《资治通鉴·汉纪》155-1｜历史记载什么情况会发生“人吃人”惨剧

Summary

This 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 episode continues from Hanji 154 by briefly recapping the 陈平 accusation thread, then using 白隐慧鹤 as a moral analogy for bearing false blame. The main Chu-Han sequence follows 魏豹’s renewed break from 刘邦, the fall of 废丘 and 章邯’s suicide, and the administrative consolidation of 关中 through commanderies. Its strongest contribution is the famine branch: war empties fields of labor, grain prices explode, extreme social order breaks down, and 任氏’s grain-hoarding fortune raises the question of how wealth survives in violent scarcity.

Key Claims

• The episode opens with the classic tactic “声东击西” and defines it as creating a visible direction of attack so the enemy misreads the real target.
• The source frames this tactic as a question for the next 韩信 operation against 魏豹, but the available transcript stops before narrating the full campaign.
• The episode recaps the end of the Chen Ping accusation thread and pairs it with the Hakuin story to emphasize composure under slander or misunderstanding.
• Wei Bao asks Liu Bang to let him return to West Wei to visit his sick mother, then seals Yellow River crossings and submits again to 项羽.
• The host records Wei Bao’s stated grievance as personal humiliation: he says Liu Bang treats and insults other lords and ministers like slaves.
• Han forces flood Feiqiu after a year-long siege; the defenders surrender, and Zhang Han commits suicide.
• After Feiqiu falls, the Han side fully pacifies the Yong territory and creates 中地郡, 北地郡, and 陇西郡.
• Guanzhong suffers a catastrophic famine: the source says rice reaches ten thousand coins per unit and that “人吃人” conditions appear.
• The host explains the famine through 战争抽空农业劳动力: Chu-Han mobilization pulls young labor out of fields, leaving land untilled and food supply broken.
• Liu Bang responds by letting Guanzhong people move toward 蜀郡 and 汉中 to survive.
• 任氏’s grain hoarding in 《史记·货殖列传》 becomes a case for 权力保护下的乱世囤粮: foresight alone may not explain why stores survive when violence and starvation are widespread.

Key Quotes

“声东击西” - the tactic used as the episode’s opening frame.

“一壶米竟然卖到了一万钱” - the source’s marker for Guanzhong grain-price collapse.

“我更愿意相信第一种可能” - the host’s view that Ren氏 probably had protection rather than merely operating under ordinary order.

Connections

• Hanji 154, 陈平, 道德诬陷焦点转移, and 白隐慧鹤 - recap and moral analogy around false accusation.
• 韩信, 多路佯动中央突破, 战场信息控制, and 诱敌离位 - the opening “声东击西” frame, kept source-scoped because the Wei Bao campaign has not yet unfolded in the transcript.
• Hanji 155-2 - direct continuation that supplies the full Han Xin crossing operation against Wei Bao.
• 魏豹, 刘邦, 项羽, and 实力重估式阵营转向 - renewed Wei Bao defection after earlier post-Pengcheng switching.
• 废丘, 章邯, 三秦压制, 中地郡, 北地郡, and 陇西郡 - final collapse of Zhang Han’s holdout and Han administrative consolidation.
• 关中, 战争抽空农业劳动力, War-Disaster Compounding, Famine Entitlement Failure, and 灾变中的文明退场 - famine, price spike, labor collapse, and breakdown of ordinary social restraints.
• 任氏, 《史记》, and 权力保护下的乱世囤粮 - grain hoarding, famine wealth, and the source’s inference about protection.

Contradictions

• No settled contradiction is recorded. The source explicitly leaves Han Xin’s specific “声东击西” execution against Wei Bao for a later segment, so this page records the tactic as setup rather than claiming the campaign details are already supplied here.