We read all the lead to present a different history.
Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, one from the world-famous "Runanyuan Clan", the other is the eunuch Cao Teng, in the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, both of them relied on their own talents to make a career.
In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Yuan Shao had become the most powerful prince in the late Han Dynasty, with a tiger in the land of four states and thousands of miles, with millions of people, and the world's Haojie Mo could stand out from the right. Cao Cao was mixed up in the wind and water, living in the land of four wars, serving the Son of Heaven to order not to be subordinate, and the banner was unfavorable to the direction, which can be said to be who I am except Yuan Shao.
However, it was also in this year that the situation reversed. At the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao with a weak victory and a reversal of offensive and defensive momentum. Two years later (202), Yuan Shao died of illness, and Cao Cao opened the road to pacify Hebei, capturing The city of Yicheng in 204, Pingding in Jizhou, in 205, Yuan Tan pingding Qingzhou, in 206 beheading Gaogan pingding and merging with The Prefecture, in 207 Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Kang beheaded Yuan Xi Yuan Shang, and the second Yuan was sent to Xudu. Since then, the "emperor dream" of the Yuan clan in Runan, has been completely destroyed, and the road of Cao Wei and The Han Dynasty has been opened.
The division of all this seems to have occurred in the Battle of Guandu in the fifth year of Jian'an (200), because in this battle Cao Cao was wise and divine, and he killed Yuan Shao's ambitions at Guandu with "ten victories" and "ten defeats", and since then Yuan Shao has been worse than a day, and Cao Cao has been better than a day. In fact, the real division is not in the earth-shattering battle of life and death, but in a seemingly inconspicuous disagreement in the second year of Chuping (191). Let's go back to 191, the actual watershed that determined Cao Yuan's future destiny.
The second year of Chuping (191) was the second year of Dong Zhuo's crusade, and in the first month of this year, Yuan Shao and Mu Hanfu of Jizhou made a decision no less than Dong Zhuo's abolition of the emperor - to depose Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian, and elect Liu Yu of Youzhou as emperor.
Yuan Shao's reasons for deposing the emperor were also "sufficient", first of all, Liu Xie was the emperor that Dong Zhuo forcibly supported, and the legitimacy was already questioned; second, Liu Xie was coerced by Dong Zhuo at a young age to be far away in Chang'an; and finally the emperor could win the hearts and minds of the people in Guandong and completely isolate the Chang'an court. Of course, the above is only a superficial reason, the real reason is that Yuan Shao had no way to take Dong Zhuo, so he had to break the can and break it. In the first year of Chuping (190), Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang of Hanoi Were defeated by Dong Zhuo at Xiaopingjin, and coupled with Cao Cao's defeat of Xingyang, the Kwantung coalition army was frightened by Dong Zhuo, and Yuan Shao knew that he could not destroy Dong Zhuo for a while and a half. The reason for supporting Liu Yu was nothing more than that the new jun was easy to grasp in his own hands, and then he could compete with the Chang'an imperial court. His purpose was not to think of the Han Dynasty at all, but to realize his ambitions.
Shao sent an emissary to Liu Yu and also asked the views of his allies, among which Yuan Shao's younger brother Yuan Shu openly opposed it, and Yuan Shu's performance can be described as "awe-inspiring righteousness", but it is a pity that Yuan Shu is duplicitous, and he wants to be emperor and cannot say that he can only pretend to be righteous and refuse. Compared with the hypocrisy of Yuan Shao's thin affection Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, who was later called "Han Thief", can be said to be loyal, Cao Cao resolutely opposed this kind of rebellious thing, explicitly rejected Yuan Shao, leaving behind the advice of "north of the kings, I am from the west".
The grass snake gray line, the pulse of thousands of miles, the difference in attitude towards the Han Xiandi is doomed to the two people to take a different path in the future. Yuan Shao, who only sought his own personal interests, abandoned Emperor Xian of Han and also abandoned his loyalty, and Yuan Shao embarked on the road of hegemony, but his spearhead was not aimed at Dong Zhuo, who had a vendetta against the door, but his once "like-minded" allies. After the failure to support Liu Yu, Yuan Shao also opened the road to hegemony. In this year, he captured Han Fu's Ji Prefecture and began to fight with Gongsun Zhan of Youzhou. In the years that followed, Yuan Shao attacked Zhang Yan and Liu Biao to attack Yuan Shu, supporting Cao Cao as his barrier, and finally in the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Gongsun Zhan became the most powerful prince of the late Han Dynasty, realizing his ambition of conquering the river in the south, blocking the Yan Dynasty and the desert in the north, and fighting for the world in the south.
After Cao Cao defeated Xingyang, he first went south to Yangzhou to recruit troops, and then occupied Yanzhou based on Dong Commandery. In the first year of Jian'an (196), when Yuan Shao hesitated, Cao Cao greeted Tianzi and began the road of coercing Tianzi to make the princes hegemonic. Cao Cao, who had the Son of Heaven, seemed to be hanging on, and when Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan were fighting bitterly in Hebei, Cao Cao took Zhang Xiu in the south, Destroyed Lü Bu in the east, and retired yuan shu in the south, and when Yuan Shao annexed Gongsun Zhan, Cao Cao occupied all the lands of Henan.
At the time of the initial crusade against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao was the Bohai Taishou and the leader of the alliance army, and he was powerful in the world, at that time Cao Cao was just a fugitive who was hunted down and killed by Dong Zhuo, and the only official position was yuan Shao's acting Fenwu general, and the status of the two could be described as a world apart. When the dong coalition army dispersed unhappily, Yuan Shao captured Han Fu's Ji prefecture in an instant, and his power began to develop toward Qingzhou and Hezhou, while Cao Cao was only Yuan Shao's Cousin of Dong Commandery Taishou, but Yuan Shao's vassal. By the time Emperor Xiandi was suffering from Li Daiguo's grief, Yuan Shao had already beaten Gongsun Zhan to death in the Yijing Building and did not dare to come out, while Cao Cao almost lost Yanzhou due to zhang's rebellion at Chen Palace.
However, all this was greatly reversed after Cao Cao was offered to emperor, and in just four years, he surrendered zhang Xiu, suppressed Lü Bu, and drove Yuan Shu to the land of Huainan, and the generals in Guanzhong looked forward to the wind and surrendered, it can be said that on the eve of the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's territory was not smaller than Yuan Shao's, and Cao Cao was no longer the weak person who relied on Yuan Shao's sniffles to survive. And the seed of this fruit was planted in 191. Cao Cao, who was loyal to the country, has always revived the Han Dynasty as his duty through hardships and dangers, from weak and small to strong, and the mistakes made by Yuan Shao finally tasted the evil consequences nine years later, Yuan Shao missed The Han XianDi again and again, the Han Xiandi who was abandoned by himself became the most advantageous weapon for his younger brother, perhaps until the moment when the head of the Second Yuan was sent to Xuchang, Yuan Shao, who knew underground, would understand: it was not he who abandoned the Han XianDi but he was abandoned by the Han Xiandi Emperor!