《三国演义》第一回,有两段介绍曹操出场,初露锋芒的文字,现摘录如下:曹操……年二十,举孝廉,为郎,除洛阳北部尉。初到任,即设五色棒十余条于县之四门,有犯禁者,不避豪贵,皆责之。中常侍蹇硕之叔,提刀夜行,操巡夜拿住,就棒责之,由是内外莫敢犯者,威名颇震。 “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” For the first time, there are two paragraphs introducing Cao Cao appearances, revealing the edge of the text, are excerpted as follows: Cao Cao ... ... twenty years, take Xiaolian, as Lang, Luoyang Northern Wei. Arrived at the beginning, that is colored rods set more than ten in the county’s four, there are guilty of those who banned, not expensive, are responsible. Often paternity Shuo Shu uncle, knife night trip, exercise patrol night to hold, great responsibility, from inside and outside Mo dare offenders, prestige quite shocked.