"Rise and fall is only in one thought, and the opportunity is wrong to pay the hero to fall." Throughout the ages, I don't know how many princes will compete with each other in the Central Plains, but in the end they will not escape the tragic fate of being covered up by the yellow sand.
The Chen Sheng Wuguang Uprising was the first large-scale peasant uprising in China's history, which dealt a heavy blow to the brutal rule of the Qin Dynasty and greatly encouraged the anti-Qin struggle of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong at that time.
The uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, which originated in Daze Township, achieved vigorous results at the beginning, and in a very short period of time, it received a huge response in the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, and people of insight from all over the country turned against each other, and the Xiang clan of the Chu State soon launched a new uprising struggle in the south, echoing Chen Sheng and Wu Guangyao.
However, only six months later, Chen Sheng's Wuguang uprising was quickly put down by the Qin Dynasty, and the main leaders of the uprising were also killed by the Qin army.
What is even more lamentable is that Chen Sheng, who could have been crowned emperor, was eventually killed at the hands of the groom who helped him drive.
Born at the bottom, with extraordinary ambitions
Born at the end of the Warring States period, Chen Sheng was an ordinary peasant in Chen County, Chu State, Chen Sheng had experienced war since childhood, bringing pain and disaster to the people, and in the war between the Qin State and the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, Chen Sheng's hometown had been devastated by war.
Chen Sheng's father died when Chen Sheng was very young, so Chen Sheng's family situation was very bad, in order to make a living Chen Sheng could only work as a sharecropper for the local landlord, although Chen Sheng was born poor and did not have the opportunity to receive education, but he had a good vision.
Once, in the process of working with his fellow villagers, Chen Sheng said that the boy should take advantage of the good years to make meritorious achievements and be knighted. The fellow villagers laughed at Chen Sheng: You are just a person who helps others to cultivate their fields, how can you make meritorious achievements?
Chen Sheng replied with a smile, "Yan Que An Zhi Hong Hu Zhi Zhi? And finally encouraged the fellow villagers to say: "Do not forget the rich and noble!" Although it was only a casual conversation, it could be seen from Chen Sheng's extraordinary ambition and extraordinary strategy.
After the State of Qin unified the whole country, in order to resist the Xiongnu in the north, it mobilized huge human, material and financial resources to start building the Great Wall on the long border from liao to the east to the west of Longxi, as a defensive front against the invasion of ethnic minorities such as the Xiongnu.
Under the conditions of underdeveloped productive forces at that time, it was undoubtedly necessary to build such a long border defense front.
To this end, the rulers of the Qin Dynasty disregarded the people's desire for stability and forced the conquest of Zhuangding nationwide, so Chen Sheng was conscripted to the north of the Yuyang Great Wall, and it was from this that Chen Sheng began his wonderful life!
The prince will have a kind of Xiangning?
In 209 BC, Chen Sheng and more than 900 other Zhuangding were sent to Yuyang Shubian. At that time, the country's road traffic and other infrastructure was still very imperfect, from Chen Sheng's hometown to Yuyang many roads are not perfect, and there is a lack of supplies along the way, Chen Sheng and other people often eat and sleep in the wind, and even some people die of disease in the middle of the road.
When Chen Sheng's people walked to Daze Township, they encountered a torrential rain for several days, and the people could not walk forward at all, but the day of the prescribed arrival in Yuyang was getting closer and closer, and according to the laws of the Qin Dynasty at that time, all the pawns who could not reach their destination on the prescribed date were executed.
In this tense atmosphere, the people in the team were very afraid, afraid of being executed because of the delay in the date, but in the face of such a situation, Chen Sheng had a new idea.
Because of his extraordinary knowledge and love and care for his friends, Chen Sheng became the leader of the team, and at that time, Chen Sheng was actually very nervous in his heart, because the laws of the Qin Dynasty were very harsh and ruthless, and if he really could not arrive on time, he really could be punished very severely.
Therefore, Chen Sheng consulted with Wu Guang and others in the team, and finally Chen Sheng decided to take a risk, and Chen Sheng and others designed to kill the escort officers and soldiers. Then he told the pawns: "According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, if you can't reach Yuyang on the prescribed date, you will be beheaded, and even if you continue to move forward now, you will definitely lose your time." Therefore, continuing to move forward is a dead end, not to continue to move forward is also a dead end, it is better to let go and see if you can survive in a desperate situation."
At the same time, Chen Sheng added: "The people of the world have been subject to the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty for more and more time, and they have long been dissatisfied with the rule of the Qin people, if we can take the lead in counterattacking today, we will certainly be able to attract more people who are dissatisfied with the tyranny of the Qin people, and we ourselves can also succeed. We poor people must be born to be oppressed? Brothers, fight back against the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty"!
Therefore, under the leadership of Chen Sheng, the pawns cut down the wood and unveiled the poles, and launched an earth-shattering uprising movement in Daze Township, and Chen Sheng was also publicly elected as the leader.
When the king is called emperor, the end is sad
After Chen Sheng became the leader of the rebel army, he quickly determined the general strategy of marching. In view of the weakness of the rebel army, Chen Sheng decided to first attack the enemy's weak defenses and obtain weapons and supplies, Chen Sheng led the rebel army and successively captured the area with Chen County as the core.
Secondly, Chen Sheng, under the call to restore the Chu state, actively contacted anti-Qin people in various places, won their support, and established himself as the king of Zhang Chu. Therefore, Chen Sheng attracted the support of a large number of talents who cherished the Chu state and were committed to reviving the chu state.
Finally, Chen Sheng consolidated his forces and sent a very elite advance army to march to Guanzhong, sweeping away the Qin Stronghold in Shandong and threatening the Guanzhong region, the core of the Qin Dynasty's rule.
These measures have achieved very good results and effectively consolidated Chen Sheng's rule in Chen County. After achieving a huge victory, Chen Sheng also gradually relaxed his requirements for himself, began to pursue a luxurious life, and no longer easily accepted the suggestions of his subordinates, and became very arrogant.
Once, Chen Sheng's compatriots came to his palace and wanted to visit him, because Chen Sheng had once said to his fellow villagers that he had taken a heroic oath of "be rich and noble, and never forget each other.". His fellow countrymen, though not believing it to be true, still wanted to meet this former friend.
At first, Chen Sheng accepted them very warmly and held a grand banquet for his fellow villagers, but at the banquet, Chen Sheng actually executed several fellow villagers in one breath because he could not stand the villagers talking about his previous affairs and calling him by his nickname.
Through this banquet, many people saw the true face of Chen Sheng, and more and more people began to alienate Chen Sheng and take the initiative to leave him.
As a result, at the last moment when Chen Sheng was surrounded by the Qin army, only one groom pulled him to break through, and that groom did not really help him break through, but just wanted to dedicate Chen Sheng to the Qin army, and finally because the two had a dispute on the road, the groom lost his hand and killed Chen Sheng.
epilogue
Chen Sheng, who was once only one step away from being proclaimed emperor, lost the hearts of the people because of his own shortcomings. The so-called enlightened people have more help, and those who have lost their way have little help. Chen Sheng's failure, from the attitude of the hometown meeting to his former friends and fellow villagers, can be seen that even his hometown relatives cannot accept to accommodate, how can others believe that Chen Sheng will believe them.
Many people blindly believe in the truth that "those who do great things are not informal", but they do not know that the success or failure of those who achieve great things often depends on whether they can handle these details well, even if it is a bias of virtue, it is very likely to cause serious consequences, and the political tragedies of Chen Sheng, Xiang Yu and so on are all due to this.
Rather than saying that Chen Sheng died at the hands of Ma Fu, it was better to say that he fell to the altar precisely because of his own weakness, and Chen Sheng was able to have the inevitability of subverting the Qin Dynasty and also had the possibility of destroying himself.