Chairman Mao once wrote that "The Qin Emperor Han Wu, slightly lost the literary style, Tang Zong Song Zu, slightly inferior, a generation of heavenly pride Genghis Khan, only know how to bend the bow to shoot large eagles." Moreover, he often evaluates historical figures, and it can be seen that Chairman Mao is a well-read book, is even more proficient in Chinese history, and knows every historical figure very well, as well as his own views.
Among the many historical figures, there is an emperor whom Chairman Mao admires the most, who started from scratch at the age of 27 and successfully became emperor at the age of 30, this person is Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Guangwu Emperor, for whom Chairman Mao used three "most", the most learned, the most able to fight, and the most able to employ people. The use of the three "most" in a row shows that Chairman Mao has a high evaluation of Liu Xiu.
It is said that "Xiu cai rebelled, ten years will not succeed", but Liu Xiu is an exception, and the successful proof of this sentence is not accurate. He did not make a sound for ten years, a blockbuster, he worked tirelessly, loved to read, he started from scratch, and became the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Xiu was the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and was from the line of Liu Fa, the Prince of Changsha Ding, the Emperor of Hanjing. Liu Xiu's ancestors were surrendered from the princes because they obeyed the principle of "Tui En Ling". To his father Liu Qin's generation, it was only a small official like Jiyang County Ling, and when Liu Xiu was nine years old, his father died, seemingly a royal clan, but in fact he was just a commoner, living in difficulty, relying on his uncle's upbringing to grow up.
It can also be said that the times create heroes, Liu Xiusheng was born in the worst era, the world is in chaos, but also the best era, this era is more conducive to him to exert his ability, become a generation of tyrants.
The Western Han Dynasty began with Emperor Yuan of Han and became more and more decayed, and when it came to Emperor Hancheng, it was even more defeated, and Emperor Hancheng fainted and incompetent, so that the wang clique headed by empress dowager Wang Zhengjun monopolized the power of the dynasty, and because of the monopoly on favoring the Zhao sisters, a situation of "the Zhao clan was chaotic inside, and the foreign family was good at the dynasty".
After the death of the Han Emperor, it seems that the throne was passed to his own people, but in fact Wang Mang had already grasped the power of the dynasty, but after Wang Mang came to power, he was unpopular with the people and touched the interests of the nobility, which eventually led to the people's unhappiness, the boiling of people's grievances, and the economic depression.
According to the "Records of the Eastern View of Han" quoted in volume 90 of the "Taiping Imperial Records": "After a long time of deep thinking, the heavens have changed, and the crossbows in Suishi", it can be seen that Liu Xiu's troops were deliberately considered and carefully decided, and when they saw that the world was indeed in chaos, they decided to raise troops.
At the time of the uprising, Liu Xiu and his eldest brother Liu Bosheng, under the banner of "restoring the inheritance of the ancestors of the high ancestors and fixing the autumn of the ten thousand worlds", formally rebelled against Mangling (located in present-day Zaoyang City, Hubei), because it was the early days, the lack of materials, the number of soldiers and major generals, Liu Xiu rode on oxen, and was even called "the founding emperor on the back of the ox" by later generations, until he killed Xinye Wei, Liu Xiu had a war horse. In the chaotic era, his brother Liu Bosheng was killed, he endured grief, endured humiliation and burden, became more humble, and finally became more trusted by emperor, named Liu Xiu the Marquis of Wuxin, and also married the new wild magnate Qianjin - Yin Lihua, whom he had long admired for many years.
The Liu brothers were first supported by the Nanyang Hao clique and the Good Han of the Green Forest, but as the revolution flourished, their power increased dramatically, and Liu Xiu's brother Liu Bosheng was killed in a failed power struggle, and Liu Xuan, the first emperor of the Liu clan, was in power. This made Liu Xiu sad and indignant, but for the sake of a more ambitious ideal, Liu Xiu, as a younger brother, had to hide his hair, and finally got the "comfort" of the more first emperor, Liu Xiu was made the Marquis of Wuxin, and married the goddess Yin Lihua as he wished.
In order to promote an alliance with Liu Yang, the King of Zhending, Liu Xiu personally went to the palace of Zhending, married Liu Yang's niece, Guo Shengtong, with solemn etiquette, and received the trust and help of King Zhending, who soon pacified Wang Lang and other northern separatist forces, and finally won Jiangshan with the support of various forces.
Liu Xiu, who claimed to be empress, changed the situation of division and division and once again achieved unification. Judo ruled the country, and history called its reign period Guangwu Zhongxing. And because of the prosperity of the country, it is known as "Jianwu Shengshi".
The literati rose up, and in the process fought with various forces, and had to admire his resourcefulness.