Xuzhou – the stain Cao Cao can t erase in his life

# Red Move Xuzhou#The slaughter of Xuzhou was one of the historical events in the Three Kingdoms Period.
According to the biography of Sun Ya Tao Qianlie, Gong Gong of Liu Yu in the Later Han Dynasty, it is recorded that: "At the beginning, Cao Cao’s father Song took refuge from Lang Xie, but when he was humble, he would keep Yinping, and Li Song’s treasure was attacked and killed. In the fourth year of Chuping, Cao Cao attacked Qian and broke Pengcheng’s Fu Yang. If you are modest enough to withdraw and protect Tan, if you can’t overcome the attack, you will return it. Excessive selection, Yongling and Xiaqiu are all slaughtered. Where hundreds of thousands of men and women are killed, there is no surplus of chickens and dogs, and Sishui does not flow for it. It is the city guard of five counties, and there is no return.
The Xuzhou massacre took place in 193 A.D. when Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei Dynasty, was murdered by his father Cao Song by Mu Taoqian of Xuzhou, resulting in acts of revenge. From the book of the Later Han Dynasty, we can see that after the capture of Xuzhou, Cao Cao massacred the civilian population in Xuzhou, killing a total of 100,000 people in Xuzhou (the death toll is still controversial), even chickens and dogs are not left, and Sishui in Xuzhou is not moving because of the accumulation of too many corpses. From then on, Xuzhou was almost uninhabited.
During the Three Kingdoms Period, Xuzhou included northern Jiangsu, southern Shandong, northern Anhui and Eastern Henan and Hebei. Its area is equivalent to more than half the size of Jiangsu Province now. Of course, it also includes today’s Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It has always been a battle for military strategists.
According to expert research, the population of the whole country was 5.07 million in A.D. 156. After the Yellow Towel Uprising and the three-nation scuffle, the population of the whole country was 14 million after the Red Cliff War in A.D. 208, and dropped to 9 million in A.D. 221, losing 83%. Cao Cao’s Xuzhou massacre contributed to the sharp decline of population in the Three Kingdoms period.
The massacre also seriously affected the life of a young Xuzhou man, Zhuge Liang, who became famous all over the world in the future. Zhuge Liang is a Langya native of Xuzhou (Linyi, Shandong Province today). His brother Zhuge Jin stayed at Sangzi. Zhuge Jin was a personal witness of Cao Cao’s extermination of Xuzhou. In his letter to Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jin wrote, "When the state overthrew, all the living things were exhausted. Abandoning the grave, carrying the old and the weak, shawling, sanctifying, in Liuli. In just a few dozen words, the tragic experience of Langya County is clearly written. Zhuge Liang was thirteen years old at that time. The Zhuge family belonged to a well-known family in Langya. For Zhuge Liang, a teenager whose values are about to be finalized, this experience is not only a shame, but also a seed of revenge sooner.# Travel with Weibo# # A Wonderful Journey to the Museum# # Three Kingdoms of the World#