Chapter 26 6. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu
Liu Bang and Xiang Yu are two kinds of people.
Han Xin and Chen Ping knew this best, because they both switched from the Chu camp to the Han camp.What they say is roughly the same.
Look at Han Xin first.
After Han Xin worshiped the general, he had a long talk with Liu Bang.Liu Bang asked Han Xin that Prime Minister Xiao recommended the general to the widow again and again, what strategy does the general have to teach the widow?
However, Han Xin did not answer this question directly, but stood up and bowed and asked Liu Bang: Isn't it King Xiang who is now fighting for power in the world with the king?
Liu Bang said: Yes.
Han Xin asked again: "Your Majesty, weigh it yourself. In terms of personal bravery and military strength, is it comparable to King Xiang?"
Liu Bang was silent for a long time, and then said the truth: I am not as good as him.
Han Xin got up again and said: "That's right."Even Han Xin thought that the king was inferior to him.But King Xiang has two fatal weaknesses, which are the courage of men and the benevolence of women.Therefore, King Xiang will undoubtedly lose.
What is the courage of the common man?To put it bluntly, it is personal heroism.In Xiang Yu's eyes, there is only one hero in the world, and that is himself.Therefore, Xiang Yu, as the coach, likes to charge forward.Take the lead in every battle, and naturally be invincible.But what was the result?
Others are either idiots or idiots, and they are useless.
This is actually isolating yourself.
Those who show off their bravery must practice the benevolence of a woman.When the soldiers were sick and injured, Xiang Yu sent food and medicine, and asked about the cold and warmth.The soldiers should be rewarded for their merits, but he held the official seal tightly in his hand and felt it. The corners of the seal were rounded and he was reluctant to give it to others. It was simply petty.
Petty, most of them are narrow-minded.Li Shiqi said that Xiang Yu's characteristic is that "he never remembers his achievements, never forgets his crimes, he won't be rewarded for victory, and he won't be sealed if he pulls out a city." Who wants to follow him?
Liu Bang is different.Among them, Zhang Liang was a nobleman, Chen Ping was a poor scholar, Xiao He was a county magistrate, Han Xin was a vagabond, Fan Kuai was a dog butcher, Guan Ying was a cloth dealer, Lou Jing was a coachman, Peng Yue was a bandit, and Zhou Bo was a drummer.But Liu Bang treats everyone equally and does his best. He doesn't care if others say that he is a miscellaneous army and grass head king.
That's right, Liu Bang is a hooligan, but he is a hero among hooligans, and even a born leader.He can make decisions, know how to employ people, know people well, and employ people without doubt.And once appointed, full policies and rewards will be given.
Chen Ping has a deep understanding of this.
Chen Ping defected from the Chu camp to the Han camp.Soon after coming here, he was reported for being jealous of others, and was charged with "stealing his sister-in-law and accepting money, capricious".When Liu Bang received the report, he called the introducer Wei Wuzhi and asked him how he recommended people.
Wei Wuzhi didn't care.He said, I don't know if Chen Ping has a lover or if he confiscated the red envelopes, but he only knows that he is talented.What the king wants is talent, so why bother with his private life?
So Liu Bang talked to Chen Ping.
Liu Bang asked Chen Ping: Mr. Wei first, then Chu, and now he is with the widow. Could it be that honest and honest people are so half-hearted?
Chen Ping replied: Yes, I have served King Wei and King Xiang successively.However, the king of Wei couldn't employ people, so the minister had to go to King Xiang.King Xiang couldn't trust people, so the minister had no choice but to go to the king again.The minister escaped naked and penniless, and he couldn't live without accepting other people's funding.If your Majesty thinks the strategy of the minister is desirable, please adopt it.If nothing can be done, please let the minister be laid off.All the money sent to the minister by others has not been touched, and the minister has paid a lot of money to the public.
As soon as Liu Bang heard this, he immediately got up and apologized to Chen Ping, gave gifts generously, and appointed Chen Ping as the lieutenant (commander-in-chief of the military police) of the supervisory army.
Later, Chen Ping suggested that Liu Bang use countermeasures to deal with Xiang Yu. Liu Bang immediately allocated 40,000 catties of copper and let Chen Ping use it without audit or reimbursement.As a result, Chen Ping used some tricks to make both Fan Zeng and Zhong Lixuan lose their trust.
So Chen Ping, like Han Xin, believed that Xiang Yu would fail and Liu Bang would succeed, but Chen Ping said it more thoroughly.Chen Ping once commented in front of Liu Bang: Xiang Wang is respectful to his lover, but the king is rude and rude.However, King Xiang was stingy, and King Xiang was generous, so everyone came to Hanying.
And that gets to the point.
That's right, in terms of personal ability and charm, Liu Bang is not as good as Xiang Yu.But major events in the world cannot be handled by one person alone.So, I would like to ask, how can a team that can run across the world be assembled?
Liu Bang relied on profit.
No one in the Liu Bang Group denies this point.After Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, he once asked his ministers a question: Why do I and King Xiang both succeed and fail?
General Gao Qi told Wang Ling that His Majesty sent someone to attack the city and seize the land, and if he was defeated, he would give it to him. This is to benefit the world.What about Xiang Yu?If you win a battle, regardless of the merits of others, if you occupy the city and don't benefit others, of course you will lose the world.
Liu Bang agreed, but added one thing: know how to employ people.
In fact, his ability to employ people includes giving more benefits (forgiving people with noble titles).Therefore, around Xiang Yu, there are many gentlemen who are clean and self-sufficient; around Liu Bang, most of them are greedy, lustful, and thieves.
However, these people are very capable.
This raises another question: what is the standard for employing people?
Wei Wuzhi answered for Liu Bang.
Faced with the accusation that Chen Ping should not be recommended, Wei Wuzhi said: What I value is talent, what the king asks is character.So I would like to ask, now there is a filial son who can't do anything, will the king use him?
Liu Bang said nothing.
That's right, a person who "steals his sister-in-law and receives money, has no virtue and no deeds" has become the commander-in-chief of the gendarmerie, what else can he say?
But this by no means means that Liu Xiangzhi differs in virtue and talent. In fact, Xiang Yu has done a lot of immoral things.Liu Bang once reprimanded Xiang Yu's ten crimes face to face, such as killing the lord, killing surrender, breach of contract, greed for money, etc., which are mostly facts.His personal charm is aesthetic, not moral.
Xiang Yu is indeed good-looking.Including his battle, Farewell, cool, childish, all good-looking.Liu Bang, who is pragmatist and utilitarian, is not good-looking at all.Therefore, most people in later generations sympathized with Xiang Yu and disliked Liu Bang.When they expressed sympathy and appreciation, they also forgot that Xiang Yu killed 200,000 soldiers, massacred the city many times, and condoned the crimes of the army burning, killing, looting, and raping women.
Obviously, if you talk about aesthetics, choose Yu; if you talk about benefits, choose Liu Bang.The era of aristocrats emphasized aesthetics, while the era of common people emphasized benefits.History chose Liu Bang, which can only show that the times have changed, and it must change.
In February of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the emperor, was located in Dingtao.Seven and a half years later, he returned to his hometown of Peixian after he had settled down in Chang'an, where he invited all his fathers and children to have a drink.While drinking, Liu Bang built the building with his own hands, and wrote poems for himself——
As soon as this song came out, there was harmony everywhere.Liu Bang left his seat and danced, feeling generous and sad, crying for a few lines.He held the hands of the villagers and said, wandering sons mourn their hometown!Although I have no choice but to set my capital in Guanzhong, after a hundred years, my soul will still return to Peizhong.
It seems that although Liu Bang is ruthless, he is not cruel; although realistic, he is also poetic.But what he represents is, after all, a ruthless and destructive system, a system that must replace heroism and aristocratic spirit with desire for power and profit.Moreover, this system will continue for more than two thousand years.
A new era has begun.
This era began with Qin Dynasty.
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