Liu bang stills
Being able to establish a country and claim the title of emperor in troubled times, all three of them can be regarded as heroes among people, but after all, different abilities of people, coupled with related factors such as weather, geographical location and human harmony, have created three dynasties with different evaluations. In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a lofty sentiment that the wolf lived in a lonely place. "Why should the Huns be at home before they died?" The eastern Han dynasty also had the ambition of "making the Han dynasty strong and punishing it far away"; Shu Han left an elegy of "But he was dead before he conquered". Of course, Adou, the son of Liu Bei, also contributed to the laughing stock of "being happy here and not thinking about Shu".
Shile, the emperor of the post-Zhao Dynasty in the Five Chaos Period, once said: If he is contemporary with Liu Bang, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, then he will serve him like Han Xin and Peng Yue. If he is a contemporary of Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, he will rise up and fight with him, and he may not be the winner. As for Cao Cao, Sima Yi and others, they are just bullying orphans and widows. They are not real heroes, but they are not as powerful as Liu Bei of Cao Cao. I guess Schleswig really didn't see it.
So why is there such an evaluation? Let's briefly review the overbearing ways of these three emperors:
Qin lost its deer, and the group chased it. Liu Bang was not the first to fight against the Qin banner, nor was he the strongest among them. The first person who raised the banner against Qin was Chen Guang, who said that princes would rather have seeds. The co-ownership of the world began in Xiong Xin, Chu Huaiwang and later overlord Xiang Yu, but the dynasty that finally inherited the mantle of the Qin Dynasty was the Han Dynasty established by Liu Bang, which was similar to his situation. They are not the first people to rise up, but they belong to the kind of natural heroes who are in the wind and cloud.
Chen Guang Uprising
In fact, Liu Bang is only three years younger than Qin Shihuang, but he feels that they are like people of two eras. This is because their political careers did not overlap. When Qin Shihuang died, Liu Bang was just a small pavilion in Surabaya, one in the ground and the other in the sky.
However, Liu Bang rose quickly. In 209 BC, he claimed to be Pei Gong, and later went to Xiang Liang to be knighted. Then in 207 BC, it was named Hanwang by Xiang Yu. At that time, Liu Bang had been assisted by Xiao He, Han Xin, Sean and others, and had the heart to win the world. Then Liu Bang and Xiang Yu launched a four-year "Chu-Han dispute", which finally drove Chu away in the next world war.
Liu bang stills
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, like Xiang Yu, made six noble heroes king, and successively enfeoffed Zangcha, Zhang Ao, Han Wangxin, Peng Yue, Han Xin, Ying Bu and Wu Rui, but Liu Bang soon felt that his decision was wrong. The existence of King Zhao 'an will bring considerable hidden dangers to the Han Dynasty, even if it is unintentional, it will be removed personally. How can he stay in the afterlife?
So Liu Bang successively eliminated these kings with different surnames, and then began to enfeoffment Liu's children as kings, and killed Baima to make an oath that "if Liu is not king, the world will attack him together".
Later, when Liu Bang attacked Ying Bu, he was wounded by an arrow. Because he is too old, the doctor has no good way to deal with Liu Bang's injury. He had to rely on medical stone to maintain his life. Liu Bang thought that even if the emperor died, he would die with dignity, so he refused the doctor's treatment and said, "I took the world with one cloth and one sword. Isn't this fate? " Life is in heaven, although Bian Que is good! "
Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also inherited this kind of arrogance and accumulated wealth through the rule of Wenjing. During the Liu Che period, general Wei Qing attacked Xiongnu in the north, and Huo Qubing sealed the wolf in Xuzhou, thus achieving great martial arts. When Xuan Di proclaimed himself emperor, the Western Regions were formally supervised. Although the country finally perished in the hands of consorts, there is a famous saying in the history books that "the country perished in weakness, and Han independence perished in strength".
Liu Che stills of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty
Compared with Liu Bang, Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu has a tortuous road to hegemony. Liu Xiucheng grew up in Wang Mang's new dynasty. When Wang Mang just established a new dynasty, everyone in the world had high hopes for him. Because Wang Mang has been an official for generations and has a good reputation, he is a potential stock with excellent performance. However, Wang Mang acted in the opposite direction after he took office, which not only violated the interests of landlords and bureaucrats, but also violated the interests of ordinary yeomen, so those whose interests were damaged rose up one after another.
In 22 AD, Liu Xiu revolted in Wancheng, and the slogan was "Recover Taizu's inheritance, and set the eternal autumn". At that time, Ada, Liu Xiu's brother, also opposed him in his hometown, while Ada, a native of Ren Xia, had long been dissatisfied with the Xin Mang regime and thought of plotting great things. However, Liu Xiu agreed to oppose him after confirming that the world was really in chaos, so Liu Xiu led guests to see him.
Liu Xiu stills of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty
After the two brothers met, this army was called Fuling Army, composed of Nanyang imperial clan children and county heroes. In the early days, Fuling army had few personnel and equipment, and Liu Xiu even rode an ox to fight, so he was called "the emperor on the back of an ox". It was not until he captured Xinye that Liu Xiucai changed into a war horse.
In order to unite more anti-mang forces, Fuling Army joined forces with some troops in greenwood hero, that is to say, Liu Xiu and others accepted the enlistment of outlaw heroes. In 23 AD, the outlaws made Liu Xuan, the imperial clan of the Western Han Dynasty, emperor, and made a new start in Jianyuan. Ada and Nanyang were dissatisfied with this, but because the enemy was strong and we were weak, they accepted the call-up of Xuanhan and named Ada "Da Situ".
The establishment of the new regime greatly stimulated Wang Mang's nerves, which shocked the high-level officials of the new dynasty. They are not afraid of peasant uprisings, and those mud legs are short-sighted and can't achieve great things, but they are afraid of the restoration of the Han clan in the name of the Han clan, because they are usurpers after all, so Wang Mang ordered Wang Yida and Stuart Wang Xun to lead 420,000 troops south, with the intention of strangling the new regimes in Kunyang and Wancheng.
Suspected traveler Wang Mang
In the battle of Kunyang, which resumed in early June of the first year, Liu Xiu showed the fate of "the son of an airplane". World War I wiped out the main force of the new dynasty army and led to the collapse of Wang Mang's new dynasty. Three months later, the outlaw hero invaded Chang 'an, Wang Mang was killed in the chaos, and the new dynasty perished.
The victory of the "Battle of Kunyang" made Liu Xiu famous at that time, and Liu Xiu also attacked the city and plundered the land from Kunyang. But at this time, the bad news came that the new emperor Liu Xuan killed Liu Xiu's younger brother Ada. In order not to be taboo by the new emperor, Liu Xiu endured humiliation and returned to Nanyang to plead guilty to the new emperor. Liu Xiu's attitude is very low, which makes it difficult for Liu Xuan, a fresh emperor, to do harm. After all, the world was uncertain at that time.
In order to get rid of Liu Xuan's sphere of influence, Liu Xiu chose Xuanfu Hebei, made an alliance with Liu Yang, the real king of Hebei, and married Guo Shengtong, Liu Yang's niece, as the queen. Liu Xiu initiated the hegemonic mode combining with local strongmen, and proclaimed himself emperor in AD 25, and began the process of unifying the world. After the combination of the green forest and the red eyebrow, they killed the red eyebrow army in Shandong for more than ten years and got the national decree from the red eyebrow army.
Liu Xiu stills of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty
Because the Western Han Dynasty was destroyed by consorts, the Eastern Han Dynasty was very wary of consorts. In order to suppress consorts, strongmen turned into aristocratic families, and in order to suppress aristocratic emperors, eunuchs in the Eastern Han Dynasty were mostly powerful ministers, including the famous "five emperors" and "ten constant attendants", and so on. Eunuchs can even decide the ownership of the emperor's heirs. Emperor Han Ling even said that "Zhang often waits on his father and Li often waits on his mother".
Under the internal friction of each other, the national strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty declined, and local powerful families gradually emerged, such as Yuan family in Runan, Yang family in Hongnong, Cui Shi in Qinghe and Zheng family in Xingyang. Especially the Yuan family in Runan, known as the Four Kingdoms, has a faint hope of becoming the first family in the world. It turned out that the Eastern Han Dynasty practiced the system of virtual state and real county, so that local strongmen could only master one county or several counties at most, and county looks began to appear at this time.
Yuan Shu stills
The Yellow Scarf Uprising in 184 AD sounded the death knell of the Eastern Han Dynasty and started the Three Kingdoms period. Although the Eastern Han Dynasty was not overthrown by the Yellow Scarf Army, the extinction of this uprising made people from all walks of life step onto the historical stage. Among them, there are frontier warlords, Han clan relatives, aristocratic men, emerging strongmen and all those who are eager for opportunities, and Liu Bei is one of them.
In order to suppress the uprising effectively, in March of A.D. 188, Emperor Ling accepted Taichang's suggestion, and changed part of the secretariat to state animal husbandry, with imperial clan or senior officials as the chief minister. The power of the state shepherd is above the secretariat and the satrap, and it completely grasps the local military and political power, thus strengthening the strength of local political power, controlling the place more easily, and effectively suppressing the remnants of the Yellow Scarf.
Situation map of the yellow turban insurrectionary
It is precisely because of the decentralization of the Lingdi that the appointment laid the groundwork for the warlord regime in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty and encouraged the arrogance of local troops to support themselves. Since then, heroes from all over the world have attacked each other and competed for the Central Plains. Even the emperor is like a puppet in the hands of warlords.
Liu Bei was just twenty-four years old when the Yellow turban insurrectionary uprising took place. He took part in the war to quell the uprising. However, this honor is not enough to get a formal position. The key is that his family background is not enough. Yuan Shu has long been a general.
Liu Bei's early team
It was not until A.D. 188 that Liu Bei got the position of county commandant in Anxi County, which is roughly equivalent to the current county police chief. As a result, the imperial court reduced its staff, and Du You, who was inspected by his superiors, cut Liu Bei without giving him face. Liu Bei tied Du You up and whipped him 200 times. Later, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms beautified the image of Liu Bei and framed Zhang Fei.
In A.D. 19 1 year, Liu Bei obtained the position of acting as the magistrate of Pingyuan County, and was later promoted to Pingyuan State. Later, Kong Rong was besieged by the Yellow Scarf Army and sent Taishi Ci to ask Liu Bei for help. Liu Bei said: "Kong Rong, the Beihai country, actually knows that there is Liu Bei in the world!" So he went to the rescue. After the successful customs clearance, Liu Bei became famous, so Tao Qian, who offended Cao Cao, entrusted Xuzhou to Liu Bei. Later, due to several wars in Xuzhou, Liu Bei lost more than he won, and even his wife was caught by Lu Bu. Liu Bei went to Cao Cao alone, and Cao Cao named him as the shepherd of Yuzhou, so people called Wei Liu Yuzhou. At this time, he made homage to the emperor Liu Xie, and the fate of two salted fish began to intersect, and Liu Xie, the salted fish, will.
Liu Xie stills of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty
After Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor in 22 1 AD, Liu Bei claimed that Xian Di had died in Cao Wei, and the Han Dynasty could not be unified, so he proclaimed himself emperor. At this time, Liu Bei was 6 1 year-old, and his military career lasted for 38 years. He only achieved the first situation in the world and was the weakest one.
At that time, in terms of percentage, Cao Wei was stable at 50%, Sun Quan at 28% and Liu Bei at most at 22%, which was due to some high-end talents in Shu, such as Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Wei Yan and Jiang Wei. When these veteran ministers died, Shu had no national strength, so "Shu has no generals, and Liao Hua is the pioneer".
Liu Bei Steels
For the Northern Expedition, the first army politics was implemented, but after all, the population in the middle of Shu was limited, and the burden on the people was extremely heavy. Most of them were women and children in the rear. However, Han Ji had to make the Northern Expedition, because Cao Wei recovered a little, and he could use his own strength to pacify Shu. As long as he occupied Shu and went down the river, Wu Dong would die. Later, Sima Yan, who succeeded Cao Wei, was crushed by national strength without using his skills.
In terms of age and time, Liu Bang started his army at the age of 47 and was named Hanwang at the age of 50. By the age of 54, he had unified the world, including entering Guanzhong and defeating Xiang Yu. It took only seven years, just before the expiration of a marriage, Liu Bang completed the counterattack from civilians to emperors. Liu Xiu started his army at the age of 27, proclaimed himself emperor at the age of 28 and conquered the world at the age of 40. It took twelve years, which is equivalent to the time from the first grade of primary school to the graduation of senior three. Compared with Gaozu, it took a little longer, but it was also unified. Liu Bei joined the army at the age of 24, and it was not until Zhuge Liang invited Zhuge to come out of the mountain and Zhuge Liang presented "Longzhong Dui" that Liu Bei had a plan and accurate goal to compete for the world. It was not until he entered Chengdu in 2 14 that he was only 47 years old and officially had his own base. He is 54 years old. Liu Bei was 6 1 year old when he proclaimed himself emperor, and later lost his own in the battle of Yiling.
Zhuge Liang stills
Although it seems unfair to compare time directly with Liu Bei, after all, there are many talents in the Three Kingdoms, but there are also many heroes in the Xin Mang period at the end of Qin Dynasty. There were 28 generals in Yuntai during Emperor Guangwu's reign, and Xiang Yu, the protagonist of Chu-Han rivalry, was even more a strategist, known as "Wang Buba", but Liu Bang won with the help of Han Xin, a soldier.
Three outstanding heroes of early han dynasty is good at winning games, and Liu Bang can make it work. This man can't stand such a powerful ancestor. This is not to say that the generations of the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Han Ji Dynasty were inferior to each other. It's not that the descendants are not strong, but that the ancestors are too strong!