New Age Artists

Chapter 272: Strategy succeeds because it is correct, ascension is imminent, tear the calendar (23)

Cao Cao’s answer to the two different unified plans proposed by his team of advisers was: before we can resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country.

There was a similar saying in the Spring and Autumn Period, but in reverse.

Faced with external invasions by the Rong and Di tribes, the royal family was in decline and the princes were fighting each other internally.

Duke Huan of Qi, the first of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, put forward the slogan of "Respect the King and Repel the Barbarians" - first "pacify the country" in order to "respect the king", and only after "respecting the king" can one "repel the barbarians".

Then, "resisting foreign aggression and maintaining domestic stability" specifically appeared in Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Febrile Diseases - Part 1 on Taiyang Diseases".

It describes the therapeutic effect of licorice, which has the function of pacifying the internal organs and resisting external attacks.

What Cao Cao said is consistent with history.

"To resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the internal situation," responded to Jia Xu's proposal to sort out the northern Hu people.

Cao Cao believed that the situation of mixed Hu people existed and needed to be resolved.

But he decided to solve the problem after destroying Sun Wu.

No one had any objection, not even Jia Xu, who gave the advice.

This is just a sequence of things to do, and even Jia Xu is confident that unification will go smoothly.

If Jingzhou is captured, Sun Wu in Jiangdong can be easily destroyed.

It’s just that the cost will be higher and more people will die.

Last year Cao Cao defeated the Yuan family.

Last month, that is, in June, he abolished the three highest officials, restored the prime minister system, and appointed himself as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

Being able to do this is the result of Cao Cao’s strength.

It shows that Cao Cao had completely taken control of the Eastern Han court.

The news that Liu Biao was seriously ill was no secret.

If we take Jingzhou, we will be able to look down on the Sun Wu from upstream.

All of Cao Cao's confidants understood and were excited about it.

After conquering Sun Wu, his lord will surely be crowned emperor, with full legitimacy.

Moreover, defeating Sun Wu was easy because the north had already been unified.

Since ancient times, whoever owns the Central Plains means that he has people, soldiers, and food, and thus he owns the world.

Jingzhou was within reach and Sun Wu was completely vulnerable.

There is no force that can resist anymore.

The trend towards unification is already there.

Cao Cao's advisers only wanted to serve the emperor and gain promotions.

The old ministers of the Han Dynasty also began to contact them frequently.

It’s a foregone conclusion!

Cao Cao was still adapting to the position of emperor and had not yet unified the country, but everyone knew that he would definitely become emperor.

To achieve great unification, he had the legitimate right to be emperor.

That's right, generally speaking, he would not speak during discussions, but would let his subordinates discuss everything before he spoke.

When he speaks, his decision is final.

This is the power of Cao Cao!
Cao Cao’s attitude was also very clear. He was unwilling to wait and didn’t want to wait.

Further northern combing?
After taking Jingzhou, take it step by step?

No need!
He did it. He immediately took Jingzhou, then destroyed Sun Quan of Jiangdong, and then deposed the emperor and proclaimed himself emperor.

After seeing the shooting results, Shen Santong was very satisfied.

In Wu Yusen's version of Red Cliff, it was Cao Cao who went to the palace with sword and shoes, and Emperor Xian of Han, who did not have a posthumous title at that time.

To be precise, it was a conversation with Liu Xie that was confrontational and threatening in nature.

Hong Kong directors do not understand power, etiquette, or how a large organization operates.

He thought that confronting the emperor would make Cao Cao look powerful.

It's actually quite funny.

It’s not that Cao Cao couldn’t do this, but that there was no need to do so.

The court is not a place for gangs to rule, nor is it a place for who has the loudest voice or who is more ruthless. There is order and rules.

If Cao Cao himself confronted Liu Xie, then his advisers, his ministers, and his followers might as well just kill themselves by charging into a wall.

Moreover, if there was any unpleasantness between Cao Cao and Liu Xie, it would often be a very serious incident.

It was a signal to kill Liu Xie.

Therefore, Shen Santong started with the discussion and decision-making at the strategic level.

It’s not that there were no discussions in the court, there were.

It was just that Cao Cao’s inner core circle made the calculations first, and then the results were sent to Xuchang and placed in the court of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After the north was pacified and he proclaimed himself prime minister, Cao Cao's internal decisions were the decisions of the Eastern Han court.

The result came out within Cao Cao's team, but it was just a formality in the court.

If there is a problem with the process and it is repeatedly obstructed, it is a very serious matter.

Either Cao Cao falls.

Or Cao Cao would turn around and massacre the court.

Shen Santong designed this temple-divination plot at the beginning to draw the audience into the movie.

Most viewers know that Cao Cao failed in the Battle of Red Cliffs, which means the result was spoiled in advance.

What Shen Santong wanted was to shock the audience even if he knew the result.

Use reality-based, dynamic history to let the audience feel the living history.

The result of this temple calculation, that is, the result of the strategic decision, can help the audience understand why Cao Cao failed.

A strategy is successful because it is correct.

Tactics are correct because they are successful.

The failure of the Battle of Red Cliffs was only the direct cause of tactical failure.

Before tactics fail, strategy has already failed.

If there were a win rate display, the chance of pacifying Cao Cao's unification in the north would be 99%, and victory would be a foregone conclusion.

After this calculation, the winning rate will fluctuate between 60% and 70%.

The winning rate dropped by more than 30% to nearly 40% out of nowhere because of strategic errors.

If the strategy is wrong, it does not mean that you will not succeed, but that it will be difficult to succeed.

Shen Santong wants to use this opening to give the audience an unexpected surprise.

The audience can't help but feel that this is the feeling.

And this section has a special attack on Chinese people.

Every Chinese person can talk about history, the country's situation and the world situation.

The solemn atmosphere of the temple discussions is a plus for the Chinese who like grand narratives.

It is also unique among the current Chinese and Western costume dramas.

Cao Cao's first sentence was carefully designed.

It shows Shen Santong's attitude towards the character Cao Cao in his movie.

Shen Santong did not explicitly disparage Cao Cao, and it was not explicit in the movie, but the language of the dialogue reflected his disparagement.

When the audience hears the phrase "pacify the country before fighting the enemy", they will immediately think of the anthropomorphic character Chiang Kai-shek and the transport captain.

Some people may like Chiang Kai-shek, but there is an impossible triangle.

A fan of the country, one who understands history and has brains.

It just so happens that most of the moviegoers have brains. Cao Cao's first line in the movie gave the audience a negative hint.

This statement is not unfair to Cao Cao.

In order to recover the south, Cao Cao took advantage of the situation as soon as the Huns "surrendered" and tacitly acknowledged the fact of their occupation.

The five barbarians who invaded China were all within the sphere of influence of Cao Cao.

Of course, Shen Santong did not think that the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China was entirely Cao Cao's fault.

There were many reasons for the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China.

First of all, the migration of the Southern Xiongnu was allowed by the Eastern Han Dynasty.

These people were the heroes who conquered the country during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Secondly, when Cao Cao was fighting, these Hu tribes sent hostages and soldiers, which was also considered as their service.

The Huns were not a big problem at that time.

Without the Rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty, it would have been impossible for the surrounding Xiongnu, Xianbei and other Hu people to achieve that situation.

It's just Yi Zhongtian, coupled with the media hype, the current trend is to promote Cao Cao.

There is also the weird theory that massacres promote integration, which would result in direct imprisonment in Germany but social death in the United States. It is widely accepted.

Even in later generations, Cao Cao completely shirked the blame for the endless troubles that followed his unification of the north.

Shen Santong wants to set the record straight through a movie.

Cao Cao must definitely bear some responsibility for the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China.

Say a thousand words and ten thousand words.

Cao Cao had so many resources at his disposal and held such a high position, but he did not shoulder his historical responsibilities.

Complete the great unification, further explore the system of great unification, study how to prevent eunuchs and external relatives from interfering in politics, and how to solve the problem of clan system.

Restore the areas that have been devastated by years of war, restore the population, and sort out the ethnic minorities in the border areas.

This is Cao Cao’s responsibility.

But he didn't finish.

Cao Cao should not be so reckless, but should proceed step by step.

If he had become emperor during his lifetime, he would have definitely been able to establish the Wei Dynasty, which was much more powerful than the Jin Dynasty, and prevent the Han people from suffering the nightmare of the Five Barbarians' Invasion.

Moreover, if Cao Cao had not been so anthropomorphic and stopped acting like a human, he would not have lost.

In the plot of the temple discussion, due to historical limitations, the analyses of Xun Yu and Jia Xu were not quite correct.

Xun Yu was completely wrong.

Jia Xu's result was right but the argument was wrong.

The reason why we cannot easily fight a decisive battle is that agriculture in the south has developed and Sun Wu is not weak, so we must be cautious.

Although Jia Xu's argument was wrong, if Cao Cao had chosen Jia Xu's advice, he would not have lost the Battle of Chibi.

If Cao Cao had a little conscience, he would have been a good person.

He is a bit like an emperor, he cares for his people and soldiers, and he cares for the people of Jiangdong. If he keeps his composure, he will easily win.

But Cao Cao didn't have such an intention.

He has no strategic vision and no character.

He is a good poet, so many people like him.

But he didn't need "the martyr to still have great ambitions in his old age".

He had chances, more than once.

It's useless to write good poems if the work is not done well.

He said, "Although the tortoise lives long, it still has its end. Even the flying snake rides on the mist, but eventually it turns to dust."

In reality, "bones are exposed in the wild, and no rooster crows for a thousand miles. If only one out of a hundred people survives, the thought of it breaks one's heart."

The common people became ashes.

Focus on filming Cao Cao's scenes.

Execute Kong Rong.

Shen Santong did not weaken Cao Cao, but made him more majestic.

Cao Cao would become more and more powerful until his defeat at Red Cliff.

If you say to kill Kong Rong, then kill Kong Rong.

The direct reason why Cao Cao killed Kong Rong was that Kong Rong published "On the Lack of Grace from Parents". Cao Cao seized the opportunity and executed Kong Rong before the southern expedition to Jingzhou.

Kong Rong was the 20th generation grandson of Confucius. His seventh generation ancestor Kong Ba was the teacher of Emperor Yuan of Han. He came from a very noble family and was the face of Confucianism.

Kong Rong was a foul-mouthed person and his words were not pleasant to the ears.

Shen Santong's analysis shows that Kong Rong should think that he is quite sensible and fair.

On the one hand, he sought fame and showed that he was a romantic and famous person.

On the other hand, he also thought that he represented the voices of most people in the court, so it was okay for him to talk nonsense.

It was just that Kong Rong misjudged the situation and timing.

They are about to march south to destroy Sun Quan of Jiangdong, and the war is about to begin.

When fighting with bayonets, no matter how confident Cao Cao was, he would never tolerate any problems in the rear.

Not only Cao Cao, but his subordinates could not tolerate it.

To destroy Sun Wu, we need a stable rear and a unanimous voice in the court.

And after the unification, it is time to line up and share the fruits.

If a famous scholar like Kong Rong were alive, he might be even better at licking than himself.

Kong Rong presented Confucian legal theory, and a large portion of the cake from this group of famous scholars under Cao Cao's command was to be taken.

Must die.

Shen Santong had no good feelings towards the aristocratic families and did not glorify them at all.

The interests are laid out and they are what they are.

Killing Kong Rong also shows that Cao Cao began to consider the governance issues after the unification of the country.

He wanted to take advantage of the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty to break the trend of control that had gradually formed in the Han Dynasty by the noble families.

At the same time, he also wanted to break the situation in which Confucianism dominated the world under the rule of Emperor Wu of Han and rebuild the ruling ideology of Legalism.

Therefore, killing Kong Rong was not an impulse, but a result.

It was the result of most people in the court taking the initiative to get closer to Cao Cao.

It was also a signal from Cao Cao on how he would govern the world after he became emperor.

Of course, killing Kong Rong also strengthened Cao Cao's power, making him equal to that of an emperor.

Through this action, Cao Cao made a declaration that no one could disobey him.

The shoot went very smoothly.

Soon we entered into the more funny part about Cao Cao.

It's not that the plot is funny, but the audience from a God's perspective will find it funny.

The plot was inspired by Kaizi's son.

There was a period of time when gay-themed dramas were extremely popular, with support from both insiders and outsiders.

Chen Fei has a gay drama "Hao Yi Xing" to be aired soon. He feels that after the show is broadcast, he will be on the rise and will be a top star soon.

Keeping count of the days and tearing the calendar.

Then came the complete suspension of gay-themed dramas.

(End of this chapter)