From what points can we see that Xiang Yu is a "woman's benevolence"?

By Grace

Han Xin read the Biography of Historical Records of Huaiyin Hou earlier, and told Liu Bang that Xiang Yu was "masculine and feminine", both strong and weak. "Men's courage" is easy to understand, but what "women's benevolence" is, I don't quite understand.

Han Xin's words are like this: "When Wang Xiang saw people respect and love, he spoke out, and people were sick, crying and drinking, which made those who made meritorious deeds unbearable. This is the so-called woman's benevolence. " But "those who have been devastated, the world is resentful and the people are not attached to it, which is a special robbery of Wei Qiang's ear." Although the name is overbearing, it really loses the heart of the world. "At that time, I was young and confused. What's wrong with benevolence? Why is the benevolence of "woman" wrong? How can a person who cries because of the pain of others be a butcher? How can a loving person lose the heart of the world? In the end, it can only be summed up as: "kindness" is false, and Xiang Yu is simply a cruel person.

Later, I gradually realized that Xiang Yu's tears were not necessarily false. Human nature is strange. A person who mourns the death of a puppy or kitten may be a demon who kills people without blinking an eye. China culture has always lacked universal reverence for life itself, and it is easier to determine the value of life by likes and dislikes. Xiang Yu was born in a noble family, and was brought up by the education of "stay at a respectful distance from others and spit it out" from an early age. "People with diseases can eat and drink separately" and "everything goes wrong" are not contradictory. Zhang Han, the general of the Qin Dynasty, asked for surrender. "See Xiang Yu cry, think of Zhao Gao", Xiang Yu spared his opponent with grace. He also made him King Yong, but when he heard that surrender might be a rebellion, he did not hesitate to listen to the advice of his subordinates, "attacking more than 200 thousand Qin soldiers at night." According to logic, 200,000 people have been pitted, so it would be easier to kill Zhang Han and the three of them. But Xiang Yu didn't. He still treats them well and takes them into the customs. He thought it was the same kind, and Qin did not tell fortune all his life.

Xiang Yu is a noble man and a gentleman. You can bully him. If you make rules with him, he will faint. At the hongmen banquet, it was not difficult for xiang yu to let liu bang go. It is a shame that he killed people at the banquet. Liu bang is a ruffian rogue. He wants the world, not the face. Xiang Yu seized Lao Zi Liu Bang and threatened that "I will cook too much now". Liu Bang said: "Xiang Yu and I are both brothers under orders from the North, and if I am an Weng, I will cook Weng and have the honor to share a piece of it." Liu Bang can be said to understand Xiang Yu's aristocratic temper, but Xiang Yu does not understand Liu Bang's rogue thinking. He fainted again. He didn't kill the squire. Not only that, once the agreed gap is bounded, "it belongs to Hanwang's parents and wife", thinking that everyone will live happily ever after. As for Liu Bang, as soon as his wife came back, she immediately broke the contract and attacked the Chu army. This is another miscalculation caused by the typical attack of Xiang Yu's "woman's benevolence"

Although a guy like Xiang Bo has ulterior motives, this statement is true: threatening Liu Bang with his family's life is useless. He ran faster when he was running for his life, and he was able to push the child out of the car several times by himself. However, Liu Bangjin entered Chang 'an, but he knew how to pacify the people by "three chapters of the law". He who wins the world also knows that "he shares interest with the people." This is by no means that he loves the people more than his son, but the choice of maximizing interests.

Let's take a look at the middle paragraph of Sun Tzu's The Art of War and the Biography of Wu Qi, which will be better understood:

Starting from the general, you have as much food and clothing as the bottom foot soldiers. Lying without sitting, walking without riding, fighting for food with relatives and sharing pains with foot soldiers. If a pawn is sick and gangrenous, he is sucking. Mother cried when she heard this. The man said, "I am a pawn, and the general sucks his gangrene." Why are you crying? " Mother said, "No, it isn't. A few years ago, Wu Gong sucked his father, but his father didn't fight immediately and died in the hands of the enemy. Wu took another bite of his son and didn't know where he died. Just cry. "

Wuqi is not a "benevolent". After her mother died, she couldn't go home because she could kill her wife to lead the troops. He sucked gangrene for soldiers, and seemed to care for his subordinates just like Xiang Yu's "crying". In fact, Xiang Yu cried in vain, and he was reluctant to reward his work, which caused resentment. How can this little kindness be appeased? The mother of foot soldiers, with the wisdom of growing up in blood and tears, understands that Wuqi's gangrene is not a waste, but a life to pay.

The essence of Confucianism lies in "courtesy" and "benevolence". "Rite" is the institutional framework and "benevolence" is the spiritual core. For those in power, "benevolence" is not only the feeling of "benevolence", but also the art of "benevolent governance". "Benevolence" is used to buy people's hearts, and it is worthless if you can't buy people's hearts. If you get the wrong idea and talk about "benevolence" in a daze, that's bad. Xiang Yu's mistake is not "benevolence", but that he did not turn this "benevolence" into political advantage, so he was called "woman's benevolence". In the end, I only ended up shouting "God will kill me" by the Wujiang River and hated myself.

Looking through history books, there is an interesting phenomenon. The heirs of the so-called wise monarch (especially the founding king) are mostly weak. Apart from genetic and environmental factors, a monarch who wins the world once often asks a scholar to be a teacher for his successor in order to show that he does not win the world once. If you teach, you will "not teach well" and become "respectful and loving". In the wise monarch himself, he knows exactly how the world came from. "Benevolence" is for most audiences. It's not good if you believe it alone. How can you not be angry when you see your son being taught to be stupid? This is why Ying Zheng doesn't like Fu Su, Liu Bang can't stand Liu Ying, and Liu Che hates the criminal prince. When Liu was a prince, he said in a conversation that his father's punishment was too deep and he wanted to use Confucian scholars. Xuan Di changed his face and said, "The Han family has its own system, which is based on the hegemony of Taoism. Why should moral education be used instead of Zhou politics? " He severely reprimanded the Confucian scholars and lamented: "The prince is also a mess in my family!" -It's clear. This is not the fault of Confucianism, but the fault of Confucian scholars. Political rule, coupled with punishment, is indispensable.

However, on the other hand, in the absence of an effective restraint mechanism, social stability depends on the ruler's concept of governing the country. Implementing "benevolent government", regardless of its motivation, is a concession to the ruled, and relatively speaking, the people get more benefits. Even if Liu Bang is a rogue and Xiang Yu is a noble, it is better than Xiang Yu falling into Liu Bang's hands. Tai Shigong knows this well, so in character, he faintly praised Xiang Yu; But to rule the world, he thinks Liu Bangqiang is better.