As Xiang Yu's uncle, why didn't Xiang Bo help Xiang Yu and Liu Bang?

After the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, the general trend of the Central Plains changed from six countries' anti-Qin to Chu-Han rivalry. In this process, many legendary stories happened, among which the story of the Hongmen Banquet became a historical classic.

In this story, we have always wondered why, as Xiang Yu's uncle, Xiang Bo helped Liu Bang escape the plot against Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng before and after the Hongmen banquet. Judging from the traditional concept of relatives in China, this is very unreasonable.

Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng designed a plot against Liu Bang before and after the Hongmen Banquet, also for the benefit of Gu Xiang and Chu Army.

As the second person in Gu Xiang, Xiang Bo is the main vested interest. Why does he help his enemies instead? For thousands of years, historians of all ages have their own explanations. Let me also talk about my thoughts.

Personally, although Xiang Bo is the nephew of Xiang Yu, he is different from Xiang Yu in interest structure. As we all know, Xiang Yu later forced Chu Huaiwang and Xiong Xin to stand on their own feet as the overlord of Chu, and led the final enfeoffment of the six-nation allied forces.

He sealed eighteen governors such as Liu Bang, Zhang Han and Ying Bu, and restored the enfeoffment system of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains. Chu Huaiwang was honored as the righteous emperor by Xiang Yu, and his position was similar to that of the Zhou Emperor in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

This is obviously imitating the Eastern Zhou system, with Fang Bo as the leader of the princes to manage the world.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the so-called five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period was such a state. Among them, only Qi Huangong, Jin Wengong and Gou Jian, the King of Yue, had the status of Fangbo granted by the Zhou royal family and had the right to lead the princes.

In ancient times, "Bo" and "Ba" were interlinked, and the overlord of western Chu was essentially the king of Fang Bo of western Chu.

Xiong Xin, the overlord of Chu, is nominally Xiang Yu's master, but in essence he is Xiang Yu's puppet. Later, Xiang Yu ordered the execution of King Jiujiang.

However, judging from Xiang Yu's behavior, he was not willing to be the leader of Fangbo vassal, but had the same ambition as Qin Shihuang. Being honored as the overlord of the land of Chu is actually a last resort, and it is his excessive control over the power of the world before he became emperor.

The biggest obstacle for him to be king directly in Xianyang is Liu Bang. Therefore, Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng conspired to plot against Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet, which was an obstacle to eradicating the claim to the throne. In the process of protecting Liu Bang, Xiang Bo actually opposed Xiang Yu's claim to be the emperor.