At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there were two heroes with outstanding talents, Zhang Er and Chen Yu. From the initial eye-to-neck friendship, to the support of each other all the way, together laid a foundation. However, in the battle of the giant deer, the two had a disagreement, so that they later turned against each other. What happened between them, and why did the boat of friendship turn over?
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Zhang Er was a native of Da Liang, and was initially a disciple of Prince Wei, where he learned a lot of scheming techniques and became famous, so much so that the rich people of Waihuang married their daughters to him. Subsequently, he also achieved the Waihuang County Order, "the name is yixian." ”
Chen Yu was also a Da Liang man, and he admired Zhang Er as a person and took the initiative to ask for friendship. Zhang Er admired Chen Yu's talent very much, took him in, and taught him a lot of human learning. Chen Yu is younger, with Zhang Er as his father, and the two are friends with each other.
Zhang Er and Chen Yu could not stay in the State of Wei, so they changed their names and surnames and went into exile in the State of Chen, becoming janitors in order to make a living. Chen Yu had offended the petty official and would be flogged, chen Yu was furious and wanted to rise up and resist, and Zhang Er secretly stepped on Chen Yu's feet to stop his reckless move.
Afterwards, Zhang Er pulled Chen Yu under a mulberry tree and scolded: "How did I teach you before?" Now after a little humiliation, I can't hold my breath, and it is not worth dying at the hands of a small official. ”
Zhang Er's words made Chen Yu suddenly realize, and he respected him even more from then on. The two of them promoted each other and spent that difficult time together, until Chen Shi and Wu Guang revolted, the world was in chaos, and the opportunity for the two to show their fists and feet came.
Zhang Er and Chen Yu did not hesitate to defect to Chen Shi and persuade him to establish the Six Kingdoms and build himself as the party and add more enemies to Qin. However, Chen Shi was short-sighted and unwilling to give up the world that had been fought down to others, so he did not listen to the advice of Zhang Er and Chen Yu and established himself as the King of Chen.
Zhang Er and Chen Yu knew that King Chen was a mediocre talent and was not enough to achieve great things, and planned to leave him alone. Therefore, the two asked King Chen for three thousand people, saying that they would go out and expand their territory. King Chen, fooled by the two men, granted their request, and attacked Zhao Di to the north with Wu Chen as his generals and Zhang Er and Chen Yu as his lieutenants.
Zhang Er and Chen Yu, who left King Chen, were like tigers out of their cages, and under the banner of King Chen, they quickly recovered the land of Yan Zhao. After Wu Chen's death, Zhang Er and Chen Yu found Zhao Xie from the people and made him the King of Zhao. At this time, they truly became an anti-Qin force to be reckoned with.
When Zhang Er and Chen Yu were in danger, they could still be commensurate with father and son, support each other, and be friends with each other, and their friendship was praised by the world. However, as the power grows, the devil of desire begins to breed secretly, and the friendship between the two has changed somewhat.
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In the second year of Qin II, the famous Qin generals Zhang Handan and Wang Li led an army of 400,000 to besiege the Zhao state, and Zhao Wang Xie and Zhang Er fled into julu city to defend themselves, and Chen Yu led tens of thousands of Zhao soldiers to the north of julu to confront the Qin army.
During this period, two unpleasant things happened between Zhang Er and Chen Yu, causing their friendship to break up completely.
First thing. Zhang Er and the common people of Zhao Guo were besieged in Julu City, and they were in danger, but he was not worried at all, and he also said to people, "Don't be afraid, Chen Yu and I are friends with each other, he has tens of thousands of troops, and he will definitely find a way to rescue us."
In Zhang Er's view, since the two were friends, Chen Yu had the obligation to save him, even if he was sent to death. If Chen Yu can't even do this, then he has violated his original promise and should be condemned.
Zhang Er climbed under the city wall every day, looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements. However, he looked down at the city wall, except for the enemy troops, where was the shadow of the reinforcements? To this end, Zhang Er sent his subordinates Zhang Yi and Chen Ze out of the city to move the rescue troops.
Zhang Yi and Chen Ze sneaked out of the city and went straight to Chen Yu's camp, scolding Chen Yu for betraying his friendship. However, Chen Yu was angry and sent 5,000 people to Zhang Di and Chen Ze, and as a result, the two of them engaged the Qin army, and they were crushed in an instant, and the bones were gone.
Chen Yu held tens of thousands of horses in his hands, and people became rational, of course, he did not want to die in vain. What's more, the princes all watched from the sidelines, and even Zhang Er's son did not dare to act rashly with ten thousand people, so why could Chen Yu repel the Qin soldiers?
In fact, Chen Yu had been trying to rescue him, and he had sent people to Xiang Yu's camp many times to ask for help. Xiang Yu really lived up to the expectations of the people, just like the heavenly soldiers descended from the sky, and the Nine Battles broke the Qin soldiers and lifted the siege of the giant deer.
The second thing, after Zhang Er was saved, he came out of the Giant Deer City and thanked the princes for saving their lives, but he did not have the slightest gratitude to Chen Yu, and also blamed Chen Yu for seeing death and not saving. He also asked where Zhang Yi and Chen Ze were, and suspected that they had been killed by Chen Yu.
Chen Yuhe had suffered from such anger, they were inseparable from each other, but now they had become a fuse for the two sides to turn their faces. In a fit of rage, Chen Yu threw the seal that symbolized military power on the table and ran to the toilet to calm down.
Knowing this, Zhang Er, under the persuasion of his subordinates, took the seal and took over Chen Yu's military power. When Chen Yu came back to see such a situation, he felt great sorrow in his heart: It turned out that in the face of interests, the so-called neck-and-neck friendship was no more than that.
Since then, Chen Yu and Zhang Er have officially decided to go to the road of revenge and death.
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Originally, after the Battle of the Giant Deer, the relationship between the two broke down, and it was also a good choice to become a passerby. However, Chen Yu did two irrational things, making them complete enemies and causing Chen Yu's downfall.
The first thing, after the Battle of Julu, Zhang Er was crowned the King of Changshan for his military merits, under one person and above ten thousand people, how glorious; and Chen Yu's merits were the same as Zhang Er's, but only three small counties were sealed, which made Chen Yu's heart difficult for a while.
Dividing the world, everything is Xiang Yu's operation, and it doesn't matter what Zhang Er does. But Chen Yu sprinkled his anger on Zhang Er's head, and in his heart, all this was Zhang Er's fault, and he wanted Zhang Er to pay the price of blood for it.
Chen Yu brought reinforcements from Tian Rong, the King of Qi, and mobilized all the troops of the three counties of Nanpi to attack Zhang'er.
In terms of governing the country, Zhang Er is stronger than Chen Yu, but when it comes to leading troops to fight, Chen Yu is stronger than Zhang Er. Zhang Er could not defeat Chen Yu, and defected to Liu Bang with the defeated remnants of the army.
The second thing, Chen Yu drove Zhang Er away, recovered Zhao Di, and made himself An Jun, assisting Zhao Wang Xie. Liu Bang saw that Chen Yu's power was getting bigger and bigger, and wanted to win him over to fight Xiang Yu together.
Originally, Chen Yu had already broken with Xiang Yu, and it was only natural for the Han Dynasty to attack Chu. However, he made a condition to Liu Bang, asking for Zhang Er's head before he was willing to send troops to help.
This was not difficult for Liu Bang, who killed a person who looked very much like Zhang Er and deceived Chen Yu. Later, Chen Yu found that Zhang Er was still alive, so he withdrew from the battlefield and broke with Liu Bang from then on.
Judging from these two things, Chen Yu's behavior was very irrational. After Zhang Erfeng, he did not take the initiative to provoke Chen Yu, he may only want to be a passerby with Chen Yu, but Chen Yu was blinded by irrationality and wanted to put Zhang Er to death, which once again confirmed the sentence: how deep love is, how deep hatred is.
In the face of Chen Yu's tight steps, Zhang Er was not willing to tie his hands and capture, he got a chance, and there was a powerful helper Han Xin, the two led the Han army to break the Zhao army at Jingxing, Chen Yu and Zhao Wang Xie were captured.
When the Chu and Han dynasties were fighting, Liu Bang treated the captives of the Wang rank with preferential treatment and did not kill them at all. However, in the face of Chen Yu, Zhang Er showed no mercy and resolutely executed him.
Why such a tragic ending? We see that when Zhang Er and Chen Yu were in danger before they joined the revolution, similar situations, the same ambitions, and the same outstanding talents made them firmly come together.
During that period, their friendship was pure, deep, and heart-to-heart. But as their careers grew, so did their power, and the devils of desire grew in secret, and friendship became a liability that accelerated their separation, so that they later became enemies.
How did all this come about? The reason is that friendship is a luxury, it is pure, simple, simple, but also precious, not allowing too many benefits to be mixed. Once friendship is polluted by human desires, it is inevitable that it will break down.
Some people have summed up friendship as follows: Eli intersects, and when the benefits are exhausted, it is scattered; when the situation intersects, the momentum is gone, it is tilted; the power is intersected, and the power is lost; the love is intersected, and the death of the love is hurt.
Why did the small boat of Zhang Er and Chen Yu's friendship say that it would turn over? In the editor's view, as the power they have becomes greater and greater, friendship has become a vassal of interests, used as a chip, changed its quality, and changed its taste. No wonder Sima Qian concluded: "Isn't it better to intersect with snobbery?" ”
For ordinary people, how can friendship last forever? It's simple, let friendship return to pure, simple, simple. The so-called heart to fellowship, indifferent to the mingzhi, friendship can be long-lasting.