During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had an overwhelming advantage in terms of talent, which can be counted at the number of people above the top in military, political, and strategic evaluations at that time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

【Cao Cao】

At that time, Cao Cao's command included Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, Dong Zhao, Liu Ye, Sima Yi, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Cao Zhen, Man Chong, Zhong Xuan, Chen Qun and other thirteen talents with a single evaluation of the top or above.

Xun Yu (Political A, Strategy A) (Note 1), Xun Yu was not only one of the top strategists during the Three Kingdoms period, but also held the center for a long time, helping Cao Cao manage government affairs, and his political level was also very high.

Xun You (Strategy A), Xun You was Cao Cao's mastermind in the later period, and had a very good performance in the Battle of Guandu, and later persuaded Cao Cao to attack the north first, and finally pacified the Yuan family.

Cheng Yu (Strategy A), Cheng Yu was one of Cao Cao's early strategists, who dissuaded Cao Cao from defecting to Yuan Shao in the Battle of Cao Lu Yanzhou, and once had the foresight to persuade Cao Cao to get rid of Liu Bei.

Jia Xu (Strategy A), Jia Xu was already famous before he took refuge in Cao Cao, but Cao Cao did not reuse Jia Xu for some reasons, but even so, Jia Xu occasionally played well under Cao Cao, and once used the discord to break the Ma-Han coalition army.

Dong Zhao (strategy A), Dong Zhao has been ignored by many people in history, but in fact, Dong Zhao is no less than the five great strategists of Cao Wei in terms of strategy, and Cao Cao just followed his plan to successfully move the capital to Xuchang.

Liu Ye (Strategy A), throughout the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Ye is worthy of being one of the top strategists, but in the Cao Cao period, Liu Ye's status is still relatively low, and his performance is not much.

Sima Yi (strategy A, political A, military A), in the Cao Cao period, Sima Yi had initially shown his strategic talent, but it was not his stage at this time, after Cao Pi, Sima Yi gradually became the protagonist of Cao Wei.

Zhang Liao (military A), Zhang Liao was originally a general under Lu Bu, and then returned to Cao Cao, when Sun Quan attacked Hefei for the second time, the power was at its peak, and his own military was extremely good, and he had many military achievements.

Xu Huang (Military A), Xu Huang, like Zhang Liao, also switched to Cao Cao from other princes, and his military ability was not under Zhang Liao, and he performed very well in the Battle of Hanzhong and the Battle of Xiangfan.

Cao Zhen (Military A), Cao Zhen has begun to emerge during the Cao Cao period, but it is not his stage at this time.

Full Favor (Military A), Full Favor was not able to give full play to his military talents when he was under Cao Cao, in the Cao Zhen period, he began to emerge in the south, and during the Cao Rui period, he had become Cao Wei's general in the east, all of whom supervised Yangzhou, and had several military exploits, blocking Sun Quan from the door.

Zhong Xuan (political A), Zhong Xuan was recommended by Xun Yu, sat in Guanzhong for a long time, appeased Han, Ma and other princes, and had great political achievements, when Zhong Xuan had invited Ma Teng to the imperial court, Han Sui was also soon, but later Cao Cao was ready to send troops to Hanzhong to force the princes of Guanzhong, and Zhong Xuan's efforts were in vain.

Chen Qun (Political A), although Chen Qun is famous for the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, his own ability is also very good, and he was later one of the four auxiliary ministers left by Cao Pi to Cao Rui.

[Other aspects]

At the same time, there were only twelve people at that time, including Xu Rong under Dong Zhuo, Fu Zhu and Lu Yi under Yuan Shao, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu and Fa Zheng under Liu Bei, Sun Jian and Sun Ce under Yuan Shu, and Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Meng, and Lu Xun under Sun Quan.

Xu Rong (Military A), Xu Rong is one of the known Zhonglang generals under Dong Zhuo, who once abused Cao Cao and Sun Jian, and later died in battle because of the rebellion of his subordinates.

Frustration (strategy A), frustration can be said to be the second person under Yuan Shao, the first strategist to put forward the macro strategy "Jizhou pair" during the Three Kingdoms period, and the first to put forward the idea of "coercing the Son of Heaven and ordering the princes", and later admonished Yuan Shao seven times, all of which were proved correct in the future, but Yuan Shao just didn't listen.

Lu Yi (military A), the original Han Fu, later colluded with Yuan Shao to betray Han Fu, in history Lu Yi was born in Liangzhou, military ability is extremely strong, defeated Gongsun Zan several times, and later because of his high merit and arrogance, was killed by Yuan Shao.

Zhuge Liang (strategy A, political A, military A), Zhuge Liang had already shown excellent strategy and political ability during Liu Bei's period, and his military talent was also demonstrated.

Guan Yu (military A), Guan Yu is one of the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms period, in the Battle of Xiangfan, Guan Yu with few enemies, with a weak attack on the strong, flooded the Seventh Army, shocked China, and later was feared by Sun Quan, and was defeated and killed by his troops to attack the rear.

Fa Zheng (strategy A), Fa Zheng was first under Liu Zhang, and after Zhang Song's recommendation, he was able to see the Ming Lord, helping Liu Bei to seize Yizhou and occupy Hanzhong, although his personality is a little biased, but his ability is excellent.

Sun Jian (military A), Sun Jian was one of the famous commanders of the Three Kingdoms period, first served under Zhu Jun, the blue was better than the blue, three battles and three victories in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, once recaptured the old capital Luoyang, and later went south to conquer Liu Biao, surrounded Xiangyang, but died because of carelessness.

Sun Ce (Military A), although Sun Ce eventually broke with Yuan Shu and became independent, he had already shown considerable military talent earlier, defeating Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang, and defeating Liu Xuan, the Mu of Yangzhou.

Zhou Yu (military A, strategy A), Zhou Yu is the only victorious general in the history of the Three Kingdoms, since his debut, he has won a hundred battles, no defeat, followed Sun Ce, Sun Quan won all battles, led his troops to defeat Cao Cao in Chibi, and repelled Cao Ren in Jiangling, but died young.

Lu Su (strategy A), Lu Su proposed a "couch pair" for Sun Quan in history, and later Sun Quan was a key figure in confronting Cao Cao and uniting with Liu Bei, advocating "Lian Liu against Cao".

Lü Meng (Military A, Stratagem A), one of Sun Quan's outstanding military commanders, helped Sun Quan first capture the three counties of Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang, and later attacked Nanjun and killed Guan Yu.

Lu Xun (military A, political A, strategy A), Lu Xun had begun to emerge during the Cao Cao period, and soon became the new leader under Sun Quan, and he became a handsome minister. Lu Xun's son Lu Kang was actually highly rated by later generations, but Cao Cao had already died when he was born.

[Regret of not being able to unify]

As the first person in the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao has a large number of talents under his command, and can even be compared with other princes, there are countless outstanding generals under his command, and his think tank is incomparable with other princes combined, not to mention that Fu Zhu, Lu Yi, and Sun Jian have not actually posed a threat to Cao Cao for various reasons, and short-lived ghosts still account for the majority of these twelve people.

In the later period, Cao Cao not only had the absolute upper hand in terms of talents, but also in military, economic, territorial, population and other aspects, but Cao Cao had not yet completed unification in this case, as the first person in the Three Kingdoms period, this was very undesirable.

Note 1: Some people have not yet written a summary of this point, so no matter A+- is written A, here is mainly about the talents under the command of the princes, so it generally does not involve the princes themselves.