The Hongmen Banquet is a very important banquet for Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, in this banquet, Liu Bang is likely to lose his life, and Xiang Yu may use the Hongmen Banquet to eliminate Liu Bang and achieve his future great cause.
Originally, Fan Zeng had already helped Xiang Yu to arrange everything, Xiang Yu only needed to nod, and Liu Bang would disappear at the Hongmen banquet, but what no one expected was that Xiang Bo, as his own family, actually continued to help Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet, so that Liu Bang escaped from death, why did Xiang Bo do this? Is he really eating inside and out?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the relationship between Xiang Bo and Xiang Yu</h1>
Xiang Bo was Xiang Yu's youngest uncle and xiang Yan's youngest son, Xiang Yan had three sons, the eldest son Xiang Qu, that is, Xiang Yu's father, but unfortunately Xiang Qu died relatively early, leaving only one son Xiang Yu to follow the second brother Xiang Liang to the southern expedition to the north.
Xiang Liang is Xiang Yan's second son and the most famous of Xiang Yan's sons. After the deaths of Both Xiang Yan and Xiang Qu, Xiang Liang took over the banner of his father and served as the Wu XinJun of the Chu State.
As Xiang Liang's younger brother, Xiang Bo followed Xiang Liang in his career and served as the Chu State Zoe, equivalent to the Deputy Chancellor of the Chu State, and Xiang Yu was serving as a general at that time.
The relationship between Xiang Yu and his two uncles was good, and it could be regarded as a friendship between life and death, especially when Xiang Liang was defeated and killed by the Qin general Zhang Handan in the Battle of Dingtao, Xiang Yu and Xiang Bo were even more dependent on each other.
After Xiang Liang's death, due to Xiang Yu's extraordinary ability, Xiang Yu inherited the mantle of Xiang Liang, and Xiang Bo was inseparable from Xiang Yu from then on, and was specifically responsible for assisting Xiang Yu in building a meritorious career.
In the process of Xiang Bo and Xiang Yu getting along, there was no contradiction between the two, even after the Hongmen Feast, Xiang Yu trusted Xiang Bo very much, which showed that the relationship between the uncle and nephew could stand the test.
Obviously, the relationship between the two was good, and there was no contradiction, so why did Xiang Bo help Liu Bang get out of danger during the Hongmen banquet, instead of helping Xiang Yu destroy Liu Bang?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the relationship between Xiang Bo and Liu Bang</h1>
Originally, Xiang Bo and Liu Bang had no relationship, but because of the connection between them, there were some relationships, and this person was Zhang Liang.
Xiang Bo once ran around because of killing people, just met Zhang Liang, at this time Zhang Liang was an official of the Qin Dynasty, Zhang Liang saw that Xiang Bo was not an ordinary husband, the two talked very happily, so Zhang Liang tried to save Xiang Bo once.
Because there was a life-saving grace, so after this incident, the friendship between Xiang Bo and Zhang Liang has been good, and later when Xiang Bo learned that Xiang Yu was going to hold a Feast at the Hongmen Gate to kill Liu Bang, Xiang Bo was worried that Zhang Liang would also be implicated, so he did not go far away, desperately going to find Zhang Liang overnight, and advising Zhang Liang to leave Liu Bang early, so as not to lose his life.
It was precisely because of this move of Xiang Bo that he was used by Zhang Liang, so that Xiang Bo was introduced to Liu Bang, so that Xiang Bo could get acquainted with Liu Bang.
Liu Bang has always been a human spirit-like existence, and when he heard that Xiang Bo was planning to save Zhang Liang's life, Liu Bang was instantly calculated and planned to make good use of Xiang Bo, a key figure.
Liu Bang understood that as a figure of Xiang Bo's level, bribing him with gold and silver jewelry and even status and power had no effect, and the best way to get such a figure was to use a righteous word.
The ancients were very concerned about righteousness, especially the Xiang Yu family, a member of the class who originally belonged to the nobility of the Chu State, the aristocratic spirit was more obvious, and they were more concerned about the rationality of doing something and whether it was in line with morality.
Liu Bang seized this point and began to make a fuss about Xiang Boda, as soon as he saw Xiang Bo, he was courteous, feeling that the princes of his side were not as noble as Xiang Bo's status, it can be said that Liu Bang gave Xiang Bo enough face, so that Xiang Bo instantly looked at Liu Bang as a person.
Once the top hat was worn, if you want to take it off again, the difficulty is relatively large, after Xiang Bo was put on a top hat by Liu Bang, Liu Bang continued to take advantage of the victory to pursue, saying that although he entered the customs first, everything in the pass was placed in a regular manner, waiting for King Xiang to enjoy it.
As soon as Xiang Bo heard that Liu Bang was so sensible, he didn't have any idea of wanting to fight xiang Yu at all, plus Liu Bang showed great loyalty in front of Xiang Bo, and he was also about a brother with Xiang Bo, and he set up a children's affair, and for a while Xiang Bo didn't know what reason to kill Liu Bang.
After having contact with Liu Bang, Xiang Bo of course went back to have a good talk with Xiang Yu, and Xiang Bo felt that what Liu Bang was doing was reasonable and at the same time in line with morality, and if he killed someone like Liu Bang, it would obviously be an unjust act and not in line with his own identity.
After Xiang Yu listened to what Xiang Bo said, he did think about it deeply, and felt that if he killed Liu Bang, it would not be in line with his aristocratic spirit at all, so Xiang Yu began to hesitate a little about killing Liu Bang.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Hongmen feast did not kill Liu Bang</h1>
Xiang Yu originally trusted Fan Zeng more, and more recognized and approved of Fan Zeng's radical approach, but now after Xiang Bo's analysis, Xiang Yu felt that Xiang Bo's conservative approach was also very reasonable, so Xiang Yu fell into a dilemma.
When the Hongmen Feast officially began, Xiang Yu was actually in a situation where he had no opinion, and he watched as Xiang Bo's conservatives and Fan Zeng's radicals debated whether to kill Liu Bang.
Even in Xiang Yu's view at that time, not killing Liu Bang was more in line with his own identity and morality, because on the one hand, Liu Bang's behavior at that time was not suspected of being disrespectful to himself, on the other hand, Liu Bang regarded himself as the boss, and obviously he had no reason to kill Liu Bang.
What is more serious is that at that time, the princes of the world were not only Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, although Xiang Yu's strength belonged to the boss in the single single, but once Liu Bang's problem was not properly handled, it was likely to cause the rest of the princes to besiege themselves, if the rest of the princes joined forces to fight Xiang Yu, it was obvious that Xiang Yu would soon be overwhelmed.
These concerns were what Xiang Yu had in mind at that time, and at the same time, xiang Bo was worried, and both of them had similar thoughts, so at the Hongmen banquet, Liu Bang was able to escape Xiang Zhuang's repeated killings and finally escape from death.
In fact, Fan Zeng also thought about the risks that he might face after killing Liu Bang, so he was not so sure about killing Liu Bang, otherwise when Xiang Bo appeared to dance with Xiang Zhuang to influence Xiang Zhuang to kill Liu Bang, Fan Zeng would definitely go to Xiang Yu to persuade him.
It's just a pity that in the historical background of that time, Fan Zeng, Xiang Bo or Xiang Yu, all three of them were hesitant and uncertain about killing Liu Bang, so the Hongmen Banquet would eventually develop into this.
Of course, from the perspective of Zhuge Liang, even if Xiang Yu killed Liu Bang at the Hongmen Banquet, according to Xiang Yu's personality and strategy, in the end, it would still be impossible to achieve the unification of the world.
Or from another point of view, even if Liu Bang was not killed, with the strength of Xiang Yu at that time, there were still many opportunities to destroy Liu Bang later, but Xiang Yu's personality was already doomed to Xiang Yu's inability to achieve the great cause of reunification, so how the whole Hongmen Feast ended, in fact, had no substantial impact on Liu Bang and Xiang Yu's Chu-Han struggle for hegemony.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the outcome</h1>
Neither Liu Bang nor Xiang Yu had any bad opinions about Xiang Bo after the Hongmen Banquet, and Xiang Yu continued to reuse and trust Xiang Bo because he understood that for himself, the Hongmen Banquet was nothing.
Liu Bang also did not look down on Xiang Bo or think that Xiang Bo was a person who ate inside and outside, but felt that Xiang Bo was an upright and credible person, so in the end Xiang Yu failed, Liu Bang did not kill Xiang Bo, but gave Xiang Bo a different honor.
Liu Bang gave Xiang Bo the surname of Liu, and created Xiang Bo the Marquis of Sheyang, and his fiefdom was located in the eastern part of the town of Sheyang Lake in baoying County, Jiangsu Province.
Later, three years after Emperor Hui of Han succeeded to the throne, Xiang Bo died, and his descendant Xiang Sui could not inherit the title due to crimes, and his fief was assigned to the Western Han government.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Xiang Bo continued to help Liu Bang in the Hongmen Banquet, in fact, it was not that Xiang Bo ate inside and climbed outside, but because in that historical background, and then encountered such a spirit as Liu Bang, what Xiang Bo and Xiang Yu could do, in addition to letting go of Liu Bang, there seemed to be no better choice!
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