Chapter 542: Productivity
"Being led to death because he trampled on the seedlings of the peasants, this garbage writer is a good irony!" When many readers saw this, they couldn't help but sigh that the design of the plot of the garbage author is still very in-depth.
The dignified overlord, the final defeat was because of the opponent Liu Bang, or the huge army, but a farmer who was trampled on by him, destroying agricultural production, or the root cause of Xiang Yu's failure.
And this is also the conclusion that Liu Xu came to after reading the history of the Chu and Han dynasties many times, and many scholars in later generations like to blame Xiang Yu's failure on not being good at employing people.
Just like the reason for Xiang Yu's failure expounded by Taishi Gong himself through Gaozu Benji.
The original text is like this
Gao Qi and Wang Ling said: "Your Majesty is slow and insulting, Xiang Yuren is benevolent and loving." However, His Majesty sent people to conquer the city and conquer the land, and those who descended were given it, and the benefit of the world was also shared. Xiang Yu is jealous of the virtuous and jealous, the meritorious ones harm him, the sages doubt it, he defeats it without merit, and he gets the land without benefiting others, so he loses the world. ”
Gao Zu said: "The public knows one, but the other is unknown. In the planning of the husband's plan, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, and I am not as good as the ovary. Town the country, care for the people, give wages, and keep the grain, I am not as good as Xiao He. Even an army of millions, the battle will be won, the attack must be taken, I am not as good as Han Xin. These three are all masterpieces, I can use them, so I take the world. Xiang Yu has a fan increase and can't use it, so he is captured by me. ”
Through this conversation, it can be seen that Taishi Gong attributed Xiang Yu's failure to Liu Bang's ability to share benefits with his subordinates, and he was very good at employing people, using Xiao He, Zhang Liang, and Han Xin very appropriately, and fully exerting their talents.
On the contrary, Xiang Yu only had one Fan Zeng, but he couldn't fully trust and use it, so Xiang Yu finally failed.
This description can actually show that Tai Shi Gong is carrying out his own artistic processing, after all, Liu Bang has become the emperor, and the two ministers actually dare to say that Liu Bang likes to insult people, but Xiang Yu is very benevolent to people like this, isn't this directly slapping Liu Bang in the face, how could these two make such a stupid mistake?
As for the problem of employing people, this is indeed an important reason for Xiang Yu's failure, but in Liu Xu's view, it is not the fundamental reason.
The real problem is that Xiang Yu neglected production and did not have any benevolence for ordinary people.
Because in the last two years of the Chu and Han hegemony, Xiang Yu was actually still the Xiang Yu who won all battles, Liu Bang was beaten by Xiang Yu several times and almost died on the spot, even Han Xin did not have the courage to face Xiang Yu head-on, and the battle personally commanded by Xiang Yu did not fail.
But Xiang Yu, who was invincible, became more and more difficult to fight, his territory became smaller and smaller, and his army became weaker and weaker.
Because Xiang Yu's food and grass supply is insufficient, although he has won a hundred battles, the various resources of the army are getting less and less, even if he wins, he cannot further pursue the enemy, after all, even if Xiang Yu fights head-on, no matter how fierce he is, in the face of Liu Bang, who is bent on fleeing, it is impossible to catch him by himself.
Therefore, Xiang Yu's core problem is that there is no stable rear, and there are no stable people who can provide him with a steady stream of food and grass. Because Xiang Yu couldn't see these small people in his eyes, he didn't know how to accumulate people's strength and recuperate, he knew that he was fighting a vigorous war, and he was born with a desire for war, and he almost never issued any orders to restore economic production during his ruling career, and almost all his grain and grass were scavenged.
On the contrary, Liu Bang had a stable rear, and Xiao He helped him organize the resumption of production in the rear, so that he could continuously transport grain and grass to the front line, ensuring that Liu Bang never had the problem of lack of food, which made his army bigger and bigger.
There were many of Xiang Yu's soldiers who couldn't eat enough, so they turned to Liu Bang.
In Xiang Yu's eyes, there were no ordinary people at all, and there was no peasant class at all, and if he did not attach importance to the development of productive forces, he would naturally not be able to finally unify the world.
So when readers saw the plot of this peasant deliberately pointing out the wrong way, coupled with Liu Xu's description of many plots in which Xiang Yu did not attach importance to agricultural production, many readers were moved, and then thought of the dilemma that they couldn't even eat, and they had a further understanding of the connotation of this book, and they began to realize the root cause of Xiang Yu's failure.
But after thinking about this, the reader's emotions naturally become more complicated.
At the same time, there are some readers whose thinking is more scattered, and they can't help but think of another Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and think of the same classic plot of Cao Cao's hair cutting and acting as the head.
Cao Cao gave the order to trample on the farmland to die during the march, but as a result, Cao Cao's own war horse was frightened and rushed into the farmland, trampling on many seedlings, committing Cao Cao's own capital crime.
So a plot that can reflect Cao Cao's hypocritical character in history happened, that is, Cao Cao pretended to cut off his own hair to replace the head, indicating that he had killed himself once, this is the famous plot of cutting his hair and acting as the head.
At that time, these readers only felt that Cao Cao was hypocritical when they saw this plot, but when they saw Xiang Yu's plot today, everyone naturally had a new understanding in their hearts and understood the important meaning behind this plot.
"It turns out that Cao Cao learned the lesson of Xiang Yu!" Many people sighed in their hearts.
However, these can be put aside for the time being, everyone still can't wait to read the following chapters, and then they see Xiang Yu exerting his last heroic force, even if he is surrounded by ten thousand armies, he can kill the enemies scattered and scattered, and kill hundreds of people with his own strength.
But although Xiang Yu was fierce, he couldn't stop the most loyal knights around him from falling, Liu Xu used two chapters to describe how Xiang Yu saw his last knights die tragically on the battlefield in the fight all the way.
So when Xiang Yu came to the edge of the Wujiang River that he was destined for, he saw the Wujiang Pavilion Chief who came to pick him up from the Wujiang River with a small boat and went to Jiangdong to make a comeback.
Xiang Yu remembered the last dozen knights who followed him, but could only die because of him one by one, and sighed, "I am dead in the sky, how can I do it!" And with 8,000 people from Jiangdong crossing the river to the west, no one has returned today, and the father and brother of Jiangdong have mercy on me, how can I see it? Even if he doesn't say it, is he worthy of his heart? ”
Xiang Yu, who was worthy of his heart, no longer had the idea of living, but when he saw the black horse that was still thinking under him, Xiang Yu turned over and dismounted very simply, and at the same time said to the Wujiang Pavilion Chief, "Old Pavilion Chief, you are old, you must need a horse to travel." This black horse has been with me since I was a child, and is actually very docile, and can travel thousands of miles a day, while surviving with very little food. Today I will give you this horse, please let him go to Jiangdong with you, so that he can live! ”
Seeing this, the hearts of many readers could no longer hold back, and many readers cried out with a wow.
"My overlord, is your last tenderness here?"
(End of chapter)