Text: Zhu Guanghai
Figure: From the network
This article has been published with the author's permission
Speaking of Han Liu Bang, everyone knows it. A few days ago, I read "Sentinel All over Gaozu's Hometown" written by Mr. Ju Jingchen, a writer of the Yuan Dynasty, in which the author laughed and scolded, did his best to satirize, stripped Off the cloak of Emperor Liu Bang, and portrayed him as a rogue.
Liu Banggui is the Son of Heaven and is a generation of historical emperors. Why did Ju Jingchen do this? Is Liu Bang a scoundrel? Let's take a look at Liu Bang from a small perspective.
In the early years, Liu Bang was just a small Surabaya pavilion chief, and in the peasant revolt at the end of qin, he stood out and eventually became the cloth tianzi. Compared with other generals in the peasant rebel army, Liu Bang did not seem to have a prominent advantage. In the process of his hegemony, why did so many people follow him? What kind of personality does it have?
Be confident and dare to act.
The ancients had a poem that said: "The taste of the world is sour and salty, who is confident, and the sound of life is difficult to be complete", the meaning of the previous sentence is that the rivers and lakes are sinister, the world is difficult, people have unavoidable weaknesses and death pits, and a person is confident and difficult all his life. Liu Bang, on the other hand, was confident in life and consistent.
Pei County raised troops, Xiao He and Cao Shan were both highly respected and highly respected, and the officials were also big, but they were all afraid that "after the matter is not over, the Qin race will be its family", and did not dare to come forward, "let Liu Ji do everything possible". Liu Bang was unceremonious, and Li Liso made Pei Gong.
Liu Bang was ordered to march west to destroy Qin, and the situation at that time was very serious, chen sheng and Xiang Liang, the leaders of the two most powerful peasant rebel armies in Chu, were killed one after another, and the Chu rebels were beaten to the point that no one dared to enter Guanzhong again. Liu Bang did not think so, and went straight into the pass, he did not expect to fail at all.
Liu Bang entered the pass, the infant surrendered, and the Qin Dynasty collapsed. Someone suggested to Liu Bang: Guanzhong is rich in the world, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a good place. I heard that Xiang Yu had the intention of dividing Guanzhong among the three Qin generals Sima Xin, Dong Feng, and Zhang Handan. Once Xiang Yu entered the pass, "Pei Gong was afraid that there would be no place here", and he had to guard the Hangu Pass.
As soon as Liu Bang heard that it was reasonable, he blocked HanguGuan. This move also triggered the Hongmen Feast incident. At that time, Liu Bang had 100,000 troops, while Xiang Yu led an army of 400,000, and the disparity in strength was too large, could Hangu Pass be blocked? Liu Bang's cute "childishness" reveals his courage, arrogance and domineering.
In the Battle of Pengcheng in the Chu-Han War, Liu Bang's 560,000 troops were defeated by Xiang Yu's 30,000 elite cavalry, and then, Liu Bang occupied Xingyang and Launched a tug-of-war with Xiang Yu for 28 months, Liu Bang repeatedly lost battles, repeated defeats, he was confident that one day he could defeat Xiang Yu and seize the world, he held Xiang Yu with extraordinary perseverance, and finally destroyed Xiang Yu in the siege battle under the siege.
Chen Feng rebelled, and in August of the 10th year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang personally marched. When he arrived in Handan, liu Bang saw that Chen Feng did not occupy Handan and used Zhangshui to fortify, and asserted that Chen Feng could not become a climate. Later developments in the situation proved that his judgment was correct, showing his confidence in his ability to judge.
This pile of piles is enough to show Liu Bangtian's mentality of not being afraid of it, and it is enough to see Liu Bang's self-confidence in life that is not afraid of failure. Those who have achieved great things cannot do without this spirit of daring to be the first.
Grace can tolerate.
Liu Bang gathered many talents in front of him, and the situation and identity of these civilian and military generals were different, and he accepted them one by one, showing his tolerance and elegance.
Forgive and forget. Yongya was Liu Bang's enemy. Pei County raised an army, and Yongya followed Liu Bang. In November of the second year of Qin II, Liu Bang sent an army to attack Qin, and Yongya was ordered to stay in Fengyi. Unexpectedly, due to the change of the situation, Yongya rebelled and surrendered to Wei. Fengyi was Liu Bang's hometown, and he attacked three times to regain the lost land. Later, due to coincidence, Yongya ate the grass and turned to Liu Bang, repeatedly made military achievements, and became a hero.
In the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang rewarded more than 30 meritorious people for his meritorious deeds. In order to quell the rebellion of the generals fighting for merit, he adopted Zhang Liang's suggestion and made Yongya a marquis. It is not easy for Liu Bang to start from the overall situation and give up his previous suspicions.
Regardless of the change of ownership. Chen Ping changed his master three times, the first two being King Wei and Xiang Yu. The first five were Qin Shi Huang, Qin II, Xiang Liang, Xiong Xin, and Xiang Yu, the King of ChuHuai. People are well aware of the principle of choosing a master and a soldier, but they rarely know that the choice of a good man is also a choice in life. Chen Ping and Shusun Tong have constantly changed masters throughout their lives, which is a big shortcoming in the eyes of ordinary people, and people often inadvertently enlarge such shortcomings and hide their strengths.
Liu Bang did not care about these things, saw their strengths, trusted them, and entrusted them with heavy responsibilities. For example, Chen Ping was deeply moved, and did his best to serve Liu Bang, six strange plots, solved the urgent need, and made meritorious service to the marquis. Liu Bang's eclectic mind of recruiting talents allows him to gather many talents, which is his charm.
Regardless of the verbal collision. When Li Shiqi first met Liu Bang, Liu Bang was washing his feet, ignoring him and taking an arrogant attitude. Li Yi was disgusted, and the split head asked: Is Ru helping Qin to attack the princes, or is it leading the princes to break Qin? Liu Bang's eyes widened as he listened, and he scolded, "Shu Ru! Fu Tianxia is suffering with Qin Jiujiu! Therefore, when the princes attacked Qin, what was it to help Qin attack the princes? ”
Li Shiqi did not hurry to explain some reasoning, and Liu Bang was convinced, and he gave up his seat and apologized. If you change someone else, can you do the same? You know, a true man of high self-esteem has a strong sense of self-esteem, if you don't respect him, can he be used for you? Liu Bang was somewhat of a city, but his tolerance and grace made up for this, so that the world's talents came to obey.
It doesn't matter where it comes from. The gathering of talents of any group is a long process, and the same is true of Liu Bang Group. At first, only Xiao He, Cao Shan, Zhou Bo, Dou Bao and other compatriots were the core strength of the Liu Group.
Later, with the development of his career, he drew a very large circle, regardless of the hero's provenance, and absorbed talents from all over the world for his own. For example, Han Xin, Chen Ping, Li Shiqi, Lu Jia, Zhang Liang, etc., grew stronger day by day, and finally helped him achieve some hegemony.
Liu Bang became the founder of the Han Dynasty, a choice of history and the result of personal efforts. Mr. Ju Jingchen grasped some small things when Liu Bang was a teenager, did his best to slander and ridicule, and was not afraid of being disliked?
In other words, Ju Jingchen's discussion of heroes on the basis of his noble birth is probably biased.