The change in Li Tong's family in Wancheng is accidental, we might as well make it clear.

Because of this change, it was an extremely heavy and irreparable price paid by Li Tong as Liu Xiu's earliest supporter, which made Liu Xiu extremely sad and angry, and made him more sober and calm:

You will be on a path of no return.

He felt that on this road, he might see countless beautiful scenery on both sides because of his gentlemanly style, but it must also be full of bloody raids and brutal killings!

It turned out that after Li Tong conspired with Liu Xiu, he sent his nephew Li Ji to the capital to report to his father Li Shou.

Unexpectedly, Li Ji unfortunately fell ill and died on the way. It's going to take a little bit of time.

Fortunately, Li Shou was well-informed, and learned the news from other channels that his son was about to raise troops against him, and planned to flee back to his hometown to join his son.

Of course, Li Shou was also mentally prepared for his son's incident.

He had long been a frequent speaker to Li Tong of the proverb "The revival of the Liu family, supplemented by the Li family", and encouraged his son to find opportunities to help the Liu clan recover the Han dynasty.

It can be said that Li Tong's ability to bravely give up his wealthy family business without hesitation to help Liu reckless when the world was in turmoil is to a large extent the result of his father's years of hard education.

At this time, Li Shou's fellow villager friend Huang Xian knew that he was going to escape, so he persuaded him:

"Now the gates are very well guarded, you have an outstanding figure, who doesn't know you? Where can you go? You might as well resign from the imperial court. After all, the incident of raising troops has not happened yet, and it may be possible to avoid a difficulty. ”

Li Shou listened to Huang Xian's words, thought it was reasonable, and immediately wrote to the imperial court, asking to resign and go home to retire.

(Obey his plan, that is, go to the book and die)

Unexpectedly, Li Shou's resignation report had not yet been handed over, but Nanyang County reported to the imperial court: Li Shou's son Li Tong and others plotted to launch a mutiny in Liqiudu!

It's worth it.

Wang Mang immediately ordered Li Shou to be arrested and imprisoned.

Huang Xian was a Zhonglang general at the time, and bravely stood up to plead with Wang Mang for Li Shou:

Li Shou has always been loyal to his duties as an official, and when he heard that his son was not like words, he did not dare or flee, but adhered to the way of being an official, reported to the court according to the organizational procedures, and asked to return to his hometown. The minister was willing to take his life as a guarantee, and went with Li Shou to persuade his rebel son to stop and apologize. If the work is not done well, let Li Shoubei kill himself, and live up to the grace of the imperial court for many years of cultivation. ”

Wang Mang agreed to Huang's request.

But at this critical moment, Nanyang County sent another report: Li Tong rebelled, and he was arrested and at large.

Wang Mang was furious and ordered Li Shou to be killed immediately.

At the critical juncture, Huang Xian did not pretend to be a fool, sacrificed his life to fight for reason, and was beheaded by Wang Mang and Li Shou.

Wang Mang has always been cruel to dissidents, and this time is no exception: Li Shou's family members were beheaded in the capital.

On the side of Wancheng in Nanyang, except for Li Tong and his younger brothers Li Yi and Li Song who escaped, all 64 family members and clansmen were killed by Nanyang Taishou and burned in Wancheng.

The Li Tong family paid a very heavy price for this rebellion.

Here we also note that the one who detected Li Tong's uprising, reported Wang Mang, pursued Li Tong and destroyed his full door in Wancheng was Nanyang Taishou Zhen Fu, who was called the former team doctor.

It should also be noted that he is not a barefoot doctor.

When Wang Mang reformed the official system, Qian's donkey skills were poor, and in order to change, Nanyang County was renamed "front team", and Taishou was renamed "doctor".

Of course, Liu Xiu later changed it to its original name when he ascended the throne.

This Zhen Fu soon had a fierce fight with Liu Xiu.

The news that the Li family in Wancheng was destroyed due to the rebellion caused a strong panic in Chungling.

The price of rebellion is too high! Not only do you have to lose your head, but it is also inevitable to destroy the door, if the official government is biased, it is completely possible to destroy the three clans and the nine clans.

Especially the children of Chungling, as the Liu clan, although they have irreconcilable contradictions with Wang Mang, it is not easy to bring the whole family to rebel.

What's even worse is that there is no drama in Wancheng, and the children of Chungling are isolated, and the situation is very unfavorable.

For a time, many of the children of Chung Ling were terrified, fleeing, and hiding. Many people also shouted out about Liu Xuan's brothers, and they were almost killed!

(Bosheng kills me)

In fact, not only the "children" who have just joined the army, but also some of the elders and relatives of the Liu family do not understand.

The unstable mood and chaotic situation quickly formed and soon spread.

For example, Liu Xiu's uncle Liu Liang was the county magistrate of Xiao County, who raised Liu Xiu's brothers and sisters for seven or eight years, and then returned to his hometown after being dismissed by Wang Mang's regime.

As soon as Liu Xiu told him about his plan to raise troops with his eldest brother, he was very angry and reprimanded Liu Xiu loudly:

"You and Bo Sheng have different ambitions and personalities, and now if he wants to rebel, he is about to destroy his home, how can you conspire with him to be a loser!"

("Thou art different from Bo Sheng's ambitions, this family wants to perish, and the return is the conspiracy!") ”）

There's a little bit of drama here.

Liu Liang was originally a loyal, honest, diligent and elegant person, and was promoted to filial piety and honesty when Emperor Ping was appointed as the commander of Xiao County.

After the death of his brother Liu Qin, he regarded the six Liu Xiu brothers and sisters as his own, raised them carefully, and hoped that they would all have a future in the future.

Liu Liang attaches great importance to Liu Xiu, thinking that he is knowledgeable, steady and generous, diligent in industry, and an honest person.

Now, as a parent, seeing that the children are going to rebel, maybe they will put the lives of the whole family into it, Liu Liang strongly opposes it.

We should understand that as long as we do not harm society and others, everyone has their own freedom.

We now speculate that according to Liu Liang's character, he will definitely not be able to persuade Liu Liang to do one thing.

Liu Liang could only persuade Liu Xiu not to follow and mix.

However, he only knew Liu Xiu's strength, but did not understand Liu Xiu's tenacity.

On the day when Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu brothers erected flags to announce the start of the army, Liu Liang was so angry that he waved his hand and shouted:

"If you rebel, I will go and complain to General Nayanyan!"

(I want to speak to General Yan!) ）

He shook his hand and walked away.

Liu Liang's "General Yan Yan" refers to the great Si Nong and the general Yan You.

When Wang Mang reformed the official system, he changed the name of Dasi Nong, the minister in charge of finance and grain in charge of the central government in the former Han Dynasty, to Xihe, and then to Nayan. At that time and even now, the family didn't know how much water Wang Mang had put in his head, so what was the point of changing his name for the sake of changing his name.

Yan is Yan You, and he will soon have a big battle with Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu knows his uncle's personality very well, and his uncle will never act rashly and put everyone to death.

He was fully convinced that his uncle was talking and playing. But just in case, he still arranged for someone to follow Liu Liang to observe the movement.

The man followed Liu Liang quietly, and although he was angry when he went home, he still sat at the dining table to eat as usual.

Liu Liang seemed to know that someone was coming to observe him, and deliberately shouted loudly while eating:

"I have to go to the government to report you!"

When Liu Xiu heard the report, he felt that he couldn't let his uncle report it anyway.

Although he knew what his uncle was doing, rebellion was not a trivial matter after all, and in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he felt that he had to talk to his uncle directly.

Early the next morning, Liu Xiu came to Liu Liang's residence, saw that his uncle was still angry, and asked him jokingly:

"When are you going to go to General Yan to denounce us?"

Liu Liang pondered for a moment, was very scared, and said seriously:

"I'm just scaring you, why do you have to rebel?!"

("Why should I bother if I am a deceitful ear?") ”）

When Liu Xiu heard this, he was relieved and felt that he had to do his uncle's ideological work well. There are naturally many reasons for rebellion.

Seeing Liu Xiu's unwavering determination and calm attitude, Liu Liang was helpless and had to agree to follow the uprising.

What we want to explain is that raising troops to revolt is different from rushing to the temple fair, and it is also different from going from the countryside to the city to see the excitement today, which is not only extremely risky, but also extremely arduous.

When his nephew insisted on raising troops, Liu Liang's embarrassment was completely understandable.

When you are old, if you follow the uprising, you don't know where your soul will return in the future; And if you don't follow your nephew, you may be arrested and killed by the government immediately.

Liu Liang had no choice but to lead his wife and children to follow the Chung Ling army.

In November of that year, in the Battle of Xiaochang'an, Liu Xiu and Liu Xuan's Lingling Army fought against Zhen Fu and Liang Qiuci, the military and political leaders of Nanyang County.

The Chung Ling army was defeated, and Liu Liang's wife and two sons died in the chaos. This is undoubtedly a great blow to the elderly and frail Liu Liang.

At that time, the situation was very embarrassing, the materials of the Chung Ling army were very scarce, Zhen Fu and Liang Qiuci were reluctant to chase and kill, Liu Liang had to ride a bull, crying and fleeing with everyone.

For Liu Liang, we can't ask too much, because he is an ordinary person.

Just as we can't ask every ordinary person to be like Liu Xiu and dominate the world like Liu Xiu, we have no reason to criticize Liu Liang.

He is very ordinary and conscientious.

He has retired from his job and is resting at home, hoping to spend his old age in peace, hoping that his children and family will be safe, which is the right of the elderly at any time.

It's just that this world is too bastard, and the nephews are really too good, what should I do? Let's go along.

In fact, at the beginning of the Chungling Army's uprising, even among Liu Xiu's closest relatives, it was not only Liu Liang who did not understand or support him.

For example, Deng Chen, he has always been Liu Xiu's staunchest supporter and the earliest responder to the Chungling Army uprising, while his relatives and friends are not.

Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu were in Chungling Shuqi, and he gathered in his hometown Xinye to echo.

When the Chungling army captured Jianyang (in present-day Xinye, Henan), he immediately led his relatives and friends to defect to Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu.

Soon, the Chung Ling army was defeated in Xiaochang'an and retreated to Jianyang, and the county magistrate of Xinye began to take revenge on the Deng family, hunted down and killed the relatives and friends of the Deng family, and demolished and burned the ancestral house and ancestral tomb of the Deng family.

In this way, Deng Chen's relatives and friends began to complain about him:

"Our own family is rich and we don't have to worry about food and clothing, but you have to follow your wife's family to jump into the fire pit!"

(The family is rich, why do you go into the soup with the woman's family!) ）

Of course, Deng Chen has no regrets about his choice.

Let's go back to the present. The ranks of the Lingling army have not yet started, that is, they have fallen into a situation of isolation and helplessness and disheartenedness, and the brothers Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu obviously cannot sit idly by.

Liu Xiu soberly realized that rebellion was not a dinner party, not a joke or a chat, and that it was extremely dangerous to lead such an unstable and limited contingent without foreign aid at such a critical moment when a major war was imminent.

The situation is very critical, and the government army can kill at any time.

The flag has been planted, and the top priority is to unite people's hearts.

He immediately decided to take a risk.

Liu Xiu is keenly aware that it is the desire of the people to oppose the reckless Han Dynasty, and the current panic in the hearts of the people is not only affected by the disaster of the destruction of Li Tong's family in Wancheng, but also related to the eldest brother Liu Xuan himself.

Compared to most people, Liu Xuan is not only excellent, but also outstanding.

Liu Xuan is bold, light on money and righteous, and has a clear distinction between love and hate, which is recognized by everyone.

But there is also a shortcoming, he has a strong temperament and is impulsive.

This shortcoming is not easy to notice, but it can be fatal when it matters.

What's even more terrifying is that Liu Xuan didn't see this shortcoming of his own, and he didn't want to admit it when others brought it up.

Following a very capable, but impulsive man to cut people, the villagers were really uncertain about the prospects of the uprising.

Liu Xiu felt that up to now, this ideological and political work that unites the people's hearts can only be done directly by himself.

One day, Liu Xiu, dressed in a military uniform, wearing a red general's robe (绛衣) and a samurai helmet (large crown) on his head, deliberately walked around in front of the crowd, making the appearance of being ready to fight with anyone at any time.

This trick really worked, and the results were immediate.

Everyone was taken aback when they saw Liu Xiu dressed like this, but they quickly settled down and muttered to each other:

"Even a person like Uncle Wen, who is usually cautious and steady, elegant and kind, has rebelled, what are we afraid of!"

(Those who are cautious will also do it)

At this time, Liu Xiu was 27 years old, and he had reached the age where he could entrust things.

In everyone's mind, he has a good character, a high degree of education, and a capability, and he is thoughtful, steady, and trustworthy.

Yes, even the suave Uncle Wen rolled up his sleeves, what are we afraid of?!

Liu Xiu's high-profile entry into the game enhanced everyone's confidence, and the children of Chungling quickly settled down.