[Python] Three Kingdoms word frequency statistics

import jieba 
txt = open('C:/Users/eternal/Desktop/threekingdoms.txt','r',encoding='UTF-8').read() #modify the txt file encoding format in advance utf-8 
excludes = { 'General','but said','Jingzhou','two people','no','can't','so'} #wrong name 
words = jieba.lcut(txt) 
print(words) 
counts = {} 
for word in words: 
    if len(word) == 1: 
        continue 
    elif word == 'Zhuge Liang' or word == 'Kong Ming Yue': 
        rword = 'Kong Ming' 
    elif word == 'Guan Gong' or word == 'Cloud Chang' : 
        rword == 'Guan Yu' 
    elif word == 'Xuande' or word == 'Xuande Yue': 
        rword = 'Liu Bei' 
    elif word == 'Meng De' or word == 'Prime Minister':
        rword = '曹操'
    else:
        rword = word
    counts[rword] = counts.get(rword,0) + 1
for word in excludes:
    del counts[word]
items = list(counts.items())
items.sort(key=lambda x:x[1],reverse=True)
print(items)
for i in range(10):
    word,count = items[i]
    print('{0:<10}{1:>5}'.format(word,count))