At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the whole country was in flames, and finally after The rebel army dominated by Xiang Yu overthrew the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu did one of the most important things, that is, to divide the eighteen princes of the world, of which we are most familiar with Liu Bang was crowned king of Han. Xiang Yu crowned himself as the Overlord of Western Chu.
However, we know that xiang yu's division of the seal, relatively speaking, most of the people are princes with different surnames, unlike when Liu Bang was divided later. Most of them were their own relatives, and later a large number of people with different surnames eventually became an object of extermination. Moreover, Qin Shi Huang directly did not divide the seal of any one, so in such a situation. Indeed, Xiang Yu's division was relatively fairer.
At that time, after us, most of the princes were basically opponents of Xiang Yu, the most obvious of which was the State of Qi. It had always been against Xiang Yu's army. It was precisely because of the rebellion of the State of Qi that many xiangjia troops at that time were pinned down in the territory of the State of Qi. As a result, Xiang Yu was always unable to deal well with Liu Bang's attack, resulting in the final defeat.
We know that the reason why Xiang Yu made the act of dividing the seals was because in his mind he believed that the Qin State was defeated by him, that is to say, he took the place of the Qin State and had the power to dominate the whole world. So he thinks he has the ability, and indeed the strength to divide the world. After all, the 200,000-strong field army of the most important army of the Qin State at that time was defeated by Xiang Yu, so Xiang Yu was also very powerful.
But after all, for other countries, Xiang Yu was really anti-Qin in the name of King Huai of Chu, although this King of Chu Huai was only a puppet. However, for the clans of other countries, King Huai of Chu was no higher than his own status. And you are only a general. Therefore, in the minds of the princes, in fact, xiang Yu's status was not recognized. So it is precisely because of this that it leads to a problem. That is, after Xiang Yu was sealed, it was completely dependent on the strength to forcibly divide the seal.
Although Xiang Yu was all princes with different surnames, the people who were divided by Xiang Yu were basically people who had been in his military camp, that is to say, they were all people who were toward Xiang Yu in their hearts. For example, the first person to rebel against the State of Qin in the territory of the State of Qi was Tian Dan, and after being killed by the Qin army, his younger brother Tian Rong continued to lead the army of the State of Qi to resist, but When Xiang Yu was divided, he divided the position of King of Qi to a person named Tian Du, who had a relatively good relationship with Xiang Yu, and this person was originally a subordinate of Tian Rong. So naturally there will be contradictions.
It is precisely because of this that Xiang Yu's division looks fair, but it is not conducive to the unity of the world. It only created a lot of contradictions in different countries, so after Xiang Yu was divided, it did not reach the existence of the Zhou Dynasty for a relatively long time.