Chapter 33 4. The beautiful man Chen Ping
At that time, Han Dynasty 1 Liu Bang's rise, Chu and Han struggle for hegemony
月望东山
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2018-03-13
Time continued to move forward in the raging flames of war. From October 205 BC to March of the following year, during nearly half a year, the following major events occurred on the land of China:
First: After Zhang Liang fooled Xiang Yu into sending troops to Qi State, he fled from South Korea to join Liu Bang through a small road. As expected by Liu Bang, he finally returned to the army.The fact is that Zhang Liang went to Liu Bang not only for political asylum, but the so-called former prime minister of South Korea who lost his land and title had nothing left, and he decided to follow Liu Bang in the revolution.
Second: In order to retaliate against Xiang Yu and also to thank Zhang Liang, Liu Bang appointed a descendant of a Korean nobleman as the new King of Korea.It is no coincidence that the new king of Han is also named Han Xin. In order to distinguish the general Han Xin, he is called Han Wangxin.Han Wangxin did not disappoint Liu Bang's promotion, and single-handedly killed Comrade Zheng Chang. Since then, there is only one Han Wang in South Korea, and that is Han Wangxin.
Third: Xiang Yu led an army to defeat the arrogant Tian Rong in Chengyang (now Juxian County, Shandong Province). Tian Rong fled to Pingyuan County, but unfortunately was killed by Pingyuan people.
Tian Rong was killed, and no one can hold back Xiang Yu for Liu Bang. This is a very unfortunate thing for Liu Bang.However, God did not treat Liu Bang badly. When Xiang Yu had just wiped out Tian Rong's forces, God quietly drew a man from Xiang Yu's camp to supply Liu Bang. This man was the legendary handsome man Comrade Chen Ping.
Chen Ping, whose birth date is unknown, was born in Yangwu (now Yuanyang County, Henan Province).
Occupational background: smelly old nine.
Specialty: evenly divided meat.
Suggestions and suggestions: Except for Zhang Liang, there is no one who is right.
Like most celebrities who came from poor backgrounds in the early Han Dynasty, Chen Ping was very unfortunate in his early years.His family has 30 acres of land, and he doesn't worry about farming, but he likes reading.Scholars at that time had a habit of traveling around to study and make friends with people of insight from all over the world.This habit has been popular since the time of Confucius. Chen Ping studied to go further and fly higher. Of course he couldn't avoid it, so he traveled around to study with the support of his brother.
Chen Ping's elder brother is a good comrade. For his younger brother's bright future, he had no choice but to take over the work of 30 acres of land with his wife.Brother is good, but it doesn’t mean sister-in-law is good. Think about it, a woman is with her man facing the loess and back to the sky all day long. When she returns home, she suddenly sees Chen Ping eating rice in a polite manner after studying abroad. The contrast is that quite large.
One day, someone asked Chen Ping curiously, your family is so poor, but you are so tall and beautiful, what did you eat to grow up.
At that time, Chen Ping's lovely sister-in-law was at the scene, and she said to the interrogator angrily: He also grew up eating rice bran, it would be better not to have such a brother-in-law.
At first hearing these words, people are inexplicable. Is it a mistake to be handsome? Why are you so sarcastic.But the woman immediately paid the price. Chen Ping's elder brother heard that his wife was mocking his younger brother, and immediately kicked her out of the house, and never set foot in Chen's house again.This kind of extreme punishment was called repudiation by the people at that time.
Unbeknownst to him, Chen Ping's elder brother was self-defeating. Instead of helping Chen Ping, he harmed Chen's younger brother.In the eyes of outsiders, if he was dismissed just because he said a bad word, no one would believe it.As a result, rumors spread and people speculated that Brother Chen must have divorced his wife because his wife had committed adultery with his handsome brother Chen Ping.
After his brother divorced his wife, Chen Ping felt very sad.What makes him sad is not the unreasonable name of adulterer's sister-in-law on his head, but his own poverty. The word poverty is like two sharp knives, cutting Chen Ping's heart every day.He is very handsome, but in an era where people laugh at the poor but not the prostitutes, being handsome can't be eaten, can't find a wife, and has nothing to do with dreams, and he has to wear this layer of stinky skin all day long to be ridiculed by others .
Chen Ping's downcast appearance, in today's words, is really an out-and-out three-no person.That is, one has no good house, two has no famous car, and three has no savings.But please note that there are so many poor people. Why do so many poor people marry wives, but no one wants to marry Chen Ping?In fact, this has a lot to do with Chen Ping's standards for marrying a wife. If you don't mention this standard, it may attract a lot of bricks.His standard for marrying a wife is not to marry a non-rich girl!
In the eyes of the world, Chen Ping is really an overconfident and brazen person.His family is so poor that even thieves don't bother to patronize, and they still have such an unrealistic dream of marrying a rich girl!Others laugh, that is someone else's business.However, Chen Ping deeply believed that in this vast world, there would always be a rich girl waiting somewhere, waiting for him to marry her back to that poor house, and then she would make her name known far and wide by making red sleeves and studying abroad. !
Now we finally understand that the reason why Chen Ping does not marry a woman from a rich family is entirely to find a strong financial foundation for future study tours.His dream is far away, under the tents of the princes, on the throne of the king, not in this land where men farm and women weave, have children and grow old together!
This is the true nature of Chen Ping. For a brilliant tomorrow, he is willing to wait for a long time in loneliness.Huangtian pays off, he has fallen in love with an ideal woman, she is the legendary Kefu killer: Zhang Shi (name unknown).
Telling this matter would frighten many unmarried men. This rich girl named Zhang married five husbands in a row, but all five husbands were killed by her without exception.Since then, the legendary Viagra killer has become famous all over the world, and no man dares to approach this broom star again.
Chen Ping is a person who does not believe in evil, and he even let out rumors, spreading everywhere that Zhang widows do not marry!Remember, the reason why Chen Ping made this decision was out of helplessness. If he wanted to marry those rich girls who had never been in the bridal chamber, he would not even think about it. Life forced him to compromise with fate.
As long as he has money, it doesn't matter who he marries. Chen Ping also believes that as long as he is willing to marry, this so-called widow ordered by Kefu must marry him.Bibi can know that Zhang is a widow and a rich woman, but she is a broom star; Chen Ping is a poor man, but he is a handsome guy. Counting them, both of them are celebrities.Such a pair of equal parts, resisting each other's evil, can be regarded as a perfect match, such a pair of hard-fated couples, if God doesn't make them both good, then they really should scold the geniuses and let it go!
Sure enough, as Chen Ping expected, the Zhang family took action not long after the news was released.It was not Widow Zhang who acted first, but her own grandfather.This old man surnamed Zhang, let's call him Zhang Fuhu for the time being, he heard that Chen Ping was not afraid of being ordered to marry her granddaughter, so he decided to go alone to touch Chen Ping's old background.
According to modern people's methods, if the two parties want to propose marriage or touch the family property, there are no more than two places to choose from, one is the work unit, the other is the family house, whether the other party is good or not, and whether it is a potential stock, just look at these two things. It's clear at a glance.Just so, the first thing Mr. Zhang wanted to touch was Chen Ping's work unit.But please note that Chen Ping is not a civil servant. If he were a civil servant, he would not be so poor. He is not even a wage earner in a company, but an out-and-out part-time worker.
What is even more surprising is that Chen Ping's part-time job is not cooking and sweeping the floor, not even a guest of a wealthy family, but doing funerals for the dead.In that era when people's lives were ignored, dead people were a big deal, and many people got ahead by eating dead people.If you have a good memory, you should remember that Xiang Liang once held funerals for others, and Zhou Bo also played the funeral flute for others. Coincidentally, Chen Ping, who was impoverished, had to work for the dead in order to make ends meet. .
If it were another rich family, seeing Chen Ping making a living like this, he might have left in a hurry, but this rich family was also a person who did not believe in evil, and went directly to the funeral to investigate Chen Ping.
At the beginning, Liu Bang was famous as a scoundrel, and it was Liu Bang's scoundrel that Lu Zhi's father first saw; Chen Ping was famous for his handsomeness, and it was his handsomeness that Zhang Fuhu first saw.Handsomeness is not strength, but handsomeness can leave an excellent impression on people. Zhang Fuhu was first attracted by Chen Ping, who is extraordinary in appearance and tall, so when they met for the first time, Chen Ping somehow passed the impression barrier.
Interviews, of course, cannot be decided based on impression points alone, and a few words have to be chatted.Don't underestimate the barrier of language, language is a knife, it can kill you instantly, and language is wings coated with honey, it can immediately ascend you to heaven.That day, Furen Zhang and Chen Ping chatted for a long time at the funeral. In words, Fuhu Zhang was quite satisfied with the young man's knowledge and behavior, but he just didn't know how his family was.
In order to find out the real situation of Chen Ping's family, Zhang Fuhu made a request to him: Young man, can I visit your house?Chen Ping was startled, come to my house to sit?To be honest, my family is not a wealthy family, nor is it a scenic area, so there is nothing to see.Rich man Zhang seemed to see Chen Ping's concerns, and pretended to be relaxed and said: Young man, don't have any psychological pressure, just walk around and get familiar with the geographical environment by the way.
What the old man said was very truthful. The so-called "one time, two time acquaintance", even if you can't be in-laws, it's not bad to be a year-end friend.Chen Ping no longer had any excuse to refuse, so he could only lead the old man out of the city!
Chen Ping's house was in a poor alley outside the city wall. There was not even a wooden board on the gate, only a tattered mat was used to cover it.Old man Zhang walked into the house and took another look. The Chen family was indeed the legendary house with four walls, the house was empty, not to mention sitting, even standing felt extremely crowded.
Old man Zhang shook his head heavily, heaved a long sigh and walked out of the Chen gate, followed by Chen Ping, they stopped in the broken alley outside the gate.Old man Zhang turned around and suddenly raised his head, looked at the sky, and then looked at Chen Ping speechlessly.That look, that demeanor, is like a poem written by the famous modern poet Gu Cheng:
Since the Chen family's hardware is not up to standard, let's forget it.Think of it as a beautiful wrong date, or as a narcissist's self-mockery, it's nothing special, like a black cloud in the sky, as long as today is over, it won't stay in the sky of my heart !
As Chen Ping thought about it, his dark heart suddenly became brighter, and a sunny smile filled his face.
Old man Zhang suddenly looked at Chen Ping seriously, he found how natural and confident the young man's smile was, and there seemed to be a look of contempt in his eyes!Young man, it takes ability to despise the world. Why are you so confident and calm? Do you still have something in this world to be proud of?
Old man Zhang was puzzled, what kind of ego does this young man have?His eyes slowly moved from Chen Ping to the roof of Chen's dilapidated house. When his eyes fell on the small path in front of the door again, he suddenly discovered a top secret as if he had discovered a new continent.The secret is that there are many traces of high-end carriages staying in front of Chen Ping's house.
Don't underestimate the messy ruts, there are a lot of articles in it.To explain this problem, it must involve physiognomy. In ancient China, there were tens of thousands of techniques for matching people, and Confucianism also had a set of orthodox techniques for matching people.The Confucian method of looking at people was invented by Confucius. From the perspective of social and interpersonal relations, the old man believes that a person can be understood from the following six aspects:
First, get to know him by getting to know his parents.
Second, get to know him by getting to know his siblings.
Third, get to know him by getting to know his neighbors.
Fourth, get to know him by getting to know his relatives.
Fifth, get to know him by getting to know his friends.
Sixth, know him by knowing whether his words and deeds are consistent.
We believe that this wealthy Zhang has read some Confucian books. If he frowned when he first saw Chen Ping's house, then he had to be ecstatic when he saw the traces of carriages outside the door.Because these car marks are enough to prove that the friends Chen Ping made were noble people. As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together and people divide into groups. Flies like to mix with mosquitoes, and scholars like to hang out with noble people.For a poor man, noble friends are the greatest capital.
Therefore, Zhang Fuhu immediately concluded that Chen Ping would not be a pauper for the rest of his life.
Modern pedagogy has a novel theory that education is not only the accumulation of knowledge, but also the full enjoyment of superior resources, and the accumulation of interpersonal capital.Therefore, under the influence of this educational theory, aristocratic schools came into being.Parents also fully realize that the great benefit of aristocratic schools is not to allow children to learn the pampered gentleman culture, but to allow him to make friends with rich children from all over the world, thereby accumulating strong interpersonal capital. The role played by children in their future development is unimaginable.
This is true of education, and so is Zhang Fuhu's investment in Chen Peng's manpower.However, in this world, short-sighted people often regard long-sighted people as jokes, just like Lu Zhi's mother was dissatisfied with Lu Zhi's father back then.Now, like Lu Gong, Zhang Fuhu is not understood by others, and the one who is least understood is his second son.
I guess this second son is the father of the granddaughter of Zhang Fuhu, otherwise Sima Qian would not have recorded this boring conversation in "Historical Records" for no reason.When Zhang Fuhu's second son heard that his father wanted to marry his daughter to Chen Ping, he was the first to express strong opposition. He said to his father: "Chen Ping is poor and has nothing to do. Everyone in the county regards him as a joke." , Didn't you push my daughter into the fire pit like this?
Zhang Fuhu immediately retorted: I don't believe that a man as majestic as Chen Ping will be poor all his life!
The second son asked again: Why do you believe that Chen Ping will be prosperous in the future?
Therefore, Zhang Fuhu had to tell his son about the traces of the high-end car he found at the gate of Chen Ping, and fully interpreted it with the Confucian technique of matching people.Confucius' theory was really convincing. Not only did his granddaughter's father no longer object to marrying his daughter, but he also decided to treat Chen Ping with great gifts and favors, including the dowry money and the wedding banquet money.
Finally, when his granddaughter was about to get married, Zhang Touzi explained to her earnestly: You must not look down on Chen Pingqiong because of him, and remember to treat his elder brother as you would treat your father.I believe that within ten years, the fate of your lover, Comrade Chen Ping, will be very different!
Facts have proved, old man, he really is a master!
This is a gambling marriage that benefits each other. Zhang Er's previous version is also a copy of Chen Ping. After Chen Ping became rich, he made friends with a wider range.His identity changed rapidly, he was no longer that poor ghost who was shunning by everyone, but became a suave, chic and unrestrained mature man.
The street also likes to invite Chen Ping to participate in happy events.Every time a major sacrificial event is held, Chen Ping is always responsible for dividing the meat for the elders.Chen Ping divided the meat evenly, which surprised the elders, and they all said together: "That's great, Boy Chen is born to divide the meat."
Chen Ping smiled complacently: "Oh, what's the point of dividing the meat fairly? If I were to divide the world, I would be able to divide the meat as well as I do now."
As soon as Chen Ping finished speaking, his opportunity came.After Chen Sheng's uprising, the princes of the world established themselves as kings one after another. For this moment, Chen Ping had waited too long. He decided to bid farewell to his elder brother and his poor hometown, and run forward with his youth and dreams.
Chen Ping first came to Linji City to join Wei Jiu, and Wei Jiu appointed Chen Ping as Minister of Communications (a servant).Not long after, Chen Ping lobbied Wei Jiu for some reason and complained behind his back, and was reported to Wei Jiu, and Chen Ping had no choice but to run away.
After that, Chen Ping defected to Xiang Yu.For Chen Ping, Xiang Yu was not too bad a boss. Xiang Yu not only treated him kindly, but also trusted him fully, so he had the honor to attend the Hongmen Banquet, where he met Liu Bang and Zhang Liang face to face.
After the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Yu left to play in the water on the front foot, and Sima Ang, the king of Yin, rebelled on the back foot.Sima Ang was as small as a mosquito, and Xiang Yu didn't even bother to step on him himself, so he sent Chen Ping to lead an army to deal with him.Chen Ping lived up to Xiang Yu's expectations, and surrendered Sima Ang in just two or three blows.For Chen Ping's meritorious service, Xiang Yu named him the commander-in-chief of the militia (duwei) and rewarded him with four hundred and eighty taels of gold.
Different people have different fates. At the beginning, Han Xin stood guard for Xiang Yu all day long, without even a chance to get ahead, but God gave Chen Ping all the great opportunities.Since then, Chen Ping has finally made some achievements. If he works hard for a few more years to become the commander-in-chief of the regular army, then he can return to his hometown with glory and glory.
However, before Chen Ping could fully enjoy the fruits of being entrusted, his dream of being promoted, making a fortune and honoring his ancestors was completely destroyed by one person!It was none other than Han Wang Liu Bang who destroyed Chen Ping's future.
When Liu Bang went to Guanzhong, except for Zhang Han who defended Feiqiu, he basically took care of all the ghosts and snakes. Sima Ang was one of them, and he obediently surrendered to Liu Bang.
Xiang Yu was furious when he heard that Sima Ang had rebelled against Chu again.What Xiang Yu was angry with was not Sima Ang, but the fact that the people he sent out failed to subdue Sima Ang.So Xiang Yu was so angry that he attacked his own people first, and wanted to arrest and behead all the people who had been sent to beat Sima Ang.Chen Ping was facing a catastrophe, so he had no choice but to leave without saying goodbye. Surprisingly, before he escaped, Chen Ping sent someone to give Xiang Yu his official seal, and returned the four hundred and eighty taels of gold to Xiang Yu.
Not to be greedy for meritless rewards, not to be honored for meritorious deeds, this is the most authentic Chen Ping.After fleeing, Chen Ping's next ideal boss is Liu Bang.
We know that Chen Ping is famously handsome, but for so many years, he has not created any earth-shattering economic benefits except for being lucky to marry a fifth-hand wife by relying on his handsomeness.What made him even more chilling was that Yin Lai was so handsome that he almost lost his life on the way to flee to Liu Bang.
At that time, Chen Ping was preparing to cross the Yellow River with a long sword and go to Liu Bang.However, when he crossed the river in a boat, he suddenly discovered a serious problem. The boatman didn't concentrate on rocking the boat, but stared at his bulging pocket.Chen Ping immediately realized that this was a black boat, and the boatman thought he was a fleeing general who could be lured by seeing how delicious he looked!
Chen Ping really wanted to cry. A small boat was floating on the turbulent water of the Yellow River. The sky and the earth were boundless. There were no ancients before and no one behind. Only the two strong and weak men on the boat faced each other inexplicably.The boat was getting closer and closer to the center of the river, and every time the boatman swiped the oar, it was as if a sharp knife had been cut across Chen Ping's delicious body.It's over, if there is no way to deal with it, then today will become fish fertilizer.
Desperate for his wits, Chen Ping came up with a way to escape.The so-called escape means taking off all the clothes on his body, because only by doing so can Chen Ping prove that he is penniless.What's more, in order to win over the boatman, or maybe to win the boatman's sympathy, Chen Ping had no choice but to cross the river with the boatman naked. Only then did the boatman see clearly that Chen Ping really had nothing, so he gave up the idea of murder. Evil heart.
Chen Ping finally crossed the Yellow River safely.The moment he jumped onto the shore, he felt like jumping onto the gate of light from hell. He didn't dare to stay for a moment, and immediately rushed to the location of Liu Bang's garrison.At this time, he met the most unforgettable person in his life-Bole Wei Wuzhi.
The strange thing is that for such an important role as Wei Wuzhi, neither Sima Qian nor Ban Gu left him a biography in "Historical Records" and "Hanshu".What these two historians tell us is that after Chen Ping went ashore, he had the cheek to ask Wei Wuzhi to apply to Liu Bang on his behalf, and Wei Wuzhi asked a guard named Shi Fen next to Liu Bang to take him to see Liu Bang.
At that time, there were a total of seven people who went to Liu Bang's interview with Chen Ping. Liu Bang only invited them to have a meal, and he said to them: "Go back and rest after you finish eating."
Any fool can tell that Liu Bang is just a polite remark in the workplace. In fact, he doesn't like these so-called talents in front of him in his heart.
At this time, Chen Ping was in a hurry. He immediately stood up and said to Liu Bang: "I have something important to see you today, and what I said will not exceed today."
Chen Ping's trick is called surprise victory. If he doesn't use a unique trick, he can't impress Liu Bang with admiration.Liu Bang met Chen Ping before, and Zhang Liang once asked Chen Ping to help Liu Bang. Since the old friend had something important to do, there was nothing else to say, so Liu Bang stayed with him to continue drinking.
In fact, Liu Bang made an exception to satisfy Chen Ping's eagerness to seek a job. Unexpectedly, he was deeply moved by Chen Ping's legendary experience and deeds before the interview was over.Finally, they concluded the exchange with the following three short sentences.
Liu Bang asked Chen Ping: What kind of official did you serve under Xiang Yu before?
Chen Ping: Captain.
Liu Bang: Well, starting tomorrow, you will be my captain.
Sure enough, Liu Bang announced to the Han army the next day that he would worship Chen Ping as the captain, and concurrently serve as a car guard (participant) and an army protection officer (guard).
This is another explosive news that appeared in the Han army after Han Xin worshiped the general.Unexpectedly, when the generals of the Han army heard that Liu Bang was going to worship Chen Ping as the captain, they immediately uttered curses and complaints.Among these people, senior generals such as Zhou Bo and Guan Ying were the ones who quarreled the most. What they were most dissatisfied with was why did Liu Bang appoint Chen Ping as the guard?
The job of guarding the army is to supervise the generals. Zhou Bo, Guan Ying and others are brothers who were born and died with Liu Bang, and Chen Ping is just a fugitive under Xiang Yu's subordinates. Liu Bang has not fully investigated and overhauled him. If this unsafe and reliable monitor is installed in the Han army, if he is a spy sent by Xiang Yu, wouldn't the Han army be about to die?
Besides, one Han Xin was enough for them. If every time an outsider came and said he was talented, Liu Bang would leave him an important position in the army, where would Zhou Bo and his brothers go?They are desperately working on the battlefield, will they always be kept in the same military position for ten years?
No, this man named Chen Ping must be sent away.So, as soon as Zhou Bo instigated it, the soldiers also yelled and disapproved of Chen Ping's role as the army guard. The sound of complaints, like flies and mosquitoes, suddenly buzzed in the sky of the Han army and spread to Liu Bang's tent.Liu Bang is not a fool, he has heard the dissatisfaction of generals and soldiers, but he did not comfort.Just let them quarrel enough, I will be deaf and blind, I can't hear anything, I can't see anything.
In fact, it is a very clever way for Liu Bang to pretend to be deaf and dumb.It is normal for brothers to complain. Wherever there is prominence, there is jealousy. This is due to human nature.However, what kind of person is Chen Ping? You should not be too superstitious about the speculation of individual human beings, and you should believe in the test of time.Besides, didn't these people doubt Han Xin's ability at the beginning, but what about the facts?If Han Xin hadn't been worshiped as a general, everyone might still be squatting in Hanzhong drinking the northwest wind.
In fact, besides Liu Bang's taste of the sweetness of Feng Hanxin, Feng Chenping was also forced by the situation. His move is also called an extraordinary move in an extraordinary period.If you think about it, you will know that Han Xin defected and worshiped the general; Zhang Er defected and received generous gifts;God knows who will come to defect next, but no matter who comes, Liu Bang will tell him that following me, Liu San, is definitely no worse than Xiang Yu, and you may be the next Han Xin or Chen Ping.
So far, with the arrival of Chen Ping, the football-like competition between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu will no longer be a war of four against two, but a five-to-two match.
Only a loud charge is short!