When I read the Three Kingdoms when I was a child, I always thought it was a story about intrigues and killings - Cao Cao's ruthlessness of "rather than betraying others", Zhuge Liang's tragic "dedicated himself to the end", Sun Quan's forbearance of "sitting down the southeast", as if everything was just a one-man show of heroes. But if you unfold the folds of history one by one, you will find that the real charm of the Three Kingdoms is that it reflects the plight and struggles of every ordinary person.
Why can Liu Bei rise from the ruins? Not because his surname is Liu, but because he understands "people-oriented". When Cao Cao's cavalry pursued Dangyang and more than 100,000 people slowed down their march, Liu Bei said: "Now this man belongs to me, how can I bear to abandon him." Behind this sentence is not a hypocritical moral performance, but the simplest logic of an entrepreneur - people's hearts are resources, and those who win people will win the world. Cao Cao's "coercing the emperor to command the princes" was essentially a victory of ancient "brand marketing". He used the name of the Han Dynasty to integrate resources and used the "farming system" to solve the military food crisis. He can be called the originator of management.
2. The AB side of the hero: from "label" to "human nature"
The world always likes to use "treacherous hero" to define Cao Cao and "benevolent virtue" to frame Liu Bei, but they forget that heroes are also mortals. Cao Cao cried and entrusted his young son before his death, Liu Bei abandoned his wife and children four times, and Sun Quan gave his own son to death in his later years - the tear between power and emotion is their truest background.
This book tears away the veil of romance:
-Cao Cao's tears: Historical records record that he cried 14 times in his life, both out of sorrow for losing his beloved general and out of guilt for his wife, Ding. Behind his "treacherousness" lies his hatred of the family
