"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is one of the four famous works in China, and it is also a famous work with the most historical background, telling the historical story of the Three Kingdoms from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, but in order to increase the readability, the author Luo Guanzhong made certain edits. Especially in the setting of individual characters, and the real historical image has a great source. For example, the role of "Dong Cheng".
Dong Cheng's role in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is an absolute loyalist, who swears allegiance to the Han family to the death and is willing to share the emperor's worries. Since Dong Zhuo's chaotic government, he has followed the emperor around, although he later drifted away with Emperor Xian of Han, he still followed him.
After Emperor Xian of Han was coerced by Cao Cao, he saw that Cao Cao threatened Emperor Xian of Han, so he was very angry, and in order to "restore the Han Room", he secretly united a group of important han courtiers, including Liu Bei, and issued a "belt edict" to secretly eliminate Cao Cao.
After the East Window Incident, Dong Cheng was not afraid of Cao Cao's coercion and was generous and righteous, never involving Emperor Xian of Han, and was a loyal and patriotic loyal minister who regarded death as a return, so was This is exactly the case for Dong Cheng in history?
Dong Cheng was a native of Hejian County, Jizhou (present-day Xianxian County, Hebei), a nephew of Empress Dowager Dong, the mother of Emperor Hanling, and the father of Emperor Xian's concubine Dong Guiren, so he was a close relative of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After Dong Zhuo was killed by Lü Bu, Li Dai, Guo Feng, and others defeated Lü Bu and took the opportunity to occupy Chang'an.
Later, Li Dai and Guo Feng broke up, both sides supported their own troops in Chang'an, warlords from all over the country also rose up, everyone wanted to capture Emperor Xiandi of Han to his side, and Dong Cheng was the first to see that "holding the Son of Heaven to order the princes" was a good move, and he used his identity to follow Emperor Xiandi of Han step by step, wanting to hold Emperor Xiandi of Han tightly in his hands.
Dong Cheng also joined forces with Zhang Yang, Han Xian and others in an attempt to support his own troops and respect himself, but Dong Cheng's strength was mediocre and he did not have the leadership to organize a strong armed force. Dong Cheng, who could not defeat Li and Guo, could only ask for foreign aid, which also meant that it was very likely to attract a second Dong Zhuo, but Dong Cheng still took a risk.
The last one to escort him was Cao Cao, who took Emperor Xian of Han to Xu Du, and Of course Dong Cheng followed him, and was also named a che riding general, but he did not have any real power. Originally, Dong Cheng thought that Cao Cao had his heart set on the Han Dynasty, but he did not think that Cao Cao was only using Emperor Xian of Han to do bad things under the banner of "justice".
Seeing that Cao Cao had finished everything he wanted to do, how could Dong Cheng be willing? So he came up with a strange trick, he claimed that he had the edict of Emperor Xian of Han, and then recruited righteous soldiers who were interested in opposing Cao Cao to remove Cao Cao.
Dong Cheng knew very well that this was his last chance, and there would be fewer and fewer people who had the intention to oppose Cao Cao, but he did not think about the consequences of this matter, would Cao Cao kill Emperor Xian of Han in a fit of rage? Moreover, in fact, he did not ask Emperor Xian of Han at all, and he himself made a good idea to kill Cao Cao, I am afraid that he could seize power himself.
In 200 AD (the fifth year of Jian'an), on the ninth day of the first lunar month, Dong Cheng's and others plotted to kill Cao Cao were revealed, and Dong Cheng, Zhongji, Wu Zilan, Wang Zifu, and Dong Cheng's daughter Dong Guiren were all killed at the hands of Cao Cao, and Dong Cheng was destroyed by the three tribes. Just as Wang Chuanshan said of Dong Cheng: "Dong Cheng, who ends with chaos, has no certainty but is good at what he wants" Now he is not only a fool without a plan, but also a hypocrite through and through.