Before telling you a story about a Han surnamed Shusheng persuading Xiang Yu to build the capital of Guanzhong and dominate the world, but unfortunately Xiang Yu listened to it and did not use it, and finally ushered in an embattled song.
Today I will tell you the story of another scholar who offered advice to Liu Bang, just to make another comparison, let us discuss the success or failure again, and count the heroes.
One man can be safe in the world
As always, let's briefly introduce the background of the story.
In 205 BC, Liu Bang listened to dong gong's advice in Yichuan, Luoyang, and after mourning the righteous emperor Chu Huai, he quickly developed and grew, leading more than 500,000 soldiers and horses of various princes all the way to the east, and soon laid the foundation of Xiang Yu's hometown of Pengcheng.
The victory came too suddenly, and Liu Bang floated up at once, thinking that he was really "pulling up the mountain and being angry in the world", and Xiang Yu was no more than that. As a result, a good card was played, more than half a million troops were beaten by Xiang Yu overnight, Liu Bang was even more head-tied, and he was extremely embarrassed, and his father and wife were also lost on the way to escape, and he was so anxious that he almost had to push a pair of his own children out of the car and throw them away.
Life is full of joys and sorrows, ups and downs, it is really exciting! Therefore, the matter of rebelling and fighting the world is really not something that ordinary people can do, and ordinary people still eat melons and watch dramas.
Liu Bang was chased and killed by Xiang Yu all the way, until Xingyang was able to gain a firm foothold, at this time the scattered troops were also gathered one after another, Xiao He sent soldiers and horses money and food from Guanzhong, so Liu Bang recovered his vitality and began a years-long Chu-Han confrontation with Xiang Yu between Xingyang and Chenggao. On both sides, you enter and retreat, you take me, and for a moment and a half there is no good way.
Chu River Han Boundary
Once Liu Bang left Xingyang and returned to Guanzhong, preparing to gather his forces and march east again.
At this time, a scholar came to see Liu Bang. This scholar is called "Yuansheng" in the history book, probably surnamed Yuanba, and did not leave his real name.
Yuansheng offered a plan to Liu Bang and said: "The Han army and the Chu army have been holding each other in Xingyang for several years, and the Han army is often passively defensive and in trouble, so it is not a way to go." ”
As soon as Liu Bang heard this, he knew that this Yuansheng was a master, so he hurriedly asked Yuansheng for countermeasures.
Yuansheng then said, "King of Han, if you want to change your passive to active, you can pretend to send troops to Wuguan in the southeast direction, and Xiang Yu will inevitably lead the troops to the south to intercept it." At that time, the King of Han will be there in the deep ditch and high fortress, unable to hold out, so that Xiang Yu cannot quickly solve the battle, divide the troops and fight and are tired of running for their lives, so that the Han army on the front line of Xingyang and Chenggao can be rested and reverse the situation of passive beating;
At the same time, this also allowed Han Xin and others to take the Zhao state north of the Yellow River, and then they could well appease the local military and people for their own use, transform the fruits of victory into their own strength, establish a foothold in the Zhao country, and then lay the foundation for them to attack Yan and Qi.
At that time, the King of Han will then go to Xingyang and command the battle in the middle. In this way, the Chu army fell into a passive situation of being surrounded on all sides, needing to be fortified in many places, and the troops would be dispersed; but our Han army was fully rested, so that if we fought with the Chu army again, we would definitely be able to crush them! ”
Liu Bang listened, clapped his hands in praise, and immediately adopted Yuansheng's strategy and sent troops in the direction of Wuguan. After Xiang Yu heard about it, he did indeed lead the troops south, and everything was carried out according to Yuansheng's plan, and Liu Bang's army quickly changed from passive to active, and began to lead Xiang Yu's nose everywhere.
If Xiang Yu doesn't come, you boy will wait
Compared with Xiang Yu, why is Liu Bang the final victor?
It is because Liu Bang respects talents, is as good as a stream, is good at taking the advice of the counselors, makes correct decisions, and dares to correct his mistakes.
For example, listening to Xiao He's advice to go to Hanzhong, then listening to Xiao He's suggestion to reuse Han Xin, then adopting Han Xin's suggestion to recover Guanzhong, and then adopting Zhang Liang's suggestion at a critical moment to seal Han Xin as the King of Qi and thus defeat Xiang Yu, etc.
Of course, it also includes adopting the suggestions of many small people such as Yuansheng and Dong Gong, and always letting yourself walk on the right path.
The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear.
Chu and Han Xingyang held each other, the Han army has always been in a passive defensive situation, most of the people in it only think about how to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, so they constantly increase troops, constantly tug-of-war, and fall into a small circle of competition for a city and a place, at this time what is most needed is the overall situation thinking.
Yuansheng's suggestion, like during the suspension of a glued game, the off-court instructor re-made a global tactical arrangement for the contestants with an extremely calm mind, so that Liu Bang, the contestant, immediately changed the situation of passive beating and began to take the initiative to change his moves, allowing Xiang Yu to enter the innings he set step by step.
This story tells us that when things are deadlocked, we must be good at changing strategies, and we must learn to change from passive to active;
Although many things are very urgent, we must learn to slow down and give ourselves a little time to think calmly in order to make correct decisions, so as to solve problems faster and better.