Originally posted by yourfavouritefriend:
There was one part when Cao Cao order his soldiers not to meddle with the farmers wheats plantation and those who disobey will be executed. However, he accidently fell into the wheat plantation and damage the crops and ask his general to kill him yet his general did not do so. Is there a real example that he have shown or one of his general can stand in to die for him to enforce the message of the real example.
Cao Cao would rather betray the world, than the world betray him. If he really want to set an example, he should ask his enemy rather than his own men.