Liu Xin's attachment to Wang Mang's troublesome upper body (Total 131)
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Reading history, I know: Liu Xin was a close friend of Wang Mang, and later because of his different political views, he wanted to murder Wang Mang unsuccessfully, and ended up with a fate of dying before he was paid. It is heart-wrenching that before he committed suicide, his family had been exterminated for it, which was really sad!
Liu Xin was talented, but because of his attachment to Wang Mang, he caused trouble
Play back the scene of that year:
The Hanping Emperor ascended the throne. Wang Mang manipulated the government and revived his former close friend Liu Xin. Wang Mang was good at government and compared himself to the Duke of Zhou, quoting Confucian classics everywhere, acting according to the gentleman's way advocated by the sages and sages, known as the "Duke of An Han"; he posthumously honored the Duke of Zhou and Confucius as the descendants of Confucius, and posthumously honored Confucius as "The Duke of Xuanni". However, behind these activities, there was a curse of Wang Mang's usurpation of Han, and the erudite Liu Xin inadvertently became a follower of Wang Mang's political conspiracy. According to the Book of Han. The Biography of Ru Lin says: "During the reign of Emperor Ping, he also established the "Spring and Autumn of the Zuo Clan", "Mao Shi", "Yi Li", and "Ancient Wen Shangshu", so it was lost and stored in it. However, at this time, advocating ancient chinese classics had lost its academic significance, so when Liu Xin found that this was only a part of Wang Mang's political conspiracy, he was deeply immersed in a political vortex and could not extricate himself. So he plotted to kill Wang Mang, and was eventually exterminated by Wang Mang because of the incident, so Liu Xin committed suicide with hatred.
Poor Elder Minister Liu Xiang, with the grace of his Guanglu Doctor, failed to protect his descendants
Poor Han Dynasty Elder Minister Liu Xiang, as Liu Xin's father, with the grace of his Guanglu Doctor, failed to protect his descendants, on the contrary, along with some of his innocent disciples who followed him to study the scriptures, all of them vanished.
The Great Sikong Zhen Feng and Wang Shun, who were the grand masters of the new dynasty, were not in a position below Liu Xin, and they were also people who could get a share of the pie after pushing Wang Mang to try to usurp the government, and as a result, they did things that made the gods cause great mistakes, that is to say, the ghosts and gods took away their souls. If Zhen Feng was killed for his son's rebellion, then Wang Shun, as Wang Mang's cousin, died only because he lived in his cousin's white fear, trembling and trembling. From this, we can more or less understand the doorway of the actions of ghosts and gods.
The unfortunate man, Pushing Wang Mang, has succeeded, but his heart has never been at peace.
These unfortunate people have succeeded in pushing Wang Mang, but their hearts have never been at peace. And this irrepressible inner fluctuation is that the ghost god is at work. The effects produced by the instinct of yin and yang can be seen and cannot be covered up, so they must not die well, but it seems that the punishment for Liu Xin is particularly cruel.
The I Ching says, "As a villain and riding in a gentleman's car, the robber will want to rob it when he sees it." Liu Xin is clearly a villain, but he inherits the hypocrisy of his father Liu Xiang, and he also shows more strongly than his father. He claimed to be in the Forest of Confucianism to plagiarize the way of the first kings. The question is the gentleman's carriage and horse, is he allowed to ride? He seems to be a gentleman, but he can only be classified as a bandit, so God's punishment of him must be heavier than that of a villain in the ordinary sense.
The learning of the saints and the position of the Son of Heaven are all given by God and cannot be stolen. If all the people of the world regard those who steal the name of a gentleman as a gentleman, then the royal way will decline and the teachings of the sages will be extinguished. Later generations of Chinese thieves yao shu and Xu Heng, dressed in the cloak of gentlemen, were spared from being exterminated, just luck!