The story of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang has long been widely circulated, and the story of this uprising of "sparks of stars can ignite the plains" has ups and downs, wonderful and wonderful, and the ending of the two insurgents is also regrettable.
This failed uprising later directly led to the change in the pattern of the entire Central Plains, and Xiang Yu, Liu Bang and other Haojie rose up by taking advantage of the aftermath of Chen Sheng's and Wu Guang's uprising, and quickly laid their own reputation in the Central Plains and established their own heaven and earth.
Looking back at the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, we can find that what ended the "great cause" of these two people was not the wheel of history rolling forward, but the deepening estrangement between Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.
This estrangement led to the fragmentation of the entire rebel army, which eventually ended with Chen Sheng getting rid of his close friend Wu Guang, making these two heroes who could have become heroes a stepping stone for future history.
So why did Chen Sheng risk the failure of the uprising and have to get rid of his best friend Wu Guang? In fact, as early as two thousand years ago, Sima Qian gave the answer in the "History".
Qin proponents were forced by harsh laws to become anti-Qin, setting off the first peasant uprising in Chinese history
Although we can indeed evaluate the Qin Dynasty more objectively and believe that it has merits and merits, the harsh criticism of the laws of the Qin Dynasty has always existed, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are the victims of this set of strict laws.
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, tyranny was in the head and the world was in chaos. In the midst of this chaotic world, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang struggled in their livelihoods, and their daily lives fell into endless poverty and embarrassment.
Chen Sheng was a rough man with no culture, but he had always lived obediently under the rule of the Qin State, although the law was strict, Chen Sheng still obeyed it carefully and did not dare to cross the thunder pool for half a step.
Originally, his life should have passed in a mediocre way and died as an ordinary person, but heaven gave Chen Sheng a major blow in his life and completely changed his fate.
As the lowest class, Chen Sheng did not give up his pursuit of a higher status when he was oppressed by the rulers, nor did he give up the idea of building a fairer world, but everyone around him thought he was crazy.
I have not worked day and night, but now I can't even eat enough, and I still think that I will be able to rise to the ranks and get rich one day in the future, and live a good life with my brothers?
Under the questioning and ridicule, Chen Sheng did not forget his dream, and said the famous phrase that influenced the future millennium: "Yan Que An Zhi Hong Hu Zhi Ya".
Osawa Township Uprising
But this is indeed the case, in order to work to meet the indicators, I am tired and lying down every day, how can I still have that dreaming idea. At this time, Chen Sheng did not know that he just lacked an opportunity, and when the time came, he could achieve a great cause.
After the death of Qin Shi Huang, the Qin Empire eventually collapsed, and as the last struggle before his death, Qin II recruited troops everywhere to quell the rebellion in the four directions.
Under the already strict law, forced conscription caused a large number of tragic cases, it can be said that soldiers were high-risk occupations at that time, and Chen Sheng was unfortunately recruited into the army.
Because the soldiers had a good reputation, Chen Sheng was directly elected as the tun commander who led the troops, and Chen Sheng, who had jumped to a class, was overjoyed and met another tun commander who later accompanied his uprising, Wu Guang.
The two hit it off, talked about everything, took care of each other on the march, and became confidants in less time.
At this time, the Qin Dynasty was close to madness, and the ruling class did not care whether the soldiers under their command could achieve their goals or whether they could fight, so they blindly issued orders and let their men die in vain, and the soldiers who did not want to die would also be sentenced to capital punishment.
This order also quickly fell on Chen Sheng's wu guang, and the two tun commanders were ordered to lead troops to Daze Township to suppress the rebellion, but it was the rainy season, and it often rained heavily.
The road to Osawa Township was a mess and could not be reached within the stipulated time, but if the original road was returned, or if it was late, the entire army would be sentenced to capital punishment.
Under all kinds of entanglements, considering the irrationality of Qin Law, and in order to maintain his own name, Chen Sheng remembered his own ambitions, joined forces with Wu Guangxin, directly killed the two Qin officials who were guarding him, and announced to the soldiers under his hands who had long been dissatisfied with the rule of the Qin Dynasty: We are against it!
The uprising was successful, but it was caught in a crisis of trust, and plotted to kill a close friend and eventually ended up with a rebellion
Because the people everywhere had long been dissatisfied with the laws and style of conduct of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng's and Wu Guang's uprising was almost a hundred responses, and the phrase "the prince will have a kind of xiangning" made the people in the whole land of Shenzhou see that the original feudal ruling class was not on top.
They also had the opportunity to rebel against the injustice of fate, which affected the later Western Chu overlord Xiang Yu and Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang.
With the cooperation of the local people, the fire of the uprising enveloped the land of China, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang also took most of Anhui and Henan, and their sphere of influence was close to that of the Qin capital Xianyang.
Such a large influence was naturally regarded as a thorn in the side of the Qin Dynasty, but the rulers at that time could do nothing, because all the civilians under their hands followed Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising.
Seeing the rebel army approaching Xianyang, the entire Qin Dynasty rulers were anxious, but just when Great Qin was ready to die, Chen Sheng's Wuguang rebel army suddenly fell apart, and the spark of the uprising was suddenly extinguished.
This is because Chen Sheng did not fulfill his oath after acquiring a large amount of territory, and he sat in the position of king of the mountain, but when he faced his own subordinates, he seemed to show the behavior of the ruler at that time.
When his young friends and colleagues came to visit and visit, Chen Sheng doubted whether they wanted to covet their own power and wealth, not only did not see their friends, but sent them home, some insisted on seeing Chen Sheng, he directly killed them.
Later, when Chen Shengbing came to Xianyang City, he was almost able to complete his great deeds, but at this moment, Chen Sheng made the mistake that all rulers would make at the beginning.
He began to suspect everyone around him, thinking that they all wanted to usurp the throne. First of all, Chen Sheng set his sights on Wu Guang.
Without any evidence, just by doubt, Chen Sheng sent his subordinate Tian Zang to directly kill Wu Guang, and the two giants who ruled the rebel army fell one by one.
After Wu Guang's death, Chen Sheng's soldiers watched their rulers do such an absurd thing and killed their best friends for no reason, which made it difficult to ensure that they were not the next to be killed.
As a result, a strange atmosphere pervaded the army, and everyone was afraid of being betrayed, and finally with their own thoughts, they completely divided the rebel army.
The Xianyang under the soldiers near the city was thus preserved, and the Great Qin Dynasty was able to breathe, and later raised troops to defeat the rebel army that had long been scattered into a mess of sand.
Sima Qian wrote in the "Records of History" that Chen Sheng became a leader and became a king, which led to his growing arrogance.
In the end, the ambition could not be recovered, and the ability was not worthy of his own ambition, so he began to doubt the people around him, and finally killed the innocent best friend, and ended up with the fate of rebellion.
Today, the story of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang is widely circulated, but we can draw reason from Chen Sheng.
Even if we achieve fame one day in the future, we can't forget the friends and confidants who accompanied us to suffer, and we can't doubt and hurt them at will.