So he sent an envoy to the island, pardoned Tian Heng and his subordinates, and told Tian Heng that if he could surrender, the big one would be the king, and the small one would be the prince. If he d

So he sent an envoy to the island, pardoned Tian Heng and his subordinates, and told Tian Heng that if he could surrender, the big one would be the king, and the small one would be the prince. If he didn't surrender, he would send troops to attack. Tian Heng thought over and over again and decided to go to Luoyang to meet Liu Bang. Before that, Liu Bang specifically ordered Li Shiqi's younger brother Li Shang not to avenge his brother. If he behaved or behaved rudely, his whole family would be destroyed. Tian Heng took two followers on the road. When he was still 30 miles away from Luoyang, he said to the envoy of the Han Dynasty: "Every minister must bathe and change clothes when meeting the emperor." He stopped. He said to his entourage: "In the beginning, I had the same status as the King of Han. We were both kings of vassals. But now that the King of Han has become the emperor, I have become a captive to appear before him. This is a very shameful thing. Besides, I killed Li Shi Qi, and now I have to become colleagues with Li Shi Qi's brother. Even if he doesn't dare to do anything to me, I feel guilty when I see him. Besides, the emperor only wants to see me when he sees me. What does it look like? The emperor is in Luoyang now, which is less than thirty miles away from Luoyang. After I die, if you chop off my head and show it to him, it will not change." So Tian Heng committed suicide. His entourage chopped off his head and rode a horse to Luoyang with the envoy. After seeing this, Liu Bang sighed and said, "Three of them brothers were born as common people, but they were able to become kings. They are really wise men." So he appointed Tian Heng's two followers as captains, sent more than 2,000 troops, and buried them with the etiquette of princes and kings. Got Tian Heng. After burying Tian Heng, two of his followers dug two holes next to Tian Heng's grave and committed suicide. The song he sang before his death was the famous "Xie Lu". When Liu Bang learned about it, he was shocked, so he sent another envoy to inform Tian Heng's old relatives who stayed on the island, saying that Tian Heng was dead, asking them to surrender, and granting them all official positions. But when these more than 500 people heard that Tian Heng was dead, they also sang "Xie Lu" and committed suicide one after another. "The dew on the leaves" is an ancient elegy. The full text is as follows: The dew on the leaves is so beautiful. Lu Xi will fall again in the Ming Dynasty. When will people return after death? Whose land is in the wormwood? There is no wise man or fool to gather souls. Guibo Yihe urged me, but now I have to hesitate a little. This song was later divided into two parts by Li Yannian during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The upper part was named "Xie Lu" and the lower part was named "Haoli". The former is given to the king, and the latter is given to the scholar-bureaucrats.