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The title can be extended indefinitely, like “I condemn you for condemning me for not condemning him.”
When I was young, I didn’t like watching the Three Kingdoms, not because I couldn’t understand it, but because the “playing” between people in “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” was too complicated. It was obviously a simple strategy. Not to mention the complexity, and all kinds of entanglements that cannot be solved, it might not be as neat and neat as in “Water Margin” – but this is also one of the fundamental reasons for “not watching Water Margin when you are young, and not watching the Three Kingdoms when you are old .” When I was young, I watched Three Kingdoms, and I didn’t like Cao Cao, because he played Yangmou, and wrote the tyranny of the treacherous villain on his face. As a result, the older he got, the more he liked Cao Cao’s Yangmou, and I will follow you. Play Ming, if you want to play with me, you must respect the rules of the game here. The only thing, according to the “right and wrong” of the diode, I think Cao Cao made a mistake, and this mistake is like a chain of iron chains, one after another, Cao Cao lost the crap in the battle of Chibi. Reading “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” after the age of 30 also made me realize an interesting rule of the game, that is , what you are afraid of in the end is conspiracy. Conspiracy in .
Jiang Gan and Zhou Yu were classmates, and they thought they could represent Cao Cao to go to Wuying to persuade Zhou Yu to surrender. Zhou Yu followed the plan, chatted happily with Jiang Gan, and invited Jiang Gan to sleep with him that night. After all, Jiang Gan came with a mission, and seeing that he could not return to Zhou Yu, he simply stole some wartime information in order to send Cao Cao. Unexpectedly, he stole a forged letter prepared by Zhou Yu in advance – a letter of surrender written by Cai Zhangyun, two generals of Cao Ying who were proficient in water warfare, to Zhou Yu. Later, in the middle of the night, Wu Ying’s soldiers and Zhou Yu performed a good show in the tent, saying that there were generals from Cao Ying in Jiangbei who wanted to meet Zhou Yu, and they deliberately played a role for Jiang Gan who was pretending to be asleep. Cai Mao and Zhang Yun came to meet Zhou Yu. When Jiang Gan returned to Cao Ying, he informed Cao Cao of the incident as soon as possible. Cao Cao immediately killed Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and then immediately realized that he was involved in Zhou Yu’s alienation scheme. “Jiang Gan Pirates Books” can be said to be the beginning of the synthesis of elements and causality in the entire Battle of Chibi. Since then, because of a series of straw boat borrowing arrows, Huang Gai’s bitter meat strategy, and Pang Tong’s iron chain chain, it is the next trick in the plan. Counting, Counting, Counting, Counting…
In the whole “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, I like the three advisors the most, and according to the plot arrangement, these three advisors are also one of the few people who have seen through Pang Tong’s “chain of iron chains”—Xu Shu, Xun You and Jia Xu. The arrangement of the characters is also quite interesting.
Xu Shu had to work for Cao Cao because his mother was coerced by Cao Cao, and because after his mother committed suicide, Xu Shu hated Cao Cao to the extreme, so he never set up any plan for Cao Cao in his life. Of course, he could see the conspiracy of Pang Tong’s offer, so the battle of Chibi did not break it. Instead, he used Pang Tong’s design to get himself out of the battlefield . Central policy.
Cao Cao’s evaluation of Xun You is probably the state that I like the most and want to achieve in my life: “Wise is accessible, but foolishness is unattainable”. If you want to show yourself smart, anyone can do it, and others will do better than you, but it is harder than “playing stupid”, making others think they are really stupid, and thus ignoring your smartness. A way of living is also a kind of great wisdom. When the three things of “seeing or not seeing”, “pointing and not breaking”, and “speaking or not speaking” are combined arbitrarily, there are various combinations of “wisdom”, “conspiracy”, “bad” and “stupid”. Xun You is a typical person who “pretends not to see it, but doesn’t say it when you point it out.” He would point at the point to Cao Cao and say, “You can click it, because I don’t know what’s behind it.” I like Xun You so much. Pang Tong’s strategy is one of the few things that Xun You can “see through, point out, and even tell”. After the battle of Chibi, Xun You and Cheng Yu discovered that Zhou Yu of Soochow had always been the executor of all conspiracies, and the chain of iron chains was no exception, but Cao Cao I didn’t believe these two people, because they “spotted” the other’s plan, which means that they have to take all the conditions into account, but the more conditions, the more likely there will be black swans, and there will be mistakes. The more likely it is, but only by taking a step by step, you can make quick adjustments to the causal branch of the event – for example, in the end, it was impossible to calculate that Zhuge Liang really borrowed Dongfeng – this It is a set of plans within a plan, and what Cao Cao can’t calculate, Zhuge Liang can calculate; what Zhuge Liang can calculate, but he deliberately allows Cao Cao to calculate it, but he won’t believe it.
Although Jia Xu was resourceful, Cao Cao would not give priority to believing in Jia Xu’s character because he changed hands too much. If Guo Jia is “see through, point out and say,” then Xun Yu is “see through but don’t say,” and Xun You is “pretend not to see but deliberately point”, then Jia Xu is “I see, but don’t say, I click and don’t say, I broke it, but you can’t see it.” The starting point of all Jia Xu’s strategies is for his own survival—in fact, this is true. In troubled times and changing hands too much, it is dangerous enough for him to be appreciated and reused. , but also to accompany you as a tiger to offer advice and suggestions. By now, he will definitely be called a “refined egoist” – but if the modern “refined egoism” can have a quarter of his talent, I will be in awe. The reason why Jia Xu was able to see through Pang Tong’s strategy was because he knew “how hooligans can defeat hooligans”, so the tricks he used were not on the table. The vacancy will not be played around by conspiracies. It’s just that even if Jia Xu sees it through, he won’t point it out for Cao Cao. He will at least encourage others to tell Cao Cao about it. All he has to do is protect himself in this inevitable defeat, because Cao Cao is already crazy— -Jia Xu’s plan seems to be a plan within a plan, but it is separated from the “plan within a plan” itself, and he has designed a plan within a plan, but this kind of plan is often treacherous and dangerous, and it is quite a way of breaking the rules of the game.
Of course, this is just a plot design in the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” upgraded by art. After all, Cao Cao bears the title of “a generation of heroes”. His role is contrary to the loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness of the Shu Kingdom and the hegemonic unity of the Wu Kingdom. Therefore, he must “fail” at a certain point, and he will be completely helpless. utter failure. Because “bad people” must be punished, otherwise, there will be no way to give a correct guidance and positive explanation to public order and good customs.
Is Cao Cao a bad guy? I don’t think so – because people have to find a way to prove Liu Bei’s benevolence. Of course, the Cao Cao who killed Lu Boshe’s family was used as a negative teaching material. To prove that Liu Bei is right, this set of logic flow only needs to prove that Cao Cao is wrong.
Is conspiracy bad? I don’t think so – but there is Yang Conspiracy first, so a conspiracy is set up for Yang Conspiracy. If Yang Conspiracy is defeated, the conspiracy is not necessarily bad; if Yang Conspiracy wins, the conspiracy is also sinister and treacherous. won’t necessarily win. By analogy, the conspiracy is used to defeat the conspiracy, and the good or bad of the conspiracy is directly related to the right or wrong of the conspiracy. After pushing it around, it will eventually be found that all this is related to the conspiracy. It doesn’t have much to do with it – it’s just that the original conspiracy was made by Cao Cao, so the subsequent plots of rape can be said to be justifiable.
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