Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu are the sons of the concubine of the former Sikong Yuan Feng. Although he is the eldest son of Yuan's generation, he was passed on to his uncle Yuan Cheng, who died young, after Yuan Feng's sister-in-law Yuan Shu was born. Therefore, although Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are actually brothers, in the name of the family, their relationship is cousins.

This succession is a great good thing for Yuan Shao.

After the succession, Yuan Shao first obtained the identity of Yuan Cheng's son-in-law and was qualified to inherit Yuan's estate. Although Yuan Cheng died early, he can be said to have accumulated skills during his lifetime, and the property left to Yuan Shao is as high as more than one billion yuan.

In this way, in the words of later generations, Yuan Shao has jumped from a "dick" to the "handsome and rich" of the entire Han Dynasty.

Yuan Shao, who has such excellent external conditions, did not develop in the direction of gentleness. As an outstanding figure in the younger generation, who is both civil and military, and acts steadily, Yuan Shao is not only loved by his biological father Yuan Feng, but also greatly admired by his uncle Yuan Kui. The strength of its limelight far overwhelmed his half-brother Yuan Shu.

With such a superior family background, Yuan Shao entered the palace as a Lang official early, and became the county magistrate of a county at the age of twenty, with a rank of 600 stones. With such a starting point, as long as there are no accidents, even if Yuan Shao is promoted step by step, around the age of thirty, it is enough to become two thousand stones. In this way, it is completely normal for him to become the next candidate for the "Three Princes" of the Yuan family in the future.

However, a marriage arranged by the family changed Yuan Shao's future. Yuan Shao also embarked on a dangerous path that was much more bumpy than the rest of the family.

Yuan Shao's wife is very famous, and she is the daughter of Li Ying, the leader of the party. This marriage was originally an arrangement for the Yuan family to express their closeness to the party. The result was a big surprise to the Yuan family.

Li Ying and Li Yuanli are famous all over the world, and are respected by tens of millions of students as "Li Yuanli, the world's model". People are proud to have been received by Li Ying and regard it as "climbing the dragon gate". Being able to become the son-in-law of such a character immediately made Yuan Shao famous all over the world and was regarded as the leader of the new generation of characters.

At that time, no one doubted that Yuan Shao could become the first person of the "Five Worlds and Three Dukes" of the Yuan family. Because it's just a matter of course.

Then, the evil "disaster of the party" came.

As the leader of the party, Li Ying naturally could not escape the persecution of eunuchs, and then died in prison. At this time, Yuan Shao, as Li Ying's son-in-law, naturally became the object of the eunuchs' attention. It was only because of Yuan's protection that the eunuchs did not attack Yuan Shao directly.

After all, Yuan Shao is a generation of heroes, and in the face of this sinister situation, he still holds his ground. Find an opportunity to get out. It just so happened that at this time, Yuan Shao's biological mother passed away, and Yuan Shao made a quick decision, abandoned the official and went home, and mourned for his biological mother for three years. Three years later, Yuan Shao still didn't dare to show up, and continued to keep filial piety for three years on the grounds that his "father" Yuan Cheng was mourning.

Don't think you're mourning for your parents. is a simple matter. You know, in the Han Dynasty. There are strict requirements for filial piety.

During the mourning period, Yuan Shao must "wear linen and filial piety", that is, wear linen clothes, coarse straw shoes and other mourning clothes. He also had to be "imprisoned", that is, his hair was scattered and his face was plastered. In addition, Yuan Shao has to keep a crutch at all times. This is also known as the "mourning stick", to show that he is so grieved that he no longer has the strength to stand up.

After such a toss, even if you look like Song Yu and look better than Pan An, you will look extremely miserable, only a small half like a person. More than half of them look like ghosts.

During the mourning period, Yuan Shao was not allowed to laugh, sing, listen to music, dance, bathe, go to work, invest, eat meat, drink, do what he "loved", and many other taboos.

If these taboos are violated, it is unfilial piety, a hypocrite, and mourning will be in vain. Therefore, some people hold banquets during the mourning period, some people's wives and concubines are pregnant during the mourning period, or even just do a small business for the sake of life, which will be severely condemned by public opinion.

If it ends up like this, it is better to be cheeky and apply to the court for a "love grab". (1) Anyway, they are all scolded, at least they can suffer less by being "taken away" by the imperial court.

Of course, Yuan Shao is a person with great perseverance, courage and endurance. Whether it was true or not, all in all, his performance during the mourning period was considered by other scholars to be extremely perfect, and he was a model for scholars.

Through the matter of "keeping filial piety for six years", Yuan Shao not only escaped the liquidation of the Han family and eunuchs, but also gained great prestige among scholars and party members.

In addition, Yuan Shao relied on the huge wealth in his hands to secretly and quietly fund those party members and young scholars who were in economic difficulties. Under the circumstance that the Qingliu party members were generally hit hard and the party was leaderless, Yuan Shao's prestige became even more and more inflated.

From then on, Yuan Shao no longer appeared in front of the world only as a son of the Yuan family, or as Li Ying's son-in-law. He became the spiritual leader of a new generation of scholars after Li Ying. The younger generation of scholars, once they talk about "Yuan Benchu", they all call it "Yuan Benchu, the world's model"!

He Jin couldn't directly win over the Runan Yuan family, but he could indirectly get involved with the Runan Yuan family through Yuan Shao. Even if Yuan Feng, the current patriarch of the Yuan clan, is unwilling to join forces with He Jin, Yuan Shao's status in the government and the opposition alone can already play a great role.

He Jin wants to win over Yuan Shao, why doesn't Yuan Shao want to use He Jin's power?

For the eunuchs who launched the "disaster of the party", Yuan Shao kept peace on the surface, but in his heart he wanted to kill all the "ten permanent servants"!

However, this idea is obviously too impulsive. Yuan Shao knew that the elders of the Yuan clan would never agree to such a risky activity, so he had to accumulate strength in private and wait for the opportunity.

In order to test, or to divide the relationship between the great general He Jin and the eunuchs, Yuan Shao specially asked his friend He Jin to join the shogunate of the general. As long as He Jin can realize that the eunuch has become his mortal enemy, Yuan Shao believes that this general, who is regarded as a "butcher" by the scholars, will definitely take the initiative to come to the door.

What, why is Yuan Shao so confident?

Think about the fate of the previous generals, such as Dou Wu, Liang Ji and others, don't you understand?

As long as He Jin is not a stupid person, Yuan Shao firmly believes that he will have to turn his face with the eunuchs sooner or later.

Therefore, after receiving the invitation from the general He Jin through He Yan, Yuan Shao, who has always been known as the "calm first", laughed three times in front of He Jin, and couldn't wait to prepare to visit the general's mansion.

Of course, before visiting, Yuan Shao had already conveyed his conditions, Tuo He, to the general.

Yuan Shao's conditions are very simple, that is:

- Kill castration!

There is no time limit for this request, and it is not unacceptable for He Jin. Therefore, the general thought about Yuan Shao's request for a while, and accepted it under He Shao's persuasion. Anyway, if there is no need to do it at that time, He Jinda can find countless reasons to shirk this matter.

Just when the court was disturbed by the suicide of Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, and the list of eight lieutenants in Xiyuan, the new lieutenant of the Chinese military academy, Yuan Shao, with Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy and Chun Yuqiong, the captain of the right colonel, visited the general's mansion together, and quietly went away among the well-informed or ill-informed courtiers.

All of a sudden, the situation in the court changed dramatically.

He Jin, the general who was obviously showing his inferiority, suddenly regained enough control over the government. As a result, incidents such as "Six Hundred Stone Captains Forced to Kill and Assassinate" quickly faded out of the topic of the Luoyang scholars. Instead, it is speculated why Yuan Shao joined forces with He Jin, the "butcher", and what was the purpose of the two sides joining forces......

Even in mid-September, Bingzhou Assassin Shi Dingyuan and Taihang Captain Zhang Qiang jointly wrote a letter, saying that they had completely quelled the rebellion of the Southern Xiongnu, and asked the imperial court to allocate enough money and food to help the civilians displaced by the war.

Regarding the indifference shown by the Luoyang court, Zhang Qiang naturally had already prepared in his heart. When the Han family finally allocated 30 million yuan and 10,000 miscellaneous grains as relief money and food in the Southern Xiongnu region, it was quite surprising that Zhang Qi was quite surprised. But, no matter what, it's always a good thing to have money and food delivered to you.

He stabbed Shi Ding Yuan in the state, but he knew very well why this time, the imperial court was able to allocate such a large amount of money and food to the remnants of the Yellow Turbans of the Taixing Army.

The reason is very simple, the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains once again began a large-scale rebellion.

In April of this year, the Yellow Turban Army of Gepi [the name of the ancient lake, in present-day Xincaibei, Henan] of Runan County rose again and conquered the county. In October, the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou and Xuzhou rose up again and attacked the counties.

In the face of these displaced people who were forced to have no way out by natural disasters, epidemics and famine again, the Han court was deeply involved in the Xiqiang war, and for a time, it was impossible to send reinforcements to Yuzhou. As a last resort, the Son of Heaven had no choice but to give an order to let each state and county form its own state and county soldiers to suppress the rebellion.

And the remnants of the Yellow Turban of Taihang Mountain, led by Zhang Madness, showed considerable combat effectiveness in the recent battle against the Huns. Therefore, the imperial court was very worried that the arrogant gang would also join the new round of rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army.

In view of this, the imperial court had to allocate some money and food to appease the Taixing army and weaken the rebellious heart of these Yellow Turban remnants.

At the same time, the Xiyuan New Army, which had just been formed, became the only mobile force that could be used in the hands of the imperial court. At the end of October, Bao Hong, the lieutenant of the Lower Military Academy, had to be sent out by the general to fight against the most powerful Gepi Yellow Turban, when the troops of the Xiyuan New Army had just been cobbled together and had not yet undergone effective training.

In addition, the Han family also directly removed the original Xuzhou Assassin who could not control the chaos in the state and questioned him, and decisively replaced Tao Qian, who was known for his wild and capable, as the assassin to suppress the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Qingzhou and Xuzhou. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) Winning love, also known as winning love, is an ancient Chinese etiquette.

Officials who were bereaved by their parents should abandon the official home system, called "Ding worry". After the completion of the service, the replacement will be carried out. At the end of the minister's funeral, the imperial court summoned him to take office, or ordered him not to abandon his official position, not to wear official clothes, to govern affairs, not to celebrate in advance, and to perform sacrifices and banquets by Zuo Er, which is called "seizing affection".