#项羽如果对范增言听计从, whether he could defeat Liu Bang #
Peking Opera Overlord Bieji
Author Lantai
Many people believe that in the Chu-Han War, the most important reason for Xiang Yu's loss to Liu Bang was that Xiang Yu could not reuse Fan Zeng.
In fact, this is an exaggeration of the role of the individual in real history.
Fan Zeng did not have that great effect on Xiang Yu.
The reason why Xiang Yu lost to Liu Bang was not that he did not reuse Fan Zeng, the real reason was that Xiang Yu squeezed the people of his own territory to a degree far inferior to Liu Bang's.
Of course, Xiang Yu was brutal, but Xiang Yu's cruelty was to treat the common people of the "enemy country", such as Xiang Yu burning in Xianyang, such as Xiang Yu slaughtering the city in the State of Qi.
But Xiang Yu was obviously much stronger than Liu Bang to the common people on his own turf.
This was reflected in the fact that after the end of the Chu-Han War, When Han Xin, a person living in the core ruling area of Xiang Yu's "Western Chu State", returned to his hometown to visit his relatives after he became famous, he found that the people who had bullied him as a child, the pavilion chief who had funded him, and the drifting mother who was poor were actually alive and well.
In the first month of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, the king of Qiqi was believed to be the king of Chu, and all of them were sent down. Faith to the kingdom, summons the mother from the food, and gives a thousand gold. And the head of the Nanchang Pavilion in the countryside gave a hundred dollars, saying: "Gong, the little man is also a pawn for virtue." "The young man who summoned himself made the crotch man think that he was Lieutenant Chu." - "History of the Marquis of Huaiyin"
Not only Han Xin, Pei County actually belongs to the core area of Xiang Yu, but when Liu Bang returned to his hometown, he found that the acquaintances of that year were still alive:
Gao Zu returned, passed the Pei, and stayed. Set up the wine Pei Palace, summon the fathers and sons of the deceased to indulge in wine, and send one hundred and twenty people in pei to teach the song. - "Historiography of Takazu Honki"
Some people may ask, why can this prove that Xiang Yu is good to the people of his own territory?
Because there is a contrast, I wrote an article before about how Liu Bang squeezed the people in Guanzhong, if Xiang Yu and Liu Bang squeezed the people of Guanzhong, squeezing the people of their "Western Chu State", then Han Xin and Liu Bei would not be able to see so many acquaintances when they returned to their hometowns.
The first thing Liu Bang did when he laid down Guanzhong was to carry out a "general mobilization" in the Guanzhong area:
In June, the King of Han also oak yang..... Xingguan pawn by side plug. There was a great famine in Guanzhong, rice was worth ten thousand dollars, and people couldnibalize each other. - The Book of Han and the Chronicle of Emperor Gao
Because of Liu Bang's "general mobilization", there was not enough labor to harvest summer grain in the Guanzhong region, which directly led to the "Great Famine in Guanzhong and cannibalism".
And when Liu Bang couldn't beat Xiang Yu in Henan, what did Xiao He, who was sitting in Guanzhong, do?
Xiao He also sent the old and weak in the Guanzhong to Fu Xingyang and Fu Dazhen. - "History, Volume VII"
Xiao He sent all the elderly over the age of fifty-six and the children under the age of fifteen in the Guanzhong area to the Xingyang front to support Liu Bang.
After the Chu-Han War, Xiao He again recruited minfu in Guanzhong to build a magnificent Weiyang Palace for Liu Bang.
Everyone can think about it carefully, if Xiang Yu also learned from Liu Bang on his own territory, "Xingxi Chu Pawn" and "FaXi Chu Old and Weak Fu Xi Xingyang", then han Xin and Liu Bang's acquaintances at that time could still live until after the Chu-Han War?
The reason why Liu Bang and Xiao He were able to "squeeze" the manpower and material resources of Guanzhong so much, in addition to Liu Bang and Xiao He being more ruthless to the common people, another important reason is that the Guanzhong area is not the hometown of Liu Bang and Xiao He, and the hometown of Liu Bang and Xiao He is in Chudi.
For the Liu Bang Group, the Guanzhong region is only a piece of land they occupied, not their hometown, so the strength of their squeezing of Guanzhong's human resources is what Guo Degang said: "Catch the toad and pull out the powder." ”
And Xiang Yu's "Western Chu Land" is not only the hometown of Liu Bang, Xiao He, and Han Xin, but also Xiang Yu's own hometown, so although the "Western Chu Land" is not inferior to the Guanzhong region, Xiang Yu, as a local, really cannot treat the old family like Liu Bang treats the people of Guanzhong.
Therefore, from this point of view, the fundamental reason why Xiang Yu lost the Chu-Han War was that Xiang Yu cared more about fame and face than Liu Bang.
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