Throughout the ages, there have always been many subtle things that have affected the direction of history, such as the Hongmen Banquet, which is often talked about, if Xiang Yu reverses at the banquet and decides to kill Liu Bang, it is another situation.
Taishi Company Ma Qian, with his own pen, described this gripping confrontation, during which the appearance of a character was also crucial, he was Xiang Yu's uncle Xiang Bo.
This inevitably makes people a little curious, since Xiang Bo is a member of xiang's family, why would he choose to turn the muzzle of the gun to help the enemy? And what happened to him who let Liu Bang go at the Hongmen banquet after the death of his nephew Xiang Yu? In fact, let's take a look at this story.
Xiang Bo, as Xiang Yu's uncle and Xiang Liang's younger brother, mentions in the Chronicle of History that he was born into a famous family, and after the fall of the Chu State, he began to wander around and befriend Zhang Liang, who was also a ranger (Xiang Bo was a hero in his early years, and had an old relationship with Zhang Liang during the Qin Dynasty). It was this relationship that laid the groundwork for helping Liu Bang later.
However, Xiang Bo always followed Xiang Yu to fight, whether it was the previous Battle of Julu, or the later attack on Hangu Pass, it is worth mentioning that the Hangu Pass garrison here is not the Qin soldiers and horses, but the Liu Bang troops who entered Xianyang early.
Here is indeed Liu Bang's fault first, in October 207 BC, the prince of Qin surrendered to Liu Bang who was advancing into Xianyang, and since then the Qin state has perished, before the King of Chu Huai attacked the Qin state, there was an agreement, "the first to enter Xianyang is the king", but the matter of sealing the king, how to say that it must wait until the end of the war, should not be the reason for Liu Bang to send troops to occupy Hangu Pass and prevent the princes from entering.
Liu Bang, who had captured Xianyang, also quickly swelled, and he listened to the strategist Yu Sheng, sent troops to control the key roads including Hangu Pass, and refused to allow other forces to enter the pass, so Xiang Yu was also angry when he heard it, and directly led 400,000 troops to break through Hangu Pass and ask Liu Bang for his guilt.
However, the situation at this time was not as serious as people thought, Xiang Yu's military action against HanguGuan was more like a punishment, his statement was "to break the Pei Gong army", the two had originally worshiped as brothers when they were crusading against the Qin State, not to mention that at this time there were still many remnants of forces that had not been eliminated, and Xiang Yu's turning face was obviously unfavorable to himself and also lost people's hearts.
Xiang Bo obviously knew this, and as a subordinate of his nephew, he strongly advocated making good friends with Liu Bei, and persuaded: "If Pei Gong does not break through the pass first, how dare Gong dare to enter?" Now that people have done great things to strike at them, it is better to be unjust than to encounter them because of good deeds. However, Fan Zeng, another of Xiang Yu's men, put forward a different view: "When Pei Gong lived in Shandong, he was greedy for goods and good beauty. Now that we have entered the customs, we have nothing to gain from our belongings, and we have no luck for women. ”
It is not difficult to see that Liu Bang's life actually depends on the two factions of Xiang Bo and Fan Zeng within the Xiang Yu camp, but Xiang Yu finally listened to the advice of his uncle Xiang Bo and did not kill Liu Bang, and the next story of the Hongmen Banquet, I believe most readers will be clear.
What is certain is that no matter before and after the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Bo has always been Xiang Yu's subordinate, and his primary consideration is still the interests of Xiang Yu's forces, and he is happy to act as an intermediary for reconciliation.
However, the next development was obviously unexpected by Xiang Bo and Xiang Yu, Liu Bang rose at a very rapid speed, and in the second year of Han Gaozu, Xiang Yu attacked the State of Qi and sent troops to The King of Jiujiang, Yingbu, as a result, the latter had quietly submitted to Liu Bei and came to Xingyang, where Liu Bei was stationed, and as for Xiang Bo, he was also given the important task of integrating the Jiujiang army by Xiang Yu.
The "Chronicle of History" records that after Xiang Bo arrived in Jiujiang, the first thing he did was to kill Yingbu's wife, and it is obvious that he also hated Yingbu's rebellion to the extreme, at this time, did Xiang Bo regret not killing Liu Bang?
However, he could not stop the trend of the times, in 202 BC, with the defeat of the Battle of Xiang Yuxia, the King of Chu drew his sword and killed himself, including Xiang Bo, all the sons of the Xiang family also became prisoners of Liu Bang, but Liu Bang still adopted a relatively magnanimous policy, considering that Xiang Bo had merit in escorting the Feast at Hongmen, he was made the Marquis of Sheyang, and the fief was placed in the eastern part of Sheyang Lake Town, Baoying County, Jiangsu Province.
However, Liu Bang was obviously still jealous of the rise of the Xiang family, so he issued another holy decree and gave him the surname Liu.
It was not until the time of Emperor Xiaohui of Han, in 192 BC, that Xiang Bo died of illness, and when he left the world, the Han court then stripped him of his fiefdom on the grounds that his descendant Xiang Sui was guilty and could not inherit the title, and the last piece of land belonging to the Xiang family disappeared from then on.