The demise of the Yuan family was purely a self-inflicted suicide by the descendants of the Yuan family. In fact, logically speaking, the largest family head in the world at that time was the Yuan family, that is, the Yuan family where the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu lived. At that time, the original price was the first among the Four Generations and Three Dukes. At that time, the official selection system in the Han Dynasty was still an election system, which can also be called a recruiting system. It was a system in which court officials recruited famous people from the people. If you want to be a high-ranking official in the imperial court, you can freely select people from the private sector to serve as officials in the imperial court. There is a huge profit margin in this. Obviously, as the head of the Fourth Generation and Three Dukes, the Yuan family has a lot of space for selecting officials, so many people are dependent on the Yuan family.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the imperial power of the Han Dynasty declined, on the contrary, the power in the hands of the Yuan family continued to grow. In fact, Dong Zhuo's decision to enter the capital was made by the head of the Yuan family at the time. Dong Zhuo was just an ordinary general attached to the Yuan family at the time. It's just that Dong Zhuo listened very much to the head of the Yuan family, so the head of the Yuan family was confused by Dong Zhuo. The head of the Yuan family wanted to use Dong Zhuo's knife to clear away his political opponents in the court, but the Yuan family did not expect that the dog he raised would turn back on his owner. This was the starting point of the decline of the Yuan family.

After Dong Zhuo counterattacked the Yuan family, Dong Zhuo did not kill all the descendants of the Yuan family, but also ran away two more important people. These two people were later Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. These two brothers inherited the political assets of the Yuan family respectively. This is why when the 18 princes challenged Dong Zhuo, the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu could serve as leaders. If things had gone according to normal conditions at that time, the final masters of the world would have definitely been in the hands of the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

But an accident happened. Yuan Shu turned out to be hot-headed and took the lead in proclaiming himself emperor. This caused everyone in the world to attack, and Yuan Shu was the first to be eliminated. And Yuan Shao failed in the confrontation with Cao Cao, the son of destiny. You would rather ask me to betray the world than ask the world to betray my Cao Cao. How could you let go of this defeated general? Since then, the Yuan family, which was once famous for a while, has declined. .