In ancient times, there were many emperors who were as talented as the Qin Emperor Han Wu and the general martial arts of Wenzhi, but there were only two emperors who could be called "magical", one was Wang Mang, known as the "Crosser", and the other was Liu Xiu, known as the "Son of the Face", coincidentally, these two emperors still appeared one after another, the "crosser" Wang Mang seized the world from the Hands of the Liu Family and opened a new dynasty, and the "Son of the Face" Liu Xiu overthrew Wang Mang's rule and returned the world to the hands of the Liu family.
"Son of the Face" only literally, many people may not know what it means, this is what some novels say, similar to the "Chosen Son", that is, this person is so lucky that God is helping him, and the whole body is the protagonist aura. Among all the emperors who eventually ascended to the throne by the civilian uprising, only Liu Xiu deserved to be called the "son of the face", and his life was really a life of opening and hanging, and his luck at a critical moment was so good that it was eye-catching.
Let's start with Wang Mang, because the series of new policies he promulgated after he ascended the throne were too much like modern measures, so he was called a "crosser". Coupled with the fact that Wang Mang seized the throne from Liu Han, and Liu Xiu was Liu Xiu's family member to rebuild the Han Dynasty, he was also known as a bug in the course of history, and the heavens sent Liu Xiu, the son of the face, to fix this bug.
Liu Xiuzu was also a royal family, because of the Han Dynasty's Tuien Order, but Liu Xiu's generation was only a small county order.
According to historical records, Liu Xiu was different when he was born, there was no light in the house when he was born, but there was a red light filling the whole room. His father asked for someone to divinate, and the divinator said, don't ask, this must be an auspicious thing.
This year, the millet planted in front of his father's house also grew unusually, with a total of three plants, each with nine ears of a stem, one or two feet longer than ordinary millet, so his father named him "Xiu".
Of course, the vision at birth may only be made up, after all, every emperor and empress will use the "vision of heavenly descent" at birth to explain that they are the chosen ones. But after Liu Xiu's participation in the uprising and rebellion, luck was really good.
Liu Xiu himself did not have much interest in seizing the throne, he preferred farming and was good at farming. But his brother Liu Yanyi has always declared to the outside world that he is the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, and he has royal blood on his body and should not be confined to a small county town. Liu Yan made friends and was a good warrior, and later Liu Yan first decided to join the uprising, and Liu Xiu decided to follow after careful consideration.
Later, the famous proverb "Liu Xiufa soldiers can't catch the way, the four Yi gather in the dragon fighting field, and the fire is the main one on the occasion of april and seven" turned out to be out of the blue, which means that in the future, there will be a person named Liu Xiu who will overthrow the current rule.
The ruler at that time was None other than Wang Mang, and Wang Mang must have been very concerned about this sentence. It also coincided with the fact that Liu Xin, the national teacher at that time, had changed his name to Liu Xiu. Moreover, Liu Xin was also one of the main helpers to help Wang Mang usurp the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu was still an unknown commoner at that time. Of course, Wang Mang would not pay attention to Liu Xiu, but only to liu Xin, the master of the state.
Sure enough, Liu Xin later plotted a rebellion and was killed after failure.
Besides, Liu Yan was preparing to revolt, but there was no willingness to follow him at all, until Liu Xiu decided to join Liu Yan, and he did not expect that his clan friends would take the initiative to follow him.
This matter is actually quite puzzling, to know that Liu Yan has made friends from the beginning and made friends with haojie in the world. Liu Xiu has been farming, and later went to study. As a result, there was an uprising, and no one followed Liu Yan, but everyone looked at Liu Xiu's face, especially Liu Xiu's classmates when he was studying, and more than twenty people joined Liu Xiu and became Liu Xiu's team for future uprisings.
Then there was another thing that only the protagonist could experience: Liu Xiu led 20,000 people and defeated Wang Mang's army of 400,000.
According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. It is recorded in the Guangwu Benji that just as Wang Mang's 400,000 troops were besieging the city and Liu Xiu was preparing to fight with 20,000 people, "at night there were meteors falling into the camp, and there were clouds like bad mountains during the day, and when the camp fell, they scattered before the ground, and the officials were tired of ambushing."
At night, meteorites suddenly fell from the sky, and only Wang Mang's people were smashed, Liu Xiu's people were unscathed, and even meteorites helped when they were lucky.
Not only that, when Wang Mang's army collapsed and fled, the wind flew and the sky rained heavily, the soldiers trampled on each other, resulting in many deaths and injuries, and the flood water flooded more than 10,000 people.
After this battle, Wang Mang was seriously injured and completely lost his combat strength. In the first year, the Green Forest Army invaded Chang'an, and Wang Mang died in the melee.
At the beginning, this era name was naturally not Liu Xiu's, but another Western Han Dynasty emperor Liu Xuan's, Liu Yan took Liu Xiu to join the Green Forest Army that year. Now that Wang Mang was dead, Liu Xuan was called emperor and was called the First Emperor. Liu Xuanyi was proclaimed emperor, because he was always jealous of Liu Yan, so he killed Liu Yan.
At this time, Liu Xiu was still fighting outside, and upon hearing this news, Liu Xiu did not recklessly rebel against Liu Xuan and avenge his brother, but went back to ask Liu Yan for his guilt and saved his life first.
Liu Xuan originally had a murderous intention for Liu Xiu, but when he saw Liu Xiu doing this, he was embarrassed and left Liu Xiu alive. However, he asked Liu Xiu to retake Hebei, and did not give any soldiers, only let him bring a few retinues.
At that time, Hebei was on the sidelines, and letting Liu Xiu go to recover Hebei by himself was undoubtedly to let him die.
However, unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Xiu arrived in Hebei, someone immediately came to defect and married Guo Shengtong, the niece of Liu Yang, the King of Zhending, thus establishing a solid alliance with King Zhending. After Liu Xiu completely regained Hebei, his men suggested that Liu Xiu fight back, kill Liu Xuan, and proclaim himself emperor.
After that, Liu Xiu swept away Guanzhong, defeated the Chimei army, collected Guandong, pacified Longxi, and collected Sichuan shu, realizing another historical unification.
Liu Xiu's life can be called a life of kaihang, "son of the face" is worthy of the name, but it is undeniable that he does have the ability, and sometimes luck itself is a kind of ability!