When Yuan Shao's troops reached Luoyang, they stormed the palace complex, killing the Ten Attendants and 2, 000 of the eunuchs ' supporters.

Cao Cao, directly to Yuan Shao's south, was engaged in a struggle against Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, who occupied respectively the Huai River basin and middle Yangtze regions.

Overcoming Yuan Shao's superior numbers, Cao Cao decisively defeated him by setting fire to his supplies, and in doing so crippled the northern army.

Liu Bei fled to join Liu Biao in Jing Province, and many of Yuan Shao's forces were destroyed.

In 202, Cao Cao took advantage of Yuan Shao's death and the resulting division among his sons to advance north of the Yellow River.

After Yuan died, Cao killed Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan ( 173 – 205 CE ), who had fought with his brothers over the family inheritance.

* Yuan Shang, Yuan Shao's third son ( beheaded ) ( b. 177 )

* Yuan Xi, Yuan Shao's second son ( beheaded ) ( b. 176 )

Under Yuan Shao's leadership, eighteen warlords form a coalition force in a campaign against Dong Zhuo, but undermined by poor leadership and conflict of interest, they only manage to drive Dong from Luoyang to Chang ' an.

Guan Yu and Zhang Liao led the vanguard, and attacked Yuan Shao's remaining troops at Baima.

After that, Guan Yu left for Hebei to rejoin Liu Bei, who was currently in Yuan Shao's camp.

In the following chapter, Wen Chou, another of Yuan Shao's generals, came to avenge Yan Liang.

In Chapter 26, Guan Yu finally received news that Liu Bei was alive and currently in Yuan Shao's camp.

Guan Yu and his party then crossed the river safely and entered Yuan Shao's domain.

However, they soon realised that Liu Bei was no longer in Yuan Shao's territory and had already left for Runan.

After the defeat of rival warlord Yuan Shao at the Battle of Guandu, he took the widow of Yuan Shao's son Yuan Xi, Lady Zhen, as a consort, although eventually she lost his favor and was forced to commit suicide.

Some years before the battle, Yuan Shao's advisors Ju Shou and Tian Feng had foreseen that Cao Cao would become a threat to their lord in his ambition to dominate China.

At the same time, Cao Cao sent Zang Ba to harass Qing Province ( 青州 ), which was governed by Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan, to prevent his eastern flank from coming under attack.

In China, performances of Hamlet often have political significance: Gu Wuwei's 1916 The Usurper of State Power, an amalgam of Hamlet and Macbeth, was an attack on Yuan Shikai's attempt to overthrow the republic.

* 1279 – A diplomatic party of the Yuan Dynasty sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.

* A Yuan diplomatic party sent by Kublai Khan to Japan is killed by Japan's regent Hōjō Tokimune, leading to a second invasion attempt by the Mongols in 1281.

Yuan Shikai ( 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916 ) was an important Chinese general and politician, famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the second President of the Republic of China ( following Sun Yatsen ), and his short-lived attempt to revive the Chinese monarchy, with himself as the " Great Emperor of China.

General Lu's Guangxi Clique overran Hunan and Guangdong as well and helped lead the resistance to Yuan Shikai's attempt to reestablish an imperial government.

Ashamed that he could not save the dire affairs of his state or his king by offering good council, Qu Yuan leaped into a river and committed suicide ; it was said that soon after many went out on the river in boats in a desperate attempt to rescue him if still alive.

General Lu's Guangxi Clique overran Hunan and Guangdong as well and helped lead the resistance to Yuan Shikai's attempt to reestablish an imperial government.

Kingsoft chief software architect Pak Kwan Kau ( 求伯君 ), in an attempt to revive the company, injected 4 million Yuan ( approx.

Yuan Shikai, who inherited part of the Qing dynasty military after it collapsed in 1911, attempted to establish order and unity, but failed to protect China against Japan and in his attempt to have himself declared emperor.

Borjigin Barsboladiin Altan was the second son of Bars Bolud Jinong, and a grandson of Batumongke Dayan Khan who had re-unified the Mongolian nobility in an attempt to regain the glory of the Yuan Dynasty.

Upon the urging of Yuan Shao, He Jin summoned the frontier general Dong Zhuo to the outskirts of Luoyang, in an attempt to force the Empress Dowager to back down.

The Chagatayid Khan Esen Buqa in 1312 sent the Yuan border garrison envoys in an attempt to convince them to adjust their position.

In 530, Emperor Wu made another attempt to establish a vassal regime in Northern Wei — by creating Yuan Yue the Prince of Wei, and commissioning Yuan Yue's uncle Fan Zun ( 范遵 ) with an army to escort Yuan Yue back to Northern Wei.

The, also known as the First Battle of Hakata Bay was the first attempt by the Yuan Dynasty founded by the Mongols to invade Japan.

The, also known as the Second Battle of Hakata Bay, was the second attempt by the Yuan Dynasty founded by the Mongols to invade Japan ; they had failed seven years earlier, in the Battle of Bun ' ei.

Lü, fearing isolation, obstructed further attempt by Yuan to eliminate Liu.

Northeastern Provinces Yuan was an attempt to isolate certain regions of China from the hyperinflation that plagued the fǎbì currency.

He Jin also ordered Dong Zhuo, the frontier general in Liang Province, and Ding Yuan, Inspector of Bing Province, to bring troops to the capital to reinforce his position of authority.

As he was threatened by rival Yuan Shao in the north and could not divide his attention, Cao Cao attempted to further reinforce the alliance with Sun Ce by marrying the daughter of his relative Cao Ren to Sun Ce's youngest brother Sun Kuang.

Yuan Shao used Guo Tu's idea and sent Zhang He and Gao Lan to lead his main army to attack Cao Cao's main camp at Guandu, while only sending a small cavalry unit to reinforce Wuchao.

Zhang He advised Yuan Shao to reinforce the defense at Wuchao as Cao Cao would certainly seek to seize the food supply.

Under Liu Yuan, the Xiongnu rebelled near today's Linfen County and established the state of Han Zhao.

This mid 14th century work compiled during the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty ( before 1375, when its co-editor Liu Ji died ) stated that mines were made of cast iron and were spherical in shape, filled with either ' magic gunpowder ', ' poison gunpowder ', or ' blinding and burning gunpowder ', any one of these compositions being suitable for use.

* Yuan Qigui, empress and wife of Wen of Liu Song ( d. 440 )

* Yuan Qigui, empress and wife of Wen of Liu Song ( b. 405 )

* Yuan Can, high official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( b. 420 )

* Sixteen Kingdoms: The Wu Hu uprising establish under Liu Yuan the Han Kingdom.

Liu Bian took the Han throne as Emperor Shao, and He Jin plotted with warlord Yuan Shao to assassinate the Ten Attendants, a clique of ten eunuchs led by Zhang Rang who controlled much of the imperial court.

In the south, Sun Ce, then an independent general under the service of Yuan Shu, defeated the warlords of Yang Province, including Liu Yao, Wang Lang, and Yan Baihu.

In 197, Yuan Shu, who was at odds with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei, felt assured of victory with his subordinate's conquests, and thus declared himself emperor of the Cheng Dynasty.

Sun Ce complied, but first convinced Cao Cao to form a coalition against Yuan Shu, of which Liu Bei and Lü Bu were members.

Afterwards, Lü Bu betrayed Liu Bei and seized Xu Province, forming an alliance with Yuan Shu's remnant forces.

He collaborated with Liu Bei on this effort, but Cao Cao soon found out about the plot and had Dong Cheng and his conspirators executed, with only Liu Bei surviving and fleeing to join Yuan Shao in the north.

After Dong Zhuo demoted Emperor Shao and promoted his brother Liu Xie as Emperor Xian, Yuan Shao led a coalition of former officials and officers against Dong, who burned Luoyang to the ground and resettled the court at Chang ' an in May 191 CE.

* Liu Yuan, founding emperor of Han Zhao

* from Liu Yuan ( Han Zhao ) of Southern Xiongnu, descendant of Yufuluo

* from Liu Zhi Yuan ( 劉知遠 ) of later Han Dynasty by Shatuo peole

* some Liu ( 劉 ) clan change surname to Jin / Kim at Yuan Dynasty

Later on during the Western Jin Dynasty, it was a Xiongnu noble from Hetao, Liu Yuan, who established the Han Zhao kingdom in the region, thereby beginning the Sixteen Kingdoms period that saw the disintegration of northern China under a variety of Han and non-Han ( including Xiongnu and Xianbei ) regimes.

** Lady Liu ( 劉氏 ), originally a maid to Yuan Shikai's fifth concubine Lady Yang ; mother of Yuan Kefan and Yuan Yizhen