The Xuanhan Dynasty was a transitional dynasty between the New Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, which only existed for 2 years, was established in 23 AD, and perished in 25 AD, so what major events happened in these 2 years?Let's review it together.
In 23 years, Liu Xuan ascended the throne
Time: February 23 AD.
Subject: Liu Xuan.
Event: In February 23 AD, the Green Forest Army held Liu Xuan's enthronement ceremony on the Baihe Beach in Nanyang. Liu Xuan is the emperor, standing in the south, accepting the worship of the ministers, and the name of the founding year is "the beginning of the change", so he is called the first emperor. After that, Liu Xuan worshiped the generals, with the clan father Liu Liang as the three elders of the country, Wang Kuang as the prince of Dingguo, Wang Feng as the prince of Chengguo, Zhu Kun as the great Sima, Liu Xuan as the great Situ, Chen Mu as the great Sikong, and the rest as Jiuqing or generals.
Impact: The Han Dynasty is revived, and Wang Mang's new dynasty is coming to an end.
23 Battle of Kunyang
Time: May 23 A.D. - June 23 A.D.
Subject: Wang Yi, Wang Xun;Liu Xiu, Wang Feng, Wang Chang.
Event: Seeing the resurgence of the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang hurriedly sent Dasikong Wangyi and Dasitu Wangxun to lead an army of 420,000 to the front line of Kunyang and Wancheng, and the first emperor Liu Xuan sent Liu Xiu, Wang Feng, and Wang Chang to lead troops to resist the enemy. Liu Xiu, who was a partial general in this battle, was extremely brave, and broke the 420,000 army of the new army with less than 20,000 people, and the meteorite that fell from the sky on the battlefield made him the title of "son of the plane".
Impact: Liu Xiu's rise to fame in the First World War laid the foundation for the rebel army's eventual overthrow of Wang Mang's rule.
23 years of eradication of heroes
Time: 23 A.D.
Subject: Liu Xuan.
Event: With the successive defeats of the Han army against the new army, the brothers Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu, who were born in the Chung Ling army, became more and more famous, which caused the dissatisfaction of the generals of the Xinshi Army and the Pinglin Army. Liu Xuan is resolute and heroic, with a flamboyant personality, but he doesn't know it, and soon becomes Liu Xuan's ghost. Seeing this, Liu Xiu hurriedly rushed to Wancheng to plead guilty to Liu Xiu and draw a line with his brother Liu Xiu. This made Liu Xuan ashamed and embarrassed to kill Liu Xiu, and also named Liu Xiu as the Marquis of Wuxin and worshiped as the general of the Broken Prisoner.
Influence: Liu Xiu had the idea of self-reliance from then on, and began to cultivate obscurity.
23 years of new and new
Time: October 23 AD.
Subject: Xuan Han.
Event: After the Battle of Kunyang, the situation between the Han army and the new army reversed, and the Han army marched towards Luoyang and Chang'an in two ways. One route led by Wang Kuang to attack Luoyang, captured the new dynasty Taishi Wang Kuang and the national general Aizhang, and beheaded them all. The other route was led by Shen Tujian and Li Song to attack Chang'an, and the people of Chang'an City responded to the Han army, Wang Mang was killed in the war, and the rule of the new dynasty was overthrown.
Impact: The New Dynasty fell, and the Xuan Han nominally restored Han rule, recovering most of the territory in the late Western Han Dynasty.
In 23, the capital was moved to Luoyang
Time: 23 A.D.
Subject: Xuan Han.
Event: After the recovery of Chang'an and Luoyang, Wancheng can no longer be used as the capital of the Xuanhan Dynasty. Considering that Chang'an was seriously damaged in the war, Liu Xuan chose to move the capital to Luoyang. After that, he ordered Liu Xiu to take the position of the great Sima, cross the Yellow River north with the festival, and guard and pacify the states and counties.
Impact: It is easier for Liu Xuanding to control the Red Mei Army in Luoyang, but sending Liu Xiu to Hebei is tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain, and Xuanhan is about to **.
The capital was moved to Chang'an
Time: February 24 AD.
Subject: Xuan Han.
Event: The Red Mei Army gradually grew bigger, Luoyang was in no danger to defend, and Liu Xuan moved the capital to Chang'an at the suggestion of Prime Minister Li Song.
Impact: Nanyang Haoqiang was unwilling to follow Liu Xuan to leave Luoyang for Chang'an, and the original regime lost the support of Nanyang Haoqiang, and its strength weakened even more.
Chang'an political turmoil
When: 24 A.D.
Subject: Liu Xuan.
Event: After moving the capital to Chang'an, Liu Xuan thought that the world had been decided, and he could sit back and relax, and after the queen was named the queen, he began to slack off the government, indulged in women's sex, and set up banquets in the harem with many ladies all day long.
Impact: Guanzhong centrifugation, chaos in the world.
Liu Xiu was crowned king
Date: June 24 A.D.
Subject: Liu Xuan. Liu Xiu.
Event: Liu Xiu fought in Hebei for several months and finally gained a firm foothold, which made Emperor Gengshi quite uneasy, so he sent people to Hebei to crown Liu Xiu as King Xiao and asked him to hand over his troops and horses to return to Chang'an to be crowned. Liu Xiu naturally couldn't go back, so he refused to accept the edict on the grounds that Hebei was not peaceful.
Impact: Liu Xiu broke with Emperor Genshi completely.
The year is looking forward to the incident
Date: January 25 A.D.
Subjects: Fang Wang, Gong Lin, Liu Ying.
Event: The people of Pingling saw that Emperor Gengshi had been indulging in wine, ignoring political affairs, and had no appearance of a wise monarch, so he gathered thousands of people in Linjing with Gong Lin, a native of Anling, and supported Liu Ying, the son of the former Han Dynasty, as the emperor. Emperor Gengshi sent Li Song and Su Mao to quell the rebellion, but Fang Wang, Gong Lin and others were quickly defeated, and Liu Ying was killed.
Effect: Hastened the demise of the Xuanhan Dynasty.
The Red Eyebrow Army supported the new emperor
Time: June 25 A.D.
Subject: Red Eyebrow Army, Liu Penzi.
Event: After Liu Xuandai was newly established, the Red Eyebrow Army expressed its willingness to surrender, but it didn't take long for the two sides to go to war again. In 25 A.D., the Red Mei army attacked Guanzhong in two ways, and in June of the same year, Liu Penzi was proclaimed emperor, established the founding regime, and fought against the change of the first regime.
Effect: Hastened the demise of the Xuanhan Dynasty.
Liu Xiu was proclaimed emperor
Time: June 25 A.D.
Subject: Liu Xiu.
Event: Liu Xiu was the emperor in the Qianqiu Pavilion of Shancheng, Jianyuan Jianwu, still with Han as the country name, known as the Eastern Han Dynasty in history.
Influence: The Eastern Han Dynasty was established, and the Xuanhan Dynasty was about to complete the historical mission of inheriting the new dynasty and opening up the Eastern Han Dynasty.
25 Liu Xuan surrendered
When: October 25 A.D.
Subject: Liu Xuan.
Event: Under the two-way attack of the Red Mei Army and Liu Xiu's army, the Genshi regime collapsed, and Liu Xuan was forced to surrender to the Red Mei Army, and was eventually killed.
Effect: Demise of the Xuan Han.