那么我们比较一下荀彧的这段话，和沮授的那段话，也是叫做高下立现。荀彧反反复复强调的是一个字：“义”；沮授对袁绍反反复复强调的是一个字：“利”。荀彧反反复复说，尊奉天子是最大的正义；沮授反反复复说，挟持天子是最大的利益。所以沮授反反复复强调利，只能说明袁绍重利；荀彧反反复复强调义，只能说明曹操重义，至少在公元196年，也就是汉献帝建安元年的时候，曹操这个人还是讲义的，或者是这个时候曹操还是装着讲义的。
Let’s compare this passage by Xun Yu with that by Ju Shu, which is also called Gaoxia Lixian. Xunyu repeatedly emphasized one word: “righteousness”; Ju Shu repeatedly emphasized the word “benefit” to Yuan Shao. Xun Yu repeatedly said that respecting the Son of Heaven is the greatest justice; Ju Shu repeatedly said that holding the Son of Heaven is the greatest benefit. Therefore, Ju Shu’s repeated emphasis on profit can only indicate that Yuan Shao valued profit; Xunyu’s repeated emphasis on righteousness can only explain that Cao Cao emphasized righteousness. At least in 196 AD, the first year of Jian’an, Emperor Xiandi of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was still giving lectures, or at this time, Cao Cao still wore lectures.
荀彧和毛玠提出“奉天子以令不臣”这个口号，他们两个人的想法是要通过尊奉现任皇帝维护国家统一，反对国家分裂。这两个人的心思我们可以肯定，但不能说这就是曹操的心思，曹操这个时候的心思，我们只能说他是可能是赞成这个观点。但是这个说法它也给曹操戴了一个紧箍咒，就是曹操不敢太膨胀自己的个人野心，尤其是荀彧的话，他是用曹操自己的话来给曹操戴了一个帽子，戴高帽子的同时代了一个紧箍咒。所以到曹操晚年野心膨胀的时候，这两个人就没有好果子吃了，荀彧据说被曹操谋杀，毛玠下了大狱，这是后话。
Xun Yu and Mao Jie proposed the slogan “Serve the Son of Heaven to order but not to obey”. Their idea is to uphold national unity and oppose national division by worshipping the current emperor. “We can affirm the thoughts of these two people, but we cannot say that this is Cao Cao’s thoughts. Cao Cao’s thoughts at this time can only be said to be in favor of this view.”. However, this statement also puts a tight band curse on Cao Cao, which means that Cao Cao dare not expand his personal ambitions too much, especially Xun Yu’s words. He used Cao Cao’s own words to put a cap on Cao Cao, and his contemporaries who wore high hats wore a tight band curse. So by the time Cao Cao’s ambition expanded in his later years, the two men would have no good fruit to eat. Xun Yu was allegedly murdered by Cao Cao, and Mao Jie was sent to prison, which is later to be said.
现在我们还是回到汉献帝建安元年这个时候，这个时候的曹操我个人认为，他还刚刚完成一个转变，就是由一个热血沸腾的青年将领，转变为一个政治成熟的乱世英雄。我个人的观点是，这个时候的曹操还不是奸雄，是英雄，他还是主张国家统一、反对国家分裂的，为了这一点，他要维护现任皇帝，因为现任皇帝在当时的情况下是国家统一的象征。
＊易中天先生认为，历史上真实的曹操在建安元年的时候，还是想维护现任皇帝的。但小说《三国演义》中写曹操迎奉天子后是要独揽大权，朝廷上的事情是先禀告曹操，再上报皇帝。《三国演义》中这一段内容和历史真实一样吗？历史上的曹操在这个时候有个人野心吗？
Now we are still returning to the first year of Jian’an, Emperor Xiandi of the Han Dynasty. At this time, I personally believe that Cao Cao has just completed a transformation, that is, from a passionate young general to a politically mature hero in troubled times. My personal view is that at this time, Cao Cao was not yet a traitor, but a hero. He still advocated national unity and opposed national division. To this end, he wanted to defend the current emperor, because the current emperor was a symbol of national unity at that time.
Mr. Yi Zhongtian believes that the real Cao Cao in history still wanted to defend the current emperor in the first year of Jian’an. However, in the novel “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, it is written that after welcoming the emperor, Cao Cao wanted to monopolize power. The matter at the court was to report to Cao Cao first, and then to the emperor. Is this passage in “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” the same as historical reality? Did Cao Cao in history have personal ambitions at this time?
