Dong Zhuo , a famous figure in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He once had power in the court and the people and killed the emperor, but such a person would not be called emperor, and in the end, even the princes could not do it. Why did Dong Zhuo's hegemony come in a flash? It was because he did a few things wrong.
Dong Zhuo's mistakes
One of Dong Zhuo's mistakes was that he killed the emperor. This is a very taboo thing. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs and relatives took power alternately, and the emperor was completely a puppet. But there is a difference between a puppet and a victim. Cao Cao did a good job at this point. Cao Cao's opponents said that Cao Cao "is named the Prime Minister of Han, but actually a thief in Han."
Cao Cao said: If there is no orphan in the world, I don’t know how many people will be emperors or kings.” No matter what, Cao Cao did not kill Emperor Xian of Han , and he did not even proclaim himself emperor. It was not until his son Cao Pi that he officially proclaimed himself emperor. Dong Zhuo directly killed the emperor. Killing the emperor, establishing another place, is a taboo everywhere.
In fact, Dong Zhuo was able to enter the capital because of the struggle between the royal family. Emperor Ling of Han prefers his youngest son Liu Xie, but Liu Bian was born by the queen, how could the relatives of the foreigners to tolerate the throne? They asked Dong Zhuo, who had military power at the time, to come to Beijing for help, but it was a pity that it was easy to ask the gods to send the gods to the gods. Dong Zhuo was difficult to send the gods. Not only did they grow bigger, they also killed the emperor in the end.
Dong Zhuo's second mistake is that he did not have a good relationship with the aristocratic families.
Dong Zhuo is a civilian, so he has never had any good feelings for the aristocratic families. As the conflict between Dong Zhuo and the aristocratic families intensified, these aristocratic families began to unite and resist Dong Zhuo, and in the end Dong Zhuo was defeated by the union of the aristocratic families. Compared with Dong Zhuo, the three who successfully divided the world in their three-pointed world basically chose to win over the attitude towards the aristocratic families.
brutal Dong Zhuo
In addition to these mistakes, Dong Zhuo's biggest shortcoming is that he is cruel and unkind. Dong Zhuo is a very cruel person, but anyone Dong Zhuo would immediately kill the other party. There was once a situation where Dong Zhuo was eating aside and his subordinates were killing people next to him.
Dong Zhuo was cruel to the opponents in the court and to the people. When he was fighting with the army, he forced the people to hand over food and grass. At that time, the people had not had much food at all, and Dong Zhuo also confiscated all their food for war, which led to the public's resentment and complaints.
Dong Zhuo was not very lucky. When the coalition forces attacked him, a peasant uprising broke out in his base camp, which led to him having to transfer most of the elite soldiers back to his base camp. The soldiers fighting on the front line were the relatively poor part of the combat power.
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In the end, the only person who can fight in Dong Zhuo's army was Lu Bu . But Dong Zhuo did another stupid thing at this time. He forcibly occupied Diao Chan, which made Lu Bu very angry and did not want to continue to work for Dong Zhuo. In addition, the coalition forces sent three famous generals to challenge Lu Bu and were finally defeated by the three in a series of battles.
Although it was just a battle, the morale strike against Dong Zhuo's troops was devastating. A unit that was unpopular and low-spirited could not win the battle.
Dong Zhuo's tragedy
Dong Zhuo's failure was that he ignored the lives and death of the people at all. Superstitiously, force can solve everything. He not only sent his subordinates to forcibly collect food from the people's homes, but also easily gave up the capital at that time when the enemy attacked, and eventually the capital at that time turned into scorched earth.
The people hated Dong Zhuo very much, and in the end Dong Zhuo ended up miserably. After the coalition forces killed him, the people lit the sky lantern, which shows how unpopular Dong Zhuo was.
In addition to being unpopular, Dong Zhuo's defeat also has some other reasons, such as Dong Zhuo's origin and the origin of his troops. Origin made it almost impossible for Dong Zhuo to gain recognition from the aristocratic families, and at that time, the aristocratic families meant resources and money. Dong Zhuo lost this part of the resources.
The second is the soldiers under Dong Zhuo. Most of the soldiers under Dong Zhuo were not Han nationality. In ancient times, the attention of non-my races must be different, so those Han and soldiers looked down on soldiers of ethnic minorities. This leads to the fact that Dong Zhuo's soldiers have strong combat capabilities but their cohesion is very poor, and they cannot react well when facing foreign enemies.
The character of the king is very important. He must have basic morality. Whether in governing the world or in troubled times, leaders should have a heart to calm the chaos, rather than create chaos. Dong Zhuo did not have this kind of character. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion of , Eastern Han could have ushered in another stable period. But for his own selfish interests, Dong Zhuo insisted on proclaiming himself prime minister and disrupting the court's principles.
Dong Zhuo's failure is almost a historical necessity. As the ruler, Dong Zhuo did not know how to unite all forces and simply suppressed his opponents. This led to more and more opponents. Originally, the Han Dynasty General urged Dong Zhuo to stabilize the position of the young emperor.
stabilized the chaotic situation at that time. , but Dong Zhuo not only did not stabilize the situation. He even killed the emperor. I have to say that He Jin's move is really bad.
At that time, , Empress Dowager He once warned He Jin that Dong Zhuo might do some bad things after entering Beijing, but He Jin was eager to win over his allies and ignored Empress Dowager He's warning. In the end, Empress Dowager He's concerns became a reality. Dong Zhuo not only completely undermined , Young Emperor . In the end he even killed him.
In ancient times, the idea of loyalty to the emperor was still very strong. If a person did not have enough power to suppress all forces, it would be best not to use extreme methods like the World Army to expand his rights. Dong Zhuo not only killed the lord, but also offended a large number of people. The only Lu Bu who was by his side did not treat him well. He knew that Lu Bu liked Diao Chan, but he also forcibly possessed her.
People who are truly suitable for being monarchs have the ability to judge the situation. If they find that they may not be able to achieve complete success at once, they may choose to endure and will give it a try unless they are forced to the point of no retreat.
Dong Zhuo did not have the ability to see the situation clearly. At that time, the world was in chaos, and peasant uprisings broke out one after another. The people lived in dire straits. At this time, the people did not care about who was the emperor at all. What they cared about was just whether they could live a good life.
So those who truly succeeded in the world responded to the needs of the people to a certain extent, instead of completely ignoring the needs of the people, deliberately provoking wars, resulting in the loss of life.
Dong Zhuo is not politically wise, he killed his monarch without any concealment.
Although in that dynasty, no matter how moral a person has, as long as he succeeds, everything doesn't matter, but the act of killing the monarch gave his enemies a clear reason to unite compared to comparison.
The other three people did a good job Cao Cao, even if he liked power, he never became emperor in his life. Liu Bei successfully turned himself and Liu Bang into the same ancestor, claiming that he was the responsibility of restoring the Han Dynasty after the Han Dynasty royal family.
Sun Jian Although there is no so-called righteousness, his troops are one of the few troops that can be fought at the beginning, and Sun Jian himself is also backed by aristocratic families, and the aristocratic families spared no effort to provide resources to him. Dong Zhuo offended the aristocratic family, killed the monarch and gave the enemy a clear contempt, and his desire for power was not concealed. Such a person, even his supporters, would worry that he would do something more outrageous in the future if he ascended the throne.
So, although morality is not emphasized in troubled times, a person still needs to have a basic moral bottom line, otherwise there will be no way to succeed. The reason why Dong Zhuo failed is because of his background, because he does not take the interests of the people's people seriously, and also because he adopted wrong political and military strategies.
The attack on Dong Zhuo can be said to be the most unified opinion of the princes during the Three Kingdoms period. From this, it can be seen that Dong Zhuo has made too many enemies and is really unpopular.
Dong Zhuo's failure also reminded the latecomers that even if they want to be emperor, they cannot put their ambitions on the surface.
