As the saying goes, good brothers have one heart, and their profits are broken, and the necessity of brotherly concerted efforts is extremely expressed. On the contrary, "brothers against the wall and the wolf into the house" also shows that if the brothers are not in the same heart, they will suffer a great loss, and the son of Yuan Shao, the great warlord of the Three Kingdoms, will have the phenomenon of brothers turning against each other, and the final fate will be more tragic. Today, the small editor of interesting history will introduce the life history of Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan.
Yuan Tan (袁谭), courtesy name Xiansi, was a native of Ruyang County,Runan (present-day Shangshui, Henan). A political figure at the end of the Han Dynasty, the eldest son of the general Yuan Shao, he and his younger brother Yuan Shang were born to his second wife Lady Liu. Yuan Tan was supposed to succeed to the throne as the eldest son, but Yuan Shang was favored, and Yuan Shao, in order to solve the succession problem, passed Yuan Tan over to his brother Yuan Ji. After Yuan Shao captured the four prefectures of Hebei, he passed his Jiqingyou and sizhou territory to his three sons and one nephew. Among them, Yuan Tandu oversaw Qingzhou, Yuan Xidu over Youzhou, Gaogan Dandu oversaw and oversaw The Prefecture, and Yuan Shang remained in Yicheng to assist his father in governing Jizhou, which actually cut off Yuan Tan's inheritance.
Yuan Shao fell ill and died in the seventh year of Jian'an (i.e., 202 AD), and then Feng Ji, Zhen Pei, and others, fearing that After Yuan Tan ascended the throne, Xin Ping and others would harm themselves, so they pretended to be sent by Yuan Shao and supported Yuan Shang as their heir. Yuan Tan refused to accept it, so he called himself a general and stationed his troops in Liyang. This meant that the brothers broke off their relationship and began to fight each other on the battlefield.
In the same year, when Cao Cao heard that Yuan Shao was dead, he marched across the Yellow River to attack Yuan Tan, and Yuan Tan, who had very few troops, borrowed troops from Yuan Shang, and Yuan Shang, who was afraid that Yuan Tan would not return after getting the soldiers, stayed in trial and guarded Yi County, and led his army to assist Yuan Tan and confront Cao Cao at Liyang. In less than half a year, Cao Cao captured Liyang and marched into the city of Yi County. At this time, the great strategist Guo Jia offered Cao Cao a plan, hoping that he could postpone the plan to attack Yecheng in order to wait for the Yuan brothers to kill each other, and Cao Cao agreed. After seeing Cao Cao's retreat, Yuan Tan asked Yuan Shang for armor in order to pursue Cao Bing, but Yuan Shang did not agree due to suspicion, neither sending more troops to Yuan Tan nor changing the armor. Yuan Tan was furious and began to attack Yuan Shao, and the two sides fought at the outer city gate, yuan Tan was defeated, and led his troops back to Nanpi (南pi County, Cangzhou).
Then Yuan Shang attacked Yuan Tan in a big way, snatched Nanpi, yuan Tan retreated to the plains, and Yuan Tan, in order to eliminate his brother, formed an alliance with cao Cao, the number one enemy, to jointly fight against Yuan Shang. Cao Cao took the opportunity to have his son Cao Quan marry Yuan Tan's daughter as his daughter-in-law and marry Yuan Tan as his own family, and made Yuan Tan the Assassin of Qingzhou. He ordered a large army to attack Yuan Shang, and Yuan Shang immediately retreated back to rescue Yecheng.
When Yuan Shang and Cao Cao were fighting at Yecheng, Yuan Tan immediately rebelled, taking Ganling, Anping, Bohai, and Hejian slightly. Cao Cao learned of Yuan Tan's rebellion and reprimanded him and returned Yuan Tan's daughter. Soon after Cao Cao captured the city of Yicheng, he personally led a large army against Yuan Tan, who fled to Nanpi overnight. In the first month of the tenth year of Jian'an (205), Cao Cao's troops attacked Nanpi, and later Yuan Tan was captured and killed by Cao Cao's soldiers, at which time Cao Cao killed Guo Tu and others, killing their wives and children as well.
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