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Among the many strategists under Cao Cao, Dong Zhao's popularity is not high, and he is not among the five great strategists, but Dong Zhao's role in Cao Wei is not low, he is not only one of Cao Cao's core advisers who moved the capital to Xuchang, but also the main participant in Cao Cao's title of king, and his own strategic ability is not similar to that of the five great strategists, and he is one of the few top strategists at that time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Dong Zhao's personal ability has already been shown when he was under Yuan Shao, and he himself has been optimistic about Cao Cao for a long time, and he has helped Cao Cao and expressed goodwill when he was under Zhang Yang.

【Yuan first and then Zhang】

Before following Cao Cao, Dong Zhao served under Yuan Shao and then Zhang Yang. Dong Zhao was promoted to filial piety when he was young, and was appointed as the chief of the gall Tao and the county magistrate of Bairen County. Later, Yuan Shao appointed him to join the army. At that time, Gongsun Chan was attacking and his troops were strong, and Li Shao, the Taishou of Julu, and the eunuchs in the county thought that Gongsun Chan was strong and wanted to belong to him. Yuan Shao heard about it and asked Dong Zhao to serve as the Taishou of Julu. Yuan Shao asked, "What method do you use to control them?" Dong Zhao replied: "With my own small strength, I can't dispel everyone's premeditation, I want to pretend to be in response to the contract, lure them to tell the truth, and then temporarily change power according to the specific situation to control them." Strategies can only be thought up on the fly, and there is no way to talk about them in advance. ”

At that time, dozens of people such as Sun Yan, a big family in Julu County, were the main planners, encouraging officials and ordinary people. When Dong Zhao arrived in the county, he forged a copy of Yuan Shao's document and told the whole county: "After getting the confession of the thieves' scouts An Ping and Zhang Ji, they will come to attack Julu, and the thief Fang Yuan Xiaolian Sun Yan and others will serve as internal responses, and this document will be transmitted to the county, that is, Sun Yan and others will be arrested and punished by military law, and only they will be punished, and their wives and children will not be sitting." In accordance with the accusations and orders of the text, Dong Zhao immediately beheaded Sun Yan and others. The whole county was panicked, and Dong Zhao comforted them one by one, so they all settled down. After the incident, Dong Zhao reported to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao praised it very much.

coincided with the fact that Li Pan, the Taishou of Wei County, was killed by soldiers, and Yuan Shao asked Dong Zhao to concurrently serve as the Taishou of Wei County. At that time, there was great order in the whole county, and the number of thieves was tens of thousands, and they sent envoys to and fro with each other to buy and sell. Dong Zhao attached great importance to this situation, looking for an opportunity to divide between them, and took advantage of their weak strength to send troops to conscript, and defeated the thieves. Three good news in two days.

Originally, Dong Zhao stayed well under Yuan Shao, but because his younger brother Dong visited Zhang Miao's army, after Yuan Shao and Zhang Miao had a conflict, Yuan Shao listened to slander and wanted to cure Dong Zhao's crime, so Dong Zhao broke away from Yuan Shao in the name of meeting Emperor Han Xian. However, Dong Zhao was stopped by Zhang Yang on the way, and was forced to become Zhang Yang's subordinate again.

【Helping Cao Cao move the capital】

In history, Cao Cao was able to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and finally moved the capital to Xuchang, and Dong Zhao was a very key figure among them.

At that time, Cao Cao wanted to contact the imperial court, and needed to pass through Zhang Yang's territory, Zhang Yang didn't want to borrow the road at first, but it was Dong Zhao who persuaded him, so Cao Cao's envoy could reach Chang'an, and Zhang Yang informed the court of Cao Cao's situation, and recommended Cao Cao. Dong Zhao also wrote letters on behalf of Cao Cao to various generals in Chang'an, such as Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, expressing courtesy and friendship according to their different positions. Zhang Yang also sent envoys to meet Cao Cao. Cao Cao gave Zhang Yang a horse gold silk, and since then he has had contacts with the western region.

Later, with the help of Zhang Yang, Emperor Xian came to Luoyang, and Dong Zhao also returned to the imperial court and did not go out with Zhang Yang again. At that time, Han Xian, Yang Feng, Dong Cheng and Zhang Yang and others in the imperial court had deep contradictions, Dong Zhao because Yang Feng had the strongest soldiers and horses and lacked external assistance, and wrote a letter in the name of Cao Cao to win over Yang Feng, which helped Cao Cao a lot, and afterwards Cao Cao served as the general of Zhendong, and also inherited his father's title and was promoted to the Marquis of Feiting.

So later, after Cao Cao listened to Xun Yu and others' advice to welcome the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, he quickly found Dong Zhao to negotiate with him, Dong Zhao told Cao Cao that he had to be an extraordinary person, to do extraordinary things, to deal with Yang Feng and others need to be temporarily paralyzed, find an excuse to drag on, and then quickly cut through the chaos and move the capital quickly.

Cao Cao followed Dong Zhao's advice, and achieved great success, the Son of Heaven and the imperial court in his hands, it can be said that without Dong Zhao's help, Cao Cao was not familiar with the place in Luoyang, wanted to move the capital, wanted to coerce the Son of Heaven and order the princes, unless the world directly sent troops, it was difficult to succeed.

[A lot of planning]

After returning to Cao Cao, Dong Zhao persuaded Xue Hong and Miao Shang to surrender, reminded Cao Cao to pay attention to Liu Bei, and persuaded Yuan Chunqing to surrender.

In the third year of Jian'an (198) (it should be 199), Dong Zhao's old proposition Yang was killed by his subordinate Yang Chou in order to support his friend Lu Bu's troops. After Cao Cao eliminated Lü Bu, he came to crusade against Zhenggu, when Zhang Yang's Changshi Xue Hong and Hanoi Taishou Miao were still guarding the city, Dong Zhao entered the city alone and persuaded them to surrender.

In the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Cao Cao sent Liu Bei to block Yuan Shu, Dong Zhao reminded Cao Cao that there might be a change, and Cao Cao said that he had promised Liu Bei. Afterwards, Liu Bei really rebelled.

In the ninth year of Jian'an (204), Cao Cao marched to besiege Yecheng. Yuan Shao's fellow clansman Yuan Chunqing was the Taishou of Wei County and was in the city, and his father Yuan Yuanchang lived in Yangzhou, and Cao Cao sent someone to pick him up. Dong Zhao wrote to Yuan Chunqing to persuade him to surrender, but it seemed that he did not succeed, and after the city was broken, Cao Cao took Dong Zhao as his counselor.

In the twelfth year of Jian'an (207), Cao Cao went on an expedition to Wuhuan, and it was difficult to transport grain, so under the suggestion of Dong Zhao, he dug the two canals of Pinglu and Quanzhou into the sea for transportation, and solved the problem of transporting grain. Cao Cao named Dong Zhao as the Marquis of Qianqiu Pavilion on the table, and turned to worship the air force sacrificial wine.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), Guan Yu besieged Fancheng, the momentum was strong, Sun Quan contacted Cao Cao in order to deal with Guan Yu, and asked Cao Cao to keep the strategy secret, the ministers all said that it should be kept secret, only Dong Zhao thought that it was necessary to keep it secret on the surface, but in fact he should leak the news to Cao Ren and Guan Yu, and then let Guan Yu and Sun Quan kill each other.

I personally think this matter is one of Dong Zhao's masterpieces in terms of strategy, which is enough to be black and hypocritical, and completely self-interested.

First of all, he promised to keep it secret on the surface, which not only showed the sincerity of cooperation, paralyzed Sun Quan, and ensured that Jiangdong would not have variables, and even if there was a problem afterwards, he could find an excuse to push it away; Secondly, leaking this secret can increase confidence and hope for Cao Ren and others guarding Fancheng, which will be of great benefit to their own side, for Guan Yu, even if he does not withdraw from the army, he will be suspicious, and the morale of the army will also be shaken, and this plus and one subtraction will have a great impact; In the end, Dong Zhao also calculated Guan Yu's thoughts, knowing that Guan Yu would hesitate, and it was unlikely that he would withdraw directly because of this.

So after Dong Zhao finished speaking, Cao Cao directly adopted his suggestion, and afterwards Xu Huang repelled Guan Yu, Sun Quan seized Jingzhou, and Dong Zhao made great contributions.

During this period, Dong Zhao successively served as Henan Yin, Jizhou Mu, Xuzhou Mu, Wei County Taishou and other positions, with many merits and was deeply valued by Cao Cao.

ps: To discuss history, we must first know history, for the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, moving the capital to Xuchang does not talk about Dong Zhao, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition does not talk about Cao Rui, Shu Han destroys the country without talking about Chen Ji, what else do you talk about the Three Kingdoms.

Note: Zhaoshu and Chunqing said: "Those who are filial do not betray their relatives to seek profit, the benevolent do not forget the king to favoritism, the aspirants do not explore the chaos to be lucky, and the wise do not go tricky to endanger themselves." Under the feet of the Maharaja, in the past, he took refuge in the interior, traveled to the south and traveled to the south, non-sparse flesh and blood, Lebi Wu Hui, the wise man knew deeply, and it was only appropriate to do so. Cao Gong was ashamed of his will and integrity, and he was outnumbered, so he sent a special envoy to Jiangdong, either to welcome or send, and now it will come. Let the foot be in a flat place, according to the lord of virtue and righteousness, live in the solidity of Mount Tai, as the puppet of Qiao Song, in righteous words, it is still appropriate to turn his back on this, and give up the people to enjoy the father. And Yi Yi's father began to form an alliance with the Yin Gong, Lu Renjia Zhi, but not the book, but the king did not die, the lord did not succeed, and the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period was also. Moreover, the one who is entrusted today is a country of danger, and the one who is received is the fate of falsehood? If you don't want to be with the group, and your father is not sympathetic, you can't talk about filial piety. Forgetting the dynasty where the ancestors lived, it is difficult to be loyal to the treacherous duties of An Feizheng. Loyalty and filial piety are both indescribable. In the past, he was courteous to Cao Gong, and he was born by the relatives of the family, and the royal family lived inside and outside, betrayed his confidant with evil spirits, and was close to death, abandoning righteousness and receiving great shame, not a pity for evil! If you can turn it over, serve the emperor's adoptive father, commit to Cao Gong, be loyal and filial piety, and be famous. It is advisable to stay deep and make a good decision as soon as possible. ”