Chapter 379: Yuan Shao

"There is a saying in Chinese history, called the winner is king, the loser is Kou, Yuan Shao is a good embodiment of this, now for Yuan Shao, many people look down on him, thinking that he is a rich second generation, just because he has a good background, but is Yuan Shao really that bad?"

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"We know that in ancient times, they paid great attention to their origins, Yuan Shao was born in the Yuan family, and the Yuan family was known as the 'Four Worlds and Three Dukes' at that time, and the protΓ©gΓ©s and former officials were all over the world, and they were absolutely wealthy clans, which needless to say, but we know that in ancient times, it was the eldest son who really had the right to inherit, and Yuan Shao was the eldest son?"

"It's not!" Everyone shook their heads in unison.

"Yes, it's not."

"Yuan Shao's life history is actually more complicated, and there are still debates in the historiography community, but one thing is certain, that is, he must not be the eldest son."

"The so-called eldest son is the first son of the main wife, that is, the eldest wife, who is the eldest son of Yuan Feng, the head of the family at that time? It's Yuan Ji, this person's reputation is very good, but unfortunately his fate is not good, Yuan Ji was implicated and killed by Dong Zhuo in the crusade of Dong Zhuo launched by the Kwantung princes, according to the inheritance system, followed by the second son Yuan Shu, who has nothing to do with Yuan Shao. ”

"Yuan Shao can go to the later position, get those achievements, you can imagine how difficult it is, not to mention anything else, just say the primogeniture system, his success means that he is challenging the primogeniture system, which is absolutely not allowed by the family at that time."

"Hmm!" Many students nodded thoughtfully, this is Chen Kan's way of talking about history, just like a detective, without any lofty historical materials, first talk about some things that everyone has mastered, and then make a logical deduction.

"I often say that success comes with luck, and Yuan Shao, like Cao Cao, happened to meet an era that allowed them to show their abilities, otherwise it would be basically impossible for these two to have later achievements."

"Let's take a look at Yuan Shao's release of hair, Cao Cao, who is Cao Cao? After the eunuchs, the eunuchs were collectively resisted by scholars and relatives, and there was only one way to gain power, that is, to rely on the emperor, is it possible for Cao Cao? Unless he comes with a knife himself, it's a little possible. ”

When he said the last sentence, Chen Kan made a gesture with his hand, and many classmates laughed "poof".

"Now I know why Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are small and sworn friends!" Chen Kan said with a smile.

"Because the situation of the two is actually similar, if there is no later Dong Zhuo Rebellion, their future is bleak, so they smell like each other, play together, and see when the two of them are doing, aren't they two rich second generations who have no future, looking for excitement!"

"Yuan Shao really started after leaving the capital, became the Taishou of Bohai, had his first base, and then fought all the way, conquered the northern Hebei, Qing, You, and four states, and became the largest warlord at that time."

"Then there is a question now, this fake rich second-generation Yuan Shao, is his foundation good?"

"To be honest, generally, among the heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they can only belong to the upper middle, and the real resources of the Yuan family are used on Yuan Shu."

"Now let's see where is the place where Yuan Shu raised his army? In Wancheng, in Runan, first of all, these two cities are cities with a population of more than one million in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the largest population in the Eastern Han Dynasty was 50 million, and these two cities accounted for one-twenty-fifth of the total population. ”

This is not difficult to understand, take the capital as an example, how many first-class universities and talents are there in this megacity, and the economy just look at the annual ranking, this is the strength of a megacity, in any country, in any era, the comprehensive strength of a city with a population of one million is definitely more than twenty cities with a population of 100,000.

"And what kind of place is Runan, that is the base camp of the Yuan family, and handing over the base camp to Yuan Shu means that most of the resources cultivated by the Yuan family are handed over to Yuan Shu."

"Yuan Shao actually didn't get anything, and he didn't get much support from the Yuan family, so where did you say that so many advisors and generals under Yuan Shao came from? Of course, it is based on local materials, if you look at the location of these people's household registration, whether it is Tian Feng and Fu Zhu, these Wenchen, or Zhang He, Gao Ran and other military generals, they are all from the four northern states, so they naturally want to defect to Yuan Shao, otherwise what else can they do. ”

"Most of those talents in the Three Kingdoms were cultivated by those big families, and for the benefit of their own families, they naturally had to stay in the local area, which basically applies to anyone during this period, except for Cao Cao's early days, after Cao Cao was a eunuch before, his background was too poor, and the scholars and doctors couldn't look down on him, Cao Cao really had no choice, he could only be 'meritocracy', that era' 'Meritocracy' is not a good word, but Cao Cao can't help it, and then Cao Cao's foundation is stable, and then look at the talents under him, most of them are also from famous families, and there are very few children from poor families. ”

"In this regard, Yuan Shao is better than Cao Cao, so Yuan Shao's career is bigger than Cao Cao, and he won the land of Sizhou, standing in that era and at that time, Yuan Shao is indeed the person who is most likely to become the one who unifies the world and ends the troubled times, but I didn't expect him to finally lose in Guandu."

"From the military, before the battle of Yuan Shao's Guandu, Yuan Shao was undefeated, and Gongsun Zan described his soldiers with the words 'Yuan's soldiers are like ghosts and gods'."

"There is also about the battle of Guandu, here is one point to emphasize, that is, after the defeat of Yuan Shao in the battle of Guandu, he also quelled the rebellion everywhere after returning to Jizhou, it was two years later, Yuan Shao died of illness, the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao victorious, the biggest significance is that Cao Cao's force survived and stopped Yuan Shao's expansion momentum, Cao Cao's real attack on the land of Sizhou was the civil strife of his sons after Yuan Shao's death, so it was not that Yuan Shao died of depression immediately after the defeat of Guandu."

"As for Yuan Shao's achievements in governing Hebei, this is everyone's class assignment, go find historical materials by yourself, see how Yuan Shao governed Hebei, and how he was evaluated in the history books."

At this time, the bell rang for the end of class.