During the Three Kingdoms period, just when Cao Cao initially showed his political foresight and heroism, there was such a group of people, but they were staging their own stupidity and arbitrariness, and it was this group of people who achieved Cao Cao's worldly feats.
In ancient times, how to deal with the emperor was a major political issue, and whoever made a mistake on this issue would surely be destroyed. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu could be described as ambitious, but they made mistakes again and again on this major issue, and eventually fell behind and were ruined...
Dong Zhuo: Abolish the emperor and set up another one
In 189 AD, the Han Ling Emperor died, and Dong Zhuo took advantage of the situation to take control of the imperial government, placing the imperial capital under his bloody rule.
Dong Zhuo's attitude toward the current emperor was the most barbaric, and his approach was to "abolish the emperor and establish another one." Dong Zhuo knew very well in his heart that as a warlord, his troops were difficult to gain a foothold in the capital, and the only way was to pinch the emperor into his own hands as a puppet. However, the celebrities and scholars in the original dynasty looked down on themselves from the bottom of their hearts, and if they wanted to control them, they could only play barbaric.
In addition to being savage, Dong Zhuo also has a cunning side. When he first entered Luoyang, Dong Zhuo only had three thousand soldiers under him, and worried that he would not be able to hold the situation, Dong Zhuo ordered these three thousand people to change into the clothes of the people every night and go out of the city, and the next day they changed into military uniforms and entered the city with great fanfare.
However, Dong Zhuo did not expect that the emperor did not say that he could change it. In order to establish his own prestige, Dong Zhuo even went on a killing spree, and replaced the emperor with his own nature.
Since then, he has become a chaotic thief in history and a public enemy of the people of the world.
"The abolition of the establishment is also ominous to the point of no return."
In Cao Cao's view, the removal of the emperor in any dynasty is a very taboo thing, which is not only very unlucky, but also has great risks. After all, the emperor is the king of a country, the king of a country is the foundation of a country, and the removal of the emperor is like shaking the foundation of the country, except to cause chaos in the world, there is no benefit.
Although Dong Zhuo successfully replaced the emperor, he also laid the groundwork for his own demise, and became the "target of everyone" that the whole country discussed and condemned!
Yuan Shao: Engaging in splitting and establishing another place
If Dong Zhuo relied on the abolition of the emperor to make his dream of not being an emperor, it was extremely stupid, yuan shao's self-proclaimed emperor was not necessarily smart compared with him.
With Dong Zhuo's "front car shoes", Yuan Shao did not take this as a "lesson for the rear car". As the leader of the four princes, Yuan Shao's boldness was obviously not as great as his ambitions, and he did not dare to lead the Kwantung army to attack Luoyang and Chang'an, so he thought of a method: in his own territory, he set up another emperor!
However, Yuan Shao's wishful thinking failed to start. First of all, Liu Yu, a youzhou mu who was loyal to the Han Dynasty and was quite famous at the time, disagreed. Secondly, Cao Cao also expressed disapproval, after all, Liu Xie, the Emperor of Han Xian, was still the titular Son of Heaven, and the Great Han did not die. If a separate emperor were to be established now, it would be tantamount to establishing a separate central government, that is, nakedly engaging in separatism. Cao Cao advocated national unity and resolutely opposed splittism, so Cao Cao rejected Yuan Shao.
But even so, Yuan Shao was still not dead hearted. Therefore, Yuan Shao consulted with his younger brother Yuan Shu, but did not think that Yuan Shu did not approve of himself, and the reason why Yuan Shu opposed it was not for the sake of the national society, but only looked down on his brother Yuan Shao from the bone. As two brothers who are out of the house and one who are married out, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are more of a scheming and jealousy, the only thing in common is that they are of noble birth, pretentious, and extremely stupid.
Yuan Shu: Established himself as emperor
At the beginning, when Yuan Shu opposed Yuan Shao's establishment of another emperor, his words were simply awe-inspiring: "I only know that I want to destroy Dong Zhuo, and I don't know anything else!" But in fact, he had other plans, compared to Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu's ideas and practices were even more rampant and stupid.
In Yuan Shu's view, the world has long been in chaos, the Great Han Dynasty is about to fall, and sooner or later there will be other families to replace the Great Han Dynasty. Since this is the case, then our old Yuan family's "four generations and three dukes" are the most qualified and capable people to replace them. What's more, I Yuan Shu is a concubine, he Yuan Shao is a concubine, let the son born of the little wife become the emperor, where in the world is there such a reason?
In 197 AD, Yuan Shu could not wait, and eagerly held the imperial jade seal stolen by the eunuch to officially claim the title of emperor, and Yuan Shu's move again attracted a large amount of opposition. In the end, he caused a lot of rebellion, and he vomited blood and fell to the ground under Cao Cao's pursuit, and he cried out for his life.
Compared to the above three people, Cao Cao's heart was transparent!
At least at this time, in Cao Cao's heart, he still did not want to become an emperor, he still wanted to support the current emperor to achieve the purpose of unifying the country.
But in the later period, especially in Cao Cao's later years, he must have had his own mind as an emperor. After all, he did have this condition, and Emperor Xian of Han gave Cao Cao the highest treatment, crowning himself a prince and using the Heavenly Son' honor... It can be said that the Manchu dynasty power was in the hands of Cao Cao, who just lacked the name of an emperor.
But even so, the clever Cao Cao never stood up and claimed the title of emperor, and in the face of Sun Quan's "persuasion table", Cao Cao remained indifferent. Because Cao Cao knew very well in his heart that what was called "shooting a bird out of the head", such a stupid thing, Cao Cao would not do to kill him.