Emperor Porter - Emperor Gao Liu Bang (Western Han Dynasty)

Year of birth and death: 256-195 BC, father: Liu Taigong, mother: Liu Shi

Reigned: 206-195 BC;

Mausoleum: Chang'an Changling

Liu Bang, the first civilian emperor in Chinese history to ascend to the throne by a peasant uprising, combined righteousness and cunning to stand out in the warlord melee in the late Qin Dynasty and establish the Western Han Dynasty.

The "scoundrel" who weighs up the situation during the tribulation

Liu Bang is the third son of the rural villager Liu Taigong, from an early age smart and clever, but does not love to study, but is reluctant to farm, all day long idle, often wandering in the village and town, becoming a typical, but he has a bold personality, open-minded, but also quickly met a group of like-minded friends.

After the unification of the Qin state, Liu Bang became the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion (the pavilion chief assisted the Yamen to maintain law and order), with excellent communication skills, Liu Bang mixed up like a fish, the underworld and white roads had a little fame, but Liu Bang was greedy and lustful, hooked up everywhere, and also conceived a son without marriage with a woman surnamed Cao, and later, Lü Gonghui saw the pearls and married his daughter Lü Yan to Liu Bang, and Lü Yan was the famous Empress Lü in history.

In 210 BC, Liu Bang was ordered to escort the criminal husband to Lishan to build the imperial mausoleum, because a large number of people fled, Liu Bang could not make a difference, simply let all the personnel go, and with the support of everyone, he captured Pei County, as the "Duke of Pei", openly opposed Qin.

Preemptive entry

After the uprising, recruiting soldiers and horses became a small warlord, and many nobles of the Six Kingdoms also rose up in the same period, including Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu was originally the son of the famous Chu general Xiang Yan, and after starting an army, he became the leader of many rebel armies, And Xiang Yu gathered the rebel army (including Liu Bang) and supported Xiong Xin, the grandson of the old King of Chu Huai, as the King of Chu Huai, and set the capital at Xuyi, Jiangsu. Later, the State of Qin attacked the State of Zhao, Zhao asked for help from Chu, and Chu decided to divide the army into two routes, one was to go north to the rescue of Xiang Yu, and the other was to enter Guanzhong by Liu Bangxi, and the King of Chu Huai agreed that "the one who enters Guanzhong first, Wang Zhi." ”

Since the main force of the Qin army was attacking the State of Zhao, Liu Bang successfully entered Guanzhong first, and he resettled the displaced people, resumed production, and won the support of the people.

A feast of dangers at the Gate of Hongmen

Xiang Yu knew that after Liu Bang entered Guanzhong, he came to attack Liu Bang and wanted to become the king of Guanzhong, and the army was stationed at Hongmen. Liu Bang knew that his strength was disparity, humble and subordinate, Liu Bang came to Hongmen to see Xiang Yu, at the banquet, Liu Bang tried his best to show that he did not want to be the king of Guanzhong, with the help of Xiang Bo, Fan Duo and others, Liu Bang successfully escaped, which is the famous "Hongmen Banquet" in history.

Chu and Han competed for the world

After the Feast at Hongmen, Xiang Yu declared himself the King of Western Chu as the lord of the anti-Qin alliance, and then divided the princes of the world at the Pavilion, made Liu Bang the King of Han, and sent to the remote Southern Zheng of Bashu. Liu Bang knew that his strength was temporarily powerless to compete with Xiang Yu, and obediently went to Nanzheng. Because Of Xiang Yu's unfair division of seals, the disobedience of the princes, civil strife broke out, Xiang Yu was all kinds of conquests, Liu Bang rose along the trend, forming a situation of chu and Han contention, and finally Xiang Yu's army was defeated and killed himself in Wujiang, and Chu Han finally ended with Liu Bang's victory.

Founded Han Room World

After the victory of the Chu-Han war, the 55-year-old Liu Bang officially declared himself emperor in Dingtao, Shandong, with the state name of Han and the capital chang'an (present-day Xi'an). Liu Bang was a very talented emperor, first to develop production and solve the people's livelihood, and then in order to consolidate the imperial power, he seized Han Xin's military power, moved the nobles of the original Six Kingdoms into Guanzhong, strengthened surveillance, followed by Liu Bang's rebellion, Xiao He was thrown into prison, Liu Bang's brother-in-law Fan Duo was also almost punished, the counselor Zhang Liang was an understanding person, Liu Bang said that the empress handed over all her rights, pretended to be ill at home, and escaped a disaster.

Under the administration of Liu Bang, the imperial power was continuously consolidated, and the national strength of the Western Han Dynasty gradually increased, and after Liu Bang conquered Yingbu, he was seriously injured by an arrow and could not be healed, at the age of 62. The Han Dynasty he founded, after more than 400 years, formed a far-reaching influence on Han culture.