Compared with Sun Quan and Liu Bei and others, there is no doubt that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao and others are closer to dominating the world and completing the great cause.

[Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Rui]

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui all had the opportunity to dominate the world, among which the three ancestors and grandsons of the Cao family had a greater chance, and Yuan Shao's territory and power at the peak of his year could not be compared with Cao Wei in the future.

Yuan Shao was one of the strongest princes before the battle of Guandu, he seized Jizhou from Han Fu, and also got the top strategist Fu Zhi, Fu Zhu appeared as soon as Yuan Shao determined the future development policy, first to expand the territory to unify the north, and then to seize the Son of Heaven to occupy the righteousness, the "Jizhou pair" can be said to be the earliest teacher. Although later people are not as good as heaven, I didn't expect Dong Zhuo to kneel so quickly, and the time to compete for Emperor Xian was greatly advanced, and Fu Zhu also changed his plan to persuade Yuan Shao to do it to Emperor Xian as soon as possible, but unfortunately Yuan Shao didn't listen, and sat back and watched Cao Cao move the capital to Xuchang to become bigger.

In the later Yuan Cao dispute, although Yuan Shao had the upper hand because of the weakness of Cao Cao's forces, he repeatedly did not listen to the advice of outstanding and honest strategists such as Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, but believed in Guo Tu and other villains, which led to the fiasco of Guandu and the great loss of strength.

Cao Cao in the elimination of Yuan, and then south to pacify Jingzhou, at this time Cao Cao can be said to be only one step away from the domination of the world, in the south of Jingzhou's geographical location is very critical, it is located in the middle of the four southern states, east of Yangzhou (Jiangdong Sun), west of Yizhou (Shu Liu Zhang), south of Jiaozhou, as long as Cao Cao can hold Jingzhou, then he dominates the world is inevitable. Why, judging from the situation at that time, the princes of Jiaozhou, Liaodong, Guanzhong and Liangzhou were actually subservient to Xuchang, and Cao Cao's main opponents were only Sun Quan and Liu Zhang, the two princes, as long as Cao Cao occupied Jingzhou and held Jingzhou, Sun Quan and Liu Zhang were lambs to the slaughter, Jiangdong needless to say, it was surrounded on three sides, only the east side could jump into the sea, and Liu Zhang's weakness in Yizhou could not pose much of a threat.

However, Cao Cao had to look at Shu, did not listen to Jia Xu's advice and forcibly went south to the south in an attempt to take the opportunity to make persistent efforts to eliminate Jiangdong, but he was defeated in the Battle of Chibi, and the naval army was basically wiped out, and later Zhou Yu and others conquered Jiangling, and Cao Wei's forces were expelled from the south of the Yangtze River, and most of Jingzhou was vomited. Later, Cao Cao once occupied Hanzhong and had the opportunity to go south to pacify Shu, but Cao Cao may have decided to wait for Shu because of the shadow of the Battle of Chibi, and sat back and watched the opportunity to lose.

Compared with his father Cao Cao, Cao Pi also has the opportunity to dominate the world, Cao Pi as the founder of the Cao Wei Empire, he has a strong luck, when he came to power, it happened to be the period of Wu Shu break, at this time the southern inner bar, it is the opportunity to expand the results of the war, but Cao Pi did not follow the advice of Wang Lang and others to help Sun Quan crusade against Liu Bei during the battle of Yiling, nor did he follow the advice of Liu Ye and others to take the opportunity to attack Sun Quan, but watched to the end, was played by Sun Quan, and then the three southern expeditions were fruitless, and he died.

When Cao Rui succeeded to the throne, Cao Wei no longer had the luck of the Cao Pi period, but the national strength was still there, Cao Rui as a generation of Ming lords, successfully resisted the attack of Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang and others, pacified Liaodong, and survived this difficult period, compared to Sun Quan, Cao Rui was much younger at that time, but Cao Rui may have overindulged in lust and died prematurely, if Cao Rui takes care of his body, lives for twenty or thirty more years, and maintains the stability of Wei, at least he can see the turmoil in Jiangdong and take the opportunity to expand his territory, It is not impossible to even eliminate Sun Wu, as soon as Sun Wu is destroyed, Shu Han will follow his path sooner or later.

[Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, Wang Yun]

Compared with Yuan, Cao and others, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, Wang Yun and others all have the opportunity to dominate the central government and seize the great cause. Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang in history when the rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants and the defeat of the eunuchs and relatives were both defeated, and he was able to control the Son of Heaven and the government, and actually became the ruler of the Han Dynasty.

However, Dong Zhuo himself was too brutal, and he appointed party members who were not in harmony with him, and also abolished the king, and was attacked by the princes of the world, among which the main ones were basically the party faction appointed by Dong Zhuo himself earlier, Dong Zhuo had the upper hand in the early battle, but was later defeated by Sun Jian, and lost the old capital Luoyang, and was later assassinated by Wang Yun and his son Lu Bu, and the dream of the great cause was shattered.

In history, Yuan Shu also had the opportunity to dominate the central government, although Yuan Shu participated in the anti-Dong coalition army, he was very prescient and did not unite his brother Yuan Shao, nor did he go to the sour jujube alliance, but waited for Sun Jian to come and stand out from the crowd. Later, Sun Jian was unable to fight again due to Yuan Shao's lack of food, and the sour jujube coalition was disbanded, three battles and three victories, defeated Lu Bu, defeated Dong Zhuo, and recaptured Luoyang, Yuan Shu, Sun Jian and others could have taken advantage of the situation to go further, and even attacked Guanzhong, entered Chang'an, eliminated Dong Zhuo, and recaptured the Son of Heaven, but Yuan Shao sent Zhou Ang to attack Sun Jian's rear at this time, which made Yuan Shu and Sun Jian forced to interrupt the offensive against Dong Zhuo. If Yuan Shao hadn't dragged his younger brother back in history, and Sun Jian had gone on to conquer Chang'an and recapture the Son of Heaven, Yuan Shu, as a member of the anti-Dong coalition army, could also justifiably take charge of the center.

Wang Yun, as one of the important ministers of the Han family, also had a chance to revive the Han family after removing Dong Zhuo, but after Wang Yun took power, he was too upright and pedantic, and he still failed to deal with the relevant problems in the case of the death of the big head Zhonglang in the Xiliang Army, and was finally killed by Li Dao and others, and the revival of the Han family became a dream for only one month.

At the beginning of the late Han Dynasty, the authority of the Han family was still there, so if Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu and Wang Yun and others occupied the central government and had great righteousness, they still had a great chance to achieve great things with the majesty of the Han family, but unfortunately Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun failed to grasp the opportunity, and Yuan Shu simply lost the opportunity because of his brother Yuan Shao.

【Other Princes】

During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the above-mentioned princes, including Liu Bei and Sun Quan, they were quite far away from the great cause.

For example, Liu Bei, he wanted to restore the Han dynasty and dominate the world, so he could only take the Longzhong route, but unfortunately in history, because Liu Bei failed to deal with the relationship with Sun Quan, the later Shu Han deviated too far from the planning policy of Longzhong, and when Zhuge Liang took power, Shu Han wanted to unify the hope that there was only a theoretical possibility.

One of the key points is that Sun Quan wants to seize Jingzhou before Cao Cao, but in history, Sun Quan eliminated Huang Zu, Cao Cao has already gone south, and the Jiangdong group was forced to change its policy and join forces with Liu Bei to fight against Cao Cao.

Not to mention the rest of Liu Biao, Liu Yan, Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian, Lu Bu and others.