The root cause of Han Xin's murder was not that he had done a great job, but that his identity had changed. Liu Bang's killing of meritorious men is different from Zhu Yuanzhang's killing of heroes, zhu Yuanzhang's era did not have a crown king, and he specially picked up the head of the cut, through factional struggle, and killed all the powerful civilian and military generals.
Liu Bang is not, he wants to eliminate the princes, these princes are essentially warlord forces. Unfortunately, Han Xin's identity has also become a warlord, which is the root cause of his killing.
The two major forces of the Liu Bang Gongchen clique
Liu Bang's meritorious group can be divided into two distinct camps, one part is the civilian generals who follow Liu Bang's left and right, with the Fengpei group as the main trunk; the other part is the group of princes with different surnames.
The first part of the heroes is the core of Liu Bang's team, and the nostalgia bond and kinship relationship are the foundation, supplemented by Zhang Liangchen Pingping think tank members. This part of the personnel has experienced many life and death tests with Liu Bang, and their loyalty is very high, which is also the basis for Liu Bang's re-emergence after disaster.
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The second part of the heroes is more like Liu Bang's partners, the two sides take the change of interests as the benchmark, sometimes form an alliance, and sometimes part ways. For example, Wei Wangbao was once a partner of Liu Bang, and later switched to Xiang Yu; Yingbu was originally a subordinate of Xiang Yu, and later changed the court to join Liu Bang. Their behavior actually has only one weather vane: Liu Bang and Xiang Yu who can have the upper hand!
Part of them are "family members", they are strong backing, and some of them are "business partners", interests are leading, and it doesn't matter if they are loyal!
Liu Bang's political considerations of the two major forces
Obviously, there are different political considerations for these two major factions, Liu Bang.
First of all, the core members of the Fengpei Group are not only the foundation for achieving the world, but also the political core of the future empire. Moreover, this part of the heroes, in general, will not pose a fatal threat to the imperial power.
Among the courtiers, Zhang Liang retreated bravely; Chen Ping was not the material for the leader; Xiao He had this ability, but he also had self-knowledge, and made his attitude clear to Liu Bang early in a self-defiled manner.
Zhou Bo
Few of the martial generals were able to get their hands on it, and Cao Shen spent most of his time as Han Xin's deputy, and Zhou Bo, Fan Duo, and Dou Bao were not the top generals.
More importantly, there is no harmony within the Fengpei Group, and no one can bear the core strength. Xiao He had contradictions with Cao Shen; Fan Huan was close to Liu Bang; Chen Ping kept his distance from everyone; even Zhou Bo and Dou Bao, the two rising stars, were not monolithic.
In short, the only core of this part of the hero is Liu Bang, and any other person is not enough to have appeal. Even so, Liu Bang still cultivated a natural enemy for them - Lü Yan! Let the Gongchen group and the foreign relatives headed by Lü Yan balance each other.
Liu Bang's attitude towards the forces of the partners princes is very clear - clear! This part of the people is originally a cooperative relationship, the basis is the relationship of interests, unreliable. More critically, they all have military power and are essentially warlord forces.
Lu Lu
Taking Lu Xie as an example, he is Liu Bang's most trusted and closest partner, but in a complex political environment, he has even turned against each other. Where are the roots? With soldiers in hand, sitting on the throne of the princes, how can the mind still stay in the era when there is no entanglement of interests?
Therefore, the princes of different surnames are unreliable! In fact, later facts proved that not only the princes with different surnames were unreliable, but also the princes of the clan were also unreliable! With independent military power, it will slide into the abyss of the warlord and cannot be stopped!
This is the reason why Liu Bang is determined to cut off the princes!
Han Xin's role reversal is at the root of his tragedy
Originally, Han Xin's identity was a core member of Liu Bang, but unfortunately, it later changed and became a prince, which is the reason why Han Xin must die. So how does this process happen?
In that year, Liu Bang's soldiers came out of Hanzhong, and Han Xin was like a sharp blade of his, always independent, capturing the pass for Liu Bang, and at the same time providing Liu Bang with a free source of well-trained soldiers.
Han Xin
Originally, this structure is very delicate, and if a senior general leads the army for a long time, the relationship between master and servant will be very delicate. However, Liu Bang was not stupid, he planted nails around Han Xin, and Cao Shen, as Han Xin's assistant and supervisor, always accompanied him.
Every time Han Xin hit a place, Liu Bang sent someone to take over, and Han Xin continued to aim at the next target. If he continues to walk at this pace, Han Xin will definitely take the credit to the greatest, and the merit will be retired. Change is happening in Qidi!
Just as Han Xin was preparing to attack the State of Qi, Li Yiqi jumped out and persuaded Tian Guang to surrender with one mouth! Originally, this was a good thing, but Han Xin, under the charm of Qu Tong, disregarded the fact that the King of Qi had surrendered, and launched an attack on the State of Qi. The caught off guard by Qi was taken down by Han Xin, but Li Shiqi became Tian Guang's sword ghost!
After Han Xin took Qidi, he began to swell and demanded that Liu Bang make him a false King of Qi. Although Liu Bang was reluctant, he was forced to make Han Xin the King of Qi due to the pressure of the situation.
Peng Yue
The turning point for Han Xin was this time to ask for the king of Qi, and from this time on, Han Xin had actually transformed into a warlord, and his instructions to Liu Bang were no longer carried out to the letter, but played with his heart. In the final battle to besiege Xiang Yu, he and Peng Yue took advantage of the reason to delay in place, so that Liu Bang was bitten by Xiang Yu again.
Liu Bang was forced to adopt Zhang Liang's strategy and demarcate fiefs with them, and Han Xin was late in coming.
Han Xingong became a few nodes of retirement
Through the above process, we can clearly find that Han Xin's psychology has changed a lot before and after obtaining Qidi. It may be that they feel that their credit is too great and they have not received corresponding returns, so they do not hesitate to reach out.
His adviser Qu Tong also played a very bad role, not to give Han Xin the right guidance, but to encourage him to go down the path of warlords. In this way, Han Xin hardened himself from the core member of Liu Bang to Liu Bang's collaborators. It looks more expensive, but in fact, it has forced itself into a dead end!
To sum up, the reason why Han Xin was killed was that Liu Bang was motivated by the political need to eliminate the princes, and subjectively, Han Xin's personal psychological dissatisfaction and self-awareness led to his becoming more and more passive. In turn, he forced himself into a dead end, which actually had little to do with the so-called Gong Gao Gai Lord.