Just when the battle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu reached the final stage, the situation underwent a very interesting change, that is, the rise of Han Xin. The motivation to support Han Xin's progress is not only the promise in front of Liu Bang's eyes, but also his own ambition. We can also see from Han Xin's choice of the place where he first buried his mother, although this man was very depressed in his early years, he was a person with great ambitions and strong desires. However, his desire only stopped at the step of obtaining the title of king, which made him a surprising achievement and laid a tragic foreshadowing for his final ending.
At first, Xiang Yu also wanted to win han Xin over, and once sent someone to persuade him. However, from the perspective of benevolence, Han Xin believed that Xiang Yu was insufficient to rely on and refused the messenger's request. At that time, he saw that Han Xin still had room to move forward, and there was also Qu Tong who followed him. It was Qu Tong who came up with the idea to make Han Xin ignore Li Zhiqi's life and death and continue to attack Qi Di. It was also he who persuaded Han Xin to seek the title of King of Qi and hold higher power. Now, Pu Tong was going to lobby Han Xin again, so that he could establish himself as king and divide the world with the two of them. The reason for this persuasion of Ku Tong must start from his origin in the Zongheng family. What the Zongheng family does is to give advice and get the status they deserve by selling their plans. The most famous Zongheng family belongs to Su Qin. And future generations will not use it as an example for themselves to act.
And Pu Tong is not only the Zongheng family, he also has another identity that is, the Yin and Yang family. Don't underestimate the role of the Yin and Yang family, in that era of feudal superstition, their art of matchmaking played a decisive role in many critical times, especially in times of chaos. Isn't Liu Bang's birth also a lot of color? In order to persuade Xiang Yu to kill Liu Bang, Fan Zeng also made up a yin and yang theory of dragon life and seven colors. Unfortunately, his plan was disrupted by Xiang Bo and thus declared a failure. In order to persuade Han Xin, Qu Tong also took out the set of the Yin and Yang family, and he said to Han Xin, looking at the face of the general, the position is only to be able to be crowned, and your position will not be stable. But look at your back, then the riches are indescribable.
Pu Tong's words are of course a pun. The back he is talking about here not only refers to Han Xin's back, but also has the meaning of persuading Han Xin to turn his back on Liu Bang. After letting Han Xin betray Liu Bang, he could achieve his ultimate goal in life. However, Han Xin behaved unusually calmly and did not listen to his set of nonsense, and Qu Tong had to come up with a statement of Wu Shi lobbying Han Xin, which was to tell Han Xin that when God gave it to you, you would definitely be harmed. And Han Xin told him that the King of Han treated me with the same affection as a brother and sister, and I was not the kind of person who turned his back on righteousness for the sake of profit.
At this time, Pu Tong gave two examples to try to persuade Han Xin, one was Zhang Er and Chen Yu, two brothers of life and death, who at the beginning, really put righteousness first, and in the end they did not kill each other. Another is the example of Wen Zhong's practice of Gou Jian, how sincere Wen Zhong was to Gou Jian, but in the end he ended up dying. Xiang Yu is suspicious, and he will not reuse you. Now Liu Bang also regards you as a dangerous thing, and will definitely get rid of you. Now that you are sandwiched between Han Xin and Han Xin, it is not advisable to turn to which side you are on, and the best way is to establish yourself as king. Han Xin was really helpless by what he said, so he had to persuade him to go back to rest, and he would think about it carefully. However, Han Xin's statement was only perfunctory, and in his heart, he had never agreed with the opinions of Wu Shi or Pu Tong.
On the surface, Han Xin felt that his merits were too great, and he felt that Liu Bang could not do anything to himself, but from a deep level, that was the ultimate goal that Han Xin pursued in this life, but it was just to be crowned king. Now that his purpose has been achieved, he has lost the driving force to move forward. Therefore, when Qu Tong persuaded him several times later, Han Xin directly revealed his bottom line, that is, when the King of Qi could, if he wanted to betray Liu Bang, it was absolutely impossible. Han Xin's words made Qu Tong see his end, and also doomed Han Xin's own life tragedy, and Qu Tong had to resign and leave.