It is said that on January 15, 5 BC, a boy was born in Jiyang Palace. It is said that at the moment of his birth, the palace was illuminated by red light, and a rice ear several feet long was born in the fertile field outside the house. So he had the name Liu Xiu.
So began his open life. Liu Xiu had just turned nine years old when his father died, and there was no way, he lived with his uncle in Nanyang County. Later, Wang Mang usurped power, and in the last year of the New Deal, large-scale peasant uprisings broke out everywhere, and Liu Xiuhe and his brother Liu Yan were not far behind, and they pulled up the banner of rebellion! From Nanyang County, the Liu brothers led a group of old farmers who cultivated the land to weeds and went to the battlefield. Liu Yan befriended many landlords and gentry, and also merged with the Green Forest Army to become a divided force, and when he had the power, he was about to start choosing the emperor. However, Liu Yan often compared himself to Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and the Green Forest Army also knew history, knowing what happened to Han Xin after Liu Bang became emperor, and what happened to Liu Bang's brothers. Therefore, in 23 AD, the Green Forest Army supported Liu Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty as emperor, and Jianyuan was more beginning, as the first emperor!
Wang Mang did not agree, don't forget, now Wang Mang is the legitimate emperor, so he let Wang Yi and Wang Xun lead an army of 420,000 to Kunyang. At this time, Liu Yan's large army was besieging Wancheng, and there was only one partial general in Kunyang City, Liu Xiu. But he didn't seem to panic at all, although there were 420,000 people on the other side, Liu Xiu only had 9,000 people, but there was no aura, how could he call the protagonist, Liu Xiu took 13 people out of the city to move the rescue troops, before leaving, he specially instructed the Kunyang defenders, don't go out of the city to meet the battle, Kunyang Nine thousand defenders after ten days of dead defense, found that this side was actually still able to defend, Kunyang City is really easy to defend and difficult to attack! On the contrary, the momentum of hundreds of thousands of people on the opposite side is quite low. At this time, Liu Xiu came back with more than 17,000 people to kill, he killed thousands of Mang's troops in the enemy line, the morale of the Han army was greatly boosted, and then launched an attack on the mang army's base camp, just at this time, the sky rained heavily, drowning many people of the Mang army, and ah, there are historical records, meteorites fell from the sky, smashed into Wang Mang's military camp, all of a sudden there were no casualties, and Wang Mang's army was suddenly scattered, and this is the son of heaven on the other side. Liu Xiu thought that the opportunity had come, the 400,000 people and horses temporarily assembled collapsed, Wang Mang's regime came to an end, the new dynasty collapsed, and Liu Xiu became famous through this battle, but when Liu Xiu attacked the city, Liu Xiu's brother Liu Yan was killed by Emperor Gengshi for no reason. In order not to be jealous of Emperor Gengshi, Liu Xiu behaved harmlessly, but instead made Emperor Gengshi a little unbearable, so he gave him the title of Hou and let him return to Wancheng.
Just after returning to Wancheng, Liu Xiu married the goddess Yin Lihua in his heart, but how could the revenge of killing his brother not be repaid? In October 23 AD, Emperor Gengshi asked Liu Xiu to cross the Yellow River in the north, comforting Hebei Prefecture and County, and wanted him to die in Hebei, as a result, the good men in all parts of Hebei were actually Liu Xiu's fans, and they led their troops to surrender. In 25 AD, Liu Xiu was proclaimed emperor, Jianyuan Jianwu, still using the Han name to continue the ancestral inheritance, in the same year the Han army and the Chimei army attacked Liu Xuan, and in October of the first year of Jianwu, Liu Xiu took advantage of the civil unrest in the Chimei army, decisively sent troops, and pacified the Guandong in one fell swoop. Six years later, on the map of the Great Han Dynasty, the other remaining forces, China was once again unified. After that, Liu Xiuli tried his best to govern, making his population greatly increased and his economy was rich during his reign, creating the famous Guangwu Zhongxing in history.
I have to say that Liu Xiu is really lucky to explode, if he has this luck, it is called Kaihang's life!