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Tian Yu
Tian Yu was a Chinese general and frontier official of the Cao Wei state during the Three Kingdoms period. As an officer on the northern frontier he dealt with the Wuhuan and Xianbei, and he is remembered for setting rival Xianbei chiefs against one another to contain the rising power of Kebineng. He later served in campaigns against the state of Wu.
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