The moon is bright and the stars are sparse,

The stream flows gurglingly,

Crickets chirp.

The drunk Liu Bang leaned on a stone, burping from time to time. He wanted to compose a poem to this beautiful scenery, but he didn't have much ink in his stomach, and he was a little restless. After thinking for a long time, he didn't think about it.

Then he thought of his beloved wife and young son, as well as the wine sellers Wang and Wu, and his mistress Cao. Liu Bang sighed in his heart: How did I end up in this situation?

Let us explain it carefully.

After marriage, Liu Bang, the pavilion chief of Surabaya, finally enjoyed the warmth of his own family. However, there is a saying in the officialdom: If you are not comfortable on a job, you should not be a job if you are comfortable. You cannot always have a free meal if you receive a salary from the country. On this day, the task came:

According to the imperial decree, Peixian County gathered together the prisoners who were sent to Xianyang to build the Lishan Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, and asked Liu Bang to be responsible for the escort task.

At that time, the task of escorting prisoners was no longer easy to do. After unifying the Central Plains, Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, built Lishan Mausoleum, built Afang Palace, and carried out large-scale construction projects. There were no advanced engineering equipment in that era, and even iron was not widely used.

The work is all done on people's shoulders.

The Great Wall, the great project of ancient China.

Lishan Mausoleum, with a radius of more than 100 miles, was built from the time Qin Shihuang ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, and continued until his son Hu Hai ascended the throne. Finally, it was hastily ended due to the war. The terracotta warriors and horses in the burial pit alone are listed as one of the eight wonders of the world.

.Afang Palace was built since 212 BC and was not completed until the fall of the Qin Dynasty. If it were completed, it would be a miracle.

Which of these three major projects was not built with human lives? Yang Quan of the Three Kingdoms said in his book "The Theory of Physics": "The First Emperor of Qin sent Meng Tian to build the Great Wall, and the dead belong to each other." There was a song called "The Ballad of the Great Wall" in the Qin Dynasty.

folk song:

Be careful not to raise a boy when you give birth to a boy, and use your breasts to feed a girl when you give birth to a girl. Under the Great Wall, corpses look like pillars.

What this means is that if you give birth to a girl, you should feed her well, but if you give birth to a boy, don’t raise her. It will be in vain. Haven’t you seen the corpses of those strong men connected together under the Great Wall?

Although the death rate in the construction of Lishan Mausoleum and Afang Palace is not as high as that in the construction of the Great Wall, it is common for people to die from hard labor, death from illness, and being beaten to death. It is difficult to leave the homeland, it is difficult to leave your wife and children, and life and death are unpredictable.

Catching a young man is very scary

, often fled on the way to being escorted. If a strong man escapes, the person escorting him will have to take responsibility and be scolded, beaten, and punished. Therefore, the magistrate of Pei County sent Liu Bang to escort the young man this time, and he had absolutely no good intentions.

Maybe it's because of Lu Pheasant.

Therefore, after Liu Bang escorted the prisoners and set off, the prisoners took advantage of the opportunity to run away along the way. Before they had gone far, they were almost gone. Liu Bang thought to himself: Look at the situation, when we get to Xianyang, I will be the only one left.

How can I survive? It seems that I, the pavilion chief, have come to an end and have to flee for my life.

To escape, you have to be able to escape. Like the hard laborers who escaped before, fighting alone, a person cannot survive, and nine times out of ten he will be caught. If you want to escape, you need to bring a few more people, form a team, and find

A hilltop with favorable terrain is a mountain bandit.

So, Liu Bang rolled his eyes and came up with a plan.

That night, in Great Jersey, which is today the west of Feng County, Jiangsu Province, Liu Bang bought wine and food, and gathered the remaining dozens of people for a dinner. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Liu Bang stood up and preached:

"Fellow heroes, many people have fled along the way. You are the only one who is loyal enough not to leave me alone. Many people have already fled. Even if I take you to

Even if we leave Xianyang, we will not have a good life. In this case, let's just say goodbye here. You all run away quickly, and I have to escape for my life." As soon as Liu Bang spoke, everyone ran for their lives, and only a dozen people were willing to do so.

Follow Liu Bang. Liu Bang warmly won over these dozen people, added food and wine and continued drinking. After having enough food and wine, he traveled all night to find a place to stay.

At this moment, because he was not familiar with the road, Liu Bang sent a man to explore the road, while he leaned on the stone, sobering up and waiting for news.

At this time, the explorer ran back in a panic and reported: "It's impossible to go ahead. I went to explore the path and saw a python lying across the road. It was so thick and several feet long. If I hadn't discovered it earlier, I would have died.

It swallowed it up in one gulp. Let’s go another way!”

After hearing the description of the explorer, everyone became timid and advised Liu Bang to turn around and find another way.

There is a saying that drunkenness makes people cowardly. Liu Bang's courage is not small, but it is not that big. In normal times, if he heard that there was a giant python blocking the road ahead, Liu Bang would have stayed away. But at this time, with the help of drunkenness,

, Liu Bang became much more courageous: "It's worthless! How can a man be blocked by a snake? Look at me!"

After saying that, Liu Bang pulled out his sword with a clang and rushed out with crooked steps. Before he had gone far, there was a big python lying on the road. He probably had just eaten and was digesting. Liu Bang didn't

Give the python any chance

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, not caring about looking for the snake's head for a moment, he raised his sword and slashed hard at the snake's body, and the giant python was immediately cut into two pieces.

This was originally a trivial matter. But Liu Bang regarded this as his proud work. Later, someone made up a myth based on it:

It is said that after Liu Bang killed the snake, he continued to drive for several miles. He was so drunk that he lay on the ground and fell asleep. A dozen people who followed Liu Bang did not see Liu Bang come back, so they went to look for it together. When they found the place where Liu Bang killed the snake, they saw

An old lady was sitting there crying. Someone asked: "Why are you crying here?" The old lady cried and said: "Someone killed my son, can I stop crying?" Someone asked inquiringly.

: "What's going on, you

Tell us?" The old lady replied: "My son is not an ordinary person, he is the son of the White Emperor. Today he turned into a snake and blocked the road, but was killed by the Red Emperor's son!" Everyone thought the old lady was talking nonsense.

, and when they were about to reveal it, the old lady suddenly disappeared in front of everyone. Later, everyone found Liu Bang and told the story. From then on, Liu Bang became the son of the Red Emperor, and the people who followed him also called Liu Bang the son of the great god, and they became more and more awed.

Bai Di is one of the five ancient Chinese emperors, the leader of the Dongyi people, and the ancestor of the Chinese surname Ying and hundreds of other surnames such as Qin, Xu, Huang, Jiang, and Li. Some say that Bai Di is Shaohao. In short, he is a god.

The Red Emperor is Emperor Yan, one of the Five Ancient Emperors of China, one of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, and a god.

"Historical Records·Fengchan Book" records: "Gongsun Chen from Lu wrote a letter saying: 'The first Qin Dynasty obtained the virtue of water, and now the Han Dynasty has accepted it and passed it on. Then the Han Dynasty should have the virtue of earth, and the virtue of earth should be seen by Huanglong. It is appropriate to correct Shuo,

It is easy to dress and the color is yellow. 'At that time, the prime minister Zhang Cang was fond of law and calendar, and thought that the Han Dynasty

This is the beginning of the virtue of water, so the river breaks through the golden embankment, and its symbol is also. In the first ten months of winter, the color is black outside and red inside, which corresponds to virtue. As Gongsun Chen said, it is not true. Let it go. Three years later, Huanglong will be seen.

Emperor Wen then summoned his ministers, Gongsun, and his ministers, and worshiped him as a doctor, and changed the calendar and sex with the people."

There are various indications that Liu Bang's killing of snakes may be a historical fact, and a series of myths such as "the son of the White Emperor was killed by the son of the Red Emperor" are purely fabricated. What is recorded in the history books cannot be disbelieved, nor can it be fully believed. The origin of this legend

The origin is probably a rumor created by Liu Bang in collusion with others in order to increase his popularity and expand his team.

In later generations, people often say that "Gaozu killed the snake to revolt", which is not true. At this time, Liu Bang had only a dozen people, and they didn't even have the weapons. There was no rebellion at all. He just led a group of people to become bandits.

After Liu Bang became the king of the mountain, it is said that Qin Shihuang said that "there is an emperor's spirit in the southeast", so he often patrolled eastward, trying to suppress the emperor's spirit in the southeast with his own domineering spirit. Qin Shihuang went on a grand tour, and Liu Bang was afraid of being suppressed, so he took him with him

The team went to Mangdang Mountain (today's junction of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces) to fight guerrillas.

At that time, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and it was difficult for bandits to do business. It was rare to open a business. Liu Bang and others lived like savages. Thanks to Lu Pheasant who could bring something from time to time, everyone would not starve to death. Taking this opportunity, Liu Bang also

He had the leisure to spread rumors. Every time Lu Pheasant came back to visit relatives, he would always find the elusive Liu Bang. Liu Bang pretended to be surprised in front of everyone and asked: "How come you always find me?" Lu Pheasant also followed suit.

Play: "What's the difficulty? There are clouds in the sky where you live. I looked for you by looking at the clouds, and I found you." Looking for someone by looking at the clouds is nonsense. In fact, this is simply a collusion between Liu Bang and Lu Pheasant.

That's right. Others didn't know that this couple was pretending to be a ghost and thought it was true. Many people who were forced to live under harsh punishments had the idea that "it was really impossible to defect to Liu Ji and become a bandit."

Until this time, Liu Bang's eyes were still dark, he could see no way out, no hope. Anti-Qin? Liu Bang didn't have the courage. Been a bandit all the time? Hiding in Tibet, living in fear was really hard to live!

In the days when Liu Bang and his team hid in Mangdang Mountain to become bandits, the world outside the mountain became more and more exciting.

Qin Shihuang passed away and Qin II Hu Hai succeeded to the throne!

In 209 BC, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raised the rebel flag in Daze Township and were the first to eat the empire's crabs.

Sometimes, being first is not necessarily a good thing.

After all, if the first bird is shot, the first rafter will die first.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were desperate and took the lead in the uprising, and were eventually wiped out first. However, this uprising brought a turning point in the fate of the mountain king Liu Bang.

After the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, they successively attacked the city and set up the king's flag in Chen County. The nearby counties and counties "had suffered from the Qin Dynasty for a long time" and killed officials and rebelled in response to Chen Sheng. The uprising momentum was in full swing. The jurisdiction was on the edge of Zhang Chu's regime.

The magistrate of Pei County was panicked.

Assemble soldiers to resist Zhang Chu? As a mere county magistrate, even if you recruit a group of local warriors, you will not be able to get all the weapons, let alone the number of soldiers. Serving the country with loyalty? After all the hardships, the only way to die is to die. The county magistrate has no intention of setting up a trap for the Qin Dynasty.

After much deliberation, the county magistrate thought that Pei County should be surrendered to Chen Sheng and that he should get through this first.

Surrender is not decided by the county magistrate alone. Even though he is the biggest magistrate in Pei County, none of his subordinates agree to surrender.

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Even if he surrendered, he could not. Therefore, the county magistrate called in Xiao He, the meritorious officer, and Cao Shen, the criminal officer. Both of them were well-spoken in the county and very popular. The county magistrate first made a speech: "In order to make this official

"The county will be saved from the suffering of war and we will bring Pei County to surrender", and then democratically solicit the opinions of Xiao He and Cao Shen.

Xiao He and Cao Shen have long been worried about this matter. After all, they are also prominent officials in the county, and they are bureaucrats in the eyes of the people. If they resist to the end, the people will never be polite to them. The county magistrate has been silent, and the two

People have been anxious for a long time. After hearing what the county magistrate said today, the two of them thought: It turns out that you are also afraid of death, and it is difficult for you to hold on for so many days.

Xiao He was more loyal. He had known for a long time that Liu Bang went to the mountains to become a bandit, and he wanted to take this opportunity to bring Liu Bang back. So Xiao He stepped forward and bowed his hands, saluted, and said to the county magistrate slowly: "Sir, Pei County is so big.

If there is not enough space for everyone to eat, you will definitely not be able to resist, and you will definitely have to submit. But my lord, you are an official appointed by the imperial court.

, now if you take the lead and lead the children of Peixian County to join Zhang Chu, I am afraid that no one can trust you. I suggest that you find the people who have fled from this county and form a team. It is estimated that there will be hundreds of people. Let's

Use this group of people as a deterrent, and you won't be afraid that everyone will not listen to you." Cao Shen always followed Xiao He's lead and immediately spoke to express his agreement with Xiao He's opinions.

The county magistrate thought about it and thought it made sense, so he immediately adopted it. Xiao He had always been in contact with Liu Bang, and the liaison officer was Fan Kuai. Fan Kuai was originally a dog meat seller, and had a close relationship with Liu Bang. He became Liu Bang's brother-in-law, and later followed Liu Bang in Mang.

Dangshan was a bandit and often traveled between Pei County and Mangdang Mountain. Xiao He quickly found Fan Kuai and asked him to quickly ask Liu Bang to bring people to take over Peixian County. Liu Bang was so excited that he burst into tears when he heard the news. Who would have thought that such a good thing would happen to him?

On!

Liu Bang quickly gathered his men and went straight to Pei County.

Let's talk about Peixian County. Fan Kuai just left, and the magistrate of Peixian County thought again: No! Will Liu Bang listen to me when he comes? If Liu Bang doesn't listen to me, there is nothing I can do! Even the Six Kingdoms of Qin Dynasty were destroyed.

, what can little Zhang Chu do? As soon as the imperial army arrived, Zhang Chu was instantly defeated. Wouldn't surrendering to Zhang Chu be a death wish? After thinking about it, I still felt that I couldn't resist!
To be continued...