Revenge for my father.

"There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests" is a fitting sentence for Cao Cao and Yuan Shaoge. When I was young, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were good friends. Two brothers play together. Yuan Shao is older than Cao Cao and often takes Cao Cao to steal brides. At that time, stealing the bride should be a bridal chamber game, which was probably to secretly hide the bride and let the groom give a red envelope. This matter is recorded in Shi Shuo Xin Yu, of course, the record of Shi Shuo Xin Yu is definitely a bit embellished.

Whether Yuan Shao took Cao Cao to steal the bride is definitely impossible to record in the official history, but the national "History of the Three Kingdoms" clearly records that "Mao Shao made friends." Through the records of Shi Shuo Xin Yu and The History of the Three Kingdoms, we can clearly draw that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were good friends when they were young. When they grew up, Cao Cao and Yuan Shaoge became good comrades-in-arms of the eight captains of Xiyuan. Among the eight captains, there was an unlucky Chunyu Qiong who followed Yuan Shao in the future and was killed by Cao Cao. Since childhood, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have been stealing brides and carrying guns together. If there is no future dispute between mountains and rivers, the boat of friendship between the two brothers should be rippling on the lake for life.

When the 18th Route Governors crusaded against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, as the leading brother, and Cao Cao, as the backbone, continued the friendship of carrying guns together. From this time on, there was an undercurrent under the boat of their friendship. Yuan Shao wants to establish an imperial clan, Liu Yu, as emperor. He wants to bring Cao Cao in and push the new emperor to the top. The History of the Three Kingdoms records that in the face of the wooing of his good friend Yuan Shao, Cao Cao directly replied: "I don't listen to you!"

Cao Cao refused to cooperate with Yuan Shao to establish a new emperor, which has not turned their friendship boat upside down. After Cao Cao's father Cao Song was killed by Tao Qian, Cao Cao sent troops to attack Tao Qian to avenge his father. Lombardi also talked about the friendship of brothers, and sent Zhu Ling to lead the 3rd Battalion of military forces to fight for his good brother Cao Cao. Of course, Yuan Shao sent someone to help Cao Cao fight and avenge his father. Loyalty is just an excuse. The purpose of their alliance is actually that Yuan Shao wants to fight Gongsun Zan's territory and Cao Cao wants Xuzhou in Tao Qian. The two brothers came together because they shared the same interests and used each other.

After Cao Cao took care of Lu Bu in Xuzhou and Yuan Shao killed Gongsun Zan, the two brothers were the only ones who could compete for hegemony in the north. Two tigers are not allowed in one mountain. Unless there is a man and a woman, it happened that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are both men, so their friendship boat capsized, and the two brothers could only fight to the death. As a result of the struggle between the two tigers, Yuan Shao died and Cao Cao won.

After the victory, Cao Cao came to Yuan Shao's grave and wept bitterly in memory of his former good friend and sworn enemy Yuan Shao. Some people say that Cao Cao is acting, but I think Cao Cao is sincere. There is a simple reason. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are good friends, because their interests have become sworn enemies. Yuan Shao, now dead, is no longer a threat to Cao Cao's interests. In this case, it is human nature for Cao Cao to pay homage to Yuan Shao, a good friend who grew up with him.