Li Qingzhao has a poem called: "Still thinking about Xiang Yu, I refuse to cross Jiangdong." As a loser, Xiang Yu is undoubtedly the most successful loser in history, until more than 1,000 years later, the beautiful woman Li Qingzhao still misses him, and there is no one in history except him. However, Xiang Yu also has his own shortcomings, such as he likes to slaughter the city to show off his strength, suspicious and lack of strategy, so history finally chose Liu Bang instead of Xiang Yu.
Comparing the identities of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, we can find that the difference between the two is very large. Xiang Yu was born into the nobility of the Chu State, and once he came to the world, he had a different bloodline. According to historical records, Xiang Yu was "able to carry the crown" when he was young. However, Liu Bang is different, he was born poor, the family is honestly farming, as far as he is the least honest, eating, drinking, gambling and sampling, and often go to the widow's hotel to eat white rice - credit.
Although Xiang Yu is very great and just in comparison, Liu Bang is a complete rogue, but governing the country does not depend on the moral level of the individual. Liu Bang was born into poverty, and although he was debauched, he knew about the suffering of the people. In 202 BC, after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Xiao He built a very magnificent City for him, and Liu Bang began to scold people at that time: "This world is still so poor that even pants do not have to wear, you will do such a big project for me, do you want to exhaust the people?" ”
Therefore, in the early Han Dynasty, Liu Bang adopted a policy of resting with the people and letting the people live a good life. However, in comparison, Xiang Yu, who had once unified the world, did not have this realization, and he once again engaged in the division and feudal system, allowing the nobles of the Six Kingdoms to generally oppress and exploit the common people, and because of this, the world was once again plunged into war. At the same time, he also believes that people want to boast of their glory and wealth to others, saying: "Rich and noble do not return to their hometown, such as clothes embroidered at night, who knows!" ”
No wonder others commented: "People talk about monkeys and crown ears, sure enough." ”
In fact, Xiang Yu had always been far behind Liu Bang in terms of political wisdom, and because of his arrogance and conceit, Han Xin and Chen Ping, who were originally under his command, defected to Liu Bang, and Han Xin finally set up a ten-sided ambush in 202 BC to defeat the invincible Chu Overlord, and from then on the Chu-Han dispute finally ended with Han's victory, and Xiang Yu killed himself.
So, after Xiang Yu's death, how did Liu Bang treat Xiang Yu's people? Liu Bang also reflected his superb political skills here, according to Xiang Yu's character, he would slaughter the city and kill him cleanly. Because of this, Xiang Yu provoked fierce resistance from the people in many places. Therefore, Liu Bang did the opposite, and he rewarded the Xiangyu people with a large number of rewards and gave them the surname "Liu".
At that time, the Chu and Lu people still admired Xiang Yu very much and were very resistant to Liu Bang. However, after learning that Liu Bang treated Xiang Yu's people in this way, they all thanked Liu Bang for his kindness and submitted to Liu Bang with joy and sincerity, laying the foundation for the world to settle down again. Xiang Bo, who had saved Liu Bang's life at the Hongmen Banquet, was made a marquis by Liu Bang and continued to enjoy his treatment in the Chu State in the Han Dynasty.
However, the main body of the Han Dynasty was, after all, the county system, and later as soon as Xiang Bo died, the Han Dynasty found an opportunity to deprive Xiang Bo's descendants of their fiefdoms and became commoners from then on. This was certainly unfair to Xiang Bo, after all, this marquis position had been bought by him betraying his own nephew. But for the Han Dynasty, Xiang Bo could even betray his own nephews, let alone the Han Dynasty? For the common people of the Han Dynasty, they could have one less prince, and they had one less tax, which showed that the result of the "great joy of everyone" in the world.
48 years later, the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion occurred in the Han Dynasty, which was essentially a rebellion in the princely states. Fortunately, at this time, "kings with different surnames" like Xiang Bo were basically deceived by Liu Bang, and the world did not fall into great turmoil, and only then did people know the cleverness of Liu Bang's actions in those years.