What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Records of history record the Feast of Hongmen as follows:
Chu Zuo Yin Xiang Bo, Xiang Yu Ji Father Ye, Su Shan Liu Hou Zhang Liang. Zhang Liang was the Duke of Pei, and Xiang Bo was the Pei Gongjun of the Night Race, and when he saw Zhang Liang privately, he told zhang Liang about the matter, and wanted to call Zhang Liang to go with him, saying: "Don't die from the club." Zhang Liangyue: "The subject sent Pei Gong for the King of Han, pei gong is in a hurry, and the death is unjust, and it must not be silent." ”
The translation is: Zuo Yin Xiangbo of the Chu State was Xiang Yu's uncle, and he had always been friendly with Zhang Liang, the Marquis of Liu. Zhang Liang was following Liu Bang at this time. Xiang Bo rode to Liu Bang's military camp overnight, met with Zhang Liang privately, told him in detail about the matter, wanted zhang Liang to leave with him, and said, "Don't die with (Liu Bang) with them."
Therefore, at the Hongmen banquet in the back, Xiang Yu did not kill Liu Bang, so that he left behind troubles and hated eternity. In addition to criticizing Xiang Yu's shortcomings such as being simple-minded, short-sighted, indecisive, and selling fame and reputation, people even criticized Xiang Bo's willingness to be the enemy's traitor, and some people even thought that Xiang Yu's Jiangshan was robbed by Liu Bang because of Xiang Bo's internal traitor and leaking secrets.
Who is Xiang Bo? Why did he whistleblow?
"Chu Zuo Yin Xiang Bo, Xiang Yu Ji Father also." "Zuo Yin" (左尹), also known as Zuo Lingyin (左令尹), is the military and political governor of the country second only to Ling Yin, and is obviously a high-ranking official; "Ji Father" is the uncle, and it can be seen that he is Xiang Yu's relative. From the Hongmen banquet, "Xiang Wang Xiang Bodong sat in the direction" ——— sat with Xiang Yu on the throne (at that time, the east direction was respected), which showed his position in the Chu army and also showed that he was deeply respected by Xiang Yu. If so, why was he willing to commit adultery?
In fact, the content of the "History" already tells us that under the circumstances at that time, Xiang Bo should also have its rationality in doing so, that is, because of Zhang Liang.
Zhang Liang also had a small team of his own when he started the army, and only became his subordinate after meeting Liu Bang, which was a relationship between superiors and subordinates. Later, when the situation developed, Zhang Liang became a subordinate of the "Righteous Emperor" Chu Wangxin, who was nominally equal to Liu Bang, and was assigned by Xiang Liang, the actual ruler at the time, to find a descendant of the Korean ——— Han Gongzi Hengyang Jun "Cheng" (Zhang Liang himself was a descendant of the Korean minister), Han Cheng was established by Emperor Yi (actually Xiang Liang) as the queen of Han, Zhang Liang changed into a disciple of the King of Han (Xiang Guo), and together with the King of Han led an army to capture Han, until the time when the Duke of Pei "came out of Luoyang South", Zhang Liang "led the army from the Duke of Pei". At this time, his relationship with Pei Gong was no longer "genus" but "subordinate".
After Xiang Yu divided the kings (the first year of the Han Dynasty), when the King of Han was going to take office in the fief of Bashu, Zhang Liang also went to send him, and Liu Bang, the King of Han, listened to Zhang Liang's advice and burned down the boardwalk, and also sent Zhang Liang back to Han Wangcheng's side. In the last paragraph, xiang Yu, because he did not trust King Han, first did not allow him to return to the fiefdom, then demoted him to the title of "Marquis", and finally "killed (Han Wangcheng) in Pengcheng", at this time Zhang Liang was cornered, so he secretly fled to Liu Bang.
That is to say, before Liu Bang also fixed the Three Qins (Han Three Years), Zhang Liang was with Liu Bang, except for a short period of time in the early stage, the rest of the time, the identity has always been a relatively free guest, and Liu Bang is a relatively loose relationship between the main and the guest, rather than a strict relationship between superiors and subordinates.
Before the Hongmen Banquet incident, Xiang Bota, as a senior official of Xiang Yu's troops, had been working with Emperor Yi, Xiang Yu, Pei Gong, Han Wang, and Zhang Liang, and was very aware of zhang liang's relationship with Liu Bang, and of course understood that Zhang Liang could leave at any time in Liu Bang's troops without being "disciplined.". As a soldier, he naturally understood that the matter of "Serving as a soldier in order to break the Pei Gong Army" was highly confidential, but in Mr. Xiang Bo's mind, he only thought that Zhang Liang was a guest secretary, had the freedom to come and go, and would choose to leave at the moment of life and death, and absolutely did not expect that the relationship between Zhang Liang and Liu Bang was so close. It is also possible that based on this idea, in order to rescue Zhang Liang, who had the grace of saving his life, he made the stupid thing of "the Pei Gongjun of the Night, privately seeIng Zhang Liang, telling things, and wanting to call Zhang Liang to go with him".
At this time, Xiang Bo should not be a "traitor" in the strict sense, at least not in terms of subjective ideas. As for being later used by Zhang Liang and deceived by Liu Bang's various means, he embarked on the road of "internal traitor" step by step, which he himself did not expect before.