Liu Xiu is the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, as a founding emperor, and is a legendary founding emperor, Liu Xiu's sense of existence in the later life does not seem to be very high, and even few people mention Liu Xiu, historians rarely record Liu Xiu's legendary deeds in detail, but only a stroke.
Many people think that the main reason why Liu Xiu's sense of existence is not high is because of his limited ability, but as long as people who are slightly familiar with history will find that Liu Xiu is not only very capable, but also very legendary, so what is the reason that future generations rarely mention such a founding emperor?
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > save the country from fire and water</h1>
For an emperor, if you want to have a topic, the hardships of the entrepreneurial process must be the place where historians write big books, such as the difficult process of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms, historians often write close-ups, and Liu Bang began to start a business in his early forties, defeated the strong enemy Xiang Yu along the way, and finally established the Western Han Dynasty, which is also very topical and very inspirational, even if it is the later entrepreneurial process such as Li Shimin's father and son, Zhu Yuanzhang, etc., it is also quite difficult, full of strong enemies along the way, ups and downs, and people are terrified.
These entrepreneurial stories are very interesting, bitter and sweet, there are successes and failures, which make people look very real, but Liu Xiu's entrepreneurial path, compared with these emperors, is really too smooth, and even makes people feel lucky to be unreal, he only took three years, from a people with nothing to become emperors.
Some people may say that Liu Xiu is not a descendant of Liu Bang? Of course, there is nothing to dispute, Liu Xiu is indeed the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, but the Western Han Dynasty implemented the Tuien Order during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and many descendants of the royal family have been reduced to ordinary people in the later period, Liu Xiu is such a existence, and in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu was just an obscure peasant.
However, this seemingly inconspicuous peasant, as soon as he appeared on the scene, he brought his own legend, when his brother Liu Yan planned to start a military, many subordinates did not want to follow his life, but after Liu Xiu stood in the crowd in a general uniform, everyone vowed to follow Liu Xiu's brothers to the death, and I have to say that Liu Xiu's charm is indeed unusual.
In 23 AD, Liu Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty was proclaimed emperor, known in history as the "Gengshi Emperor", and Liu Xiu was awarded the title of General of Taichang for his meritorious service. Soon after, Emperor Gengshi sent Liu Xiu to lead nine thousand soldiers to Kunyang to meet Wang Mang's 420,000 troops, in most people's opinion, this battle was tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble, but Liu Xiu insisted on encouraging the morale of the soldiers, so that everyone must die in the position, and Wang Mang's army fought to the end, the generals listened to Liu Xiu's arrangement, insisted on fighting Wang Mang's army to the end, at the critical moment, there was a supernatural phenomenon, heavy rain suddenly, meteorites fell from the sky, helping Liu Xiu win this war, and liu Xiu's life was opened from then on.
Because the Battle of Kunyang Liu Xiu's brothers made great contributions, emperor Gengshi was worried that they would threaten his throne, so he attacked first, and before Liu Xiu returned to the dynasty, he killed Liu Yan, and after Liu Xiu returned to the dynasty, emperor Gengshi also wanted to eradicate it at first, but in the conversation with Liu Xiu, he found that Liu Xiu had no ambition to become emperor at all, so he temporarily let him go.
Soon after, Emperor Gengshi wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, arranged for Liu Xiu to go to Hebei to recruit An, where Wang Lang and others were entrenched, when Liu Xiu arrived in Hebei, Wang Lang had already claimed the title of emperor, Liu Xiu's trip was tantamount to sending him to death, but when he arrived in Hebei, Liu Yang appeared, saying that as long as Liu Xiu married his niece Guo Shengtong as his wife, he could help Liu Xiu eradicate Wang Lang, Liu Xiu had no choice, married Guo Shengtong, and everything after that came naturally.
Emperor Gengshi originally planned to eliminate Liu Xiu, but he did not expect that Liu Xiu actually camped in Hebei and became his biggest enemy, and Emperor Shi was so angry with Liu Xiu's actions that he directly sent hundreds of thousands of troops to Hebei to suppress Liu Xiu, and as a result, these hundreds of thousands of troops were easily taken by Liu Xiu, and emperors stepped down, Liu Xiu declared himself emperor in Hebei, established the Eastern Han regime, and it took only three years from his army to emperor.
After becoming emperor, Liu Xiu, with the help of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, constantly conquered the four sides and unified the world, ending the chaotic situation of the country since the end of the Western Han Dynasty, once again making the country stable and unified, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, his contribution to the whole country was quite large, but the process of entrepreneurship was too legendary, and it was often interpreted as a mythical story, so later generations wanted to record Liu Xiu from the process of his entrepreneurship, and it was really impossible to write.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > treat others with great tolerance</h1>
Since the entrepreneurial process is too legendary to write, then for the founding emperor, there should always be some killing heroes or suspicious things, right? For example, Liu Xiu's ancestor Liu Bang, after founding the Western Han Dynasty, he and his wife Lü Yanli yingwai, sang a double reed play, and eliminated all the princes of different surnames who had been crowned, such as Han Xin, Peng Yue, and other great generals who had followed him to build meritorious careers, all of which were eliminated by Liu Bang, in order to prevent them from making meritorious contributions to the lord, so as to lay the foundation for the dominance of future generations.
In addition to Liu Bang, the later Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, and others all had similar behaviors, especially Zhu Yuanzhang, in the matter of eradicating the founding heroes, left too many places worthy of big books for posterity, so did Liu Xiu not have similar behavior?
The answer is very disappointing, those heroes who followed Liu Xiu to fight the world together, even the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai with the greatest merit, all of them were able to die well, Liu Xiu treated them, exactly like his own relatives, not only added officials to the knighthood, even if there were any good things, he would think of sharing a little with them, such a monarch, in the history of the feudal dynasty, almost became the most special existence, the history books can only helplessly praise Liu Xiu as a clear stream among the emperors, in addition, there is nothing else to say.
In fact, Liu Xiu not only treated his own heroes very friendly and tolerant, he treated the rest of the people, is also tolerant, at the beginning of Liu Xiu's establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he formulated a lot of bills that are conducive to the lives of the people, or protect vulnerable groups, such as Liu Xiu for the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, formulated a bill of regular subsidies, the treatment of the elderly, children and women, the punishment of the elderly, children and women, has also been reduced, even the lowest status slave at that time, Liu Xiu also issued six edicts, to liberate slaves, prohibit the abuse and killing of slaves, these bills, In the historical background at that time, it was completely incomprehensible to people, but Liu Xiu was able to issue it and execute it normally, which was very admirable.
You see, if you want to record Liu Xiu from some of the ways That Liu Xiu treated the heroes and the people, it turns out that it is still perfect, even if I write this article today, I feel that there is no way to start, not to mention those historians in ancient times, who want to write Liu Xiu in a big book, it is really difficult for them.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > family harmony and self-improvement</h1>
Writing Liu Xiu from the entrepreneurial process and Liu Xiu's treatment of ministers, I feel that it is impossible to write, so let's write from Liu Xiu's family trivia and his own behavior, we should always find some flaws, right? After all, the emperors who are famous for family trivia in history are not one or two, such as Liu Xiu's ancestor Liu Bang, who was criticized by later generations because his wife Lü Yan almost usurped power and seized the throne, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was usurped by his wife Wu Zetian and triggered the reflection of later generations, these are all because of his wife who were specially written by the People's Congress, and some were specially written by the people because of their descendants, such as Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng competing for the throne, Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty launched a mutiny to compete for the throne of his nephew Zhu Yunjiao, and the nine sons of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty seized the throne. These are all the emperor's family affairs that have impressed future generations.
There are also some emperors who are famous for their own private affairs, such as the unclear and unclear relationship between Li Shimin and his sister-in-law Yang Shi, the story between Li Longji and his daughter-in-law Yang Guifei, etc., which are all private affairs of the emperor himself, but they have become gossip after tea and dinner in later generations.
With so many historical events, it is enough to show that even if an emperor has no problems in other aspects, as long as there are some flaws in family affairs and private affairs, it can still instantly arouse the interest of future generations, but unfortunately, Liu Xiu is still a different kind in these aspects.
First of all, from the perspective of Liu Xiu's wife, Liu Xiu married two wives, Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong, and at that time, it was generally the implementation of the "polygamous concubine system", like Liu Xiu's violation of the system, directly marrying two regular wives, if it is handled poorly, it will cause a lot of gossip, but Liu Xiu handled it quite beautifully.
In their own entrepreneurial stage, the families of the two wives strongly supported Liu Xiu, and after becoming emperor, Guo Shengtong first gave birth to a son Liu Jiang for Liu Xiu, and at first Liu Xiu wanted to establish Yin Lihua as empress, and as a result, Yin Lihuaqian gave way to Guo Shengtong, so that Guo Shengtong became Liu Xiu's first empress, and Liu Jiang also became the crown prince.
However, because Liu Xiu has always been more fond of Yin Lihua, so later after Yin Lihua gave birth to a child, Liu Xiu planned to make Yin Lihua empress, Guo Shengtong was very knowledgeable and cooperated with Liu Xiu, after being deposed as an empress, Liu Xiu placed her to live in the North Palace, giving her the identity of "Empress Wang", after Yin Lihua became empress, she was still very friendly to Guo Shengtong, so Guo Shengtong was able to die well.
After Guo Shengtong was deposed, the crown prince Liu Jiang also took the initiative to give way, Yin Lihua's son became the prince, after his ascension to the throne, the treatment of Liu Jiang was the same as brothers, and there was no cannibalism or open strife between the two brothers, which simply made future generations feel incredible.
Although Liu Xiu has undergone a series of changes in the matter of lihou and the establishment of the prince, when dealing with such a tricky matter, Liu Xiu was actually able to do it impeccable, which was simply perfect, leaving future generations with nothing to say. As for Liu Xiu's own private affairs, it is needless to say that he has been clean and self-righteous all his life, and Yin Lihua is as loving as ever, which makes people envious, and there is no way to criticize him.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Many times, the reason why an emperor is easy to be remembered by future generations, mainly not because of his merits or perfection, but because of its defects, after reading history, we have to admit such a law, the reason why Liu Xiu has a low sense of existence in later generations and historians, the main reason is that his life is too perfect, simply perfect to some unreal, so that people can not write!
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