Throughout ancient China, almost every dynasty began with the decline of the Ming Emperor from the Emperor of The Ming Dynasty. Chairman Mao once wrote in the spring of Qinyuan that "there are so many delicate rivers and mountains, which has attracted countless heroes to bend their waists." Emperor Han Wu of Qin lost his literary style slightly; Emperor Songzu of Tang was slightly inferior. A generation of heavenly pride, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow to shoot large eagles. ”
Chairman Mao was familiar with history and knew the emperors of ancient times very well, but among these emperors, he most admired Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
At that time, Wang Mang plotted to usurp the throne to establish a new dynasty, but his series of unrealistic measures caused chaos in the world, and the so-called chaotic world produced heroes, And Liu Xiu, who had a royal bloodline, started from scratch and established the Eastern Han dynasty in three years.
At the time of birth, the heavens descended auspiciously, and the family fell in the middle of the road
Liu Xiu was born in Jiyang County in December of the first year of Jianping, and there was no light in the room on the night of his birth, and immediately after his birth, the room was illuminated by a red light. Seeing this scene, his father Liu Qin felt very strange and immediately went to ask the divinator to come and see.
After the fortune teller came to the county lingfu, through divination and observation of the stars, he told Liu Qin that this was a sign of great luck, and that the child would be very successful in the future; in the same year, three millets taller than ordinary millet suddenly grew in the place where Liu Qin's house was planted.
This made Liu Qin more sure that the child would definitely have great achievements in the future, so he named him Liu Xiu.
The surname Liu was a surname of a relative of the emperor in the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Xiu was the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, but under the influence of the Western Han Dynasty's "Tui En Ling", the family gradually decreased from the rank of marquis to Liu Qin, and when he arrived at Liu Qin, it was only a small County Order of Ji County. Although the status is not as good as before, the good villain is also a small official position, and the family's life is also plain.
But bad luck happened, and Liu Qin died in the first three years of death in Nanton County. The death of his father left Liu Xiu and his sister orphaned at the age of nine. The two brothers and sisters who have no one to rely on are adopted by their uncle Liu Liang, who is far away in Hubei, which can also be regarded as a reliance on life. But Liu Xiu also became a commoner.
Enrolled in Taixue, Wancheng rebelled
During the Tianfeng period of the new dynasty, Liu Xiu enrolled in Taixue through his talents, and it was here that he met Deng Yu, Zhu You, and others who could later advise him on the coup d'état of the uprising.
In the late Western Han Dynasty, the political situation was corrupt, the emperor was dim, and the dynasty gradually embarked on the road to extinction, and Emperor Cheng of Han favored the Zhao Feiyan sisters and entrusted all the affairs of the imperial court to the foreign relatives of the then empress dowager Wang Zhengjun, causing the Western Han Dynasty to be in charge.
At this time, Wang Mang won the favor of Wang Zhengjun and became a powerful vassal of the Western Han Dynasty at that time. He administers the government as regent, but wolf ambitions are clearly not satisfied with this. Finally, Wang Mang usurped power and established a new dynasty.
At the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty, he also formulated many favorable measures, which can also be regarded as guotai and min'an. But in the late new dynasty, Wang Mang's many unrealistic policies, combined with his offense against the interests of the powerful and commoners, left the court in chaos.
In addition, in the later period, the new dynasty encountered many floods and droughts that caused the people to have no harvest, and the people lived in deep water, so large and small uprisings broke out in various places, and social chaos broke out.
Although Liu Xiu and his brother Liu Ji are both descendants of the royal family, their personality characteristics are completely inconsistent. Liu Ji likes to make friends with haojie in the world, and immediately joins when he sees some people in the society revolting. Liu Xiu, on the other hand, was meticulous and thoughtful after seeing that the world was in chaos before deciding to revolt.
Three years after Emperor Di, Liu Xiu launched an uprising in Wancheng and shouted out the slogan of reviving the Han Dynasty, at the beginning of Liu Xiu's uprising, the Liu family's clans were unwilling to follow him, but after Liu Xiu came to Wancheng with the army, the others looked at Liu Xiu, who was wearing a general's costume, and instantly felt that there was a feeling of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, so they followed Liu Xiu's steps to raise troops to revolt.
Defeat Wang Mang and submit to Emperor Gengshi determined to resist
Liu Xiu, his brother and other rebel armies fought against Wang Mang's army. At first, his team had few weapons, and even he himself sat on a war horse after defeating the enemy.
In the blink of an eye, the war between Liu Xiu and Wang Mang came to a white-hot stage, and in the most famous battle, Liu Xiu defeated Wang Mang's army of 400,000 with only 20,000 soldiers.
After the end of this battle, everyone thought that Liu Xiu was the son of heavenly choice, and 20,000 versus 400,000 could not be said to have a slight chance of winning at that time, even if Liu Xiu was extremely smart and flexible, he could not win in a short period of time.
However, it happened that a meteorite fell into the enemy's camp that night, and the enemy suffered countless casualties and fled, and Liu Xiu won the victory.
The rebel army honored Liu Xuan, the leader of the Green Forest Army, as the first emperor, and Liu Xiu and his brother Liu Xiu also submitted to him. Since then, the two have been charging and killing the enemy on the battlefield, and after defeating Wang Mang's million-strong army at the Battle of Kunshan, the new dynasty has also gone to extinction. But Liu Xiu and Liu Ji also became thorns in Liu Xuan's eyes.
When Liu Xiu led his troops south to attack the city, he did not want his brother Liu Ji to be killed by Emperor Gengshi on trumped-up charges, and when he heard the news, he immediately understood that the next person that Emperor Gengshi wanted to kill was himself. In order to survive, he decided to return to Wancheng to show loyalty to Liu Xuan, so Liu Xiu survived and married Yin Lihua.
But Liu Xiu spent every day in fear, thinking about it and deciding to declare himself emperor. With the help of friends, Liu Xiu traveled to Hebei and recruited talents in the Hebei region.
And his "Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai" were also developed and expanded here, seeing that Liu Xiu had developed into a force to be reckoned with in Hebei, Liu Xuan, who felt dangerous, ordered Liu Xiu to surrender his military power and return to Chang'an.
Liu Xiu felt that the time had come to break with the Gengshi Emperor, and he had endured for so long for this moment. He took his own Chimei army and defeated Liu Xuan's army on the battlefield.
At this time, Liu Xiu also showed his learning, bravery and good fighting, and good use of people, and his flexible combat strategy made the Green Forest Army powerless. Finally, in 25 years, Liu Xiu declared himself emperor and established the Eastern Han Dynasty.
After Liu Xiu became emperor, the Eastern Han regime was not completely unified, and the first emperor Liu Xuan and his Green Forest Army became Liu Xiu's number one enemy.
After twelve years of unification wars, Liu Xiucai unified the Eastern Han dynasty. After quelling the unrest, he reformed the official system, recuperated to develop the country's economy, and promoted Confucian culture throughout the country, and Liu Xiu's reign was also known as Guangwu Zhongxing.
The main reason for Liu Xiu's success was that he treated the heroes well, and did not, like other emperors, kill the heroes after the founding of the country to avoid the consequences.
Instead, he gave the meritorious men knighthoods and knighthoods, gave them fiefs, and let them live in peace in their old age. This kind of arrogance is not available to ordinary monarchs. In addition, he treated ethnic minorities kindly, actively developed foreign relations, and worked hard to govern during his reign.
Throughout Liu Xiu's life, although he was a royal bloodline, his family was in the middle of the road, and he did not give up because of this. In the face of the ruined rivers and mountains, he did not enjoy the blessings, but was diligent in state affairs and worked hard to pray for the people to rest peacefully and recuperate, which is worthy of praise by future generations.
Liu Xiu was also evaluated by Chairman Mao as the emperor who was "the most learned, the most able to fight, and the most able to employ people", and he could be evaluated by the chairman, which shows that the chairman also had great admiration for Emperor Guangwu of Han.