Chapter 15 Scarlet Xianyang

After the Hongmen Banquet, Liu Bang took the initiative to abdicate.A few days after he left, Xiang Yu led his troops westward, slaughtered Xianyang City, burned the palace of King Qin, and the fire did not go out for three months; the Chu army robbed treasures and beautiful women.Qin Jiang's Prince Ying, who had been backed by Liu Bang to be the prime minister, was also dealt with by the grumpy Xiang Yu.Someone advised him: "My lord, Guanzhong is a good place. There are mountains and rivers as barriers, there are fortresses in all directions, and the land is fertile. You can build a capital and become hegemony."

Don't look at Xiang Yu who kills people without blinking an eye, but he is a person who loves his homeland very much, and he is quite vain.Seeing that the palaces of the Qin Dynasty were burnt to dilapidated condition, and some were not acclimatized to the environment, he was eager to miss his hometown, so he said: "If you are rich abroad and do not return to your hometown, it is like walking around at night in good clothes. Who knows you?" Hearing this, the man said in front of Xiang Yu: "People say that the people of Chu State are like monkeys wearing human hats, but I still don't believe it! Looking at it today, it really is so." It really echoed the old saying: Misfortune comes from Mouth out.As soon as Xiang Yu heard this, he immediately threw the man into the pot and boiled him alive.

Since ancient times, there has been a warning that "accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger". Anyone who is a bit brainy and does not want to seek death will only complain and mutter behind his back if his opinion is not accepted by the leader.Who doesn't know this Xiang Yu's temper!But the reason why Xiang Yu can't achieve great things is because of his bad temper.People were boiled, and although the depression was relieved for a while, they lost the hearts of the people in Qin.The local people who had just been looted by the Chu army hadn't woken up from the nightmare, and heard about this incident, they were extremely disappointed in Xiang Yu.

Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts. Compared with the previous situation when Liu Bang was there, they all wish that our amiable Peigong will come back again (a mere "three chapters of the agreement" makes the common people so concerned, which shows the importance of publicity), but frightened by Xiang Yu's domineering, Except for this "strong man" who dared to call him a monkey to his face, no one dared to seek bad luck. The arrogance of nobles is very clear in Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang.Such arrogance manifests itself in war in horribly stupid carnage.Untouchables, contempt for the lives of common people is a manifestation of aristocratic arrogance.The lives of despised soldiers are exactly the same.Look at Xiang Yu, when he attacked Xiangcheng at the beginning of his army, Xiangcheng could not hold on.After the conquest, what he did was vent his anger and massacre the city; the siege of Chengyang was another "slaughter", this time Liu Bang also had a part, it is understandable-he could not be the master; All the soldiers were killed.This not only shows Xiang Yu's cruel, arrogant, and untouchable aristocratic character, but also shows Xiang Yu's "no worries about taking the world".Facing the 200,000 surrendered Qin army, he didn't know what to do, how to appease the soldiers and stabilize the army's morale, and ended up killing them all at once.

If it was Liu Bang, would he kill Qin Jun?Certainly not.In fact, after Liu Bang entered the customs, he has been doing things to stabilize people's hearts, such as "three chapters" with the Qin people, returning the army to the overlord, and even refusing to accept the wine and food sent by the Qin people, and Qin's prince Ying did not kill him. In the age without doctrine, he also had personal problems, killing captives, burning palaces, robbing women, cooking people, etc. These practices are also despised behaviors, and Xiang Yu is really handy in doing them. Like Wang Ling, people didn't want to follow him, so he took his mother hostage, and the mother was forced to commit suicide.It's fine for his mother to commit suicide, he also cooked his mother!It can be said that there is no humanity!As a result, Wang Ling was forced into Liu Bang's camp, and he left with Liu Bang.Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms did such a thing. He took Xu Shu's old mother into Cao Ying, but he treated her kindly, so how dare he cook it!

These actions of his are in stark contrast to Liu Bang's actions.Looking at how easily Liu Bangding and Sanqin were later, you can see how misguided and even stupid Xiang Yu was.Qin Jiang's Prince Ying was killed by Xiang Yu, very simply, and then the Qin palace was burned.Although the palace of the King of Qin was burned, the fire was tantamount to lighting the hearts of the people of Qin, which made people feel chilling.