"What Tai Shigong wrote can also be false?" This is the first reaction of many people when they see this sentence. In their opinion, there is absolutely no falsehood in the historical records written by Sima Qian.
Even if there are some falsehoods, it is only because the time is too long and it is difficult to collect complete historical materials, so there are some errors. It is absolutely impossible for Tai Shigong to make falsehoods himself.
The history of the Chu-Han War for Hegemony is absolutely impossible to falsify, because the Chu-Han War for Hegemony was only more than 90 years ago from the time of Tai Shigong. There were very few people who experienced that era and lived until Sima Qian was born. .
Moreover, Sima Qian's grandfather Sima Xi was a person who came from that era.
At the same time, the Sima family has been historians for generations, and they have the habit of recording and preserving historical records. Sima Qian's father, Sima Tan, was Taishi Ling. Sima Qian was also trained according to Taishi Ling's standards since he was a child. In addition, Taishi Ling was qualified to contact All official materials of the Han Dynasty, as well as most of the documents classified as confidential.
It's hard to say what happened before the Han Dynasty, but Sima Qian was able to get the most authentic historical information about everything starting from when Liu Bang started his army, and there would never be any mistakes or omissions.
So no matter how you look at it, the content about the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony in the historical records cannot be wrong, let alone such a major event as the Chasm Peace Conference. There is absolutely no possibility of errors in the records, let alone what Xiang Liu Xu wrote. It was Xiang Yu who first proposed peace. At the same time, there was no agreement on the north and south boundaries. It was just an armistice agreement.
These are two completely different records, and with Liu Xu's study and seriousness in history, he should not make such a fatal mistake.
But in fact, it was precisely because Liu Xu was true to history that he wrote a historical plot that was completely opposite to that of Taishi Gong. Because based on the evidence currently available to the historians and the common sense of some people at the time, Taishi The gap between public writing and collegiality is actually very unreasonable.
First of all, the prerequisite for peace negotiations is that both parties have equal strength. No one is sure that they can completely defeat the other party, and then peace negotiations will be carried out. At the same time, it is usually the weaker party that initiates peace.
So what is the strength of both parties when the peace negotiation takes place?
Don't look at it. During the two-year war, Xiang Yu kept beating Liu Bang until he called him daddy, which showed that Liu Bang himself was extremely weak and incompetent.
But in fact, after the Chu-Han war began, Liu Bang had been confronting Xiang Yugang. It was he who led the army to block Xiang Yu in the Xingyang area, and it took two full years for Xiang Yu to break through the Xingyang defense line, let alone touch Liu Bang's body. The rear is closed.
Looking at it this way, both sides should be in military strength. But the problem is that Liu Bang is not only himself, he also has three allies: Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Yingbo.
Not to mention Han Xin, Liu Bang's own people, when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu were fighting head-on, Han Xin first took over the entire Wei State area, and then relied on the amazing strategy of a last-ditch battle to completely swallow up the entire Zhao State.
And after Liu Bang sent people to take away all the elites in Han Xin's hands, leaving only a few thousand old, weak, sick and disabled for Han Xin, he actually ate the Qi State. Han Xin completed the annexation of the Three Kingdoms by himself, and only It took less than a year.
Even if Qin Shihuang wanted to do this, it took him 5 years.
Peng Yue has been developing in the hinterland of Chu State, harassing Xiang Yu's logistics in various ways. Xiang Yu transports ten carts of grain and grass, and seven of them will be taken away by Peng Yue, or simply burned.
The reason why Xiang Yu was short of food was all due to Peng Yue.
In addition, there is another peerless fierce person, that is Guan Ying.
Guan Ying doesn't have any resounding stories in historical records, so many people don't know much about Guan Ying's achievements. But in fact, Guan Ying was a man who almost single-handedly destroyed the entire Xiang Yu Group except Xiang Yu. The fierce man.
Guan Ying initially fought under Han Xin. After Han Xin captured the entire Qi State, Xiang Yu appointed Xiang Tuo as the general, Zhou Lan as the sub-general, and Long Qie as the assistant general. He sent troops to rescue the Qi State, claiming that 200,000 people would go to support him. The Chu State was almost completely destroyed by Han Xin, and the one who made the greatest contribution was Guan Ying.
In the subsequent pursuit, Guan Ying's cavalry even killed Xiang Yu's number one general, Long Qie.
After that, Guan Ying acted alone under the orders of Han Xin, fighting in Xiang Yu's rear. He captured cities and territories along the way, occupying fifty or sixty cities in one go, completely cutting off Xiang Yu's Chu Kingdom from his rear area and Jiangdong. Lost.
Guan Ying's existence naturally made Xiang Yu extremely uncomfortable, but he was restrained by Liu Bang and unable to move, so he could only send out several generals under his command to destroy Guan Ying, but they were all defeated by Guan Ying.
It can be said that apart from Xiang Yu himself, no one under Xiang Yu is Guan Ying's opponent.
So when the two sides were about to negotiate a peace, Xiang Yu himself was actually in an extremely painful situation. First, his food and grass were cut off, and his soldiers were on the verge of starvation.
Secondly, the territory around him had been occupied by the Han army, and Xiang Yu only had a lonely Pengcheng and a small area around it.
Although the Huainan area in the rear area is still in Xiang Yu's hands, the communication between the two places has been cut off, and Xiang Yu cannot get any supplies from the Huainan area.
What's even more terrible is that at this time Liu Bang also sent back the former Jiujiang Wang Yingbu. This man gathered thousands of remnants in the Huainan area, and Yingbu was also very fierce. Without Xiang Yu's suppression, no one in the entire Huainan could stop him. his.
These situations are also recorded in the inscriptions in historical records. If you were Liu Bang, you would have compressed the opponent to the point of almost collapse. Although the opponent is a God of War, this God of War has not killed you for more than two years. Are you still afraid of this God of War?
Therefore, there is almost no reason for Liu Bang to initiate peace. When he has a huge advantage, is he still willing to let the tiger return to the mountain and divide the world equally with Xiang Yu?
This is the situation, and the specific content of the chasm peace negotiation is even more outrageous. According to Tai Shigong, the two sides are very simply bounded by the chasm, with one side belonging to Liu Bang and the other to Xiang Yu.
The outrageous thing about this agreement is that most of the territory in Xiang Yu's agreement was given to him by Liu Bangbai.
As mentioned before, Xiang Yu has been completely surrounded by Liu Bang's forces at this time. Among the territories planned in the collegial meeting, more than half of it is under Liu Bang's control at this time, and it is also the territory of Yingbu, Peng Yue and others. No matter how benevolent Liu Bang is, , and it is impossible to give his territory to Xiang Yu for free.
Even if we really want to draw a boundary, it would be to give Xiang Yu the territory he currently owns, so this territory division is outrageous.
To put it in a way that is easy for young people to understand, this is like Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fighting in Summoner's Canyon. At this time, not only did all the blue side's territory belong to Liu Bang, but the Highland Tower was also breached.
The top and bottom lanes on the red side already belong to Liu Bang.
The outer and middle towers in the middle are gone, and only one highland tower is still there, but it has lost its health.
The most outrageous thing is that Xiang Yu's own spring water is gone, and they can't even go back to the spring water to replenish blood. In this case, Liu Bang may withdraw all his troops and regain the entire red territory. Give it back to Xiang Yu?
And in the end, it is the reaction of the person after the agreement is reached.
Under normal circumstances, if the two parties have reached a contract and divided the territory, then they should send troops to guard various strategic points of their own territory. They must first defend their own territory and then seek development.
But Xiang Yu was different. Once the alliance was reached, he didn't want the land assigned to him at all. Instead, he led his troops to retreat all the way, without even considering the issue of sending troops to garrison strategic points.
In fact, according to Xiang Yu's marching route, he wanted to retreat all the way to Jiangdong and Huainan, because that is where Xiang Yu's true base is. Only there can Xiang Yu rest his army and obtain a large amount of resource supplies, because At this time, Xiang Yu's army really couldn't fight anymore.
But how could Xiang Yu be surrounded in Gaixia in the end and commit suicide on the edge of Wujiang River, which is only across the river from Jiangdong? His retreat was really blocked.
In addition, some other historical materials of the Han Dynasty have been discovered one after another. The historians have always believed that the records in Shiji are wrong. It is just because the reputation of Shiji is so famous that no one dares to really criticize the mistakes in Shiji. Only those who study history know this in their own hearts.
So the question is, why did Tai Shigong do such a thing and deliberately write the recorded history wrong? This is not in line with Tai Shigong's character!
First of all, the character of Tai Shigong was not as high-end as everyone imagined, and she did not have the idea of recording the true history. On the contrary, she completed the book with full of resentment.
As we all know, Sima Qian was punished by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, for helping Li Ling defend Li Ling. This was a punishment that completely exceeded the legal standards and almost cut off all Sima Qian's pride as a man.
He wrote very clearly in his letter to Ren An that the reason why he still lingers on until now is to complete his historical records.
In such a situation full of resentment, he naturally has no good impression of the Liu family.
Moreover, both the literary and historical circles have always believed that Historical Records is a work full of romanticism. It is far from being as rigorous and meticulous as later history books. It is full of many of his personal thoughts and inferences.
For example, there are many quite private conversations in the Historical Records, conversations that no one can know except the people involved, but they were all written down by Sima Qian. How much artistic processing do you think there is in them?
Also, Sima Qian himself was a very clear Xiang Yu chef. He praised Xiang Yu more than once in public, so what Tai Shigong wrote was not the historical Xiang Yu, but the perfect Xiang Yu in his heart.
Finally, there is another theory, that is, this historical record was actually modified by some people.
Historically, it was not published directly as soon as it was written, but was directly designated as a banned book. After all, it contained too many flaws of the old Liu family. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not allow this book to be published at all. This book has always been banned. Sima Qian's son-in-law's family was deeply hidden until a certain time traveler came to power, and historical records gradually spread among the people.
As for the time traveler who later seized the world of the Western Han Dynasty, no one knows whether he will make deletions or deletions in this historical record, blackmail the old Liu family and claim that he has replaced the Liu family's world.
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