Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were both sons of Yuan Feng at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Yuan Shao was older, but his mother was a lowly maid of low status and belonged to Shu Chu. Yuan Shu is a few years younger, but he is born of the eldest wife that Ming Media is marrying, which in ancient times, it will inherit all the family business in the future, so Yuan Shu looks down on his elder brother Yuan Shao.
The two brothers' families, the famous Runan's Yuan clan, sat in the top position among the scholar groups in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Yuan family, known as the "Four Dynasties and Three Dukes". The Three Dukes of the Eastern Han Dynasty were the highest-ranking officials of the three countries: Sikong, Situ, and Taiwei. That is to say, the old Yuan family has been in four consecutive generations, and some people have achieved the top high position of the three dukes.
According to this calculation, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were proper officials of the fifth generation, born to win at the starting line, the family's personal resources, prestige, and strength, throwing out a large section of Cao Cao after being ridiculed as a eunuch, not to mention Lü Bu, who frequently had to kill gan dad to ascend to the throne, and Liu Bei, who cried and shouted all day that there was no innate inheritance.
However, from the perspective of subsequent historical trends, it is not Yuan Shu who enjoys most of the family resources.
On the contrary, Yuan Shao, whether it is the territory, the momentum, the number of troops, or the comprehensive quality of the talent team, must exceed Yuan Shu by a large margin.
The reason for this anomaly is mainly related to the chaotic situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Yuan Shao's innate weakness lies in the fact that he is Shu Chu.
But this fatal gap was soon smoothed out in the internal operation of the Yuan family.
Yuan Shao's father had three brothers, namely the eldest Yuan An, the second yuan Feng, and the third Yuan Kui, of which the eldest Yuan An died early and did not have time to leave offspring. In order to continue the incense of Yuan An's descendants, Yuan Shao, who was born out, was passed over to the name of Uncle Da.
It is equivalent to saying that Yuan Shao is already Yuan An's son in terms of patriarchy. Between him and Yuan Shu, he also changed from a half-brother to a cousin relationship with a different father.
Heirs are entitled to inherit the property and titles of their adoptive father's family.
For example, Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was the adopted son of the eunuch Cao Teng. Although Cao Cao's reputation after carrying a eunuch from below was not very good, because of Cao Teng's relationship, he was early mixed into the high-level circle of the imperial capital Luoyang, and came into contact with top powerful figures such as He Jin and Yuan Shao, and even the imperial palace was often in and out.
Drawing on Cao Cao's family relationship, Yuan Shao's status was suddenly raised!
Because Yuan An is the eldest son of the fourth generation of the Yuan family, if it were not for the fact that he died too early, it is common sense to inherit most of the yuan family's property, and it is also very likely that he will be more expensive than the second yuan feng.
In this way, Yuan Feng's Yuan Shu was instead overwhelmed by Yuan Shao, who was "concubined" by Yuan An!!!
Since Yuan Shao had already leveled the gap between yuan shu and Yuan Shu due to the relationship between concubines and concubines, then who owned the resources of the Yuan family depended on who was stronger first.
It is precisely in this regard that Yuan Shao has obvious advantages.
Just after he arrived at the uncle's house, Yuan Shao insisted on giving his "father" Yuan An Shouxiao a full 6 years.
Such a move, in the eyes of our modern people, is simply a waste of youth and a waste of life. But in that era, this was the key to influencing a person's career.
Yuan Shao was not stupid, he calculated that he would meet the criteria for selecting officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the Han Dynasty, the system of electing officials was called the inspection system, and one of the important indicators was to examine whether candidates were filial to their parents and obedient to their brothers, and the official name was called "filial piety and honesty".
The so-called "Holy Pilgrimage ruled the world with filial piety"!
Even the titles of emperors or princes deliberately carry a filial piety character, such as the Han Jing Emperor called Xiaojing Emperor, and his younger brother, Liu Wu, the Liang King who had made great contributions during the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, was also called Liang Xiaowang.
Therefore, Yuan Shao's 6-year move to keep filial piety is very much in line with the characteristics of the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The practice of keeping filial piety reveals two messages to the outside world:
One is that Yuan Shao officially presented himself as Yuan An's son and became the head of the family.
Another, the good personality of creating filial piety and virtuous grandchildren, spreading in all four townships and eight miles, can also create excellent social public opinion for themselves.
The effect is also very obvious, that is, the rapid expansion of the circle of friends.
Not to mention that He Yong, Xu You, Cao Cao and other young people who hunted together in the field, with Yuan Shao's Meng Yujun model, he spread wealth generously, lixian corporal, and guangna disciples, which really sowed the seeds of friendship for the talent team of the Hebei Group in the future.
Yuan Shu, on the other hand, seems a bit silent in these aspects.
I don't know if it's because of Yuan Shu, there is also an old father Yuan Feng, who has not yet reached the point of being a second room talker. Or because later when the group was divided, the fame was not as great as Yuan Shao,so it occupied less space in the history books.
In short, the top stream of the fifth generation of the Yuan family has always been Yuan Shao.
After his debut, Yuan Shao, because of his family relationship, successfully entered the shogunate of the great general He Jin. At the same time, Yuan Shu was also recruited under He Jin and held an important position as the general of the Tiger Ben Zhonglang.
But compared with the two brothers, Yuan Shao did more brilliantly in two things:
The first is the bloodbath of eunuch forces.
After the death of Emperor Ling of Han, the eunuchs supported Liu Xie the Prince of Chenliu, and He Jin's nephew was none other than the crown prince Liu Xie. Therefore, with the support of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others, He Jin opened the way with force and preemptively pushed Liu Wei to the throne. But a few days after the stable days, the eunuchs set up an ambush in the palace and cut off He Jin's head.
At the critical moment, it was Yuan Shao's troops who made a beautiful counterattack and eradicated the eunuch forces!
The eunuch clique, represented by Yuan Shao, fought back and forth in the political situation in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, and had already accumulated a deep resentment. Yuan Shao's move to kill the eunuch undoubtedly made him establish a very high prestige in front of the warriors under the heavens.
The second place where Yuan Shaoban shines is Dong Zhuo.
After the northwestern warlord Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, he was anxious to reshuffle the political situation in Kyoto in his favor by deposing the emperor. In order to achieve this goal, Dong Zhuo even used armed intimidation, threatening:
"Won't the world decide me?" Who dares not follow me now? Er said that Dong Zhuo knife is unfavorable! ”
Yuan Shao was tit-for-tat, pulling out his saber and uttering harsh words:
"The world's strongest people, is it only Dong Gong?"
Then he rushed out of Luoyang and went to Hebei to pull up the team.
This was the highest moment in Yuan Shao's life, and it was also the moment when his personality charm exploded.
Later, the Kwantung Coalition army attacked Dong Zhuo, and the reason why various people and horses elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance was not only his background of the fourth and third dukes, but also inseparable from his hawkish stance of daring to draw a sword against Dong Zhuo when he was in Luoyang.
Yuan Shu, roughly the same time as Yuan Shao, left Luoyang and went outside to pull the team. However, the movement of the toss is not as big as Yuan Shao, and the attraction to talents is naturally not as good as Yuan Shao.
At this time, Yuan Shao, the strategists were frustrated, Tian Feng, Xu You, Feng Ji, and Guo Tu, and the military generals were Yan Liang, Wen Ugly, Zhang Guo, and Gao Lan, showing a strong momentum of "Wen Chen is like a forest, and a fierce general is like rain".
Coupled with Yuan Shao's clique, it successively annexed Hebei, Hebei, Qing, You, and the surrounding areas, and the territory and military strength were in the first position of the princes.
Looking at the Yuan Shu team, Ji Ling, Yang Hong, Yan Xiang, Zhang Xun, QiaoRui, as well as Sun Jian and Sun Ce, sun Jian's father and son can get their hands on it.
But what kind of attitude does Yuan Shu have in handling his relationship with Sun Jian?
During the crusade against Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian fought smoothly all the way in the early stages. Let's not comment on Sun Jian's motives for the time being, whether it is to compete for credit, from the perspective of the overall situation of the coalition forces against Dong Zhuo, and fight a war! Rewards that should have been meritorious, penalties for losing battles.
Even from Yuan Shu's private point of view, Dong Zhuo slaughtered Yuan Kui's entire family who remained in Luoyang in order to guard against Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and Sun Jian attacked Dong Zhuo, was not he also avenging the Yuan family?
However, in public and private, Yuan Shu did not pay attention to it.
What he feared was that Sun Jian was arrogant and arrogant, out of his control, so he deliberately delayed the grain sent to Sun Jian's army. The consequence of this was to lead to the rout of Sun Jian's forces, which in turn affected the advance of the entire Kwantung Alliance.
Such a drag, even the leader of the black hand behind the back, the talent with a slightly clearer head, will definitely not join.
In addition, the reason why Yuan Shao's Wenchen military general team is stronger than Yuan Shu's camp is that the talents are optimistic about Yuan Shao's prospects.
Yuan Shao's strategy of occupying Hebei and looking at the south did have a precedent for successful unification in previous history, that is, Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu.
At the beginning, Liu Xiu broke away from the original regime, ran to Hebei in poverty, and took advantage of the turmoil in the south when chimei, green forest and other forces were competing with each other, and timely integrated the forces of the powerful clans in Hebei, and then established the Eastern Han dynasty.
Compared with the two, Yuan Shao and Liu Xiu, too similar!
As a result, Yuan Shao's group snowballed, and there were constantly talents coming to join.
The success of Yuan Shao's talent strategy in the early stages was not only the operation of public opinion, but also the addition of the turbulent situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Stranded today, it is definitely a big V of traffic, which can attract a large wave of fans.
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