As we all know, Cao Cao's power developed through the political strategy of "holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes", in fact, Yuan Shao, one of Cao Cao's main opponents, had a drier time to contact this idea, but he did not seize the precious opportunity given by heaven.
Cao Cao was surrounded by five major strategists, namely Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, and Xun You; yuan shao also had a number of think tank figures in Yuan Shao's account, such as Tian Feng, Frustrated Zhi, Zhen Bei, Xu You, Guo Tu, Feng Ji, etc., of which Feng Zhi was the first person in the Three Kingdoms to propose the strategy of "holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes".
In the second year of Xingping, that is, in 195 AD, when Emperor Xian of Han was in exile throughout Hedong, Frustrated Zhi suggested that Yuan Shao welcome Emperor Xian to the postal city controlled by Yuan Shi and order the princes in the name of the Son of Heaven, and Yuan Shao was also moved when he heard this. At this time, Yuan Shao's old companion and famous general Chun Yuqiong stood up and expressed his views, he believed that the Han Room was difficult to revive, and seeing the emperor coming would weaken the power of the Wanshao clique, Yuan Shao weighed the pros and cons according to his own ideas, and chose to give up the trump card of Emperor Xian of Han.
After Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Xian of Han to Xu Capital in 196 AD, he turned gorgeously in the blink of an eye, changing from a small prince who divided one side to a general under one person and above ten thousand people, and issued orders to Yuan Shao when he had nothing to do. Yuan Shao's power was far superior to Cao Cao's at that time, how could he swallow this breath?
So he sent someone to tell Cao Cao that Xu Du was low-lying and wet, and that the capital should be moved to Zhencheng in order to be close to the place where grain was abundant, but in fact he wanted to move the capital to a place closer to his own city of Yicheng and easy to control. However, Cao Cao did not give him face at all, not only refused, but also wrote a letter in the name of the emperor to rebuke him for having many soldiers and generals but refusing to serve the king, and specialized in private parties and repeatedly started wars. Yuan Shao knew that the emperor's holy will was Cao Cao's meaning, but there was nothing he could do.
Soon, Cao Cao sent an army to recruit Zhang Xiu, who had divided Wancheng, and Xu Du's emptiness could be taken advantage of, and Tian Feng judged the situation and offered his last skill to Wan Shao-"Since the plan to move the capital can no longer be realized, we should seize Xu Du as soon as possible and welcome the Son of Heaven, then we can also take the book as a name and order the four seas, this is the best policy." But at this time, Wan Shao was already sitting on the vast land of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Hezhou, and his mentality had also changed dramatically with the expansion of his territory--he was no longer satisfied with being a prince who dominated one side, the emperor dreamed of stirring in his heart, his reaction was completely unexpected by Tian Feng, and he resolutely refused to attack Xu Du after a little hesitation. Yuan Shao's ambition to become emperor was revealed day by day.
Previously, Yuan Shao would often send people to XuDu to pay tribute to Emperor Xian of Han to show his loyalty, but after having the idea of addicting the emperor, he paid tribute less and less. Just then, he received an "uninvited letter" from Huainan. The letter was written by his half-brother Yuan Shu, who occupied the Huainan region.
Although Wanshu and Wanshao are brothers of the same father, the former is the concubine born to the legitimate wife, and the latter is the concubine born to the little wife, just like Jia Baoyu and Jia Huan in "Dream of the Red Chamber". Therefore, Yuan Shu has always looked down on Yuan Shao and almost never interacted with him. Although The Tao of Wan Shao and Yuan Shu was different
Not conspiring with each other", but the mind that can be called lonely and widowed, and the old Yuan family's "Guangzong Yaozu" is surprisingly consistent, and Yuan Shu, as the concubine of Zhenggen, moved earlier and went further in this matter.
In 197 AD, Wanshu "luckily" obtained from Sun Ce the imperial jade seal used by Qin Shi Huang, so he took it for granted that he was the son of the true destiny, so he became the emperor in huainan, which was slightly larger than the land of bullets, and gave himself a rather personal name called "Zhongshi". Yuan Shu tossed and turned in Huainan for two years, making the people's livelihood withered, hungry everywhere, making himself infamous, rebelling against each other, and finally falling into the dilemma that he could not get some honey water. Before he died of vomiting blood, he remembered his half-brother Yuan Shao, who could inherit his "legacy", and only then did he have the "uninvited letter" in front of him.
What did Yuan Shu say in his letter? He actually changed his past disdain and contempt for Yuan Shao, and held up the son born of his little wife in his eyes to the heavens, he praised Yuan Shao for sitting in four states, millions of households, super strength, and noble virtue, and then expressed his willingness to give in to the emperor. Yuan Shao saw the letter from Wanshu and the idea of ascending the throne as emperor became more and more determined, so he found an opportunity to suggest that the master Geng Bao was looking for evidence of Fu Feng and Xiang Rui for himself as emperor.
When Geng Bao saw that the future Emperor Yuan had hinted at such a major "revolutionary" task to himself, he excitedly did not eat a good meal for several days, did not sleep well for several nights, and while dreaming of his future soaring yellow tengda, he made up his mind to slap a horse's ass fiercely, and selflessly threw himself into the "movement" of finding FuDuan. After some Zen painstaking efforts and "searching" for intestines and stomachs, Geng Bao "discovered" that the Yuan family was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan, which greatly increased Yuan Shao's status. Geng Bao also made further discoveries - according to the Five Elements Theory, the Yellow Emperor represented Tude, the Han Emperor represented Huode, and Tude happened to be the nemesis of Huode, so when the Han Dynasty declined, it was the time when the Yuan family, as a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, stubbornly rose and replaced it.
When Geng Bao reported his "Yuan's theory of being called emperor" to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao felt like he had lifted the clouds and ridden the fog under the influence of super horses, which was almost beautiful to the heavens, so he could not wait to publicize Geng Bao's major discoveries at the meeting of the military officials and subordinates with a foolish heart. Yuan Shao had originally expected that his subordinates would immediately fall in front of him in unison when they heard this, and the mountain shouted long live, but the result was completely unexpected by him, not only did they not express their support for Yuan Shao as emperor in unison, but most of them denounced Geng Bao's demon words to confuse the public and confuse the public, and they should be killed to follow suit.
Yuan Shao saw that his title of emperor was trying to offend the public anger, hurried down the slope of the donkey, and put all the responsibility on Geng Bao's body, so Geng Bao, who was super unlucky but also blamed himself, was pushed out and cut off his head indiscriminately. This is exactly what it is: there are risks in patting horses, and those who have reached out must be cautious, and those who have such good deeds in future generations may wish to learn some bloody lessons from this murder caused by patting horses. Thank you for paying attention to the small editor "Sun Moon Morning Cloud", your attention to like comments is the greatest support for me, thank you.