In 23 AD, Liu Xiu gathered more than 8,000 clan members to raise an army in the Lingling (Zaoyang area of Hubei), and Liu Xiusui suggested uniting with the displaced people near the Lingling to arm the Green Forest tribes. Green Forest earlier in the Lingling Liu clan rebelled against Wang Mang's new dynasty rule, but at first the influence was limited to the area around the town of Lulin in DahongShan, Hubei Province, and later the officers and soldiers besieged and suppressed Wang Kuang and Wang Feng several times to ambush the officers and soldiers led by Wang Kuang and Wang Feng, and captured a large number of materials and weapons, and the strength of the Green Forest Tribe increased dramatically, suddenly expanding to more than 30,000 people, which caused panic in Jingzhou Mu, so it mobilized heavy troops to prepare to eliminate this stream of displaced bandits in one fell swoop, at this time, the heavens also made a joke to the Green Forest People, and the plague broke out in the Green Forest Cottage. The Green Forest Department lost more than half of the troops, and there was a split within the Green Forest, and the Green Forest Department dispersed its property into three parts, Wang Kuang and Wang Feng led the first department to lead the army to the area of Xinshi In the area of Xinshi Insa County (northeast of present-day Beijing Mountain, Hubei), Chen Mu and Liao Zhanling were called Pinglin Soldiers in Pinglin (northeast of present-day Sui County, Hubei), and Wang Chang and Cheng Dan led one department as Xiajiang Soldiers. In order to survive, each ministry plundered the surrounding counties to expand its strength.
After the uprising, Liu Xiu took Liu Xiu's suggestion to send Liu Jia, a descendant of the clan, to contact the Green Forest tribesmen, at this time only the Green Forest New City Department and the Peace Forest Department were near the Lingling, the Xiajiang soldiers were missing, Wang Kuang and Wang Feng led the Green Forest New City and the Pinglin Second Department to the Lingling to form an alliance with Liu Xiu, so the rebel troops reached nearly 30,000 people, and the rebels and the Nanyang County Capital Zhenfu and Liang Qiu gave the new army Xiao Chang'an a bloody battle, Liu Shuzhu Tiandu And The Second Green Forest Department lost more than half of the losses and retreated to Zhiyang (in the area of Gaomiao Township in the northeast of Present-day Xinye, Henan). After xiao Chang'an's defeat, Liu Ji heard that another subordinate of the Xiajiang soldiers in the green forest was now transferred to Yiqiu (in present-day southeastern Tanghe County, Henan), so he took Liu Xiu to the Xiajiang barracks to persuade Wang Chang to join forces, and gave the Xiajiang soldiers a high courtesy, and Wang Chang also admired Liu Ji's prestige and went to Zhiyang to join the army. Of course, Liu Ji's personal xiajiang barracks also laid the foundation for the division of several alliances in the later period, which caused extreme imbalance in the hearts of the new city of Green Forest and the second department of Pinglin, and when he first asked himself to make an alliance, he sent an insignificant person to welcome the lower river soldier Liu Ji to personally go, and there were obvious signs of drawing and dividing the various departments of the green forest.
After several alliances, Liu Ji commanded the various units to achieve the great victory of The Tangshui River (around the Tangbai River in present-day Tanghe County, Henan), annihilating Wang Mang's 100,000 main forces in one fell swoop, capturing countless goods and weapons, the strength of the rebel army exploded, and the surrounding haojie rich men slowly joined the rebel army, and the number of rebel troops once reached more than 100,000. Originally, the rebel troops were composed of Liu Jizhu Tiandu's department, Xinshi's troops, Pinglin's troops, and Xiajiang's troops, and Wang Kuang's subordinates were often contradicted by Wang Feng and Wang Kuang because of the plague on the Green Forest Mountain, so they fell to Liu Jiao's side, and according to the existing strength, Liu Ji and the Green Forest's strength could produce a 1:1 equivalent result, and even the strength was higher than that of the Green Forest. Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, and others of the Green Forest Department felt that Liu Ji's forces in the middle of the day were a serious threat to the interests of several of their own Green Forest Departments, so they sent Zhang Jiao and others who originally belonged to the Xiajiang Army to use tactics to win over the rest of the Xiajiang generals except Wang Chang (Cheng Dan and others, who were equal to Wang Chang's status, were drawn to the Green Forest side).
At this time, there was also a problem in front of the Green Forest people, the rebels were playing the banner of "Kuang Fu Han Room", Liu Ji was the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the descendant of Liu Fa, the sixth son of Liu Qi of the Han Jing Emperor, and was a descendant of the imperial family recognized by the world, and the Green Forest people could never support Liu Ji as emperor, that was not in their own interests, and the only feasible way was to support a person who had the status of an imperial descendant and was not a descendant of the Lingling Pillar Tiandubu Group. Liu Xuan, who eventually served as An Jituo under Chen Mu and Liao Zhan of the Green Forest Pinglin Department, became their most ideal candidate, this person had been under the care of the Green Forest General shuai for a long time because of his crime, and Liu Xuan was also the queen of Changsha, and the patriarchal family with Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu, and others were still relatives who had not yet served five times, and supporting a puppet who could represent the interests of the Green Forest and belonged to the same Imperial Family of The Lingling was obviously the best solution to balance the interests of all parties at that time. Therefore, in February 23 AD, the people of the Green Forest Forced Liu Xuan to ascend the throne as emperor and establish a new regime.
Liu Xuan was actually not a coward, after ascending the throne and becoming emperor, he began to cultivate his own forces, co-opt Nanyang Haoqiang, began to co-opt and divide the various departments of the Green Forest, and even some of the relatives of the Liu clan in Lingling also began to fall to Liu Xuan, Liu Xuan seemed to want to become a third-party force outside the Zhu Tiandu Department and the Green Forest Department, zhu Kun and Li Yi of the Green Forest Department, at the behest of Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, and others, they made a statement to frame Liu Xuan's four major crimes of rebellion, and Liu Xuan deliberately showed a look of being coerced by the Green Forest and had to kill Liu Xuan. The blame for the unjust murder of Liu Bosheng was all held on the green forest department, and since then, the notoriety of the green forest department for killing heroes has spread far and wide, and the green forest departments have also produced irreconcilable contradictions at this time. After the First World War in Kunyang, Wang Mang lost 420,000 elites to the whole country, and the demise of the new dynasty became a matter of time sooner or later, and Liu Xiu had to be held hostage by Liu Xuan because his eldest brother Liu Xiu was wrongfully killed. Soon after, Liu Xuan sent the elite of the Green Forest Department to attack Luoyang, and sent Li Song, Shen Tujian, and others who had cultivated their own forces to enter Guanzhong from the west of Wuguan and capture Chang'an. Around September of the first year of the first year, the first regime conquered the two cities of Luoyang and Chang'an, the forces under the heavens began to worship the first regime as the orthodoxy of the Great Han, and various princes began to send emissaries to negotiate the submission of this new regime of the Great Han, like the Chimei rebels in Qingzhou and Xuzhou in the east were ready to surrender, Liu Yonglai, a descendant of Liu Wu, the former king of Liangzhou, also surrendered to the first regime, and Liu Wenbo (formerly known as Lu Fang) of the counties of The Northern Regions of Anding also surrendered, only Gongsun Shu of Yizhou did not say anything. Since then, the regime has become the most powerful party in the world.
Liu Xuan was actually a man of considerable ingenuity and would balance the interests of all parties, and it can be seen from his ascension to the throne that he was the empress dowager to win over haoqiang and get rid of Liu Ji by the hand of The Green Forest. However, since he moved the capital to Chang'an, he has coveted pleasure and lived a life of extravagance and corruption, and the major affairs of the DPRK and China have been handled by Li Song and others, resulting in chaos in the dprk and great disappointment of the common people and various submissive forces. Under the condition that the foundation was unstable, Liu Xuan thought that he could determine the world, and the forces he could actually control were limited to the Nanyang region, the Guanzhong Plain, and the Luoyang Sili, and it was too early to talk about the great determination of the world. First, without establishing an effective administrative institution to rule a country like a mountain king, the result is rapid disintegration. Second, there is no unified army command system, although there are no less than 300,000 elite divisions, and each department fights for itself. Third, there was no good balance of interests for the submissive forces on all sides, resulting in the millions of people in the East Chimei being forced to rebel, Liu Yong actually out of control, and the southern Forces such as Zhang Feng and Tian Rong were divided into autonomous forces, so that Liu Xuan had to use Liu Xiu, a capable person who held the festival in Hebei, to suppress the Eastern Chimei Army. Fourth, the kings were greatly divided, from the Lingling clan to the Green Forest Tribe, a total of 19 kings were crowned, resulting in the further dispersion of imperial power under the situation of the division of princes. In short, a very good deck of cards was beaten in the hand, and finally Chimei entered Chang'an, and the Green Forest people surrendered to the Chimei army, and joined hands with Chimei to kill the first emperor Liu Xuan.