Chapter 78 Chapter 78: Marrying a wife should be like this

"I don't mean to be emperor, I want to be Zhijinwu." When he came to the throne, Emperor Guangwu often said this sentence to his close ministers. Zhijinwu is the official title responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital. Jinwu is a kind of bird with great spiritual power to dispel bad luck.In the past, when the emperor went on tour, there were always pioneers holding a golden statue of Jinwu.Since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the chief of public security in the capital has been called "Zhijinwu" (the person who holds the Jinwu in his hand).

The statue of the spirit bird was later changed to a copper rod inlaid with gold at both ends, and the uniform of Zhi Jinwu was the most gorgeous among the civil and military officials.Zhi Jinwu, whose job it is to catch thieves, wants to use his "appearance" to suppress criminals, right? Taking uniforms as the object of longing - this phenomenon also exists in modern society.Emperor Guangwu also dreamed of the gorgeous clothes worn by Zhi Jinwu when he was young.The subordinates led by Zhi Jinwu were a kind of guard of honor, all of whom were tall, tall and handsome young men who also wore gorgeous uniforms.

"When you become an official, you must be the Jinwu..." Emperor Guangwu murmured and stopped after saying this.He still has something to say, but it is inconvenient to say it publicly. Generally speaking, a man's lifelong wish is to be successful and to have a beautiful woman as a partner.Emperor Guangwu said to himself in his heart: "If you marry a wife, you will marry Yin Lihua..." Yin Lihua was born in Xinye County, Nanyang County.The Yin family is a well-known local family. Her father died when she was seven years old, so she was raised by her mother.Yin Lihua is famous for her beauty. It is said that Emperor Guangwu fell in love with her just by taking a look at her when he was young.

"If you can marry such a beautiful woman as your wife, how happy you will be..." He sighed and shook his head. Emperor Guangwu was a cautious person, but he was so infatuated with a woman that he didn't dare to propose marriage.Such behavior perfectly reflects his character. After Yu Kunyang defeated Wang Mang's army, he thought he should have the qualifications to marry a wife, so he married Yin Lihua.Emperor Guangwu was twenty-nine at the time, and she was nineteen. It is certainly impossible for newlyweds in troubled times to fully enjoy the wedding atmosphere.After his elder brother Liu Yan was jealous of his talent and killed by the cronies of Emperor Gengshi, Emperor Guangwu was forced to leave the north under the pretext of pacifying Hebei.As a result, he was forced to say goodbye to his wife and go to work alone.

Emperor Guangwu's hard struggle in Hebei is as mentioned above. He started to get lucky after he defeated the Wanglang faction in Handan.The biggest reason for the great victory was that King Zhending Liu Yang, who is also a member of the royal family, led one hundred thousand soldiers to join him. "How about you marrying my niece?" When Liu Yang, who was so kind as a mountain, proposed this matter, it was really inconvenient for Emperor Guangwu to refuse.If the 100,000 troops under Liu Yang's command leave his camp at this time, it will be a fatal injury.Fortunately, polygamy is still common among wealthy families, so Emperor Guangwu no longer hesitated.

"Thank you so much." He replied solemnly. Zhending Wang's sister married a man named Guo Chang.Guo Chang was originally the richest man in the region, but later he gave away countless fields and mansions to his half-brother, so he gained the reputation of "righteous man". The former Zhending King Liu Pu (the seventh grandson of Emperor Jing) took a fancy to this, so he married his daughter to him.The couple later gave birth to a daughter named Shengtong, but the righteous Guo Chang died not long after. As an uncle, Liu Yang felt sorry for the niece who had lost her father, so he asked Emperor Guangwu to marry her.Speaking of it, Emperor Guangwu had a special relationship with the daughter of the bereaved father, because the situation of Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong was the same.

Polygamy is still possible. After Emperor Guangwu came to the throne, he had to establish a queen in his position.And the queen is only allowed to be one person. "I really want to make you queen, but..." Emperor Guangwu revealed his indecisive character and said. When he had to put all his eggs in one basket like in the Battle of Kunyang, he would have great decisiveness, but usually he couldn't make up his mind about anything. It was his wife who made the decision for him. "If you don't have Guo Shengtong's uncle as your backing, wouldn't you have difficulties?"

"It is true." "Then what else do you have to think about! She has already given birth to your child, so make her the queen!" Guo Shengtong has given birth to a son named Qiang, but Yin Lihua has not yet. "Really! Then I'll make my decision!" In the second year of Jianwu (AD 26), Emperor Guangwu made Guo Shengtong the queen and Liu Qiang the prince. In fact, Yin Lihua did not give in willingly.If Guo Shengtong is not made queen at this moment, her husband Emperor Guangwu will not be able to win the world.Although he has ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, there are several other people who call themselves emperor.The one who becomes the real emperor in the end will be the strongest among them.

"When the time comes, I will be the real queen..." This is her plan. If the husband and the Guo family are separated at this moment due to jealousy, the husband will not be able to become the real emperor.In this way, she will get nothing.So, now you have to be patient.The future is long, and planning for the future is a good strategy! Emperor Guangwu then entered Luoyang and became the king here. The Red Eyebrow Army entered Chang'an to the west, to which Emperor Gengshi surrendered.But the interior of the Red Eyebrow Army was very chaotic.The reason why they were able to break through the Gengshi Emperor's army was because of Gengshi's drinking and losing popular support, and because Emperor Guangwu did not come to the rescue. In other words, it was a victory based on the enemy's weakness.

The Red Eyebrow Army that defeated Emperor Gengshi was also very chaotic in its control.They were not a group formed to gain the world at all. The young emperor Liu Penzi, who was established as the emperor by coercion, certainly did not have the ability to command the entire army. Moreover, their hometown is in the east. Since Emperor Guangwu occupied Luoyang, they have no home to return to at this moment, and the whole army is in a state of self-destruction. After the 300,000 Red Eyebrow Army entered Chang'an, they did not do any production, and there was no one in the army who was familiar with economic issues.As a result, they decided to move west in search of food.

Luoyang in the east was occupied by Emperor Guangwu, and they had to move west. But their westward march was not smooth.The people of the Northwest will not obediently let them plunder at will.What's more, among the local powerful people, some people have force. There was a man named Kai Xiao who was entrenched as a local warlord in the Longxi area (eastern Gansu Province).Of course, this person did not sit back and watch the Red Eyebrow Army pass by, but met them instead. The Red Eyebrow Army, which only relies on numbers and has no organization at all, will of course be defeated in an instant when it encounters an army with a better organization.They were beaten by the Longxi army and fled all the way back to Chang'an. Chang'an has no food for them. "There are plenty of gold and silver treasures!" "Where?" "Under the ground! We can dig it out!" "Which underground place are you talking about?" "Of course it's the imperial mausoleum! There are mountains of gold and silver treasures in the emperor's tomb!" "Let's quickly dig out those gold and silver treasures and go back to our hometown in Shandong!" "Yes! Go back to my hometown in Shandong!" The defeated and remnant soldiers of the red-browed army dug the tombs of the Han emperors, robbed the treasures, and ran eastward. Of course, Emperor Guangwu in Luoyang would not miss this opportunity.The opponent is a mob who has no battle plan and just wants to escape back to his hometown in Shandong.Attacking such an army is of course sure to win. As a result, Emperor Guangwu's army won a big victory.Most of the cadres below the red-browed emperor Liu Penzi surrendered.This is the three years of Jianwu. Emperor Guangwu has taken a big step towards becoming a real emperor. Taking advantage of the gap between the red eyebrow army going west, Liu Yong, who occupied part of the red eyebrow army's territory and claimed to be the emperor, and his henchman Zhang Bu, were pacified by Emperor Guangwu in the fifth year of Jianwu. The only remaining warlords were Kaixiao of Longzhi and Gongsunshu of Shu. A farmer with nothing to eat can do anything.There is great power in channeling their energies effectively and directing them in the right direction.It is a pity that neither the Red Eyebrow Army nor the Green Forest Army have such a mentor. As a result, the possibility of establishing a peasant regime disappeared, and most of the peasants who revolted were used by wealthy families such as Emperor Guangwu.The Later Han Dynasty established by Emperor Guangwu can be said to be a regime that was seized. In the fifth year of Jianwu (A.D. 29), between Emperor Guangwu, who each claimed to be an emperor, and Gongsun Shu of Sichuan, there was also the warlord Kaixiao.Kai Xiao, who was sandwiched between the two emperors, was at a loss as to where to go.He then ordered his subordinate Ma Yuan to go to reconnaissance. ——Which side is more advantageous, you can go to these two places to observe and make a judgment! Ma Yuan and Gongsun Shu were childhood friends.So he first went to Sichuan, where Gongsun Shu was.For the visit of childhood friends, Gongsun Shu put on the emperor's airs and treated Ma Yuan like a subject.After Ma Yuan came back, he reported—— Gongsun Shu is just a frog in a well. The idiom "a frog at the bottom of a well" that we commonly use today comes from Ma Yuan's report. Ma Yuan later became an official under Emperor Guangwu and was very active as a soldier.Ma Yuan suggested to abandon Gongsun Shu and seek refuge with Emperor Guangwu, but Kai Xiao didn't accept it, but instead adopted an attitude of seeing the wind and turning the steering wheel.As a result, Emperor Guangwu sent troops to attack, and Kai Xiao was defeated and killed. After pacifying Kuixiao in Longzhi, Emperor Guangwu decided to attack Gongsunshu in Shu. The phrase "Delong Wangshu" appeared in a letter he wrote to the commander of the expeditionary force at this time.This sentence was later used to describe people's greed and insufficiency. Shu was pacified in the twelfth year of Jianwu (AD 36). "It's almost time..." Yin Lihua thought to herself. After her husband Liu Xiu defeated Gongsun Shu, he became the real emperor.Now it's her turn to be the real queen.She has given birth to a child.When I become a queen, the child will be the crown prince and will become the next generation of emperor. She began to have a plan, but the plan was no longer necessary. This is because of Queen Guo's self-destruction. Empress Guo believed that her husband's becoming emperor was entirely due to the shade of her own clan.This was indeed the case with Emperor Guangwu at the beginning, but it was all achieved by his own power to occupy Luoyang and even to pacify the world.Empress Guo, who lived deep in the palace, didn't know this. Queen Guo's mother is the daughter of King Zhending, that is to say, she was married as a royal.Moreover, her husband Guo Changying passed away very young, and she has always been used to being in power at home.Empress Guo naturally took it as an example. Because of her mother's waywardness, this daughter also imitated her mother's style.She took it for granted. Emperor Guangwu gradually became unable to bear Queen Guo's attitude.He had no love for this woman at all.He had fallen in love with another woman in the past.He married Yin Lihua with the mentality of "marrying a wife like this", and Yin Lihua was by his side. The emperor visited Yin Lihua's palace more and more frequently. Empress Guo was deeply jealous of this. Yin Lihua is a very introverted person who hates Huamei extremely.When she mentioned her father who passed away thirty years ago, she would surely burst into tears. "I also lost my father at the age of nine, but I have long forgotten what the old man looked like, so I don't feel any sadness at all. Yin Lihua's filial piety is really commendable..." Emperor Guangwu often used himself as a comparison to praise her performance of filial piety. "You like Yin Lihua, don't you!" Queen Guo often yelled at him hysterically. "This is a difficult time for the country. I hope the family can be peaceful and happy, otherwise can I still bury my head in the country's political affairs?" Emperor Guangwu, who was quite capable of suppressing himself, had limited patience. "Yes! Because as a woman or a mother, Yin Lihua is dozens of times stronger than you!" After Emperor Guangwu finished speaking, he turned around and left without even looking at Queen Guo. Later, Emperor Guangwu declared the abolition of the queen to the three princes on the grounds that "the queen has the style of Lu and Huo".Empress Lu and Empress Huo are villains who nearly brought down the Han Dynasty in the past.Is there a more decisive way to abolish queens on the grounds of "having their own style"? Of course Yin Lihua was made queen. The crown prince Liu Qiang also lost his status and was later demoted to be the king of the East China Sea.Guo Shengtong, who lost the title of queen, her second son, Liu Fu, was the king of Zhongshan, and she was also moved to Zhongshan, where she was called "the queen mother of Zhongshan". Yin Lihua's son Liu Zhuang became the crown prince. It happened in the seventeenth year of Jianwu (AD 41).