After Han Xin surrendered to Xiang Yu, was he really snubbed?
In this article, I will talk to you about this topic.
In the impression of many of us, we always feel that Xiang Yu does not appreciate Han Xin at all, because Han Xin defected to Xiang Yu, and Xiang Yu made him a small soldier who was responsible for standing guard outside the camp tent. But in fact, Xiang Yu was definitely very appreciative of Han Xin.
In fact, the reason why everyone thinks that Han Xin has not been appreciated by Xiang Yu is simply because we lack the most basic understanding of Lang Zhong's position. That said, it turns out that many people are mistaken.
There is a passage in the Chronicle of History that reads:
"And Xiang Liang duhuai, believing in the sword from it, living under his command, and not being known. Xiang Liang was defeated, and it belonged to Xiang Yu, and Yu thought that langzhong was langzhong. Count the number of dry xiangyu, feathers do not use. ”
In various film and television dramas, everyone is accustomed to interpreting it as a small soldier who is responsible for standing guard outside Xiang Yu's tent. But in fact, the position of Lang Zhong is similar to what we now call the position of staff officer.
Although the staff officer did not have the power to actually command the army to fight, Han Xin's role as a staff officer at Xiang Yu's side meant that Han Xin had entered the core of Xiang Yu's power. It should be known that Ji Bu, who later submitted to Liu Bang, and Lou Jing, who offered Liu Bang to move the capital to Chang'an, all of them received official positions in Langzhong.
There were also Uncle Tian and Meng Shu who risked extinction and accompanied King Zhao into Guanzhong. In the end, king Zhao gave them the position of a langzhong, which shows that the position in this lang is not low!
In fact, it was precisely because Han Xin had already entered the core of Xiang Yu's power that he was able to form a good friend with Zhong Liming, otherwise, if Han Xin was really just a small soldier who was responsible for standing guard outside Xiang Yu's tent, and Zhong Liming was a general under Xiang Yu's command, how could the two of them form good friends? Zhong Li was afraid that he wouldn't even look at Han Xin with his eyes!
Of course, if Han Xinzhen was just a small soldier who was responsible for standing guard outside Xiang Yu's tent, what qualifications did he have to make suggestions directly to Xiang Yu many times. As long as we can understand this, we should be able to understand that Xiang Yu did not have the so-called lack of attention to Han Xin, and he let Han Xin take the position of Lang Zhong, which is definitely worthy of appreciation for Han Xin.
At that time, Xiang Yu was one of the most powerful princes in the world; at that time, Han Xin had neither a prominent family background, nor a resume and qualifications, nor did he gather a group of younger brothers to join Xiang Yu, as for the achievements and merits, there was none, and even the personal ability to single out was relatively average, and he also carried the name of a coward who climbed under the crotch of others.
However, it is such a person, after entering the Xiang Yu Group for more than a year, he has become a staff officer around Xiang Yu, entered the core of Xiang Yu's power, and is equivalent to entering the channel where it is easiest to get promoted.
In the face of such a result, if put into reality, it is equivalent to a person with no family background, education, resume and qualifications, after entering the Ali Group for a year, directly becoming a senior assistant next to Ma Yun, and can talk directly with Ma Yun at any time.
However, for a person like Han Xin whose heart is higher than the sky, he naturally does not feel that this is nothing, because Han Xin is very confident in his talent and feels that he is the leader of the three armies.
In other words, Han Xin felt that he was a person who could be directly the general manager, and even if he was not at the level of the president of the business department, he naturally felt that Xiang Yu only let him be a senior assistant, which was not important to himself, so he directly defected to Liu Bang in one breath.