"There is a saying in Chinese history that the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Yuan Shao reflects this very well. Now many people look down on Yuan Shao and think that he is a rich second generation, just because he has a good background, but is Yuan Shao really that bad?"

Chen Kan's old method in class is to tell some more controversial characters, not to rehabilitate or do anything, but because everyone is familiar with these characters, they have some preconceived concepts about these people in their hearts. If you can see the other side of a person, then it will have an impact on the students' thinking, of course, the premise is based on historical materials.

"We know that in ancient times, they all paid great attention to their origins. Yuan Shao was born in the Yuan family. At that time, the Yuan family was known as the "Four Generations and Three Dukes". His disciples and former officials were everywhere in the world, and they were absolutely wealthy clans. There is no need to say more about this, but we know that the one who really had inheritance rights in ancient times was the eldest son, and was Yuan Shao the eldest son?"

"No!" Everyone shook their heads unanimously.

"Yes, no."

"Yuan Shao's life experience is actually quite complicated, and there is still debate in the historical 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 eldest wife, that is, the eldest son of the eldest wife. Who is the eldest son of Yuan Feng, the head of the family at that time? It was Yuan Ji. This person has a good reputation, but unfortunately his life is not good. Yuan Ji was implicated and killed by Dong Zhuo in the attack of Dong Zhuo by the princes of Guandong. According to the inheritance system, he was then the second son Yuan Shu, which had nothing to do with Yuan Shao."

"It is easy to imagine how difficult it would be for Yuan Shao to get to the later position and get those achievements. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the eldest son inheritance system. His success means challenging the eldest son inheritance system, which is absolutely not allowed by the aristocratic families at that time."

"Well!" Many students nodded thoughtfully. This is Chen Kan's method of talking about history. He is like a detective. He does not need any high-end historical materials. He first talks about things that everyone knows, and then conducts a logical derivation.

"I often say that success is a component of luck. Yuan Shao, like Cao Cao, happened to encounter an era that allows them to show their abilities. Otherwise, these two people would basically not have achieved success later."

"Let's take a look at Yuan Shao's childhood friend, Cao Cao, who is Cao Cao? After that, the eunuchs were collectively boycotted by scholars and relatives. There was only one way to gain power, that is, rely on the emperor. Is it possible for Cao Cao? Unless he takes a knife himself, it is possible."

When he said the last sentence, Chen Kan compared a move with his hands, and many classmates laughed "puzi".

"Now I know why Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are childhood friends, they are best friends!" Chen Kan said with a smile.

"Because the situation between the two is actually similar. If there were no Dong Zhuo Rebellion later, their future would be dim, so they had the same smell. Let's play together and see when the two of them did it. Then they were just two rich second generations without a future, looking for excitement!"

"Yuan Shao really started his business when he left the capital and became the prefect of Bohai, and had his own first base. He then fought all the way, conquered the northern Ji, Qing, You, and the four states, and became the largest warlord at that time."

"Then there is a problem now. Is this fake rich second generation Yuan Shao, has a good foundation?"

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

"Now let's look at where Yuan Shu's place of rebellion was? In Wancheng and Runan, first of all, these two cities were cities with a population of over one million during the Eastern Han Dynasty. When the Eastern Han Dynasty had the largest population, it was only 50 million. These two cities accounted for one-twenty-fifth of the total population. Like the big cities now, big cities not only represent population, but also economic and cultural strength. Simply put, there are a lot of money and talents."

This is not difficult to understand. Take the capital as an example. In this super city, there are many first-class universities and talents, and the economy, just look at the annual ranking. This is the strength of a super city. It is the same in any country and in any era. The comprehensive strength of a city with a population of one million is definitely more than 20 cities with a population of one hundred thousand.

"And where is Runan? It is the base camp of the Yuan family. The base camp is handed over to Yuan Shu, which 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 didn't get much support from the Yuan family. So where did Yuan Shao's subordinates come from? Of course, they used local materials. Look at the registered locations of these people. Whether it is Tian Feng, Ju Su, the civil officials, Zhang He, Gao Lan and other military generals, they are all from the four northern prefectures. Then they naturally want to join Yuan Shao, otherwise what else can they do."

"Most of the talents in the Three Kingdoms were cultivated by those aristocratic families. For the benefit of their own family, they naturally had to stay in the local area. This basically applies to anyone during this period. Except for the early days of Cao Cao, I said before that Cao Cao was a eunuch, and his background was too poor, and even the scholars and officials looked down on him. Cao Cao really had no choice but to 'only talented people'. In that era, 'only talented people were promoted' was not a good word, but Cao Cao had no choice. Later, Cao Cao's foundation was stable. Let's take a look at the talents under him. Most of them were from famous families and had few poor families."

"At this point, Yuan Shao is better than Cao Cao, so he did a bigger career than Cao Cao, and he won the four states. Standing at that time, Yuan Shao was indeed the most likely person to be the one who unified the world and ended the troubled times, but he didn't expect that he would eventually lose to Guandu."

"From the military, before the Battle of Yuan Shao's Guandu, Yuan Shao had no success in defeat. Gongsun Zan used the seven words "Yuan's military use is like a ghost and a god" to describe his military use."

"There is also the Battle of Guandu, and I want to emphasize one thing here. After Yuan Shao was defeated in Guandu, he quelled the rebellions everywhere after returning to Jizhou. It was two years later that Yuan Shao died of illness. In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao defeated the battle. The greatest significance of the great thing is that Cao Cao's power survived and prevented Yuan Shao's expansion. Cao Cao truly attacked the four prefectures. It was because his sons had civil strife 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 classroom homework. Go find historical materials yourself to see how Yuan Shao governed Hebei, and how the history books evaluate him specifically."
Chapter completed!