The four ancient Chinese recognized emperors throughout the ages: no one has been able to surpass them so far, laying the foundation for the territory of China!
The general trend of the world will be united for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. Yangyang Huaxia has a history of thousands of years of civilization, there are more than 400 officially registered emperors, and among them, there are four who can be recognized as "one emperor in a thousand ages", their martial arts, and the expansion of the territory make it difficult for future emperors to look back, let us see what kind of great achievements they have?
1. Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang was the founding emperor of the first feudal dynasty in Chinese history, laying the basic pattern of China's political system for more than two thousand years, and was praised by the Ming Dynasty thinker Li Zhen as "an emperor in ancient times". In 221 BC, Yu Lie, the sixth emperor of Qin Shi Huang, destroyed the Six Kingdoms successively, pushed China to the era of great unification, established a powerful centralized state with the Han nationality as the main body, and laid the initial prototype of China itself. After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he attacked the Xiongnu in the north and baiyue in the south, unified currency and weights and measures internally, built the Great Wall, built straight roads, and connected the water system. In his later years, the harsh government abused the people, severely punished the law, built a large number of civil engineering, and sought immortals to enter the sea, shaking the foundation of the Qin Dynasty's rule.
Historical evaluation: As the existence of a tyrant, no one can erase his great achievements, he laid the rudiments of the territory of the Chinese Empire, the merits are in thousands of generations, and he is a well-deserved "emperor of all ages".
2. Emperor Wu of han
Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne at the age of 16 and reigned for more than 50 years, with a far-reaching and complex historical influence. Culturally, he promoted the "deposing of a hundred families and the exclusive respect of Confucianism"; politically, he issued a decree of tusson, strengthened the absolute monarchy and centralized power, and militarily, he pursued the expansion strategy of "destroying the Territory of Yiyi", breaking through the Xiongnu, opening up the Hexi Corridor to the west, opening up the Silk Road, conquering South Vietnam and Fujian And Vietnam in the south, and opening up the southwest Zhuyi, pushing the empire's territory to the peak, and surrounding ethnic minorities, or more than 50 foreign vassal states such as the Uighurs, Korea, Jordan, Siam, and the Western Regions, all submitted and paid tribute every year. In his later years, although Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed in fangshu and used martial arts excessively, and the scourge of witchcraft broke out, he issued the "Luntai Edict" to repent of himself, which was a generation of Ming emperors.
Historical evaluation: It was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's exhaustive military force that opened up the territory and expanded the territory, so that the phrase "those who commit crimes against the strong Han will be punished from afar" have become the proudest declaration of the Chinese nation, and because of the strength of the Han Dynasty, the Chinese nation has become synonymous with "Han"!
3. Tang Taizong
In 626, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Rebellion, killing his brother and forcing his father to abdicate, seizing imperial power, which made Li Shimin controversial. Li Shimin ruled the world with internal culture, realized recuperation, created the "rule of zhenguan", opened up territory to the outside world, submitted to the four sides, paid tribute to all countries, and let all ethnic groups live in harmony, and was revered as "Heavenly Khan". Li Shimin knew that people were good at their duties, and the heroes who followed him were treated kindly, except for Hou Junji's rebellion, but his family was able to die well. During His reign, Li Shimin greatly respected human rights and released some death row inmates as appropriate, which was a very rare thing in ancient times.
Historical evaluation: Tang Taizong Li Shimin was an outstanding military figure, statesman, and a rare Ming emperor in Chinese history, although the way of inheriting the unification became a stain on his life, he created the prosperous tang dynasty, making the Tang Dynasty the most civilized and powerful country in the world at that time.
4. The Kangxi Emperor
The Kangxi Emperor Xuan Ye reigned for 61 years, making him the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history. During his reign, Kangxi insisted on boldly employing Han chen, developing the economy, and adhering to the policy of maintaining national integrity and unity with an iron fist. After the Kangxi Emperor came to power, he won the victory in the Wars against San Francisco and Russia, took Taiwan, marched three times to Kaldan, contacted the Various Ministries of Mongolia, and achieved large-scale expansion of the territory, with a territory area exceeding the peak state of the Tang Dynasty (12.37 million square kilometers) to 13.16 million square kilometers, and many historians even called it "the emperor of the ages". Throughout his life, Kangxi flaunted benevolent government, but in his later years he began to be tired of government affairs, and there were phenomena such as the corruption of the officials and the seizure of the nine sons.
Historical evaluation: Since ancient times, the territory of the Han Dynasty is very large, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty is also large, but the territory of the Qing Dynasty is larger, and all of it is under the actual jurisdiction, including xinjiang, Tibet and the northeast and other vast lands, it is the "Kangqian prosperous era" that laid the map of today's China, which is a very great historical contribution.
China's territory was laid by the Qin Emperor, and the Han Wu Tang Sect expanded and consolidated, to the peak of Kangxi, the foundation of the Thousand Autumns, the merits and demerits, since some people have commented, the four emperors Wenzhi martial arts, open up the territory and expand the territory, enough to proudly stand in the forest of Chinese emperors, Biao Bing's history!
Many people think that Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Kuangyin, and even Yang Guang and Temujin did a good job, do you think there is any other emperor who can be called "the emperor of the ages"?
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Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia