"As the saying goes, the Tao is 'The emperor takes turns and comes to my house this year.'" Since Pangu to the present, He zeng saw that this emperor was done by one family. ——Wu Jun, "The Complete Biography of the Flying Dragon"
From 221 BC to 1912 AD, China experienced a total of 83 dynasties, totaling 2132 years. During these years, many emperors appeared in China.
Some curious people have found that there were a total of 408 emperors in China during the feudal period, and if you count the kings, princes and princes before Qin Shi Huang unified the world, There should be 829 emperors in China.
But with so many emperors, do you know which emperor has the most difficulty in seizing the world? Let's briefly analyze it from the aspects of origin and own combat capabilities.
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In fact, there are many answers to this question, after all, it is impossible for people's minds to achieve a high degree of unity. As far as the current more mainstream mode of thinking is concerned, the most difficult emperors in the minds of the vast majority of people are the founding emperors of previous dynasties.
Among these founding emperors, those who have poor initial resources have become the leaders, so here we will introduce a highly recognized emperor: Liu Bang.
Statue of Liu Bang
Liu Bang was the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty in Chinese history, and as a rather outstanding politician, strategist, and military commander, he made outstanding contributions to the development of the Han nation and the unification of China.
According to the records in the Book of Han and the Chronicle of Emperor Gao, Liu Bang's ancestors were also prosperous for a while, but by the time of Liu Bang's generation, the Liu family had become commoners. Although born in a farming family, Liu Bang rarely engaged in production work.
Portrait of Liu Bang
Later, Qin Shi Huang unified the world, and Liu Bang was appointed as the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County. The so-called pavilion chief refers to the administrative structure chief who is lower than the county level, and from the perspective of rank, it should be equivalent to the current police station chief.
Not long after taking office, Liu Bang was ordered to escort the prisoners, but because they were afraid of being punished in the future, the prisoners were always trying to escape along the way. When Liu Bang escorted the prisoners, because of the drunkenness, the prisoners almost escaped.
Stills of Liu Bang
As a dynasty that attached great importance to the law of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang's move was almost equivalent to dancing on the bottom line of the law, so Liu Bang was soon wanted by his superiors, which led to Liu Bang having to flee to Mount Mangzhong to hide.
At that time, Liu Bang had become husband and wife with Lü Yan, and when her husband had an accident, Lü Yan had to support the family's food and clothing alone, and at the same time had to go to Mount Mangzhong from time to time to take care of her husband.
Portrait of Liu Bang's wife Lü Yan
However, after the Chen Sheng uprising, Liu Bang found opportunities for "rise" and "great achievements". Following the example of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, he gathered three thousand disciples, and then with the help of Xiahou Bao and others, he captured Pei County and proclaimed himself the Duke of Pei.
Although after occupying Pei County, Liu Bang had a lot more power, he obviously knew that this little power was really nothing to the Shangqin army. Therefore, Liu Bang decided to defect to the famous general Xiang Liang at that time, and was subsequently appointed as the governor of Yan County.
After a period of development and operation, Liu Bang also had many confidants, and with the help of his confidants, he traveled around the country to fight, and finally led his army into Bashang and accepted the surrender of the Prince of Qin.
At the same time, Liu Bang also abolished the harsh laws of the Qin Dynasty and agreed on three chapters of the law. At that time, Liu Bang was in the limelight, which made Xiang Liang start to be jealous of Liu Bang, so there was a later Hongmen banquet here.
At the Hongmen banquet, Liu Bang actually almost died under Xiang Zhuang's sword, but fortunately, Fan Duo reacted in time and blocked Xiang Zhuang for Liu Bang. After the Hongmen Feast, Liu Bei was again crowned king of Han, mainly ruling Bashu and the Hanzhong area.
In 206 BC, Liu Bang noticed that Xiang Yu wanted to trap himself in the Bashu-Hanzhong region through the "Three Qins", and since the generals had almost rested before, Liu Bang quickly made follow-up deployments, opening the prelude to the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony.
Hongmen Feast Xiangzhuang Dancing Sword
In this Chu-Han struggle, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu won and lost each other, but with the passage of time, Xiang Yu's power was constantly weakened, and Liu Bang gradually gained the upper hand. Later, Xiang Yu killed himself on the banks of the Wu River, and Liu Bang won the final victory in the Chu-Han War.
After all the arrangements for all matters after the war, Liu Bang was located in the sun of Dingtao, and later he set the capital chang'an and established the historically famous Western Han Dynasty.
Xiang Yu killed himself by the Wu River
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At present, most people will feel that Liu Bang is the most difficult person among the emperors to seize the world, mainly considering the following reasons:
Liu Bang was the first emperor of commoner birth since Qin Shi Huang called himself "Emperor";
Although Liu Bang has excellent military command ability, his own combat effectiveness is not very strong, which leads to his being very passive when facing Xiang Yu and others;
Although Liu Bang eventually became emperor, his position was not stable in the early stages, and many people under his hands hoped to overthrow Liu Bang and replace him.
Qin and Han court sets
At first, under the rule of slavery, the ancients formed a very obvious hierarchical society, and no matter how good people were, they could not become aristocrats.
Later, the State of Qin questioned and rebelled against this strict hierarchical social system through the Shang Martingale Transformation Law, and after the smooth unification of Qin, the Qin Law was implemented throughout the country, which also provided some civilians with the opportunity to get ahead.
For example, Liu Bang, although he was born a commoner, with the permission of Qin Fa, he became the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County. It is true that from the perspective of official rank, Liu Bang is not a big official, but at least he has the opportunity to develop upwards.
However, it has to be said that although the Qin Law provided development opportunities for some commoners, due to the serious tilt of various resources in ancient times, the cultivation of commoners in many abilities was simply inferior to that of the nobility.
Therefore, it is still very difficult for a commoner to get ahead and occupy a place in a high-level society. However, Liu Bang counterattacked as a civilian under this circumstance.
And he eventually became the emperor with the highest ruling power of the country, in the process Of which Liu Bang must have experienced many difficulties, so many people will say that Liu Bang is probably the most difficult emperor to seize the world.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that in Chinese history, in fact, Liu Bang was not the only civilian emperor, like Zhu Yuanzhang, Shi Le and others. They were not of high social status, but in the end they successfully became the supreme executors of the regime.
But even so, they are still inferior to Liu Bang, this is because Liu Bang himself broke through the shackles of inherent thinking, and he was able to boldly send himself to the emperor's throne.
Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang
Are Zhu Yuanzhang and others powerful? Very powerful, but they dared to break through the shackles of identity, but also benefited from Liu Bang's good start.
If liu Bang had not held a high position as a commoner, would the later commoner emperor really dare to sit on the throne? The outcome is not yet known.
Moreover, the safety of Liu Bang's own life is actually very vulnerable. Judging from Liu Bang's own various experiences, we will find that this person has faced danger to his life many times.
If it were not for the fact that there were many people around him to protect him, and his own luck was also very good, whether the Western Han Dynasty could be established in the end would become an unknown.
Here we will not mention Liu Bang's other opponents for the time being, first of all, let's talk about Xiang Yu, who has been fighting with Liu Bang for many years. According to historical records, Xiang Yu this person:
"More than eight feet long, able to carry ding (12), talented, although Wu Zhong's children are already afraid of the nationality."
It can be seen that Xiang Yu himself actually has excellent physical fitness, coupled with the fact that he has been more liked to dance knives and guns since he was a child, which makes Xiang Yu have a strong personal combat effectiveness.
As for Liu Bang, although he had a strong military command ability, in terms of personal combat ability, Liu Bang was really inferior to Xiang Yu. This led to Liu Bang in many cases, small life needs others to help save.
Xiang Yu can carry ding
Mentioning this, we have to say about Xiahou Baby, who knew Liu Bang in his early years and followed Liu Bang for a long time. In the process of working with Liu Bang, this person saved Liu Bang from danger several times.
When many people evaluate Xiahou Baby, they say that Xiahou Baby is an "old driver" with superb driving skills, and he once took Liu Bang and his children to throw off a large number of pursuing soldiers and successfully saved the lives of Liu Bang and his children.
Xiahou Infant fled with Liu Bang for his life
It is precisely because Xiahou Infant treats Liu Bang very attentively, so Liu Bang has always relied heavily on Xiahou Baby after becoming emperor. Here's the topic back to Liu Bang, as a leader with less outstanding combat effectiveness:
Once Liu Bang went to the battlefield, he would be regarded as the target of everyone, and the hateful thing was that he did not have enough excellent combat effectiveness, and it was really not easy for Liu Bang to live to the end to become emperor.
As for Zhu Yuanzhang and other emperors who were also from civilian origins, they also encountered difficulties in the process of conquest, but the frequent entry and exit of liu Bang in and out of the situation of life and death rarely occurred.
In addition, Liu Bang belongs to the classic example of "late success of the great instrument", he was more than 40 years old when he began to oppose Qin, and he was already 53 years old when he really became emperor, from the perspective of the ancients, Liu Bang's energy and strength at that time were far inferior to those of young people.
As a commoner, also limited by age and physical fitness, Liu Bang was able to become emperor smoothly, and the hardships he experienced during this period were by no means comparable to other grass-roots emperors. It can be seen that Liu Bang is indeed the most difficult emperor in history to seize the world.
Zhu Yuanzhang stills
Even if the world is finally decided, Liu Bang's claim to the emperor has become a foregone conclusion, but he still faces many threats. From the chronology of major events in the early Western Han Dynasty, we can know that Liu Bang rewarded many meritorious people in the early Han Dynasty.
And there were even many kings with different surnames, but for various reasons, these heroes were not at peace at that time, they were proud of their merits, and thought that if they became emperors, they would be better than Liu Bang.
This has led many people to look at the throne under Liu Bang's ass, and they hope to snatch the throne from Liu Bang through a series of means such as rebellion.
Faced with this situation, Liu Bang had to choose to kill the heroes, but unlike the later grassroots emperors such as Zhu Yuanzhang, he "would rather kill a hundred by mistake than let go of one", and Liu Bang still had great respect for Xiahou Bao and other heroes who kept to themselves.
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All in all, from the perspective of birth and other aspects, the process of Liu Bang's seizure of the world is actually quite difficult. Of course, except for him, the process of other emperors in history to unify the world is not easy.
It's just that every emperor has different difficulties, and from different perspectives, we can actually get different answers to the question of "which emperor is the most difficult to seize the world".
Stills of ancient emperors