Cao Cao: in Troubled Times, Peace Is Not Given

When Cao Cao was nineteen years old, he beat his uncle Jian Shuo to death with a five-color stick under Gumen in the north of Luoyang City. He thought that holding the seal of the imperial court and practicing the imperial court's laws should be recognized in this world. At the age of twenty-three, he went to Dunqiu to serve as county magistrate. The imperial court's disaster relief edict was delivered to the case. The seal was bright red and every word was correct. But when he opened Changpingcang, there was only a layer of moldy Chen Su inside. The edict cannot be passed down - what is blocking it is the wall of powerful people, the secretly stored food, and those who "take it seriously for you, but it becomes troublesome". This is Cao Cao's first lesson from "the law should work" to "how can the law be implemented". It is also a microscopic record of the building from cracks to collapse in the late Han Dynasty.