"However, after the decline of the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu repeatedly violated the border, and did not send troops to crusade against the Xiongnu until the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

"At that time, the ministers of the DPRK and China wrote letters one after another requesting that troops be sent to attack the Xiongnu, and then unite with the surrounding Wuhuan and other minority regimes to completely eliminate the Xiongnu!"

But at this time, Liu Xiu hesitated, and finally refused the request to send troops to attack the Xiongnu. This also left the impression of Liu Xiu's weakness to future generations. ”

"Although he did not send troops for many reasons, this is indeed a good opportunity to attack the Xiongnu, and Liu Xiu's abandonment is indeed a stain."

Yin Lihua: Although Your Majesty was born as a farmer, he is also quite talented in military affairs, how can he be described as weak, you must know that at that time, in the first battle of Kunyang, many soldiers fled one after another, but only His Majesty dared to move forward bravely, and won more with less, giving Wang Mang a heavy blow, sounding the death knell of Wang Mang's regime!

His Majesty did not send troops to the Xiongnu, definitely not because he was cowardly and weak, but considering that he was not far away to go to the battlefield, the infantry of the Eastern Han Dynasty was hostile to the cavalry of the Xiongnu, and he did not have much advantage! It is not appropriate to treat this as a stain.

Yue Fei: It can only be said that although Emperor Guangwu's choice is conservative, it is indeed a stable choice, everyone knows that the Xiongnu is a nation on horseback, good at cavalry combat, and this happens to be Emperor Guangwu's weakness, because Liu Xiu's soldiers are mainly infantry, and in the vast grassland, the advantage of infantry is not obvious.

Even if Emperor Guangwu's son Liu Zhuang later sent troops to attack the Xiongnu, it was to carefully select a group of seedlings from the infantry for training, and formed a cavalry team to defeat the Xiongnu, not to fight unprepared battles, this is his way of governing the army!

Zhu Yuanzhang: Emperor Guangwu had a sentence that he said to the generals at that time, and I still remember it vividly.

"The virtuous gentleman is happy with what he enjoys; The king of virtue is happy with what he enjoys. Those who are happy will be happy, and those who are happy will die soon. Those who sacrifice the near and seek the far will work in vain. ”

From these words, it can actually be seen that Emperor Guangwu is not warlike, and only wants both sides to benefit each other and the people to have enough food and clothing.

Wei Qing: Therefore, this Guangwu Emperor is not weak, but his concept of governing the country is different.

Moreover, the virtuous monarch is judged by whether the people are stable and prosperous, not how far they can expand their territory and how many wars they have fought.

"Liu Xiu is very simple, and very generous and benevolent, he climbed up from the bottom, knowing that the people do not want war to happen, and Liu Xiu himself has fought for more than ten years, and he has begun to get tired of war and desire peace and stability."

"And Liu Xiu respects Confucianism, wants to be a virtuous king, doesn't want to work the people and lose money, doesn't want to raise teachers and mobilize the people, and doesn't want to take advantage of people's dangers."

Liu Xiu: In the early days of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during Cen Peng's attack on Kuihuan, I once wrote to Cen Peng: "If the two cities are down, they can send troops south to attack Shu." People are not satisfied, both peaceful and long, looking back at Shu. The head of each soldier must be white. ”

When I was close to half a hundred, I knew very well that "it is not easy to win the world, and it is especially difficult to govern the world", and I no longer want to devote the rest of my life to military warfare.

Although there was a plague in the Xiongnu at that time, the Xiongnu were good at fighting with cavalry mobile, and this was precisely the weakness of the army, although everyone said that I was weak and did not dare to send troops when the heavens gave me a good opportunity, but I could not gamble with the lives of the soldiers.

"I finally know why everyone says that you are not only the most capable emperor in history, but also a near-perfect emperor."

"The decision you made was not conservative but wise, maybe it was wise to give up the Western Regions."

"Because gambling on a victorious battlefield is not as good as consolidating the country steadily, as long as the Xiongnu cannot be destroyed, there is really no need to gamble on this battle."

"Everyone knows that Emperor Guangwu's martial arts are not weak."

"The Battle of Kunyang is one of the famous examples of winning more with less in history, which determined the fate of the two armies of the New Han Dynasty and the national fortunes of the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years in the future, and it was a strategic decisive battle with far-reaching impact in history."

"In the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xiu, who was a partial general, was famous all over the world, and the Battle of Kunyang was not only a key battle for Liu Xiu to defeat Wang Mang, but also laid the foundation for Liu Xiu to seize the world in the future."

"In the course of Liu Xiuxiong's domination of the world, those who were defeated under Liu Xiu were: the rebel forces Green Forest Army, the Bronze Horse Army, the Red Mei Army, the You Lai Army, etc., the emperor Wang Mang, Wang Lang, Gongsun Shu, and the separatist forces Kui Huan, Liu Yong, Zhang Bu, etc."

With his unique personality charm, he gathered the extraordinary talents of the "Yuntai Twenty-eight Generals" represented by Deng Yu, Wu Han and Feng Yi to lay a foundation together. ”

"What is rare is that they have always been loyal to Liu Xiu, even when Liu Xiu was down, and Liu Xiu also maintained a sincere friendship with them, and never thought of hiding the birds."

"He turned many former enemies into his own people, attracting them to come to the same place, this is an even more rare thing, his martial arts are not bad, he really can't give up the Western Regions."

"In 200 BC, Liu Bangqin led a large army to conquer the Xiongnu, but was surrounded by 300,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu."

"A large amount of money was bribed to Mao Dun Shan Yu's wife, and she was trapped for seven days and seven nights before she was able to escape. After that, Liu Bang had no choice but to adopt a policy of peace and proximity in order to ease the relationship between the two sides. ”

"And when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Wei Qing won seven battles and seven victories, Huo Qu was sick and sealed the wolf Juxu, and the Huns were all over the ground looking for teeth, but more than 100 years later, the Huns are still crisscrossing the outside, what can they do?"

"In the heyday, sometimes they couldn't take the Huns, and during the Guangwu period, it was even more difficult, and Emperor Guangwu may have learned the lessons of the previous dynasty!"

Qin Shi Huang: Miss Zhang spoke very thoroughly, and Emperor Guangwu also vaguely expressed his thoughts, that is, Liu Xiu felt that his generals might not be able to completely eliminate the Xiongnu.

Zhao Kuangyin: This is the real idea, and it is indeed a wise move, in the early days of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there has always been an active hero Lu Fang on the northern border.

This Lu Fang relied on the support of the Xiongnu and often invaded the border, and among the 28 generals of Yuntai, Wu Han, Du Mao, Wang Ba, and Ma Wu fought with Lu Fang and the Xiongnu's reinforcements as many as dozens of times, but they lost more and won less, and Lu Fang was never eliminated.

Even Lu Fang's army couldn't win, let alone destroy the Huns' cavalry.

Dugu Jialuo: We women should also admit that Emperor Guangwu has been an emperor for 33 years, and the people under his rule have lived very well, even in his old age, he is still sober and still a successful person.

Aside from Guo Shengtong, he and Yin Lihua are in love with each other and are always happy, their child is the second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Han Ming, and he is also a good emperor, which is indeed perfect.