《资治通鉴·汉纪》170｜刘邦为啥从洛阳搬家到长安（1）

Summary

This 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 episode follows Hanji 169 part 2 into 刘邦’s first post-unification political cleanup, even though the title previews the later capital-move question. It centers 田横’s island exile, forced summons, suicide, and retainer deaths, then turns to 季布’s pardon after 朱家 persuades 夏侯婴 to reframe former enemy service as loyalty. Its core synthesis is that founding order requires more than rewards and rites: Liu Bang must neutralize unreconciled losers, manage the moral afterlife of defeated elites, and decide which former enemies can be absorbed as public examples.

Key Claims

• Tian Heng flees to an island with more than five hundred followers after 彭越 becomes Liang king, because he fears Liu Bang and remains a potential 齐国 resistance center.
• Liu Bang sends envoys with pardon, title promises, and military threats, while ordering 郦商 not to harm Tian Heng despite Tian Heng’s role in killing Li Shang’s elder brother 郦食其.
• Tian Heng travels toward 洛阳 / 洛邑 but kills himself at Shixiang, explaining that he cannot endure the humiliation of becoming a subject after once being equal in royal status to Liu Bang.
• Liu Bang weeps over Tian Heng, praises the Tian brothers’ rise and talent, appoints Tian Heng’s two attendants as commandants, and buries Tian Heng with a kingly ceremony.
• Tian Heng’s two attendants kill themselves beside his tomb, and the five hundred followers on the island also kill themselves after hearing of his death.
• The episode links Tian Heng’s followers to 徐悲鸿’s painting “Tian Heng and His Five Hundred Retainers,” reading the story as a later emblem of dignity and national resolve under Japanese pressure in the 1930s.
• Ji Bu, a former 项羽 general who had repeatedly endangered or humiliated Liu Bang, is first placed under severe bounty and collective-punishment threat.
• Zhu Jia hides Ji Bu in slave disguise and argues through Xiahou Ying that loyal service to one’s former lord should not become a capital crime after unification.
• Liu Bang accepts the argument, pardons Ji Bu, and appoints him langzhong, converting a former enemy’s battlefield loyalty into a usable founding virtue.
• The available transcript-summary does not yet develop the promised Luoyang-to-Chang’an explanation; it supplies political background for that question instead.

Key Quotes

“人中豪杰”

“忠义的道德大旗”

“尊严高于苟活”

Connections

• Hanji 169 part 2 - immediate prior source setting Liu Bang’s Luoyang founding order and Han Xin’s Chu placement.
• 刘邦, 西汉, and 战场胜利到建国秩序 - founding order extended from accession and relief into defeated-elite settlement.
• 田横, 齐国, 彭越, 郦商, and 郦食其 - old Qi resistance, pardon pressure, and unresolved revenge risk.
• 士为知己者死, 贵族名誉高于生命, 道德名望政治资本, and 徐悲鸿 - honor, retainer death, and later symbolic memory around Tian Heng.
• 季布, 朱家, 夏侯婴, and 旧敌忠义重释 - Ji Bu’s rescue, persuasion channel, and loyal-enemy absorption.
• 赦免作为国家权力 - pardon used not only to stop punishment but to define what the new regime will honor.

Contradictions

• No settled contradiction with existing wiki content was found.
• The source says Tian Heng had once been “与汉王同样称王”; this is recorded as Tian Heng’s honor language in the episode, not as evidence that his late power was materially equal to Liu Bang’s imperial position.
• The title’s Luoyang-to-Chang’an promise remains unresolved in this part; the source page treats the capital theme as preview rather than completed argument.