What Qi Jie mentioned earlier are some of the performances before and at the beginning of Chen Sheng's uprising, which show that Chen Sheng is indeed different. When Chen Sheng led the rebel army to start his revolutionary journey, his shortcomings were slowly exposed!
After holding the uprising oath meeting, Chen Sheng, with nine hundred pawns, rose up from the poles and cut wood as soldiers, and successfully conquered many places along the way, all the way to Chen County, which is a big place and the seat of the county seat of Chen County. In Chen County, Chen Sheng made several mistakes, which directly led to his uprising as a flash in the pan and ultimately failed.
First of all, after Chen Sheng arrived in Chen County, he summoned the three elders and Hao Jie of Chen County to come to discuss the matter, and the center of the discussion was whether Chen Sheng should be called king, and the three elders and Hao Jie of Chen County all said, General, you are wearing armor and holding sharp weapons, crusading against the ruthless Emperor, destroying the tyrannical Qin Dynasty, and re-establishing the regime of the Chu State, so you should be called a king. As we said earlier, the three elders and Hao Jie of Chen County all asked Chen Sheng to be king with selfish intentions, anyway, as long as Chen Sheng called the king himself, he would be wiped out, and if Chen Sheng was defeated, he would not suffer too much, and the gun would shoot the head bird!
Chen Sheng also asked the opinions of the famous wei state celebrities Zhang Er and Chen Yu who came to him, Zhang Er and Chen Yu's opinion was that they should not be called kings, and the most urgent task was to lead the main force to cut down Qin, and at the same time to support the descendants of the royal families of the Six Kingdoms as monarchs, to set up many enemies for the Qin Dynasty, and wait until you successfully occupied Guanzhong, destroyed the Qin Dynasty, and then ordered the Six Kingdoms with the authority of the emperor, because the monarchs of the Six Kingdoms were established by you, and they would also be grateful for your kindness, and wouldn't it be good for you to rule the world according to Guanzhong at that time? Zhang Er and Chen Yu's high opinion of Chen Sheng did not hear his heart. Because he has selfish intentions and is impatient. He was originally going to be a princely general, and the three elders of Chen County and Hao Jie all elected themselves to be kings, and they didn't do it themselves, let alone when? If someone else becomes king in the future, wouldn't he be a loss?
Qi Jie felt that Chen Sheng had made a mistake about one thing, that is, strength was the last word! In the future, even if you do not have the title of king but have the strength of a king, then others will still respect you, and even if you crown yourself as king now, you do not have the strength of a king, nor do you have the pattern of a king, then you will make yourself the target of everyone and die faster! Chen Sheng's title of king also made Zhang Er and Chen Yu greatly reduce their evaluation of Chen Sheng, and later Zhang Er and Chen Yu did not stay with Chen Sheng, but followed Wuchen to Zhaodi, and one became a chancellor and a general under Wuchen. Why? Zhang Er and Chen Yu felt that Chen Sheng was destined to make great achievements, so it was better to leave early, so they went to the relatively familiar Zhao Di, why didn't they follow Zhou Wei to Wei Di? It is not mentioned in the history books, it is likely that Zhang Er and Chen Yu felt that going to Zhao Di had more prospects for development!
As for whether Chen Sheng should be called king, Chen Sheng's father-in-law saw very clearly, after Chen Sheng became king, his father-in-law went to Chen County to see him, and after Chen Sheng saw his father-in-law, he only used the etiquette of receiving ordinary guests to receive his father-in-law, which made his father-in-law very annoyed, and this old man said a very powerful sentence: "Chaos and arrogance, and the proud elder, can not last long!" This means that relying on rebellion, surpassing the title of self-proclaimed emperor, and being arrogant and rude to the elders, cannot last long! Chen Sheng immediately knelt down to confess his mistake to his father-in-law, and his father-in-law did not appreciate it and threw up his hands and left! As the saying goes, Zhizi is no better than his father, of course, the father-in-law and the son-in-law are not related by blood, but the father-in-law must have had a lot of investigation and understanding of the son-in-law before he promised his daughter to the son-in-law, Chen Sheng's father-in-law knew very well about what kind of urine this son-in-law had, so he was very annoyed with Chen Sheng's arrogance, and suddenly issued a prophecy, that is, Chen Sheng's rebellion must not last long, and things were just as the old master expected, Chen Sheng's rebellion was suppressed by the Qin government within only six months!
Judging from the development of the uprising in the back, Chen Sheng's title of king is really a bad move. Chen Sheng's general Ge Bao, because he had established Xiangjiang as the King of Chu without authorization, knew that Chen Sheng had become the King of Chu and immediately killed Xiangjiang and apologized to Chen Sheng, but Chen Sheng still did not pardon Ge Bao, but instead killed Ge Bao very arbitrarily. This seems to be the right not to expire and invalid! But did Chen Sheng block the tide of the restoration of the Six Kingdoms? Not at all!
Tian Dan of the State of Qi established himself as the King of Qi, and did not bird this Chen Sheng at all;
After Chen Sheng's friend Wu Chen arrived in Zhao Di, he became the King of Zhao at the instigation of his subordinates, and Chen Sheng had no choice at all! Chen Sheng was forced to acquiesce to wuchen as the king of Zhao, and did not dare to kill wuchen's family, but only imprisoned them, Chen Sheng asked Wuchen to lead an army to attack the Qin Dynasty, and Wuchen did not listen!
Similarly, Wu Chen's subordinate Han Guang also established himself as the King of Yan, and Wu Chen could not stop it, and could only admit the fait accompli.
The Wei general Zhou Cheng repeatedly applied to Chen Sheng to make Wei the King of Wei, and Chen Sheng was very reluctant in his heart, but he could not resist Zhou Cheng's repeated applications, and finally agreed to Wei Wei as the King of Wei, and Zhou Cheng became the minister of Wei.
You see, Chen Sheng's wuchen and Zhou Wei, when they laid some ground, immediately stopped birding Chen Sheng, and soon became king themselves, why? The gun is out of power, this piece of land was laid down by Lao Tzu's orders, why should I listen to your dispatches again!
There are also mountain kings, such as Qin Jia, Zhu Jishi, Xiang Liang, Liu Bang and others, as well as a large number of unknown rebels, who actually only respond to Chen Sheng, and do not bird Chen Sheng at all!
Chen Sheng had not yet established a mature political team, and it was really unwise to hastily claim the throne.
When the various military generals were crowned kings, Chen Sheng had no way, also because Chen Sheng did not have the ability to control them, and these military generals did not have people who were completely loyal to Chen Sheng, so that Chen Sheng could not control the self-esteem of the various military generals and establish a divided political power! We see that Liu Bang's general Han Xin also wanted to proclaim himself King of Qi after he laid the foundation of Qi, but Han Xin first reported to Liu Bang, and Liu Bang had to agree to Han Xin's request, because Liu Bang had to appease Han Xin, but Han Xin did not establish himself as the King of Qi? Why? Han Xin had Cao Shan, Fu Kuan and other Liu Bang cronies around him, and Han Xin was not so easy to betray Liu Bang! The superiority of Chen Sheng and Liu Bang's ability to control the throne is clear at a glance!
Chen Sheng's establishment of political power was no more, he should not stay in Chen County, but should lead the army to the west as Zhang Er and Chen Yu said, at least, the Zhou Wen army should be personally commanded by Chen Sheng. At that time, Chen Sheng's military strategy was to attack Xianyang with the main force (Wu Guang besieged Xingyang, Zhou Wenzhi took Hangu Pass, and Song Liu attacked Wuguan), and several other military generals were sent to attack from all sides.
What is the result of this strategy?
After the Northern Route Army's Wuchen forces captured Zhao Territory, Wuchen established himself as the King of Zhao!
After the Northern Route Army's Zhou Dynasty occupied Wei territory, it supported Wei and made Wei the King of Wei, and Zhou Cheng established himself as the Chancellor of the State of Wei;
To the northeast, Wu Pingjun went to Donghai County as a supervisor, but was killed by Qin Jia;
The Southeast Road Zhaoping Department had no record, and later joined Xiang Liang's team;
The Southeast Road Deng Zongbu did not know the end;
The Western Expeditionary Army Zhou Wenbu successfully entered Hangu Pass and fought until it reached the east bank of Xishui, which was only forty kilometers away from Xianyang, but was successfully driven out of Hangu Pass by the Qin army led by Zhang Handan, and two months later, Zhou Wenbing was defeated and committed suicide.
After Zhou Wen committed suicide, Zhang Handan's army marched all the way east, and the situation was like a broken bamboo, at that time Wu Guang had been besieging Xingyang City for four months and could not be captured. As soon as Zhang Handan's army arrived, Zhang Chu's army besieging Xingyang City soon disintegrated, and at that time Wu Guang had been killed by the general Tian Zang and others, and Tian Zang and Li Gui were also killed without suspense in the process of fighting with Zhang Handan!
Then there was the Song Liubu of the Western Expeditionary Army, song Liubu became a lone army after Chen Sheng was killed, Wuguan was not captured, and Nanyang was also lost, so Song Liu led the army to the east, after encountering the Qin army, Song Liu surrendered and was executed by Che Rift, and this army was disbanded.
To sum up, None of Chen Sheng's teams, defeated or defeated, and self-reliant, did not persist. However, if Chen Sheng personally leads a large army to march west, just like the way Xiang Yu or Liu Bang and others play, the war situation may be very different, Chen Sheng in the process of conquest, military ability and political ability will continue to improve, just like Liu Bang, you sit in the capital City of Chen County all day, sitting and waiting for the war report of the generals, if they do not listen to you, you have no way. We know that no matter which founding emperor fought the world later, there was no one like Chen Sheng who first built the capital and then sat back and enjoyed his success, Li Yuan, Zhu Yuanzhang, Nurhaci and others did not immediately win the world! Even Hong Xiuquan, in the early stage, also experienced several years of war and fire, and began to enjoy it after the establishment of the capital Tianjing! Chen Sheng had not undergone deep-level blood and fire refining, and even if the generals laid the foundation for him, he would definitely not be able to sit in the world, because his pattern could not be reached.
According to the Zizhi Tongjian, when Chen Sheng fixed the capital of Chen County and established the Zhang Chu regime, Confucius's eighth grandson Kong Yu also came to Chen Sheng's account and became Chen Sheng's adviser. When Zhou Wen's army marched west, Chen Sheng developed a sense of pride because of the political chaos of the Qin Dynasty, and no longer set up defenses against the Qin Dynasty. So Kong Yu said to Chen Shengjin: "The subject heard the art of war: 'If you don't bully the enemy, you can't attack, and you can't attack.' 'Now the king is afraid of his enemies and not of himself, and if he falls and does not rejoice, he will not be able to repent. That is to say, Kong Kui listened to the art of war and said that he did not rely on the enemy not to attack me, but relied on me not to be attacked. Now King Chen relied on the enemy not to attack, and did not rely on his own defenses not to be afraid of being attacked by the enemy, and once he encountered setbacks and could not rise up, it was too late to regret. What was Chen Sheng's reply? "The army of the widows, sir, is not tired." My army, don't bother you, sir! This Chen Sheng had not yet fought any victorious battles, and he was proud to this point, which showed that his pattern was really small, and Chen Sheng neither understood nor adopted the good strategic analysis.
Let's talk about Chen Sheng's knowledge of and employing people. Zeng Guofan once said a sentence: Those who do big things should take multiple choices as the first righteousness. In ancient and modern China and abroad, all those who have achieved great things are good at recognizing and employing people, and Liu Bang, who took over Chen Sheng's baton against Qin, is a master of knowing and employing people. First of all, let's talk about Chen Sheng's acquaintance. When Chen Sheng revolted, not only did many ordinary people join the ranks of the uprising, but even Confucius's eighth grandson, Confucius, came to Chen Sheng's tent with ceremonial instruments, and the sages zhang Er and Chen Yu of the Wei state came to chen sheng, and they all put forward their own views on the uprising against Qin, so what was Chen Sheng's opinion? No.
Although Chen Sheng did not take Kong's advice, Kong Did not leave Chen Sheng, and later martyred Zhang Chu's regime because of Kong's hatred for the Qin Dynasty.
However, Zhang Er and Chen Yu were different, because Chen Sheng did not adopt their opinions, so these two joined the ranks of Wu Chen, and when Wu Chen laid the foundation of Zhao Di, Zhang Er and Chen Yu encouraged Wu Chen to claim the throne, and the first pot of gold after their uprising was obtained from Wu Chen.
In a sense, it seems that Wuchen is more able to employ people than Chen Sheng, because there are many capable people in the team of Wuchen, and Wuchen can also listen to the advice of many people. Of course, the warlord did not last long, because his regime had fatal loopholes, which we will not talk about. From the above analysis, we can see that Chen Sheng is not good at recognizing people, he does not see the valuable suggestions of Kong Yu, nor does he adopt the suggestions of the sages Zhang Er and Chen Yu, because his "talent is not as good as that of the Middle Man"!
So what about Chen Sheng's employment? Under normal circumstances, as long as he is not good at knowing people, his employment will not be strong enough! But for the sake of rigor, Qijie is willing to analyze it in detail with you. According to the records of the "History of Chen Sheng's Family", let's study Chen Sheng's team, and through the interpretation of Chen Sheng's deeds, we find that Chen Sheng's core team consists of the following: Wu Guang (appointed as a false king by Chen Sheng), Cai Ci (Shangzhu Guo), Kong Qi (a virtuous person who came to defect to Chen Sheng), Zhu Fang (Zhongzheng), Hu Wu (Si Guo), Zhang He, Zhuang Jia (Che Fu), and Lü Chen (Internal Servant). These people, except for Wu Guang's army to attack Xingyang, all served at Chen Sheng's side. There is no record of these people's lives in the history books, so most of us do not know whether Chen Sheng had any contact with them before he started the army.
Wu Guang was a hardcore friend of Chen Sheng, and Chen Sheng trusted him so much that he even appointed him as a false king and led an army to attack Xingyang.
Cai Ci was known as Fang Jun, and it seemed that he was a very important person, and Cai Ci had suggested to Chen Sheng not to kill the families of Wu Chen, Zhang Er, and others, because then it would make another enemy, so it would be better to recognize Wu Chen's name as King zhao and let him attack Xianyang in the west. Chen Sheng took Cai Ci's advice and put the families of Wu Chen, Zhang Er, and others under house arrest without killing them. It can be seen that Chen Sheng is not at all unable to listen to the suggestions of others. Later, when Cai Ci was in Zhang Handan's army under the city of Chen County, he led an army to meet the battle, and was successfully killed in battle, martyring the Zhang Chu regime.
Kong Yu was a virtuous man at that time, full of poetry and books, very knowledgeable, although Chen Sheng only respected him and did not value him, he also had no complaints or regrets, and actually martyred the Zhang Chu regime with his body.
Zhu Fang and Hu Wu were appointed by Chen Sheng as Zhongzheng and Siguo respectively, responsible for supervising the faults of hundreds of officials, and their work was equivalent to that of Chen Ping under Liu Bang, responsible for discipline inspection and intelligence work. Chen Sheng had great trust in Zhu Fang and Hu Wu, and was also very satisfied with their work. However, it is precisely because of the nature of their work that Chen Sheng and his subordinates are separated from morality, because they harshly seek the faults of the ministers as loyalty to King Chen, which shows that Chen Shenggang vigorously reused the internal ministers within a few days of becoming king, so that their status was higher than that of foreign ministers, which was the consistent style of small bosses, and Chen Sheng's small pattern could be seen. At that time, didn't Hu Hai of Qin II also think that those officials who were more strict with the people were more loyal to themselves? Chen Sheng's mentality and this practice are essentially different from that of Hu Hai, the Emperor of Darkness! When the regime was still in its infancy, big spies ran rampant, which is not a sign of ZHENGQUAN's long-term future!
Zhang He, a man we don't know very well, only know that when he was attacked in Chen County, he was responsible for building the city wall, reinforcing the fortifications, and finally died in battle.
Zhuang Jia is Chen Sheng's coachman, and we know that the coachman is the leader of his own people! Which driver who drives the leader is also a person who is deeply trusted by the leader. We know that Liu Bang's coachman was Xiahou Baby, and Xiahou Baby was Liu Bang's iron fan, who had inserted a knife into Liu Bang's two ribs before Liu Bang raised an army and suffered a lot. After Liu Bang's uprising, Xiahou Infant was loyal to Liu Bang, and when Liu Bang was most depressed, the only person he took with him was Xiahou Baby, but Xiahou Baby never betrayed Liu Bang. Chen Sheng's coachman killed his lord Chen Sheng when he was down, on the one hand, it shows that Chen Sheng knows people and mistakenly believes in villains as his cronies, on the other hand, it shows that Chen Sheng's character is not very good, because things are grouped together in groups, and whoever is looking for whom! Chen Sheng used Zhu Fang and Hu Wu to supervise hundreds of officials, causing everyone to deviate from him, and even the most trusted coachman rebelled, which shows how much Chen Sheng made everyone feel cold!
Lü Chen's name did not appear in the early days, and it was not until after Chen Sheng's death that we saw this man named Lü Chen, who had once been Chen Sheng's internal attendant, and when he heard that the lord Chen Sheng had been killed, Lü Chen organized a Cangtou army, captured Chen County, killed the traitor Zhuang Jia, took revenge for the main communiqué, and reburied Chen Sheng. We see that this Lü Chen has a deep affection for the lord Chen Shengyi! Of course, the heavens also paid a great reward to the loyal minister Lü Chen, who inherited his father's title of Marquis of Xinyang after the establishment of the Han Dynasty.
Those military generals who are a little distant from Chen Sheng, we will talk about them next time.