谋臣有毛病，主帅没名堂，这就是袁绍集团的状况，这已经是很糟糕了，更糟糕的是这一伙人他还要窝里斗。本来指挥一场战役，要开一个军事会议，在这个会议上应该是各尽其言，言者无罪，每个人都把自己想说的话尽情地说出来，然后再做一个决策。而同一个集团的人，或者说同一个团队的人在工作当中有意见分歧那是很正常的事情，不能因为工作意见的分歧造成人与人之间关系的紧张，我们应该是会上畅所欲言，会下团结合作，这样一个团队才是战无不胜的，是不是。袁绍不是这样啊，为了打不打这场战争的事情分成两派，会上吵得一塌糊涂以后，会下主张战争的就跑去根袁绍打小报告，说请主公要注意一下沮授这个人，沮授这个人是不是权力太大了一点，袁绍一想是啊，他是三军的监军啊，权力太大了，意见又老和我不一样，削去沮授的军权，不同沮授的意见。沮授没有办法说，既然如此那我辞职行不行？不准辞职，跟我走吧。沮授在跟着袁绍过黄河的时候他说了这样一句话，他说滔滔黄河啊，我恐怕是再也回不来了！果然，官渡之战失败以后，袁绍只顾自己逃命，不管沮授的死活，沮授跑不掉啊，被曹操俘虏，这是他们窝里斗。
There is something wrong with the adviser and the commander has no name. This is the situation of the Yuan Shao Group. This is already very bad, and even worse, this group of people are still fighting in a tight fight. “To command a battle, it was necessary to hold a military conference. At this conference, each person should do his or her part, and the speaker should be innocent. Everyone should say what they want to say as much as they can, and then make a decision.”. “It is normal for people in the same group, or team, to have differences of opinion in their work. Differences of opinion should not cause tension in interpersonal relationships. We should speak freely at meetings and work together in unity, so that a team is invincible, right?”. Yuan Shao is not like this. In order to fight or not to fight this war, he was divided into two factions. After the meeting became a complete mess, those who advocated the war ran to the root of Yuan Shao to make a small report, saying that the Lord should pay attention to the person Ju Fu. Is the person Ju Fu a bit too powerful? Yuan Shao thought, “Yes, he is the overseer of the Three Armies. He has too much power, and his opinions are always different from mine. He cuts off the military power granted by Ju Fu, and he has different opinions from Ju Fu.”. Ju Shu has no way to say, in that case, can I resign? Don’t resign. Come with me. Ju Shu said something like this when he was following Yuan Shao across the Yellow River. He said, “The Yellow River is surging. I’m afraid I won’t be able to come back again!”! Sure enough, after the defeat of the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao only focused on his own escape, regardless of the fate of Ju Shou, he couldn’t escape. He was captured by Cao Cao, and this was a fight between them.
袁绍的谋士窝里斗，袁绍的家庭闹家务。袁绍有三个儿子，长子袁谭，中子袁熙，小子袁尚，袁绍喜欢谁呢？袁尚，为什么呢，因为袁尚长得漂亮，于是决定立袁尚为接班人。因为大概袁绍这个人也是一表人才，是一个帅哥，然后他三个儿子当中小儿子最帅，于是袁绍就认为老帅哥的接班人那就应该是小帅哥，荒唐嘛，这不是荒唐嘛！但是他这个话说不出口啊，他怎么办呢？他说这样吧，三个儿子一个外甥，我就把我这四州分了，他不是冀州、青州、并州、幽州吗，把小儿子袁尚留在自己身边住在冀州，然后剩下的三个州一个州派一个人去，袁谭，袁熙，高干是个外甥。沮授又反对，沮授说主公你怎么能这样做呢？俗话说“一兔走衢，万人逐之”，怎么意思呢，就是一个兔子，它跑到十字路口，大家都来抢；“一人获之，贪者悉止”，如果一个人拿到手，大家都不抢了。你现在这个做法等于是把这个兔子放到十字路口来了，能不窝里斗吗？袁绍又不听，结果他死了以后他的长子袁谭和他的三子袁尚两个人就打起来了，他的谋士也分裂成两派，自相残杀，省了曹操不少功夫。这是袁绍的又一失，叫做组织上失和。
Yuan Shao’s counselors are fighting in the den, and Yuan Shao’s family is doing housework. Yuan Shao has three sons, the eldest son Yuan Tan, the child Yuan Xi, and the child Yuan Shang. Who does Yuan Shao like? Yuan Shang, why? Because Yuan Shang is beautiful, he decided to appoint Yuan Shang as his successor. Because perhaps Yuan Shao is also a talented person and a handsome guy, and his three sons are the most handsome ones in the middle and small schools. Therefore, Yuan Shao believes that the successor of the old handsome guy should be a handsome little guy, which is absurd. Isn’t it absurd! But he can’t say that. What should he do? “He said, ‘Three sons and one nephew, I will divide my four states. Isn’t he Jizhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou? He left his youngest son Yuan Shang beside him and lived in Jizhou, and then sent one person to each of the remaining three states. Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi, and Gao Gan are nephews.'”. Ju Ju objected. Ju Ju said, “How can you do this?”? As the saying goes, “A rabbit walks the road, and thousands of people chase it.” What does it mean? It is a rabbit that runs to the crossroads, and everyone comes to grab it; “If one person gets it, the greedy person knows it.” If one person gets it, everyone stops robbing. What you are doing now is equivalent to putting the rabbit at the crossroads. Can you stop fighting in the dark? Yuan Shao refused to listen again, but after his death, his eldest son Yuan Tan and his third son Yuan Shang fought together. His advisers also split into two factions, killing each other, saving Cao Cao a lot of effort. This is another mistake made by Yuan Shao, called organizational disharmony.
那我们现在来看看袁绍，政治上失利，道义上失理，战略上失策，指挥上失误，用人上失当，组织上失和，有此六失，还不失败，那才叫天理不容。这个结局早在曹操的预料之中，当时袁绍十万精兵南下，来势汹汹的时候，几乎所有人都认为是打不赢的，只有曹操神情自若。曹操说，袁绍是我的老朋友，我太了解他，他这个人的特点是什么呢？野心大，智慧少，态度凶，胆子小，刻薄猜忌，人缘不好，他那个地方，他那个集团“兵多而分画不明，将骄而政令不一”，虽然他土地很广，军队很多，粮草丰足，那不过是给我做后勤部长罢了。曹操到底是袁绍的老朋友，他真是把袁绍看透了，袁绍这个人政治上短见，军事上弱智，组织上低能。
Let’s now take a look at Yuan Shao. Political failure, moral failure, strategic failure, command failure, personnel failure, and organizational disharmony. With these six failures, if we don’t fail yet, then it’s natural that we cannot tolerate them. This outcome had been expected by Cao Cao as early as possible. At that time, Yuan Shao’s 100000 elite troops headed south, and when they were threatening, almost everyone thought it would be impossible to win. Only Cao Cao had a calm and confident demeanor. Cao Cao said, “Yuan Shao is an old friend of mine, and I know him well. What are the characteristics of him as a person?”? “He has great ambition, little wisdom, a fierce attitude, timidity, unkindness, suspicion, and bad popularity. In his place, his group” has a large number of soldiers but unclear plans, and the generals are arrogant and inconsistent with government orders. “Although he has a wide land, a large army, and abundant food and grass, it’s just for me to be the logistics minister.”. Cao Cao is an old friend of Yuan Shao. He really saw through Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao is politically short-sighted, militarily retarded, and organizationally incompetent.
＊袁绍接连在政治、道义、战略等方面的失误导致了他最终的失败，那么与曹操曾经是儿时伙伴的袁绍为什么会在这些方面屡屡败给曹操呢？根据史书记载，袁氏家族“四世三公”，故吏门生遍于天下，政治影响根深蒂固，再加上袁绍青年时期就乐于结交各个层次的英才，个人威信很高，后来又被推举为讨伐董卓的盟主，是一个非常有才能的人。然而让人奇怪的是，有如此家族背景和社会威望的袁绍为什么会接连败退呢？袁绍究竟是一个什么样的人呢？
“Yuan Shao’s successive political, moral, and strategic mistakes led to his ultimate failure. So why did Yuan Shao, who was a childhood partner with Cao Cao, repeatedly lose to Cao Cao in these areas?”? According to historical records, the Yuan family had “four generations and three princes”, so officials were born all over the world, and their political influence was deeply rooted. In addition, during Yuan Shao’s youth, he was willing to make friends with talents at various levels, with a high personal prestige. Later, he was elected as the leader of the Alliance to crusade against Dong Zhuo. He was a very talented person. However, it is strange that Yuan Shao, with such a family background and social prestige, would fail one after another? What kind of person is Yuan Shao?
当然你说这个人他一点能耐和个人魅力都也没有那也不符合事实，他要是一点都没有的话他怎么弄出这么大动静来呢？应该说袁绍这个人其实还是有本事的，也是有魅力的，他最大的成功在于他利用他家族四世三公的这样一个政治资源，把袁氏家族的事业推向了一个顶峰。这是袁绍了不起的地方，他没有像后来的清朝八旗子弟一样躺在父辈的成就上吃老本，他是在祖辈父辈开创的基业上发展壮大了，袁绍的最后的成就、名声、地位都超过了他的父辈和祖辈，这是袁绍了不起的地方，需要肯定的地方。但是他在关键时刻却表现出愚蠢、固执和狂妄，他的愚蠢、固执和狂妄是三位一体的，他因为愚蠢而固执，因为固执而狂妄，又因为狂妄而愚蠢。他狂妄，所以他听不进别人的意见，所以他固执；因为他固执，他不能做出正确的判断，所以他愚蠢；因为他愚蠢，他不知道自己的分量，因此他狂妄。所以袁绍的失败归根结底是为人的失败，做人的失败，性格的失败。
Of course, when you say that this person has no aptitude or charisma at all, that’s not true. If he doesn’t have any, how could he make such a fuss? It should be said that Yuan Shao is actually a talented and charming person. His greatest success lies in using the political resources of his family, the fourth generation and the third prince, to push the Yuan family’s career to a peak. This is a remarkable place for Yuan Shao. He did not rely on the achievements of his parents like the descendants of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. He developed and expanded on the foundation created by his grandparents. Yuan Shao’s final achievements, reputation, and status surpassed those of his parents and ancestors. This is a remarkable place for Yuan Shao and needs to be affirmed. However, at critical moments, he exhibits stupidity, stubbornness, and arrogance. His stupidity, stubbornness, and arrogance are a trinity. He is stubborn because of stupidity, arrogant because of stubbornness, and foolish because of arrogance. He is arrogant, so he cannot listen to others’ opinions, so he is stubborn; Because he is stubborn, he cannot make correct judgments, so he is foolish; Because he is foolish, he does not know his weight, so he is arrogant. Therefore, Yuan Shao’s failure is ultimately a failure of character, a failure of conduct, and a failure of character.
