Born to be a master, death is also a ghost male. Still thinking about Xiang Yu, he refused to cross Jiangdong - Li Qingzhao
In my history, Xiang Yu was a very respected figure, and even Sima Qian wrote him into the ranks of the "Benji" and enjoyed the honor that only an emperor should have.
However, such a hero finally killed himself in Wujiang, which made people sigh endlessly. It is worth mentioning that in the process of capturing Xiang Yu, Liu Bang had made a promise that the people who killed Xiang Yu would be rewarded.
Later, on the edge of the Wu River, five people obtained Xiang Yu's body. So, who are these five people? Did they get a reward from Liu Bang?
The Overlord of Western Chu who was half-alive
Xiang Yu was the grandson of the famous Chu general Xiang Yan, and from an early age he had the ambition of "ten thousand enemies", and after Qin destroyed Chu, he followed his uncle Xiang Liang to flee to various countries for refuge.
After the Dazexiang Rebellion of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang broke out, Xiang Liang became a rebel army and supported Xiong Xin, the king of Chuhuai, and Xiang Yu also began his legendary life at this time.
After a battle with the Qin general Zhang Handan, Xiang Liang was defeated and killed, and Xiang Yu became the leader of the rebel army. At that time, the Qin army, with the power of great victory, was stationed in the giant deer belt, preparing to annex the rebel army in one fell swoop.
At the critical moment, King Huai of Chu ordered Song Yi to lead the army to engage the Qin army, but Song Yi was timid and afraid of things, and stopped moving, and as a result, Song Yi was killed by Xiang Yu halfway through. Thus, the Battle of the Giant Deer began.
In this battle, Xiang Yu defeated the 400,000 troops of the Qin general Zhang Handan with a small victory with a small number of troops of 50,000 troops, and the crisis situation of the rebel army was completely reversed. Speaking of this, I have to mention another person, that is, Liu Bang.
It is said that after the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, Liu Bang also rose up in line with the trend and slowly developed into a not small force. When King Huai of Chu ordered Song Yi to engage Zhang Handan, he also asked Liu Bang to attack Guanzhong from the south, and made a pact that "the first to enter Guanzhong is the king".
As a result, Xiang Yu was very stiff in the giant deer, but Liu Bang did not receive much resistance, and it did not take long to break into Guanzhong. At this time, his situation with Xiang Yu also began to become awkward.
Xiang Yu held 400,000 elite troops stationed in Zabashang, while Liu Bang only had a mere 100,000 "shrimp soldiers and crab generals", and how to fight was not Xiang Yu's opponent, and the Hongmen banquet happened in this situation.
Fortunately, after Some Operation by Zhang Liang, Liu Bang successfully escaped Xiang Yu's pursuit at the Hongmen Banquet. However, in the later sub-sealing, Liu Bang was sealed in the Bashu area.
For this result, Liu Bang has been hidden, after years of lying on the salary and tasting the guts, finally in a few years only out of Bashu, chasing deer in the Central Plains, and launched a decade-long war for hegemony with Xiang Yu.
In this war, although Xiang Yu has always had a "heroic" performance, he cannot resist Liu Bang's "rogue Fan" behavior, and also lays the groundwork for his final defeat.
The body was brutally dismembered on the edge of the Wu River
Nearly ten years after the conquest, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang signed an armistice agreement at the time of the gap, but Liu Bang took advantage of his lack of preparation and unilaterally tore up the agreement and secretly attacked Xiang Yu's army.
Under the forced engagement, Xiang Yu's large army was surrounded by layers, and the fall of the fallen and the embattled song gradually crushed the psychological defense line of the Chu army, and finally Xiang Yu only took a dozen horses out of the encirclement.
Unfortunately, Xiang Yu was destroyed, and a long Wu River stretched across his escape path. Xiang Yu, who had no way to retreat, turned back to fight the Han army, and chose to kill himself under the defeat, ending his legendary life.
Before Xiang Yu killed himself, he also saw a "fellow countryman" from the Han army, and the two held swords against each other, and also had a conversation. Xiang Yu said, "I heard that Liu Bang offered a reward of 10,000 taels to buy my head, and also rewarded 10,000 households, so I will give you a credit." ”
After saying that, Xiang Yu committed suicide! As mentioned above, because the temptation of Liu Bang's reward was too great, so after his death, the Han army rushed up and divided his body, which was recorded to be divided into five pieces.
Xiang Yu's "fellow countryman" was named Lü Matong, and there was some information that Lü Matong was once friends with Xiang Yu, but when he later joined the army, Lü Matong became Liu Bang's subordinate.
After Xiang Yu's death, his body was a piece of "big fat meat", although Xiang Yu indicated that he would give him all the credit, but Lü Ma Tong "couldn't eat it" and only got one-fifth of Xiang Yu.
Yang Xi, Lü Sheng, Yang Wu, and three others took three-fifths of Xiang Yu's body, and Xiang Yu's most important head fell into the hands of Lü Matong's superior, a man named Wang Feng, who had been a general of the Qin state and later defected to Liu Bang.
Then, when these people went to Liu Bang with Xiang Yu's corpse to ask for a reward, what rewards did they receive? Or did Liu Bang keep his promise? The answer is yes.
A group of five who are enthroned as worshippers
Let's take a look at Lü Matong first, because he was the first person to get Xiang Yu's body, so the merit was relatively large, and he was named the Marquis of Shui by Liu Bang, ranking 101 of the founding heroes of the Western Han Dynasty and 1500 households.
Look at Lü Matong's superior, Wang Fei, who was also rewarded quite well because he got xiang yu's "skull" part. He was rewarded by Liu Bang as the Marquis of Duyan, and because of his relatively high official position, he received 1700 households.
Then there was Lü Sheng, whose ranking was similar to that of Lü Matong and Wang Feng, and was named the Marquis of Neyang by Liu Bang, with 1500 households under his name. Although Lü Sheng is also surnamed Lü, he does not have much relationship with Lü Yan, and his military merit is also solid.
The second was Yang Xi, who was made the Marquis of Chiquan by Liu Bang and received a reward of up to 1900 households, which was also the most enthroned person in The Food Yi. It is worth mentioning that by relying on this reward Yang Xi gradually made a fortune, through hundreds of years of development, it has become a famous "Hongnong Yang Clan" in history.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the Hongnong Yang clan once influenced the trend of the times, and Yang Xiu and others were one of the people of the Hongnong Yang family. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Hongnong Yang clan was also a big family, and the Sui Emperor Yang Jian was one of them, until Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian came to power, vigorously promoted the imperial examination, and reused the han disciples, the Hongnong Yang clan slowly withdrew from the big stage of history.
Finally, there was the hero Yang Wu, who, for some reason, ranked the highest among these five people, 94, and was named the Marquis of Wufang by Liu Bang.
Interestingly, although Yang Wu's title was the highest, his reward was the best, only the average of the above four, about 700 households, and his family also declined the fastest. It can also be seen that the larger the capital, the slower the decline of the family.
In fact, from the perspective of the matter of this award, it is also possible to find out the root cause of Liu Bang's victory and Xiang Yu's failure. Soldiers came out to fight for the sake of glory and prosperity, but Liu Bang was able to give the soldiers what they wanted, and he kept his promise.
On the other hand, although Xiang Yu could share weal and woe with the soldiers, when discussing merits and rewards, he was unwilling to share their wealth and status, and only used "feelings" to say things, no wonder he would fail in the end, after all, there were no eternal friends, only eternal interests.