As the old saying goes, "A good woman does not serve her second husband, and a loyal servant does not do two things", although this sentence is not entirely correct, it highlights the importance of the word "loyalty". If you are not loyal to your feelings, you naturally cannot get real feelings; if you are not loyal to your career, it is difficult to succeed; and if you are disloyal to the emperor, it is a complete and all-year-round scourge of beheading.
Ding Gu once saved Liu Bang's life, and after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he also rewarded meritorious heroes. But when his savior Ding Gu found out that he wanted a certain official and a half-job, Liu Bang ruthlessly executed Ding Gu, and Liu Bang's reason was "disloyalty for his subjects".
The story also goes back to the last years of the Qin Dynasty, when Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, he built a large number of civil engineering and forced conquests, forcibly arresting people to repair the Great Wall and Afang Palace. After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Qin II Hu Hai was even more brutal, making the people even more unhappy and mournful, so Chen Sheng Wu Guang rose up and opened the story of anti-Qin.
After the defeat of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu took over the burden of the two and continued to rebel against the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. In 209 AD, Liu Bang responded to Chen Sheng's wu guang's situation and organized an army of 3,000 people in Pei County, and from then on embarked on the road of anti-Qin. At the same time, in the Wuzhong region, Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu were even more powerful, and there were already tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
Soon, Liu Bang's troops grew rapidly under the continuous attack and became one of the most powerful forces in the rebel army, second only to xiang liang xiangyu's Chu army. The dragons could not be leaderless, so after a few months, Liu Bang Xiangyu joined forces and established XiongXin as the King of Chu Huai, and under the orders of the King of Chu Huai, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu began to march in two ways to attack the Qin Dynasty.
As a result, Liu Bang took the lead in entering Guanzhong, took the city of Xianyang, and in 207 BC obtained the Chuanguo Jade Seal, and Liu Bang began to claim himself the King of Guanzhong. However, at this time, Xiang Yu's army was far greater than Liu Bang's, so it was not long before Xiang Yu went straight to Guanzhong and set up a feast at the Hongmen Gate, if it were not for Xiang Bo's rescue, Liu Bang would inevitably die in the Chu camp, so Chu and Han were completely enmity and began to attack each other.
At that time, Liu Bang only had 100,000 soldiers and horses, while Xiang Yu had 400,000 elite soldiers, and Liu Bang was naturally not an opponent. The most tragic one was the Battle of Pengcheng in 205 BC, when the entire anti-Chu alliance was crushed in one fell swoop, and Liu Bang could only flee with dozens of soldiers.
At that time, Ding Gu was a general under Xiang Yu's tent, and was ordered to pursue Liu Bang, who fled, and caught up with the remnants of Liu Bang's army west of Pengcheng, so that the two armies fought a big battle. Liu Bang saw that the few soldiers around him were dying one by one, and Liu Bang, who had received death threats, could not care about his face and began to pat Ding Gu's horses.
He shouted at Ding Gu: "Ding Gong, you are a character, a hero, I Liu Bang is not too bad, why should we hurt each other?" It is better to let me go, and I will definitely repay the spring in the future! Ding Gu was actually a little weak in his heart, and the soldiers and horses he brought to pursue Liu Bang were not too many, and he could not capture Liu Bang 100%, thinking that it would be better to sell Liu Bang a person and leave himself one more way out. Therefore, Ding Gu let Liu Bang go in this way.
As a result, 3 years later, Liu Bang learned from the various experiences of previous defeats, counterattacked, began to gain the upper hand in the Chu-Han dispute, and defeated Xiang Yu's army in one fell swoop in the Battle of Xiaxia, and Xiang Yu finally killed himself in Wujiang, so the world was thus returned to Liu Bang.
In 202 AD, Liu Bang unified the Central Plains and began to give great rewards, Han Xin became the King of Chu, Peng Yue became the King of Liang, and Ding Gu thought that he had spared Liu Bang once, which was equivalent to saving his life.
Therefore, Ding Gu met Liu Bang in this way and explained his intentions. However, when Liu Bang heard that Ding Gu wanted to be an official, he was furious, saying that since Ding Gu was able to betray Xiang Yu in that year, he would naturally be able to betray Liu Bang in the future, so he killed Ding Gu. Ding Gu died because of his disloyalty, if Ding Gu killed Liu Bang in the Battle of Pengcheng that year, and took Liu Bang's head to receive the reward instead of thinking of speculation, how could he get such an ending?