However, after drinking, Liu Bang's pain sobered him up a lot. The arrow wounds that yingbu left to him made him hate these damned kings of different surnames more, and also increased his desire for strong men and good generals. At the beginning, Han Xin, Peng Yue, and yingbu, which one is not the only one, the most powerful talent? However, their contributions were so great that they could not obey the orders of the imperial court, and they could compete with the emperor. They have vast territory, heavy troops in their hands, and they are respectful on the surface, but they even sleep with a bright sword. Therefore, the first thing after Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu was that he once again seized the military power of Han Xin, the eldest of them, with 300000 elite soldiers in his hand ("rushing into the wall of the king of Qi and seizing his army"), and changed him to be the king of Chu in the south, which was not peaceful. In the next few years, Liu Bang successively killed Zang Da, Han Wangxin, Han Xin, Peng Yue, yingbu, Lu Wan, etc. It can be said that the threat of the king of different surnames was almost completely cut off, and the rest of Changsha, Fujian and Vietnam, and southern Guangdong were not enough. It is said that Liu Bang should be happy. Why is there so much melancholy and helplessness?
We checked Liu Bang's schedule and found that the emperor had not stopped since the establishment of the Empire: in October of the sixth year of emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty (that is, when he officially became emperor), Zang tanfan, king of Yan, was attacked by Emperor Gaozu; In December, Han Xin, the king of Chu, was demoted to Huaiyin; In the 7th year, Han Wangxin rebelled and Gaozu attacked him; In the same year, he attacked the Xiongnu at Pingcheng and was surrounded for 7 days. By Chen Ping's stratagem, he got away with it; In 2008, he attacked Han Wangxin; Ten years later, Chen Chen turned against Dai Di and Gaozu attacked him from the East; In the spring of 2011, Han Xin was killed; Autumn, kill Peng Yue; In July of autumn, King yingbufan of Huainan attacked him. In other words, almost every year, Liu Bang personally led the army to fight. His drummers (Zhou Bo), goutu (fan Kuai), coachmen (Xia Houying) and cloth dealers (Guan Ying) were not in the same level as the king of different surnames. As for Liu Bang's Wang family members who wanted to rely on him as a barrier, they were all food eaters. Whenever there was a war, they either died or died. In this way, the great emperor Liu Bang became a fire brigade leader. He led the army to fight all day long. He couldn't even sleep in his warm bed. How could he not even be as good as the first emperor of Qin Dynasty!
However, Liu Bang was able to grow up from a local ruffian to the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, which shows that he is not a layman after all, and his mind is very clear. The king of different surnames has been pacified, but the world is not peaceful. In the north, taking advantage of the struggle between Chu and Han, the powerful Xiongnu was ready to go south to make a lot of money; In the south, those small states which were independent one after another at the end of the Qin Dynasty still disobeyed the orders of the central government; In the interior of the Kingdom, though the newly established kings of the same surname did not succeed, they occupied nearly half of the territory of the country, and the fertile land in the eastern part of the Han kingdom was almost owned by them. In a few decades' time, will our descendants follow in the footsteps of the previous dynasties, fight against each other, eat by the law of the jungle, and treat the central government and their legitimate descendants (the emperor) like weeds? Thinking of these, Liu Bang often couldn't sleep at night. How many generations can the hard-earned land be passed down (he thought of the lessons of the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty)? I don't think I'll be able to survive for many years (Liu Bang's arrow injury worsened after the emperor's reign, and he died in April the next year). If the world changes, where can I find a brave and invincible warrior to guard the four directions? Thus, there is the rich connotation of "an de Meng Shi Xi Shou Sifang". From a literary point of view, although the song of gale is a bit nonsense, it is absolutely full of emotion. There are not only the anxiety of internal and external troubles, but also the helplessness of talent decline, and the sadness of the uncertain future of the Han Dynasty. No wonder the rogue emperor can't help but "be generous and sad and cry". Poor parents! Pity the emperor!
There is nothing wrong with Liu Bang's consideration. After his death, there was no outstanding military commander who could compare with Han Xin, Peng Yue and yingbu. In 154 BC, the rebellion broke out among the seven kingdoms, and Liu Bang's nephew Liu Bi led the kings of the same surname to revolt. It took nearly a year for the Wang Dynasty to exert its power over the whole country. The final solution to the problem of Wang with the same surname depends on the implementation of "Tuen Ling". In 133 B.C., on the basis of the economic strength accumulated after more than 70 years of recuperation, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, took the initiative to fight against the Xiongnu with the "strategy of Mayi". During this period, although Wei Qing and Huo Qubing made many achievements, there were also Li Guangli's repeated defeats and humiliations (these three were Liu Che's nepotism, and their military abilities were far from those of Bai Qi, Lian Po, Li Mu, Wang Jian and Meng Tian at the end of the Warring States Period! I think Liu Bang's so-called "warrior" should belong to this level. In the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the government failed to completely solve the problem of Xiongnu's foreign invasion. There are many objective reasons for this, but it is undeniable that there is no good general in Han Dynasty“ How can a brave man defend all sides? Liu Bang's worries are indeed prescient!
