Liu Xiu, known as the "son of the face", started from a peasant and has always been the founding emperor, and his life experience of "opening and hanging" has not only been questioned by netizens as a "crosser", but also because of his extraordinary luck, he has been identified as "child of destiny" and "protagonist aura", and its mysterious degree is a fight with Wang Mang, who established a new dynasty.
It is worth mentioning that emperor Guangwu did not set the capital Chang'an as empress, but chose Luoyang, located east of Chang'an, as the capital city, so the history was called the Eastern Han Dynasty.
You know, when Liu Xiu became emperor, he played the banner of continuing the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, so why did he abandon the traditional capital of the Western Han Dynasty, Chang'an, and instead chose Luoyang?
In fact, before Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu's brother Liu Xuan, the first emperor, had already raised the banner of "Han Orthodoxy". In the last year of Wang Mang's reign, there was a famine in the south, and many outlaws began to rebel, and Liu Xuan was also among them, defecting to a force at that time, and was later established as the Son of Heaven.
At the same time that Wang Mang was killed, Liu Xuan's army captured Luoyang, so Liu Xuan made the capital Luoyang, and only moved the capital to Chang'an a year later. Legend has it that when the capital was moved to Chang'an, the team of the First Emperor had just set off, Li Songfeng was in front, and the horse suddenly ran and crashed into the iron pillar gate of the North Palace, and all three horses were killed. A year after moving the capital, emperor Gengshi was also killed by the Chimei army.
Perhaps it was these legends that cast an ominous color over the capital Chang'an, plus Liu Xuan's palace in Luoyang was relatively well preserved during the war, so Liu Xiu also set the capital luoyang and "stayed" in Liu Xuan's palace.
In contrast, chang'an city at that time had been in ruins after a long war, and it was said that many palaces had been reduced to ruins. Rebuilding the palace requires a lot of human and financial resources, and with Liu Xiu's economic situation and social instability at that time, it is obviously a very irrational act to build the palace now.
Not only was the palace destroyed, but the entire Guanzhong area fell into a state of ten rooms and nine empty spaces. The Chimei Army, the Green Forest Army, and Wang Mang's New Dynasty army repeatedly tugged at the Guanzhong region for Chang'an. This led to a large loss of population in the Guanzhong area and a serious regression in agricultural development. The Book of Han records that in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, the population of the Guanzhong area plummeted from 1.5 million to less than 400,000, many civilians died in the war, and some were displaced, and they had to drag their families away from the vicinity of Chang'an, and the economy of the Guanzhong area fell into an extremely bad state.
Moreover, Luoyang at that time was already under Liu Xiu's control, and to the west was the territory occupied by the Chimei army, and Longxi and Bashu and other places were still eyeing the tiger, choosing Luoyang in the center of their territory as the capital, which was more rational than risking to occupy Chang'an.
It was not until two years after he became emperor that Liu Xiu pacified the Guanzhong region; eleven years later, he attacked the Bashu region. From the first year of Jianwu to the twelfth year of Jianwu, liu Xiu spent twelve years after ascending the throne to finally conquer the world, so that Since the end of the New Mang Dynasty, China, which has been divided and warlike for many years, has once again been unified.