Author: Our team Zhang Lan
This strategy, called Zhang Liang, the top strategist of the early Han Dynasty, exclaimed enough to make Liu Bang "go to his majesty's affairs" and "stupid enough to destroy the country", which was a "genius plan" of Liu Bang's old strategist Li Shiqi, and in today's words, it is called "the plan of dividing the Warring States and the Second Ancestor Of the Warring States".
204 BC was the year when Liu Bang, the "King of Han" in the Chu-Han War era, fought the hardest. Relying on the important town of Xingyang, he painstakingly carried the crazy attack of "King of Chu" Xiang Yu, and it seemed that he could not hold on to the rhythm. Li Shiqi, who had always been deeply trusted by him, triumphantly came up with this "victory trick": Why did the Great King see that Shang Tang and King Wu of Zhou succeeded? King Wu of Zhou sealed the descendants of the Shang Dynasty, shang Tang sealed the descendants of the Xia Dynasty, and the descendants of the Six Kingdoms of the Warring States are now all alive and kicking, if you canonize them, they will have no choice but to come to help them? You will be "Nanxiang hegemony" at that time, and Xiang Yu must obediently kneel in front of you!
Such a "genius plan" made Liu Bang feel like a shot in the arm on the spot, and immediately ordered Li Shiqi to leave quickly, and also Xingchong carved the Great Seal and granted Li Shi his great power. Then Zhang Liang, who came to see him, poured a cold meal of cold water and poured a cold heart: What kind of genius plan is this? It's called stupid home! At that time, King Shang Tang of Zhou Wu was able to do this because people had military power at that time, and you Liu Bang didn't have anything now, and it was also a blank cheque. Instead of listening to you, the gang will take your empty check, turn around and run to Xiang Yu's side. In that case, "Your Majesty will do the work." Isn't it the end of it?
This basin of "cold water" called Liu Bang to "quit eating and spitting and feeding" on the spot, that is, he vomited up all the food he ate, and scolded Li for eating his "vertical Confucianism" on the spot. The "Great Seal" that was originally intended to be authorized to Li Shiqi was also immediately destroyed. It is a matter of letting this "genius plan" come to an abrupt end. Many later generations of history readers talked about this matter, and they all followed Liu Bang's scolding of "vertical Confucianism" and ridiculed the stupidity of this offering. But is this Li Shiqi really so straw bale?
As Liu Bang's right-hand man in the early days of "entrepreneurship", Li Zhiqi was not a simple person, this well-known Confucian student in Chenliu, who was in his early sixties at the end of the Qin Dynasty, at first glance was an inconspicuous old Confucian. When Liu Bang led his soldiers to pass by Chen Liu, he came to vote for Liu Bang, but at that time, Liu Bang's thoughts were still stuck in the point of "holding a Confucian hat as a urinal pot", where did he treat him as a dish? When they met, they were also arrogant and rude, who knew that Li Shiqi talked a lot, and his analysis of the current situation was extremely accurate, so that Liu Bang was impressed on the spot, and immediately "Yan Lisheng (Li Shiqi) took the seat" and respectfully asked him for advice.
It was also with the assistance of Li Shiqi that Liu Bang in the early days of "entrepreneurship" smoothly straightened out the soldiers and horses, saved enough money and grain, broke through Qin all the way to the west, and saved up an "important bucket of gold" on the road to entrepreneurship. It can be seen that he who has a "stupid idea" is not a straw bag character.
So why is this whole out? You must know that the existence of the Qin Dynasty is only fifteen years, in other words, two-thirds of the years of life of an old Confucian like Li Shiqi were spent during the Warring States period when the nations competed for hegemony. The concept of "the son of heaven dividing the princes" and "the king dividing the doctors" has long been deeply rooted in the mind. It's no surprise that such an idea came up with. It can only be said that he is not stupid, and the pattern of his vision is really much worse than that of Zhang Liang, who is one of the "Three Masters of the Early Han Dynasty".
But the important value left by this allusion to future generations is not that Zhang Liang "who is strong and who is weak", but another real thinking: it is said that Liu Bang can win Xiang Yu, relying on strong employment ability, then what is the most important part of Liu Bang's "employment ability"? But it is precisely before and after this farce of "the strategy of national subjugation" that two many descendants "cannot learn" the skills: "error correction" and "fault tolerance" ability.
Let's start with the ability to "correct errors."] Liu Bang, who was excited at the beginning, after being poured cold water by Zhang Liang, not only could not eat and scolded him, but also "made fun to sell the seal", that is, quickly destroyed the seal and told this broken thing to stop. This high-speed "error correction" looks unbearable. But if you refer to the roller coaster-like process of defeat in the future generations, you know how "can't learn" the skill.
And this scene of "high-speed error correction" has been placed more than once in Liu Bang's life. For example, when I first learned about Li Shiqi's various pendulum scores, holding a Confucian hat to pee, but after being punched in the face by Li Shiqi, I immediately sincerely corrected my mistakes, and from then on, I took Li Shiqi as a confidant. Another example is that after taking away Han Xin, he was bitterly persuaded by Xiao He, and then he corrected his mistakes with "high intensity", don't you Han Xin think that the official is small? Then directly "go to the altar and worship the general". Even later, the "Siege of Baishan Mountain" with the Xiongnu made a big mistake before the war, belittled the strategist Lou Jing, and immediately after escaping death, he also immediately invited Lou Jing back, respectfully asking for advice...
It is said that "no one is a sage, but no one can be wrong." But when it comes to such a big thing as "fighting for the world", the speed at which a person "corrects" means that it is close to the speed of success. In this "learning", Liu Bang is really a high speed.
What is more interesting is his "fault tolerance". In this matter, you can also look at the details of this "genius plan" farce, after learning that the "genius plan" is the "pit daddy plan", Liu Bangqi scolded li for his "vertical Confucianism". But li shiqi, who had been scolded, had nothing but being scolded a few times. After the whole thing was turned over, he was still deeply trusted by Liu Bang and did the work of "chi envoy princes" that he was good at until he was martyred.
Liu Bang in the historical data often gives people the impression of "poor quality" and "love to scold people", but the ending of Li Shiqi proves that Liu Bang, who has "poor quality", is a person with a heart. As long as you have real talent and practical learning, as long as you are serious about doing things for me, then be bold to do it, don't be afraid of making mistakes, mistakes can at most stink you, and I will carry the responsibility.
This kind of "fault tolerance" is not only for Li Zhiyi. For example, Chen Ping, who made great contributions to him, also made a bunch of mistakes when he first defected to him. He was even reprimanded by Liu Bang for accepting bribes. However, after some long talks, Liu Bang, who recognized Chen Ping's ability, still trusted him, and even the "public funds" were open for Chen Ping to use, without reporting, without receiving receipts, as long as things were done, this was called Chen Ping "using gold to rebel against the Chu army", giving Xiang Yu a nest of internal reactions, and making a key contribution to the Chu-Han War.
Such a "fault-tolerant" magic pen seems simple and simple, but it is really "see you on the matter", but it is highly difficult. For example, if you look at Yuan Shao, who defeated Guandu, or Chongzhen, who committed suicide in coal mountains, you know how difficult it is to put others on such a "fault-tolerant" responsibility.
The real ingredient of success is not the wisdom and divine martial arts in the novel, but the seemingly simple, but extremely difficult to achieve "fault tolerance" and "error correction". The responsibility behind this is the great wisdom that determines victory or defeat. Han Gao zu Liu Bang is a vivid proof.
References: "History", "Book of Han", Li Bo", "From the History of Liu Bang to See Liu Bang's Art of Employing People", Liu Handong's "Interpretation of Historical Records, Dialysis of Liu Bang's Way of Employing People"