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Cao Cao received the diplomatic envoy and felt that he was not handsome enough, dark and short, and he was afraid that he would not be able to cover it. So he asked the handsome guy Cui Yan to receive him instead, and he stood by with a knife and listened. Afterwards, he asked the Xiongnu envoys, what do you think of the appearance of King Wei?
The envoy said, a little white face, the one with the knife next to him is the real hero. When Cao Cao heard this, he immediately ordered someone to secretly kill him, because he thought that the other party was very virtuous and could not stay in the enemy country.
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Profile depiction (through the evaluation of foreign envoys).
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