History
今天下英雄 唯使君與操耳
“The heroes of this age are you, my lord, and Cao Cao — no one else. The likes of Yuan Shao do not count.”
— Cao Cao曹操
ko지금 천하의 영웅은 오직 사군(유비)과 나 조조뿐이오. 원소 같은 무리는 셈에 들지 못하오.
ja今、天下の英雄は使君（劉備）とこの曹操だけだ。袁紹のような輩は数のうちに入らない。
The scene behind the words
Spoken over warm wine and plums while Liu Bei was living under Cao Cao’s protection. Cao Cao had read the measure of a man who did not yet own a single city — and the histories record that Liu Bei, startled, dropped his chopsticks. The original behind the novel’s celebrated "discussing heroes over plum wine."
Source: Records of the Three Kingdoms — Liu Bei’s annals