In history, Cao Cao was able to control the Son of Heaven in his hands, so as to break away from Yuan Shao's system, or it can be said that Yuan Shao did his own thing, because Yuan Shao had the opportunity to control the Son of Heaven earlier in history, but he finally sat back and watched the opportunity to lose in vain.

As early as the second year of Chuping (191), Fu Zhu had already taken the seizure of the Son of Heaven as an important goal in the "Jizhou Pair", which clearly stated that controlling Emperor Xian and using the name of the imperial court was the only way for Yuan Shao to seize the world.

In this regard, both Fu Zhi and Tian Feng have a deep understanding.

According to the "Jizhou Pair", Yuan Shao first wanted to unify the north, but this did not go very smoothly, although the two main enemies in the four northern states, Gongsun Zan and the Montenegrin army, had been defeated by Yuan Shao, but they were not eliminated, and they still posed a great threat to Yuan Shao.

On the other hand, when Fu Zhu proposed "Jizhou Pair", Dong Zhuo was still alive and well, so the imaginary enemy of Yuan Shao to seize the Son of Heaven at that time was naturally Dong Zhuo, but he didn't expect Dong Zhuo to be killed by Wang Yun, Lu Bu and others soon, and Wang Yun even had the opportunity to revive the Han family, but the army of Li Dao and Guo Yan finally extinguished all hopes.

Because the Xiliang Army led by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others also took Chang'an as their nest, so the impact on the "Jizhou Pair" in this aspect is not very great, after all, the Son of Heaven is still in the hands of the Xiliang Army, and the Xiliang Army has long been famous because of Dong Zhuo, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others also inherited Dong Zhuo's career, they not only had a low status, but also rebelled against the imperial court and killed Wang Yun, the minister of the court, whose reputation among the princes may be worse than Dong Zhuo.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven in their hands is the same as in Dong Zhuo's hands, and they can't really play a role.

On the contrary, after this trouble, it weakened the difficulty of Yuan Shao to seize the Son of Heaven, after all, the Xiliang Army under the leadership of Li, Guo and others was a plate of scattered sand, and the Xiliang Army under Dong Zhuo was the real Xiliang Army.

But in the second year of Xingping (195), the situation changed fundamentally, and there was a civil strife within the Xiliang army, Li Dao killed Fan Chou and fought with Guo Yan in Chang'an, and the Xiliang army began to fall apart, eventually leading to Emperor Xian's departure from Chang'an.

At this time, the difficulty of capturing the Xian Emperor had dropped to an all-time low.

The reason why the first strategy in the "Jizhou Pair" was to seize the north, on the one hand, Yuan Shao needed to have a stable rear, and on the other hand, because it was more difficult to seize the Son of Heaven at that time, and he needed to directly face the Xiliang army led by Dong Zhuo, and Yuan Shao could not do it without sufficient strength.

And now the situation has changed, and an opportunity to easily get the Son of Heaven and gain righteousness is in front of Yuan Shao.

At that time, he advised Yuan Shao: "The general has served as the prime minister of the imperial court for generations, and has assisted the country with loyalty and righteousness in successive generations." Now that the Son of Heaven is in exile and the temple is destroyed, looking at the states and counties, although they are outwardly branded as volunteers, but in their hearts they actually fight each other's ideas, so they have no intention of worrying about the country and the people. Moreover, the city of Jizhou is generally peaceful, the army is strong, the scholars are attached, go to the west to meet the emperor, take Ye County as the imperial palace, hold the Son of Heaven hostage and order the princes, raise soldiers and horses to crusade against those who do not worship the royal court, who can resist it? ”

Yuan Shao was already ready to listen to the strategy of the frustrated professor and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

But at this time, Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong intervened, they said: "The decline of the royal family of the Han Dynasty has been a long time. Isn't it too difficult to revitalize the royal family now? Besides, heroes rose at the same time, occupied their respective states and counties, and united to gather tens of thousands of disciples, which was the time when the so-called 'Qin lost its deer, and the king who won first'. Now that the Son of Heaven is coming, he will go to the book to read to the emperor at every turn, and if he obeys the order, he will lose his power, and if he does not obey, he will be charged with resisting the edict, which is not a good way. ”

Fu Zhu did not give up, and still persuaded bitterly: "It is morally reasonable and appropriate to take the Son of Heaven now, and it is appropriate in terms of timing. If you don't decide to do it first, someone else will meet you first. You can't afford to lose time in a change, and I hope you will consider it. Winning lies in losing no time, success cannot be too fast, I hope you can think more about it, general, and plan early. ”

According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", after Emperor Xian and hundreds of officials fled from Chang'an and settled in Anyi, Yuan Shao once sent his subordinate Guo Tu, a native of Yingchuan, to worship. It was Guo Tu who persuaded Yuan Shao to welcome Emperor Xian to Yecheng after he returned, instead of stopping Fu Zhu and urging Yuan Shao to refuse to welcome the Son of Heaven.

But in history, the relationship between Fu Zhu and Guo Tu has always been bad, and Guo Tu has been working against Fu Zhu every time, and Fu Zhu has long regarded welcoming the Son of Heaven as a core goal in "Jizhou Pair", so the authenticity of the relevant records in the "Three Kingdoms" is not very high.

Of course, it is not ruled out that Guo Tu may reverse his word after seeing that he wants to welcome the Son of Heaven.

In the end, Yuan Shao did not take the advice of Yingtianzi, and sat back and watched the Tianzi return to Luoyang, and was finally taken away by Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao did not choose to take the opportunity to control the Son of Heaven in the end, and the background of Emperor Xian has a lot to do with it, in history, Yuan Shao, as He Jin's main strategist, has been fighting against eunuchs and Dong, and Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie is the original King of Chen Liu, he is considered by his relatives Dong and eunuchs to be the next emperor, and the emperor's eldest son Liu Wei maintained by He and Shi Dafu is a direct competition, so Yuan Shao, as He Jin's faction, did not have much good impression of Liu Xie.

And Liu Xie was forcibly supported by Dong Zhuo, and Yuan Shao was completely opposed to this, and even hung up the seal and left, and Yuan Shao's attitude towards Liu Xie can also be seen from the later separate things.

Of course, what Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong said is also one of the reasons, but what the frustration said is that the Son of Heaven is coerced, can't Yuan Shao even control a puppet with no soldiers and no power?

Later, Cao Cao suppressed Yuan Shao in the name of the Son of Heaven, and successfully recovered the land in Henan, and even the prefectures and counties in Guanzhong also expressed their submission.

Although Yuan Shao finally took remedial measures, he wrote a letter hoping that Cao Cao could move the capital to Juancheng again, as Cao Cao's original base camp in Yanzhou, very close to Yuan Shao's Jizhou, if Yuan Shao needed it, he could recapture Emperor Xian at any time, even if he did not take it back, the imperial court would be quite jealous of Yuan Shao, so that it would no longer be unfavorable to Yuan Shao.

But Cao Cao was not stupid, and decisively rejected Yuan Shao's proposal.

Although Cao Cao's power has increased greatly because of the Son of Heaven, but due to the wars and disasters in the early stage, the territory under Cao Cao's command has been greatly hit, and the strength of Cao Cao's foundation is still far inferior to Yuan Shao's.

The duel between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao has just begun.