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随何 / Sui He

随何 / Sui He enters the wiki through Hanji 153 as the 刘邦-side envoy who volunteers after 张良’s 下邑画策 identifies 英布 as the most urgent defection target.

The episode keeps Sui He’s role at the point of departure. Liu Bang asks who can go to Jiujiang to persuade Ying Bu to rebel against 项羽 and delay Xiang Yu for several months; Sui He responds that he is willing to go. The source therefore introduces him as the operator who will turn a strategic design into a diplomatic mission, while leaving the result for a later episode.

Hanji 153 part 2 repeats the departure from Liu Bang’s crisis language. When Liu Bang complains that the people around him cannot plan major affairs, Sui He asks what he means; Liu Bang then names the Jiujiang mission, and Sui He volunteers. Liu Bang sends twenty people with him, making the diplomatic leg one concrete arm of the recovery effort while the army falls back toward 荥阳.

Sui He’s importance is not battlefield command but timing. After the 彭城之战, Liu Bang has lost public strength and many lords are changing sides under 实力重估式阵营转向. Sui He’s mission aims to reverse that momentum by exploiting the already damaged trust between Xiang Yu and Ying Bu.

Hanji 157 part 2 returns to Sui He as the next diplomatic thread after Han Xin’s northern success. The episode says Liu Bang’s earlier envoy has reached the Jiujiang route and frames the attempt to turn 英布 against 项羽 as one of the major diplomatic successes of the Chu-Han struggle, while leaving the detailed persuasion scene for the following installment.

Hanji 158 supplies that scene and makes Sui He’s method explicit. After being hosted at 九江国 for three days without seeing Ying Bu, he forces an audience by telling the grand steward that Ying Bu can execute him publicly if his argument is useless. In the meeting, Sui He first exposes the contradiction between Ying Bu’s claimed service to Chu and his earlier non-support of Xiang Yu, then recodes Chu’s strength as long-term strategic exposure.

The episode’s strongest addition is Sui He’s move from persuasion to commitment design. Once Ying Bu privately accepts Liu Bang’s proposal, Xiang Yu’s envoy arrives to demand troops; Sui He enters the audience, publicly declares that Jiujiang already belongs to Han, and urges Ying Bu to kill the Chu envoy. The source treats this as 断路式策反绑定: Sui He closes Ying Bu’s return route so the defection becomes a fact that Xiang Yu must answer.

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