Cao Chong is extremely clever. He was as smart as an adult when he was five or six years old. Once, Sun Quan of Wu gave Cao Cao an elephant, and Cao Cao was very happy. On the day when the elephant was transported to Xuchang, Cao Cao led the civil and military officials and his youngest son, Cao Chong, to see it.

Cao Cao's people have never seen an elephant. The elephant is tall and big, and its legs are as thick as the pillars of the hall. When people get closer, they can't reach its stomach. Cao Cao said to everyone, "This elephant is really big, but how much does it weigh?" Can any of you weigh it? "ah! How can you call such a big guy? Ministers are talking about it.

Ministers tried many methods, but none of them worked. It's really embarrassing at this time, Cao Chong said. Put the elephant on the boat, sit on the sign of sinking, then put the stone on it and sink to the scale, and you will know.

Ministers followed Cao Cao to the river. There was a big boat parked in the river, and Cao Chong had an elephant brought on board. When the ship was stabilized, a road was carved on the horizontal plane of the ship's side. Then let people take the elephant to the shore, put the stones, big and small, on the boat one by one, and the boat will sink bit by bit. When the hull sank to the same height as the water, Cao Chong told people to stop loading stones.

The ministers opened their eyes wide, but at first they didn't understand what was going on. When they saw this, they couldn't help exclaiming, "Good idea! Good idea! " Now, as we all know, just weigh all the stones on the boat and add up the weights, and you will know how heavy the elephant is.

Cao Cao was naturally happier. He squinted at his son and looked at the ministers proudly, as if to himself: "You are not as clever as my little son!" " "

Extended information Cao Chong, a figure in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the son of Cao Cao and Mrs Huan. Smart and caring since childhood, different, deeply loved by Cao Cao. There is an allusion that "Cao Chong is an elephant".

At that time, the army had many state affairs and the punishment was severe and heavy. Cao Cao's saddle was bitten by a mouse in the warehouse. The official in charge of the warehouse was afraid that he would die. He thought about turning himself in with his hands tied behind his back, but he was still afraid that he could not be exonerated. Cao Chong said to him, "Wait three days, and you will turn yourself in."

Cao Chong went on to stab his shirt with a knife, just like a mouse biting, pretending to be unhappy and worried. When Cao Cao asked him, Cao Chong replied, "According to the folk custom, if a mouse bites clothes, the owner will be unlucky. Now I am bitten by a single coat, so sad. "

Cao Cao said, "That's nonsense. There is no need to worry. " Soon, the treasurer reported that the mouse had bitten the saddle. Cao Cao said with a smile, "My son's clothes are all around him and have been bitten, let alone a saddle hanging on a post?" I don't blame the treasurer at all.

Cao Chong is kind-hearted and knowledgeable. This incident shows that a crime should have killed dozens of people, but Cao Chong secretly argued and got help. Cao Cao praised Cao Chong several times to his ministers, with the intention of letting Cao Chong inherit the great cause.

In 208 AD (13th year of Jian 'an), when Cao Chong was thirteen years old, Cao Chong was seriously ill, and Cao Cao personally begged for his life. When Cao Chong died, Cao Cao was very sad.

Cao Pi comforted Cao Cao and said, "This is my misfortune, but it is your luck." As soon as he said it, he shed tears. He hired Zhao Wenzhen's wife to be buried with him, and gave a posthumous gift to the official seal of the riding captain, and named Cao Cong, the son of Wan Hou Cao, as a descendant of Cao Chong.

In AD 2 17 (twenty-two years of Jian 'an), Cao Cao named Cao Cong as the marquis of Deng. In 22 1 year (the second year of Huang Chu), Cao Pi, posthumous title and Cao Chong were Deng Aihou, and were also called Deng Gong. In 232 AD (the fifth year of Taihe), posthumous title and Cao Chong were added as King Wargo.

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