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For a long time, whether everyone is reading novels or watching related film and television dramas, they feel that the character of Dong Zhuo is the image of an uncivilized reckless man, which makes the already crumbling Eastern Han Dynasty even more dilapidated.
In fact, no matter what the real Dong Zhuo looks like in history, just from the description of Dong Zhuo in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is enough to prove that Dong Zhuo is not a reckless man, but a calculating.
Even, at some point, Dong Zhuo's shrewdness was even more powerful than Cao Cao!
Because in the novel, there are at least three points that can prove that he is more powerful than Cao Cao!
First, Dong Zhuo is good at following the advice of strategists.
The reason why Dong Zhuo came to the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty was mainly because He Jin recruited foreign soldiers to enter Beijing, so Dong Zhuo, who wanted to come to the capital to see, came naturally.
It's just that Dong Zhuo didn't come directly, but followed the advice of the strategist and went to the capital with great fanfare.
Originally, He Jin recruited foreign soldiers to enter Beijing to eradicate the eunuchs, which was done very hidden, but now it is good, being tossed by Dong Zhuo like this, everyone in the world knows about it, and the eunuchs have long been prepared.
So, Dong Zhuo calculated that He Jin would definitely fight with the eunuchs, and he would be able to make a profit.
Second, Dong Zhuo is not suspicious of employing people.
Not to mention that the people who followed Dong Zhuo were all Dong Zhuo's henchmen who came from Xiliang. Even if it is a person like Lu Bu who later attached, as long as Dong Zhuo feels that it is available, he will never have doubts.
Judging from the storyline presented in the book, although a person like Lu Bu turned around and recognized Dong Zhuo as his father-in-law after killing his father-in-law Ding Yuan, it seems so unbelievable, but Dong Zhuo really didn't have any suspicions at all, and directly put his life in the hands of Lu Bu.
Third, Dong Zhuo seems to be a reckless man, but in fact, he doesn't care about temporary wins and losses.
Everyone knows that when the Yellow Turban Uprising was suppressed, Dong Zhuo was beaten by the Yellow Turban Army, if it wasn't for Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei to make timely moves, it is estimated that Dong Zhuo would have nothing to do.
However, despite such a failure, Dong Zhuo was quite unimpressed and continued to be his assassin in Xiliang.
On the other hand, Cao Cao seems to be famous through the ages, but in three points, he is almost not Dong Zhuo's opponent.
For example, Cao Cao seems to be following the advice, which then leads to the strategists around him, but there are not many strategists who can really make Cao Cao look at him.
In addition, Cao Cao himself is a great clever, and the advice of the strategist is just a yardstick he uses to measure, in the more fashionable words now, that is, "if you are suitable, you will not use it, and if you don't use it".
For example, we have heard of Cao Cao's so-called murder in his dreams, and we have also heard of Cao Cao's change of law to eliminate dissidents, but at least in the novel, no one around Dong Zhuo was killed because of Dong Zhuo's suspicion.
At least from this point of view, Dong Zhuo is much stronger than Cao Cao.
As for the final regardless of temporary gains and losses, Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao can be regarded as equally divided.
After all, people who want to achieve great things can't stick to small things. Temporary gains and losses can only be regarded as a small experience, and from the beginning, there is still hope for everything.
However, Dong Zhuo dared to abolish the original emperor and set up a new emperor, but Cao Cao did not dare, or thought it was unnecessary. This can also show that in the matter of courage, Cao Cao is far from being Dong Zhuo's opponent.
It's just that Dong Zhuo's identity has always been a stumbling block for him, if Dong Zhuo has the same background as Cao Cao, maybe it will not be Cao Cao but Dong Zhuo who is divided into three parts of the world.
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