Chapter 6 Chapter 6: Chen Sheng Overwhelmed by Selfish Desires
It would be a big mistake if you regard the cities of the Qin Empire as pure cities.Actually any city is two cities: the city of the rich and the city of the poor.The rich people live in Luyou, and the poor live in Luzuo.The so-called Lu means streets and alleys.
In the junction of the Central Plains and southern Chu (the exact location cannot be determined, there are six theories about Chen Sheng's native place), in an ordinary Luzuo poor alley, lived the gloomy Chen Sheng.
Chen Sheng, with an angry youth index of 9.5 and a poverty index of 13.4 (out of 10 points), he lacks the virtuousness of Zhongni and the wealth of Tao Zhu. Ancient scholars described his home like this: a big bottomless urn was used as a window, and the house There is no bronze or iron, so his door panel has no metal shaft (the function is similar to a hinge, called a hinge in ancient times), so he uses a rope to tie the door panel to the door frame - every time he opens the door, he needs to lift the door and turn it. Only then can you get yourself out of the house-this is what Mr. Jia Yi said, "Chen Sheng, son of the rope hub". (Note: This does not necessarily mean that Chen Sheng is a farmer, urban civilians can also be like this.)
Chen Sheng can see the summer of the Qin Empire through the big urn without a bottom, and the big trees in the alleys are full of whirling leaves.The impoverished Chen Sheng doesn't even have as many leaves as the big tree. He wears a bare-legged outfit, and has a gloomy personality, sometimes forbearing.
The so-called bare-neck dress is of course my "fabrication" (those who write history will inevitably commit the crime of "fabrication", but fortunately I will take the initiative to mark it, which is regarded as surrender): the so-called "deep-legged dress" is because the lower garment is worn Hard enough to expose the big hole and flash the ass inside.This is certainly fashionable today, but it seemed a bit shabby at the time.So Chen Sheng's motto is: stand as much as possible to save trousers.
In short, Chen Sheng is a poor fellow.Moreover, his temper is not very good.Chen Sheng has a gloomy expression, he is Lin Daiyu among men, "sorry for a long time" is his signature action: he just stands there dumbfounded, his eyes are full of melancholy and gloomy, and he is very cold and thoughtful.
Every night, the moment of extreme boredom is the prime time for Chen Sheng to be in a daze. "Human existence uses a lonely way, like the silence at the bottom of the water, which is deposited under the sails and waves. The autumn wind shakes, filtering away the prosperity and the sound of people in summer, only the speculation of achievements, Like the dignified autumn scenery, it lingers in the corners of his thoughts. The ten thousand mountains and rivers displayed in summer are just ten thousand mountains and rivers.” ——this is what Chen Sheng wrote in his blog, if he had one, he would It will definitely be written like this.
Now let's talk about the word "Qianshou".
In the Qin Dynasty, it was still black, and the common people wrapped their heads in black scarves. As the name Guishou, it means black head.This does not seem to be a good word. It shows that Qin Shihuang is bad and insults us working people.Why doesn't he care about calling himself a blackhead?However, the term Qianshou existed as early as the early Warring States period, and it was also used by other princes and states. It cannot be regarded as Qin Shihuang's trouble with the common people.
In fact, in the early days of unification, the people were called by various names, such as "old Qin people", "new people", "people of the six countries", and "treacherous people".The status and privileges of various peoples are also different, and they bully each other.Qin Shihuang's unification and change of the people's name to "Qianshou" has positive significance in resolving conflicts, and his intentions are considered good.Moreover, he asked the common people to wrap their heads in black, the superior color advocated by the Qin Dynasty, instead of using lowly colors (such as green), which also valued the common people.
But Chen Sheng himself was not the head of Guizhou. "Qianshou" refers to the people who wear headscarves, which are distinguished from the people who wear crowns, for the convenience of labor.It seems indecent for a person wearing a crown to dig the ground.But Chen Sheng is from the Dai Guan clan.We know that when the ancients performed the coronation ceremony, they used a word, and Chen Sheng was the word "She".This shows that he is by no means an ordinary farmer, but belongs to the Daiguan clan.It is not easy to have words, even Liu Bang didn't have words at that time!Chen Sheng, like Xiang Yu, has characters, at least he should belong to the level of urban commoners.
In fact, the history books say that Chen Sheng is from Yangcheng and can write ("Chen Sheng Wang" is written in Yubu Shu, which may only be written by himself, and cannot be written by someone else, unless the work is crooked). After the city, there are Zhang Er and Chen Yu among the famous people in the city. "Chen Sheng has heard about Zhang Er and Chen Yuxian several times in his life. He has never seen him before, and he is very happy when he sees him."Chen Sheng was able to hear the names of Zhang and Chen several times, and was able to socialize with celebrities, heroes, and officials in the city, including Zhang and Chen. It can be seen that he is more like a city-born than a countryman.
"Historical Records" said that Chen Sheng "taste farming with others when he was young".Scholars mentioned that Chen Sheng was a farmer and led the peasant uprising based on the word "servant farming".Actually no! The word "taste" just means that he will no longer be a farmer after "young time".This just shows that he is not a long-term professional farmer, otherwise he would not use the word "taste".It is reasonable to speculate that Chen Sheng, a city resident with the word "She", had a declining family, and because he accidentally made himself poor, he went out of the city to work for a farming community in embarrassment.
The fields at that time, after leaving the city, existed near the base of the city wall, called "Fields of Negative Guo", and the owners of the land were often from the city (for example, Su Qin from Luoyang once lamented that there was no "Field of Negative Guo").These landowners need to hire people to farm. It is as logical for Chen Sheng to work there for a period of time as it is to work at McDonald's.
However, Chen Sheng, who wears a crown, found himself mixed with a group of hooded tribes, working with a hoe, and his depressed mood can be imagined.That's why when he was resting in the field, he regretted for a long time, and the more he thought about it, the more unpleasant he was, and he sighed self-consolation and sorrow of "I will never forget you if I become rich and honored in the future" - if I become rich and honored in the future, I will not forget it You guys!
Others laughed at Chen Sheng and said: "You are a labor servant, how can you be rich?"
Chen Sheng smiled, and said: "How can a sparrow know the ambition of a great swan?"
His accomplice said: "Oh, what do you mean? Don't be stupid, please fill the dung basket with dung first."
(Note: I am afraid that he is not a farmer if he can utter such literary words as "the bird knows the ambition of the great swan". Of course, you can say that this is Sima Qian's literary processing, but if Sima Qian positions this character Chen Sheng as a farmer, Would he let the characters in his works speak like this? If Sima Qian positioned Chen Sheng as a hero in his prime, it would be logical to let the characters in his works speak like this)
With the so-called lofty ambition, Chen Sheng has always longed for power and position. After ending his experience of "working with others when he was young", he started his own struggle.After some struggles that are not recorded in historical materials, he finally managed to do well, had a little influence in the local area, and took up the position of "Tun Chief". "Tunchang" is a permanent mid-level and lower-level officer in the army during the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties. Shang Yang's book mentioned a hundred generals, and "Hou Han Shu Baiguan Zhi" said: "The general has five camps, and his subordinates have music. , there is a tun under the song, and there is one head of the tun, which is more than 200 shi." The head of the tun is three grades lower than the general, and the salary level is 200 shi, while the county magistrate is 300 to 600 shi (counties with less than 10,000 households, Counties with more than 10,000 households are six hundred to one thousand stones).He has his own disciples, and it can be inferred from the later events that he has a wide range of friends and many "old friends".
Officials at that time also had to serve in the military for a certain period of time, which was called "officials pushed to join the army". After arriving in the army, they served as officers of the corresponding level.
There are various indications that Chen Sheng's social experience after adulthood is no longer a peasant role.If you think my above speculation is really unbelievable, then I can't help it.It's all because Sima Qian didn't explain more about Chen Sheng's experience in his later years in "The Family of Chen She".Later, when the farmer Chen Sheng worked as a farmer, they were all killed by Chen Sheng when they came to find Chen Sheng, because these people told about Chen Sheng's past farming.It can be seen that Chen Sheng has always been an official and was born in the uprising team at that time. If he had always been a farmer, why would he have this.
Chao Cuo, a minister of the Han Dynasty, seems to have become more and more popular since "Han Wu Da Di" started broadcasting.Chao Cuo once discussed the two major military projects of the Qin Dynasty: attacking the Xiongnu in the north and sweeping Fujian and Guangdong in the south.Chao Cuo said: In the north where the Xiongnu lived, the weather was so cold that it was inhumane. The bark of the trees was three inches thick, and the accumulation of ice and snow was six feet deep. .As for Fujian and Guangdong, it is extremely hot. Birds and animals have no hair, and people have thin skins, so they are resistant to heat.However, the garrison soldiers of the Qin Dynasty were unconvinced. They were either captured and killed during the war, or died of illness while guarding the border.The people transporting supplies to the front line even fell on the road.Therefore, when the people at that time heard that they were ordered to go north and south to perform military service or hard labor, it was like sending them to the farmers' market to beheaded.
In the summer of 209 B.C., Chen Sheng led the nine-hundred-year-old poor people who went to the border to guard the border (it was equivalent to going to the farmer's market to "abandon the market"), and went to the north to lead them to death.Nine hundred poor people are not necessarily equal to nine hundred peasants. A lv is a city block, and the common people in the city also have to serve in the military. Even in the pre-Qin period, they were the main force for military service.
Chen Sheng's position is the head of the village, assisting the generals above.There are two generals, who are actually county captains (deputy county magistrates who are in charge of the military). When they are employed in the army according to "officials pushed to join the army", they are called generals.We have reason to doubt whether Chen Sheng was a middle- and lower-level official in the county before he became the head of the village. He was also reassigned from the administrative position in the county to be a military officer in the army according to the principle of "referring officials to join the army". long.Regarding this point, the history books say, "Chen Sheng and Wu Guangsu love people, and most of their soldiers are users", that is to say, they are more or less small officials, otherwise, if they don't have some power to distribute benefits, they can't do it" "Love people", buy people's hearts and let soldiers use them for them, and they have served as such small officials for a relatively long time, they are "vegetarian" for quite a while, then they are not ordinary civilians or peasants, but have always been considered to be of a certain degree. (Only in this way can explain why Chen Sheng wanted to kill the people who used to farm with him and "revealed" him for farming afterwards).And they are consistently nicer to their subordinates.
In short, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang should be very classy. They should also wear a crown and have serious expressions, but they are kind to their subordinates, and they have always been like this.
In 209 BC, when the summer cicadas sang, Chen Sheng and a group of people led 900 soldiers to Yuyang County in the north (that is, Miyun and Pinggu in Beijing) - where the Great Wall still stretches, marking It was not the heart of the empire at that time.
When the group arrived at Daze Township, Qixian County, in the present-day Suzhou area in northern Anhui, there were dark clouds, a sudden gust of wind, the sky was dark, the rain was pouring down, and it was impossible to distinguish the distance.
Chen Sheng, sitting in the office of the head of the camp in Daze Township, should be in his thirties at this time, and his mood has always been prone to fluctuations. Looking at the noisy rain in Huaibei area outside the window, he is even more sentimental.So he called Assistant Chief Wu Guang in for a meeting.
Wu Guang is not an ordinary person, Wu Guang also has the character, the word uncle, which shows that he is also a member of the Daiguan family, and must not be mixed with the nine hundred poor people he supervises.He's not even a farmer.I am afraid that none of the farmers who have written characters can be found.
After Wu Guang entered the office of the head of the village, Chen Sheng said sadly: "Nowadays, the rainstorm keeps falling and the roads are blocked. When we reach the north, we are probably late. According to the decree of Emperor Qin II, if you are late, you will lose your head. Especially You and I are both the leading officers, and our heads are the first to bear the brunt."
Speaking of this, Chen Sheng's eyes couldn't help trembling and sour, showing that he was about to cry.
Wu Guang quickly comforted him and said, "If we are really afraid of death, we can just run away."
"If you run away, you will die. If you catch it, you will die. Moreover, if we are a deputy battalion-level cadre with a dignified appearance and a beautiful tree, if we go out and escape, it will not be a joke for the soldiers. And it is easy to be caught by the police and paparazzi. Recognize it." After Chen Sheng finished speaking, he became even more sad.
"Then what to do?"
"Actually... um... Today, there is still a way. Alas! But that is not a good way, and it will inevitably lead to death." After speaking, Chen Sheng almost began to cry.
"What can I do? Don't cry all the time. I'm afraid of crying."
"What I want to say is that we have no choice but to rebel! Alas... Actually, I don't want to rebel." After finishing speaking, he began to press the corners of his eyes with his sleeve.
Seeing that Chen Sheng was crying pitifully, Wu Guang had no choice but to agree to him: "Okay, okay, I promise to rebel, so don't cry, okay?"
"Okay!" Chen Sheng smiled through his tears and said, "Haha! I won't cry now." He looked up at Wu Guang with a glowing face, as if he was going shopping instead of rebelling. "You promised to rebel with me, didn't you? Are you sure?"
"I'm sure. But, please don't cry and laugh for a while, your mood swings are too violent, I can't adapt to your style!"
"Okay. But I'm afraid that if you agree in haste, you will go back on your word. Have you ever thought that if the rebellion fails, the two of us will probably be caught by the government army. We will be beheaded with a click, or we will die."
Wu Guang really hesitated a little: "Oh, yes. When I think that such an outstanding person like me will be cut off, I will..."
Chen Sheng said: "But you really have nothing to hesitate. Think about it, running away now is death, going to Yuyang is also death, and most of us will die if we revolt to revive Chu. If we die the same, we might as well die a big one." ! And it doesn't necessarily mean death!"
Wu Guang finally slapped his head and said, "That's right! There is no other better way, let's start a fight, Chief Chen!"
Chen Sheng finally got over his depression, and said happily: "It's a deal! Don't go back on it!" He continued to cheer Wu Guang, "Actually, the uprising is not that terrible. It has been too long now that the people of the world have been bullied by Lao Qin, and the people have suffered so much. No, the rebellion is in line with the will of the people, and it must be echoed by everyone. It is not so easy for us to fail, as long as you and I have the same goal."
Wu Guang said: "Don't worry, I will fully support you! Because if you are going to fail, I will be finished too."
Chen Sheng said: "Well, from now on, you must listen to me. If I tell you to go east, you go east. The government army bullies me. You have to come out to help me as soon as possible. You will always think that I am the most wise Yes, there is only me in your heart, you must be sincere in every word you say to me, you must not lie to me, you must pamper me, you are not allowed to bully me, and if you tell you to look for food, you will look for food. Once we Defeated, you must carry me behind your back!"
"Okay, okay, I'll follow you!" Wu Guang's head was about to explode, and he turned to run.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going out to rebel!"
"Wait a minute, we have to plan first," he said after calling Wu Guang back, "Actually, I've thought about it a long time ago—I've been thinking about the rebellion these years. We have to find two people who can play big cards to take the lead."
"Then who are you looking for?"
"We can't look for a living person, because when he comes, we will be inferior. Let's look for a dead person. Fusu is known to the common people, and the common people say he is a good man. But the common people don't know that he is actually dead. But I have a lot of friends, well-informed, and know that he is dead. But since everyone doesn’t know yet, we pretended that Fusu was still alive, and Fusu gave us instructions from Jiuyuan County on the border, telling us to raise troops Gather Xianyang and help him regain the throne occupied by Qin II. There is also Xiang Yan, a general of Chu State. This man has high martial arts, great prestige, and many fans. People say that he is not dead. Come to contact us and agree that we will gather the guards and rise up together."
"This idea is very good, it seems that you have been planning for this for a long time!"
"Of course, to tell you the truth, I have always been ambitious, as high as heaven and earth. The rebellion did not happen today, and it was not just forced by this rainstorm. But we just used this rainstorm to persuade the guards. However, how sure are we of success, whether we can revive the state of Chu, and what is the attitude of God towards the state of Chu? I still have to ask God. Let’s see what God thinks. Let’s find someone tomorrow to calculate Gua."
Before the uprising, they had to go to fortune-telling. It seems that they were not forced to uprising.If you are suddenly forced to rebel without a way out, you don't need to ask God.If God said not to rebel, would he not rebel?This uprising was mostly brought about by Chen Sheng's painstaking efforts.
One last word, I have been to Daze Township, which is now called Liu Village, and it is the flat and fertile Huaibei Plain.And I also saw a Mercedes-Benz bus that said it was bound for Beijing from Suzhou.At that time, I thought, if there were such long-distance buses in Chen Sheng's era, which could reach Beijing in one day and one night, then the vigorous people's movement at the end of Qin Dynasty could stop!
The next day, the rain also stopped, and the sky was as clear as blue.The sun splashed dazzling golden light, flowing and swirling like water.Two people with ulterior motives, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, left the military village and went straight to the small commodity trading market in Daze Township, where a blind man was selling hexagrams—ordinary blind people can see God and convey God’s prophecies about the future. The blind man speaks, so it is not nonsense, but consultation, which was called fortune-telling at that time.
Chen Sheng said: "Teacher, we have something about our future career, please tell me some nonsense—I'm sorry, give us a consultation."
The blind man said, "What do you want to ask?"
Wu Guang said, "I'm sorry, but we can't tell you what we want to ask, otherwise you would know that we want to ask about the rebellion! Ah—" Wu Guang quickly covered his mouth after speaking.
The blind man said, "Let me do the math—OK! I've figured it out. You want to ask about the rebellion!"
Wu Guang said in amazement: "You really know how to pinch and count! Although I told you that we are going to rebel, you actually know that we are going to rebel." (So illogical!)
Chen Sheng asked anxiously: "Then what does God mean? Is there any drama in this matter? Does God still care for Chu?"
The blind man stared up at the sky with piercing eyes for a long time, then calmed down and looked at the world and said: "God has already answered, and the old man said: It will definitely succeed!"
Chen Sheng and Wu Guangda were overjoyed.
The blind man said: "I see that you are sincere and endowed. Come on, I have a copy of "The Tathagata God's Palm" here. It's cheaper. Even if you rebel a hundred times, you will succeed every time!"
"But, why do you have to make it a hundred times when it succeeds every time?"
"Don't ask so many questions, okay, it's very effective anyway. You don't have to thank me in a hurry, just get the money! And wow, we Chu people believe in ghosts, after you finish reading " Tathagata God's Palm, I will study how to use ghosts in the future. It's ok! Don't let the secrets out, I have to go to other places to sell my books, goodbye!"
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang walked back anxiously, carrying "The Palm of the Tathagata" and the hope of victory for the revolution in their arms.The sun was shining on his forehead, and when he suddenly looked back, the pigeons were whistling in the sky to spread rumors about the next spring. Chen Sheng was suddenly depressed again, wondering if he could live to the next spring.Yun watched him through Xia Lin, and then disappeared behind the forest.The beauty of clouds is that they don't stay when they float away, and this is not the case for people on the earth.
In the middle of "Hate for a Long Time", someone happened to set up a fishing net in the lake by the roadside, and the two decided to play tricks.We said that there was a kind of fishing net suitable for lazy people at that time, that is, the net was fixed with a wooden frame, shaped like a pot, and it was submerged in the water and placed, waiting for the fish to run in and eat it.As for people, you can slip away and go to play elsewhere.When coming back, if the wooden frame is suddenly pulled, some fish that have not finished eating may be picked up—this kind of fishing net is called 罾.
Chen Sheng saw that the owner of the 罾 hadn't come back from watching a movie, and there was no one around, so there was only one 罾 thrown in the water, so he said to Wu Guang, "I told you, you must listen to me. I told you to go to the east. Just head east, and do everything you promised me..."
"Okay, tell me quickly, what's the matter?"
"Now is your chance to show your loyalty to me. Go and steal some fish."
"We're about to have a revolution, and it's not good to steal things."
"It doesn't matter. When the revolution wins, we will pay back double to the villagers. You go, or I will get angry."
Wu Guang quickly stripped off his clothes, and when the water reached the side of the 罾, he wondered how to fish out the fish in the 罾.At this time, Chen Sheng helped from the shore, pulling the tight rope to lift the wooden frame out of the water. (Note: In fact, it was not lifted out of the water, but just lifted to the surface of the water, so that the fish just couldn't swim out) Wu Guang stared at the fish in the glass tank from above like a cat, very comfortable.The fish gave him a few blank glances, and continued to swim gracefully looking for something to eat.Wu Guang stretched his claws into the cage, and immediately a live fish was caught up shaking its head and tail.The fish probably thought it was disturbed to eat, so it struggled desperately and yelled.Wu Guang said: "Don't shout, if you shout again, I will drown you!" So the fish looked at him strangely and panted.
At this time, Chen Sheng had already rolled up the flyer he had written last night, and asked Wu Guang to open the mouth of the fish and stuff it in.The fish was so stuffed that it devoured it voraciously, and the way it ate was extremely indecent. The fish shed tears and said, "See clearly, I am not a force-feeding duck!"
The two perverts did the same thing again, stuffing several other innocent adolescent fish with leaflets, as if they were pregnant.
In the afternoon of the same day, the head of the cooking team bought some potbellied fish from the small commodity market in Daze Township—the fish were panting, belching and about to vomit.The squad leader said, "What kind of pollutant did you eat?"
Opening the belly of the fish, he saw the leaflet.This is true for several articles in a row.The flyer is written on silk with a red pen, in small seal script, with three big characters: "Chen Shengwang".This is a letter of commission from God to Chen Sheng, sent by an envoy of fish.But the fish messenger was dead at this time, and the open mouth of the dead fish seemed to be reading some oracle.The cooking squad leader quickly circulated the letter of commission written by God in the belly of the fish to his friends, and everyone agreed that it was genuine because the strokes were twisted and twisted, like talismans drawn by ghosts.
When he was puzzled, the shadow of the sun slowly slanted until it became the setting sun.The setting sun went out quickly again, and the day was like a match, struck and then brightly extinguished.How short a day is.Life is really lonely.
At night, Chen Sheng couldn't sleep, and looking at the smoky night, he said to Wu Guang: "It's not a solution for us to sit here alone at night, and sleep alone on a good night."
Wu Guang said, "Then let's go out and find a place to sing."
"Okay. I heard that you know ventriloquist, I will teach you so so so so..."
So Wu Guang took a torch and staggered like a bumblebee flying in the dark into the ruins of a large cluster of ancestral halls near the military village, preparing to sing ghost songs.The Compositae plants in Huaibei summer night exude a strong fragrance, just like a small river, flowing in the wind that has not receded from the residual heat of the Huaibei Plain.Wu Guang lit a pile of firewood next to the ancient temple, and while driving away mosquitoes, he put dry batteries in the ancient microphone.
Wu Guang's ventriloquism is very good, he can dub the cartoon "The Lion King"!What he is best at is letting the fox speak human words.Holding the ancient loudspeaker, he cleared his throat whimperingly, and then yelled like a fox: "Da Chu...Xing...Chen Sheng...Wang...Woo...Wah...Wang... ...Whoa...Chen Shenging...Da Chu Xinginging..."
When he yelled at the moon like this, everyone in the army heard it, and they said yes, this is the day when God sent out the letter of commission, afraid that we would confiscate it, so he sent a fox messenger to announce it in person!
"I am God's...fox...fox...jing...yingying...inginging..." Wu Guang yelled in the wild all night, addicted to dubbing, until real foxes came to besiege him, Only then did he come back with dark circles under his eyes and mosquitos all over his body.
The next morning, the soldiers all said, "Tun Chief Chen is going to be selected by God to be King of Chu!" As he said that, he pointed his eyes in the direction of the chief's office.
From the time of the Yellow Emperor, the people who ruled China for three thousand years were big families of noble blood: the father of King Yu of Xia, Gun, was originally a high-ranking cadre, and the Gun family was the nobles of China.Shang Tang is the head of the Shang princes, and his ancestors have always been the leaders of the Shang clan. The earliest Ziqi was a senior cadre in the Yao and Shun era.King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou were also leaders of the Fang Kingdom, and their ancestors were the well-known Hou Ji and others.The ancestors of the Qin emperor were also nobles or princes leaders in the Xia and Shang dynasties, such as Boyi and Fei Lian—in short, they were nobles with considerable status and descendants of big families.
Chen Sheng wanted to become a king based on his humble background. This kind of thinking was very rebellious and creative at the time. It was basically equivalent to how creative a big girl like Sister Furong could be a star.
There is no precedent for ordinary people who have no known ancestors to be kings and lords.You must have a good ancestor. People at that time worshiped their ancestors, so they couldn't agree with Chen Sheng.The later great sages Zhang Er and Chen Yu all suggested that Chen Sheng make the descendants of the nobles of the six countries king instead of making himself king, because Chen Sheng had no good ancestors.This is not because Zhang Er and Chen Yu are biased, but because they analyzed people's prejudices and made suggestions.
The son of a king is always a king, the son of a thief is always a thief, the son of a common man is always a common man, and the son of a nobleman is always a nobleman.
Without a proud ancestor, it is impossible to be a king!
Chen Sheng hated this long-standing concept of ancestor worship. He later shouted "princes and generals, I would rather have a kind", which was against the ancestor worship of nobles.
So Chen Sheng thought, although I don't have a proud ancestor, I can rely on the destiny.His "collection of books in the belly of a fish" and "whispers of a fox at night" are just fabricating a will of heaven, using the will of heaven to make up for the shortcomings of his ancestors, and let heaven and God speak to help him win votes.
With his theory of destiny, Chen Sheng finally made up for the lack of ancestors, and even wanted to break the emperor's theory of ancestor worship, and obtained a theoretical basis for rebellion.
Ever since Chen Sheng and Liu Bang became kings successively, the history of China has also entered a new world.The era of the rule of the noble families (Xia, Shang, Zhou and Qin) - what I call the Bronze Age, has since come to an end.
Now let's talk about the two sufferers who will die today: General A and General B.We know that when there is a war, all counties and counties must send troops, and the troops will be led by the county lieutenant.In the Qin Dynasty, the county lieutenant was the second in command after the county magistrate, specializing in military affairs, and his salary was about 200 shi to 400 shi, which was 200 shi higher than that of the head of the village.
What is the concept of four hundred stones?The so-called "four hundred stones" is actually an annual salary.How many catties does each stone equal? Each stone is equal to one hundred and twenty catties, which is equivalent to the weight of a college student, which is just enough for a person with Mr. Lian Po's appetite to eat ten meals (a meal for Lian Po is one bucket, which is one-tenth of the meal) stone).
Therefore, the annual grain of four hundred stones is enough for five years.Since the county lieutenant leading the team must have a smaller appetite than Lian Po, he should be able to eat for ten years.But if there are ten people in his family, it will only be enough to feed him for a year.
This year, the whole family is always trying their best to stuff millet to eat, and I am afraid that the stomach and mouth will not be too comfortable. What should I do if I still want to eat meat?Emperor Qin had considered this, so half of the salary was converted into coins and given to him so that he could buy meat to eat, and the surplus money could be used to soak his feet and loosen his bones.But as soon as he soaks his feet to loosen his bones, his wife and children have to reduce the amount of rice and meat.In short, the rice salary of four hundred shi, if he didn't go out to soak his feet, was just enough to support his family.
The county guard's salary is usually two thousand shi, which doesn't seem to be rich, but it may be enough to soak your feet.And among the three males—a level like Li Si, it is 10,000 stones, which is the top level, and you can soak your feet many times.
When Fan Xianwei (four hundred stones) went out to lead the troops, he changed his name to General Wei.There are two generals leading the team this time, named General A and General B.Below them are Chen Sheng and Wu Guang who are two hundred shi, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guangsu love each other, and the soldiers are their fans.
At noon that day, General A went to Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and the others for a drink, prepared to have a full meal, and set off camp on another day to head north.
"How are you getting ready, can you set off tomorrow morning?" General A asked.
Chen Sheng said: "It's okay to prepare well, but I'm not in a good mood recently, and I'm rather sad. Let Wu Guang talk about it first."
General A turned to look at Wu Guang, and called out strangely: "Hey! Wu Guang, why do your eyes look like stale fish eyes?"
Yes, I pretend to be a fox every night, can I not have fish eyes?
Wu Guang said: "My eyes are swollen because I'm not in good health recently and I'm pregnant—my wife is pregnant. So, I don't plan to go to Yuyang to guard the border. I'll go home tomorrow to take care of my wife."
"Are you serious? You are in the army now, not in the county! Wu Guang, although you are my old subordinate, you can't joke around like before."
"I'm serious. For a handsome and suave person like me, if I don't take care of my wife at home, but go to guard some broken Yuyang, I'm not overqualified!"
"I'll give you one last chance. You can take back what you just said. Wu Guang!" General A stood up while speaking.
"I'm serious. For a handsome and suave person like me, if I don't take care of my wife at home, but go to guard some broken Yuyang, I'm not overqualified!"
"Okay!" General A turned his head and asked Chen Sheng very politely, "Chen Sheng, may I ask, do you have any bamboo boards here?"
Chen Sheng said, "Yes, I'll bring you the pole."
"No, a smaller one."
Wu Guang said: "There are smaller ones, I have them under the drawer."
General A looked at Wu Guang curiously, and said, "You can shut up now!!"
Chen Sheng brought the bamboo board, but Wu Guang didn't kneel down yet.General A told him to kneel down, but he still would not kneel.He seemed to be intoxicated by standing.
General Wei B came over and kicked him down.Lieutenant A raised the bamboo board and hit Wu Guang's buttocks seven or eight times in a row. While beating, he shouted: "I'm calling you pregnant! I'm calling you pregnant! I'll give you an abortion first!"
Wu Guang said: "Don't...don't...the fetus is not in my stomach!" His soldiers and fans also rushed to see, but they saw Wu Guang dodging left and right, beaten like an old army blanket. , Dust splashed everywhere, and the mouth was still screaming in pain, as if eating something hot.The fans were crying anxiously, but apart from the light sticks, there was nothing hard in their hands.Don't dare to step forward to interfere with something hard.
At this moment, General A was beating too hard, and his body was shaking too much, his saber slipped out of the scabbard a little.Seeing this, Wu Guang was lying on the ground, and a monkey came to pick peaches: He grabbed General A's sword handle, shook his wrist and drew it out, the cold light pierced upwards, and the tip of the sword pierced through the back of General A's heart with a click.General Wei A took a step back, fell to the ground and vomited blood again and again.Wu Guang rolled up, rushed forward, and said word by word: "I, said, passed, I, very, seriously, tell, tell, you, I, Ying, handsome, chic, unrestrained, windy, flowing , Su, Tang, I, want, in, home, take care of, take care of, old, wife..."
General A moaned and said, "You...are a soldier...the wife is more important...the country..."
Wu Guanggang was about to end General A's life. At this moment, General B became impatient. He drew out his sword, held it up, and with a cry, charged towards Wu Guang from behind.Wu Guang didn't turn around, he kicked with a backspin followed by three consecutive one-leg kicks, he just kicked Captain B out of the tent, and the sword was out of his hand long before he flew out of the tent.
Chen Sheng picked up the sword, made a few strokes first, ended the suffering of General A, then rushed out with Wu Guang, and fought against General B with all his might.Lieutenant B lost his weapon, so he had to stand up with two palms and implement "hand knife defense". Before he could make a few moves, he was pierced by two swords and died.This is what the history books say: "Chen Shengzuozhi killed two lieutenants."
Seeing the fans next to him, they all ran away holding light sticks!Something big happened, the soldiers had no way out, and Chen Sheng cut off the way out, there was nothing they could do if they didn't revolt!Chen Sheng summoned his subordinates, that is, people at the level of squad leader and platoon leader. Chen Sheng said: "My husband and I encountered heavy rain. The heavy rain fell heavily and lasted for a long time. I stayed in the barracks office and listened to the rain on my head. The roof was talking in disarray, and ten thousand voices repeated the same meaning, about personal career or being far away from home, about going to Yuyang to guard the border or being late to lead the death. We delay again and again, making our prospects narrower and narrower.
"The raindrops are dancing lightly on my roof. I don't know what hints the rain's chattering words are trying to give me. I don't know whether the clouds and the sunrise should be delayed for the Qin Dynasty's mountains and rivers that have been wet by the rain. "
Everyone was stunned and fascinated by Chen Sheng's eloquent speech.
"Actually, the immediate predicament is the easiest to solve. Think about the role of life without hope, think about a young man who has nowhere to go when he just left home, think about the future of a baby in the Qin Dynasty is mostly empty in the head of Guizhou岁月，漫长而又空洞。我们何须说出黑夜对思想的困扰，何须谈论一场单薄孤苦的雨水，当一切都因色泽阴冷而苦痛不堪，这时候，说出忧郁还有什么新意。我们还是想想那些快乐忘形的岁月吧——作为一个壮士，你们不死则已，死就要死得以谋求自己的大名！你们不愿意在有生之年成为公侯将相吗？你们的人生追求仅仅限于免于饥寒和戍守边疆吗？——有人说了，那些王侯将相都是有种的，我们身上没有他们家族的DNA，我们做梦也别想当王侯将相了。是吗？王侯将相，难道真的有种吗？王侯将相宁有种乎！我们今天就此起大事，列位只消不计生死，不顾疲劳，不畏艰险，辗转于秦王朝山河大地，斩将夺城，立下汗马功劳，我陈胜因功授封，若不能保你们名忝王侯之位，身列将相之行，举人生荣耀只大名，我陈胜其有如此！”说完，一剑向帐门的柱子击去，劈开深深一道口子。
众徒属无不雀跃，齐声高呼：“敬——受——命——”这些徒属回去之后，经过史书失载的一些处心积虑的斗争，言语激发或者是命令强制，终于让九百人跟随他们造反。
就是所谓时势造英雄，俊雄豪杰陈胜振臂一呼，九百戍卒与天下之士奋起相应，云合雾集，飘至风起。与其苟延残喘，不如烈烈燃烧！他们从此走上了一条激情燃烧的澎湃人生之路。
陈胜喊出的“王侯将相宁有种乎”这句口号，实际上不是对自己说的，而是以此饵钓众人的，是对士卒们说的。陈胜认为“匹夫皆可谋为王侯将相”，人活着就要“举大名”——陈胜用这种高端的“自我实现”（马斯洛曲线中的高端需求）来激励那帮士卒拼死反秦，而不是像水泊梁山那样仅仅为了“大块儿吃肉、大碗喝酒”（那只是马斯洛曲线中的低端需求）。这就更显出了陈胜的进取精神，是高出了水泊梁山好汉们一个层次的。
正是由于陈胜长期以来对于功成名就一直有着高度的关注（为此常常弄得自己怅然不乐），所以才会想出这个口号吧。
“王侯”，指的是诸侯王，以及有封国的侯；“将相”指的是诸侯国里边，王侯下面级别最高的官僚——将相。所以，这个口号实现的前提，是要回复分封，于是它带有很大的回复分封制的指向。“谋求封王封侯”这样的口号，而并不是“为农民阶级谋求推翻残酷剥削”，这也显出了这场运动，未必是教科书上异口同声说的那样，而更像是为了复国和在复国成功后的求分封，再加上他事前的“大楚兴”的提法，以及陈胜接下来将发生的一系列政治行为，使得我们对于这场运动的性质，应该重新认识。而且这九百人，未必就是农民，包括陈胜吴广。“闾左九百人”，不管农村有没有闾，城市里面的街区是叫闾的。
陈胜、吴广带领着八九百追随者——这些人中的百分之九十都将活不过下一个春季——手中使用的据说都是“斩木为兵，揭竿为旗”的粗劣（但是非常环保）的木质武器，很快就把大泽乡拿下来了。
其实这九百人使用大棒子，真的是那么惨吗？也未必！
九百戍卒前往渔阳边境，县里应该自备甲胃武器，随队伍运送北上。所以，我们估计这九百人，应该是被武装起来的。虽然不至于像美国大兵那样武装到了每个牙齿，但拎着纯环保的木头棒子，似乎也并不必要。
贾谊在《过秦论》中说陈胜的这几百戍卒使用的是“斩木为兵，揭竿为旗”，具体是锄头（鉏）、无齿耙（耰）、木棍子（梃）什么的。不足为信。木棍子也许还情有可原，锄头、无齿耙纯粹是无稽之谈。这帮人是集结起来北上的戍卒，随身携带着锄头、无齿耙干什么呀！
贾谊是个汉朝文人，和所有文人一样，写文章喜欢制造强烈对比，他故意把起义军武器装备写得很差，目的不外乎是想和他的上文对比着说：从前秦国能把战国六雄武器精良的百万正规军打得一败涂地，却不能抵抗装备低劣的陈胜。秦还是那个秦，为什么前边那么强，后边如此弱呢？都是因为老秦“仁义不施而攻守之势异也”——建朝以后不修“仁义”了。为了构制对比，贾谊故意把陈胜的装备写得很差。well!这大约就是以文害意吧。这帮文人啊，真是拿他们没办法。
不管武器到底是不是木棍子，起义军很快把大泽乡拿下来了。大泽乡现在叫刘村，后来取消生产队以后，连刘村都没有了，平坦的田野上如今尽是绿油油的麦苗，当地人为了纪念陈胜，就找了一个土坡，硬说那是陈胜起义的地方，还在坡下雕刻了陈胜的石像。石像比历史上实际的陈胜年轻，大眼睛有点像谢霆锋，唇角也轮廓分明，正在呐喊，手里挥舞着大棒子。
攻占大泽乡以后，义军又就近攻破了蕲县的城墙，他们可以打开蕲县里的兵器库、兵车库，获得秦人高效管理制造出的精良武器和战车，这帮人总算可以把自己全副武装起来了，不至于再被贾谊笑话了。
陈胜给自己弄了一套最精良的皮甲，非常坚固，又弄了两支锐利的大戟，叫副官给他拿着。这就是史书上所说的陈胜“身披坚执锐”，披着坚甲，执着锐兵。
为什么拿两支大戟呢？当时的青铜兵器有点脆，在格斗中互相撞击，就会断掉。甚至插到敌人身体里，比如插进了排骨里，一拧一剜，一不小心，排骨竟可能把戟尖拗断。这固然能让受伤者非常难受，但这个大戟也就不好再用了，所以我们建议让陈胜拿两支戟。
陈胜捏着两支大戟，披着坚甲（当时最高级的皮甲是犀牛或者鲨鱼皮的），乘坐战车，迅速向西推进，兵锋直指两百公里以西的楚郡郡治——陈城。陈胜急急地朝陈城杀去，就像暴露在野外的老鼠急于奔回安全的鼠窝。陈城是他从前活动过的地方，那里有他的一些“故人”——而且陈城是从前楚国一度的国都，那里的反秦和复国势力比较强，一度也曾经叛秦造反过，后来被王翦镇压了（就是战国时代王翦进攻过的“反城”）。总之那里是个反秦复楚势力比较雄厚的有基础的地方。
陈胜的队伍沿途顺利攻下安徽亳县、河南永城、柘县、鹿邑等地。
在向西（陈城）推进的征程上，这帮人没有什么可吃的，于是他们就“望屋而食”（贾谊语），就是跑进人家屋子里，挤近人家的饭桌边，说：现在已经是不分你我财产的时代了，咱们一起吃吧。于是就挤进目瞪口呆的老乡们肩膀间，一起吃。当然这么说比较夸张，实际上是在有屋宇庐舍的地方，向当地的头面人物去征，这些人迫于军队的威势，只好组织老百姓交来粮给起义的队伍。
陈胜起义的消息很快和公元前209年夏天的风一起四处吹散，天下之人云集响应，许多人都自己裹了粮食，像影子一样追从着陈胜（这些人能自带粮食，说明还不是赤贫者，那就也应包括城邑里边因为受秦政迫害而愿意反秦的人）。当队伍终于推进到陈城的时候，陈胜回头一看，身后已经会聚战车六七百乘，战马骑兵千余骑，步卒数万人（这些兵源，多数应该来自被攻破的城邑里被收编的地方武装）。
陈城是一个大郡的郡治，可是郡守先生却不在，可能是望风而逃了，或者去度假村开理论工作务虚会去了。只有他的属官（守丞）站在城门顶上的望楼里（这里比较高，俗语所谓“城门楼子”，它像个碉堡，耸在城顶，借助内窄外宽的射击孔，居高射击）指挥战斗。守丞指挥了一会儿，一不小心，却把自己弄死了——可能是谁射箭走火了，打着他了。或者是跟他有仇的城里恶少年，从他背后开了枪。关于这些恶少年的事迹，我们随后再说。当然还有可能是城里的亲陈胜“地下党”（豪杰），组织自己的子弟干掉了他，或者是被攻城的士兵射死了。于是陈城守兵大乱，指挥失灵。陈胜的队伍遂像蚂蚁一样，纷纷爬城而入。原本可以凭借坚城抵抗几个月的郡治级的大城——陈城，旋即被义军拿下了。
陈胜进入陈城以后，一贯拥楚反秦的陈城人很快聚拢在他的周围。几天之后，陈胜就召令陈城的三老（官吏）、豪杰前来开会议事。大家一致通过，把“张楚”标识为国号，就是重新张大楚国的意思！因为他们都是楚文化圈的人嘛。这个行动了也再次为这场运动说明着它的性质（如果是简单的农民起义，他应该首先把这些三老豪杰正法）。
所谓“三老”，就是陈城里的基层干部。而豪杰，在古书中，豪杰一词并不是现代意义上的武林大侠，而是家里有财有势，养着众多子弟宾客的人，他们未必是会拳脚（像后代这个词所被理解的那样），总之是地方上有财有势力的人。他们有个共同的特点，就是主张反秦，复国。
会上，三老、豪杰一致认为：“陈胜将军身披坚执锐（犀牛皮甲和两支大戟），率士卒以诛暴秦，恢复楚国社稷，可谓'存亡继绝'（把死机了的楚国重新热启动），大功大德应该为王！”
张耳、陈余却从众人中挺身而起，一揖反对道：“我们爷俩（干的）认为……”
张耳、陈余都是闻名遐尔的大豪杰，但和一般“土豪杰”（简称土豪）不同的是，他俩没有看得见的有形资产，他俩甚至还在小区门口给人打工呢。但他俩有傲视群豪的无形资产——两人从前都是战国时代翩翩浊世之佳公子魏无忌的门客。这就不同了。
有的人死了以后，名气往往会被放大。魏无忌就是这样的例子。他从前窃符救赵、联军攻秦，美名远扬，却不得志泡妞而死，迤逦到了秦汉之际，名气越来越大，越来越走红。
魏无忌的名气如此之大，就连他的两个门客——张耳、陈余，也都攀龙附凤，成了蜚声国内的人物。他俩来见陈胜的时候，陈胜及其左右将官，生平数次听说二人的贤名，久为仰慕，不能相见，如今一见立即大喜（再次可见陈胜起义前的身份应该是怎样的）。
不料，这两个人却在群英会上唱出反调，说：“秦国最是无道，断绝六国的社稷，破灭人的国家；现在又征敛无度，疲费民力（注意，他把秦朝的两条罪恶哪条放在了最前面，反映了复国是第一社会矛盾）。陈将军赤目张胆，万死不顾一生，为天下除去残害人民的无道之秦，可是现在刚刚打到陈城，就急着自立陈王，好像告诉天下人，您起义的目的是为了私利。岂不惹天下人离你而去？”
“那以二位的意见呢？”陈胜说。
“您不如派人搜求六国诸侯之后人，立他们为王。这些人绝而复立，势必对您感恩戴德，同时他们利用自身的名望，一呼一喊，必然天下百应，六国旧地则不待野外交兵、攻城苦战，纷纷自动杀掉秦朝守令而反正，则反秦大势形成矣。于是您统领诸侯，兵不血刃，直据咸阳，号令这六国诸侯，因为您复立他们功劳最大，以德威服之，他们奉您为帝，则您的帝王之业可成！而今你只是急着自立为王，人们皆以为您在谋私，恐怕天下由此离您而去（'今独王陈，恐天下解也'）。”
我们说，这里三老、豪杰、陈胜、张耳、陈余，这一团人虽然有争议，但总体上是统一的，就是要复立楚国。我们看见，他们把复立楚国作为会议主题和成果，而不是所谓建立“农民政权”、“农民推翻地主政权”。他们有争议的地方是，这个复立的楚国，眼下应该是由陈胜为王，还是六国之后为王。
所以我们得到了一个与教科书上惊人的不同的发现，这场运动到底是什么？种种迹象表明，它是求复国的运动！当然是借助了人们受压迫残害的大背景。
曾记得，陈胜在起义前，陈胜动员他的亲密战友吴广的时候说：“如今逃亡也是死，举行大计也是死，同样的死，死国可乎？（等死，死国可乎？）”
请问一下诸位，这个“国”是哪个国？是秦朝吗，显然不可能是。这个“国”是楚国！
也就是说，陈胜起义重点的初衷很大在于回复到分封体系，而主旨不在于反地主政权和反地主剥削，具体表现就是复立楚国。他随后又喊出的政治口号“大楚兴、陈胜王”也加强证实了这一点（当然这中间还搀杂了复国后的求分封为王的个人目的）。
刚才，三老豪杰说：“陈胜复立楚国社稷，功宜为王！”——也是把陈胜的功劳认定为为楚国复国。而没有说陈胜代表农民反抗地主政权，功宜为王。张耳陈余刚才说：“夫秦为无道，破人国家，灭人社稷，绝人后世，罢百姓之力，尽百姓之财。”——这里说得很清楚，秦的第一罪状是灭了六国，断了六国的社稷，绝了六国的后，结束了分封体系，第二才是剥削严重。
所以，在这个会议上的所有人，都是把复国当做了该运动的第一要事，并且依照这个基点设计未来的走向。这场运动，主旨不是在于农民反抗地主政权，明矣！
如果你说，这些都是三老、豪杰和张耳、陈余他们说的，不是陈胜的观点，陈胜是要作为农民来起义反抗地主政权的剥削的。呵呵，我认为陈胜是不能从中摘出去的，因为他召集了与这帮三老豪杰的会议，并且全盘接受了这个会议的决策！
而且陈胜早就说了“大楚兴”、“等死，死国可乎”、“王侯将相”等话，表达了他的政治主张是指向于复国（于公）和求分封（于私，但也是建立在复国的基础上）的，对于农民利益则似乎从来没提过。他讨论下一步未来政治走向的重要会议，是召集了陈城所有的官吏豪杰们来开的，而不是召集别人。并且会议上，陈胜完全接受了这些官吏豪杰的意见。则我们可以认为，陈胜的角色和身份属性是完全融于官吏豪杰之中的，他是代表了这些官吏豪杰地主的利益的。并且我们认为，这些与会的官吏豪杰也就随后纳入了他的领导核心团队（陈胜后面的分派张耳、陈余等人为将也证明了这一点）。
则陈胜的阶层身份属性是什么，是为了什么阶层而奋斗，这次运动的目标是什么，通过这次会议，已经大致可以判定了。
陈胜与这些三老（属于官吏）、豪杰商议复国和称王的事情，说明他的领导团队的核心是这些官吏和豪杰，他是代表了这一部分人的政治利益的，并且执行了与这些人达成的政治主张的（复国）！而这个政治主张并不是为解放农民服务的。
所谓“豪杰”，也叫豪强，在历朝历代都有，不论在京城还是郡县，他们都是一股很大的力量，有财有势，互相联姻，勾结官府，欺压百姓，很多时候政府都不敢过问。
陈胜召集陈城里的三老豪杰都来议事（既有政府的官吏，又有民间的豪强，是所有社会上的中层精英力量了），商量建立政权、称王和未来发展的事情，并且落实了会议决定，说明他的政权是官吏、豪杰、地主的政权。
现代学者们一般是这个意思，秦末起义既然是农民起义，而且又胜利了，自然最后结局应该是建立了农民政权。但是似乎结局又不是农民政权。于是只好这样解释：农民起义，最后被刘邦和六国贵族这种地主篡夺了，于是建立了地主政权的汉朝。
其实，从陈胜开始，就是开始建立地主的新政权的。这从陈城会议可以看出来。从起义前和起义中陈胜的话和口号中，也可以看出。
一句话，什么都不说，光看陈胜在陈城的会议的与会人员和会议决策内容，它就不是农民起义。他的“张楚”政权，是官吏、豪杰、地主的政权。因为，参加这次会议的，都是官吏、豪杰、地主；会议讨论的，是六国地主政权对秦政权的替代，是六国地主政权的恢复——复国。
下面我们说说复国的事情。
我们说，战国六雄时代的诸侯王族们，并不是因为有“桀纣之行”而亡国。六国贵族的暴虐程度不及纣王，秦国是靠打胜仗才兼并了他们的土地，并非他们的人民要掉转枪头归服秦国。随着六国的灭亡，分封体系结束了，皇权专制时代开始了。
但分封制的存在已经有了两千多年的历史，人们并不情愿向皇权专制转型，特别是在转型以后，秦的一系列政策失误，使得人们没有从皇权专制中获得什么好处，于是以城邑豪杰、少年、平民、官吏为主导的多阶层联合行动，试图回复分封体系的运动就开始了。这是一场广泛阶层参与的社会运动，城邑平民、豪杰、士兵在里边扮演的巨大的主流角色（关于这一点我们后面再给例证），而农民遭受地主剥削进行反抗，并不是这场运动的主要性质和动作，而且单单这个因素也不足以导致推翻秦帝国。
我们说这是一场农民起义运动，不如说是一场人民起义回复六国和亡秦运动，是从前秦的统一战争的一种延续形式，当然是以反弹的形式延续的，而所谓农民推翻地主的政权和压迫，在这里面是从属的性质，甚至连从属的地位都不到。
在这种背景下，复立楚国而且推陈胜为楚王，就是这次会议的主要议题，而不是解决农民问题，剥削和土地的问题，和建立农民政权——根本没涉及这个话题。会议上的唯一争论是到底应该谁来当楚王。
既然这场运动的政治目的是回复六国并立体系，那陈胜领导的运动要想走向成功，必须严格纳入这一轨道，所以张耳、陈余也才有针对性地给出了复立六国之后的行动主张。
但是，陈胜当初在“大楚兴”之后又提出“陈胜王”，这其实就代表了他的矛盾心理。他政治上想复兴楚国或者六国，但是他个人私欲上又希望新的楚国是他陈胜为王。后者无论如何是会削弱他前面的复立楚国（六国）的政治口号的。这是一个有所矛盾的口号。
而张耳、陈余的建议，并不是反对陈胜获得个人欲望的实现，只是建议他要选对时机。张耳、陈余的意思是说，现在您赶紧派人到六国之地，复立六国之后，包括复立楚国之后，这样，六国都起来了，他们必然吸引了大量的秦朝的火力，然后您就领着楚军，乘虚直入咸阳（有六国顶着呢，您不会遇到太大抵抗），一举占领咸阳和关中。您控制了秦国本土的地盘，您有了实力，同时您复立六国之后又有了德。有德有实力，以令六国诸侯，六国诸侯必然推举您为帝——皇帝（陈皇帝）！
如果你现在就急着称王，给天下人看见你只是谋求实现自己当王的私欲，就不会有人过来帮你了，天下就解散了，上述说的大好局面和计划就泡汤了。
张耳、陈余发言完毕，陈胜陷入了一种矛盾。
他在想什么，我们没有人知道。也许他会作如下权衡：张耳、陈余建议的封六国诸侯之后的事，固然好，有利于反秦大势的形成，最终自己在里面捷足先登，甚至当了帝。当时，如果捷足先登了入咸阳的是别人了呢，不是我了呢？那不弄巧成拙了吗？
这就好像董事会，六个董事，加上陈胜，都要争董事长的位置，谁能保证陈胜不被打下去呢？
虽然董事多了力量大，但是董事多了，互相掐得也凶啊。而自己单独注册公司呢，当“独一董事”，那固然好，但这样自己就是独立奋斗了，不可能笼络号召各地诸侯了，不容易实现亡秦了。他的公司还会跟六国贵族的公司以及其他匹夫的公司形成竞争关系，