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Preface
In China's history, the time of great reunification was very short, and a peaceful and stable China like the present one was very short, and most of the time it was in a state of division, such as many provinces now, the governor of a province is the monarch of a country, and there is no supreme leader.
Moreover, people are creatures driven by interests, and they can do anything for the sake of profit, and in the ancient era when there were many countries, there were too many wars caused by interests.
There was a period of time during the Three Kingdoms, but there was actually a war before the Three Kingdoms, and if Cao Cao had not been so unlucky, the unification of China would have taken longer.
Do you know which war it was? What was Cao Cao's bad luck?
1. Coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes
If you want to say what the Three Kingdoms are like, this has to start with Dong Zhuo's abolition of the young emperor Liu Bi and the establishment of the Han Dynasty Emperor Liu Xie as the emperor, the young emperor Liu Bi is the thirteenth emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but in his generation Dong Zhuo's power is too great, and he can even abolish the emperor at will.
Liu Wei was abolished by Dong Zhuo, and a year after the abolition, Liu Wei was killed by Dong Zhuo at the age of 15.
After deposing Liu Wei, Dong Zhuo supported Liu Wei's half-brother Liu Xie as emperor, and Liu Xie was only nine years old when he was called emperor, so Liu Xie also became a generation of puppet emperors.
Dong Zhuo is not a good person, after establishing Liu Xie as the emperor, he proclaimed himself prime minister, and later added the Taishi, at this time Dong Zhuo's power also reached its peak.
After Dong Zhuo seized the power of the central government, he started his own atrocities, looting property was a trivial matter, and the most excessive was that he burned Luoyang City to ruins.
Because of Dong Zhuo's atrocities, and the Han Dynasty was so coerced by him, this also made the people of the world very dissatisfied, so the voice of crusading against Dong Zhuo sounded all over the country.
Dong Zhuo was defeated by Sun Jian and retreated to Chang'an, and then Wang Yun designed to provoke the relationship between Dong Zhuo's godson Lu Bu and the two, and the two had a gap, and finally Dong Zhuo was killed by Lu Bu.
But this war is not over, and the people who raised the army want to follow Dong Zhuo's example of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the ministers", so Liu Xie has become a sweetheart, and everyone wants to occupy him.
But in the end, this opportunity was obtained by Cao Cao, who also used Liu Xie's power to start his own plan to unify all of China.
But Liu Xie was dissatisfied that he was treated as a puppet, so he secretly ordered his concubine Dong Guiren's father Dong Cheng to kill Cao Cao, but in the end, Dong Cheng was defeated by Cao Cao and was killed by Cao Cao, and the Dong family was also killed by Cao Cao, and the pregnant Dong Guiren was also given death.
Liu Xie's emperor, Empress Fu, also wanted to help her husband get rid of the puppet status, so she asked her father to kill Cao Cao and revive the Han family.
But in the end, the matter was revealed, Queen Fu was imprisoned in the cold palace until she died, and the Fu family was also killed by Cao Cao, even the servants or maids in the family were killed.
After eliminating these threats, Cao Cao also married his three daughters to Liu Xie, and made Cao Jie one of them, and thus he also began his own path to hegemony.
2. Southward reunification
After Cao Cao established the system of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the ministers", Cao Cao began to develop to the south, and his first stop was Jingzhou, Jingzhou was Liu Biao's territory, not only Liu Biao, but Liu Bei was also there at that time.
After Liu Bei broke away from Yuan Shao, he came to Jingzhou to seek refuge in Liu Biao, but he was not entrusted with any important positions, but when Liu Biao was seriously ill, Liu Biao proposed to let Liu Bei take over Jingzhou, but Liu Bei couldn't bear to take advantage of the danger of others, so the matter was abandoned.
At this time, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang and Sun Quan of Jiangdong were left, Liu Zhang was very familiar with current affairs, and after Cao Cao went south, Liu Zhang immediately took refuge in Cao Cao, so far only Liu Bei and Sun Quan were still in opposition to Cao Cao.
Liu Bei was a descendant of Liu Sheng, the king of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, and he was also considered the bloodline of the Han dynasty, after which he borrowed the name of the Han dynasty to gain the support of many soldiers in the world to fight against Cao Cao.
Liu Bei once served as a general under Cao Cao for a period of time, and Cao Cao also knew Liu Bei better, although Liu Bei had always been a vassal of this and that, but Cao Cao knew that Liu Bei was not an easy person to deal with, and if he left it alone, he would become a great enemy.
What's more, when Liu Bei broke away from Cao Cao's camp, there was an unfriendly exchange between the two sides, and Liu Bei's strength was relatively weak between the two, so Cao Cao attacked Liu Bei first.
The famous Battle of Changbanpo took place during this period, and in this war, there were also heroic deeds of Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, who entered and exited seven times, and rescued Liu Bei's son Liu Chan from the encirclement of the enemy.
However, the final result of this war was Liu Bei's fiasco, Cao Cao occupied Liu Bei's territory in one fell swoop, and directly drove Liu Bei to Jiangling.
In the end, Cao Cao's army left Liu Bei with nowhere to go in Jiangling, so he had to flee to Sun Quan's territory, intending to unite the two countries against the powerful Cao army.
3. The Legendary First World War
After Cao Cao occupied Jiangling, he wanted to make a move on Sun Quan in Jiangdong, Sun Quan is not a simple figure, he is the son of Sun Jian, the younger brother of Sun Ce, the unifier of Jiangdong, under the influence of his father and elder brother, he is naturally not a general.
After Sun Ce's unexpected death, Sun Quan took over the position of leader of Eastern Wu, and after succeeding to the throne at the age of 19, Jiangdong was very disagreeable with his assumption of office, so after he took office, there was a riot in Jiangdong.
Sun Fu collaborated with Cao Cao, Sun Wei tried to seize power, several important ministers were killed, and riots broke out in many places, which was also an opportunity for Sun Quan to establish his authority, he skillfully completed the suppression work, and stabilized the situation in Jiangdong, which also proved that Sun Quan's strength was not weaker than that of his father and brother.
After Liu Bei asked him to fight with Cao Cao, he readily agreed to Liu Bei's request, after all, sooner or later he would have to fight with Cao Cao, and it was at least better to unite now than to fight alone later.
So Sun Liu planned the famous battle of Chibi, which also made Cao Cao's plan for unification uncertain.
Cao Cao had no choice but to retreat to the north, which was really helpless, if it was just burned by fire, the most important thing was that there was a plague at that time, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the plague was a terminal illness in the society at that time, not to mention that it was extremely contagious.
This was the main reason for Cao Cao's retreat to the north, but Cao Cao's luck was really bad, a year before he launched an attack on Sun Quan, Guo Jia, who was more resourceful than Zhuge Liang, died of illness, otherwise they would not even be able to burn the fire.
And even if Guo Jia was not there, if it wasn't the southeast wind blowing at that time, Cao Cao would not have suffered such heavy losses, so Cao Cao's luck was really bad.
The defeat of this war also delayed the unification of China for more than 70 years, until Cao Cao's grandson, Cao Huan, was forced to give in by Sima Yan, who established the Jin Dynasty, and finally issued an attack order on Eastern Wu in Jiangdong, and finally temporarily unified China, and this troubled era was able to settle down for a while.
epilogue
Historically, Liu Xie's lineage around Cao Cao is the orthodoxy of the Han family, so Cao Cao's behavior of unifying the world is also a good behavior, on the contrary, Liu Bei and Sun Quan are the hindrances to unification.
But in the chaotic era at that time, everyone wanted to do their own deeds in this troubled era, Liu Bei was actually a member of the Han family, but it was not orthodox, and it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that Shu Han was considered to be the orthodoxy of the Han family.