In 197 BC, Chen Xi, the prime minister of the 1st generation, publicly treason, and Liu Bang, personally led his troops to quell the rebellion.
Before going to suppress the rebellion, Liu Bang asked Han Xin to go with him, but Han Xin pretended to be sick and turned it off. Moreover, after Han Xin rejected Liu Bang, he secretly sent someone to find Chen Xi and got in touch with Chen Xi.
At the same time, Han Xin and his retainers also began to act. Han Xin falsely passed orders and released all the criminals detained in the prison, and then organized these people and formed an army before dying to attack the palace.
After all this was ready, Han Xin began to lie down, waiting for news from Chen Xi. As long as Chen Xi raised an army, Han Xin would immediately raise an uprising in the capital at the same time, controlling the capital in one fell swoop, and completely destroying Liu Bang's old nest.
Unfortunately, Han Xin did not wait for Chen Xi to send someone to send the message, but waited for the invitation from Lu Zhi .
At that time, Chen Xi and Liu Bang had already started fighting, and before Han Xin could raise an army, he received a summoning order from Lu Zhi. Lu Zhi summoned Han Xin to the palace at that time. Han Xin knew that Lu Zhi must have no good intentions, so she didn't plan to go.
But what Han Xin didn't expect was that Xiao He was coming. Xiao He was a lobbyist for Lu Zhi and advised him to enter the palace as soon as possible. Xiao He was kind to Han Xin, and the relationship between the two has always been good, so Han Xin trusted Xiao He very much and did not realize that Xiao He would help Lu Zhi lie to him. Due to Xiao He's feelings, Han Xin was really hard to refuse, so he had to go to the palace with Xiao He in the end.
As a result, Han Xin's front foot just entered the palace, he was taken by the warrior under Empress Lu . Only then did Han Xin realize that Xiao He had lied to him, and Empress Lu really wanted to kill him. But at this time, Han Xin was alone in the palace and had already been unable to make a comeback. Before his death, Han Xin could only sigh with emotion, "I regret not listening to Kuai Tong , but was deceived by a woman. Is this God's will?"
After saying this, there was no dramatic change, and Han Xin was directly executed by Empress Lu. After Han Xin's death, Empress Lü directly ordered the killing of Han Xin's three tribes.
This is the final outcome of the soldier immortal Han Xin in history. At least, this is recorded in official history.
History books do record Han Xin's death very clearly. From the reason why Han Xin planned to launch a rebellion, Han Xin entered the palace, and then to the words Han Xin said before his death, it seemed as if the historian was right next to him and saw it with his own eyes. But even so, there is still a lot of controversy over Han Xin's death in the future.
The controversy lies in who is the one who really decides to execute Han Xin? Is it Liu Bang or Empress Lü?
The most accepted statement in later generations is that Empress Lü killed Han Xin for Liu Bang and for Liu Bang. Because Liu Bang was afraid of Han Xin's military ability, Han Xin's contribution was too great and had reached the point where he was very successful.
Liu Bang was worried that he would not be able to control Han Xin in the future and did not want to bear the reputation of killing the heroes, so he instructed Empress Lu to kill Han Xin
But if we carefully ponder the specific process of Empress Lu killing Han Xin, we will find that there are actually many doubts about this matter. If Liu Bang really wanted to kill Han Xin, Han Xin should have been killed a long time ago and he would never have survived this time.
So, later some historians put forward another conjecture.
Is there another possibility: it is not Liu Bang who wants to kill Han Xin at all, but Lu Zhi. The conjecture of
is actually not groundless. Because for a long time, Liu Bang did not actually kill Han Xin. Even though Liu Bang had several chances before, he could kill Han Xin directly, he still did not kill him.
Why didn’t Liu Bang want to kill Han Xin?
In fact, after Liu Bang and Han Xin had a conflict, it was later when the world was first decided, Han Xin was demoted to Huaiyin Hou . Liu Bang had many opportunities to find excuses to execute Han Xin, but Liu Bang did not. In many cases, Liu Bang's reaction was very hesitant.
If a person really wants to kill another person, except for emergencies, he has been planning for a long time. If Liu Bang wants to kill Han Xin, he must be planned. If he plans to kill someone, he usually attacks him when the other party is not prepared.
However, when the world was settled, the conflict between Liu Bang and Han Xin had intensified.
In 201 BC, someone wrote a letter to Liu Bang, reporting Han Xin's rebellion. Liu Bang summoned the generals to discuss what to do. The generals unanimously gave the opinion that Han Xin would be killed directly. But when Liu Bang heard this opinion, his reaction was that he was silent.
If the opinions given by the generals were what Liu Bang wanted, then Liu Bang would execute without hesitation and think about how to kill Han Xin next.
Later, at Han Ping's suggestion, Liu Bang pretended to inspect Yunmengze . When he reached the western border of Chu State , he summoned the princes to meet and sent warriors to take Han Xin down.
Before Liu Bang arrived in Chu, he sent someone to inform Han Xin to come and meet. At that time, there was a conflict between Liu Bang and Han Xin, and Han Xin was also worried that Liu Bang would come to deal with him.
So Han Xin wanted to rebel at that time. At that time, Han Xin had troops and food and supplies. If Han Xin wanted to raise an army, Liu Bang would not be able to defeat him at all.
But Han Xin always had a glimmer of hope for his lord, hoping that Liu Bang could make Han Xin a happy and vain king in his own vassal state. Therefore, in order to gain Liu Bang's trust, Han Xin killed Zhong Limei, the general under the former Xiang Yu , at the suggestion of his subordinates, to express his loyalty to Liu Bang.
But when Liu Bang arrived in Chu State, he saw Han Xin, without saying a word, and sent a warrior to arrest Han Xin. Han Xin felt that his passion had been fed to the dog at that time, and thought that Liu Bang wanted to kill him, so he said the classic saying "The birds are gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys are cooked."
After hearing this sentence, Liu Bang turned around and said to Han Xin, "Someone accused you of treason."
Liu Bang's words are very obvious, that is, it is not that I want to kill you, but that you are suspected of treason. Now I need you to think about me to prove that you have no intention of treason.
Then, Liu Bang did not kill Han Xin, but loaded Han Xin into the car and took him back to the capital to imprison him.
If Liu Bang wanted to kill him, how could he say such things to Han Xin? This obviously means that there is room for relief, or that Liu Bang didn't even want to kill Han Xin.
Moreover, if Liu Bang wanted to kill Han Xin, why did he bring Han Xin back to the capital? It's absolutely unnecessary!
Later, after Liu Bang returned to the capital, he indeed pardoned Han Xin, but only cut off Han Xin's throne, and demoted Han Xin to the Marquis of Huaiyin, allowing Han Xin to live in his fiefdom Huaiyin County.
Liu Bang first put Han Xin under house arrest and demoted Han Xin from King of Chu to Marquis of Huaiyin. At that time, Han Xin already understood Liu Bang's fear of him.
In this way, Han Xin's statement that he was not prepared for Liu Bang would not be valid. Han Xin was full of distrust of Liu Bang at this moment. Although Liu Bang pardoned Han Xin, Han Xin did not put his guard against Liu Bang.
When Han Xin said the words "The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook," Liu Bang heard Han Xin say this, and his reaction was silent at the time. This reaction was obviously a state of guilt and entanglement.
After all, Liu Bang's mental state at that time was that he didn't know what to do with Han Xin. Now that he beat Han Xin to the end, Liu Bang felt very guilty.
Liu Bang felt that he was the executioner who had taken off the grinding and killed the donkey.
Since Liu Bang wants to plan to kill Han Xin, and Han Xin’s current state is full of distrust and defense towards Liu Bang, if Liu Bang wants to attack him and kill Han Xin, he needs to appease Han Xin, but Liu Bang did not do so.
This time, the reason why Liu Bang demoted Han Xin to the Marquis of Huaiyin was that he sent troops without authorization. If Liu Bang wanted to kill Han Xin, he would have killed Han Xin long ago in the process.
From when Han Xin sent troops to fight Qi , Liu Bang began to be afraid of Han Xin, and later Han Xin asked for a leave of absence from the King of Qi. Liu Bang wanted to kill Han Xin at that time, but then he thought that with Han Xin's military ability, he had built most of the country for Liu Bang. Han Xin did make great contributions and deserved the position of King Qi.
Since Han Xin joined Liu Bang's command, Han Xin helped Liu Bang break out of Shu , defeated Handang , and decided to set up the Three Qins; conquer Wei , break Zhao , destroy Zhao , destroy Dai tide, persuade Yan tide to surrender, seize Qi, and finally killed Xiang Yu in Gaoxia tide . These contributions directly laid the foundation for Liu Bang's victory in the Chu-Han War.
For Liu Bang, Han Xin is undoubtedly a genius general. Without Han Xin's miraculous military talent, it would not seem so easy for Liu Bang to win the world.
But at the same time, it was this outstanding military ability that made Liu Bang feel the pressure of his great achievements. If Liu Bang was a hero and three gangs, then Han Xin's amazing talent was enough to stand out in the battle for hegemony between Chu and Han, and no one would have felt at ease with someone like Han Xin.
As the saying goes, "being arrogant with talent", how can a capable person fall under others?
But even so, Liu Bang did not think about killing Han Xin. First, there was no evidence of Han Xin's rebellion, and secondly, Han Xin's contribution was indeed quite significant.
Although Han Xin has this ability, he originally did not have this intention. It was just because he swayed left and right, listening to Kuai Tong's words, and insisting on being a loyal minister, which made himself in such a dilemma.
The reason why Liu Bang cut off Han Xin's position as the prince and king of the prince, demoted Han Xin to Huaiyin Marquis, and sent him to Huaiyin County was to make Han Xin unable to do anything else, so that he could sit firmly in peace, and he would not have to kill Han Xin, a great hero.
To put it bluntly, Liu Bang never wanted to kill Han Xin. The one who really wanted to kill Han Xin was Lu Zhi.
So why did Lu Zhi want to kill Han Xin?
The reason is very simple. Lu Zhi is very likely to want to win over Han Xin and let Han Xin join Lu Zhi's camp, but Han Xin refused. Lu Zhi was worried that Han Xin would come up stupidly, so she reported it to Liu Bang and her plan would be ruined, so she must kill Han Xin.
Why is it said that Lu Zhi wants to win over Han Xin?
There is one thing I don’t know if you have noticed, about Han Xin and Fan Kuai . We can analyze this matter carefully.
After Han Xin was demoted to the Marquis of Huaiyin by Liu Bang, he was very depressed. After all, as a general, he worked diligently to fight Liu Bang for many years. Now he has made contributions to the sky and has not received the reward he deserves. He was almost killed by his master. If anyone else would be depressed.
Han Xin is different from ordinary generals. His contribution is not comparable to Zhou Bo , Guanying , Fan Kuai and others. But now, Han Xin's official position is the same as these people, so Han Xin is depressed to death.
In Han Xin's opinion, Zhou Bo and Guan Ying are no different from reckless men, and are not on the same level as themselves. But if you change your thinking, you can't find a second person with Han Xin in , the Han Dynasty at that time.
Later, one day Han Xin was bored and decided to go out for a walk. After Han Xin went out, he thought about it and walked to Fan Kuai's doorstep.
Fan Kuai is the husband of Lu Zhi's sister and Liu Bang's brother-in-law. Now he has been named Wuyang Hou for his military merits. When Fan Kuai was in the army, he always respected Han Xin very much.So at this time, Han Xin thought that he was bored now and wanted to find someone to drink, so he might as well find Fan Kuai. After all, the two of them were both military people.
So, Han Xin came to Fan Kuai's doorstep. After passing the news from the guards at the door, Fan Kuai came out to greet Han Xin in person. But surprisingly, Fan Kuai gave Han Xin too much tribute next.
After seeing Han Kuai, Fan Kuai knelt down and said to Han Xin, "Welcome the king and visit the humble house of his ministers!"
Han Xin was a little surprised when he heard this, but in front of Fan Kuai's servant, Han Xin didn't say anything, but just followed Fan Kuai into his house silently.
Next, Han Xin said specifically at Fan Kuai's home, which was not recorded in history books, but the history books recorded that when Han Xin came out, he said self-deprecatingly, "Sheng was with Kuai and others."
The unreasonable point here is that Fan Kuai is now at the same level as Han Xin. It is impossible for Fan Kuai not to know that Han Xin was demoted to the Marquis of Huaiyin. So Fan Kuai is calling Han Xin the king, which is obviously unreasonable.
But if we change our thinking, we will find that this is actually very reasonable.
Suppose Han Xin and Fan Kuai come in, Han Xin asked Fan Kuai, Your Majesty has demoted me to the Marquis of Huaiyin, why are you still called the King?
Fan Kuai replied, "Lu Zhi asked me to win you over. After the matter is completed, it is no problem to split the earth and become a king." Han Xin understood in an instant, and then refused decisively, so he walked out of Fan Kuai's house and said to himself that I was actually mixed with someone like Fan Kuai. Is
reasonable? It's reasonable!
Although this story is roughly composed, the meaning is not wrong.
Simply put, it was possible that Lu Zhi sent Fan Kuai to join Han Xin at that time and promised Han Xin that after the matter was completed, he would give Han Envelope the king. In this way, it is reasonable for Fan Kuai to call Han Xin the king.
Fan Kuai As a core figure in the meritorious group, it is impossible for Fan Kuai to know that Han Xin was demoted to the Marquis of Huaiyin. However, because Liu Bang suspected Han Xin to rebel, Fan Kuai called Han Xin the "king" and praised Han Xin high.
Isn’t this obvious that Liu Bang is not taken seriously? This matter is enough to reflect. Fan Kuai is no longer in the same position as Liu Bang, and Fan Kuai has joined Lu Zhi's team.
Another thing is that why Han Xin went to chat with Fan Kuai? There is only one reason why Han Xin was invited by Fan Kuai.
So, from this story, we can see that Fan Kuai is most likely sent by Empress Lu to win over Han Xin. If Han Xin agrees, Empress Lu will entrust Han to the king in the future. If Han Xin does not agree, Empress Lü has to find a way to take advantage of the conflict between Liu Bang and Han Xin to kill someone by borrowing a knife to get rid of Han Xin.
So why did Lu Zhi win over Han Xin?
In fact, Lu Zhi has attracted more than Han Xin, but also Xiao He and Zhang Liang . Simply put, Empress Lü wanted to win over all the "Three Heroes of the First Han Dynasty" under her.
So why did Lu Zhi do this?
The reason is also very simple, because Lu Zhi knew that her husband Liu Bang was no longer in the same relationship with him at that time. Lu Zhi didn't care how many women her husband had, but Lu Zhi couldn't accept it if Liu Bang wanted to change the prince.
Lu Zhi was originally a daughter-in-law. She was married to the unknown Liu Bang by her father, Lu Taigong. She was like a phoenix falling into a grass nest. Lu Zhi is a lady from a wealthy family. She obeyed her parents' orders and married Liu Bang. She married her when she got married. With the Lu family's wealth, Lu Zhi would not have lived a bad life.
But unexpectedly, after Lu Zhi married Liu Bang, she suffered endless hardships. She not only had to take care of housework, take care of the elderly, teach her children, but also went to jail.
When Liu Bang was fighting outside, Lu Zhi was arrested by Xiang Yu. It can be said that Lu Zhi suffered this crime entirely because of Liu Bang, but Lu Zhi was a wise person, and she didn't say anything, enduring humiliation and taking into account the overall situation.
According to common sense, for women like Lu Zhi to do this level for their husband, they will definitely receive kindness from their husbands in the future. However, unexpectedly, after Lu Zhi came out of prison, Liu Bang had other women.
Lu Zhi knew that she was old and had a weaker sex, and she could not win back Liu Bang's heart. She didn't care about anything, but what Lu Zhi cared about was that Liu Bang wanted to change the prince because she loved other women.
Liu Bang conquered the country with the help of the Lu family. After suffering so much for Liu Bang, Liu Bang actually wanted to exclude Lu Zhi's son when he was dividing the cake. This was obviously an ungrateful rhythm.
Lu Zhi's father, Lu Taigong, married Lu Zhi to Liu Bang, that is, in order to get a share of the pie after Liu Bang became successful, so in the early stage of Liu Bang's difficult struggle, the Lu family was willing to help Liu Bang selflessly, contribute money and efforts, etc.
If Liu Bang really changes the prince, all the efforts of the Lu family will be in vain. This is something that the Lu family and Lu Zhi absolutely cannot tolerate.
So, in order to maintain the position of prince of Liu Ying , Empress Lu would want to go all out. It would be useless to ask for Liu Bang's method, so Lu Zhi planned to strengthen the strength of her camp, that is, to win over some supporters for Liu Ying.
So, Lu Zhi wanted to win over Han Xin, Xiao He and Zhang Liang, the "Three Heroes of the Early Han Dynasty".
In fact, Lu Zhi had already succeeded more than half of her success at that time, and she had successfully won Zhang Liang and Xiao He to join her camp.
Lu Zhi's proof that Zhang Liang won over Zhang Liang was that in the case of fighting for the throne, Zhang Liang gave Lu Zhi an idea and asked Lu Zhi to invite Shangshan Four Haos . So Lu Zhi invited the Four Elders of Shangshan for Liu Ying, and this idea directly made Liu Bang give up the idea of changing the prince. This attitude is enough to prove Zhang Liang's position.
And Lu Zhi wins over Xiao He's proof that Lu Zhi wants to kill Han Xin, Xiao He gives Lu Zhi an idea, and tricks Han Xin and helps Lu Zhi kill Han Xin.
Xiao He obeyed Lu Zhi so much, which is enough to prove that Xiao He has joined Lu Zhi's camp.
and other things actually prove indirectly that the reason why Lu Zhi killed Han Xin was because Han Xin refused to join Lu Zhi's camp. The reason why Han Xin refused to join Lu Zhi's camp was because of his disagreement of ideas.
In Han Xin's view, Lu Zhi asked herself to join his camp, which was a betrayal of Liu Bang; and Fan Kuai's joining Lu Zhi's camp was a betrayal of his monarch.
Han Xin might still be so loyal to Liu Bang at that time. He followed Liu Bang and never thought about betraying him. In the end, it was because of Liu Bang's fear and suspicion of Han Xin that Han Xin wanted to oppose Liu Bang.
When Fan Kuai came to Han Xin, Han Xin did not realize that he could no longer get the ending he wanted. At that time, in Han Xin's heart, he still didn't believe that Liu Bang would really kill him.
Han Xin believes that things have not been broken to that point. So there is no need to join Lu Zhi's camp, and there is no need to play those conspiracies. It is even possible that Han Xin temporarily formed an army at that time, not to oppose Liu Bang, but to guard against Lu Zhi's rebellion.
But unfortunately, Han Xin finally missed Xiao He. No matter what, he never expected that this man who followed Liu Bang for many years and introduced himself to Liu Bang would trick him into the butcher knife of Empress Lu.
. After Han Xin entered the palace, Lu Zhi naturally had to kill Han Xin in order to hide her true purpose.
