As a general, Li Shimin is very good at fighting. He successively won in Chang 'an, defeated the separatist forces such as Du Jiande and Wang, and defeated the Turks. His martial arts can be said to be excellent. Cao Cao also defeated Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Ma Chao, Liaodong and other forces to pacify the north. But why didn't Li Shimin see Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi? It can be seen that Li Shimin said that Cao Cao has room for wisdom, which is not in line with historical facts.
Speaking of supremacy, this is not enough. Li Shimin was right. Cao Cao's situation at that time was just holding the emperor as a minister. On the surface, this is not a universal ride, but it is actually a universal ride. It's just that he didn't openly become emperor. This is because the Han family didn't mistreat the people all over the world, but because the local strongmen at the end of the Han dynasty separated themselves. /kloc-Li Shimin, who opposed the Sui Dynasty at the age of 0/8, believed that the tyranny of the Sui Dynasty caused people's suffering. The purpose of uprisings in various places is to directly target the imperial court, and the goal is to intercept the bad king Yang Guang. Without virtue, the Sui Dynasty declined. It is inevitable and reasonable for Li Shimin to replace it, or for other countries to replace it. There is no question of Cao Cao usurping Han's independence. His Li clique committed the national policy of hanging the people and carrying out revolution, which is just. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty in Li Shimin, the tax burden was lightened and the land equalization system was implemented. Land equalization system is a system of distributing land according to population. Some land belongs to it after a certain number of years of farming, and some land is returned to the government after its death. Isn't this system the slogan of the peasant uprising? Li Shimin turned this slogan into reality.
Cao Cao is a warlord and represents a powerful force in a place. Even if he is in power, he will still safeguard the interests of his powerful people, that is, the interests of his hometown Xuchang. If the problem of land property rights is not solved, it will not be the master of the world. We can see that after the Jin Dynasty replaced the short-lived Wei State, the problem of strongmen remained unresolved and the Jin Dynasty was still in a state of war. Forced to cross south, called the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Entering the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people's lives were difficult and unstable at this time. Until the Sui Dynasty unified the whole country, the Tang Dynasty soon replaced the Sui Dynasty. Only in the Tang Dynasty did the land problem get a good solution nationwide. In this way, Li Shimin began the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty.
In this sense, Li Shimin is indeed a great king, better than Cao Cao.