Ancient readers had a perfect ideal in their hearts. That is, "Wen Neng Ti Pen An Tianxia Wu Neng Shang Ma Ding Qiankun". People who can meet this requirement are also very rare from ancient times to the present. And it is even rarer that can set the "princely general" in a lifetime, and there are three of the most typical characters in history, each of which is a figure like a storm, and there is no simple one.
Cao Cao
I believe that people who have seen the Three Kingdoms will be unfamiliar with Cao Cao, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Cao Cao blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Of course, it is better to say in the history of the canon. It is said that Cao Cao was "under the command of the Son of Heaven and not to be a subject." In short, in the first year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao welcomed back to Emperor Xian of Han, he was worshipped as a general in command of the three armies and made the Marquis of Wuping. Later, Cao Cao himself made himself a chancellor.
At that time, Cao Cao's greatest enemy was going to belong to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao also hated Cao Cao, who was holding the Son of Heaven hostage to make the princes, and the hatred could not be eliminated quickly. At that time, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were still weak, and they were not Yuan Shao's opponents, so in order to appease Yuan Shao's dissatisfaction, he gave him the post of general to Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao was fooled by Cao Cao for a while, and then found that something was wrong, so he raised an army to attack Xuchang. However, at that time, Cao Cao's general trend was already determined. Although there was still a gap between him and Yuan Shao, he could not bear to have many strategists and generals under the account. Later, yuan Shao was defeated at Guandu with a series of calculations, and he took most of the territory of nearly three kingdoms in one sentence, and later became the king of Wei in the twenty-first year of Jian'an. It can be said that it is a set of "princely generals" in one.
Han Xin
Han Xin was a hero born at the end of the year, and when he was a teenager, he often relied on begging for food to survive. When Han Xin's mother died, he couldn't even come up with the money to do the funeral. So Han Xin was determined to be angry and strong. After several turns, it was not until he threw himself into Liu Bang's door that he gradually revealed his brilliance. At first, when Xiao He recommended Han Xin to Liu Bang, Liu Bang was not impressed.
Later, Xiao He actually recommended the life of his whole family, and Liu Bang began to pay attention to Han Xin, and fasted and bathed, and worshiped Han Xin as a great general. Later, it did not live up to the expectations of the people, and Han Xin would win every battle and win every attack. Assisted Liu Bang to seize the world. In 206 BC, Han Xin was given the title of Zuo Cheng Xiang (左丞相).
In the early Han Dynasty, in addition to the largest "Xiangguo" official position, there were also left and right ministers, and Han Xin was the left and right ministers. Han Xin's highest official position was probably that when he had just assisted Liu Bang in defeating Xiang Yu, he was crowned king of Qi, and later falsely accused and changed to the Marquis of Huaiyin, until he was finally completely crowned with the crime of collaborating with the enemy and killed.
Sima Zhao
Sima Zhao was weaker than the first two in any way, after all, Han Xin and Cao Cao had real strength, all of which were based on their own struggles, while Sima Zhao relied on the foundation laid by his father Sima Yi and his eldest brother Sima Shi. During the reign of Emperor Cao Rui of Wei. Sima Zhao was made the Marquis of Xincheng Township. When he accompanied Cao Shuang to shu, he was also named a general of the conquest of Shu.
After Sima Yi's death, Sima Zhao's heart can be said to be revealed. As a major general, he assisted the government, and in August 263, he sent an army to cut down Shu. During Sima Zhao's conquest of Shu, the Wei emperor Cao Zhaolian worshiped Sima Zhao as xiangguo, and a year later he was made the king of Jin, and Sima Zhao became the second Cao Cao in one fell swoop. Although his power was monstrous, he was never able to usurp the throne in the end, and his son Sima Yan completed his will.