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Cao Ce was a Military Officer.
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Book of Zhou, Chapter 46Volume 46 Biographies 38: Filial Piety · 7 passages
使未反，而循中直兵參軍曹策、參軍劉曉謀以城降武。
The envoy had not yet returned when Xun's Direct Troops Attendant Cao Ce and Attendant Liu Xiao plotted to surrender the city to Wu.
策等忌之，懼不同己，遂誣以謀叛，擅加害焉。
Ce and the rest envied them, fearing they would not join them, and therefore falsely accused them of plotting rebellion and killed them on their own authority.
循尋討策等，擒之，斬曉而免策。
Xun soon investigated Ce and the rest, seized them, executed Xiao and spared Ce.
及循降，策至長安。
When Xun surrendered, Ce came to Chang'an.
若曹策朝死，吾以夕歿，亦所甘心。
If Cao Ce dies in the morning, I shall die in the evening—that too I would accept with a willing heart.
後遂白日手刃策於京城，斷首刳腹，解其肢體。
Later he therefore in broad daylight slew Ce with his own hand in the capital, cut off his head, disemboweled him, and dismembered his limbs.
自君錫及宗室等為曹策所害，猶殯梁州，至是表請迎喪歸葬。
Since Junxi and the clansmen had been harmed by Cao Ce, their coffins still lay in Liangzhou; at this time he memorialized requesting to bring the coffins home for burial.