In the last years of the new recklessness, because of the reforms he implemented, he blindly admired the ancients and was unrealistic, and touched the interests of the powerful and the low, as well as the common people; In addition, natural disasters such as floods and droughts continue to occur, and the vast Central Plains are thousands of miles of red land, and mourning is everywhere.

In 17 A.D., there was a famine in Jingzhou in the south, and the common people had to go to the swamp area to dig wild water chestnuts to satisfy their hunger. There were two famous people in Xinshi, one named Wang Kuang and the other named Wang Feng, who came out to mediate with the hungry people, and everyone elected them as leaders. Hundreds of people gathered at once; Ma Wu, a native of Nanyang, Wang Chang, and Cheng Dan from Yingchuan also came to join them, and there were seven or eight thousand people gathered in an instant.

It happened that there was a big mountain nearby, the situation was steep and the forest was deep, called Green Forest Mountain, and the thieves relied on this mountain to specialize in robbery.

Jingzhou was afraid of his rebellion, so he issued an order to gather 20,000 soldiers to attack the green forest. When Wang Kuang heard that the officers and soldiers were coming to beg for it, he hurriedly went out to meet him. The two armies fought desperately at the sound of drums. The thieves were like wolves and tigers, and the officers and soldiers could not resist them, and thousands of people were killed and many baggage were taken. Jingzhou Mu hurriedly led the defeated army to retreat north, and suddenly saw an army blocking the way, and the leader was Ma Wu. Ma Wu raised his sword and killed a general. Ma Wu didn't dare to kill Jingzhou Mu, and Jingzhou Mu escaped with his life.

The Green Forest Army took advantage of the situation to capture several county towns and open the prison to release the prisoners; Part of the grain in the granary of the official family was distributed to the local poor, and part of it was moved to the green forest mountain. More and more poor people defected to the Green Forest Mountain, and the rebel army increased to more than 50,000 people.

A year later, a plague suddenly broke out in the green forest and mountains, and most of the thieves died. Then the generals divided their forces and took their own side. Wang Chang and Cheng Dan led a team of thieves into Nanjun in the west, called the Xiajiang soldiers; Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, and Ma Wu led the rest of the party north into Nanyang, and called the new city soldiers; There are also Jingzhou Pinglin people Chen Mu and Liao Zhan gathered thousands of people, known as Pinglin soldiers, and the thieves are revived.

There is also Fan Chong, an evil man, who looted in Qingzhou and Xuzhou. Wang Mang hurriedly sent Lian Dan and Wang Kuang to suppress him, and Fan Chong was afraid that his army would mix with the official army, so he ordered everyone to paint the two eyebrows on their faces red, so they were called red eyebrows.

Lian Dan and Wang Kuang each led their troops and horses to fight with Red Mei in Chengchang. The two armies fought for a long time, and the thief army was very brave, and the officers and soldiers were defeated. Wang Kuang was so frightened that he wanted to flee with Lian Dan. Lian Dan handed over the seal to Wang Kuang and said, "You can wait for the children to go, but I can't go." "Let's go and recruit the defeated army to fight a decisive battle with Red Eyebrows, and Lian Dan died in battle. After Lian Dan's death, his subordinates said: "Lian Gong is dead, how can my generation be the only one?" So they killed the thieves together and died. Lian Dan's death quickly spread to Chang'an. Wang Mang hurriedly ordered Wai Zhang Xingye to lead his troops eastward and fight with Wang Kuang to quell the thief.

Lu's mother is a native of Langyu, and her family is rich. Lu's mother has a son who is a Haiqu County official and was innocently killed by the county order. Lu's mother wanted to take revenge, so she scattered all her family wealth to buy weapons, secretly befriended more than 100 poor young people, and begged him to help kill the county order to avenge her son. Everyone felt the affection of Lu's mother and promised to contribute. Soon, Lu Mu and everyone rushed to Haiqu County with weapons in their hands to kill the county commander.

After Lu Mu killed the county order, she fled into the sea with everyone to become thieves. Later, the party gradually gathered more and more, and there were more than 10,000 people.

After Lu's mother died, her subordinates went to Fan Chong again. In less than a year, it has grown to more than 10,000 people.

However, it is said that Emperor Guangwu's name is Liu Xiu, the word Uncle Wen, he is the ninth grandson of Liu Bang, and he is from the line of Liu Fa, the king of Changsha born to Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Fa is a lucky and unfortunate child.

said that Liu Fa was lucky because he couldn't have come to this world.

Cheng Ji and Dou Yifang were originally palace maids in Liu Bang's harem, after Liu Bang died, Lu Pheasant "assigned" Liu Bang's palace maids to the princes and kings, Cheng Ji and Dou Yifang were "assigned" to Liu Heng, who was still the acting king at the time, Dou Yifang was favored by Liu Heng and gave birth to Liu Qi, that is, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.

Cheng Ji, who was also "assigned" to Daiguo by Lu Pheasant, became Liu Qi's woman, and it stands to reason that Cheng Ji should be about the same age as Dou Yifang, and she can be Liu Qi's mother.

Liu Qi likes Cheng Ji very much and often goes to Cheng Ji to sleep, and Cheng Ji also gave birth to two sons to Liu Qi, namely Liu Yu, the king of Lu, and Liu Fei, the king of Jiangdu.

One day Liu Qi went to sleep with Cheng Ji again, but this day Cheng Ji was inconvenient, but the emperor came and couldn't drive him away, she saw that a maid named Tang Er was good-looking, so she asked someone to send Tang Er to Liu Qi's bed, and then ......

Liu Qi is also very powerful, just overnight, Tang Er became pregnant.

Ten months later, Tang Er gave birth to a baby boy, Liu Fa.

The old lady's status is low, and her son is not good, Liu Fa was enshrined by Liu Qi to a very small place in Changsha when he grew up, and Liu Fa was very dissatisfied with his feudal country.

One year Liu Qi had a birthday, and his sons all went to Beijing to congratulate him, and Liu Fa naturally went to Chang'an.

At Liu Qi's birthday banquet, Liu Fa danced for a while, but he didn't dance well, he just waved his sleeves, which made people look very awkward. Liu Qi asked him with a smile why he danced so awkwardly, and Liu Fa said with a complaining face: "The area of Erchen's feudal kingdom is too small, so I don't dare to dance too happily, for fear of accidentally jumping to someone else's feudal country." ”

Liu Qi felt that he was not fair to his son, so he gave Liu Fa the three counties of Wuling, Lingling, and Guiyang.

But the fief was big, and Liu Fa was still unhappy, firstly, because the three counties of Wuling, Lingling, and Guiyang at that time were still "the land of the Southern Barbarians", which was even worse than Changsha. The second is that he went to the country to be the king, but his mother Tang Ji stayed in Chang'an, this Tang Ji was from a low background, and there was no one to take care of him in Chang'an City, so he naturally had an unhappy life.

So the filial Liu Fa transported the rice from Changsha to Chang'an every year to honor his parents, and then let the convoy load Chang'an's soil and transport it to Changsha, which was pushed into a high platform. Liu Fa often climbed high and overlooked Chang'an to express his thoughts about his parents.

Liu Fa's nickname is "Ding", so the history is called "Changsha Dingwang". The high platform built with the soil of Chang'an is called "Wangmu Terrace", also known as "Dingwang Terrace".

After Liu Fa's death, his eldest son Liu Yong succeeded to the throne as King Dai of Changsha. Because of the principle of following the principle of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "Tui En Order", he surrendered from the liehous, and when Liu Xiu's father Liu Qin was in his generation, he was a small official like the Jiyang County Order.

Liu Qin married a wealthy and powerful daughter, and gave birth to three sons and three daughters. The eldest is called Liu Yan, the second is called Liu Zhong, and the third is called Liu Xiu; The eldest girl is called Liu Huang, the second girl is called Liu Yuan, and the third girl is called Bo Ji.

Liu Xiu was born in a palace in Jiyang County, which was originally established by Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, also known as the "Jiyang Palace", and was closed after the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Because there was no suitable place for his wife to give birth, Liu Qin couldn't take care of it, so he let his wife live in the palace. It is said that when Liu Xiu was born, the red light shone through the palace, and in Jiyang County, there was Jiahe growth that year, and one stem gave birth to nine ears, so Liu Qin named the child "Xiu", because he was the third son, so the word "Uncle Wen". In the first three years of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Qin died in the county magistrate of Nandun County, and Liu Xiu, who was only 9 years old, became orphans with his brother and sister, living without a support, and was raised by his uncle Liu Liang in Caiyang County, Nanyang County, and became ordinary civilians.

The eldest brother Liu Yan has a strong temperament, is generous and righteous, and likes to make friends with heroes in the world. Because Wang Mang abolished the titles and fiefs of the Han clan and forbade the Liu family to be officials, he always hated Wang Mang and always wanted to restore the world of the Han Dynasty. The little brother Liu Xiu is cautious and calm by nature, and he is planting crops in an orderly manner. Liu Yanlao compared him to Gaozu's brother Liu Zhong and laughed at him for being unproductive. Liu Xiu went to Chang'an to enter Taixue, and after a little understanding of the righteousness in the book, Liu Xiu went home to live in seclusion and farm. Liu Xiu has a tall nose, a full forehead, fair skin, and godly eyebrows. Xiangshi saw that he often had a red light covering his body and purple mist, so he said that he would have the honor of Ninety-Five one day.

Liu Huang married Deng Chen, a powerful new savage in Nanyang, one day Liu Xiu and Deng Chen went to Cai Shaogong's house to chat, and Shaogong greeted them to sit down when they saw the two of them coming. At that time, there were many guests, and the young prince said to everyone: "Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven." Someone asked the young man: "Are you talking about Liu Xiu, the national teacher?" The young prince hadn't answered yet, but he heard Liu Xiu on the last seat say something: "How can you see that you are not a servant?" The crowd burst into laughter.

After Liu Xiu ascended the throne, he talked about the past with Deng Chen, and Deng Chen calmly said to Emperor Guangwu: "The servant actually did it", Liu Xiu laughed after hearing it! That's an afterword.

In 22 A.D., the new city soldiers and Pinglin soldiers of the Green Forest Army arrived in Nanyang, and Li Tong's uncle and brother Li Yi said to him: "Now the four sides are in chaos, and the Han family is about to rise again." Our Nanyang place counts Liu Yan's family is a clan, and their brothers and sons are quite capable, so we might as well discuss with them. Li Tong said: "I have long had this meaning. So Li Tong and Li Yi planned to go to Chungling to see Liu Yan.

It happened that Liu Xiu was hungry in Nanyang counties, but his own field was harvested, so Liu Xiu brought the rice grain to Wan County to sell. Li Tong and Li Yi met him on the street, so they invited Liu Xiu to their home. Everyone was like-minded and agreed to do it in Nanyang, Li Tong launched it in Wanxian County, and Li Yi followed Liu Xiu to Chungling to meet Liu Yan.

Liu Yan gathered more than 100 heroes and said to them: "Wang Mang is tyrannical, and the common people can't survive." Now there have been disasters and famines, and heroes from all over the country have raised troops. This is the time when the new dynasty is dead, and it is also the time to restore the cause of Emperor Gao and calm the world. Everyone agreed, and at that time they split up to the neighboring counties to mobilize their relatives and friends to raise troops together.

Liu Yan called on Nanyang Haoqiang to raise troops in Chungling County. At that time, Liu Xiu was twenty-eight years old. He helped his brother prepare grain and grass, and waited for the people on Li Tong's side to gather. Who knew that the secret was not discovered by others. Li Tong hurriedly fled, and his father Li Shou and his family members couldn't escape, and they were all killed by Wang Mang's orders. Sixty-four people died.

Li Tong blew it at the end, and Liu Yan only had seven or eight thousand people, so he couldn't make a big deal. He knew that the newly arrived Xinshi soldiers and Pinglin soldiers were stronger than them, so he sent Liu Jia, a son of his family, to meet Wang Feng, the leader of the Xinshi soldiers, and Chen Mu, the leader of the Pinglin soldiers, to persuade them to attack Changju together, and they agreed. So the three groups of men and horses united and went west. The first battle was won, and Changju was defeated. Then they took down Tangzi Township and Huyang County, and looted a lot of property along the way. Because of the competition for each other's property, the Xinshi soldiers and the forest soldiers almost fought. Liu Xiu persuaded the people on Nanyang's side to give up their belongings to others, and the two people were very happy and willing to attack Jianyang with Nanyang's soldiers.

After conquering Jianyang, Liu Yan planned to attack Wanxian County and arrived at "Little Chang'an" (thirty-seven miles south of Wanxian County). Halfway through, he met Wang Mang's generals Zhen Fu and Liang Qiuci. Liu Yan is an infantryman, and he even has few knives and guns, so he can't resist. This time, the Nanyang soldiers lost the battle, and they were defeated very badly, and everyone fled to their own devices. Liu Xiu also fled for his life on horseback. After running for a while, I saw my sister Liu Yuan on the side of the road. Liu Xiu told her to get on the horse quickly. Liu Yuan shook his hand and said: "You can move quickly, you can't care about each other at this point, if you are forced to arrive, everyone will die." Liu Xiu wanted to persuade again. Suddenly, I heard shouts from behind, smoke and dust rushed into the sky, and the pursuers swarmed like a tide. Liu Xiu had to leave her sister and flee forward, and after a while, the pursuers arrived, and Liu Yuan and her three daughters were killed. Liu Xiu's second brother Liu Zhong and dozens of people in his family also died in the chaos.

Liu Xiu ran all the way to a small town, and looked up to see an eye-catching signboard hanging on the side of the road, with the three big characters "mule and horse shop" on it. At this time, Liu Xiu was sleepy and lacking horses, so he immediately turned over and dismounted, led the horse to the inn, and asked someone to lead the mount to the backyard to feed and drink, and sat down by the window of the hotel in the front hall of the inn.

Liu Xiu ordered wine and meat, but before he got off the chopsticks, he suddenly heard an uproar at the door. Someone shouted: "Turning a blind eye to the will of heaven is a blessing and a curse to my prophet." ”

Liu Xiuzheng was surprised, and walked in from the door with a long-haired shawl, a crazy Taoist priest. After the Taoist priest entered the house, he walked straight to Liu Xiu's table, grabbed the wine jug, first drank it with his eyes, and then grabbed the beef on the plate with his hand to eat.

The bartender in the store saw it and hurriedly came over to bombard him: "Crazy Taoist, are you sick again?" Hurry up and get out, don't leave, be careful that I scald you with boiling water!"

Liu Xiu saw that the crazy Taoist priest had sharp eyes, and knew that he was not a fake idiot, and he was definitely not an idle person, so he stopped the bartender and said, "Forget it, forget it, give that one to this Taoist priest to eat, you go and get me another one!" After saying that, he took out some coins and handed them to the bartender. The bartender saw that the money was not good, and then turned and went into the kitchen to serve wine and meat.

The mad Taoist priest in front of him was obviously very hungry, he held the wine jug in one hand and the beef in the other, and ate all the wine and meat on the table like a wind sweeping away the clouds, and finally he patted his belly and sang: "Full, full!" Yan Bi stared at Liu Xiu and looked at it, suddenly tore off a palm-sized rag from his shirt, and still sang and said to Liu Xiu: "The lord appreciates wine and meat, warms my big belly, and if you eat it in vain, I will give you two inches of clothing!" After speaking, he shoved the rag into Liu Xiu's hand, then turned around and staggered away.

Liu Xiu looked into his hand and saw a small poem written on the strip of cloth:

The portrait of the lord is available in this store,

Hidden killing opportunities cannot be left behind,

To escape, you still need to go east,

The canyon reclining horse roared in the sky.

Liu Xiu was taken aback after reading it. Looking at the mad Taoist priest through the window, the mad Taoist priest has long since disappeared. At this time, the bartender had already re-served a steaming wine and meat and sent it to Liu Xiu's table. Liu Xiu learned that there was a trap in this shop, where did he dare to eat it again, he had an idea and shouted loudly: "That crazy Taoist priest is so hateful, I kindly gave him wine and meat, but he took the opportunity to steal my money!" As he spoke, he rushed to the backyard, pulled out his white dragon horse, and then turned over and walked away.

Liu Xiu had just left, and suddenly heard someone shouting behind the inn: "Liu Xiu has escaped, chase after him!"

Liu Xiu didn't dare to look back, he whipped up his horse along the way, just wanted to get rid of the other party's pursuit as soon as possible, how could the white dragon horse under his crotch have been in a hurry for a morning, in the inn of the mule and horse shop, he just drank two sips of water, chewed two mouthfuls of material, and was urged by Liu Xiu to run violently, his legs and hooves gradually became soft, where can he run fast!

Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, and from time to time there were arrows grazing Liu Xiu's ears, and the situation was critical, Liu Xiu decided to leave the main road and take the small road, turn the horse's head, and rush towards a canyon mouth next to him.

After the white dragon horse turned into the Grand Canyon, the bow and arrow were out of reach, thinking that the chasing soldiers were not far away, Liu Xiu continued to beat the horse and run fast. Who knew that this canyon was full of pebbles, and the white dragon horse didn't go far, and with a neighing hoof, he suddenly fell down on the river beach at the bottom of the valley and did not move.

Liu Xiu felt sad when she saw this. In a panic, he suddenly remembered the poem written in the cloth of the mad Taoist priest, "The canyon lying horse roars to the sky", at this time, he didn't roar at this time, and then he looked up to the sky and roared: "God, help me Liu Xiu!"

As soon as the words fell, I suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. When Liu Xiu looked at it, he saw a boulder weighing 10,000 catties falling from the sky at the mouth of the canyon behind him, which was impartial and stuck at the intersection of the canyon, blocking the passage of the pursuers.

Liu Xiu said darkly, "God help me!" Abandon the horse and hurry forward along the canyon. As he was walking, he suddenly heard someone shouting in his ear: "My lord, please get on the horse, come with me!", looked up, and saw that someone in front of him led two horses and walked towards him, it was the "crazy Taoist" who gave him a message in the inn. Liu Xiu didn't think much about it, and took the reins of the horse from the hand of the mad Taoist priest, who rode a horse to lead the way, and Liu Xiu followed closely behind him.

The pursuers were blocked by the boulders at the mouth of the canyon and had to retreat.