Xiang Yu destroyed Qin and placed the eighteen princes, why didn t he call the emperor and the overl

The so-called Eighteen Princes are rebel armies that grew up in the process of opposing Qin, not Xiang Yuzhi, whether Xiang Yu seals these people or not, these people are regarded as independent forces, and they are not something that Xiang Yu can control.

After Xiang Yu destroyed the Qin State, he faced many problems, two of which were the most urgent:

1. After the destruction of Qin, will he be called emperor like Qin Shi Huang, or will he return to the state before Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms? Restoring political order in the late Warring States period?

2. How to deal with these anti-Qin princes of the Eighteen Routes?

In response to the first question, Xiang Yu's reaction was obvious, that is, he chose to return to the state before Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, and then make the next step.

Why is this happening?

We can't look at the political issues at that time from the perspective of today's open God, we know today that Qin Shi Huang's county system is the product of historical progress, in the era at that time, in addition to Qin Shi Huang, Li Si, Liu Bang and other very few people think so, most people, including the Qin Dynasty **** There are many people who oppose the actual county system and advocate the restoration of the sub-feudal system, including Qin Shi Huang's then prime minister Wang Juan, Dr. Chun Yuyue, etc., most of the Qin **** think that the sub-feudal system is better than the county system, not to mention these anti-Qin rebel armyAt that time, the dominant idea was to restore the feudal system, while the county system was a non-mainstream idea.

Xiang Yu was born in the late Warring States period, is the nobleman of the original Chu State, the grandson of the general Xiang Yan, Xiang Yu is more inclined to the feudal system regardless of public or private, Yu private, Qin killed his grandfather and clansmen, Yu Gong, Qin destroyed his country, ruined his aristocratic life, Xiang Yu will of course implement the feudal system, and at that time many people thought that the demise of the Qin State was caused by the county system, there was no feudal nobleman, no princes and kings came to Qinwang, and they were destroyed in such a short period of time.

Judging from Xiang Yu's series of actions, Xiang Yu did it on purpose, and he did it on purpose. Xiang Yu named himself the overlord of Western Chu, the meaning is obvious, that is, to restore the thinking of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, only the Spring and Autumn Period only has the title of overlord, as for whether he will unify the world and become the emperor in the future, I think Xiang Yu is taking one step at a time, because he is very young, he was only 26 years old at the time, and there is time to spend with these candidates. Therefore, it is to be the overlord first, and not the emperor for the time being.

Xiang Yu destroyed Qin and placed the eighteen princes, he was not called the emperor but the overlord, that was because Xiang Yu had no ambition to become an emperor, and he thought that he was very good at fighting and was suitable to be an overlord.

Because Xiang Yu was too proud, he thought that even if he was not the emperor, the other princes would not dare to rebel against him.

Because although Xiang Yu fought very bravely, he actually did not have the same ambition as Liu Bang, and he was even satisfied with dividing the world equally, so he did not claim the title of emperor.

Because Xiang Yu has no political acumen, he is just a military genius.

That is to say, which overlord he is, which overlord can start to write himself, and he must be able to abbreviate if he can abbreviate.

Strictly speaking,Xiang YuThere are two main reasons why he did not choose to be the emperor after the establishment of the regime, one is that Xiang Yu cannot directly claim the title of emperor without Wu Kongdan, and the other is that the princes from all walks of life are not of the same mind as Xiang Yu. In other words, even if Xiang Yu established a regime, he lacked the conditions to be the emperor.

1. Xiang Yu cannot be directly called the emperor

Because Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang used it when they raised their troopsKing Chu HuaiTherefore, if Xiang Yu is called emperor without the approval of King Chu Huai, it will only be a great rebellion in the eyes of others, and it will also make Xiang Yu lose the support of the people to a certain extent。This is because in the name of King Chu Huai, Xiang Yu is strictly speaking only a general who leads the army to kill the enemy, and King Chu Huai is the leader of the righteous army. Therefore, no matter how many feats Xiang Yu has made, and no matter whether he is the backbone in the actual sense, his identity can only be a subordinate of King Chu Huai.

Therefore, if Xiang Yu directly claims the emperor, then his throne will only be unjustifiable, and he will not be recognized by others, and it will be easy for the opponent to leave a handle to besiege him. It can be said that being subject to the name of King Chu Huai is one of the reasons why Xiang Yu cannot be called emperor.

Second, the princes from all walks of life and Xiang Yu are not of the same mind

Since the righteous army entered the cavity to harass Xianyang, all the princes and Xiang Yu are not of the same mind, after all, the other princes also have the intention of winning the world, so they naturally will not sit idly by and watch others ascend to the throne。Therefore, for Xiang Yu, if he directly becomes the emperor, then it will only attract the siege of princes from all walks of life, so that others will take advantage of it. So from this point of view, although Xiang Yu established a regime, he did not have the environment to be the emperor, at least it can be said that before he defeated the other princes, being the emperor would only bring harm to Xiang Yu, and could not make him truly an emperor.

Therefore, for Xiang Yu, not being the emperor is a wiser choice.

To sum up, there are two main reasons why Xiang Yu did not claim the title of emperor when he established the regime, one is that Xiang Yu cannot directly claim the title of emperor, and the other is that the princes from all walks of life are not of the same mind as Xiang Yu.

In 207 BC, the Qin Dynasty fell, Xiang Yu did not call himself "emperor", but chose to be the king, at that time Xiang Yu was the most powerful prince, and no one dared to oppose the emperor. Once when he saw Qin Shi Huang's carriage in Huiji, Xiang Yu, who was penniless, actually said arrogant words: "He can take his place", but in the end, after Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, established power, why didn't he call himself emperor?

Xiang Yu is a generation of overlords, but he is not sensitive to politics at all, and his family is a general of Chu, so when his uncle Xiang Liang rebelled, he used the king of Chu as a banner. Xiang Yu looked down on the King of Chu at all, and did not give the King of Chu the surface etiquette, which led to the escalation of the contradictory relationship between the Xiang family and the King of Chu Huai. Later, when the treaty of "the first to enter the customs is the king", let Liu Bang be the king, Xiang Yu actually killed the king of Chu in anger, to be honest, Xiang Yu didn't need to be angry at all, according to Xiang Yu was the strongest prince in the world at that time, because a king, bad morality, caused dissatisfaction in the world.

Because Xiang Yu's temperament was too small, he attacked Chang'an, destroyed it unscrupulously, burned down the palace, and killed the Qin soldiers.

He had no sense of security in Guanzhong, and he was afraid that the world he had just obtained would be taken away by the Qin people, so he divided the Qin land to the three ancestral marquis, while he returned to his hometown Pengcheng. He knew that Guanzhong was the best place for unification, but he still gave up, he once said that "the rich and noble do not return, such as brocade clothes at night", in fact, this sentence also makes sense, but it is not suitable to build the capital in Pengcheng on the plains of the four places, it is not suitable at all, through this incident, it can be seen that Xiang Yu is a person who is a little rich and peaceful. Moreover, Xiang Yu was backward in his thinking, and did not know that people needed to live and recuperate after the war, so he abandoned the imperial system and county system of the Qin State and restored the system of the Warring States Period, proving that he had a deep hatred with the Qin State.

Ideologically, the ideology that still remains in the period of the Six Kingdoms is backward and cannot compete with the tide of history, and sooner or later it will self-destruct. Therefore, he did not claim the title of emperor, but was the overlord of Western Chu as he wished. Politics is never casual, if you want to achieve supremacy, you must endure all kinds of constraints, but Xiang Yu does not have this awareness, he just wants to do what he wants to do, and he is doomed to not be the emperor.

All of his achievements were shoddy under a reign of terror suppressed by force, without an effective system to administer them. He can't be called emperor, not because of the outside world, but because he is ignorant. In the end, he killed himself by the Wujiang River.

Because Xiang Yu was very benevolent and righteous at that time, he didn't want to be the emperor, he thought that he should be kind to fight the world with himself.

Because Xiang Yu's own ability was limited at that time, and the princes of all parties also had certain abilities, he could only divide the princes.

The implementation of the sub-feudal system is required by the situation, and the demise of Qin is the common demise of the princes of the Eighteen Routes, and it is necessary to appease the people who have made meritorious contributions to the sub-feudal.

The reason is very simple, it is not feasible to directly deal with the person, Xiang Yu implemented a curve plan.

Due to the previous information, everyone has the illusion that Xiang Yu can be a talker at any time after entering Xianyang. Actually, that's not the case at all.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the aristocracy was accustomed to using a family model to the outside world, such as Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncles and nephews; The weaker Haoqiang likes to be in the form of brothers, such as Liu Bang, Xiao He, Cao Shen, Fan Hao and a group of people. It is also because of this that the Chu State under the name of King Chu Huai at that time was an alliance, and there was no absolute talker, after the misfortune of the original patriarch Xiang Liang, Xiang Yu dealt with Song Yi by working with the family, and cleaned up Zhang Han, nominally became the new patriarch, and also became the boss of the old Six Kingdoms aristocracy. With this identity, he can only do something similar to when King Wu of Zhou entered the dynasty, that is, to distribute benefits, instead of being a talker himself.

However, he also wants to be a talker, so the best way is to form his own advantage in the distribution and weaken others.

It was in accordance with this line of thought that Xiang Yu divided Qi and Qin into three, Zhao and Wei into two, directly incorporated Han, put Liu Bang in Hanzhong, and formed a constraint with Zhang Han, and placed Wang Ling in Nanyang, forming a delicate balance with Liu Bang, and there were a bunch of relatives and brothers around him.

This layout is full of wisdom, but people are not as good as heaven, and today's wonderful chess has become tomorrow's losing move.

Because he wanted to weaken the strength of the princes first, after all, their overall strength was stronger than his own, so he did not claim the title of emperor first.

Because after the fall of the Qin State at that time, Xiang Yu was very aware of the situation at that time, and if he was called emperor, he would definitely be strongly prevented, so he went to divide the princes.

Xiang Yu is very benevolent and righteous, he thinks that the princes have helped him, so he must reward them.

Because there were many princes around at that time, if they were called emperors, they would definitely become the target of the world, which was very difficult, so they did not become emperors.

Because Xiang Yu is very benevolent. thinks that he shouldn't be the emperor, and wants his brothers to be rewarded.

Because he thinks that his strength is not strong enough, he must use the method of dividing the feudal system to weaken the strength of the princes first.