The young Liu Xiu had his own team, his own territory, and enjoyed great prestige in the rebel army.

Although there was a dead piece of land where I walked before. But the family still didn't suspect that Liu Xiu and Wang Mang had any special relationship.

They just thought that Liu Xiu deliberately weakened the strength of the family in order to increase his strength.

But just when people thought that Liu Xiu was going to have a decisive battle with Wang Mang.

One of the most incredible scenes in Chinese history has appeared.

Liu Xiu accepted Wang Mang's recruitment, betrayed the family that supported him, and went to Chang'an with his cronies!

Not to mention that Liu Xiu, as the leader of the rebel army, why dare to believe that Wang Mang would not kill him. Let's just say that the power he had in his hands at that time may not be without the possibility of competing with Wang Mang and competing in the world.

But Liu Xiu left his territory like this and drove to Chang'an.

With Liu Xiu's surrender, the rebel army also fell apart, and was wiped out by Wang Mang in less than a few months.

Then Wang Mang and Liu Xiu joined forces to suppress the family while carrying out reforms in the country. From the introduction of the three-province six-ministry system to the holding of imperial examinations.

These two people are like the most intimate combination, trying to expand the living space of the empire, while suppressing the family and alleviating social conflicts.

At this time, everyone in the world understood that they were deceived by these two people, and Liu Xiu was not a moldy god who died anywhere before, but did it on purpose!

But at this time, the family clan at that time no longer thought about why these two people who had obviously no contact before were so close, they only knew that if this continued, all the family clans would be crushed by the centralized power controlled by Wang Mang and Liu Xiushuo.

In the fifth year of Wang Liu's reform, Wang Mang suddenly issued an edict saying that he would place Zen in Liu Xiu, and the day after the edict was issued, he relegated his two remaining sons to the wilderness.

According to normal logic, Liu Xiu's surrender to Wang Mang should be Wang Mang's promise that he would cede the throne to Liu Xiu in the future, so there was a close cooperation between the two.

However, if Liu Xiu and Wang Mang are humbly conceding an apple, then we may be able to infer it with this logic. But Liu Xiu and Wang Mang are humbling the supreme throne for the ancients!

Throughout ancient history, for the throne, brothers fought against each other, fathers and sons killed each other, and countless heroes and heroes sacrificed their lives for it.

Under this temptation, even if Liu Xiu is really Wang Mang's illegitimate son, anyone with a little brain will not believe that Wang Mang will give in to his promise in the future.

But in this world, only fiction needs logic, and reality is often absurd and bizarre.

Liu Xiu and Wang Mang, one dares to believe and the other dares to give.

Thus, the most unbelievable Zen in history was born. Wang Mang, who held most of the power of the imperial court at that time, ceded the throne to Liu Xiu, and since then Liu Xiu has become the emperor and Wang Mang has become a minister.

If Liu Xiu and Wang Mang ruled the empire until they died of old age, then this incident might be used to prove that humanity not only conspiracy and killing, but also trust and mutual assistance.

However, the reality is often harsh.

After Wang Mang ascended the throne of Liu Xiu, Wang Mang's original nobles and his ministers expressed their dissatisfaction with this matter. And with Liu Xiu's ascension, a large number of new nobles were canonized, seriously squeezing the living space of the old nobles in Wang Mang's era.

This incident made the originally hard-won imperial court suddenly become contradictory. Moreover, the gradually declining family also saw an opportunity from this and began to sow discord and increase the contradictions between Wang Mang and Liu Xiu's faction.

Although Wang Mang and Liu Xiu tried their best to prevent the two parties from happening. But as the people of Wang Mang's faction quietly took Wang Mang's sixth son, Wang Kuang, back to Chang'an, trying to let Wang Kuang replace Wang Mang and seize the throne from Liu Xiu, even Wang Mang and Liu Xiu could not control the development of the situation.

After learning everything that the old nobles under Wang Mang had done, the new nobles under Liu Xiu were afraid that Liu Xiu would lose the throne and force them to hand over the power they had so hard to get, so they forced Liu Xiu to kill Wang Mang's family by force.

But Liu Xiu resolutely rejected his subordinates' proposal in this situation, and told Wang Mang about it.

Wang Mang, who learned of this, was furious and ordered the execution of the sixth son, Wang Kuang, and the people involved were stripped of their titles.

Although Wang Mang's side stopped the conspiracy of his subordinates to seize power in time, Liu Xiu's subordinates were unwilling to face this matter passively.

Only when Wang Mang's faction is completely dead can they feel at ease.

So they saw that Liu Xiu was stubborn, so they found Liu Xiu's eldest brother Liu Xiu, and took Liu Xiu as the master, raised troops to imprison Liu Xiu, and killed Wang Mang's family.

So far, the vigorous Wang Liu reform has been completely ended. And Liu Xiu himself was imprisoned to death, although Liu Xiu respected him as the emperor in the future, but it could not change the tragedy that he could not step out of Chang'an for the rest of his life.

After Liu Xuan seized the throne, in order to prevent the counterattack of Wang Mang's old forces, Liu Xuan had to rely on the strength of the family to stabilize his position.

At this point, the reform achievements obtained by Wang Mang and Liu Xiu for more than ten years were in vain, and the new dynasty was re-changed to the Han Dynasty, and the history became the Western Han Dynasty.

The rest of this article is basically devoted to discussing why Liu Xiu and Wang Mang trusted each other to the point of betraying each other, and also listed several possibilities:

For example, Liu Xiu is actually Wang Mang's illegitimate son. For example, Liu Xiu and Wang Mang are actually a pair of loyal lovers. For example, Wang Mang and Liu Xiu both have a common teacher.

After getting the information he wanted, Xun Ze only roughly flipped through these speculations and didn't read any more.

He really didn't expect that Wang Mang and Liu Xiu kept the agreement, but they still ended up like this.

But this is not difficult to understand, after all, everyone has selfishness and desires. Wang Mang and Liu Xiu also have it, but the desires of these two people happen not to conflict, so they can trust each other.

But Wang Mang and Liu Xiu's subordinates did not have this trust. The two factions clash with each other's desires, and this conflict is a matter of life and death.

Therefore, Wang Mang and Liu Xiu had no way to restrain their subordinates, which led to an increasingly serious conflict, and finally Wang Mang was hacked to death with a knife and Liu Xiu was imprisoned.

However, is it possible that this is actually the inertia of history playing tricks?

You must know that Wang Mang's original fate was to die in the chaos, while Liu Xiu's original fate was to become the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty.

Although Wang Mang escaped the military disaster this time, he was still hacked to death in the main hall. Although Liu Xiu was imprisoned, he was respected as the emperor by his eldest brother, and he also became the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty.

Why don't you change the dynasty from the new dynasty back to the Han Dynasty after Wang Mang's throne?