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Explain and praise Cao Chong's extraordinary wisdom when he was young. Age is not the size, the key is to be good at observing and thinking, and children can do great things.
Source: The History of the Three Kingdoms: Chong Shaocong Tea, born at the age of five or six, has the wisdom of an adult. At that time, Sun Quan once gave birth to a giant elephant, and Mao wanted to know its weight. It is impossible to be reasonable under the group he visited. Chongyue: put it on a big ship, carve its water mark, weigh it, transport it, and you will know it. Great joy, that is, how to implement it.
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? Hey! How can you call such a big guy? Ministers are talking about it. One said: only one top scale can be built to weigh it. Another said, what a steelyard it would be! Besides, elephants are alive and there is no way to weigh them! I think we must kill it, cut it into pieces and weigh it. Hardly had he finished speaking when everyone burst out laughing. Some people say: you can't do this. Isn't it a pity to beat the elephant to death for weighing? Ministers tried many methods, but none of them worked. It was really embarrassing at this time. A child came out of the crowd and said to Cao Cao, Dad, I have a way to call an elephant. Cao Cao saw that it was his favorite son, Cao Chong. He said with a smile, what can you do at an early age? Tell me, see if it makes sense. Cao Chong prone on cao cao ear, spoke softly.
Hearing this, Cao Cao cheered again and again, ordered the left and right sides to prepare elephants at once, and then said to his ministers, Go! Let's go to the river to see elephants! 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. Ministers opened their eyes wide, but at first they couldn't figure out what was going on. When they saw this, they couldn't help thinking of a good way! 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 say in his heart, you are not as clever as my youngest son!