The first emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. Liu Xiu was born in Cai Yang, Nanyang (now southwest of Zaoyang, Hubei). The grandson of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang IX, his father Qin was the prefect of Nan 'an. He reigned from AD 25 to AD 57. After the uprising of Chimei and Lvlin broke out, in the third year of Emperor Huang (AD 22), with his younger brother, in order to restore Liu's rule, they revolted in Fuling (now Zaoyang South, Hubei Province) and formed Fuling Army. In the fourth year of Emperor Huang, Liu Xiu made great contributions to the Battle of Kunyang. After Liu Xuanbei made Luoyang his capital, Liu Xiu was sent to Fuzhou County, Hebei Province. The powerful landlords in Hebei led clans, guests and children to join Liu Xiu one after another and became his powerful pillar. Since then, Liu Xiu refused to listen to the mobilization of the regime. In the autumn of the same year, the peasant uprising army in Hebei Province was disintegrated and incorporated, and it grew in strength. Therefore, Kansai called Liu Xiu the Emperor of the Bronze Horse. Soon, it completely broke away from the regime that started from scratch. In the second year (AD 24), Liu Xuanli and Liu Xiu became Xiao Wang and sent messengers to call him to Chang 'an. Geng Yan said to Liu Xiu, "Now that Liu Xuan is the emperor, the generals in Shandong (east of Yishan) will go their separate ways. Liu Xuan's relatives and relatives are bullying in Chang 'an, but people miss follwed instead. This shows that Liu Xuan will fail. You decide the world. Hearing this, Liu Xiu was overjoyed. He resigned from Hebei to Chang 'an and broke up with him. Subsequently, Geng Yan assisted Liu Xiu in suppressing peasant insurgents such as Tongma and Du Qing. After Liu Xiu proclaimed himself emperor, he was named General Jianwei, sealed the territory, and led the army to defeat the separatist forces such as Deng Feng and Cen Yan. In the second year of Jianwu (AD 26), Geng Yan asked Guangwu Emperor to attack Qi and ensure his level. Five years, was ordered to crusade against Zhang Bu. Zhang Bu of Dingdu Drama County (now Changle West, Shandong Province) ordered Fei Yi to lead the army in Lixia (now Jinan City, Shandong Province), set up a branch in Zhu 'a (now Jinan West), and set up dozens of battalions from Taishan to Zhongcheng (now Taishan North) to prepare for Geng Yan. Geng Yan avoided Zhang Bu's Taishan defense line, crossed the Yellow River, attacked and captured, spared the city, and let the defenders escape to Zhongcheng. The defenders in Midtown also fled, and Fei Yi ordered his younger brother Fei to retreat to Juli (now Jinan). Geng Yan arrived at Juli at the gates, ordered to step up preparations for siege equipment, and threatened to capture Juli within three days. In addition, an ambush was set on the slope next to the road from Lixia to Juli, ready to attack the city and help each other. Three days later, Fei Yi really came to help. Geng Yan was overjoyed to hear the news. He led his command troops to attack reinforcements, cut the cost of the city, and took its head to demonstrate in Juli City. Fei Gan and his men were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled to the drama county. Geng Yan captured all the more than forty defenders. Zhang Bu ordered his younger brother Zhang Lan to lead 20,000 soldiers to guard Xi 'an (now northeast of Zibo, Shandong Province) and sent more than 10,000 people to guard Linzi (now northeast of Zibo, Shandong Province). Geng Yan walked into the painting between Xi 'an and Linzi. Xi Ancheng is small and strong, while Linzi is big and difficult to defend. Geng Yan threatened to attack Xi 'an five days later, but then suddenly attacked Linzi, and he came down in half a day. Zhang Lan gave up Xi 'an and retreated to Shangxi County. Seeing that Linzi was lost, Zhang Bu concentrated 200,000 troops to counterattack, trying to recover Linzi by taking advantage of Geng Yan's precarious position. When Geng Yan heard the news, he wrote to Emperor Guangwu of Shandong (now Qufu, Shandong) and said, "I am in Linzi, and the valley is deep and the base is high. Zhang Bu came from Xi County, tired and hungry. If you want to advance, you will lure and attack, and if you want to go, you will attack. I fought by the battalion, and I was a hundred times more elite. I will wait for work, and I will attack the virtual with real ones. In these ten days, I can take the first step. " Then, he sent an army to Hezi River to lure Zhang Bu to attack. Zhang Bu chased him to the East Gate of Linzi, and Geng Yan took advantage of the fierce battle with the defenders to attack the Zhang Bu camp and suffered heavy losses. In the battle, a flowing vector hit Geng's thigh, and Geng waved a knife to cut off the vector and continued fighting. The next day, Geng Yan learned that Zhang Bu was going to withdraw, so he set an ambush in Zhang Bu's retreat ahead of time and killed Zhang Bujun until he caught up with Juyangshui (now Shouguang West, Shandong Province). At this time, Emperor Guangwu came to the front to comfort him, and the ministers attending the meeting said: "In the past, Han Xin broke through the past, and now General Geng is attacking Zhu 'a, which is the west of Qi's land and has made considerable contributions. However, Han Xin's internal attack has fallen, and General Geng has taken the lead, which is difficult for Han Xin. General Geng made up his mind three years ago. It can be said that where there is a will, there is a way. "After the meeting, Geng Yan continued to pursue Zhang Bu, forcing 65438+ ten thousand people to surrender. Geng Yan has made outstanding achievements, and has conquered more than 300 cities in 46 counties. In June of the first year of Jianwu (AD 25), he proclaimed himself emperor in Zhu (now Baixiang North, Hebei Province), rebuilt the Han regime, and soon made Luoyang his capital, known as the Eastern Han Dynasty in history. In the third year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu defeated the red-eyed peasant army and controlled the whole middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Jianwu unified Kanto in six years, and Hexi Dou Rong joined. In the ninth and twelfth years of Jianwu, Tianshui and Bashu were successively settled. 12 years later, Liu Xiu finally completed the great cause of reunification.

Guangwudi, who is good at knowing people, compares Deng Yu, who is resourceful, to Sean and Kou Xun, who enforce the law impartially and guard the rear for a long time, to Xiao He and Jia Fu, who are resolute and both civil and military, and to haing s ngor, who is brave and invincible and decisive in war. In his mind, only Han Xin, who is the general god of war, is a man of great power.

After the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu first devoted himself to rectifying the bureaucracy and strengthening the centralization of absolutism. Although he portrayed the hero as a hero and gave him a rich title, he forbade them to interfere in political affairs. The power of princes and consorts is also restricted in many ways. On the administrative system, on the one hand, Liu Xiu further suppressed the three powers, so that all government affairs of the country passed through the bookshelf and were finally in charge of the emperor; On the other hand, strengthen the supervision system, improve the authority and status of critical officials, such as Zhong Cheng, Li Si, a captain and secretary history. More than 400 counties across the country were also merged, and the official position was reduced to110. At the same time, Liu Xiu also took many measures to stabilize people's livelihood and restore the broken social economy. In the sixth year of Jianwu, the old system of thirty taxes and one tax was restored. Compared with the late Western Han Dynasty and the war period, the burden of feudal servitude in the early Eastern Han Dynasty was reduced. He issued imperial edicts nine times before and after to release slaves or improve their legal status, so that a large number of slaves were rescued from Shu Ren, refugees returned to the countryside and promoted production. During his reign, history called ZTE.

In the fifteenth year of Jianwu, in view of the serious phenomenon of "over-the-field house system" and concealing land accounts at that time, Liu Xiu ordered the whole country to inspect land accounts. On the contrary, in the process of inventory, "most of them are deceptive, unpractical and nuclear", "superior arrogance and aggressive weakness". As a result, farmers all over the country rebelled, and powerful people in the county also took the opportunity to make trouble. In this regard, Liu Xiu took different countermeasures. The struggle against peasants is divided and suppressed. After executing more than a dozen county magistrates who made fake fields, they ordered to stop farming and give in to powerful landlords. At the end of his reign, Emperor Guangwu "declared that he wanted to be a prophet of the world", in an attempt to use the mixture of Confucianism and divination theology as an ideological weapon to strengthen the control of people's thoughts.