Liu Xiu was nicknamed "the son of an airplane" because he revived the perishing Han Dynasty, and was also one of the objects admired by Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period.
Liu Bei also wants to learn from him and extend the Han Dynasty for two hundred years, but in the end he only established Shu Han, one of the Three Kingdoms, which is far from Liu Xiu!
First, although Liu Xiu's ability is much higher than Liu Bang's, it also depends on the identity of the descendants of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Liu Xiu was the pioneer of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 -220) in history and was called Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He extended the national movement of the Han Dynasty for nearly two centuries, so the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty add up to more than 400 years of Han Dynasty.
In AD 9, Wang Mang usurped the throne, deposed Liu Ying, the last emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and established a new dynasty (9 -23 years). After the demise of the Western Han Dynasty, the new dynasty collapsed in Wang Mang's reckless reform. At the end of the new dynasty, the world was in chaos and the heroes rose together. Liu Xiu of Wancheng stood out from the crowd, eventually unifying the whole country and establishing the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Xiu is a descendant of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Emperor Gaozu, and also a descendant of Liu Fa, the king of Changsha. However, this branch of Liu Xiu is far from the lineal blood relatives of the royal family in the Western Han Dynasty, and can only be regarded as a distant branch of the imperial clan in the Han Dynasty. Liu Xiu's military talent and cultural accomplishment are much higher than that of Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of that year. After all, Liu Bang was only born in Surabaya, while Liu Xiu's family is middle class.
Although Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty and was also the founding emperor, as a descendant of Liu Bang, his reputation was not as good as that of Emperor Gaozu or even Emperor Wudi. Different from Liu Bang's self-made, Liu Xiu is, after all, a descendant of the imperial clan, and his Han descent has brought him many benefits.
He can marry beautiful women like Yin Lihua and Guo Shengkun, which has a lot to do with his identity as a descendant of the Han Dynasty. In order to get the support of the cremation in Hebei, he married Guo Shengkun, which laid the foundation for Liu Xiu to pacify the world. The gentry in Hebei and the elite Youzhou rustic have joined Liu Xiu's camp.
Second, the Eastern Han Dynasty established by Liu Xiu declined very early, and became the negative textbook of Zhuge Liang's saying that "the relatives were far from virtuous, and the later Han Dynasty (referring to the Eastern Han Dynasty) died". The Western Han Dynasty was a political power established by the peasant class. At first, there was no huge gentry group, so politics was relatively clean. Moreover, Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Wendi, Emperor Jingdi, Emperor Wudi, Emperor Zhaodi and Emperor Xuandi of the Western Han Dynasty are all famous emperors in history. The Western Han Dynasty has a far-reaching influence in the history of China and is one of the most famous dynasties.
The Eastern Han regime established by Liu Xiu was a regime established by the gentry class, which left a huge gentry force from the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, laying the groundwork for the chaos of consorts in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty. The heyday of the Eastern Han Dynasty was short. Since the reign of Emperor Guangwu, it has experienced the rule of Ming and Zhang, the prosperity of Emperor Wudi and the reign of Emperor Wudi, and the rapid decline in the fifth generation of Emperor Wudi.
In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuch chaos and consorts' authoritarian power emerged one after another. Since Shang Emperor, successive emperors succeeded to the throne at a young age. The weak son strengthens the mother, giving the matriarchal clan exclusive power (consort group), forming Deng, Yan, Liang, and many consort groups, which is politically dark. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the phenomenon of the Empress Dowager facing the DPRK became a unique landscape, and the phenomenon of the Empress Dowager facing the DPRK in later generations was not as good as that in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Even Zhuge Liang said, "I am a villain, but I am a good minister." Since then, the Han Dynasty has perished. " . Generally speaking, the Eastern Han Dynasty is not as powerful as the Western Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is naturally not as famous as Liu Bang, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.