"Fu Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and Chu was the most innocent. Since the king of Huai entered Qin, the Chu people have taken pity on him so far, so chu nan gong said, 'Although Chu has three households, qin will die in Chu'
This is the relevant record in the "History of Xiang Yu Benji", which mainly describes the reasons for the rebellion of Xiang Liang at the end of Qin.
Don't fight the strong desire of the nobles of the Chu state to restore the country, and also send out the words that the Southern Duke of chu once said, "Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu!" The strongest voice of "is necessary to shame the Chu State and avenge the snow hatred for the ancestors of the Chu State."
The historical background of this passage is the events after the rebellious peasant army led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang was pacified by the Qin general Zhang Handan. At that time, it was the remnants of the Chu state that falsely passed on Chen Sheng's will, granting Xiang Liang the great position of shangzhu state, and letting Xiang Liang lead the remnants of Chu out of the Yangtze River to face the Qin army to the west.
At this time, this was originally a plan planned by Xiang Liang, so he also took the opportunity to send troops, Xiang Liang and more than 8,000 other disciples crossed the Yangtze River, won the first battle and annexed Chen Bao's troops, and then sent to the Chu king Jingju and Qin Jiabu stationed in Pengcheng. In this battle, the eight thousand disciples led by Xiang Liang were also really powerful and won the victory again. Qin Jia was beheaded, and although Jingju later escaped, he did not escape the fate of being killed in Liangdi.
It was also in this situation of successive great victories that Xiang Liang summoned the generals to the chinese army tent and told everyone the news that Chen Sheng was dead. Everyone sighed, and at this time Fan Zeng said the sentence quoted by the author at the beginning, and then said: The main reason why Chen Sheng did not succeed and failed was that he did not support the descendants of the King of Chu.
He then said that Xiang Liang had won the support of the people of Chu, mostly because the Xiang family had been a general in the Chu state for generations. At this time, if we want to make further progress, or expand our existing achievements, then we must gain the support of the people of Chudi. At this time, the first thing we did was to support the descendants of the King of Chu as kings, so as to lead everyone to oppose Qin.
At this time, everyone felt that what Fan Zeng said was very reasonable, so everyone had their own self-confidence, and Xiang Liang also listened to Fan Zeng's suggestion.
Later, Xiang Liang and a group of other people found Xiong Xin, the grandson of the wandering King of Chu Huai, and supported him as the King of Chu Huai, and built the capital Xuyi, and Xiang Liang also proclaimed himself Wu Xinjun.
Then, at this time, we are qualified to put forward the so-called "Chu three households, the death of Qin will be Chu" is likely to be an excuse put forward by Fan Zengwei xiangliang against Comrade Qin.
It is likely that Fan Zengfu dragged out a Chu Nan Gong, the purpose of which was to cheer up these anti-Qin forces, fearing that they would lose confidence due to the defeat of Chen Shengbu. Let them unite the remnants of the Chu state to consolidate Xiang Liang's dominance and jointly revitalize the great cause of anti-Qin.
As for why it is said that "although Chu has three households, qin will die in Chu"? Let's talk about the previous one:
The first aspect, in fact, if you think about it carefully during the war, even the words said by the general Xiang Yan may not be remembered very clearly, after all, the situation of the war is very complicated. "Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu", the reason why it can be recorded in the historical data, in fact, it has a lot to do with the remnants of the Chu state against Qin.
If it was Zhao Guo who presided over the anti-Qin movement in the first place. If the State of Wei is a descendant of the State of Qi, I am afraid that there will be "xxxx, dead Qin will be Wei" or "dead Qin will be Zhao" and so on.
In the second aspect, although the State of Chu also learned from the State of Wei to carry out a drastic reform movement in the future, the Chu State was very complicated internally, and it was obviously very inconsistent with the basic national conditions of the State of Chu if it wanted to quickly cut through the chaos. Therefore, the movement of changing the law in the Chu State came and went in a hurry.
Although these so-called changes are on the one hand to improve the military strength of the country, what is more prominent is to consolidate the king's dominance and strengthen the king's power.
Whether it is the remaining Warring States Seven Heroes or some of the countries that were destroyed, in fact, they have also done the reform movement, but some of them have been very successful, and some are unknown.
Among them, the most successful change of law is the Qin State, and the Qin State has indeed tasted the sweetness brought to him by the change of law.
Of course, there are the most successful Qin countries in changing the law, and naturally there are also countries that have failed to change the law, in fact, in general, the Chu state is the least thorough in this change of law movement.
With the death of King Chu Mourning, the original high-rise buildings were instantly destroyed, and the nobles of the State of Chu took the lead in launching a rebellion, besieging the palace, shooting Wu Qi, and the nobles of the State of Chu once again became the dominant players of the State of Chu.
In the campaign of the Qin state to destroy Chu, the Qin state used the power of the whole country, and of course, in the end, it also eliminated the Chu royal family, and the Chu land was also occupied by the Qin state. The Xiong clan, the largest clan in the Chu kingdom, was also relocated.
However, the forces within the Chu State have long been deeply rooted, and the major aristocratic forces of the Chu State are also entangled and deeply rooted in all aspects of the Chu society, and it is precisely because of this that after the emergence of the anti-Qin movement, Chu Di can gather a number of anti-Qin rebels with considerable combat strength in a short period of time.
In fact, qin shi huang's own heart was also very clear, so in the constantly launched war against Lingnan, the people of Chudi were the most. And he focused his parade on Chudi, the main purpose of which was to deter those who opposed him in Chudi.
In fact, when Fan Zeng and others put forward the relevant remarks that "although Chu has three households, qin will die in Chu", the reason why they were able to get a great response was that the remnants of the Chu state at that time were still very large. The main purpose of this sentence is to strengthen the confidence of these anti-Qin personnel and make them unite as never before.