Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Liu Xiu, the Underrated Immediate Emperor

Among the founding emperors of all dynasties in China, Liu Xiu was an emperor who was very low-key and even vilified in the unofficial history. Not to mention folk storytelling, the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the heroes of the Ming Dynasty are flying all over the sky. Even Qian Miao, the king of Wuyue who didn't even get a "Long Live" in Pian'an, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even showed off a local folk opera "The Qian Family General".As for Liu Xiu, the one that impressed me the most was "Strike the Gold Brick". The dignified founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty became a big devil who killed the founding heroes indiscriminately. Everything that the ancestor Liu Bang did was changed and added to him. , The beautiful lyrics have been sung from generation to generation, and I don't know if the person concerned feels wronged.

Whether it is wronged or vilified, Liu Xiu in the real history has a great ability to start a family. In terms of difficult conditions, Liu Xiu is naturally inferior to his ancestor Liu Bang. When Liu Bang came out to fight the world, he was at most a village head leading a group of local hooligans. .My father was once a Nandun Ling, and he was the son of a serious landlord class and a high-ranking cadre.Even so, it is indeed not easy to conquer this country.At that time in China, Wang Mang was in chaos and uprisings were frequent. Although Liu Xiu also recruited troops in his hometown, he was just a small guerrilla force. Not on it.Therefore, Liu Xiu wisely led his army to defect to the strongest green forest peasant army.

At this time, he was very inconspicuous and never ostentatious.While other generals were scrambling for credit, he was silently strengthening himself with his head buried.Until a war broke out, pushing the low-key him to the forefront. This battle is the battle of Kunyang.At that time, Liu Xiu was just a partial general of the "Green Forest Army" of the peasant uprising army. He was ordered to cooperate with the main force to march into the Central Plains to eliminate Wang Mang's "New Dynasty" regime. Come over, the main force of the peasant army is scattered as birds and beasts.Liu Xiu’s remnants were trapped in Kunyang City, with 400,000 troops on one side and 8,000 remnants on the other. Even if Liu Xiu’s ancestor Liu Bang encountered this, his first reaction would definitely be to leave his wife and children and run for his life (there has been such a situation in history. fact).

Liu Xiu refused to accept his fate. He first encouraged the soldiers to defend to the death, and then led 13 cavalry to rush out of the siege for help.The defenders of Kunyang have solid eyes and clenched their teeth. Liu Xiu's life is not easy. The generals of the rebel army were frightened by the enemy and refused to rescue them. In a critical situation, Liu Xiu used his eloquence to dig around. Persuaded more than 10,000 soldiers to follow him.Under the city of Kunyang, Liu Xiu suddenly launched an attack from the side, and the 400,000 enemy troops collapsed in an instant and were hunted down for thousands of miles.The Battle of Kunyang, in the name of the most miraculous battle in Chinese history, will remain in the annals of history forever, but for Liu Xiu's road to the world, this is just a glorious beginning.

The Battle of Kunyang was not only a battle that showed Liu Xiu's military talents to the fullest, but more importantly, it allowed people to see Liu Xiu's courage and determination, as well as his surprising charisma, One person, 13 warriors, turned the tide of the battle from the original impossible. How did such energy come about?The air of the emperor, accompanied by the faint smoke of the Kunyang battlefield, churned in the broken land of the Central Plains. Kunyang was victorious, Wang Mang's new dynasty fell apart, and the peasant army supported Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan to take the throne. Liu Xiu, on the contrary, was suspected because of his illustrious military exploits.As soon as the regime was established, blows followed. Even Liu Xiu's brother Liu Yan was brutally killed by Emperor Gengshi.Liu Xiu knocked down her front teeth and swallowed her stomach, pretending to be loyal, and even tolerated all kinds of insulting temptations made by Liu Xuan's cronies. Finally, Liu Xuan let go of his guard and sent him to Fuzhou in Hebei county.This time, it was really "let go of the golden lock and walk away from the dragon". Liu Xiu, who had gone far away in Hebei, was like an eagle soaring into the sky. The enemy's bronze horse uprising army also came to join them.The initial few thousand troops snowballed to hundreds of thousands.Liu Xiu, who was originally a partial general under the tent of the Green Forest Army, now has hundreds of thousands of troops and has become an important force in the world.

Why is it expanding so fast? In addition to Liu Xiu's royal status, in addition to strict military discipline, buying people's hearts and other commonly used tricks, Liu Xiu has another important advantage in starting a family - honesty.For example, after recruiting the Bronze Horse Rebel Army, the other party still had doubts about Liu Xiu. At this time, Liu Xiu only took two guards to go to the Bronze Horse Barracks to offer condolences in person. There are plenty of people around, and if anyone impulsively stabs him, Emperor Liu will go to heaven.But in this dangerous move, Liu Xiu talked and laughed happily, chatted cordially with all the soldiers, asked for their health, and moved those desperadoes who murdered without batting an eyelid to tears. His master is working hard for his life." Since then, the Bronze Horse Department has been loyal to Liu Xiu and made great contributions in countless battles in the future. Under the banner, a well-known idiom in ancient China was born from this - heart-to-heart.

The family business has been raised, and the next job is to fight for the world. The situation at that time was really a mess. The two rebels in the green forest and the red eyebrows made a noise. , The huge China is falling apart.In 25 A.D., Liu Xiu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and began the pace of unifying China.In the smoky and chaotic situation, Liu Xiu keenly grasped the key point of unifying the world-first wipe out the remnants of the Green Forest Army's reform regime in various places, then fight the Red Eyebrow Rebel Army who supported the descendants of the Han Dynasty, and then gradually wipe out all the rebels. local powerful forces.Liu Xiu's army crossed the Yellow River and marched towards Luoyang. The remnants of Emperor Gengshi without a leader were quickly destroyed, and the hundreds of thousands of red-browed troops of the mob quickly collapsed. Liu Xiu quickly captured the important town of Luoyang. When she was satisfied with self-preservation, or with petty profits with her neighbors, Liu Xiu used the acumen of a strategist to make a key move to unify the world.The affluent Central Plains region is in the palm of your hand, Liu Xiu has become the most powerful family among the heroes in the world, and it is already a matter of time before the country is unified.

The next step is to wipe out the heroes, there are quite a few targets to deal with, Peng Chong from Yuyang, Qin Feng from Nanjun, Liu Yong from Liangdi, Zhang Bu from Qidi, dozens of families, large and small, are not easy to provoke Master, Liu Xiu continues to come up with coups—to defeat each of them.When fighting a family, pull a family, divide and disintegrate the relationship between the various forces, and then concentrate the superior forces to gradually eliminate them.After 10 years of hard work, in AD 36, Liu Xiu's Eastern Han Dynasty finally completed the national unification. The Han Empire, which once dominated East Asia, once again moved towards unity and prosperity. In the future history, it will continue the harmony of the Han nation The glory of the Han Empire, as the creator of all of this, Liu Xiu, has contributed the most.

Liu Bang won the world, people can say he is despicable, later Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, later generations can also say that he bullied orphans and widows, Li Shimin created a prosperous world, but also left a disgraceful record of killing his brother and forcing his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, there is also a A lot of blood debts of the heroes of the massacre.It is said that those who make big things don't care about small things, but Liu Xiu started as a general of the Green Forest Army, and when he was established in the world, he had no "bad deeds" to criticize for decades before and after his death.In terms of achievements, the Guangwu Zhongxing created by Liu Xiu, the government is smooth, the people are harmonious, and the people are happy, which is comparable to any prosperous age in history; when it comes to heroes, those veterans who followed him to start the world, and after the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which one is not a high-ranking official who is rich and generous, and there is no one. Suspicion, let alone the immorality of crossing rivers and demolishing bridges; speaking of character, Liu Xiu was born as a nobleman, received a good education since childhood, and treated people with a Confucian style. He was offended, but he was also laughed at, and there was no such thing as private revenge. When dealing with Zhi Yun who dared to enforce the law and even contradicted him, not only did he not blame him, but he rewarded him a lot. His magnanimity is admirable; Compared with his ancestor Liu Bang's embarrassing evaluation of "can lead up to 100,000 people", Liu Xiu is good at military affairs, and his military strategy is superior to others. At the turning points of his countless life and destiny, it is precisely because of his excellent military strategic vision that he is one step ahead , so as to seize the opportunity to fight for the world, his command is invincible, the battle of Kunyang is proof; and in the selection of generals, he is not bad at all: Deng Yu, Ma Yuan, Geng Yan, Jia Fu, these people are either literary or military, and their achievements are dazzling, and they are not inferior to the three heroes of the Western Han Dynasty.

It is said that the founding emperor was not a good man, but Liu Xiu deserves an evaluation: he is a gentleman and a good emperor, and most importantly, he is the most outstanding military strategist in the alternate era of the Han Dynasty.This kind of perfection, in China's thousand years of ancient history, is almost an outlier.