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Who can tell me about the uprising of the Green Forest Army and the Red Eyebrow Army and the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty by Liu Xiu?

Wang Mang’s cruel oppression, coupled with a series of natural disasters, forced the farmers to have no choice but to rebel. Large numbers of farmers in the east and south rose up against the officers and soldiers. In 17 AD, there was a famine in Jingzhou in the south (now southern Henan, central Hubei, and western Hunan), and the people had to dig wild water chestnuts in swamp areas to satisfy their hunger. There were too many people but too few wild water chestnuts, which led to competition. There were two famous people in Xinshi (now northeast of Beijing and Shandong Province in Hubei Province), one named Wang Kuang and the other Wang Feng, who came out to mediate with the farmers and were supported by the farmers. Everyone recommended them as leaders. Wang Kuang and Wang Feng organized these hungry people to revolt. Hundreds of people gathered at once, and some escaped prisoners also came to join them. Wang Kuang and others occupied Green Forest Mountain (today's Dahong Mountain in Hubei Province) as their base and captured nearby villages. In less than a few months, this rebel army grew to seven to eight thousand people. Wang Mang sent 20,000 officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the Green Forest Army, but they were defeated and fled. The Green Forest Army took advantage of the situation and captured several county towns, opened prisons and released prisoners; some of the food in the official granaries was distributed to the local poor, and most of it was moved to Green Forest Mountain. More and more poor people fled to Green Forest Mountain, and the rebel army increased to more than 50,000. The next year, unfortunately, an epidemic broke out on Green Forest Mountain, and almost half of the 50,000 people died. The remaining half had to leave Green Forest Mountain, and were later divided into three groups - Xinshi soldiers, Pinglin (in the northeast of Sui County, Hubei Province today) soldiers and Xiajiang (the Yangtze River is called Xiajiang below the western part of Hubei) soldiers. These three groups each occupied a territory, and the team became stronger again. When the Green Forest Army in the south attacked officers and soldiers in Jingzhou, the rebel army in the east also grew stronger. There was an old lady named Lu in Langya (in present-day Zhucheng, Shandong Province), and her son was an official from Haiqu (today's Rizhao City, Shandong Province). He was killed by the county magistrate because he refused to follow the magistrate's order to beat up poor people who had no money to pay taxes. . This sparked public outrage. Hundreds of poor peasants rose up to avenge Lu's mother's son, killed the county magistrate, and fled to the Yellow Sea with Lu's mother. Whenever they had the opportunity, they went ashore to fight against the officers and soldiers. At this time, another uprising leader Fan Chong led hundreds of people to occupy Mount Tai. After Lu's mother died, her men defected to Fan Chong's rebel army. In less than a year, it grew to more than 10,000 people. The rebels fought all the way to Taishan County (now Tai'an, Shandong), traveling between Qingzhou (now central Shandong) and Xuzhou (now northern Jiangsu) to attack government officials and landlords. Fan Chong's rebel army was very disciplined, stipulating that whoever killed the common people would be executed, and whoever harmed the common people would be punished. Therefore, the people can support them. In 22 AD, Wang Mang sent Grand Master Wang Kuang (the same as Wang Kuang of the Green Forest Army) and General Lian Dan to lead an army of 100,000 to suppress Fan Chong's uprising army. Fan Chong was ready to fight with the officers and soldiers. In order to prevent the rebel soldiers from mixing with Wang Mang's soldiers, Fan Chong asked his subordinates to paint their eyebrows red as a mark of identification. In this way, Fan Chong's rebel army got another name, "Red Eyebrow Army".