Fall in love with the technology tree [Three Kingdoms]

"Those who care about little people"

In the past, Chen Gong often persuaded Cao Cao and Cao Ang not to distribute power to their brothers too much, so they were disgusted by Wei Wu and his son.But Chen Gong still went his own way.At that time, Cao Sheng was still alive, so he dared to speak nonsense and persecute him in front of him at the New Year banquet. Finally, Cao Cao, who couldn't bear it, found an excuse to be removed from office.

After the festival, Cao Ang bid farewell to Cao Sheng at Changting before he went to Jiujiang to take office, and asked, "I'm going to travel alone, what can my second uncle teach me?"

Cao Sheng said, "Why do you think Chen Gong was relegated?"

Cao Ang replied: "Chen Gong always thinks that people in the world are villains, and they think about things out of malice. Such people will make the monarch suspicious and narrow-minded, so my father alienates him."

Cao Sheng asked: "Do you think that you are better than Chen Gong if you learn the principles of a gentleman and don't doubt your brothers casually?"

Cao Ang hurriedly left his seat and stood up, with his hands down.

Cao Sheng sighed: "You think that your father and uncle are gentlemen, and it is the heart of a child to work together in the face of the temptation of power; But if you think that your children and grandchildren can be like gentlemen, you are stupid. To govern a country, you don’t worry about gentlemen, but worry about villains. We bother to write laws and establish systems, isn’t it? Is it to guard against gentlemen? No, it is to manage villains. Preventing and responding to possible disasters is the incumbent duty of the ruler, not to be shy to talk about it because of being bound by morality.

"So Chen Gong's ability to worry about villains is precisely because of his value as a subject. It just depends on how the monarch uses him."

So Cao Ang specially turned to Dongwuyang, Chen Gong's hometown, and invited him to come out of the mountain.Cao Ang waited for five full days in Dongwuyang before he moved Chen Gong who was disheartened because of his removal from office.

Chen Gong followed Cao Ang to serve as the prefect of Jiujiang, and it was not inappropriate to handle the relationship between the local clans.The nobles in the south are xenophobic and conspired to frame Cao Ang many times, but Chen Gong saw through them one by one.

Chen Gong lived to be more than 70 years old.Before he died, Cao Ang personally visited him to thank him for his early protection.Chen Gong lay on the couch, holding Cao Ang's hand and weeping bitterly, saying, "Where is it your Majesty's turn to thank me? I should be the one to thank Your Majesty. I offended you because of my bad temper, arrogance of my talents, and pride in myself." Many people. They thought that they would die in vain in this life, and it was all thanks to the integrity of Taizong and His Majesty that they could die well."

In this story, Cao Sheng called Chen Gong "a person who cares about villains". Lone minister.In the late Wei Dynasty and the early Yan Dynasty, those who care about villains were often used to refer to the heads of intelligence agencies.After entering modern society, the meaning of this idiom has shifted again, and now we often use "those who care about villains" to satirize conspiracy theorists.Especially after the advent of the Internet age, "those who care about villains" has completely become a derogatory term.

"The Folly of the White Rod"

Sun Ce is Wei Wu's son-in-law and Wei Xuan's brother-in-law.

Sun Ce has been handsome and good-looking since he was young, with a broad-minded personality and love to laugh, so he is very popular.But when he was 14 years old, his father, Sun Jian, was chased and killed by all parties because he took the lead in breaking into Luoyang and found the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, and finally died on Yuan Shu's territory.

In order to avenge his father, Sun Ce defected to his fiancée's father, Cao Cao who occupied Qingzhou Pingyuan County at that time.Cao Cao admired Sun Ce's courage very much, not only kept his marriage contract and married his eldest daughter to him, but also provided him with education and martial arts.

Later, when Cao Cao conquered Yuan Shu, Sun Ce was the vanguard, fought bravely, and made great contributions. Therefore, he became the prefect of Lujiang at a young age, and his power and trust were even comparable to Cao Ang. Cao Ang was also the prefect of Jiujiang at that time. That's all.

Although Sun Ce was good at fighting, he was called Lu Zhi at that time.

When chasing Yuan Shu, he was eager for revenge, and almost robbed Cao Ang of his achievement of "killing Yuan Shu as the king", which is one of them.

When Cao Cao asked him which fiefdom he wanted, he bluntly said that he wanted Lujiang, which is the closest to his hometown, which is the second.

When Cao Sheng's adoptive turmoil was raging, many of Cao Cao's sons and daughters did not dare to get close to Cao Sheng. Only Sun Ce gave him gifts and invited him to live in Lujiang. This is the third.

Later, Sun Ce conquered two counties in Yangzhou.Someone advised him to stand on his own, but he didn't listen. Someone advised him to dedicate the city to the Cao family, but he didn't listen. Instead, he was obsessed with collecting lake stones and building a garden for his mother in Fuchun.As a result, less than half a month after the start of construction, he turned against others because he occupied the hidden land of a local family, and asked Cao Ang and Zhou Yu to deal with the aftermath for him.This is the fourth.

There are so many, too numerous to list.

But both Cao Cao and Cao Ang loved him, and even if he occasionally violated taboos, they never punished him.

When Cao Ang was in power, someone flattered the emperor and belittled Sun Ce in front of Cao Ang, saying that he "has the courage of a man, and is extremely dull in government."

Cao Ang replied: "I want Sun Lang's stupidity, but I don't have that kind of talent. Sun Lang's stupidity is like a white scorpion. He usually runs rampant, but he will not approach the really dangerous cliffs; When he really needs to fight for his life, he will not have the slightest hesitation. This kind of stupidity is like peach blossoms in spring and fireflies in summer. They are always just right and lovable. It's natural, how enviable it is."

Sun Ce has been in Jiangdong for 30 years and has great power. There are memorials to impeach him every year, but they are all suppressed by Cao Ang.When he was 50 years old, he really took the initiative to return Jiangdong's government affairs to Cao Ang, which made a good story.

Officials of the imperial court checked Jiangdong's account books and found that Sun Ce had not done a single thing that violated the law during his term of office. Although his sons were of noble background, they were all self-disciplined and clean, which is very surprising.

This story gave rise to an idiom called "White Fool", which is often used to describe people who are confused in small things but sober in big things, or people who seem to act out of line but actually have a bottom line.In the early days, it was also used to describe people's intuition, but this usage is rare.

Another idiom from this story is "spring flowers and summer fireflies", which is a metaphor for things that make people love.

Note: The white 罴 is the giant panda.

The author has something to say: the idioms involved in this chapter are all fabricated, readers please pay attention to the distinction.