Is “Persuaded Lü Bu to break off the marriage with Yuan Shu and sent Han Yin to the capital in chains” true?
According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biography of Lü Bu, Zhang Miao, and Zang Hong: 'Chen Gui, the chancellor of Pei, feared that if Yuan Shu and Lü Bu formed a marriage alliance, Xu and Yang would unite, which would become a national disaster, so he went to persuade Lü Bu... Lü Bu then broke off the marriage, sent Han Yin back in chains, and had him beheaded in the market at Xu.' The plot in Chapter 16 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms where Chen Gui sees through and dissuades the marriage alliance is generally consistent with historical facts.
A famous scholar at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, father of Chen Deng. The official history does record the matter of dissuading the marriage alliance between Lü Bu and Yuan Shu, but the praise of Lü Bu arousing suspicion and sending his son to inform Liu Bei are both fictional.
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