Cao Cao and Yuan Shao
I. Friendship
(I) Young Friends
Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, one is "the ugly" and the other is "after the three princes". In terms of identity and position, they can't become good friends. However, the friendship of teenagers is sincere and simple. It can transcend age and race, and beyond family origin.
As early as Luoyang, the two "stinky" rangers forged a deep friendship. The character of rangers is the foundation of their friendship.
Cao Cao, a teenager of "Renxia**" and Yuan Shao, a teenager of "Good Ranger", jointly created two famous stories for us:
1. When Wei Wu was young, he tried to be a ranger with Yuan Shao. Watching people get married, because they sneaked into the master's garden and shouted at night: "There are thieves!" Everyone in the green Lu came out to watch, and Wei Wu came in, robbed the bride, and returned with Shao. Lost his way and fell into the thorns, Shao couldn't move. He shouted again: "The thief is here!" Shao Yu forced himself to take it out, so he avoided it.
2. When Yuan Shao was young, he sent people to drop Wei Wu with a sword. Wei Wu Kuizhi will be high later. Because of the post**, the sword is high.
See "New Words and False Words"
What two lovely teenagers! It can be seen that the friendship between the two in their early years was sincere and innocent.
(II) for the National Party
Ranger, patriotic, against eunuchs. A common character and common political ideals prompted seven best friends to establish a small political party at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty - we call it Yuan Cao's political group for the time being.
Everyone must be familiar with these seven names: Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Zhang Mao, Xu You, Wu Qiong, He Yuyi, Wu Ziqing (real name unknown).
As the hot-blooded youth of that era, they devoted themselves to the struggle against powerful eunuch forces with their relatively weak strength to save the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Yuan Shao is a well-deserved leader of this political group. He came from the family of the fourth generation and three princes, which gives him great prestige; the character of the broken corporal allows him to attract many famous scholars to join; the talent of literacy and good scholars is supported by heroes...
Although Cao Cao "unable to judge his life", he gained prestige and status with his outstanding talent and the help of Yuan Shao.
In the fifth year of Zhongping, the Eastern Han government appointed eight captains in the West Park, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were appointed as one of the eight captains at the same time.
Years of friendship, common political ideals, and power in their hands, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao rose from simple friendship and political resonance to political tacit understanding. The era of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao is coming.
(III) in the same boat
He Jin was assassinated, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao killed the eunuchs in one fell swoop. However, due to the lack of political experience and the influence of many factors, the regime fell into the hands of Dong Zhuo.
With Yuan Shao's ranger personality, he will never be willing. He resolutely joined Xu You to Jizhou to develop his own career.
Cao Cao was appointed as a cavalry lieutenant by Dong Zhuo. Everyone knows that this is Dong Zhuo using his reputation to build momentum. Of course, Cao himself understood all this. He "changed his name and returned eastward" and defected to his good friend Zhang Mi, who was the governor of Chen Liu at that time.
Cao Cao is lucky. With the help of Zhang Mio and Wei Zi, he has his own armed.
At this time, although Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were in Hebei and Chen Liu, they had a new common goal - to defeat Dong Zhuo, who stole the fruits of their victory.
The battle with Dong Zhuo's troops is difficult. Although Yuan Shao is the leader of the alliance, it is difficult to control the internal disputed Kwantung coalition.
At that time, the situation was really difficult. Yuan Shao's alliance leader was difficult, and Cao Cao's war was also difficult. But the two still have ideals and trust in their hearts and support each other. Here's the official history, not the Romance)
In the battle of Xingyang, Cao Cao was defeated by Xu Rong, the general of Dong Zhuo. "There were many soldiers killed and injured" and "they were hit by the arrows".
At this most critical time, his good friend Yuan Shao gave Cao Cao the greatest support.
"Montenegro thieves are located in more than 100,000 people in Wei County and Dong County, such as poison, Baijuan and Sugu. Wang Fu couldn't control it. Taizu led troops into the East County, hit Bai around Puyang and broke it. Yuan Shao ruled Dongwuyang because his cousin Taizu was the governor of Dongjun.
See the Records of the Three Kingdoms
At this time, and Dong Zhuo were not destroyed, and Yuan Shao was threatened by Gongsun Zan in the north. Cao Cao and Zhang Mi were "enemies around". Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were like standing in the same boat against the current. Only "communism" could not be washed away by the flood of history. Interest-based friendship is stronger in adversity.
(4) Help Cao start a family
For Cao Cao, Yanzhou = Liu Bang's Guanzhong = Liu Xiu's Hanoi
History proves that Xun Yu's analysis is completely correct.
And who helped Cao Cao win the greatest contribution in Yanzhou? It is his good friend Yuan Shao.
As we all know, Yuan Shao's base loves Hebei, but he took his wife as a hostage to please Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou at that time. Why?
In the gap between Liu Dai and Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao used this to exclude Gongsun Zan's power in Yanzhou and strongly support Cao Cao's development in Yanzhou.
Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are both chivalrous. Yuan Shao trusts Cao Cao. Cao's occupation of Yanzhou is equivalent to occupying Yanzhou, and everyone can take care of each other and contain common enemies.
Bao Xin, who directly helped Cao Cao capture Yanzhou, was a common friend of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. In the court, Yuan Shao, who had a certain prestige, represented Cao Cao as the governor of Dong County. After Liu Dai's destruction, he also represented Cao Cao as the governor of Yanzhou.
In this way, under the strong military pressure of Yuan Shao and the support of Bao Xin and Chen Gong, who knew Yuan Cao, Cao Cao got his "Guanzhong".
(5) Defend Yanzhou
It is easy to start a business and it is difficult to keep a business. Yanzhou is like a piece of fat meat, and everyone looks at it and covets it.
Yuan Shao and Cao Cao must join hands to defend Yanzhou.
First of all, Yuan Shao's younger brother Yuan Shu came to rob. After years of hostile relationship, Shao and Shu have no brotherhood. In Yuan Shu's view, capturing Cao Cao's Yanzhou is an important step to compete with Yuan Shao's forces and achieve his hegemony.
This is the Battle of Fengqiu.
(Ske) led the army into Chen Liu. Taizu and Shao jointly attacked and broke the martial arts army. With the rest of the art, the rest of the people rushed to Jiujiang... See "The Biography of Yuan Shu of the Three Kingdoms"
Gongsun Zan will never stand by. He established an alliance with Yuan Shu and cooperated with each other.
And Tao Qian from Xuzhou also came to step in and send troops to Yanzhou.
Friendship in adversity is precious.
At the critical moment of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao continued to support him.
When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Yuan Shao sent troops to support him.
When Cao Cao "fired in the backyard" and was at a loss, Yuan Shao personally conquered Lv Bu for Cao Cao and recovered Yanzhou.
Cao was defeated by Tao Qian in Xuzhou, and the land was seized by Lv Bu. He wandered around the eastern border and did not have a safe place to settle down. However, the great general Yuan Gong was well aware of the principle of strong and weak branches, and was unwilling to help become a rebel party. Therefore, once again, he personally took charge of the flag, wearing armor, and mobilized the whole army to rise up to fight. The golden drums sounded and thundered. Lv Bu's people fled and died, saved Cao Cao from the verge of death and restored Cao Cao's position as an officer. In this way, although the general Yuan Gong had no great virtue to the people of Yanzhou, he had great kindness to Cao Cao. See "Yuzhou for Yuan Shao"
Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, a pair of young close friends, have finally reached the stable stage of their respective careers after years of hard struggle, but where will their friendship go when their interests and desires cannot be coordinated with their own interests and desires?
History has its inevitable answer...
II. Enemy
(I) Contradiction - Inevitability
Contradiction, the magic hand that drives things forward.
Among all things, only contradictions are eternal.
The old contradictions are not far away, and the new contradictions have quietly arrived.
History pulled out its "contradictory hand" and turned a pair of close friends into a pair of "enemions".
(II) Contradiction-Lurking
The tree of hugging is born at the end.
The same is true of the contradiction between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
During the crusade against Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao objected to Yuan Shao's words and deeds due to issues such as the establishment of emperor.
The contradiction at this time is small and repairable, but it is also scarring.
Cao Cao was a wise man. He understood that the objective situation at that time required him to "seeking small differences and seek great unity" with Yuan Shao.
Cao Cao is forbearance, and his power is also developing rapidly with the support of his friends.
He needs Yuan Shao; he knows that Yuan Shao also needs him.
When friendship begins to smell of power and interests, the latent contradictions expand and spread like a catalyst until you smell the truth and begin to become moldy...
(III) Contradiction-Surface
Yuan Shao helps Cao Cao, which is more beneficial.
The desire to fully control Cao Cao has filled his brain since the first day he helped Cao.
But Yuan Shao was unfortunate. He made the wrong friend.
- Cao Cao is not Han Xin, and he will not be willing to be the second seat.
He has the same great ambition as Yuan Shao, or ambition.
Shao and the public raised an army. Shao asked the public, "If the matter is not collected, what can be evidenced?" The public said, "Why do you want to do it?"
Shao said, "I am bordering the river in the south, blocking Yan and Dai in the north, and Rongdi, and fighting for the world in the south, can the common people help?" The public said, "I am the intelligence of the world, and I can control it with the Tao."
Yuan Shao was confidant to Cao Cao and told his real plan, but Cao Cao's wisdom was obviously superior to Yuan Shao. He just prevaried and said a few empty words. Later, it turned out that his goal was to occupy Henan and then develop north.
One went south and the other went north, all want to unify the north.
Thinking of the same thing together is a tacit understanding that can bring happiness to small things.
Talking about Yuan Shao's employment mistakes in the Three Kingdoms
When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, everyone will definitely give some guidance to the heroes among them. In the past two days, I have watched Romance of the Three Kingdoms again and also want to talk about Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao comes from a famous family and has three princes. It should be said that he has received a good orthodox education and has seen many aspects of the world. He has been chivalrous and righteous since he was a child and loves to make friends. When he rose up against Dong Zhuo, he was also promoted to be the leader of the alliance. After that, Yuan Shao destroyed Han Fu and Gongsun Zan, established the power of a hegemony, and completely had the strength and conditions to unify the Central Plains.
But why did Yuan Shao fail?
This has to observe Yuan Shao's concept of human use and his own personality. Yuan Shao was indeed full of talents in the early stage. Wu had Yanliang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, etc., and Wen had Tian Feng, Ju Shu, Guo Tu, the examiner, Xu You, etc. It can be said that no prince of the talent team at that time could compare; but such a talent team did not establish great achievements!
The first thing to talk about is Yuan Shao's personality. He has a good education, but he is stained with a scholarly element, suspicious and hesitant; he is constantly stubborn and self-serving. When attacking Dong Zhuo, some people advocated taking advantage of Dong Zhuo's long-distance attack and unstable foothold, but Yuan Shao, on the one hand, was afraid of Dong Zhuo, and on the other hand, he thought it was so unjust. As a result, Bao Xinyang, an alliance member, left. During the battle with Cao, he encountered a similar situation. It was also Tian Feng who took advantage of Cao Cao's skillful plan to attack Liu Bei and attack Cao's rear. However, Tian Feng took the name of taking care of the children. The woman thought that it was necessary to slow down and delay the fighter. Ju Shu proposed to defend the grain road. Xu You proposed to attack Cao Cao's nest, which was all a strange plan, but Yuan Shao did not listen to it. Finally, he sent Tian Feng and Ju Shu to prison. Xu You also defected to Cao and designed to capture Wuchao for Cao Cao. Unfortunately, the wisdom of so many excellent talents has nothing to use here; Yuan Shao has been a hero, but the past victory has exacerbated his stubbornness and conceitedness in his personality, which is also the culprit of failure. If the enterprise does not make good use of people, the outcome will be the same as Yuan Shao's failure. Many of our entrepreneurs have also been successful, but the expansion of self-awareness and too much face often hinder the development of talent advantages after glory. The failure of enterprises is often not the absence of talents, but often destroyed by hindering the performance of talent advantages.
The second failure of Yuan Shao is that he will not coordinate the relationship between talents, and the team creates problems. It should be said that Yuan Shao's counselors: Tian Feng, Ju Shu, Shen Bei, Guo Tu and Xu You are all first-class masters. However, they have conflicts with each other, competing for favor and framing with each other. It should be said that except for Xu You, who defected because of disappointment, the rest of them died righteously and generously. After Ju Shu was arrested, he did not say a word. Although he had preferential treatment, he still wanted to return to Yuan Shao. Shen Pei must go to the north before she dies and thank Yuan Shao. Such an excellent loyal man, such an excellent think tank! Unfortunately, Yuan Shao did not know how to unite. He should talk about the lack of leadership ability and finally return it to its original form! Fame, status and the past will win people's eyes, but in the end, your own strength can make you go to the end. The same is true of enterprise management. At present, many enterprises are desperately seeking some dazzling external breakthroughs, seeking model innovation, persuasiveness, resource integration, etc., but the operation of their own internal team is a mess, and the talent advantages have not been brought into play. The larger the resource integration, the more customers there are, and the risk of collapse of enterprises. The bigger it is. Therefore, talent operation is the basic skill of entrepreneur management. Without this basic skill, if an enterprise wants to make it bigger, it is just a dream, and it will eventually reveal its original form.
The third reason for Yuan Shao's failure is that he did not manage his family well. When establishing an heir, he pursued too much personal likes and dislikes, which violated the traditional Chinese morality and abolished the long and young. It caused a bloody struggle between the three sons, which eventually led to the collapse of the group and was defeated by Cao Cao. Thinking carefully, Yuan Shao seems to have a little poetic temperament emotionally. When he was young, he was in high spirits, and he would be sentimental and pay attention to himself. Unfortunately, this temperament and method is a taboo in politics and management. It is suitable for a lone ranger, but not for a real team leader. The troubles of the family also made Yuan Shao worried and had no time to regroup, and finally died! Family is the rear of the heroic cause and the harbor for healing wounds. Without the backing of a harmonious family, no matter how strong the career is, it will become vulnerable and life will become tired. And with the support of the family, even the most depressed heroes will rise again and shake all directions! The same is true of running a business. If we don't run the family well, we have lost the most solid foundation. If the family doesn't run well, what is the significance of running a business? I also remembered Gao Yifeng in the talent show last year. From a bankrupt multimillionaire, he was worried and finally able to stand up again because there was a warm harbor and his wife stood beside him from beginning to end. For entrepreneurs, running their own family is an indispensable prerequisite!
Yuan Shao finally walked out of the stage of hegemony. Thinking about his glory and decline, he sighed a little! But the truth does not give sympathy a chance to lose face; if you are not good at managing talents, no matter how majestic the building is, it will collapse! Fortunately, our entrepreneurs take this as a lesson! Fortunately!
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