liu Bei's talent very much, and wanted to use this to influence Liu Bei, even if he couldn't influence Liu Bei, he could also set an example to the people of the world. Cao Cao's love for talent is also reflected in his poem "Short Song Xing": "Qingqingzi, leisurely my heart." But for the sake of the king, he has been groaning so far. ”
In the court, Liu Bei explained the identity of the royal family to Emperor Han Xian, and Emperor Han Xian regarded Liu Bei as a confidant. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty wrote an edict with blood, asking his uncle Dong Cheng, the general of the chariot cavalry, Wu Zilan, Wang Zifu and others to jointly destroy Cao Cao. As for whether Liu Bei was involved, it cannot be inferred, but it is certain that Dong Cheng must have shown the edict to Liu Bei. This is different from the plot of the edict in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty wrote a bloody edict and hid it in the belt to give it to Liu Bei, and Cao Cao wanted to see whether Liu Bei lived or died. Dong Cheng came to visit Liu Bei, and Liu Bei showed the edict to Dong Cheng.
After reading the edict, Liu Bei was so frightened every day that he didn't dare to go out to socialize, and planted vegetables in his garden all day. On this day, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei happened to be absent, and Cao Cao asked Xu Chu and Zhang Liao to bring more than a dozen people to the garden to invite him to Cao Cao's residence. Liu Bei wanted to ask the reason, but Xu Chu and Zhang Liao did not answer, and Liu Bei thought that the incident of the edict was discovered by Cao Cao. When Cao Cao saw Liu Bei, he asked: What is Xuande Gong doing in the garden? Liu Bei was so scared that he didn't dare to come out: planting vegetables to kill time. Cao Cao invited Liu Bei to his backyard, pointed to the green plums on the branches of the plum trees in the yard and said: When he was conscripting Yuan Shu, there was no water source, and the soldiers were quite thirsty, he pointed to a forest in front of him and said that there were large plums in it to quench their thirst, and the soldiers listened to the large amount of saliva secretion, and they overcame their thirst and finally defeated Yuan Shu. Liu Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Cao Cao invited Liu Bei to the pavilion, the wine glass was already full of wine, and the green plums were also served on the plate of the stone table, and Cao Cao and Liu Bei drank happily. The two of them were half drunk, and the wind was surging in the sky, and there was a cloud in the shape of a dragon. Cao Cao suddenly asked Liu Bei: Do you know the changes in the dragon? Liu Bei said he didn't know. Cao Cao said: The dragon is endlessly changing, just like a hero, does Liu Bei know who is a hero today? Liu Bei shirked that he was a mortal with the naked eye and could not recognize the hero. Cao Cao told Liu Bei not to be too modest, Liu Bei said that he was protected by his benefactor and was able to enter the court as an official, and his mind was on repaying the kindness, and he couldn't know who the hero was. Cao Cao asked Liu Bei again: Who is the hero today, haven't you heard others say it? Liu Bei had no choice but to cite Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Sun Ce, Ma Teng and others as examples, which were refuted by Cao Cao one by one, and Cao Cao said to Liu Bei: The only heroes in the world are Cao Mengde and Liu Yuanjun. At this time, there was just a thunder in the sky, and Liu Bei pretended to be afraid of thunder and threw his chopsticks on the ground and bent down to pick them up. Cao Cao said: Is the eldest husband still afraid of thunder? Liu Bei replied: The saints are afraid of thunder, and he is also afraid of thunder.
This is the story of Cao Cao's green plum cooking wine and Liu Bei's discussion of heroes in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but there is no such thing in historical records. Before the outbreak of the edict incident, Cao Cao has always treated Liu Bei very favorably, he asked Liu Bei to invite him to eat and drink, it was a normal thing, once when drinking, Cao Cao said to Liu Bei that the heroes of the world are only him Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and there is no deep meaning, and it has nothing to do with the edict of the cloth and belt, but the same hero Cao Cao honestly sympathizes with Liu Bei. When Liu Bei had just defected to Cao Cao, Cheng Yu once said; Liu Bei is very talented and popular with the people, he is a person who wants to achieve great things, it is impossible to be under Cao Cao all the time, let Cao Cao kill him as soon as possible. Cao Cao said that now is the time to recruit the heroes of the world for his own use, and killing a Liu Bei and stopping the heroes of the world is not worth the loss. In this way, it seems that in Cao Cao's heart, he will not kill Liu Bei at all, provided that Liu Bei does not participate in the incident of the edict. In fact, it was only until Cao Cao sent Liu Bei and Zhu Lingjin to suppress Yuan Shu and leave Xu Du to bring the edict that the incident broke out, Liu Bei attacked Xiapi and killed Che Guan, and Cao Cao attacked Liu Bei.