Courageous and strategic—the underrated Xiliang Dong Zhuo

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In the film and television works, Dong Zhuo gives us the feeling that he is a fat man who has no courage and no resources and is full of fat brains. Too many people question that it is such a cerebral palsy faction that plays a good hand of cards. In fact, Dong Zhuo was a seriously underestimated warlord of Western Liang.

First, youth movements

When the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Book of later Han describe Dong Zhuo, at the beginning Dong Zhuo coincides with the beginning of the "Young Ranger", "with superior strength, double belt and two whips, shooting left and right, feared by Qiang Hu", "white horse decorated with golden bondage, lian fei northwest galloping." Borrow to ask whose son? Stalker and Ranger. "Young good man, taste the qiangzhong, and tie up with the heroes."

1, the force is superior, he is carrying two bows, riding a horse galloping, can open the bow left and right to shoot arrows, indicating the strength of his strength and the essence of riding. Even Qiang Hu, who was good at riding and shooting, was afraid of him.

2, for people to understand the communication will win people over. These ethnic minority leaders came to visit, Dong Zhuo killed the cultivating cattle to invite them to dinner, and those who were touched by these leaders did not want it, Dong Zhuo led his troops to fight the rebellion and won, and the emperor's reward did not leave a penny, all of which was distributed to his officers and soldiers. At this point, Dong Zhuo's power began to rise rapidly.

Second, Dong Zhuo's background

1, family background, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty says: "Zhuo Father Junya was a lieutenant of the Yingchuan Wheel Clan. "First of all, his father was an official with a certain relationship with the imperial court.

2, the Book of Later Han says that Dong Zhuo "intersected with Hao Shuai", and the Hao Shuai here was the leader of the ethnic minorities in the southwest, and his fellowship with them must have two major hardware as the basis of economic and political hardware.

3, when Emperor Huan was going to "take the liang family son of the six counties as Yulin Lang", Dong Zhuo was selected. "Good family son of six counties" is required for status, and it is impossible to be selected without a rich background.

4, After Dong Zhuo was selected as Yulin Lang, he became a military sima under Zhang Yi in Zhonglang, and he had meritorious service in attacking the Qiang people and worshiped Lang Zhong. Later, he was moved to the Western Regions, but was dismissed for committing a crime. Interestingly, not long after Dong Zhuo was dismissed from office, he was promoted to the post of Assassin of Hezhou and Hedong Taishou. It proves once again that Dong Zhuo has a deep background in the local area.

Third, Dong Zhuo's strategy

1, when Dong Zhuo first entered Luoyang, he only had 3,000 troops under his command, and in order to create a kind of mighty force of strong soldiers, horses, and people, he sent troops to sneak out of Luoyang the next day to drive into Luoyang with great fanfare, successfully shocking Luoyang officials.

2, using Lü Bu to kill Ding Yuan is not the main purpose, taking the opportunity to take over all the Beijing defense troops is the reason. Provoking infighting between Wu Kuang and He Miao, he annexed their troops without a single soldier.

3, Dong Zhuo was unfavorable to take the Han Xian Emperor to move the capital to Chang'an to temporarily avoid qifeng, provoking contradictions among the warlords everywhere, and sure enough, the Kwantung coalition army fell into infighting, Sun Jian was killed by Liu Biao, and Yuan Shao Gongsun Zhan and others broke out into war one after another.

So in the end, most of Dong Zhuo's failure is due to his tyranny and inhumanity, which has the following conjecture

Guess one, the theory of "nature is good", Dong Zhuo was originally good, but after growing up, he was polluted by the environment and gradually blackened to this day.

Conjecture two, the theory of "nature is inherently evil", Dong Zhuo's nature is like this, but the eastern Han Dynasty selection management is a probation system, by the local governor in the jurisdiction of the inspection, selection of talents and recommend to the superior. In order to quickly ascend from the frontier to the throne, the nature is hidden, and after the Son of Heaven, the nature is exposed.