Qin Shi Huang's unification of China was achieved on the basis of the annihilation of the Six Kingdoms. There are a large number of nobles in the six kingdoms, because their country has been destroyed by the government, and their glory and wealth will be gone. The former brother of the prince has also become a fallen nobleman.
Under such circumstances, it was difficult for them to accept, and their hatred for the Qin state could be imagined.
Xiang Yu and Zhang Liang are excellent representatives of the descendants of the nobility.
Xiang Yu's grandfather Xiang Yan was a general of the Chu State, and if the Chu State had not been destroyed, Xiang Yu's life would still have been a life of gold and jade, but the situation would be different if the Chu State was destroyed.
Xiang Yu once became a fugitive, which was a world of difference compared to his previous life!
Why?
Because Xiang Liang killed someone and was wanted by the Qin Dynasty, he had the nobles of the Chu state and became a wanted criminal. Xiang Yu lived with Xiang Liang. Xiang Liang was wanted, and Xiang Yu could only run with Xiang Liang.
In this case, if there is a chance, they will definitely choose revenge. Because if they do not destroy the Qin state, the Qin state will arrest them and ask them to take their heads.
New hatred and old resentment are the reason why they want to take revenge on the Qin state.
Zhang Liangzu's ancestors have been the prime minister of South Korea for three generations, he was born in the family of prime ministers, if there is no accident, with Zhang Liang's ability, it is more than enough to be a Korean prime minister!
However, the State of Qin wiped out Korea.
In this case, Zhang Liang's dream of being the prime minister was also shattered. No one could understand Zhang Liang's mood at that time, for Zhang Liang, his biggest dream was revenge.
Therefore, he wanted to assassinate Qin Shi Huang.
Of course, he did not succeed in assassination, because the Hercules he was looking for did not hit the palanquin that Qin Shi Huang was sitting on, and after that, he wanted to assassinate Qin Shi Huang, and there was no chance. Qin Shi Huang encountered assassinations by different people, and he began to strengthen his vigilance.
If you want to continue to destroy Qin, you must look for opportunities. The next time I found the opportunity, Qin Shi Huang was no longer there, because the chaotic world at the end of Qin was after Qin Shi Huang's death.
Xiang Yu and Zhang Liang, the two of them hated the Qin State, this is not difficult to understand. After all, they were originally nobles, and the nobles at that time were all hereditary. They do not want their country to be destroyed and their glory and wealth to be lost. Therefore, it is necessary to achieve the prominence of his own family again by overthrowing the Qin state.
But what did Liu Bang rely on?
Liu Bang's father was a farmer, and his brothers in the family were also farmers. Even if Liu Bang became the chief of the pavilion, the money he earned was also three melons and two dates, which was simply not enough to support his family, where did he get the courage to destroy Qin?
In fact, the reason why Liu Bang destroyed Qin was also to want to survive, at least at the beginning he was like this.
It should be known that when the end of Qin was in turmoil, Liu Bang also became a fugitive.
Originally, his pavilion chief was a good civil servant, but once his superiors gave him an errand and asked him to lead some prisoners to the capital.
Originally, this matter was not difficult, but when escorting the prisoners to the road, there was an accident. Several prisoners fled when Liu Bang was not paying attention.
The escorted prisoner escaped, and according to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, he was to be killed.
Liu Bang was a wise man, so he would not go to death, so he released all the prisoners who did not escape. He also directly became a fugitive, and the pavilion chief did not do it.
After becoming a fugitive, Liu Bang did not dare to go home. If Great Qin had been there, he would have always been a fugitive, and for Liu Bang, his biggest dream was to wait for the qin dynasty to perish.
The Qin Dynasty collapsed, and he became free. The Qin Dynasty will not perish on its own, and someone must be involved. After Chen Sheng's Wuguang uprising, Liu Bang realized that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to overthrow the Qin Dynasty. At the same time, it is also an opportunity to change your destiny.
The chaos at the end of Qin meant that he was facing another major reshuffle, and he thought that he was not young, and he was nearly 50 years old, and he had achieved nothing. Since we have encountered such a historical opportunity, it is better to participate in it. If it can be accomplished, it will honor the ancestors and leave its name in history.
Of course, it is also possible to fail, failure will fail, anyway, he is also nearly fifty years old, live long enough, Qin Shi Huang is the emperor, is not it to live to the age of fifty?
His own life is inferior to that of Qin Shi Huang, and he will die if he dies. Therefore, Liu Bang not only wanted to revolt, but also became the leader of the rebel army.
I have to say that Liu Bang was lucky, he was a descendant of a peasant, luckier than any nobleman, because in the end it was he who laughed to the end, and he became emperor.
Of course, he became emperor after killing Xiang Yu. The descendants of the nobles of the other Six Kingdoms were either made officials by Liu Bang or killed by Liu Bang.
In this way, the dynasty established by Liu Bang would not be the same as the dynasty established by Qin Shi Huang, at least his enemies would be much less. In addition, Liu Bang will govern the country and implement benevolent government.
Therefore, the Great Han Dynasty he established actually existed for more than 400 years.
References To the Chronicle of History