The Eastern Han Dynasty is a great unified dynasty in Chinese history, and the Western Han Dynasty is called the Han Dynasty, and the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luoyang, is called Tokyo, so it is also known as Tokyo as the representative name of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a total of 14 emperors and 195 years of Guozuo. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In 25 A.D., Liu Xiu was proclaimed emperor, and still used the national name of the Han Dynasty, and the capital was Luoyang. During the reigns of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty entered its heyday, which is known as the reign of Ming Zhang.

In the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, social contradictions intensified unprecedentedly, and Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty to establish a new dynasty.

During the reign of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was interfered by relatives, and Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty's empress Wang Zhengjun cultivated his cronies, while Wang Mang befriended ministers and generals outside in the name of Wang Zhengjun and bought people's hearts.

After the abdication of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Han Ai died within a few years of reign, after the death of Emperor Han Ai, Emperor Ping of Han ascended the throne, Wang Mang married his daughter to Emperor Ping of Han as the queen, at this time really became a relative, and gradually encroached on the power of the court. After the death of Emperor Ping of Han, he monopolized the power of the court. Wang Mang pretended to be entrusted by Han Gaozu to his will, ascended the throne and became the emperor, established a new national name, and the Western Han Dynasty perished.

Wang Mang has been lurking for a long time, and finally reached his ambition to usurp power and seize the throne, and the emperors who reigned during Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty were the kind of emperors who did not make achievements and did not concentrate on political affairs. The reason why Wang Mang was able to usurp the Han Dynasty was successful, in addition to his own painstaking management of the image, won the praise of the central government, and walked to the center of power step by step, but also related to the fact that these reigning emperors had no intention of political affairs and did not manage the government well.

Wang Mang lost his father at a young age, he grew up with his uncles, he loved to read since he was a child, and he was humble and courteous, respected people, and did everything very seriously, he respected his mother and sister-in-law, and gradually spread some of his good reputation. Later, Wang Mang gradually realized that just reading could not make a difference, so he started the idea of his uncle Wang Feng, when Wang Feng was in the big Sima, seeing that Wang Mang was in charge of his illness before and after, showing great filial piety, and thinking of his previous good reputation, he began to promote him.

Wang Mang with the help of Wang Feng, Wang Mang began to enter the court as an official, after becoming an official, he continued his previous image, worked seriously, not only did not be proud of being an official, but was more modest than before, not only made his uncle and grandfather impressed with him, but also praised him as other ministers in the court, and recommended him in books.

Wang Gen, who succeeded Wang Feng Da Sima, was seriously ill, and the ministers recommended Wang Mang to replace the position of Da Sima, and Emperor Han Cheng accepted and appointed, and when Wang Mang was thirty-eight years old and had just been a big Sima for a year, Emperor Han Cheng died of illness. After Emperor Han Ai succeeded to the throne, Wang Mang resigned from his official position, began to study in seclusion, but secretly kept an eye on the movements of the government and the opposition, waiting for the opportunity to prepare for a comeback at any time. During this period, many people put him on the table, and Wang Mangguan became the executor of the highest administration of the Western Han Dynasty after his reinstatement.

In this way, Wang Mang gradually entered the power ruling center of the Western Han Dynasty, and took the jade seal of the country in his hands step by step. He painstakingly managed his image, almost reaching the standard of a virtuous minister, a model of morality, and achieved the purpose of winning people's hearts, which is also the main reason for his success.

Wang Mang's father died when he was young, when the Wang family was a relative of the power of the government and the opposition, and it was also one of the most noble families in the Western Han Dynasty. Soon, his reputation became better and better, and he almost became a model for the society at that time.

After Wang Mang was recommended to be an official, he was more generous and benevolent, and many ministers and generals in the court spoke for him at that time, Emperor Han Cheng saw such a situation, thinking that Wang Mang was really a benevolent and righteous sage, and soon was promoted to a high position, but Wang Mang was not complacent because of this, but was more courteous and virtuous, honest and simple, and often used his own money to distribute to the people, and had a reputation for being wise among the people.

After the death of Emperor Han Ai, many people have recommended Wang Mang, and then the young and ignorant Emperor Ping of Han ascended the throne, Wang Mang exercised his rights on behalf of the king, and began to exclude dissidents, while Wang Mang still maintained his cautious style, and the rewards of the court were all resigned, in order to cover up his wolf ambitions, and finally forced Wang Zhengjun to hand over the jade seal of the country and officially ascend the throne as the emperor.

Wang Mang has always given everyone the image of humility, benevolence, and selflessness, and it is also this image that confuses everyone's eyes and makes him expand his ambitions step by step. In this regard, Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty as emperor was indeed the desire of the people.

After that, Wang Mang successively promulgated a series of new policies such as the Wang Tian Decree and the Private Ownership Decree in an attempt to alleviate the increasingly intensified social contradictions. However, Wang Mang's new system touched the vested interests of the great tyrants and many upper-level bureaucrats, and was fiercely opposed and rejected by them, coupled with the idealization of reform and blind reverence for the ancients.

In the end, it backfired, but intensified social contradictions, and in the last years of the new dynasty, floods and droughts continued, and finally the uprising of the Green Forest Army and the Red Eyebrow Army broke out. For a time, the Quartet responded, and the world was in chaos. Finally, this top-down self-help reform by the feudal ruling class ended in failure.

Liu Xiu was the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and his father Liu Qin served as the commander of Nanton. After the uprising of the Red Mei Army and the Green Forest Army broke out, Liu Xiu and his eldest brother rebelled in Chungling in order to restore the rule of the surname Liu, and formed the Chungling Army. Liu Xiu destroyed the Xinmang army in one fell swoop in the Battle of Kunyang, marking the exhaustion of the military power that Xinmang relied on to maintain his rule, and in the same year, the Green Forest Army broke through Chang'an, Wang Mang died at the hands of the righteous army, and the new dynasty was destroyed.

Liu Xiu is one of the few emperors in Chinese history who is more single-minded, he is a good man worthy of a woman's lifelong trust, and the two most important women in his life are Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong. But Liu Xiu didn't divide his heart into two halves, half for Yin Lihua and half for Guo Shengtong.

Whether it is a young man in white clothes, or the king of the green forest, or the Guangwu Emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, Liu Xiu's love for Yin Lihua has always been the same. And the union with Guo Shengtong is a political marriage imposed on him by history, in love, Guo Shengtong is a poor woman, but she is the luckiest of China's deposed concubines, she is the only one who has not been beaten into the cold palace, not only that, Liu Xiu is also kind to her family, and she herself lives a free, rich, and stable life.

When Liu Xiu was a teenager, no one could see that he would be an emperor in the future, including those fortune tellers who claimed to be nine out of ten. The fortune teller said that Liu Xiu was at most a marquis, and his brother had an imperial appearance, but the truth was the opposite.

This can't all be blamed on the fortune teller, Liu Xiu when he was a teenager was really ambitious, he was a naughty boy who liked to play in the fields, while his elder brother Liu Yan liked to read Confucian classics, study military books, and make friends, often speaking wildly, in stark contrast to the young Liu Xiu.

Although he has a noble royal blood, Liu Xiu is the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, but in his generation, he is no different from ordinary people, and his father Liu Qin is just a Nantun Ling. This makes Liu Xiu have no frame since he was a child, he is a gentle, kind, and very friendly young man, who often mingles with his slaves and does not distinguish between them, which may have laid the foundation for Liu Xiu to be able to win the support of the masses in the future.

There is not the slightest indication that Liu Xiu has the life of an emperor, except that his birth is slightly legendary. It is said that when his father Liu Qin and mother Fan Xian gave birth to him, the harvest of any family within a radius of 100 miles that year was not as good as that of the Liu family, and the Liu family's field also had a phenomenon of one stem and nine ears.

Liu Qin loved Liu Xiu who was born at this time very much, and excitedly named him Xiu, which means that the crops produce good ears.

Although the Liu family is no longer a member of the clan, Liu Xiu's family background is still one of the best in the local area. The father is a county magistrate, and the mother is still the daughter of the local wealthy, and the relationship between the father and the mother is also very good, so Liu Xiu when he was a teenager did not worry about food and clothing, and he also had new clothes and New Year's money.

Liu Xiu lives in a big family, Liu Xiu has two older brothers, Liu Yan and Liu Zhong, and two older sisters, Liu Huang, Liu Yuan and a younger sister Liu Boji. The big family is harmonious, united, and lively, living in such a big family, Liu Xiu's childhood was happy and happy.

Unlike his brothers and sisters, his brothers and sisters still can't get rid of the arrogance of the nobility in their bones, and they always regard themselves as members of the clan and look down on their subordinates. And the young Liu Xiu often ignored his identity as a master, worked in the fields with the slaves, and never despised them. My brother laughed at him for being unproductive, and he would be a farmer for the rest of his life.

When he was a teenager, Liu Xiu had a very good heart, a passing beggar begged the Liu family for saliva to drink, and his parents were not at home at that time, and several brothers and sisters were playing in the yard. The beggar walked up to his brother, who spat on the beggar and told him to get out of the way. The beggar walked up to his sister, who, although she did not spit on the beggar, covered her nose and ran away, saying as she ran, "It's dirty, it stinks." ”

The beggar finally walked up to Liu Xiu, who patted the dirt on his hands, ran to the house, and scooped a full scoop of water for the beggar. The beggar finished drinking and was about to leave, Liu Xiu said, wait. The beggar wondered, what else could happen?

After a while, Liu Xiu came out with two more fragrant baked cakes in his hand, and these two baked cakes were his lunch. The beggar was grateful, and he trembled when he took the hand of the baked cake, he had never met such a sensible and kind-hearted child, and the last words the beggar gave to Liu Xiu was that he would be rich and prosperous in the future.

After the beggar left, my brothers and sisters all said that Liu Xiu was stupid and gave the baked cake to the beggar, what do you eat yourself?

Liu Xiu just smiled and didn't answer, his smile was so innocent. Soon Liu Xiu grew up and grew into a handsome teenager.