"Okay, I'm Liu Xiu!"

Liu Xiu couldn't hide it anymore, so she simply stood up and admitted it.

"You should be glad you didn't hurt my family last time, otherwise I would have killed you. ”

"It doesn't matter. ”

Wang Mang spread his hands to Liu Xiu and said,

"Anyway, sooner or later, I'm going to die in the chaos. If you've read history, you must know very well how much those families hate me. They cut off my tongue and painted my head with lacquer as a treasure for the kingdom.

But after knowing all this, I still try to completely eradicate these families. He didn't stay away from the court because he was afraid. So, do you think I'm afraid of death?"

When Liu Xiu heard Wang Mang say this, he suddenly remembered that the person in front of him was indeed not afraid of death.

Otherwise, after learning about his original fate in history, as long as he no longer carries out his so-called reforms, then he can sit firmly in the country.

Therefore, his own threat was of little use to Wang Mang.

"And what exactly do you want?"

Liu Xiu was starting to feel a little overwhelmed.

"Don't be so nervous. Told Xun Ze to see that the time was almost up, so he stood up and blocked the two of them, and then motioned for both of them to sit down.

"From the first day, I knew that Liu Xiu's identity must be impossible to hide. Now that you both know each other's identities, let's sit down and have an open talk. ”

Called Xun Ze said that there was a person living in one building, and then the three of them sat together.

"Wang Mang, tell me what your dream is first?"

called Xun Ze like a mentor in a good voice, and asked Wang Mang.

"My dream at the beginning was to create a heavenly kingdom on earth. But now I find that this dream is a bit difficult to realize, so my dream now is to eliminate those big families, so that the world will be in chaos, and the things that will destroy the lives of the world will not happen again. ”

Wang Mang said firmly.

"What about you, Liu Xiu. Asked Xun Ze to turn his head to look at Liu Xiu again.

"Me, my dream is just that my family and friends can be safe. ”

Liu Xiu thought about it, but still told the truth.

"Then it seems that the dreams of the two of you are not in conflict. ”

Asked Xun Ze to sit between the two and said,

"You see, you didn't have a conflict. Although Wang Mang arrested your family after returning this time, he did not harm them.

It is precisely because he did this that your eldest brother was not killed by Emperor Gengshi. So Wang Mang actually helped you a lot. ”

Note: The nominal leader of Liu Xiu's rebel army was Emperor Gengshi. Later, Emperor Gengshi was worried that the prestige of Liu Xiu's eldest brother Liu Xuan would endanger him, so he sent someone to kill Liu Xiu.

"But, although I don't want to be an emperor. I don't believe that I can be an emperor in the future. But the history books say that I will be the emperor.

There can only be one emperor in a world. If I become an emperor in the future, what will Wang Mang do? ？”

Liu Xiu pointed out the most critical point. That is, there is no way for him and Wang Mang to coexist.

The two of them not only have different support forces, but also have different identities: one is a rebel minister of the usurper, and the other is a descendant of the royal family.

Even if they were willing to coexist, their men would certainly not be willing.

In fact, Xun Ze is also a little worried about this problem. He turned his head to hear Wang Mang's opinion.

"I am willing to give up the throne. ”

Wang Mang also agreed with Liu Xiu's statement that the two of them were destined to not coexist. So he said categorically,

"Once you help me clear out the great families who oppose the reform, then I will relinquish the throne to you, and I am willing to be an ordinary courtier. ”

"Are you sure?"

Liu Xiuhu looked at Wang Mang suspiciously and asked. To be honest, he didn't believe that there were still people in this world who were willing to give up their throne.

"I'm sure. ”

After Wang Mang finished speaking, he asked Xun Ze to bow down,

"If Senior Brother Liu Xiu still has doubts, I am willing to swear a poisonous oath in front of the teacher. If I hadn't ceded the throne to Senior Brother Liu Xiu in the future. Then I will die without a place to bury. ”

"It's serious, it's serious. ”

asked Xun Ze to hear Wang Mang's oath and quickly pulled Wang Mang up.

"Then I'll trust you once. ”

Liu Xiu looked at Wang Mang, and also remembered how their family was in turmoil after the chaos in the world.

Although he and his eldest brother mixed well in the rebel army, in such a chaotic era, who dared to say that he could live to old age and die.

Many of the clansmen died either on the battlefield or in the raids of the bandits.

Liu Xiu felt that if Wang Mang could really prevent the chaos in the world in the late Western Han Dynasty through reform, then it was necessary for him to join forces with Wang Mang.

"Well, I was not mistaken. ”

Wang Mang excitedly stretched out his hand to hold Liu Xiu,

"Then let's two of us stop the troubled times!"

After Wang Mang gained Liu Xiu's trust, he made his own plan.

That is, he still sent people to arrest Liu Xiu and his family. And Liu Xiu, as in history, raised the anti-flag in order to escape Wang Mang's pursuit.

Then Wang Mang would send his most loyal subordinates to pretend to defect to Liu Xiu, so that Liu Xiu would have some team and strength. Then he sent a large army to encircle and suppress Liu Xiu.

Because Wang Mang has already known which families can be won over and which families must be resolutely eliminated through the stone slabs he carved in the future.

Therefore, Liu Xiu will go to those families who oppose Wang Mang in the name of hiding from Wang Mang's army. If these families were willing to send Liu Xiu to raise troops against Wang Mang, then Liu Xiu deliberately sent these people to die.

And after killing the young men of these families, he led his men to flee to the next place to continue to trap people. And Wang Mang's army will completely crush this family.

If these families are unwilling to join Liu Xiu in raising troops against Wang Mang, then Liu Xiu will slaughter this family in the name of eradicating Wang Mang's lackeys, and then flee to the next place.

As long as there are no problems with the cooperation between the two, then it will only take a few years for Wang Mang to completely eliminate the local forces that do not obey his rule.

At this time, Wang Mang generously recruited Liu Xiu into the palace in the name of Zhao'an, and then re-passed the throne to Liu Xiu in his later years to complete the Zen concession.