Han Xinbai will be a beautiful talk recorded in the "Records of History", which is the most typical example of Liu Banghui's insight into people.
However, looking at the relevant contents of the historical records, it was found that this matter was only recorded in the "Xiao Xiangguo Family" and "The Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin" in the "Records of History", but this matter was not mentioned in the "Gao Zu Benji".
What is even more bizarre is that Han Xin bai also set a record of the Battle of the Three Qins after the general.
In August, the King of Han used Han Xin's strategy to return from his hometown and attack the Yong King Zhang Handan. Handan attacked Han Chencang, the Yong army was defeated, and left; the battle was stopped, and then it was defeated again, and the hill was abandoned. The King of Han then fixed Yongdi. (Takazu Honki)
So the king of Han was overjoyed, thinking that he had been late in believing. He listened to the plan and deployed the generals to strike. In August, the King of Han raised an army to the east to leave Chen Cang and set the Three Qins. In the second year of the Han Dynasty, he went out of the customs and collected Wei and Henan, and the kings of Han and Yin all surrendered. (Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin)
What is the blame for these two records?
Judging from the contents revealed in the above two "Records of History", Liu Bang only listened to Han Xin's plan, and he was doing everything he did by dispatching troops and generals to lead the army to attack, and Han Xin only played the role of a staff officer from beginning to end in the three Qins.
Before Han Xin was worshipped as a general, his position was supposed to be that of a lieutenant colonel, but only a mid-level officer in charge of logistics. Compared with those old brothers in Pei County who came to Hanzhong with Liu Bang in a bloody battle, Han Xin could not be compared with the prestige or merit in the Han army. Therefore, Liu Bang bypassed his own gang of old brothers in Pei County and appointed Han Xin as a general, which would definitely cause a lot of backlash in the army, which was not good for Liu Bang to control the Han army and maintain the morale of the Han army.
Liu Bang's worship of Han Xin as a general can be said to be knowing that he cannot do it, so naturally he wants to reuse Han Xin, otherwise what is the meaning of worshiping the general. However, in the Three Qins, Liu Bang's use of Han Xin only made him a staff officer. In the face of Liu Bang's cold treatment, would Han Xin still be grateful to Liu Bang for worshipping him as a great general?
Liu Bang's worship of Han Xin for this operation not only made the old brothers in Pei County eat a fly one by one, but also made Han Xin, who was worshiped as a general, very depressed. In other words, Liu Bang's worship of Han Xin as a great general was completely meaningless, and the result was that everyone was unhappy and increased the contradictions within the Han army.
Why would Liu Bang, such a brilliant person, do he want to do such a thing that does not benefit him at all and offends everyone?
The Xiao Xiangguo Shijia records Han Xin as a general even more briefly, saying 'He Jinyan Han Xin, the King of Han takes Xin as a great general'. It seems to be only to emphasize that Han Xin, a great general, relies on Xiao He's recommendation, and adds some credibility to Han Xinbai.
So when was Han Xin, who was worshiped as a great general, first lead the army alone to fight?
In the second year (205 BC), Han Wang Chang did not listen, causing Han Xin to break it.
According to the content revealed in the "History of Gao Zu Benji", it seems that Han Xin's first time leading the army alone should be Zheng Chang, the King of Han placed by Xiang Chu, but immediately after that, there is a sentence that makes Han Taiwei Xin the King of Han.
There were two Han Xin during the Chu and Han Dynasties, and in order to distinguish them, the Records of History refers to another Han Xin who fought with Zhang Liang in Han Province as Han Wang Xin. Combined with the context and the deeds of Han Wangxin, the Han Xin who broke Han Wangchang in the "Gao Zu Benji" should be Han Wangxin.
Hey? So when did the generation of soldiers Han Xin lead the troops alone?
According to the information revealed by the "Marquis of Huaiyin", it seems that it should be the Battle of Jingsuo.
After figuring out which Han Xin, the leader of the soldiers who appeared after the Three Qins, in the Gao zu Benji, was han xin, the code word found a strange thing. The great han general Han Xin actually only put forward a plan before returning the Three Qins, and disappeared in the following time, not even the famous Battle of Pengcheng.
Is this normal?
Speaking of the Battle of Jingsuo, this battle was also the first time in Liu Bang's life that the main force of the Han army was handed over to others to command. In Liu Bang's life, he only gave the main force of the Han army to the command of others three times. In addition to the Battle of Jingsuo, there was only the Battle of Xiaxia, which gave the main force of the Han army to Han Xin's command, and the main force of the Han army to Fan Yu to continue to suppress the rebellion.
All three battles have a common feature, Liu Bang has just suffered a big defeat.
Before the Battle of Jingsuo, Liu Bang suffered the worst defeat of his life, the defeat of Pengcheng;
Before the Battle of Xiaxia, Liu Bang betrayed his faith and chased after the Chu army, but was defeated by the Chu army at Guling;
Before Fan Duo commanded the Han army to continue to suppress Han Wangxin, he was besieged by the Xiongnu at Pingcheng for seven days and seven nights.
Although these three times have a common background of Liu Bang's failure, the background of Han Xin and Fan Duo's appointment is not the same. Before the Battle of Xiaxia, Han Xinfu captured Wei Leopard, broke the Zhao army with his back to the water, defeated the Qi army, built a dam to slay the dragon, and fought a bunch of immortal wars, and has become the world's recognized first general. After Cao San went to the State of Qi as chancellor, the most talented general around Liu Bang was Fan Duo, so it was logical that Liu Bang handed over the army twice.
However, the Battle of Jingsuo handed over the army to Han Xin, which seemed very nonsensical from Liu Bang's resume. Reading the "Records of History", we can understand that Liu Bang attached great importance to military power, and when he was dying, he was worried that Fan Duo would join forces with Lü Hou, and he also specially sent Zhou Bo and Chen Ping to kill Fan Duo, who was about to lead the expedition.
Moreover, the level of Liu Bang's leadership was also first-class in the entire Chu and Han figures, and there were few opponents except For Xiang Yu during the Chu and Han dynasties. For this point, the famous general Yingbu of the Chu and Han dynasties gave a certification, and he made it clear after the rebellion that he was not afraid of who the Han generals would come, and he was only afraid of Liu Bang personally arriving. Therefore, if Liu Bang is to give the army to a person to command, then this person must have a level that can convince Liu Bang.
But the level han xin showed before the Battle of Jingsuo could convince Liu Bang?
The Battle of Jingsuo was a crucial battle between Chu and Han, and if the Han army lost, Xiang Chu's army would go straight to Guanzhong, so that the Han Dynasty would probably cease to exist. Han Xin, who was entrusted by Liu Bang with the heavy responsibility of commanding the entire army of the Han Army, did not have any record of leading troops to fight before the Battle of Jingsuo, and his talent was manifested in logistics and advice, and these performances were enough to make Liu Bang, who regarded the military power as his destiny, hand over the Han army to him?
Isn't this a bit of a feeling of being in a hurry to go to the doctor, liu Bang is such a chaotic person?
Just as the appointment of Han Xin as a great general will inevitably lead to a backlash among the old brothers of Peixian County, the command of the Battle of Jingsuo, which determined the fate of the Han Kingdom, will inevitably lead to a greater backlash from the old brothers of Pei County. However, Han Xin commanded the Battle of Jingsuo, but there was no record of the dissatisfaction of the old peixian brothers, as if everyone took it for granted that he should command it.
Then there is only one possibility, Han Xin has a convincing performance in the past and has been recognized by everyone, and this performance can only lead the battle.
But in the historical records, Han Xin did not have any record of leading the battle before the Battle of Jingsuo?
When it comes to the Battle of Pengcheng, everyone has always had a question, where is Han Xin?
Did he besiege Zhang Handan in Guanzhong, or did he follow Liu Bang to Chu?
Xinfu and the Han king would meet Xingyang and re-attack between Chu Jing and Suo, so that the Chu soldiers could not go west.
This vague record of Han Xin commanding the Battle of Jingsuo in the Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin provides us with the possibility of Han Xin before the Battle of Pengcheng.
Here Sima Qian uses two compound characters in a row, the first compound meaning is somewhat vague, there are two possibilities:
The first type of Han Xin had collected scattered troops somewhere before collecting the Han army that had retreated from Pengcheng to the vicinity of Xingyang;
The second type of Han Xin and Liu Bang met again in Xingyang.
But either way, it all shows one thing, Han Xin is not far from Xingyang. Therefore, Han Xin should have followed Liu Bang to Cut Chu, but he did not follow Liu Bang to Pengcheng, and it is likely that he stayed in Xingyang. The Great Han General did not lead the army to attack Pengcheng, but was left behind in xingyang to guard the rear road of the Han army, is this what a great general should do? This should be what Liu Bang did, right?
And the meaning of the second compound word is very clear, Han Xin has defeated the Chu army before!
Liu Bang also determined that the Three Qins began in August 206 BC, when Xiang Yu had no time to rescue the Three Kings of Guanzhong because the State of Qi above him rebelled against himself. In the first month of 205 BC, he personally led the main force of the Chu army to attack Qi, at which time Liu Bang took the opportunity to attack The Korea established by Xiang Chu and continued to seize a large area of Xiang Chu to the east. Although Xiang Yu could not fight back immediately because he was trapped in QiDi, when the Han army went to steal the home of Xiang Chu's family Pengcheng in April, he must have made some arrangements in the west.
Based on these limited information, combined with the above two compound words, the codeword makes the following inference:
During Han Xin's stay in Xingyang, a certain unit of the Chu army launched a counterattack near Xingyang, and the local Han army failed to block the army and collapsed. Han Xin gathered these defeated troops and launched a counterattack to defeat the Chu army, and he was likely to take advantage of the victory to attack the city deep into Chu. Just as he was advancing eastward, Dao encountered the Han army's defeated troops from Pengcheng, and after collecting these defeated troops, he quickly returned to Xingyang to join Liu Bang.
Han Xin's experience of leading the battle for the first time should be as wonderful as his later immortal battles, which not only made the old brothers of Pei County admire Han Xin's five bodies, but also impressed Liu Bang. Han Xin's erased experience of leading soldiers made him later command the Battle of Jingsuo, officially opening his path of soldier immortality.
In fact, Sima Qian hinted to us in detail more than once in the "Records of History" that Han Xin was not worshipped as a great general. One of the most clear examples of this is that of all the early characters of the Western Han Dynasty in the entire "Records of History", none of them called Han Xin a great general, and the most typical of them was Pu Tong.
As the only Han Xin's confidant in the "Records of History", Sima Qian recorded his conversation with Han Xin. KePuTong never called Han Xin a great general, but a general by title. There were also hundreds of generals in the Chu and Han dynasties, but the general was only Han Xin. The difference in one word, the difference in identity is the difference between cloud and mud.
Would a person so smart as Pu Tong not even understand this bit of etiquette?
Another piece of evidence that Han Xin was not a great general came from Fan Duo.
The Chronicle of History records that Han Xin was demoted to the title of Marquis of Huaiyin and placed under house arrest in Chang'an, when he was a guest at Fan's house. When Han Xin left, Fan Huan suddenly knelt down and said that the king had sent him away. Although Han Xin was a man with poor political wisdom, he was also a very intelligent person. He immediately understood the meaning of Fan Duo's doing so, and after leaving the door of Fan Duo's mansion, he deliberately announced loudly that he was ashamed to stand in the court with someone like Fan Duo.
Since then, Han Xin has rarely visited the door again, and has rarely gone to the court.
Fan Duo's kneeling is not only to show that he does not want Han Xin to come to the door again, but also to remind Han Xin of his embarrassing identity. Han Xin is also a person who is a little more proficient, and when he goes out, he deliberately yells a voice to show that he has drawn a line with Fan Duo, so that Fan Duo can understand what he means.
However, Fan Duokou called Han Xin the Great King, which was not in line with etiquette.
Han Xin would have been demoted to the Title of Marquis of Huaiyin, and fan Huankou's claim that Han Xin was the Great King was somewhat ridiculous and humiliating?
The codeword doesn't refer to this.
Who has ever seen Han Xin's record of being removed from his post as a great general?
No one has seen it, right?
Therefore, when Han Xin visited Fan Duo, he should still be a great general of the Han Dynasty. However, Fan Duo, as a nominal subordinate of Han Xin, called him a great king rather than a great general, which was very unpretentious. From Fan Huan's uncivilistic move, it also brought out another place where Han Xinbai's historical record was very unreasonable.
The position of the great general, which is above ten thousand people under one person, is much less than that of the prime minister, and the granting and revocation of such posts is naturally the focus of the official records. The part of Sima Qian's "Records of History" about the Han Dynasty, the part of this ji is strictly in accordance with the official files, and the records of the biography are also based on the official files to make up for some omissions.
But the strange thing is, why is there no record of Han Xin being revoked in the "Chronicle of History"?
Looking at the records of the later great generals of the Han Dynasty, it was not until 124 BC that Wei Qing was awarded the official position of great general because of his defeat to the Xiongnu, and he retained this official position until his death. At this time, it had been more than seventy years since Han Xin's death. After Wei Qing, the Western Han Dynasty had only three people, Huo Guang, Wang Feng, and Wang Shang, who had obtained the official position of general. For more than two hundred years in the Western Han Dynasty, he served as a regular general, except for Han Xin, who was difficult to distinguish between true and false, and all of them were relatives of the emperor and the state!
Although Chai Wu and Dou Bao served as great generals after Han Xin, they were temporarily awarded the title of great general when they went out on the expedition to control the world's soldiers and horses, and this title was immediately revoked after they led the soldiers and horses back to the dynasty. Judging from these historical records, the great general of the Han Dynasty was temporarily appointed before Wei Qing, so han xin, the king of Qi, was stripped of his military power, and it is reasonable to say that the title of great general should be revoked, but there is no record of this in the historical data.
To sum up.
It is really strange, the previous code word has shown that the "History" is copied from the Official File of the Han Dynasty, so why did the Official File of the Han Dynasty fake a record of the Han Dynasty worship general? There is also the record of Han Xin's first unified army operation, why was it erased by the official file?
There is a record in the "Chronicle of the Marquis of Huaiyin":
Chen Fengbai was appointed as the Marquis of Julu and resigned from the Marquis of Huaiyin. The Marquis of Huaiyin took his hand and walked with him left and right, looking up at the sky and sighing: "Can the son be with the words?" Desire to have a word with the Son. "Only the general ordered it." Marquis of Huaiyin said: "Where the Gong dwells, the elite soldiers of the world are also in the place; and the Gong, The Faith of His Majesty is also a fortunate subject." His Majesty will not believe what he says, and his majesty will not believe it; then his majesty will be suspicious; and he will be angry and will be angry. I am from the middle of the public, and the world can also be figured out. ”
The evidence of Han Xin's so-called conspiracy to rebel and be killed is mainly this passage. However, this passage came from Han Xin's mouth and only entered Chen Feng's ear, so how did the official file come from?
Sima Qian is also quite ghostly, he has always cherished the ink like gold, he wrote a nonsense in this paragraph, 'break away from the left and right and follow the court', these eight words Sima Qian why do you want to write, everyone taste it.
Han Xin was greatly credited to Han, but he was first transferred from King of Qi to King of Chu, and then demoted to Marquis of Huaiyin. It is a person who will have a rebellious heart when he is treated like this, and Han Xin is also a person. Therefore, he rebelled in later generations with sympathy and questioned his rebellion.
The history books are written for posterity, and the Han Dynasty people are also posterity, and they will sympathize with Han Xin's suffering. How could Liu Bang not stand up for Han Xin's murder, what could be done about this?
Then make up a story of Liu Bang appreciating Han Xin.
It wasn't Liu Bangli who dismissed Han Xin as a great general, it wasn't Liu Bang who saw people and let Han Xin command the Battle of Jingsuo, how could Han Xin get ahead?
Therefore, Han Xin's ability to fly Huang Tengda depends on Liu Bang's insight, and the Han Dynasty officials can rightly say that everything Han Xin has is given by Gao Zu, so it is natural for Gao Zu to take back Han Xin's wealth and glory. Although this is still a bit of a strong word, it is better than Liu Bang's ungrateful rabbit dead dog cooking in real history, right?
Naturally, Han Xin's earlier excellent performance could not be recorded, otherwise Liu Bang in the Battle of Jingsuo would not have been wise and discerning, but the situation would have been stronger than people and took the initiative to admit and let Xian. In the eyes of the world, it was not Liu Bang who gave Han Xin a chance, but Han Xin saved Liu Bang and saved the Han Dynasty, and Liu Bang'en's revenge would be confirmed.
Because the contents of the "Records of History" have been copied from the official archives since the Chu and Han dynasties, some of its characters and events are recorded, and the links between this ji and the liechuan appear to be inconsistent. This also provides space for some modern people to question the authenticity of the "Historical Record", these people are actually people who 'understand' Sima Qian.
There are some words that Shi Gong can't say, he can only hide the truth between the lines, so that those of us who will be able to explore and hide the truth of the dusty past in the "History" will provide a 'key' for those who can explore and hide in the "History". These people who questioned Sima Qian were all people who had found the 'key', but they opened the wrong 'lock'. Instead of seeking the truth, they smugly questioned the authenticity of the Chronicle of History, which was ridiculous and pathetic.
As a historian, Sima Qian made a helpless balance between wanting to record the truth of history and avoiding the destruction of his own painstaking works.
But even so, the 520,000-word "History of History" that we see, according to the "Later Han Shu Yang Final Biography", is already a version of the Han Dynasty officially ordered Yang to delete more than 100,000 words, and many important information recorded in the "History" was thus annihilated in time, which is really a catastrophe in Chinese history and culture.