Many netizens have always called Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Guangwu Emperor, the son of the face. Xiaobian was really crying and laughing after inquiring about what was the "son of the face". This word is actually specifically used to describe the good fortune of the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, which is the meaning of the son of heavenly choice. So let's talk about Liu Xiu's real luck today that he can become emperor? Let's look down.
Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, was born in Jiyang County, Chenliu County. Don't look at Liu Xiu as the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, but since Emperor Jing implemented the Tuien Order, Liu Xiu's father Liu Qin's generation, he was only a minor official like Jiyang County Ling. It is said that in the year of Liu Xiu's birth, there was sunlight shining on the whole room, and the rice grass had one stem and nine ears, so it was named Xiu. It is estimated that this is also added by posterity, after all, the birth of the emperor always accompanies the heavenly descent. Liu Xiu's father died in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, so Liu Xiu and his brother and sister, who were only 9 years old, became orphans and had no one to live on, so they had to return to their ancestral hometown of Baishui Village in Zaoyang, relying on their uncle Liu Liang to raise them, and became ordinary civilians.
Since the Western Han Dynasty Emperor Yuan, the government has been declining day by day. When he arrived at the Hancheng Emperor, he was even more dazed. Not to mention Wang Mangli's Hanping Emperor and the two puppet lords of the baby baby. In 8 AD, Wang Mang finally unloaded his hypocritical side. Abolished the baby and grandchildren to formally ascend the throne as emperor on behalf of the Han Dynasty, established a new dynasty, and established the Yuan "founding the country". It also ended 214 years of western Han rule.
Wang Mang is a very interesting person, Wang Mang is a very capable person when he is assisting the government. It is normal and reliable to just become an emperor, but he may feel that being an ordinary emperor is no challenge, and he also has to realize his ambitions. So he began to implement the New Deal unscrupulously. Including land reform, currency reform, commercial reform, and official name county names, a series of reforms that overthrew the former dynasty.
Here it is particularly clear that Wang Mang's inspiration did not come from later generations, but from the earlier Zhou Dynasty, in short, Wang Mang was not thinking ahead, he was restoring ancient rituals. Wang Mang's statement of "crosser" is unreliable, and we will talk about it in Wang Mang's chapter. In short, because of Wang Mang's series of acts of death, the interests of the upper and strongest, the lower and the commoners were touched. Coupled with the continuous natural disasters such as water and drought, the vast Central Plains are thousands of miles away and mournful. Finally, during the new Mangtianfeng years, dozens of large and small peasant armies such as Chimei, Green Forest, and Copper Horse rose up one after another, and a large number of powerful landlords also began to take advantage of the situation and began to fall recklessly. Suddenly the world was in chaos.
Although Liu Xiu was named a descendant of the imperial family at that time, he belonged to the distant branch of the Shu lineage. Liu Xiu's personality is different from that of his eldest brother Liu Xiu, who does not have a family to live in, befriends the world's haojie, and wants to achieve great things, while Liu Xiu is extremely cautious and careful in handling things. However, after careful consideration, Liu Xiu still joined hands with his eldest brother Liu Xiu to formally raise an army against Wang Mang in Lingling under the banner of "restoring the cause of the ancestors of the high ancestors and fixing the autumn of the ten thousand worlds".
In the first year of the First Year of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xuan was proclaimed emperor by the main generals of the Green Forest Army, and Jianyuan "More Beginning" was for the First Emperor. Liu Xiu was made the Grand Situ, and Liu Xiu was made a general of taichang. The establishment of the first political power and the reuse of the banner of the Han Dynasty greatly shook the new dynasty, and Wang Mang immediately dispatched a total of 420,000 elite troops from various prefectures and counties to the line of Kunyang and Wancheng, in an attempt to extinguish the new first regime in one fell swoop. The battle was 9,000 rebels against Wang Mang's 420,000 men. No matter how you look at the rebels, they have lost. But at this moment, Liu Xiu showed the side of the emperor, Liu Xiu persuaded the generals to guard their homes, and he only took a dozen people out of the city to ask for help, and even raised nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses!
Just when Wang Mang's army was tired from a long siege and his vigor was greatly reduced, Liu Xiu led his army to sneak attack Wang Mang's army, and for a time there was no one to stop. The rebels in the city saw the chaos in Wang Mang's army and rushed out of the city. Originally, under the attack of the rebel army, Wang Mang's army had been chaotic, but something more magical appeared, at this time, suddenly the wind was fierce, the rain was pouring, the water was soaring, and more than 10,000 people of Wang Mang's army were drowned, and the water did not flow. This is also the battle of liu xiu's son of the face. And it was not the meteorites that fell from the sky alone that killed Wang Mang's four hundred thousand people.
In September of the first year of the first year, the Green Forest Army invaded Chang'an, Wang Mang died in the melee, and the new dynasty collapsed. Liu Xiu, who had made the first contribution in the Battle of Kunyang, attacked the city from the south without stopping, and at this time, bad news came, and Liu Xiu's eldest brother Sima Liu Ji was killed by Emperor Gengshi. His brother was killed for no reason, and Liu Xiu was very angry, but Liu Xiu put up with it. In order not to be jealous of Emperor Gengshi, Liu Xiu hurried back to Wancheng to apologize to Liu Xuan. Liu Xuan saw that Liu Xiu had a good attitude and not only did not blame, but instead made Liu Xiuwu the Marquis of Faith, and in the same year Liu Xiu also married the goddess Yin Lihua.
At that time, although the New Mang Dynasty collapsed, all the prefectures and counties in Hebei were holding a wait-and-see attitude, and they did not return to the original regime, and the Chimei Army developed rapidly and grew in Shandong. In the same year, Liu Xuan sent Liu Xiubei to cross the Yellow River to recruit the Hebei rebels. But the light of Liu Xiu's leader was highlighted at this moment. Liu Xiu grew stronger in Hebei, and Liu Xuan was extremely uneasy, so he sent an envoy to Hebei, made Liu Xiu the Prince of Xiao and asked Liu Xiu to return to Beijing to be enthroned. Liu Xiu saw that he was already strong enough to compete with Liu Xuan and completely broke with Liu Xuan.
In 25 AD, Liu Xiu, with the support of all the generals, took the throne as emperor at the Qianqiu Pavilion in Yancheng, Hebei Province, jianyuan jianwu, and also opened the Eastern Han Dynasty for more than a hundred years! But at this time, Liu Xiu still failed to unify the whole country. Later, he successively pacified the Chimei Army, Zhang Xun the Prince of Qi, Dong Xian the King of Haixi, and Gongsun Shu. It was not until Liu Xiu ascended the throne in the twelfth year of Jianwu that it took a full twelve years to finally conquer the world, so that the ancient China that had been torn apart and fought for many years since the end of Xinmang was once again unified! Therefore, everyone says that Liu Xiu is the son of the face of the small editor is not recognized. Because we can't use these simple four words to deny Liu Xiu's hard work for more than ten years!
Liu Xiu has experienced hundreds of battles in his life and worked hard to start a business. After ascending the throne, he was able to cultivate the martial arts and exert himself to govern with great efforts. The heroes who followed Liu Xiu to the army can also do a good start and a good end. Especially for his wife Yin Lihua, she is a harem beauty of three thousand, but Liu Xiu only loves one person. The descendant Nan Huaijin once said: In China's history of about two thousand years, it is more commendable, and the example of being able to achieve the Qi family's rule of the country is probably only Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Alas, how many things in ancient and modern times are finally laughed at!