Chapter 28 1. Suspected

Han Xin won successive battles in the northern battlefield. Seeing that Zhao Guo was pacified, Yan Guo panicked and could only ask for peace, and Liu Bang agreed.So far, Yan State has become Liu Bang's ally. For Xiang Yu, Liu Bang's victory is his failure, and Liu Bang's joy is his pain. The painful Xiang Yu obviously felt that he was becoming more and more passive.After Pengcheng was attacked, he already felt threatened by Liu Bang.Now, Han Xin has destroyed both Wei and Zhao, and Liu Bang is not just a threat, but a strong enemy. He was extremely unwilling to accept this reality, and ordered to attack Zhao Guo. Several attacks were repelled by Han Xin.

At this time, Zhang Er was appointed by Liu Bang as the King of Zhao. The situation in Zhao State became more and more stable, and it was useless to fight again, so Xiang Yu concentrated his forces and continued to attack Xingyang. The pressure in Xingyang was huge, and Liu Bang was restless, so he asked Zhang Liang to discuss. Zhang Liang once told Liu Bang that three people are needed to defeat Xiang Yu.One is Han Xin, the other is Peng Yue, and the third is Ying Bu.The first two have already made Xiang Yu dizzy, and his seven orifices are full of smoke. Now, it is time to instigate against Yingbo.

Yingbo and Xiang Yu had long been at odds with each other, but because Yingbo came from a poor and humble background, Xiang Yu was more mean when awarding the award.Yingbu was very dissatisfied. When Xiang Yu's old nest Pengcheng was taken away, he stood by and watched. Xiang Yu thought that Yingbo was ungrateful, so he sent someone to reprimand Yingbo. Yingbu resented, saying that Xiang Yu still regarded himself as a nobleman. You are not alone in the world. At best, you are the leader of a bandit. It is unfair to make me the king of Jiujiang, but it seems like a great gift. I don't buy your account!

The rift between the two grows deeper. Flies don't stare at seamless eggs, not to mention some eggs that don't even have shells.Right now, the relationship between Yingbo and Xiang Yu is like an egg without a shell.Zhang Liang believes that as long as lobbyists are sent to instigate Yingbo, it will surely succeed. Things happened just as Zhang Liang expected, Yingbo had already planned his own future, and Jiujiang was in the territory of Chu State. According to Xiang Yu's domineering bandit temperament, sooner or later he would take care of himself. Yingbo was thinking about the future, Liu Bang's lobbyist arrived, and the two sides negotiated.

The lobbyist is very happy. He has never been so refreshed since he started this job.If everyone was as straightforward as Yingbo, my job would be much easier. Xiang Yu heard that Yingbo had turned against him, so he only added two words to this matter to prove that he had long been suspicious of Yingbo and had foreseen it.These two words are "Sure enough", Yingbo is really reversed! With foresight, there must be countermeasures, Xiang Yu immediately dispatched general Long Qie to attack Jiujiang. Jiujiang was the territory of Chu State, and Yingbu was unpopular, so he was defeated and fled to Liu Bang's territory.Liu Bang was overjoyed, and allocated some troops to Yingbo, telling him to return to Jiujiang to fight guerrillas and cultivate power.

As a result, Xiang Yu was often harassed by two guerrillas, one was Yingbu and the other was Peng Yue.This made him very depressed.Moreover, Yingbo's rebellion cast a shadow over his heart.He began to doubt the generals around him, looked left and right, and saw that no one was loyal enough. For example, Zhong Limei has done a lot of meritorious service, but he was not crowned king. He must be dissatisfied in his heart. Will he rebel like Yingbo? Thinking about it this way, Xiang Yu dragged Zhong Limei into the blacklist in his heart.The name of this blacklist is: suspected infidelity.

Suspect is a word called nerve test.Suspected pregnancy, suspected affair, suspected SARS, suspected tumor, suspected poisoning; everything that is suspected is like but not like, and cannot be determined for the time being.It is the uncertainty that makes people anxious. Xiang Yu had no better way, he couldn't cut off all his subordinates just because of suspicion.In his restless mood, there is also anger, anger towards Liu Bang, the root of the current chaos is Liu Bang.Therefore, Xiang Yu continued to attack Xingyang, more fiercely each time. At this time, the fighting power of the Chu army was still strong, and Liu Bang's army was exhausted to resist.Although Yingbo and Peng Yue caused troubles for Xiang Yu, they were just harassment after all. They hurt the skin but not the bone marrow, and could not change the whole situation.

On this day, Li Shiqi, the eloquent emperor, came to see Liu Bang and said that the current situation is tense, and I have an idea to deal with it. Liu Bang said, hurry up and talk, I won't eat well for a few days. Li Shiqi was very complacent, and said that my good policy will keep you eating well and sleeping well, just eight words: enfeoff the princes and restore the six kingdoms. So what?Liu Bang asked. Pull them together to fight Xiang Yu!Li Shiqi made a sound. Liu Bang thought for a long time, but couldn't make up his mind, so he told Zhang Liang Li Shiqi's idea. After hearing this, Zhang Liang said bluntly, this is the worst idea of ​​the year!Today, Xiang Yu is the most powerful in the world. Even if the Six Kingdoms are restored, it will still be six dwarfs facing a strong man. They will still be attached to Xiang Yu and follow Xiang Yu to attack you.

Liu Bang slapped the case and said, it almost broke the big event! Since Zhang Liang rejected Li Shiqi's idea, there must be a better strategy.After Liu Bang patted the table, he went on to say, Ovary, tell me your method. Zhang Liang didn't recover, what can he do?I can't help it, I just know that Li Shiqi's method is not a good one. Even Zhang Liang can't do anything, who else can he turn to?Liu Bang thought of Chen Ping. Chen Ping had been with Xiang Yu for a long time, and knew Xiang Yu's temperament, likes and dislikes, and way of thinking very well.He knew that Xiang Yu must be restless and suspicious when Yingping rebelled.

He analyzed with Liu Bang that there are not many reliable people around Xiang Yu now, there will be four tigers and one adviser.Among the four tiger generals, Long Qi is the first fierce general, and the other three are Ji Bu, Zhongli Mo and Yu Ziqi.The counselor is Fan Zeng. What to do now is to drive a wedge between them and make them suspicious of each other. How to separate?with gold. I have to say that Chen Ping's moves are very damaging and poisonous.Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times.In this world, there are very few people who do not worship money, not only today's chicks would rather sit in a BMW car and cry than laugh on a bicycle; when the war between Chu and Han is chaotic, who doesn't want to get some gold for themselves? What about the back road?

British philosopher Bacon said: Money is a good servant and an evil master.As the saying goes: Take people with short hands, eat people with soft mouths.After receiving Chen Ping's gold, the big and small generals of the Chu State changed a lot, and this change caused turmoil within the Chu State Group. Next, Chen Ping has something even more ruthless. He wants to help Xiang Yu add an important person to the blacklist of "suspected infidelity"—Yafu Fan Zeng. Beforehand, Chen Ping asked Liu Bang to propose peace talks to Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu felt internally unstable at this time, and after thinking about it, he agreed.But Fan Zeng strongly opposed it. He believed that Liu Bang should continue to attack Xingyang, and Liu Bang could hardly bear it. At this time, the peace talks, to put it bluntly, were Liu Bang's plan to slow down the army. He wanted to breathe a sigh of relief. Xiang Yu disagreed, and he breathed a sigh of relief because both sides were relieved. Now the internal instability is in urgent need of rectification.Don't you, Lao Fan, understand the truth that you must first settle down when fighting against the outside world?It's a pity that you are still scheming. Fan Zeng argued hard, but Xiang Yu insisted on going his own way.The two disagreed, and in the end Fan Zeng couldn't hold back Xiang Yu. In fact, Fan Zeng only saw the meaning of the peace talks, a plan to delay the attack.He has not yet realized the deeper and more terrifying intention - Chen Ping's ultimate goal is to remove him from Xiang Yu's side. Talking about peace does not mean reconciling with just one word of reconciliation.There are many detailed rules, such as border issues, garrison issues, and the issue of who will retreat first, all have to be negotiated step by step. Negotiations begin.Today, the Han army will send people; tomorrow the Chu State will send people.But the people sent by Chen Ping did not go to see Xiang Yu, but went straight to Fan Zeng. Fan Zeng was very puzzled, you should go to see King Xiang, why did you come to me. The next day, Xiang Yu sent envoys to the Han army.Chen Ping greeted him solemnly. He smiled and asked about the health and wellness. He said that during the war, the arrangements were poor, and he asked the envoy of Yafu to forgive him. The envoy was stunned, and said that I am not Yafu's envoy, but King Xiang's envoy. Chen Ping's face was like a rolling shutter door, and he pulled it down with a swipe, and said, so you are not the envoy of Yafu, so why talk about it, isn't this a waste of time! After all, walk away. The envoy stood there, froze for a while, then left cursing. On the way back to Chu State, the envoy became more and more angry. As Xiang Yu's envoy, he received warm hospitality everywhere, but now, the envoys sent by Fan Zeng were better than himself.The fact that Chen Ping dared to humiliate himself like this shows that his relationship with Fan Zeng is extraordinary, and they must have had an affair. Seeing Xiang Yu, the emissary fanned the flames and made something that was not serious at first extremely serious.Xiang Yu was already suspicious, and when he heard about this situation, he dragged Fan Zeng into the "suspected" blacklist. Fan Zeng, ignorant of the inside story, encouraged Xiang Yu to attack Xingyang.The more Xiang Yu thought about it, the more it felt wrong. Could it be that Chen Ping and Fan Zeng dug a trap and pushed me into it? Fan Zeng could certainly feel Xiang Yu's extreme distrust on his face.Sad and disappointed, he retired and returned home. At this time Xiang Yu hadn't come to his senses, if Fan Zeng really had an affair with Chen Ping, how could he have left just like that.He just felt that Fan Zeng was suspected of being unfaithful, and it was unnecessary to keep him, so he had no intention of keeping him, and let Fan Zeng go happily. Fan Zeng traveled all the way, sighed all the way, and wept all the way. He devoted himself to Xiang Chu, but in the end, he didn't know what he was planning.Every plant and tree in Chu State made him feel sad, and Xiang Yu's words and deeds made him feel chilled.Looking back, the concave and convex city walls are getting smaller and smaller, becoming more and more blurred, gradually becoming invisible like a scene in a dream. The entourage brought the food, but he didn't move a mouthful, it was cold for a long time, he threw it away, brought it again and threw it away again.At night, the carriage drove to a pothole and was bumped violently. He sat up suddenly, as if he heard the rumbling sound of the collapse of the mountains and rivers in Chu State, and he could no longer fall asleep. After days of being sad and angry, Fan Zeng developed a malignant sore on his back.When he arrived in Pengcheng, the sores worsened, and he died on the road within a few days. Ying Bu, who was suspected of being disloyal, rebelled, and Fan Zeng, who was suspected of being disloyal, died. Chen Ping made a great contribution and should have been rewarded, but someone complained to Liu Bang that Chen Ping was a bad person, and there were two crimes, one was life style, and the other was corruption. The problem of life style is that Chen Ping once committed adultery with his sister-in-law; the problem of corruption is that when he came to the Han army, he received red envelopes from his subordinates.What's more serious is that this person was capricious. He first served the king of Wei, but rebelled against the king of Wei and surrendered to Xiang Yu, and then rebelled against Xiang Yu and surrendered to the king of Han. How can such a person with no virtue and impermanence be reused? This situation was like a grenade, which exploded in Liu Bang's heart. He immediately asked Wei Wuzhi, who recommended Chen Ping, to question him. Wei Wuzhi said, when I recommended Chen Ping, I introduced his talent, and you asked about morality.Talented people are not necessarily virtuous, and virtuous people are not necessarily talented. Liu Bangxin understands that Chen Ping is definitely not a person with both ability and political integrity. What kind of person is Chen Ping?If you say he is bad, he is so talented and full of tricks; if you say he is not bad, he "steals money from his wife".It can only be said that this person is suspected of being a hooligan. Fortunately, Liu Bang's suspicion is different from Xiang Yu's.Xiang Yu was suspicious, kept it in his heart, and secretly calculated; Liu Bang was suspicious, so he confronted him personally, and clarified the matter first before drawing a conclusion. However, this is just Liu Bang when he was not in the world. He doubted people and didn't use them, and he didn't doubt people. Even if he had doubts, he would not be suspicious.However, when he ruled the world, his suspicion was no less than that of any monarch. This is the emperor. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.Simply speaking of Liu Bang's doubts, he asked Chen Ping to confront him. Chen Ping explained calmly, starting with "sister-in-law stealing", I lost my parents when I was young, when I was in my hometown, my sister-in-law loved me, and I also loved her, even if it was a bit ambiguous, I couldn't help it. Liu Bang didn't really care about this.Confucius said: Do not do to others what you do not want yourself to do to yourself.In terms of women, Liu Bang is much more unrestrained than Chen Ping. Everyone is a hooligan, so why bother to embarrass a hooligan. So, what about receiving red envelopes?Liu Bang continued to ask. Chen Ping also explained that I ran naked to the Han army at that time, naked and penniless. If I didn't receive some gifts, I wouldn't even have a change of clothes, and it would be a problem to eat. As for voting for King Wei and then King Xiang, it was not because I was capricious, but because King Wei and King Xiang didn't accept my strategy at all. Later, I heard that King Han is eager to seek talents and treats people generously, so I came to you .If you think my strategy is useless, I can leave, all the gifts I received are there, and I will return them in full. Liu Bang understood that Chen Ping was reused as soon as he arrived in the Han army, and it was inevitable that he would be envied and hated by others, so he sued. So, Liu Bang apologized to Chen Ping and said, I was wrong, and I treated you slowly, so don't mind. Chen Ping was very moved.He has always been well aware of Liu Bang's trust in him. When he alienated the generals of the Chu State, he offered to buy him with gold. Just go to the financial department and get it as much as it costs.These words seem simple, but they have rich meanings. The first is trust, allowing subordinates to do things freely, and the second is even better, as long as the work is done, you can keep the rest of the money in your pocket as a reward. Which employee doesn't like to hear the leader say such things to himself?