When it comes to the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many people immediately think of the three regimes of Wei Shu and Wu. Cao Cao coerced Tianzi to order the princes to occupy most of the border. Liu Bei first won Jingzhou, the belly of the Central Plains, and then got the land of the heavenly danger of Sichuan and Shu. Although Sun Quan inherited the ancestral inheritance at that time, Jiangdong was rich in ancient times, not to mention that there was also a Yangtze River graben, which could be attacked or defended. But many people forget that there is another country in the Northeast.
This country is the Liao kingdom created by Gongsun Du, who is Gongsun Du? He was born in 150 AD, the same generation as Cao Cao Liu Bei, and slightly older. From an early age, he followed his father Gongsun Yan and fled to Xuanju County.
At that time, Gongsun Bao, the son of Gongsun Bao, the son of Gongsun Ju, died prematurely at the age of 18. It was a coincidence that Gongsun Du was also called Gongsun Leopard when he was young and only later changed to Gongsun Du.
When Gongsun Du saw that Gongsun Du was a talented person, and he was similar to his son's age, he also loved Gongsun Du very much and even treated him as his own son, married his daughter-in-law for him, and gave him official duties.
In the second year of Jianning (169), the imperial court issued an edict to recommend talented people to the palace to serve, so Gongsun Du was promoted to serve as Shang Shulang, and in the first year of Chuping (190), because his compatriot Xu Rong was a general under Dong Zhuo, Gongsun Du was fortunate to be elected as the Taishou of Liaodong.
Gongsun Du only really unfolded his hands and feet after he arrived in Liaodong, coinciding with the great chaos in the Central Plains, all the princes of all walks of life rose up to fight against Dong Zhuo, and many People from the Central Plains came to Liaodong in order to avoid chaos, including some very well-known figures, such as Bing Yuan, Wang Lie, Guan Ning and others, many of whom had served under Gongsun Du.
Gongsun Du was also a very ambitious man, and he sent troops to conquer Goguryeo in the east and Karasuma in the west. Fame was once rumored at home and abroad, by 190 AD (the first year of Chuping), the Han Dynasty had already existed in name only, and Gongsun Du also began to plot to stand on his own, he named himself marquis of Liaodong and Pingzhou Mu, and built temples for the two ancestors, sacrificed heaven and earth, and sorted out military appearance. Divide Liaodong and look at the Central Plains.
Later, when Cao Cao threatened Tianzi to order the princes, in order to recruit Gongsun Du, he made him a general of Wuwei and was crowned Ning Xianhou. Who didn't know that this was to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, and then arrange for his own people to ascend to the throne of Liaodong, Gongsun Du naturally scoffed and discarded the handprint into the arsenal.
However, in 204 (the ninth year of Jian'an), Gongsun Du died, and his son Gongsun Kang Yingzhao succeeded him, but Gongsun Kang was a faction of Cao, and after the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was defeated. Cao Cao occupied most of the world. Yuan Shao's two sons, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, defected to Liaodong.
Gongsun Kang dared to take them in, so he killed the two and sent someone to collect them and send them to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was naturally very happy, and in the name of the imperial court, he created Gongsun Kangwei the General of Zuo, Marquis of Xiangping. Gongsun Kang occupied Liaodong in this way until his death in 209 AD, but the Central Plains were still infected by war.
After the deaths of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, zhuge liang and Sima Yi came to power again. Sima Yi was a ruthless character, and he only sent 40,000 soldiers and horses to destroy the Gongsun family in Liaodong Province. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that "Liaodong is in the east of the canghai sea, with millions of troops, and it is also used for Buyeo and Luyi." "The great power of the visible force is a force that should not be underestimated. As for why it is not listed as a fourth country, it may be the reason why it rarely appears on the battlefields of the Central Plains, what do you think about this?