I asked, what if I had to analyze one, two, three?
That, he said, was an afterthought. First, he should have listened to Fan Zeng's words and killed Liu Bang. Second, the basic plate of the rebel army is a peasant, and Xiang Yu is from an aristocratic background, which has a natural difference with the basic plate and is easy to get out of touch. Liu Bang is from a grassroots background, understands farmers' demands, and customizes himself as a representative of farmers' interests, thus consolidating the basic plate. Third, the riffraff is thicker and darker, more rogue and more bottomless, often easier to gain power in the troubled jungle, those "aristocratic spirits" on Xiang Yu's body have harmed him in turn, such as the two signed the chasm covenant, Xiang Yu complied, Liu Bang did not comply, and then killed a horse gun, but used a sentence: Those who become big things are not informal, what contract is not contracted!
I said, but, now, it seems that Liu Bang is more popular.
He said, how do you say a word? Those who win the world win the hearts of the people, and winning the hearts of the people are also two-part series, and in their present will first win the hearts of the people, and after the compilation of history books, they will win the hearts of the later ones.
I asked, why didn't Xiang Yu kill Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet?
Two reasons, he said. First, Liu Bang hurriedly expressed his loyalty and said to Xiang Yu, Boss, I don't have two hearts, Xianyang I just help temporarily manage, boss you need, I will return it at any time. Second, Xiang Yu did not treat Liu Bang as a dish from the bottom of his heart, Xiang Yu called Liu Bang to eat just to talk, admonish, meaning that you kid don't make trouble, there is no other special purpose, as for the dancing knife and gun, it is all made up by literati, the two were very friendly when they separated, and they shook hands and hugged, Liu Bang also said to Xiang Yu, boss, you can also sit with me when you have time, so that my also shine.
I asked, didn't the book say that Liu Bang took the opportunity to pee and escape?
He said, run away? Xiang Yu was guarded by an army of 400,000, and even a fly could not fly out.
I said, don't you have an insider? Xiang Bo is in.
He said that Xiang Bo is Xiang Yu's own uncle, and his sense of existence today is not high, in fact, he is the number two figure of Xiang Yu's legion, and the position is above Fan Zeng, at that time, Xiang Yu's legion was already stable on the entire Jiangshan, do you think as the male number two will turn his elbows outward?
I said, the question is again, why didn't you choose Yu in the first place? After all, Xiang Yu had a better chance of winning.
He said, then let me ask you a question, why did Zhuge Liang choose Liu Bei instead of Cao Cao?
I said, because Liu Bei is more benevolent. He said that during the Three Kingdoms period, it seemed that the Three Kingdoms were crowned, but in fact, it was Cao Cao who beat Sun Liu, and the Cao Cao camp was a collection of talents from all over the country, there was no shortage of military divisions, even Sima Yi was not shortlisted, Zhuge Liang went and could not even play as a substitute, and what about choosing Liu Bei? You can immediately enter the core layer. The role of the strategist is a bit similar to a football coach, as long as you are not the head coach, then your talent is worthless, if I choose Yu, Xiang Yu has Fan Zeng, I have no room to show, and I choose Liu Bang? It's the head coach.
I said, I understand, then you are such a wise person, why did you assassinate Qin Shi Huang, isn't that hitting a stone with a pebble?
He said, that's event marketing that I planned. Let's first have the prestige of the rivers and lakes, right? I made up two scripts, one was that I took Hercules to throw an iron hammer to assassinate Qin Shi Huang, and then successfully escaped. You think about this with your head, is it possible? Why didn't Qin Shi Huang clear the scene in advance when he went on patrol? Besides, there are archers and cavalry around him, you can know by looking at the Olympic shot put record, and a strong man can throw a hundred meters with strength? So close, where to run? The second is that I said that I am proficient in the art of war, and the art of war must have a inheritance and a sect, and I think the most bullish sect is the immortal school, so I made up a story and met the white-bearded old man.
I asked, did no one doubt it?
He said, I really offered a reward for Hercules, I also posted the notice of arresting Zhang Liang, and I also performed incognito, so no one doubted that I really assassinated Qin Shi Huang. As for the white-bearded old man? In our time, from top to bottom, people from the bottom of their hearts firmly believe that there are indeed high-ranking people in the world, they live in seclusion in the mountains, haunted, can only rely on luck, everyone will not doubt the authenticity of my story, but will envy my luck, in previous years, Li Kaifu, Tang Jun, all learned my trick, but they replaced the white-bearded old man with Bill Gates, saying that Bill Gates called them brothers and brothers.
I said, the ancient people were particularly superstitious, is that an uprising or something, and it is also necessary to preach the so-called "providence"?
He said, yes, the people generally believe that there is a "providence", so they need to make up this providence with their hearts, such as the fish belly to collect books, eat the fish and eat the note: Chen Shengwang, in the early days, Chen Sheng Wuguang relied on this flickering popularity.
I asked, why didn't Chen Sheng Wu Guang have the last laugh?
First, he said, the time is not ripe and there are too few responders. Second, he was born a farmer and was short-sighted.
I asked, didn't Liu Bang set the capital at Luoyang later, and why did he move to Chang'an?
He said that Luoyang was chosen because Luoyang was once the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, and at that time, even if the Zhou Dynasty was prosperous and peaceful, Liu Bang felt that feng shui was good here. Why did you move the capital to Chang'an three months later? It is also my suggestion that the early stage of the change of dynasty was full of crises, Luoyang was almost open, and Chang'an? There are natural barriers in the east, west, south and north, Dingluoyang is a radical model, Dingchang'an is a conservative model, the window period for dynasty change, the most important thing is to keep the success, the achievement of the results.
I asked, why did you choose to retire when you became famous? He said, in a word, did not give me what I wanted.
I asked, didn't you seal your ten thousand households? He said, that's all nonsense in the book, you look at the map, where is the fiefdom for me? A small island on Weishan Lake is not as big as Yu Ji, not even a hundred households, I am not even as good as a village chief, and then the water rises directly to the bottom of the lake.
I said, the book said, give you Jinshan you don't want, said only want the place where you and Liu Bang meet.
He asked, then let me ask you a question, you followed Alibaba to start a business, seeing that it is listed, will you suddenly ask, you don't want shares? Want to retreat back to the mountains?
I said, no. He said that dynasties will change, but human nature will not change, what is not today, there will be no history, what is power? As long as you are stained, you will not be able to quit for a lifetime, have you heard of which provincial governor resigned?
I said, I haven't heard. He said that Liu Bang is a person who is very good at putting high hats on people, and he is also a person who is very good at manipulating public opinion. He didn't affirm my worth in his heart.
I asked, if yes, what would happen?
He said: First, ranking the first meritorious person, it is not important how many households are sealed, the rank is very important. Second, leaving me the prime minister's position, I shouldn't be another matter. (When Liu Bang was crowned marquis on merit, the ranking was Xiao He first, and Zhang Liang ranked sixty-second)
I asked, doesn't it mean that you are indifferent to fame and fortune and are dedicated to cultivating immortals and cultivating Buddha?
He said, we are just ordinary people, with seven emotions and six desires, not so noble, when it comes to merit and reward, I see that the ranking I gave is very low, and the fiefdom I gave is very little, and I have the intention to retreat. What about Liu Bang? I was afraid that the world would interpret my departure as his unkindness, so I told my media friends that Zhang Liang is really a superior person, regards fame and fortune as dung, and can't keep Jinshan, and wants to return to the field, concentrate on cultivation, and really be a great Confucian! What's the point? I can't refute it yet, I can only acquiesce! Therefore, I was so inexplicably deified, what indifference to fame and fortune, and what rush to retreat.
I asked, what is the root of that deification? He said that all those who are deified come from four words and stop abruptly, such as Bruce Lee. You see, why is there so little record of me after I left Liu Bang? To illustrate a point, it was marginalized, in today's words, that is, the society died, history only records the mainstream group, will not record marginal people, will not care about his life and death, he may die quietly, and no one knows where he died, and even all over the country are competing for his cemetery, you see how many Zhang Liang tombs are in the country?
I asked, did you expect Han Xin and them not to end well? He said, this is not, there is a certain degree of chance, if Liu Bang also gave me an official at that time, I may end up similar to the two of them, after all, once the son of heaven and a courtier, the situation is changing every day, this thing is the same thing as the divorce of the couple, they were also deeply in love back then, but now they want to strangle each other.
I asked, is it all true that embattled and the like?
He said that when there were wars, the soldiers were all peasants, they didn't even know a word, and they sang foreign songs? That was all imagined by the later literati themselves, that is, they were surrounded and annihilated, a bit like the later Battle of Menglianggu, how Zhang Lingfu died Xiang Yu died.
I asked, how old was Xiang Yu when he died? He said, thirty years old, whole.
I asked, Xiang Yu is not beautiful? Absolutely beautiful, he said.
I asked, is Xiang Yu just this woman? Fight with you too? He said that people in our era, but all those who have a little ability, cannot have only one woman, all of them are wives and concubines, and later people for heroes and beauties to make up the story of the overlord Farewell Concubine, a person who has achieved great things, it is impossible to grind on women, let alone take them to the battlefield.
I asked, Xiang Yu fought a war, right? He said that he was absolutely powerful, especially good at blitzkrieg, and later Wei Qing and Huo Qubing had his shadow.