At the beginning, Kunyang and Handan were recruited and millions were taken across the state. Visiting Hebei and going to Zhongshan, he was advised to be emperor. He said no, he went to Pingji. Everyone tried to persuade him, but he still refused. When he arrived in this small place, his classmates in the university dormitory stepped up their efforts to find him and gave him a book "Hong Fu Nv", which recorded a mysterious prediction: "Liu Xiu sent his troops to drive the way, and the four barbarians gathered in the wild, and on April 7, fire was the main thing. When Liu Xiu saw it, it turned out that God urged me to be emperor, and I became emperor in Qian Qiu Pavilion in this county.
In Ode to Heaven, he was still very wronged. Everyone advised me several times. I didn't want to be a soldier, but "sending troops to catch the road and being promoted to the emperor"-God's will is straightforward, and I can only be embarrassed.
Liu Xiu was very excited to see this book. He seemed to have known it just now, but according to the records in the Book of Were Han, he knew that his name appeared in the prophecy.
Deng Chenchuan records that when Wang Mang was dying, Liu Xiu and his brother listened to a group of people talking about "Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven" in Wancheng. Everyone wants to know who this Liu Xiu is. Some people say this is a Buddhist Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu took it and said, "How do you know it's not me?" The result attracted a group of laughter.
This shows that Liu Xiu knew this prediction at least when Wang Mang was there. Unfortunately, no one believed it was him, but thought it was Liu Xiu who believed in Buddhism.
Buddhist Liu Xiu, formerly known as Liu Xin, was renamed Liu Xiu in the first year of Jianping in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
At this time, he was still a doctor at Guanglu Temple.
Neither Han Shu nor Zi Tong Zhi Jian mentioned the reason why he changed his name.
However, Ying Shao of the Eastern Han Dynasty commented that it was precisely because Liu Xin saw the book "Hong Fu Nv" that he decided to change his name to Liu Xiu for the purpose of listing on the backdoor.
In other words, the saying that Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven was in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Coincidentally, in December this year, in Chenliu County, 500 miles away from Luoyang, the third son of the county magistrate was born.
Because there was an auspicious harvest in the county, the county magistrate named the child Xiu. He is also a Han nationality, and that's how Liu's trademark was registered.
It's a little weird to say that. Some scholars have verified that Liu Xin was renamed Liu Xiu at this time. Actually, it was because Emperor Ai of Han Dynasty ascended the throne in this year. His name was Liu Xin, and Liu Xin and Liu Xin were homophonic, so he changed his name to Liu Xiu, which had nothing to do with "Hong Fu".
But later Wang Mang ascended the throne and established a new dynasty. Liu Xin (at this time, he should be called Liu Xiu) was also named a Buddhist by Wang Mang. However, Liu Xin is a person suggested by heaven, and his ideal is to be an emperor. Facts proved that this was a misunderstanding, and Liu Xin was finally executed-feudal superstition really killed people.
Simon Junhui, a fan of Liu Xin, firmly believes that Liu Xiu must be the son of heaven. Until he was finally taken to the execution ground, he was still promoting "Liu Xiuzhen's concern."
There is a problem. Doesn't he know that Liu Xin is finished? Isn't it self-deception to publicize this to the onlookers?
Of course not. The reason why Simon Junhui promoted it so vigorously was because he believed in "Liu Fuxing".
In fact, when Simon Junhui rebelled against Wang Mang's Shoujiang for the first time, he said, "The stars swept the palace, and Liu Fuxing was also named as a Buddhist"-that is to say, the comet swept and Liu Fuxing, and then he said that it was Liu Xin who revived.
Liu's resurrection-this was the mainstream argument at that time.
Because follwed became emperor and died every day, either blindly reforming or screwing around. Everyone naturally misses the previous Han Dynasty. At that time, all kinds of rumors were the revival of the Han Dynasty, and Liu was in charge of the world again.
Rebels from all walks of life played the banner of the Liu family. The outlaws supported Liu Xuan, and the Red Eyebrow Army found the shepherd boy Liu Penzi as the emperor. Xiao Wei rose up and played the banner of "bringing Liu Zongyuan back to life". At first, Sun Bin of Sichuan also found someone to dress up as an envoy of the Han Dynasty, and appointed him as the assistant general of the Han Dynasty. Wang Lang proclaimed himself emperor in Handan, and even changed his name to Liu Ziyu-"for more than ten years, internal and external harassment, far and near contacts, false clouds."
The names of these people all happened to appear in the Liu family, which shows the prestige at that time, but these people only used the word Liu, but did not mention the name.
In fact, Liu Xin, a Buddhist, may not believe that Liu Xiu is the son of heaven. When the king snake said that he would support him, Liu Xin said that he would "send him to Nanyang to see the son of heaven"-this was recorded in the history books on purpose, which caused a sense of mystery. Because Liu Xiu was from Nanyang, everyone thought that Liu Xin was talking about him. In fact, if Liu Xin really said so, the Nanyang Emperor should also refer to Liu Xuan, the founder of outlaws, and Liu Xiu is just a general under his command. His younger brother Ada has higher prestige than him in all aspects, so he can't reach it.
Liu Xin himself agrees with Liu Zi, not Liu Xiu.
One more thing, the later emperor Liu Xuan had doubts about this hero, fearing that they would deprive him of his position. Liu Xiu's brother Ada was killed first. If he knew this prophecy, I'm afraid he would do this to Liu Xiu.
So, it seems that "Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven" is a lie that Guangwudi entrusted his roommate to fabricate?
That's too arbitrary. I think this statement is true, but it is a supplement to "Liu Fuxing".
Since the Liu family is going to revive, it is natural for the Liu family to be the son of heaven.
What kind of people are the sons of the Liu family?
Liu Jiajun People's Show!
Liu Xiu, the so-called chosen person, actually does not refer to a person, but Liu Jiajun Xiu's generation should be the son of heaven. Because of the revival of the Han Dynasty, it is natural that Liu Jiajun's peerless man will be the son of heaven.
Later, I casually said that Liu Xiu was the son of heaven. Everyone knew that this program was excellent, not Liu Xiu's program, so no one took it seriously.
It happened that Emperor Guangwu's real name was Liu Xiu. According to the logic of survivor deviation, everyone naturally took this Liu Xiu as Liu Yongxiu.
In addition, Liu Xiu deliberately exaggerated and forged a book like "Fu on a Red Bride" to create public opinion, and everyone forgot Liu Xiu's original intention.