Introduction: Speaking of the origin and fuse of the three kingdoms, the answer given by historians comes from the Yellow Turban Uprising. Since Emperor Huan succeeded to the throne, in order to eliminate the foreign forces of the Liang clan, the eunuch force had to be used, which led to serious hidden dangers within the power of the dynasty at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. By the time the Yellow Turban Rebellion had become so weak that it could not resist the rebellion, it could only appoint local magnates.
Since then, the imperial court allowed local officials to recruit volunteers to suppress the Yellow Turban, and later Sun Jian, Gongsun Zhan and other figures gradually appeared on the stage of history. However, in addition to these three countries that we are familiar with, the three founders who really made outstanding contributions to the campaign to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion did not embark on the road of chasing deer after this, but chose to hide in the chaotic period of the crowd.
And these three, whether it was their position in the imperial court, the influence of their own family, and the military merit of suppressing the Yellow Turban, were not under Cao Cao, and if they joined the alliance against Dong Zhuo, their strength was even no less than that of Yuan Shao. To be precise, if these three join the entire history of the late Han Dynasty and even the Three Kingdoms period, another direction will be formed. So compared with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the strength of these three people really has such a huge disparity? The answer is yes.
At the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the imperial court sent a set of ace lineups, namely He Jin, the number one leader in the Eastern Han Military Circle at that time, and lu Zhi, Huang Fusong, and Zhu Juan, three middle generals. We are actually very familiar with Lu Zhi, who is a contemporary Confucian and a teacher of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan.
Locally, the Fanyang Lu clan had a strong influence throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty; in the dynasty, Lu Zhi was a Confucian disciple, and many officials were his brothers and students.
Therefore, Lu Zhi's influence not only came from the identity of the Confucian master, but also from the children of the scholar clan and the important subjects of the dprk. At first, under the leadership of Lu Zhi, the banditry operation in the Jizhou area achieved good results, and Zhang Jiao, the initiator of the Yellow Turban Army, was also pursued by Lu Zhi and hid in the city and did not dare to meet the battle. However, just as Lu Zhi was leading the soldiers to prepare for the siege, the eunuch clique sent envoys to various places, with the intention of asking for benefits.
And Lu Zhi was also planted by the eunuch clique for not bribing, and on the eve of the imminent siege of the city, when Zhang Jiao could be captured immediately, Lu Zhi resigned from his post and transferred back to the Beijing Division, giving up the final fruits of victory to Dong Zhuo. In addition to Lu Zhi, Zhu Juan's military merit in the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army was also very high, and unlike Lu Zhi's scholarly origin, Zhu Juan was a disciple of the Han Dynasty who was born in the army, so he represented many military forces.
Zhu Juan played a lot of power in quelling the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so many of the generals and officials who fought in the Yellow Turban at that time took Zhu Juan as a model, and after Dong Zhuo entered the Beijing Division, many princes jointly asked Zhu Juan to come out and preside over the overall situation against Dong Zhuo, so Zhu Juan's power in the army, especially in various assassins and Taishou, exceeded Yuan Shao.
Also with a high level of power is the Huangfu Song from the family clan, the surname of Huangfu is extremely influential in the entire Yong and Liang Prefectures, it can be said that there is no Dong Zhuo in terms of being born with Huangfu Song alone.
Not only was he born, But Emperor Fusong was also much stronger than Dong Zhuo in military terms, and when Dong Zhuo succeeded Lu Zhi in Jizhou against Zhang Jiao, Emperor Fusong had already stabilized the situation in Yuzhou, and then he led his army north to annihilate hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops. After Emperor Fusong returned to the capital with his first merit, he did not take credit, but pushed the credit for pacifying the Yellow Turban to Zhu Juan and Lu Zhi, which also reinstated Lu Zhiguan, who had originally offended the eunuch clique.
However, these three heroes, who had great prestige in both the local warrior clan and the military, did not stand up during the period of the crusade against Dong Zhuo. After Dong Zhuo's chaotic government, Lu Zhi and Zhu Juan chose to abandon their posts and leave, but Zhu Juan's prestige in the army made him still active in anti-Dong actions after resigning.
When Li Yu and Guo Feng were in trouble in Chang'an, because they were jealous of Zhu Juan, they sent an edict to ask Zhu Juan to join the dynasty as an official, but Zhu Juan's loyalty made him used by Li Yu and Guo Feng, and after entering Chang'an, Zhu Juan lost real power, and his influence was also used by Li and Guo, and eventually Zhu Juan died of illness in Chang'an.
However, Emperor Fusong did not listen to his son's advice to join Dong Zhuo's army after Dong Zhuo's chaotic government, believing that privately raising troops was an act of chaotic courtiers and thieves, and Zhu Juan chose to conspire to get rid of Dong Zhuo in the court like Wang Yun and other hundred officials.
Conclusion: However, shortly after Dong Zhuo's death, Emperor Fusong also died shortly after, and did not make a difference in the dynasty. The reason why the three meritorious heroes had this result was also because they were different from Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, and they were still loyal to the Eastern Han Dynasty in the chaotic times, so they failed to become a prince of the party, and they died in the chaotic government of Dong Zhuo, Li, Guo and others, which was also regrettable.