Xiao He, Sean and Chen Ping are all-powerful figures in the history books at the end of Qin Dynasty and the beginning of Han Dynasty. When Sima Qian wrote Historical Records, he wrote Historical Records as Xiao Jia, Jia Jia and Premier Chen Jia respectively. Ban Gu's Hanshu basically inherited Sima Qian's account of the three people in Historical Records, but due to style reasons, it was placed in the ninth and tenth parts of Hanshu's biographies, and their evaluation was basically the same as that of Sima Qian.
Among Xiao, Zhang and Chen, Xiao He made outstanding contributions and was named the first hero of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bang. In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang made his subordinates work, and Xiao He made him the marquis of Yan, with a food city of 8,000. Facing the dissatisfaction of Cao Can and other military commanders, Liu Bang said to them, "You are at best a hunting dog chasing animals, and Xiao He is a hunter who points out where there are prey. Besides, only a few of you follow me, and Xiao He has dozens of family members following me, so his contribution is the greatest. " Even Cao Can, created by more than 70 people, only got the title of Pingyang Hou when it was enfeoffed, ranking below Xiao He. Shortly after Xiao He was enfeoffed as Hou, in order to reward Xiao He again, Liu Bang deliberately added 2,000 food cities and enfeoffed all Xiao's children. And give Xiao He the privilege of bringing a sword into the palace, shoes into the DPRK and honoring the saints. In the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, after Liu Bang heard that Xiao He and Lv Hou had killed Han Xin, he added 5,000 households to the food city in Xiao He again, whose position was worshipped by the Prime Minister, and sent a captain to lead 500 foot soldiers to protect Xiao He.
Liu Hou Sean followed Liu Bang from the secret help of the Hongmen Banquet. He used to be surrounded by Liu Bang, but he made little achievements. Later, due to his infirmity, he advised Liu Bang. He advised Liu Bang and Lv Hou on Chang 'an, Han Xin, Guling Huihou, Yongchi and Taiziyi. When heroes were enfeoffed in the sixth year of Han Dynasty, Liu Bang praised Sean for "strategizing and winning thousands of miles" and asked Sean to seal 30,000 households. Later, at Sean's insistence, he was named Liu Hou and a food city with 5,000 families.
Chen Ping, who was notorious for stealing eldest sister-in-law's gold scandal, had neither the same ancestry with Xiao He nor Liu Bang, nor the foundation of Sean's noble birth and ancestral asylum. He helped Liu Bang alienate Xiang Yu, which was entirely his business? He conspired with Fan Zeng and Yunmeng to frame Han Xin, and solved Deng Baizhi's siege with wisdom. , in the food city has been named Hu Hou, Qu Hou, five thousand households. After Liu Bang's death, Chen Ping continued to gain the trust of Lv Hou and assisted the young Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty. In the sixth year of Huidi (BC 189), he was promoted to the left and right prime ministers together with the imperial tomb. After his death, he took over Lushi together, made the king emperor and served as prime minister.
Xiao He, Sean and Chen Ping all made such contributions in the historical process of Chu-Han dispute and competing for the Central Plains. It is natural that their father respects their son and his son inherits their father's career. In the process of their own achievements, they also hope that their children and grandchildren can rely on the protection of their parents and enjoy the glory of the world. However, according to the records in the history books, the descendants of the three of them not only did not get the good news of the glory and noble salary obtained by their predecessors, but instead inherited the evil deeds and disasters of their predecessors, either losing their children or beheading them and abandoning the market, which made people who read history and ancient times lament. So what caused the descendants of the three of them to suffer evil? According to Records of Historical Records and Hanshu, Xiao He and Hehe spent their whole lives, but they devoted themselves to their master Liu Bang. Historians Sima Qian and Ban Gu are famous for their detailed and objective records. When they wrote history, they didn't collect any records about their crimes. The misfortune of the descendants of Xiao, Zhang and Chen seems to be an accident without cause. In fact, through historical narration, we can see that in the activities dedicated to Liu Bang, the three of them played different roles in the tragedy of Han Xin, the first hero of the Han Dynasty, and the three families were slaughtered, which created different degrees of bad karma and made their descendants suffer different forms and degrees of bad karma. Liu Bang's suspicion and murder of Han Xin began in the fourth year of Han Dynasty. At that time, Han Xin, who leveled Sanqin, went out of the well to destroy Zhao Yan and jointly destroyed Xiang Yu, which was already the most important force in the Chu-Han struggle. No matter which side he is on, which side is sure to win. It also has the strength to neither unite Han nor help Chu. With its great strength and influence, it conforms to the world's war-weariness, pacify Chu and other princes, and unify the world.
However, Han Xin has always been grateful to Liu Bang for "letting me ride in his car, wear his clothes and eat his delicious food", and thinks that he should uphold the loyalty that riding in someone else's car will bear his disaster, wearing other people's clothes will consider other people's worries, and eating other people's delicious food will die for others at a critical moment. In the face of lobbying by Wu She and Qi Kuai Tong, the special envoys of Xiang Yu, Han Xin did not fully realize Liu Bang's capricious and disloyal nature, nor did he realize the crisis he would fall into after helping Han destroy Chu. Therefore, he rejected Wu She's proposal to unite Xiang Yu to defeat Liu Han and divide the world into three parts. He rejected Qi Huangong's ingenious plan not to help Chu and Han dominate the world, and sent an envoy to see Liu Bang, saying, "Qi and Chu border on each other, and the folk customs are fierce and difficult to control." Liu bang was asked to seal himself as a false king of Qi.
After Han Xin's emissary told Liu Bang what Han Xin thought, Liu Bang flew into a rage in disbelief: "I was trapped today. I hope he will save me from morning till night, but now I want to seal the king myself. " As consultants, Sean and Chen Ping are very clear. This time, Han Xin, a powerful man, asked Liu Bang to enfeoffment himself as a false king of Qi, which in itself showed that Han Xin had no infidelity with Liu Bang. However, the two of them did not come forward to dispel Liu Bang's doubts. Instead, he held Liu Bang's foot and quietly attached it to Liu Bang's ear and said, "Hanwang has been trapped recently and is in a bad situation. How can Han Xin be forbidden to be king? " ! Why don't we give him what we don't have, make Han Xin king, and then be nice to him and control him, otherwise it will change. Knowing what Sean and Chen Ping meant, Liu Bang vowed: "If a gentleman is a vassal, he will be a real king, not a fake king!" So he sent Sean to Qi, conferred the title of King Han Xin, and then recruited soldiers from Han Xin to attack Xiang Yu. Since then, Liu Bang's doubts and suspicions about Han Xin have been strengthened. After the downfall of Xiang Yu, Liu Bang immediately transferred Han Xin from the State of Qi and made him King of Chu.
In the sixth year of Han Dynasty, Han Xin, the king of Chu, was accused of rebellion, and Liu Bang summoned the military commanders for questioning. The generals said, "Send troops to attack Han Xin at once and kill this vertical axis." Liu bang didn't speak. People retired, Liu asked. In fact, both Liu Bang and Chen Ping knew that Han Xin could not rebel. As a counselor, Chen Ping should at least ask Liu Bang to send someone to Chu for verification before making a decision. But Chen Ping knew that Liu Bang wanted to take the opportunity to clear Han Xin's confidant, so he asked Liu Bang, "Does anyone know that someone wrote a letter to Han Xin to rebel?" Liu Bang said, "No one knows." Chen Ping asked again: "Does Han Xin know that someone wrote about Han Xin's rebellion?" Liu Bang said, "Han Xin doesn't know either." Therefore, the situation that Chu was strong and weak, and Chu was doomed to failure was analyzed in detail, and Liu Bang made a dream to secretly seize Han Xin's intrigue. When Liu Bang arrived at the border of Chen Chu, Han Xin, who had an audience with Liu Bang alone, was arrested. Liu Bang also knew that Han Xin had no rebellion at all, so he was exempted from the crime of rebellion, reduced to Huaiyin Hou and brought to Chang 'an.
In the last ten years of the Han Dynasty, Chen Yi rebelled, Liu Bang led an army to make a personal expedition, and Han Xin did not follow because of illness. Meanwhile, a domestic slave was imprisoned by Han Xin because of his mistake. It is said that Han Xin wants to kill this domestic slave. So, the brother of the imprisoned slave went to Lv Hou to report to Han Xin that Han Xin intended to cheat and pardon the slaves of the officials in order to attack Lv Hou and the prince. Lv Hou quickly asked Xiao He who stayed in Chang 'an for advice. Smart Xiao He knew that Han Xin's report was not credible at all. Most likely to recover his brother's false accusation. The palace guarded by the body guard is also very safe, and the housekeeper slaves can't break it at all. However, he tried to recommend Han Xin to Liu Bang, and recovered Xiao He from Han Xin when Han Xin left Liu Bang. However, on the grounds of a slave's false accusation, he came up with Lv Hou's deadly plan to lure Han Xin into the palace and then kill Han Xin.
According to Xiao He's plan, the Emperors sent a letter from the palace, falsely claiming that someone had come to report Liu Bang, saying that the thief who rose up was dead, and invited his ministers to celebrate. After the imperial edict was issued, Xiao He went to Han Xin's residence to deceive Han Xin and said, "Although you are ill, you should come to congratulate you." Faithful and grateful, Han Xin, like a dream, rushed into the palace. Lv Hou let the samurai who had ambushed in advance bind Han Xin, killed Han Xin with a halberd in Changle Bell Room, and wiped out the three Han Xin families. A generation of heroes died tragically. After Han Xin's death, Xiao He and Zhang's retribution for Zhongliang followed. Xiao He died in the second year of Emperor Xiaohui of Han Dynasty. He worked hard all his life and got the title of Hou. This title was like a spell that brought disaster and began to convey disaster and misfortune to his descendants. Whoever accepts this title will be unlucky. According to Hanshu? The Biography of Xiao He and Cao Can records that after the death of Xiao He, the eldest son Lu Xiao was the first to inherit this title, and Xiao Lu, who attacked the title, had no children. Lv Hou, who listened to politics, could only make Xiao He's wife Yan Hou and Xiao He's youngest son Xiao Yan Zhu Yang Hou.
In the first year of filial piety, Xiao He's wife was exiled abroad, and Xiao Yan inherited the title of Yan Hou. Xiao Yan's life was short, and he died shortly after he succeeded to the title. After his death, his son Xiao Yi inherited the title of Yan Hou, but unfortunately Xiao Yi had no children. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty could only ask his younger brother to attack the knight, but soon after the knight attacked, he was relieved of his position as a knight for his crimes and was deported. When Han Jing succeeded to the throne, the Xiao He family had lost their children.
In the second year of Emperor Jingdi, Emperor Jingdi issued a special imperial edict, saying, "Xiao He, the Prime Minister, was a great hero in the era of Emperor Gaozu. He participated in world affairs, and now all his descendants are extinct. I am very sad. You can seal 2,000 households in Wuyang County to Xiao Jia, the grandson of Xiao Jia Yuanfang. After Xiao Jia's death, Xiao Jia's son Xiao Sheng inherited the title. Later, Xiao Sheng was exonerated. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court issued another imperial edict, looking for the descendants of Xiao everywhere, and finally found out that Xiao was the heir after the attack. After Xiao Qing's death, after searching hard, four people named Xiao were found in a short time, but they all excused their crimes. When follwed arrived, there was no one named Xiao, and Xiao's descendants were completely extinct.
For Han Xin's tragic death, Chen Ping's role is second only to Xiao He's, and later generations are also implicated in his betrayal of Zhongliang, suffering short life and bad luck. Chen Ping died in Xiaowen for two years and was posthumously presented. His knighthood was attacked by his son Chen Mai, who died two years later, and by his son Chen Hui. In the 23rd year of Xiaowen, Chen Hui died, and Michael Chen, the son of Chen Hui, attacked him. In the year of the attack, Chen He was beheaded and abandoned for robbing and raping other people's wives, and his title was abolished. By the time of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Zhang Chen, Chen Ping's great grandson, was just a small incident. After marrying Wei Xiaoer, the wife of Wei Ruyun, Zhang Chen always wanted to take advantage of his relationship with the queen to inherit the title left by Chen Ping, but in the end he failed. Once famous and respected, Chen Ping and his descendants disappeared as civilians in the long river of history.
The best is Sean, who followed Liu Bang in his early years. Later, due to illness, he advised Liu Bang. At the Hongmen banquet, with Chang 'an as the capital, some suggestions were put forward, such as the Guiling of Guling, the enfeoffment of Prince Yi in Yongchu, Liu Bang and Lv Hou, and most of them were adopted. After the downfall of Xiang Yu, I don't know whether it was because of physical illness or real work, and the beast was hidden in the bow. Sean spent most of his time away from the world, learning the art of guarding the valley and being convinced. After his death, his son Zhang Buyi attacked the Lord, Emperor Xiaowen for five years, and Liu Hou Zhang Buyi was spared because of disrespect. In this way, Sean's descendants disappeared in the historical records. According to unofficial history's records, Sean and Zhang Yi studied with Red Pine Son and fled into the valley to become immortals. That's another story.
Chen Ping is famous for his historical skills. When he was alive, he predicted that his actions would inevitably hurt future generations. In his later years, Chen Ping once said to others, "I have been good at scheming all my life, which violates the taboos and commandments of Taoism. In this way, my life was ruined and the road to monasticism was cut off. Even my descendants will not prosper because of what I have done. These are all retribution for my past deception and tricks. "
The worst is Xiao He, who has been walking on thin ice for decades. Be cautious, simple and prudent, and be smart everywhere. In old age, in order to prevent future strongmen from robbing their children's property, they will definitely choose poor and remote places when buying land. He said to others: "if future generations are wise and can learn from my simplicity, life will be sustainable;" Future generations are immoral and will not be taken away by others because of the geographical location of the land, so the source of life for future generations will be broken. "However, to Xiao He's surprise, it is really a big evil to kill Han Xin himself by conspiracy. His own descendants not only don't have so many possessions to enjoy the title he left behind and the favor of the royal family, but also have to bear the retribution for the great evil he committed.
In times of war, regime change, or peace and prosperity, counselors and servants try their best to be their own masters, which is not criticized. People who can do this can often get the praise of the world and historians. However, in the process of being the master of their own house, no matter who gave up the basic judgment of right and wrong, good and evil, and went beyond the bottom line of ethics, no matter how much the world envied their power and wealth at that time; How can historians pour their calligraphy and flowers into their works and praise their great achievements, but natural punishment is bound to follow. -References: Historical Records by Sima Qian and Han Shu by Ban Gu.