The life of Liu Xiu, the son of the face, is full of legends and perfect to the point of unreality, but even such a person, in the initial stage, is not smooth sailing, for example, when he followed his brother Liu Yan to start an uprising, many things were not as smooth as later, and even his brother Liu Yan died because of infighting.
Obviously, it was Liu Yan who fought on the battlefield, but when they finally chose the candidate for the emperor of the rebel army, they chose a Liu Xuan (more first emperor) who basically could not see any shadow in peacetime and had no foundation.
Liu Yan brothers are of average strength
After Wang Mang usurped power and established a new dynasty, there were many people with lofty ideals in the world who were quite dissatisfied with it, and as a result, Wang Mang implemented some new policies to reform the country, which seriously touched the direct interests of the rich families at that time, so many people rose up and began to rebel against Wang Mang's rule.
As representatives of the family and the clan, Liu Yan and Liu Xiu brothers, it was in this special historical background that the uprising began, both of them were originally descendants of the Han Dynasty royal family, but because of the influence of emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the fall of the family road, by the time of Liu Yan and Liu Xiu's generation, their family had completely declined and became ordinary peasants.
In terms of economic strength and family background, the liu yan brothers actually did not have an advantage, which is the essential reason for their weak strength in the early stage of the uprising, because there was no strong capital paving, Liu Xiu could only ride an ox to fight in the early stage of the uprising, which was enough to show that their team was indeed relatively shabby.
The team was shabby, coupled with no family background, the Liu Yan brothers in the early stage of the uprising were obviously weak and weak, and they needed to lean back against a big tree to cool off, that is, under the influence of such practical factors, they found the Green Forest Army that had developed relatively strongly, hoping to join them in a partnership to do a career.
In terms of strength, the Green Forest Army may not look down on Liu Yan at all, but from the perspective of Liu Yan's origins, the Green Forest Army needed such a figure most at that time, after all, Liu Yan and Liu Xiu were both descendants of the royal family, and in that historical background at that time, the appeal and legitimacy were stronger.
Out of consideration for these practical factors, the green forest army boss agreed to Liu Yan's partnership application, Liu Yan and others finally found a large team, with more resources to develop their own team, Liu Xiu did not have to continue to ride a bull to participate in the war, but do you think these green forest army really look up to Liu Xiu? In fact, this was not the case, and the little nine-nine in their hearts was soon revealed.
The Green Forest Army did not trust the Liu Yan brothers
At that time, the Green Forest Army was divided into four forces, namely Xinshi Bing, Pinglin Bing, Xiajiang Bing, and Liu Yan's Lingling Soldiers, among the four forces, Liu Yan's composition and concept were completely different from the other three, and the remaining three forces were mostly composed of some ordinary people with low culture, they lacked faith in their hearts, the purpose of the uprising was to be able to get some benefits, and most of them were the children of the rich family, everyone had a high level of education, and the faith in their hearts was also very firm. The uprising was to overthrow Wang Mang's regime and establish a new regime.
Since everyone has different ideas, there are naturally many contradictions in the process of getting along in peacetime, the most obvious is that when the spoils of war are divided after the victory of the war, the difference between everyone is very obvious, such as Liu Yan, who has culture and ideals, generally put the overall situation as the most important, hoping to use the booty in future wars, while the rest of the people are holding the attitude of having wine in the present and drunk in the present, and dividing the booty into their own, everyone often has differences of opinion because of these things, and over time, the other three forces are quite dissatisfied with Liu Yan.
Not only that, Liu Yan's development after the partnership has also aroused the great attention of the other three forces, as mentioned earlier, their team's equipment is the worst, but the performance in the war is the best, Liu Xiu riding bulls can win many battles, and the rest of the big men in the Green Forest Army are very jealous of liu Yan and the two brothers.
It was also in this context that the phenomenon of liu xuan being elected as the emperor of the rebel army appeared later. Before the election, Liu Yan should be allowed to know, but the other three forces were worried that Liu Yan would stop them once he knew, and even wanted to become emperor himself, so they privately found Liu Xuan as the emperor candidate.
Who is Liu Xuan? He is also a descendant of the Han Dynasty royal family, but usually there is no achievement in the Green Forest Army, the reason why everyone will find Liu Xuan to be the emperor of the rebel army, is because on the one hand, Liu Xuan is also a descendant of the Han Dynasty royal family, with natural appeal, on the other hand, Liu Xuan is relatively weak, there is not much sense of existence in the army, it is convenient for everyone to control him.
After comprehensively considering these factors, everyone chose Liu Xuan, and after making a good decision, they set up a bureau to inform Liu Yan, at that time Liu Yan did not know, there was no preparation to participate in the bureau they set up, everyone made all preparations, forced Liu Yan to promise to let Liu Xuan become the emperor of the rebel army, if Liu Yan did not agree, he would kill him, in the face of such a threat, Liu Yan had no way but to agree to everyone's decision, so Liu Xuan became the emperor of the rebel army, known as the first emperor.
Liu Xuan plotted to kill Liu Yan
Liu Xuan, who is harmless to everyone, is actually a role of playing a pig and eating a tiger, he is not only not a weak person, but also a fierce person, after becoming the first emperor, Liu Xuan was jealous of Liu Yan's power, and he was also worried that Liu Yan would affect his throne, so he planned to eliminate Liu Yan.
In order to eliminate Liu Yan, Liu Xuan specially separated Liu Xiu and Liu Yan's brothers, arranged for Liu Xiu to fight Against Wang Mang's 420,000 troops, and dealt with so many people, Liu Xuan only gave Liu Xiu seventeen thousand horses, it was obvious that Liu Xuan wanted to put Liu Yan's brothers in one pot, Liu Xiu went to fight the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xuan and others set up a Hongmen banquet, wanting to kill Liu Yan.
Liu Xiu was a wise man, and he repeatedly persuaded Liu Yan not to attend the Hongmen banquet, but Liu Yan simply looked down on Liu Xuan and others, and he felt that those people were incompetent people and could not do anything with him, so he did not listen to Liu Xiu's persuasion to participate in the Hongmen banquet, and as a result, there was no doubt that Liu Yan was killed by Liu Xuan at this Hongmen banquet.
Young Liu Yan, died at the hands of Liu Xuan, to say that Liu Yan's death, the biggest problem is that he underestimated Liu Xuan and others, in fact, after Liu Xuan ascended the throne, he has been sending people deep into Liu Yan's interior, Liu Xiu has seen that Li Rank and others have two hearts, and usually have close contact with Liu Xuan, telling Liu Yan to be more careful, as a result, Liu Yan has always not listened to advice, and finally died at the hands of Li Rank, do you say sad?
When Liu Yan died, Liu Xiu was still on the battlefield, originally Liu Xuan was planning to destroy Liu Yan and Liu Xiu's brothers together, who had thought that Liu Xiu was the son of a face, even if there were only seventeen thousand horses in his hand against Wang Mang's 420,000 troops, he could still have heavenly help, and finally the meteorite from heaven helped Liu Xiu win the Battle of Kunyang, creating a war miracle in the era of cold weapons, Liu Xuan and others were almost shocked.
Seeing that Liu Xiu was so powerful, Liu Xuan also panicked, and he was worried that Liu Xiu would eliminate him in the name of revenge for Liu Yan, so he immediately issued a notice saying that the killing of Liu Yan was only aimed at Liu Yan personally and had nothing to do with Liu Xiu or the other members of the Lingling Army. With Liu Xuan's statement, Liu Xiu naturally did not know what to do to Liu Xuan, and the key was that Liu Xiu's strength at that time was not enough to clean up Liu Xuan, so he could only endure.
The matter of Liu Yan's death was gradually diluted in the passage of time, liu Xuan also seemed to forget that Liu Xiu was a lucky person, so he had the idea of eradicating Liu Xiu, he transferred Liu Xiu to Hebei to recruit troops and horses, and wanted to use the rebel army in Hebei to get rid of Liu Xiu, as a result, this time Liu Xiu once again murdered Ji, married Liu Yang's niece Guo Shengtong, and won the support of Liu Yang's family, Liu Xiu not only was not destroyed, but gained a foothold in Hebei, and gradually opposed emperors and others.
Later things we all know, Liu Xiu all the way to hang, eradicated all enemies, and finally established the Eastern Han Dynasty, became the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but also became one of the most perfect emperors in history, posterity basically dare not mention Liu Xiu's legendary story, because it is really perfect to be unreal.
epilogue
The blindness of the big man of the Green Forest Army led to the fact that at the best stage of the development of the Green Forest Army, liu Yan who had the ability was not allowed to ascend the throne, but liu Xuan was allowed to ascend the throne, which laid the groundwork for their tragedy later, and what was worse was that the more narrow-mindedness of the first emperor led to Liu Yan's innocent and tragic death, laying the groundwork for Liu Xiu to part ways with them in the later period, and these people themselves could follow Liu Xiu to build a meritorious career, but the pattern was too small, and they could only become the eliminators of history!
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