Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 204
There is such a person who fulfilled his childhood wish, married his favorite woman, and lived with her forever.

There is such a person who realized his childhood dream, realized his most comfortable kingly way, and let it spread far and wide.

Life is alive, family and country are two words, if one is perfect, you can have no regrets.

As an emperor, it is even more difficult to achieve these two points at the same time.

How can Liu Xiu, who can accomplish these two points at the same time, be able to sum it up by a quiet and handsome man?

...It feels like he is a sweeping monk in the industry of the emperor.

...To be funny, it can even be said that he is the son of the plane who came into being to sanction the time traveler Wang Mang.

Rebuilding the emperor's career and unifying the country, there has always been a lot of praise for Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, but why is he not popular in the world of the people?

Probably because Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, the pair of peerless CPs and the monstrous aura of the Three Heroes of the early Han Dynasty, Wushuang, followed by the existence of the epic book Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Xiu and his Yuntai 28 will appear a bit For the sake of sadness.

In Lin Feng's opinion, Liu Xiu is probably such a person.

If there was a modern autobiography.

Probably so.

Compared with Qin Shihuang, I don't toss;
Compared with Liu Bang, I am not a hooligan.

Compared with Wang Mang, I don't beat my head.

Compared to Lee Shi Min, I love my brother.

Compared with Zhao Kuangyin, I unified China.

Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, I don't kill heroes.

……

I am Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

So, what kind of person is Liu Xiu?
The answer is that he is the template of the emperors in ancient history, the appearance of the emperors, and the model of learning.

but.

Liu Xiu herself also has many problems. After all, there are two sides to the matter. No one can be perfect, no one can be compared to the ancient sage.

Measures such as the abolition of slavery and tax cuts.

However, the specific systems of the political system have not been touched enough, especially the bureaucratic mechanism, talent selection mechanism, and land policy, which basically followed the political system of the Western Han Dynasty, so that some problems existing in the Western Han Dynasty also existed in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There is also the problem of scaling up.The policies established by a dynasty since the founding of the country are basically the constitution of the dynasty, but Liu Xiu failed to take innovative measures in system construction. I think the Eastern Han Dynasty was not as strong as the Western Han Dynasty. An important reason for gaining power.

……

There are also emotional matters. Those who can't treat women well after marriage are basically minus points, but what Liu Xiu did is a plus point, you?To put it bluntly, it is to kick people away after taking advantage of other people's power, but most of these women in history did not end well, and Guo Shengtong's ending looks pretty good, but isn't this what he should do? ?

In essence, he is still the one who abandoned his two wives, but with the foil of other emperors.

……

Besides.

Seriously, Liu Xiu was very lucky, and his opponents were basically idiots. Compare and see how terrifying Liu Bang's opponents are?Of course, the ability is also good, Wenzhiwugong is not outstanding.The character is a typical middle-class man, rational, forbearing, cautious, self-disciplined, tolerant, and gentle.But the empire he built was quite a failure. It was congenitally stunted, the system was very imperfect, and the wealthy family could not lose their tail for a long time. For example, the Ma Yuan family was still so powerful in the Three Kingdoms. In ancient China, it was unimaginable.

……

The last one is the issue of wealthy marriages.

He was open-minded in dealing with the heroes of the founding of the country, did not engage in mass cleansing and massacres, and the imperial power was relatively less concentrated. Through the continuous marriage of later generations, he established a community of interests with the families of heroes, leaving countless streets behind Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, who both started their own businesses with nothing.

But also because of the continuous marriages of later generations, the queens basically come from "Ma, Dou, Deng, and Liang" who are pioneers and heroes, forming a huge family of relatives, posing a huge threat to the emperor's authority, and fighting for power and profit with each other. In the end, the emperor could only rely on his internal ministers to contend with him if he wanted to regain his power. The vicious circle of struggle between relatives and relatives, and between relatives and eunuchs led to the fall of power, and the emperor was a puppet until his demise.

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Regarding Liu Xiu's problems, Lin Feng did not expand, nor did he embarrass the Emperor Jianwu.

Just because this is the limitation of an era.

You stand 2000 years later and accuse your ancestors of not doing well enough. Isn't this nonsense?
Throwing you back to the era 2000 years ago, if you were to sit in Liu Xiu's position, if you could have one percent of the achievements of others, you might be able to burn incense and worship Buddha.

Therefore, Liu Xiu's civil and military achievements were already unparalleled in that era.

So there is no need to entangle or blame anything.

as posterity.

I am also not qualified.

Of course, on weekdays on the Internet, occasionally teasing and relaxing, this is not a big deal for you.

"Emperor Jianwu, do you have any wishes?" Lin Feng asked respectfully as he stood by the Qianqiu Pavilion as the dialogue between ancient and modern times was about to end.

Later generations.

Fulfill grandparents' wishes.

It does sound a bit upside down, after all, it is usually the blessings of the ancestors, from generation to generation, to protect future generations.

"My great Han Zhongxing, how many national oaks have continued? How many generations of emperors have been produced? What is the ending?"

Liu Xiu didn't ask about future generations, but only wanted to know the situation of the prosperous age that he was about to start.

Lin Feng replied:

The Eastern Han Dynasty was established in 25 years and fell in 220 years. It was a unified dynasty in the history of China after the Qin Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty, and the New Dynasty. It passed down eight generations and had fourteen emperors. After 190, it was also called the Later Han Dynasty and was collectively called the Western Han Dynasty. Han Dynasty.

In the last years of Xinmang, the Lvlin Chimei Uprising broke out, and Liu Xiu, who was born in the imperial family of the Han Dynasty, took advantage of the situation.

In 25 A.D., Liu Xiu proclaimed himself emperor, established Luoyang as his capital, and rested his troops to support the people and founded Guangwu Zhongxing.

The Han Dynasty was called Yan Han because of its advocacy of fire virtue, and it was also called Liu Han because the royal family's surname was Liu.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the power of the Sangong was greatly weakened, and the power of Shangshutai was improved.During the reign of Emperor Han Ming and Emperor Han Zhang, the Eastern Han Dynasty entered its heyday, known as the rule of Ming Zhang in history.In the later period of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, the foreign relatives became more and more domineering. After Emperor Hanhe succeeded to the throne, he wiped out the foreign relatives.

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The last emperor was Han Xiandi Liu Xie, who was usurped by Cao Pi of Wei in 220 and perished.

for this answer.

Liu Xiu looked calm. He was familiar with poetry and books, but he also knew the ancient principle that the world must be divided for a long time, and the world must be divided for a long time.

Liu Xiu nodded and asked, "The Great Han Dynasty, in your later life, in the distant time and space that has been separated by nearly 2000 years, will it still be often mentioned?"

"Will do."

"The Great Han Dynasty belongs to every descendant of Yan and Huang."

"In the days when the younger generations lived, all of us were proud of the Han nationality. Even our identity certificates clearly and clearly recorded the word "Han nationality"."

Hear this speech.

Liu Xiu was obviously a little shocked, and couldn't help asking, "After 2000, you call yourself Han people? Do you still call yourself Han people?"

Why do descendants of Yan and Huang call themselves the Han nationality?
It's been said before.

Before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, people in the Central Plains called themselves Huaxia. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han army crossed the desert and completely defeated the Huns. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the living space of the Huaxia people and the banner of the Han Dynasty expanded to the Western Regions and the Mongolian plateau.

Also.

We know that the Qin Dynasty also established the era of great unification, but why aren't the later descendants called Qin people?
Because after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, there were still many remnants of the Six Kingdoms. They still called themselves "Zhao people, Chu people, Yan people" and so on, and they were proud of them.

The tyranny of Qin Shihuang made the people not have much affection for him, and the foundation of the Qin Dynasty collapsed before it was stabilized, and it only existed for a short 14 years.

So people at that time did not have a sense of identity with the "Qin people".

Going forward, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Han people did not appear at all, but the predecessor of the Han people had already appeared, which is what we often call the descendants of Yan and Huang.

We consider ourselves descendants of Emperor Huang and Emperor Yan, so we are called descendants of Yanhuang.

According to records, the predecessor of the Han nationality is actually the Huaxia nationality.

The Huaxia nationality is the Han people, there is no difference between the two, only the names are different.The Huaxia race is an ancient race with a long history. They are the first batch of ancestors on the land of Huaxia. The name is extremely noble and domineering.

Regardless of whether it is the Han nationality or the Huaxia nationality, we now all have a common identity, that is, the "Chinese nation".

Lin Feng smiled and said, "Emperor Jianwu, if you hadn't rejuvenated the great Han Dynasty and continued the national oak for more than two hundred years, maybe after 2000, there would be no Han nationality, and the name Han people would be changed to Tang, Song and Ming. Wait for other subsequent dynasties."

western han.

Eastern Han Dynasty.

Shu Han.

The three generations lasted for nearly 500 years, spanning half a century, and their influence is unprecedented.

In the dark night, Liu Xiu said, "As an ancestor, I have a gift for you."

Liu Xiu approached, her mighty and extraordinary dragon robe shone with golden light, she really looked like a descendant of a god descended from heaven.

Ancient and modern people are against each other.

Liu Xiu handed a rough ancient book to Lin Feng and said, "This is written by a sage. Between the lines, there are great principles in the world. After you bring it back 2000 years, spread it and make our China stronger and stronger."

Lin Feng took it and promised, "This junior will definitely do it."

The saint himself.

Express righteousness.

This is an absolute treasure.

Afterwards, Liu Xiu put one hand on Lin Feng's shoulder, and said like a kind brother, "There is no reason why you will not be strong when you are born in future generations..."

In fact, Lin Feng did contribute a lot to the strength of the motherland.

The parents of the two exchanged a few words before waving goodbye.

Camera moves up.

The ancient 2000-year space-time scene has a panoramic view. In this situation, many viewers waved their hands and bid farewell to the thousand-year-old Emperor Guangwu.

The years are long.

Lin Feng walked through the air, his feet shining brightly, and it evolved into a long river of history.

downriver.

back quickly.

(End of this chapter)