As the initiator of the chaotic three kingdoms, Dong Zhuo became one of the most negatively evaluated figures in Chinese history. Chen Shou commented that Dong Zhuo was a wolf and a thief, tyrannical and unkind, and the book deed had come, and there was no such thing. In the novel opera, Dong Zhuo is even portrayed as a faint and stupid, narrow-minded, cruel and unkind, good wine and lustful image.
After Dong Zhuo came to power, he did a lot of things to exclude dissidents, and there were also atrocious acts such as arsonists plundering the people and burning down Luoyang City. But on the other hand, Dong Zhuo was bold when he was young, he was a man of morality, liked to entertain friends and light money, and distributed the rewards to his subordinates, and was a rather generous person. And participated in many battles from the conquest of the Qiang rebellion, the suppression of the Yellow Turban, the important battles of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he participated in, from the grass-roots level gradually promoted to the military general.
During the Luoyang Rebellion, after seizing the opportunity to seize power, he was not a tyrant, he lifted the party ban, rehabilitated the stigma of Chen Fan, Dou Wu and other party members, and used party members as officials on a large scale. Chen Ji and Han Rong, who had been banned from serving as officials because of the scourge of the party, were all reinstated in the imperial court, such as the officials Shangshu Zhou Jue, Shizhong Wuqiong, Shangshu Zheng Gongye, Changshi He Yong, Sikong Xunshuang, Jizhou Thorn Shi Hanfu, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai, and so on. Dong Zhuo's cronies were left and right, but did not serve as high-ranking officials, but only served in the military.
He did not wantonly slaughter the readers, but was quite courteous, like Wang Yun and Cai Yong. Although Kong Rong confronted him many times, he only sent him to Beihai to become an official. Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo quarreled until they both drew their swords and came out, and after the quarrel, they sneaked away from Luoyang, and Dong Zhuo still sealed Yuan Shao as the Taishou of Bohai. For political opponents, unless it is a direct rebellion, he is usually very tolerant.
The author is not saying that Dong Zhuo is a good man, he plundered the people, deposed the emperor without authorization, and led to the division of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is his crime. But Yuan Shao led troops into the palace to kill eunuchs, as long as they were all killed without beards, not to mention that not all eunuchs were bad, and innocent deaths did not know how many. Cao Cao avenged his father and massacred him in Xuzhou, and Dong Zhuo did not necessarily kill more than Cao Cao.
Although Dong Zhuo had done a lot of things to exclude dissent, he had also tasted Guang na Haojie, a corporal of Li Xian, and had the merits of fighting against foreign tribes and suppressing the Yellow Turban, even if he later took charge of the government, in fact, he was no different from the later Cao Cao. To say the difference between the two, one succeeded in founding the Cao Wei Dynasty, while the other died in a mutiny.
If the king is defeated, the loser naturally writes more and more stinky.