rotk.net - Yuan Shu

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Died: 199
Ancestral home: Ruyang, Runan (Shangshui County, Henan)
Book mentions: 148

Roles:

emperor general politician warlord

Factions:

Han dynasty Yuan Shu (primary)

Relationships:

Yuan Shao Brother

Yuan Yin Nephew

Appears in 20 chapters:

Chapter 3 — In Wenming Garden, Dong Zhuo Denounces Ding Yuan; With Red Hare, Li Su Bribes Lu Bu.
Brother of Yuan Shao; commands the five hundred picked guards at the Forbidden City entrance, bursts in when the gate burns and slaughters eunuchs without regard to age or rank, then sends soldiers to root out the eunuchs' families - many beardless men dying by mistake.
Chapter 5 — Cao Cao Appeals To The Powerful Lords; The Three Brothers Fight Against Lu Bu.
Yuan Shu; Governor of Nanyang; in charge of the coalition's commissariat - and refuses Sun Jian supplies, leading to the chapter's other major friction.
Chapter 6 — Burning The Capital, Dong Zhuo Commits An Atrocity; Hiding The Imperial Hereditary Seal, Sun Jian Breaks Faith.
Confronted in his own camp by Sun Jian over the withheld grain that caused the Sishui defeat; confused and frightened, he executes the slandering counselor to placate the tiger of the east.
Chapter 7 — Yuan Shao Fights Gongsun Zan At The River Pan; Sun Jian Attacks Liu Biao Across The Great River.
Refused a thousand horses by his brother and grain by Liu Biao, he brews the chapter's second war: his letter tells Sun Jian that Liu Biao plans to seize the South Land, promising 'you will get Jingzhou and I shall have Jizhou' - the spark that sends Sun Jian to his death.
Chapter 8 — Wang Yun Prepares The Chaining Scheme; Dong Zhuo Rages At Phoenix Pavilion.
Named in Dong Zhuo's banquet 'explanation': Minister Zhang Wen was supposedly in league with Yuan Shu to assassinate him - the pretext for the head on the red dish.
Chapter 9 — Lu Bu Kills Dong Zhuo For Wang Yun; Li Jue Attacks The Capital On Jia Xu's Advice.
The refuge Lü Bu flees to when Changan falls and his family is abandoned to the flames.
Chapter 11 — Liu Bei Rescues Kong Rong At Beihai; Lu Bu Defeats Cao Cao Near Puyang.
Refuses to receive the fugitive Lü Bu for his instability; later, when Liu Bei suggests giving Xuzhou to the four-generations-honored Yuan Shu instead, Kong Rong buries the idea: 'a drying skeleton in a dark tomb'.
Chapter 12 — Tao Qian Thrice Offers Xuzhou To Liu Bei; Cao Cao Retakes Yanzhou From Lu Bu.
The refuge Zhang Miao flees to when Dingtao falls and the Yanzhou adventure collapses.
Chapter 14 — Cao Cao Moves The Court To Xuchang; Lu Bu Leads A Night Raid Against Xuzhou.
Told (by Cao Cao's design) that Liu Bei has memorialized to seize his territory, he erupts - 'you weaver of mats! you plaiter of straw shoes!' - and sends Ji Ling with one hundred thousand troops against Xuyi. Later receives the fleeing Yang Feng and Han Xian.
Chapter 15 — Taishi Ci Fights With The Young Overlord; Sun Ce Cuts Short The White Tiger King.
Yuan Shu; receives the imperial seal in pledge from Sun Ce; lends 3,000 troops; will declare himself emperor in chapter 17 on the strength of the seal he now holds.
Chapter 16 — In The Camp Gate, Lu Bu Shoots The Halberd; At River Yu, Cao Cao Suffers A Defeat.
Buys Lü Bu's neutrality with two hundred thousand carts of millet, loses the Xiaopei campaign to the halberd shot, then reaches for the marriage snare - and when his palace-building, empress-choosing imperial project is announced to Xuzhou, Lü Bu cages his envoy and the alliance dies. His answer is an army.
Chapter 17 — Yuan Shu Marches Out Seven Armies; Cao Cao And Three Generals Join Forces.
Declares himself emperor with the reign title Second Glory - dragon chariot, north-south sacrifices, Feng Fang's daughter as Empress - over Yan Xiang's protest. His seven armies under Zhang Xun break against Lü Bu's turned defectors; he flees Guan Yu's ambush, abandons Shouchun's hundred thousand to the famine siege, and carries his treasure across the Huai.
Chapter 18 — Giving Counsels, Jia Xu Directs A Great Victory; Braving Battlefield, Xiahou Dun Loses An Eye.
Yuan Shu; named in passing - his self-proclamation has collapsed.
Chapter 19 — Cao Cao Makes Flood In Xiapi; Lu Bu Perishes At The White Gate Tower.
Yuan Shu; named in passing - his collapse is accelerating.
Chapter 20 — Cao Cao Organizes A Hunting Expedition In Xutian; Dong Cheng Receives A Secret Command In The Palace.
Yuan Shu; named in passing - his collapse continues offstage.
Chapter 21 — In A Plum Garden, Cao Cao Discusses Heroes; Using The Host's Forces, Guan Yu Takes Xuzhou.
Abandoned by Lei Bo and Chen Lan, he resigns his stolen imperial title to his brother and marches north - into Liu Bei's blocking army. Ji Ling dies, the deserters loot his train, and in the summer heat at Jiangling, refused even honeyed water ('there is no water save that tainted with blood'), he rolls from his couch vomiting blood and dies.
Chapter 43 — Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
Yuan Shu; cited in the debate.
Chapter 48 — Banquet On The Great River, Cao Cao Sings A Song; Battle On Water, Northerners Fight With Chained Ships.
Yuan Shu; named in passing.
Chapter 56 — Cao Cao Feasts In The Bronze Bird Tower; Zhuge Liang Provokes Zhou Yu A Third Time.
Yuan Shu; named in passing.
Chapter 93 — Jiang Wei Goes Over To Zhuge Liang; Zhuge Liang Reviles Wang Lang.
Yuan Shu; named in passing in the oration.