Zheng Pu, a virtuous Western Han hermit, declined official offers from powerful General Wang Feng. Farming under Yan Stones, he won wide fame and high praise from scholar Yang Xiong. Locals erected a stone stele and shrine to honor him for generations.
This article tells the rise of the Lulin Heroes. Famine and Wang Mang’s harsh rule sparked a peasant rebellion led by Wang Kuang and Wang Feng. They won battles, allied with other rebels, and gained Han royal Liu Xuan as a leader. Their movement became the vanguard that toppled the Xin Dynasty and paved…