With the rise of online texts and the popularity of various cross-history dramas, people are now familiar with the two concepts of "crosser" and "son of the plane", and today we will tell how the two emperors who are connected together in Chinese history interpret the war story between the crosser and the son of the plane.
"When the Duke of Zhou feared the rumors, Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the throne." I believe that many people are very familiar with these two poems of the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, let's first introduce the "crosser" Wang Mang.
The founding emperor of the new dynasty, Wang Mang
Wang Mang (45 BC – October 6, 23 CE), courtesy name Jujun, was a native of Yuancheng County, Wei County (present-day Daming County, Hebei). Founding Emperor of the New Dynasty (January 10, 9 – October 6, 23) was a political reformer.
Wang Mang, known as the "crosser", should have come from Hu Shi's evaluation at the earliest: Wang Mang was China's first socialist.
Wang Mang was born in the last year of the Western Han Dynasty, one hundred and fifty years after the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty by Liu Bang, the "Ancestor of Han Gao". In the past one hundred and five years, the Western Han Dynasty has experienced an unprecedented prosperity, from the founding of the Gaozu Dynasty to the rule of Wenjing, and the great martial arts of Emperor Youwu. During this period, there were successively the great general Wei Qingwei who "directly pounded the Dragon City", and Huo Fuyi, who "sealed the wolf Juxu" at the age of 21, and the Xiongnu could only move west to Europe. Later, during the reign of Emperor Zhao and Emperor Xuan, Chen Tang even beheaded Shan Yu of the Northern Xiongnu, shouting out, "Those who commit crimes against the strong Han will be punished from afar!" " slogan. It seems that the Han Empire can be immortalized for eternity.
The Wang family was a family of foreign relatives who were in power at that time, and the Wang family had nine people successively enfeoffed as marquises, and five people served as the Grand Sima and were the most prominent families in the Western Han Dynasty. In the first year of the first year, the regent and Sima Wang Mang deposed Liu Bao, the last young emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and added his own yellow robe to the throne as emperor. After sending away the Western Han Empire created by Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, Wang Mang issued an order to change the Han Dynasty to a new dynasty, known in history as the New Dynasty. Some people refer to this history as "Wang Mang usurping The Han Dynasty".
Why is it said that Wang Mang is a crosser, and look at the series of measures taken by Wang Mang to ascend the throne and become empress:
1. The world's fields are known as Wang Tian, and private individuals are not allowed to buy and sell. (Land is state-owned, evenly distributed)
2. Slaves are changed to "private dependents" and may not be bought or sold. (Abolition of slavery)
3. Change the official name and place name. (Several changes have been made to the local official system, official names, county names, and administrative divisions.)
4. Implement five equals, credit loans and six credits. (The government participates in the planned economy and the monopoly of state-owned enterprises, and establishes a national loan system)
5. Reform the currency. (During Wang Mang's reign, frequent reforms were made to the currency.)
6. Forced labor, the elimination of those who have gained without work. (For unemployed vagrants, the government imposes punitive measures, forcing them to perform hard labour and providing them with food and drink during the period of hard labour.) ）
7. Revise the relationship with the surrounding foreign races, especially the extermination of Goguryeo and rename it Lower Guryeo. (Blind guessing may be unaccustomed to the cosmic kingdom)
8. The ancient chronograph method of 100 engravings a day is revised to a new chronograph method of 120 engravings a day. (more in line with modern calculations)
Do you think the above series of reforms is a little familiar, huh...
Below we introduce the "historical corrector, son of the true face" Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, whose series of operations are really the flying of the "show", which makes people stunned.
Emperor Guangwu of Han – Liu Xiu
Liu Xiu (15 January 5 BC – 29 March 57 CE) was a native of Caiyang County, Nanyang County (present-day southwest of Zaoyang, Hubei). The founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and a descendant of Liu Fa, the son of Emperor Jing of Han, the Prince of Changsha.
Liu Xiu was 9 years old, his father died, raised by his uncle, although Liu Xiu is a relative of the Han Dynasty, but to his generation has been no different from ordinary people, Liu Xiu himself has no great ambitions. When he was young, his greatest hobby was farming.
During this period, I also met the rich man who even Li Bai once wrote "Lihua Xiuyu, Han Nu Jiao Zhu Yan" praising his beautiful poems, Yin Lihua! At this time, although Yin Lihua was still young, she had also revealed a magnificent posture, and Liu Xiumi's seven meats and eight vegetarians, but the huge difference in identity could only make him sigh "marry a wife and deserve Yin Lihua"!
Perhaps in response to the saying "The Mandate of Heaven cannot be violated", the wheel of history rolled forward without hesitation, and Liu Xiu began his life of "opening and hanging". This is much more powerful than those cool texts on the internet novel.
After Wang Mang established the new dynasty, because frequent reforms caused social unrest and the dissatisfaction of the big landlords, many people rebelled against him, among which the most powerful were the Green Forest Army, the Red Brow Army and the Bronze Horse Army. In 22 AD, the brothers Liu Xiu and Liu Xiu also followed the trend, and under the banner of "restoring the inheritance of the ancestors of the high and fixing the autumn of the ten thousand worlds", they formally raised an army at Lingling and joined forces with the Green Forest Army to attack Wang Mang's army. At the beginning of the uprising, the soldiers were few and far between, and Liu Xiu could only ride an ox to fight.
In 23 AD, in order to make the division famous, the Green Forest Army specially selected a well-controlled son from the Han clan as their new emperor, that is, the first emperor Liu Xuan.
This completely angered Wang Mang, who sent Wang Yi the Great Sikong and Wang Xun of the Great Si Tu to gather a total of 420,000, claiming to be millions, and pounced on the line of Kunyang and Wancheng, trying to destroy the changing regime in one fell swoop. At this time in Kunyang City, the green forest defenders were only 8,000 or 9,000 people, and the ratio of strength between the two sides was close to 50 to 1. All the Green Forest generals advocated fleeing for their lives, and only one opposed, he was Liu Xiu.
He first persuaded the 8,000 Kunyang defenders to hold the isolated city to wait for reinforcements, and then personally led 13 people out of the city to mobilize reinforcements while the enemy was besieging the city, and gathered more than 10,000 reinforcements.
However, even with the addition of more than 10,000 people, the total defenders of Kunyang were only 20,000 people, and the new Dynasty army, which was said to be a million, but actually had 420,000, was tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble.
At this time, the facet is no longer dry, what is your army of 420,000 bullying my son? So the correction force of the plane fiddled slightly.
According to the Later Han Dynasty book "Guangwu Benji", just when hundreds of thousands of troops were ready to besiege the city for reinforcements, "at night there were meteors falling into the camp, and there were clouds like bad mountains during the day, and when the camp fell, they scattered before the ground, and the officials were tired of lying down." With the power of the plane correction, a large meteorite technique went down, and the barracks were smashed to pieces, and the soldiers were so frightened that they lay on the ground and did not dare to move. At this time, Liu Xiu, who had returned from the rescue troops, took advantage of the situation with more than 10,000 horses to kill them. Liu Xiu personally beheaded dozens of ranks, which greatly boosted the morale of the army behind him, and they all killed Wang Mang's army. Wang Mang's army was in disarray and trampled on each other, and the main general Wang Yi was also killed in the rebellion. But the power of the plane is not satisfied, lightning techniques, heavy rainstorms, large water elements, etc., all kinds of forbidden spells do not want money to generally smash down, the sky suddenly lightning and thunder, torrential rain like a note, the river water rises and drowns many Mang troops.
After the battle, Liu Xiu's name shocked the world! Three months later, the Green Forest Army invaded Chang'an, and Wang Mang died in the rebellion. But if it is only so, Liu Xiu is at best a general star, and at most he is only an official general.
Just as Liu Xiu continued to attack the city with the threat of great victory, a bad news came: his eldest brother Liu Yan was killed by Emperor Gengshi. In order not to be jealous of Emperor Gengshi, he hurried back to Wancheng to apologize to Liu Xuan. Then he played a low-key nature for many years, except for apologizing, he did not come out, did not contact anyone else, and even the record of the Kunyang War was never mentioned. At this point, the Emperor didn't even have an excuse to kill him.
After that, Liu Xiu returned to his hometown and closed the door and was a low-key person! During this period, he also fulfilled his dream and married the goddess Yin Lihua. Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua also spent a honeymoon period of you and me, Qin Ser and Ming.
Perhaps the power of the facet feels that the spokesperson Liu Xiu is too salty and does not conform to the personality of the "son of the face".
Liu Xiu, who was still uneasy about staying at home and behind closed doors, decided to send him a more challenging task— to tour the lands of Hebei. Because the people of Hebei and other places are fierce, at this time of great chaos in the world, they are even more divided and smoke is everywhere, and it is obvious that the purpose of this task is self-evident, and what is even more excessive is not to give Liu Xiu a soldier and a pawn. It's like a large group of forty people in an online game, leaving you alone to brush alone...
But who is Liu Xiu, the "son of the face" who is full of NPC favorability talent. Not long after Liu Xiu arrived in Hebei with a few retinues, Hebei Qunxiong heard that the great mage of meteorite and lightning technique came to Hebei and worshiped him one after another. Within a few months, Xiu'er had become one of the largest warlord forces in Hebei.
After that, Xiu'er began his game of monopoly, and in less than two years, he not only destroyed all kinds of separatist forces, but also became the largest force in the world with millions of troops and thousands of miles of land.
Three years after the rise of the army in Lingling, he was only thirty years old, but he wanted people and money, and Xiu'er, who wanted people and people, was no longer satisfied with his identity at this time, and immediately broke with the first regime, that is, the emperor's throne, known as the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
After establishing herself, Xiu'er once again played the card collection game, and relatives and friends of the old department and the fierce generals of the courtiers came to defect one after another. It didn't take long for him to assemble the legendary deck "Twenty-Eight Generals of the Cloud Deck".
Xiu'er relied on this set of "Yuntai Twenty-Eight Generals" in her hands, attacked the city strategically, was invincible, and it took only twelve years to dominate the world and create another prosperous period, known in history as Guangwu Zhongxing!
From Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty, the establishment of a new dynasty, and the formulation of various new policies that seemed strange at the time, to Liu Xiu, who finally founded Guangwu Zhongxing at the end of Qingping. It has to be felt that this is a war between the "crosser" and the "son of the face" of the spokesperson of the history revision.