曹操
Chinese warlord and statesman (155–220)
(Redirected from Cao Cao)
English: Cáo Cāo (155 – March 15, 220) was a regional warlord and the last Chancellor of Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China. As one of the central figures of the Three Kingdoms period, he laid down foundations for what was to become the Kingdom of Wei (also known as Cáo Wèi) and was posthumously titled Emperor Wu of Wei.
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Cao Cao depicted as a villain in a Qing Dynasty edition of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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After a failed plot, Cao Cao (left, with sword) commands his goons to take the assassin's daughter away.
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Mask of Cao Cao from Anshun, Guizhou