Chapter 095: Tyrant Ranking
In the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, Dong Zhuo's brutality and inhumanity were well known, and the scale and number of Cao Cao's massacres were also astonishing.
【No.5 Sun Qi】
Sun Qi was good at killing important ministers, abolishing the king, and finally serving as the prime minister in history, which can be said to be a trumpet Dong Zhuo, and Chen Shou commented that he was "fierce and vertical".
In the first year of Wu Taiping (256), Sun Jun, the actual ruler of Wu State, died, and entrusted the great cause to Sun Qi, who was only twenty-six years old, and Sun Qi became the youngest auxiliary power in the history of the Three Kingdoms in one fell swoop, and may even be the youngest auxiliary power in Chinese history, controlling the core power of a country at the age of less than thirty.
After the rebellion of Zhuge of Wei State, Sun Qi led troops to support, and he forced Zhu Yi, the governor of Dadu, to death regardless of the specific situation, forcing the whole clan on the front line, resulting in the failure of the rescue. After returning to Jianye, he fell out with Sun Liang, who was already pro-government, and finally deposed Sun Liang in a coup d'état, and renamed Sun Xiu as the emperor, and he was able to officially serve as prime minister. In the end, Sun Qi was conspired by Sun Xiu to get rid of him.
【No.4 Gongsun Du】
Gongsun Du is an out-and-out overlord of Liaodong in history, one of the princes of one side, but his brutality was also very famous at the time, and Chen Shou commented that he was "cruel and unrestrained".
Soon after Gongsun Du served as the Taishou of Liaodong, in order to deter the disobedient family, he found an excuse to kill more than 100 people, including many wealthy families like Tian Shao's family. Li Min, the former Taishou of Hanoi, moved to the island because of his opposition to Gongsun Du, and was exterminated by Gongsun Du of the Li clan, and his father's grave was dug up.
On the other hand, Gongsun Du also has the heart of the emperor, he takes the Luan Road, Jiuhan, and the head of the feather rides, and the specifications have broken through the etiquette system, Cao Cao named him the Marquis of Yongning, and Gongsun Du also disdained it.
【No.3 Dong Zhuo】
Dong Zhuo was the most typical tyrant in the late Han Dynasty, his character was barbaric and ferocious, and his crimes were too numerous to write. Chen Shoudu believes that since there are written records, there has never been a person who can be more cruel and unkind than Dong Zhuo.
After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing and took power, he first forced the imperial court to let himself serve as Sikong, and then abolished the young emperor Liu Wei, and set up the emperor Liu Xie, and he was able to serve as a lieutenant and continue to be promoted to the prime minister.
After seizing power, Dong Zhuo began an extremely tyrannical rule. The emperor's inner palace soon became his personal harem, and the concubines and princesses could not escape his hands; In terms of military affairs, Dong Zhuo indulged his soldiers to rob on a large scale, and innocent people were even treated as enemies; Officials big and small are worried and scared every day, and Dong Zhuo himself directly banquets to kill people for fun; For his own clansman, Dong Zhuo was rewarded with a big reward, and the treatment was equivalent to that of the royal family; When the capital was moved to Chang'an, Dong Zhuo also carried out a large-scale purge of the big households in the city again, and also sent Lu Bu to dig graves, which was completely inhumane.
Dong Zhuo was defeated by Sun Jian, and after returning to Chang'an, he did not reflect, but became more unscrupulous, and he was simply promoted to Taishi, claiming to be Jiang Taigong, and also built the "Long Live Dock", which made a large number of shoddy and small money, which led to inflation and soaring prices in the Guanzhong area. In the end, even Dong Zhuo's righteous son Lu Bu was afraid, so Wang Yun conspired with him to assassinate Dong Zhuo.
【No.2 Cao Cao】
Compared with Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao is not a complete tyrant, he is able to rank second over Dong Zhuo, mainly for two reasons, first, Dong Zhuo has done most of the things Cao Cao has done, and the number of Cao Cao's massacres is far above Dong Zhuo, and second, Cao Cao has been in power for a long time than Dong Zhuo, and the exploitation of the people he implemented is too cruel, and the impact is not comparable to Dong Zhuo, who has been in power for a short time.
In history, Dong Zhuo killed the warriors, killed the bureaucrats, slaughtered the people, and killed the soldiers, all of which Cao Cao had also done, and the scale was larger than Dong Zhuo. In order to avenge his father, Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou twice, and the basic blood flowed into a river, and before Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou, Xuzhou could be regarded as a paradise in the late Han Dynasty, with a considerable number of scholars and people moving to Xuzhou, Cao Cao came and did not say it, and later Cao Cao crusaded against Lu Bu and slaughtered Pengcheng, which was equal to three slaughters of Xuzhou. In addition, after the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao also killed 70,000 or 80,000 Yuan soldiers, and there are records that Cao Cao slaughtered Yongcheng after defeating Yuan Shang in the ninth year of Jian'an, slaughtered Liucheng in the 12th year of Jian'an's northern expedition, and slaughtered Hechi in the 20th year of Jian'an's western expedition and so on.
In terms of treating the scholars, Cao Cao also killed Kong Rong, Bian Rang, Lou Gui, Cui Yan and others, the most unbearable was the rebellion of Ji Miao and Wei Huang that year, Cao Cao directly executed many ministers in Xuchang for the reason of rebellion against firefighters.
Dong Zhuo is indeed a very typical and very brutal monarch, but because of this, Dong Zhuo has not been in power for a long time, only about two or three years, so many of Dong Zhuo's policies have a very short period of time, and the geographical scope of influence is also limited.
Different from Juntun, Mintun has almost no geographical restrictions, so Cao Wei can later develop Mintun in various places, and later the tun has even become the same administrative unit as the county and township, and Cao Wei is too small compared to the scale of Shu Han, a large part of the people on Sun Wu's side are Shanyue, only Cao Wei is large, the most influential, and the most serious exploitation of ordinary people.
Personally, I think that Cao Cao is okay with the scale and number of massacres, as well as the long-term and large-scale tyranny of Mintun, surpassing Dong Zhuo and ranking second among tyrants.
[No.1 Sun Hao]
In history, Sun Hao is not as ferocious as Dong Zhuo, he has not been in power for as long as Cao Cao, and his popularity is completely incomparable with these two, so why is Sun Hao ranked first?
First of all, Sun Hao is different from Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao, he is the real emperor, and he is just not as brutal as Dong Zhuo, or the degree of brutality is only inferior to Dong Zhuo at that time, and he is also a very typical tyrant, and his reign is much longer than Dong Zhuo, Sun Hao has been in power for about fifteen years, but he is not as good as Cao Cao, but he himself is much more murderous than Cao Cao, so on the whole, I ranked Sun Hao first.
After Sun Hao succeeded to the throne, he basically immediately showed his true colors, he persecuted the ministers who supported him, Pu Yangxing and Zhang Bu, and the two eldest sons of the previous emperor Sun Xiu, and forced the Jing Empress Zhu to kill. During Sun Hao's reign, the courtiers lived in fear, when the upright and fair ministers did not end, the treacherous and flattering villain still did not end well, Sun Hao was caught and killed whom, as a tyrant, Sun Hao was very responsible, peeling people's faces, or gouging out people's eyes It is said that Sun Hao has also done a lot.