My students can change history

Chapter 98 The Inertia of History

The young Liu Xiu has his own team, owns his own territory, and enjoys a high reputation among the rebel army.

Although there was a lot of death wherever I went before.But the aristocratic family still did not suspect that Liu Xiu had any special relationship with Wang Mang.

They just think that Liu Xiu deliberately weakened the strength of the family in order to increase his own strength.

But just when people thought Liu Xiu was going to have a decisive battle with Wang Mang.

The most incredible scene in the history of China appeared.

Liu Xiu accepted Wang Mang's offer, betrayed the aristocratic family who supported him, and went to Chang'an with his cronies!

Not to mention Liu Xiu, as the leader of the rebel army, why do you dare to believe that Wang Mang will not kill him.In other words, the power he had at that time might not have the possibility of a showdown with Wang Mang and the possibility of competing in the world.

But Liu Xiu left her territory just like that, and went to Chang'an by light car.

With Liu Xiu's surrender, the forces of the rebel army also fell apart, and were wiped out by Wang Mang within a few months.

Then Wang Mang and Liu Xiu joined forces to suppress the aristocratic family and carry out reforms in the country at the same time.From the introduction of the system of three provinces and six departments to the holding of imperial examinations.

These two people are like the most intimate combination, while working hard to expand the living space of the empire, while suppressing aristocratic families and alleviating social conflicts.

At this time, everyone in the world realized that they were deceived by these two people. Before that, Liu Xiu was not a bad luck god who died everywhere, but did it on purpose!

But at this time, the aristocratic families at that time no longer thought about why these two people who had no contact before were so close. They only knew that if this continues, all the aristocratic families will be said by Wang Mang and Liu Xiu The centralization of control crushed.

In the fifth year of Wang Liu's reform, Wang Mang suddenly issued an edict, saying that he would place Zen in Liu Xiu, and demoted his only two remaining sons to a wild land the day after the edict was issued.

According to normal logic, Liu Xiu's surrender to Wang Mang should have been Wang Mang's promise to abdicate the throne to Liu Xiu in the future, so the two cooperated closely.

However, if Liu Xiu and Wang Mang are giving up an apple, then we may be able to use this logic to infer.But Liu Xiu and Wang Mang are humbly surrendering the supreme throne to the ancients!

Throughout ancient history, for the throne, brothers fight against each other, father and son kill each other, and countless heroes sacrifice their lives for it.

Under this kind of temptation, even if Liu Xiu is really Wang Mang's illegitimate son, anyone with a little brain will not believe that Wang Mang will give in to his promise in the future.

But in this world, only novels need logic, and reality is often absurd and bizarre.

Liu Xiu and Wang Mang, one dared to believe and the other dared to give.

Thus, the most unbelievable abdication in history was born.At that time, Wang Mang, who held most of the power in the imperial court, abdicated the throne to Liu Xiu. From then on, Liu Xiu became the emperor and Wang Mang became a minister.

If Liu Xiu and Wang Mang had been ruling the entire empire until they died of old age, then this incident might be used to prove that human beings not only have conspiracy and killing, but also trust and mutual assistance.

However, the reality is often cruel.

After Wang Mang ascended the throne to Liu Xiu, the nobles previously conferred by Wang Mang and his ministers expressed dissatisfaction with this matter.And with Liu Xiu's ascension, a large number of new nobles were canonized, seriously squeezing the living space of the old nobles in Wang Mang's era.

This incident made the imperial court, which had been so difficult, suddenly become contradictory.Moreover, the gradually declining aristocratic family also saw an opportunity and began to sow discord, increasing the conflict between Wang Mang and Liu Xiu's factions.

Although Wang Mang and Liu Xiu wanted to try their best to prevent the confrontation between the two parties from happening.But as people from Wang Mang's faction quietly brought Wang Mang's sixth son Wang Kuang back to Chang'an, trying to let Wang Kuang replace Wang Mang and seize the throne from Liu Xiu, even Wang Mang and Liu Xiu could not control the development of the situation .

After the new nobles under Liu Xiu learned what the old nobles under Wang Mang had done, they were afraid that Liu Xiu would lose the throne and be forced to hand over the power they had finally obtained, so they persuaded Liu Xiu to kill Wang Mang's family.

But Liu Xiu resolutely rejected his subordinate's proposal under such circumstances, and told Wang Mang about it.

Upon learning of this, Wang Mang was furious, and ordered his sixth son, Wang Kuang, to be executed, and all those involved were deprived of their titles.

Although Wang Mang stopped the conspiracy of his subordinates to seize power in time, Liu Xiu's subordinates were unwilling to face this matter passively.

Only when Wang Mang's faction is completely dead can they feel at ease.

So when they saw Liu Xiu's stubbornness, they approached Liu Xiu's eldest brother Liu Yan. With Liu Yan as the leader, they raised troops to imprison Liu Xiu and killed Wang Mang's family.

At this point, the vigorous Wang and Liu reforms were completely ended.Liu Xiu himself was imprisoned until his death. Although Liu Yan later respected him as the Supreme Emperor, it could not change the tragedy that he could not leave Chang'an for the rest of his life.

After Liu Yan won the throne, in order to prevent Wang Mang's old forces from counterattacking, Liu Yan had to rely on the power of aristocratic families to stabilize his position.

At this point, Wang Mang and Liu Xiu spent more than ten years of painstaking efforts to obtain the results of reforms, and the new dynasty was re-changed to the Han Dynasty, and the history became the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The rest of this article is basically discussing why Liu Xiu and Wang Mang trusted each other so much that they betrayed each other, and also listed several possibilities:
For example, Liu Xiu is actually Wang Mang's illegitimate son.For example, Liu Xiu and Wang Mang are actually a pair of loyal lovers.For example, Wang Mang and Liu Xiu both have a common teacher.

After Jiao Xunze got the information he wanted, he just flipped through the guesses roughly, and didn't read any more.

He really didn't expect that Wang Mang and Liu Xiu kept the agreement, but they still ended up like this.

But this is not difficult to understand, after all, people have selfishness and desires.Wang Mang and Liu Xiu also have it, but the desires of these two people happen to not conflict, so they can trust each other.

But Wang Mang and Liu Xiu's subordinates did not have this trust.The desires of these two factions are in conflict with each other, and this conflict is a matter of life and death.

Therefore, Wang Mang and Liu Xiu had no way to restrain their subordinates, which led to more and more conflicts. In the end, Wang Mang was hacked to death and Liu Xiu was imprisoned.

However, is it possible that this is actually the inertia of history playing tricks?

You know, Wang Mang's original destiny was to die in the chaos, while Liu Xiu's original destiny was to become the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although Wang Mang escaped the military disaster this time, he was still hacked to death in the hall.Although Liu Xiu was imprisoned, he was respected as the Supreme Emperor by his eldest brother, and he still became the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

How about changing the dynasty from the New Dynasty back to the Han Dynasty after Wang Mang ascended the throne?

(End of this chapter)