At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, why could a 15 year old cattle herder become a king by lotter

Because Liu Penzi is a descendant of the prince Liu Zhang, his ascension to the throne is justified.

The origin of the Red Eyebrow Army

After Wang Mang sat on the emperor, he carried out a lot of policies, but unfortunately it did not conform to the social environment at that time, the people lived very hard, they couldn't eat enough, the emperor still tossed blindly, this is not the people revolted, Fan Chong rebelled and wanted to fight against the imperial court, let the imperial court give food, Wang Mang knew that he immediately sent troops to suppress it, and they were all dressed up by ordinary people.

Fan Chong wanted to distinguish how many people there were in his army, so he asked all the rebel army to paint their eyebrows with cinnabar, so that everyone could tell at a glance whether it was their own or not, so that the people were called the Red Eyebrow Army.

A descendant of the princes Liu Zhang

It can be said that this rebel army is a temporary combination of peasants, there is no discipline, it is burning, killing and looting for the people, and it is a proper banditry, I didn't expect that they arrested Liu Penzi, Liu Gong and Liu Mao in Shixian County, these three little children are not small, they are the descendants of the princes Liu Zhang, and now Fan Chong has an idea. I want to use these three little kids to achieve my own goals and justify my uprising.

Draw lots to be kings

There are three descendants of the princes Liu Zhang, who is better to take the throne? Is it more suitable to be a puppet emperor? After these three children came to the army, they asked them to be obedient in everything they did, Fan Chong thought for a while, let God decide, let the three of them draw lots, so as to decide who the throne is for.

Liu Penzi, a cowherd baby, was lucky all of a sudden, and he was selected.

In addition, Fan Chong had a good impression of him, so he decided that it was Liu Penzi, but Liu Penzi was not interested in the throne at all, so he wanted the other two brothers to go up. Because Liu Penzi's group of people are super bad, he doesn't want to be a bad person, he just wants to herd cattle.

To sum up, Liu Penzi can be said to be very lucky, plus he is not greedy.

Maybe this 15-year-old cowherd baby is the descendant of a certain king, or maybe this lottery is just a formality, and it is an inevitable choice for him to be the king, or maybe this cowherd baby is just lucky.

They arrested Liu Penzi, Liu Gong and Liu Mao in Shixian County, these three little children are not small, they are the descendants of the princes Liu Zhang.

Wang Mang not only failed to alleviate the social contradictions at that time, but suffered from the dissatisfaction of many people and increased the burden on the shoulders of the people.

This is not very clear, it should be due to a coincidence at the time, so he became a king by lot!

Fan Chong led the Red Mei Army all the way to the west, defeating the change regime established by the Green Forest Army, and hundreds of thousands of troops have already arrived in Chang'an Fan Chong and others believe that since they are almost in Chang'an, our Red Mei Army should also set up an emperor surnamed Liu. Therefore, Fan Chong and the others asked the wizard who accompanied the army. The wizard god babbled

King Chengyang (Liu Zhang) is angry! If he doesn't appoint his descendants, he will befall the Red Eyebrow Army! "Liu Zhang killed the Lu family back then, and the Han family was tilted into the general, and the people of Shandong regarded him as a god.

Hearing the sorcerer's words, Fan Chong and the others were greatly frightened, so they searched for Liu Zhang's descendants in the army. In this way, Liu Penzi became one of the candidates for the emperor. Then I was drawn because of good luck.

He is a descendant of Liu Zhang, and the rebels want to use his name to justify their uprising, so they made such a play.

Liu Xiu, the first emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, has always been a puppet in the hands of others because of this cowherd baby Liu Penzi, who became the king by lot, and was manipulated by others, felt that he was pitiful, so he named him the king of Zhao Shizong, rewarded him with a lot of money and land, and made him rich and noble for a lifetime.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang took away the position of emperor, established a new dynasty and implemented many outdated policies, which made the people's livelihood miserable and revolted in various places. Among them was the famous Red Mei Army, an army established because Fan Chong wanted the imperial court to give them food, but Wang Mang insisted on sending troops to pretend to be civilians to blend in with the Red Mei Army. In order to distinguish the people in his army, Fan Chong asked all the people in the rebel army to paint their eyebrows with cinnabar, so that if the eyebrows are red, they know that they are their own people, and this is how the Red Eyebrow Army came from.

However, this rebel army was formed on an improvised basis, with no background and no discipline. After the initial victory, because there was no management and no restraint, it burned, killed and plundered the civilians, and became a bandit army。It was at that time that the Red Mei Army captured Liu Zhang's descendants and three children, Liu Penzi, Liu Gong and Liu Mao, in Shi County.

Fan Chong saw that they were all descendants of Liu Bang, so he devised a plan to use them to achieve his goal of becoming king.

It can be that Fan Chong doesn't know which of these three children to be his puppet emperor, and he doesn't know which one is easier to control, they all look stupid and stupid, there is no way, he cured the things that asked his subordinates to prepare a lottery for them to draw lots, and Liu Penzi was involuntarily pushed into the position of the emperor and became a chess piece.

Because the Red Eyebrow Army did all kinds of evil to the people, the people hated them. At that time, Liu Xiu invaded Chang'an with other forces he formed, and defeated the Red Mei Army to withdraw from Chang'an and was quickly destroyed. Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Liu Penzi withdrew from the stage of history, but Liu Xiu felt that he was pitiful, so he made very decent arrangements for his future life.

Because this cowherd baby is very smart, he relied on his own ingenuity to get out of the palace and finally died a good death.

He is the cowherd baby Liu Penzi. It is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty that after Liu Xiu ascended the throne, he did not deal with him but did not deal with him, so he was able to die a good death.

The cowherd baby drew lots to become the king, but he studied hard and constantly mastered the methods, so as to govern the court very beautifully.