As we all know, the Great Han Dynasty was divided into the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, but there were still two dynasties between the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, one was the Xinmang Dynasty that usurped the Han dynasty, and the other was the Xuan han Dynasty that we are going to talk about today.
Xuan Han was founded in the last year of the Xinmang Dynasty, occupying most of the territory of the Western Han Dynasty, abolishing the institutional laws of the Xinmang Dynasty, and its system was fully inherited from the Western Han Dynasty, and the Xuan han Emperor was also the royal family of the Han Dynasty, the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, Liu Xuan. Therefore, Xuan Han is the inheritance of the Western Han Dynasty and the initiation of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
It is said that due to the implementation of emperor Wu of The Han Dynasty's Tui'en Order, coupled with the suppression of The Liu clan's relatives in Wang Mang's regime, although Liu Xuan was the ninth grandson of Gaozu, his status and power were seriously inconsistent with his status. Liu Xuan also because his brother was killed, and specially befriended a doorman to avenge his brother, but unfortunately he did not wait for Liu Xuan to avenge, and his guests were wanted for crimes first, and they were also implicated and had to run to Pinglin to hide the lawsuit. Forced to be helpless, Liu Xuan joined the Green Forest Army, a rebel army that rebelled against Wang Mang's new dynasty, and opened his own counterattack road.
At first, Liu Xuan ran to the green forest army general Chen Mu to make an an ji tuan, which was equivalent to joining the army. At this time, the Green Forest Army was growing stronger and stronger, and in order to win a righteous name, this peasant rebel army played the slogan of "KuangFu Han Room" and elected Liu Xuan, the patriarch of the Han Dynasty, as emperor.
In February 23 AD, the state name "Han" was reactivated, the era name was "More Beginning", called the More First Emperor, the capital was Wancheng, and the Xuanhan Dynasty was also called "More Beginning Regime".
In the first year, that is, in September 23 AD, the Green Forest Army attacked the capital of the new dynasty, Chang'an, Wang Mang was killed, the new dynasty fell, and Liu Xuan moved the capital to Luoyang.
Due to the collapse of the new dynasty, another peasant rebel army of the same period, the Chimei Army, chose to submit to Liu Xuan, but Liu Xuan had a cold attitude and only named Fan Chong, the leader of the Chimei Army, and more than 20 other people as marquises, without power or power. Fan Chong, and the others angrily left and returned to the Chimei military camp, sowing a seed for the collapse of the Xuanhan Dynasty.
Another seed of the fall of the Xuanhan Dynasty was the later Eastern Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu. It turned out that shortly after the establishment of the Xuan Han Dynasty, because of the fear of being threatened by the throne, Liu Xiu's brother Liu Xiu (yǎn) was killed by Liu Xuan, who was weak at that time, so he took the initiative to go to Wancheng to ask Liu Xuan for guilt, which made Liu Xuan ashamed and embarrassed, and instead of killing Liu Xiu, he appointed Liu Xiu as a great general who broke the prisoners and made him the Marquis of Wuxin. A few months later, he also ordered Liu Xiu to act as the grand sima and cross the Yellow River in the north, and the town guard to pacify the prefectures and counties, this step was to let the tiger return to the mountains, Liu Xiu quickly pacified the states and counties north of the Yellow River, and was also crowned by Liu Xuan as the King of Xiao, and pulled up a team of his own.
Returning to the Chimei Army, dissatisfied with Liu Xuan's approach, it reorganized its troops to launch an attack on the Xuan han Dynasty. Liu Xuan moved the capital to Chang'an in February of the second year of the first year (24 AD), and the Chimei army attacked Chang'an City in September of the third year of the first year (25 AD), captured the first emperor Liu Xuan, and the Xuan han dynasty collapsed.
At the same time, Liu Xiu sat on the north bank of the Yellow River to watch the tiger fight, and after liu Xuan's green forest army and the Chimei army were both defeated and wounded, they swept all the way to calm the wars and chaos on all sides and establish the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Xuanhan regime was established in February 23 AD and ended in September 25 AD, and in less than three years, the capital was moved three times, and finally returned to Chang'an, the place where Liu Bang opened the national capital. Although the existence of the Xuan Han Dynasty was short, it revived the political system and laws of the Western Han Dynasty and played a role in promoting the continuation of the Han Dynasty.