Cao Cao is not only an outstanding politician and strategist, but also a brilliant romantic genius. He likes to express his political ambitions in poetry and reflects the sufferings of people's livelihood. He is a representative figure of Wei and Jin literature.
Because Cao Cao was gifted, Mr. Lu Xun rated him as "the founder of reforming articles". Not only that, Cao Cao is also proficient in calligraphy, and his works were rated as "wonderful works" by Zhang in the later Tang Dynasty.
Unfortunately, although Cao Cao was full of talents, he failed to unify the Three Kingdoms after all. Here we might as well imagine that if Cao Cao was born in another dynasty, could he unify the whole country?
First of all, let's learn about Cao Cao's achievements during the Three Kingdoms period.
Born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao fought all his life and defeated many princes and nomadic forces. It is worth mentioning that Cao Cao does not rely solely on force to fight, but more often wins with strategy.
In more than 50 wars, large and small, Cao Cao only suffered a single-digit fiasco, and in most cases Cao Cao won the war.
Cao Cao began to make a fortune in the second year of Chuping. In this year, he led the army to defeat the Huns entrenched in the eastern part of Luo Fu County. Therefore, Cao Cao was recommended by Yuan Shao as the prefect of East County.
In the second year, Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army expanded, and many counties and counties in Yanzhou were successively breached. Yanzhou secretariat Liu Dai was also hit by Qingzhou Yellow Scarf Army. At this time, Bao Xin of Jibei and others welcomed Cao as Yanzhou shepherd. Cao Cao defeated the Yellow Scarf Army with a series of tricks, so he was able to harvest more than 300,000 soldiers and more than one million people.
In the fourth year of Chuping, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu in Kuangting, and then led his army to conquer Tao Qian and more than ten cities in Xuzhou, which scared Tao Qian to stay in the city and dare not fight.
Then the battle between Cao Cao and Lu Bu failed. The cause of the incident was that when Cao Cao conquered Xuzhou, he killed many people along the way, so Chen Gong thought that Cao Cao was too cruel and bloodthirsty, so he went to Lu Bu with Juck Zhang, the brother of Zhang Miao and Zhang Miao.
At first, Cao Cao was defeated by Lyu3 bu4 cavalry, and even Cao Cao himself was accidentally burned, which was terrible.
However, Cao Cao is good at scheming, but Lu Bu is foolhardy. 195, Cao Cao organized an army to fight against Lu Bu again, and defeated Lu Bu's army with an ambush. After Yanzhou was pacified, Lu Bu also fled to Xuzhou.
In the third year of Jian 'an, Cao Cao moved eastward to Xuzhou and attacked his old enemy Lu Bu. Finally, Lu Bu betrayed Xu Wei and Song Xian. Lu Bu was captured and then executed.
The battle that laid the foundation for Cao Cao's unification of the north was the battle of Guandu. In this campaign, Cao Cao made full use of his strengths and avoided weaknesses, adopted correct strategies and tactics, and defeated Yuan Shao by winning more with less.
Cao won in the face of the ministers of the Central Plains, and he also showed great power in the struggle against nomadic people. In the twelfth year of Jian 'an, Cao Cao decided to go on an expedition to the Fifth Ring Road in order to completely solve the harm of the three counties.
In May of the same year, Cao Cao personally led the army to Wudong, during the rainy season, and the road was blocked by water. Cao Cao listened to Wu Dongtian Qiu's words and set off from a very remote path, heading straight for Liucheng, Wuhuan's lair.
Wu Huan was surprised to see the sudden arrival of Cao Cao's army, but it was in full swing at that time. Although Cao Cao unexpectedly came to Liucheng, the lair of Wuhuan, the situation was not optimistic.
Finally, Wu Huan's army was defeated, and Wu Huan Khan was beheaded by Cao Jun at Tatun. Cao Cao won a great victory, and Hu Han surrendered more than 200 thousand.
From this point of view, Cao's victory in the war with nomadic people is commendable. Let's go back to the question at the beginning. If Cao Cao was born in another dynasty, could he govern the country?
Cao Cao Can defeated Xiqiang, Xiongnu and Xianbei people, so if he was placed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, would it unify the whole country? Because during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the North was ruled by the Hu people, and the royal family was mostly Xianbei people, but Cao Cao was not afraid of these nomadic people at all.