After Xiang Yukeng killed the Qin army prisoners, he led the coalition army to continue marching towards Guanzhong. Halfway through, Liu Bang sent a messenger to inform Xiang Yu: When the people of Guanzhong heard about the killing of prisoners, the people's hearts were shaken, and they urgently needed to be appeased, please postpone entering the customs!
At the same time, Liu Bang sent Zuo Sima Cao to lead a group of men and horses to guard the Hangu Pass and block the entry of the coalition army.
Xiang Yu took Liu Bang's letter and consulted with the generals. Everyone is afraid of the tough and combative people of Guanzhong, and they feel that it is not appropriate to forcibly enter the customs when the crowd is angry, so they might as well wait for Liu Bang to do a good job of appeasing them. So, Xiang Yu ordered all the troops to camp on the spot.
More than ten days have passed in the blink of an eye, and there has been no news from Liu Bang's side, and the generals are anxious, and they are talking one after another: Liu Bang's kid wants to swallow the treasures of the Qin Palace alone, otherwise why don't you let everyone enter the customs?
Xiang Yu was also puzzled. He wasn't worried that Liu Bang would monopolize the treasure, but he was afraid that if something really happened in Guanzhong, his plan would be disrupted. In addition to doubts, he was also a little dissatisfied with Fan Zeng: the old gentleman only talked about the benefits of killing prisoners, but he didn't say what the consequences were. If you compare the advantages and disadvantages, whether the captives should be killed or not, it is not certain!
But what can be done about it?Xiang Yu summoned the generals to discuss together.
Most of the generals believe that "the hustle and bustle of people is all for profit."People are crowded, all for the sake of profit", who is willing to share the treasure with others?Liu Bang must be moving the treasures of the Qin Palace, and when the good things are gone, he will invite everyone to eat the leftovers.
Zhang Er has known Liu Bang for many years, and knows that Liu Bang does not accumulate wealth, money is earned and spent, and he is willing to give away a lot of money, and has the name of being kind and charitable (benevolence and love others, joy and giving). Later, the two sides did not see each other for more than ten years, and Liu Bang's temperament may have changed, but it has not become as unbearable as the generals speculated. He said: Pei Gong is not the kind of person who forgets his righteousness for the sake of profit, and there must be a reason for preventing the army from entering the customs.
Why?Everyone guessed and guessed, but couldn't guess why.
In fact, for them, the question that Liu Bang is thinking about is related to their life and death, which is much more terrible than monopolizing the treasures of the Qin Palace!The reason why Liu Bang delayed letting the princes enter the customs was to wait for the edict of King Huai Xiongxin.
Xiang Yu's private Zhang Han is the king of Yong, and the traces have appeared;Now without asking for the consent of King Huai, he entered the customs with 400,000 princes and soldiers, and announced that he would discuss the reward after the war, and the reverse was clearly revealed. How to deal with this?Liu Bang has sent someone to Pengcheng to ask Xiong Xin for advice.
Xiong Xin expressed his attitude, and Liu Bang knew how to characterize Xiang Yu's group: friendly or rebel. If it is a friendly army, you should open the door to greet and receive you warmly;If it is a rebel, he will personally lead the troops in Guanzhong, block the rebels outside Hangu Pass, and at the same time use Dangjun, Liangdi and Henan soldiers and horses, cut off their grain routes, and cut off their back roads. The rebels are just a rabble, and once the food and grass are in short supply, they will inevitably fight and chaos themselves;Then divide and disintegrate, recruit and rebel, it is not difficult to destroy its fragile alliance and capture the first evil Xiang Yu.
But Xiong Xin didn't give an answer for a long time, and Liu Bang was embarrassed. Treating the rebels as friendly is tantamount to luring a wolf into the house;Fight friendly troops as rebels, how to explain to King Huai?How to explain to the world?So Liu Bang couldn't make up his mind, so he had to drag it first, and continue to ask Xiong Xin for an edict.
Why did Xiong Xin delay giving advice?The reason is that what Xiang Yu is doing now has long gone beyond the legal system and etiquette, and to put it simply, he doesn't take Xiong Xin as the king at all. At this point, the national rules and regulations have become invalid, and we can only act according to the "law of the jungle", and whoever has the strength has the right to speak. Liu Bang, as a general, has the strength but does not dare to take the initiative to speak out and take responsibility, and wants Xiong Xin to express his position;Xiong Xin has no fists and no courage, and he can't bear the responsibility, how dare he express his position casually?
Looking ahead and looking backward is the advantage of a "gentleman", but also a shortcoming, the pursuit of doing things "worthy of the sky, not to be ashamed of others", after a hundred years can not find fault. It's just that there are some things that don't have such a happy result at all, and if you can't be ruthless, you can't make a choice. Liu Bang is not a gentleman, and now he wants to play the role of a gentleman, and it is inevitable that he will be tied. On the contrary, it is people like Xiang Yu who use the concept of "I am a hooligan, who am I afraid of" to do things, and they can often seize the opportunity.
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