* Yuan Shao, major warlord who ruled Northern China until defeated by Cao Cao ( d. 202 )

* Yuan Shu, younger half-brother of Yuan Shao ( d. 199 )

* Gongsun Zan, Chinese warlord ( killed by Yuan Shao )

* Chinese warlord Cao Cao defeats Yuan Shao in the battle of Guandu.

* Chunyu Qiong ( executed by Yuan Shao )

* Han Juzi, general under Yuan Shao

* Ju Shou ( officer of Yuan Shao )

* Tian Feng ( executed by Yuan Shao )

* Wen Chou, general under Yuan Shao

* Yan Liang, general under Yuan Shao

* Pang Ji, minister under Yuan Shao

* Guo Yuan, general under Yuan Shao

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 190 a coalition led by Yuan Shao was formed between nearly all the provincial authorities in the eastern provinces of the empire against Dong Zhuo.

Yuan Shao occupied the northern area of Ye and extended his power, by taking over his superior Han Fu with trickery and intimidation, north of the Yellow River against Gongsun Zan, who held the northern frontier.

Lü Bu fled to Zhang Yang, a northern warlord, and remained with him for a time before briefly joining Yuan Shao, but it was clear that Lü Bu was far too independent to serve another.

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.

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 settling the nearby provinces, including a rebellion led by former Yellow Turbans, and internal affairs with the court, Cao Cao turned his attention north to Yuan Shao, who himself had eliminated his northern rival Gongsun Zan that same year.

Yuan Shao, himself of higher nobility than Cao Cao, amassed a large army and camped along the northern bank of the Yellow River.

Following months of planning, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao clashed at the Battle of Guandu.

The script did not receive wide acceptance and fell into disuse with the collapse of the Yuan dynasty in 1368.

Patricia Ebrey, Thomas Laird, Wang Jiawei, and Nyima Gyaincain all point out that the Ming Dynasty did not garrison permanent troops in Tibet, unlike the former Mongol Yuan Dynasty.

Once that happened, the enraged Sun Quan wanted to personally head north with a fleet to attack Gongsun Yuan, and initially, not even Lu Xun's opposition was able to stop him, although he eventually calmed down and did not follow through.

In 238, when Gongsun Yuan was under attack by Wei's general Sima Yi, Sun Quan, despite his prior rage against Gongsun, correctly judged the situation as one where he might be able to take advantage if Sima Yi were initially unsuccessful, did not immediately refuse Gongsun's request for help.

Yuan and Li Hongzhang sent troops into Korea to protect Seoul and Qing's interests, and Japan did the same under the pretext of protecting Japanese trading posts.

Yuan did little to improve civilian economic or technological development, and financed his regime through large foreign loans.

As a result, the Yuan trebuchets had a hard time hitting the fortress, and the few lucky shots that did hit the wall bounced off harmlessly.

The Mongol Yuan Dynasty divided China into provinces but did not establish Hebei as a province.

At this point of the war it was obvious the Song did not stand a chance when fighting the Yuan head-on.

The Mongol Yuan Dynasty divided China into provinces but did not establish Shanxi as a province.

Although the elected members of the Legislative Yuan did not have the majority to defeat legislation, they were able to use the Legislature Yuan as a platform to express political dissent.

In particular, there is a consensus among historians that unlike the Yuan Dynasty, the Manchu invasions did not mark a relatively sharp discontinuity in Chinese history and that most of the cultural and social trends of the period crossed the Ming – Qing division.

First, not only did the Crown Prince Party cause some resentment among the general public, but they also caused resentment within the vast major of Party members who did not have a powerful relative ; for example, Chen Yuan, son of Chen Yun ; and Chen Haosu, son of Chen Yi lost their election in Beijing and had to be transferred to other positions.

When Sun Ce did, however, Yuan Shu again went back on his words and appointed someone else instead.

Yuan Shao's Attendant Officer ( 從事 ) Ju Shou had reservations about concentrating all of the main army at Yangwu, and suggested to leave a garrison at Yan Ford as a step of caution in case the attack on Guandu did not go well.

Yuan Shao, again, did not heed Ju Shou's advice.

Taking note that Yuan Shao took ten years to eliminate the isolated Gongsun Zan, de Crespigny suggests that it was not due to indecisiveness that Yuan Shao did not take advantage of Cao Cao's temporal weaknesses, but that Yuan Shao might not have had the men to spare for such ventures.

The word Manzi or Mangi means the recalcitrant ones, i. e., those who did not submit to the rule of the Yuan dynasty.

Also in fall 496, the crown prince Yuan Xun, who did not adjust well to Han customs or the much hotter weather in Luoyang, plotted with his followers to flee back to Pingcheng, perhaps to hold that city against his father.

He did so upon Yuan Shikai's suggestion to Empress Dowager Longyu, who also signed the abdication papers.