The reason why the Three Kingdoms are three kingdoms is, in the final analysis, the result of the rise of the political affairs of the scholar clan, the scholar class gradually grasped the political affairs and economic discourse, and at the same time carried out regional struggles to consolidate their power and expand their influence, and the essence of the dispute between the three kingdoms was so. So is the Li family from Li Shimin really a scholar clan? It's hard to count. Although Li Shimin later revised the history books, opened a generation of bad examples, and posted a lot of gold to his family. However, Li Shimin insisted that he was considered to be the Li family of the Zhao County, and was somewhat scorned by later historians, in fact, the Li family was one of the eight pillar states of the Western Wei Dynasty from the Guanlong nobles, and the origin should be from the Northern Wei military household, from Liupan Mountain. There was even a blood relationship with the Xianbei clan, and such a bloodline was really not a good thing in the late Han Dynasty, which still paid attention to the theory of bloodline.
These two points made it absolutely impossible for Li Shimin to rise to the top in the late Han Dynasty, and at most he was among the minions, and moreover, this minions and teeth had to be promoted by Cao Cao, and how many of the ethnic minority generals under Liu Bei could be promoted when Liu Bei was alive? Sun Quan's generals, and how many of them were born in Shanyue? And Li Shimin, who was in the Cao Wei regime, also because of the problem of birth, even if he was reused in the Cao Cao period because of meritocracy, then in the Cao Pi period, he could only retreat to the second line--not cao clan relatives, and not related to the shi clan, how could he get Cao Pi, or even Chen Qun and Sima Yi, the master clan who controlled Cao Wei's real power?
Eastern Wu Emperor, Cao Mou, a certain Xuan De couple tied a piece is estimated to be a draw with Li Shimin, as long as Li Shimin is given a suitable starting point, unification is not difficult for him, but because there is no Yang Jian to lay the foundation, this unification process is estimated to take decades, but this is not important, not to mention the ability and strength of the double line to Cao Cao, even if the ability to meet the standard but the strength of liu Bei, who has not been online for a long time, there is also a chance of unification. The contingency of history determines that everyone has the possibility of reunification, but the inevitability of history also determines that even if they rely on their own wisdom and divine weapons or the unification of their opponents, it will not last long, the south has developed but there is no Grand Canal, the cultural field has developed but there is no mature papermaking and printing technology, division is the mainstream, it is inevitable, how about Sima Zhao and Sima Yan reunification?
At that time, because of the perennial war and the emptiness of the northern population, and because the ethnic policy since the Eastern Han Dynasty and the change of Cao Wei intensified the proportion of the main ethnic groups in the north was too low, so there were five hu chaotic Hua and the crown of the south, but even without these divisions was still inevitable, whether Li Shimin could unify was to see whether the shi clan chose him, the shi clan was bent on Han, Li Shimin was strong, it was just a copy of Dong Zhuo, the shi clan was bent on Li Shimin, even if he was born in cao mang, it was also a copy of Liu Xiu, so if Li Shimin wanted to complete the reunification, the first thing he had to be a born shi clan was the shi clan. The second is to obtain the stubborn selection of the warrior class through excellent wisdom and courage and personality charm, so that it is possible to achieve it. Similarly, replacing Li Shimin with Wang Er dog, Zhang Tiezhu can also, this is the hero of the times, and speaking of Li Erlang, his career is a cause that was completed on the shoulders of giants, if there is no ancestor Li Hu to rely on military merit to rank within the Western Wei Eight Pillars, whether his Li family can rise is still variable.
If there is no Yang Jian who seizes the country by virtue of absolute power, whether Li Yuan, who is related to the Yang family, can rise, and whether he can rise between ke and wei, if yang Guang is not in the right position, Hetu proves himself by creating a great cause, and the result is that the merit is not a great chaos in the world, and the Li family simply cannot rise up. If Li Mi had not annexed Zhai Rang, resulting in the defeat of the Wagang army in infighting, It is unknown whether Li Yuan, with his own prestige, could surpass Li Mi, and if there had been no Dou Jiande who had done his best in a battle, he was eager to decide the world in a war and fight with Li Shimin. However, as long as it develops steadily, step by step, it is not known whether Li Yuan and Dou Jiande will win or lose. Even if Xue Ju had died violently after the victory in the Shallow Water Plains, whether Li Yuan could survive or not, it is not known, let alone Li Shimin? Can Zhuge Liang unify the Three Kingdoms? Suppose cao wei's configuration is given to him, I think it is very likely, but in history Zhuge Liang was partial to shu han.
In addition to the opening configuration, but also depends on which period, is the early, middle or late, personally believe that although Li Shimin and the Three Kingdoms period figures are not in the same era, but through the foreign war record, he is at least not weaker than Cao Cao, Kong Ming and others, Li Shimin northern annihilation of the Eastern Turks, west annihilation of Tuguhun, expedition to Goguryeo, sweeping the desert north, can be said to be Weizhen Huanyu. During the Cao Mengde period, there were also brilliant achievements such as expeditions to Wuhuan, defeating the Xiongnu, and violently fighting Xianbei, Kong Mingping Nanman, Sun Quan reaping hundreds of Yue, which were all great achievements of the Central Plains culture in the Three Kingdoms period against foreign enemies, so in contrast, Li Shimin at least did not lose to several top military experts in the Three Kingdoms period. As for whether the three countries can be unified, or that sentence, it depends on the configuration and time. If it is early, it may be four heroes standing side by side, if it is late, I think those people in the Three Kingdoms can not stand up to the fierce Li Shimin, there is a saying that the times create heroes, rather than a hero panning to another era, still a hero, there is no situation, how to be a hero.
The political affairs of Chinese history have always been the political affairs of the scholar class, the Qin Emperor Han Wu, the Tang Emperor Song Zu, but the spokesman of the shi clan representative, during the chaotic war, there were many shi clan spokesmen, and finally such and such things happened, there was only one spokesman left, he was the emperor. Even if the Imperial Examination was opened after the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was only a small upward channel for the Shu clan to become a scholar clan, and the main body of the state was still the scholar class. Liu Bei and Yuan Shu in Xuzhou did not distinguish between victory and defeat, were abused by Lü Bu, and were abused by Lü Bu's subordinate Gao Shun, how could Li Shimin play this battle record? Cao Cao, a Yanzhou, was secretly attacked by Lü Bu and defeated Lü Bu to regain Yanzhou, Liu Bei had a Xuzhou, was attacked by Lü Bu, his wife was captured, and the Guangling people couldnibalized. Chen Shou commented that Liu Bei was inferior to Cao Cao, how to compare with Li Shimin? As for Liu Bei replacing Li Shimin, Liu Bei was emperor for a total of two years, preferring to live in Bashu, Li Shimin could not achieve reunification in two years, Li Shimin may not have the heartfelt approval of Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Fazheng and others, but he will also have another group of capable people who are loyal to him. On the other hand, in Liu Bei's previous events, such as cooking wine on heroes, fleeing with the people, not taking Xiangyang, whether it was because he would kill Liu Zhang, etc., Li Shimin's choice may be different from Liu Bei's, resulting in a different historical line later.
In view of the fact that Jinyang, which Li Shimin started at this time, belonged to Cao Cao's prefecture taiyuan county, Li Shimin wanted to unify during this period, after all, after Guanzhong was revolted after li dai guo's rebellion, it was indeed difficult to gather connections, plus Yang Fu Zhang both wei qi, which had the potential of governing ability, had previously devoted himself to Cao Cao, so Li Er was more likely to do what he wanted to do was to eliminate the warlords one by one and unify Yongliang, but it was difficult to build a team loyal to himself in Yongliang, after all, this was not a situation of competition between the heroes of the late Han Dynasty. It was really difficult to seize the power of a court whose strength was much higher than its own. Therefore, when Cao Cao was alive, Li Er's two most likely could not be unified, the difference between Li Shimin and Liu Bei was born, Li Shimin was born not with a golden key, but with a large diamond, the social status of birth, the material foundation is too good, it can be said that it is incomparable.
Liu Bei was replaced by Li Shimin, the entrepreneurial stage is not so hard, do not have to start a long period of time to send people under the fence, you can directly recruit soldiers to buy horses, recruit talents, and Li Shimin's personal charm is also very high, a call, strategists, military generals have come, but the strength of the Three Kingdoms is still Cao Cao Group is greater than Li Shimin Group is greater than Sun Quan Group, why is this so? Because the size of the territory and the size of the population are still the key factors in judging the comprehensive national strength, in history Shu Han may be weaker than Sun Wu, but replaced by Li Shimin, the strength of the two families may be relatively close, or even more, and the strength of Cao Wei is overwhelming, although the Battle of Chibi was lost, but did not hurt the fundamentals, the defeat and retreat of the Shu Han Yiling Battle, the shu Han unified the capital of the whole country, it takes many years to recover, if Li Shimin does not fight the Wu state, and cut Wei, Wei is strong and Wu Shu is weak, may not be able to succeed in one fell swoop, War is bound to cost the people money, deplete national strength, and widen the gap between wei and Wei strength.
And Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Rui are not emperors, at the same time are very strong, the opponent is basically no flaw, Liu Bei was replaced by Li Shimin, the result of the return of the Three Kingdoms to jin should not change, but the duration of the Shu Han may become longer, say more, suddenly end the dynasty of the great split, it is bound to be short-lived, they are often eager to complete the historical mission of the entire era, often carrying the hatred of all the rebels. But in fact, their historical mission is actually to lay the foundation for true reunification, including people's hearts, including the system, the most feared thing is in the matter of choosing an heir, the princes of the unification era often continue the era of division of the way of struggle to do everything, can change the political affairs without smooth succession, can mutiny without changes in political affairs, there is a high probability of bloodshed, this habit will even continue to the next dynasty.
In this way, throughout the Three Kingdoms period, Li Shimin wanted to raise his arms, but in the Three Kingdoms era based on the theory of blood, he could not become a force? Yes, the warriors are not close, the people are not attached, where do you go to gather the army, collect materials, and fight the world? Even if there are outlaws who follow and conquer several cities, how can you ensure that the people in these places will be close to you? Such conditions are not even as good as Liu Bei's, so how can we expect reunification? So by extension, what about the Northern Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties? The Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms of the Northern Dynasty, which originated from the grass and reckless, and there were many foreign regimes, did Li Shimin have a chance? There are, but it is very slim, in the north there are liu yuan, Shi Le, Wang Meng, Jian Jian, Murong Fu's generation, in the south there are Liu Yu, Xiao Yan, Chen Qingzhi and the like, all military capabilities are not bad, but there are also relatives of the scholar clan, Li Shimin's ability, what is outstanding? Heroes influence the situation or current events to create heroes, in many cases it seems to be a chicken and egg, egg and chicken problem. However, after examining various historical materials, you will find that the premise of heroes influencing the situation is that heroes can only say under the premise that heroes are in the same situation, and under different historical conditions, when it comes to whether heroes can create a great cause, it is impossible to think, nor can it speculate, and even if it is speculated, there is no credibility.