Chapter 8 this man is fierce

Here in Gaoyang, there was a Confucian scholar surnamed Li and named Shiqi.He was addicted to alcohol, so he had to act as a gatekeeper to guard the door.Neither the county government nor the virtuous men dare to appoint them, and they all call them "crazy students". In 209 B.C., Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raised the banner of "Fighting Innocents and Eliminating Tyranny of Qin Dynasty", and the heroes of the world rose up to respond. At that time, Xiang Liang raised troops in Kuaiji, Liu Bang raised troops in Yupei, and the uprising storm swept the whole country.Chen Sheng, Xiang Liang and other rebels passed by Gaoyang, and Li Sheng looked down on them, thinking that they were just short-sighted people, but Liu Bang, the Duke of Pei, said, "This man still has great ambitions. This time, I am really willing Follow him!" So he came to recommend himself to Liu Bangmao.

One day, Liu Bang was sitting on the bed, and two women washed his feet.Suddenly it was reported that there was a Confucian scholar in the village seeking to see him. He was over sixty years old and eight feet tall. Everyone called him a "crazy student" and claimed to be "non-crazy". Liu Bang has always looked down on Confucian scholars. When he saw Confucian scholars in the past, he often used the hat of Confucian scholars as a urinal to insult Confucian scholars.Today I suddenly heard that a Confucian scholar asked for an interview, and I felt very upset, so I asked someone to refuse the interview, and said: "I put the world's major affairs first, and I don't have time to interview scholars."

Li Shiqi, who had been waiting outside for a long time, listened, his eyes widened with anger, and he pressed his sword with his hand and angrily scolded the messenger: "Go, tell Peigong! I am a drunkard in Gaoyang, not a scholar!" The envoy hurriedly went to report. When Liu Bang heard that he claimed to be a drunkard in Gaoyang, he wanted to see the ability of this drunkard. He didn't even wipe his feet. He picked up a spear, stood on the ground and said, "please come in!" When Li Shiqi entered the room, he saw that Duke Pei bowed his head and said, "Don't you want to punish Qin? Why do you treat the elders so arrogantly? Do you want to help Qin attack the princes? Or lead the princes to defeat Qin?"

At this time, Liu Bang was at a loss, so he asked him to sit on it. He apologized and said: "I have heard people say about Mr. in the past, but I only know the purpose of Mr.'s visit when we meet today!" The Gaoyang drinker said: "Your Excellency, you just gathered some mobs. During the war, you collected less than 10,000 stragglers. If you want to enter Qin like this, it is tantamount to going deep into the tiger's mouth. It is better to be in Chen This place in Liu, Chenliu is the main road of transportation in the world, leading in all directions, and the food reserves in the city are still sufficient. I know the county magistrate of Chenliu, and now I can persuade him to surrender. If he does not listen to me, you can It's time to storm the city, and I will cooperate with you from the inside as the internal response, so success is inevitable."

Therefore, Liu Bang accepted Li Shiqi's suggestion, decided to capture Chendi first, and sent Li Shiqi as his internal response.Li Shiqi came to the county seat, met with the county magistrate Chen Liu, and stated the reason why Qin Zhi was about to die, hoping that he would surrender to Liu Bang.But the county magistrate was afraid of the harshness of Qin's law, so he didn't dare to do it rashly, so he refused. Li Shiqi killed the county magistrate in the middle of the night that day, and reported the county magistrate to Pei Gong.Seeing that the great event had been accomplished, Liu Bang led his troops to attack the county seat, ordered someone to lift the head of the county magistrate with a bamboo pole, and shouted: "Surrender quickly, your county magistrate has already been beheaded! Otherwise, the consequences will be the same!"

Seeing that the county magistrate was dead and had no intention of guarding any more, the defenders of the city opened the city and surrendered.After Liu Bang entered the city, there was enough grain in the granary for three months, and tens of thousands of troops surrendered, so he captured Qin in one go, all thanks to Gaoyang's alcoholics. Liu Bang had always looked down on intellectuals in the past, but after meeting this alcoholic Gao Yang, he realized that if he wanted to achieve great things, it would be difficult to succeed without intellectuals to advise him. From then on, Liu Bang not only granted Li Shiqi the title of Guangye Lord, but also used his younger brother Li Shang as a general. He led thousands of troops to follow Liu Bang in the South and North Wars, and made great contributions.

The drunkard turned out to be one of Liu Bang's important counselors in the early days of his business.Later, he lobbied for Liu Bang, disintegrated the princes, and made many contributions.After Li Shiqi's death, when Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor and appraised the meritorious officials, he granted Li Shiqi's son Li Jie the title of Marquis of Gaoliang to show that he did not forget his previous achievements.After Liu Bang granted Li Shiqi the title of Emperor Guangye, he appointed his younger brother Li Shang as the general, commanded Chenliu's army, and attacked Kaifeng with Liu Bang, but failed.Continuing to the west, he fought a battle with Qin general Yang Xiong at Baima, and another battle at Qu Yudong, defeating the Qin army.Yang Xiong fled to Xingyang, Qin II sent envoys to behead him for public display.Pei Gong attacked Yingyang in the south again, and after capturing Yingyang, through Zhang Liang's relationship, he took the dangerous road of Hanyuan in South Korea.

In 206 BC, after Xiang Yu wiped out the main force of the Qin army, he led an army of 400,000, and led the princes of the world to march westward.Why did he go west?Because the state of Qin is now in Xianyang, Shaanxi, he has to enter Guanzhong to reach Xianyang before he can destroy Qin.And before that, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang had an agreement under the auspices of King Huai of Chu, whoever defeated the Qin army first and entered Xianyang would be the king of Guanzhong. , and entering Xianyang must pass through Hangu Pass. Hangu Pass is an important pass in Xianyang. There is a saying that "one man is in charge of the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it", and there must be heavy guards guarding it. So can Xiang Yu take Xianyang?What is waiting for him?