Cao Cao to Jizhou on the way to the army, Yuan Tan with Lü Kuang Lü Xiang two brothers to surrender, Cao Cao is naturally very happy, quasi surrender, but also plans to give his daughter Xu to Yuan Tan as a wife, Yuan Tan is of course also very happy, the 94 version of CCTV's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has changed the original work, Yuan Tan surrendered to Cao Cao, kneeling on the ground, Cao Cao did not say that he married his daughter to him, even did not pay much attention to Yuan Tan, the expression is very indifferent, but the two brothers behind Yuan Tan are very interested, directly named them as marquises, Cao Cao said directly: You are two brothers, and you still know the blood and bones of the Yuan clan, and you cannot bear to let his brothers kill each other, and now you are crowned as a marquis. Film and television adaptations are still relatively successful. In fact, to a certain extent, it reflects Cao Cao's inner thoughts.
It was impossible for Cao Cao to really marry his daughter to Yuan Tan, and Yuan Tan's adviser Guo Tu also understood that Cao Cao was not really kind to Yuan Tan, and he just wanted to use Yuan Tan to beat Yuan Shao. Guo Tu guessed correctly, Cao Cao would not really treat Yuan Tan. But what Guo Tu did not expect was that he did not understand what kind of person Cao Cao was, although Cao Cao was a traitor, but Cao Cao also had his own bottom line in doing things, in Cao Cao's heart, he also thought that some things could be done, some things could not be done, such as cannibalism, cao Cao was resolutely opposed, and now Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's two brothers were fighting for power and land, making a lot of trouble, even Cao Cao was a bit unable to look down on them, he looked down on these two brothers from the bottom of his heart. This also gave Cao Cao a wake-up call: Yuan Shao's abolition of Chang Liyou was a big mistake. Therefore, later, when he established the world, he did not establish his beloved Cao Zhi, but the eldest son Cao Pi, which also had something to do with this.
Cao Cao's appointment of the two brothers Lü Kuang and Lü Xiang as marquises was actually done for Yuan Tan to see: You see for yourself, the two brothers were originally sent by Yuan Shang to kill you Yuan Tan, but they could not bear your brothers to kill, so they surrendered to you Yuan Tan, and what did you Yuan brothers do, not only did they not love each other and unite with each other, but instead killed each other in order to compete for power and territory, don't you feel ashamed? Cao Cao had some things that did not need to be said in front of Yuan Tan,but he had already made his position clear to Lü Kuang and Lü Xiang's two brothers. What made Cao Cao even more ashamed was that this Yuan Tan had just surrendered, so he couldn't wait to ask Cao Cao when he would attack Jizhou, in other words, he wanted his brother Yuan Shang to die early, and Cao Cao would definitely think in his heart: What kind of person is this boy and his wife! Coupled with the fact that Yuan Tan listened to Guo Tu's suggestion and wanted to unite Lü Kuang and Lü Xiang as an internal response in order to plot Against Cao Cao in the future, and Lü Kuang Lü Xiang came to tell Cao Cao about Yuan Tan's private engraving of the general's seal, Cao Cao of course understood Yuan Tan's intentions, and from then on he had the heart to kill Yuan Tan.