Author: Insight Moon
Those who are good teachers do not fight, and those who are good and defeated do not die.
Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was the first cloth-clothed emperor in Chinese history.
He was born in a peasant family, and did nothing in the first half of his life, and began to die in the army, and became a late bloomer in the second half of his life.
From repeated defeats to daring to win, from condescending to the world, Liu Bang's road to hegemony has been very bumpy.
In his life, he has fallen to the bottom many times, but he can always counterattack and become stronger and stronger.
01
Zen Zhao
According to historical records, Liu Bang lost six major battles and more than 30 small games in the battle with Xiang Yu.
In the Battle of Pengcheng, Xiang Yu led 30,000 Chu troops to defeat the 560,000 princes led by Liu Bang within half a day.
Of the 560,000 soldiers and horses, more than 100,000 were killed, countless people drowned, and the rest were all scattered, and Liu Bang only led dozens of horsemen to escape.
This was Liu Bang's biggest fiasco since the start of the army, and his parents and wife were captured by Xiang Yu.
All the princes thought that Liu Bang would be defeated by this, and it would be a matter of time before he perished, so they turned their backs on Han and Chu.
However, Liu Bang did not sink because of this, he immediately adjusted his strategy and retreated to Xingyang.
He first arranged for Han Xin and Guan Ying to repel the pursuing soldiers of the Chu army and stabilize their position.
Then take advantage of Chenggao's terrain to fight Xiang Yu for a long time.
In this way, Liu Bang slowly recuperated, recuperated, and annihilated the Chu army in one fell swoop three years later.
There is a cloud in the Book of Han: Those who are good teachers do not fight, and those who are good and lose do not die.
Life is not a smooth straight line, but a curve with twists and turns, with successes and failures.
The weaker the more frustrated the weaker, the stronger the more frustrated the braver.
Whether a person can succeed depends on how much resistance and resilience he has.
How many times you are crushed to the ground, how many times you get up, you will see the light when you cross the darkness, and you will see the peak when you climb over the trough.
In the battle of Qixia, Xiang Yu was defeated and trapped in Yinling, and said to his subordinates in frustration:
"I have been in the army for eight years, experienced more than 70 battles, those who should be broken, those who were struck were served, and I have never been defeated, and I am trapped here today, not that I can't fight, but that the sky will kill me. ”
Even though his subordinates desperately helped Xiang Yu break through to Wujiang, Jiangdong still had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses waiting for him, but he refused on the grounds that he had no face to see Jiangdong's father and elders, and killed himself.
This was Xiang Yu's first big defeat and the last big defeat.
A person's attitude towards success or failure is the height he can reach.
On the road to the top, fate will set up dangers and dangers, and will not easily allow a person to reach the top of the mountain.
For the weak, failure is a thousand ravines and lofty mountains, but for the strong, it is just a mountain stream and a stream, and crossing it is the road to heaven.
02
Good teacher
Liu Bang was born in a peasant family, became a ranger when he was young, admired Mohist thought, and despised Confucianism.
But when the Confucian scholar Lu Jia advised with the Confucian concept of governing the country, Liu Bang immediately brought tea and poured water to ask him for the truth of the death of the Qin Dynasty and the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty and the world, so as to learn from it.
He also named Lu Jia as a doctor in Taizhong and called him a teacher.
During the dispute between Chu and Han, Liu Bang often practiced the art of war with Han Xin, and Han Xin could always suppress him.
Han Xin also said: Your Majesty can only send 100,000 ministers, and the more ministers will be better.
Hearing that he was inferior to others, Liu Bang not only did not get angry, but often asked Han Xin to learn Xi art of war.
Liu Bang is as good as a stream, hearing the advice of others, changing it, seeing the strengths of others, learning from them.
Therefore, the evaluation of him in "The Doctrine of the King's Destiny" is: following the advice is like going downstream, and the fun is like going to the sound.
The ancients said: See the wise and think together.
A powerful person will not be jealous when he sees others better than himself, but will only approach.
Because it means that you can learn new things and you can improve yourself slowly.
After the unification of the country, Liu Bang did not publicize his exploits, but sighed:
"In the midst of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, I am not as good as Zhang Liang;
Guarding the country and appeasing the people, I am not as good as Xiao He;
With millions of soldiers and invincible attacks, I am not as good as Han Xin.
The reason why I have been able to gain the world is because I am willing to listen to them and learn from them Xi.
And Xiang Yu has a capable person like Fan Zeng, but he doesn't listen to his words, so he was defeated by me. ”
The more shallow a person is, the easier it is to be blinded by a momentary cloud, thinking that there is no one in the world.
The bigger the pattern, the more you understand your own insignificance, and you know how to bend down and Xi learn from others.
Knowing the lack and forging ahead, looking at the distant mountains and doing it.
The greatest wisdom in life is to accept that you will be inferior to others in some aspects, and then choose the good and follow it, and make a difference on the road of life.
03
Zenyi
In 209 BC, King Chu Huai made a covenant: the one who entered the pass first would be the king.
Two years later, Liu Bang advanced westward and went straight to Guanzhong.
This made Xiang Yu, who had just won the battle of the giant deer, very angry, thinking that Liu Bang had the ambition to be the king.
Liu Bang did not lose because of a momentary victory, but chose to retreat from the army and obediently cede Guanzhong to Xiang Yu.
He even brought a few carts of gifts, came to Xiang Yu's camp in person, and said extremely respectfully:
"I entered the customs first just to help the general remove obstacles, and I look forward to King Xiang's arrival day and night, how dare I call him king?"
The sincerity of his attitude made Xiang Yu think that he was a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and his anger disappeared.
Thinking of Su Shi's words, those who do it are great, and they must endure it.
If you blindly compete in trouble, it is easy to lose your square inch, and it is easy to block your own back road.
And those who know how to retreat dare to bow their heads, and finally use their strength to achieve things and go straight to the clouds.
At the Hongmen banquet, the trembling Liu Bang just walked out of Xiang Yu's camp tent and was about to slip away, but he ran into Yongya.
Yongya was originally Liu Bang's subordinate, but later betrayed Xiang Yu, and he saw at a glance that Liu Bang wanted to escape.
Faced with this person who had betrayed him, Liu Bang knelt down directly for him and asked to let him go.
This kneeling, even Yongya looked down on him. kicked Liu Bang in the face, snorted, and let him go.
It is said that Liu Bang is thick-skinned, but if it is not a matter of life and death, who is willing to kowtow and kneel to others?
It's the head that goes down, and what you pick up is life.
After this, Xiang Yu completely let down his guard against Liu Bang, named him the king of Han, and also took Bashu and the forty-first counties of Hanzhong as Liu Bang's territory.
In life, who can live a chic life?
It is not only a wise move to admit cowardice at the appropriate time, judge the situation, and keep quiet and obscure, but also protect oneself.
If you can endure what others can't endure, you can become what others can't.
Confession is by no means cowardice, but a strategy chosen by the strong.
▽
In 195 BC, Liu Bang ended his magnificent life in Changle Palace.
After three years of death in Qin and four years of destruction of Chu, Liu Bang created a miracle in his life at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven.
But before success, Liu Bang also went through hardships and hardships.
In the first half of his life, he achieved nothing, and only at the age of 48 did he uncover the uprising, and he was in trouble all the way, and even brushed shoulders with death several times.
If you feel lost in life, you might as well read Liu Bang.
See how he bottoms out, how he endures humiliation, and how he learns from others.
Perhaps, from his story, you can find the power of being born to the sun.
Give it a thumbs up and encourage your friends.