As the saying goes: "It is easy to fight the country and the country is difficult to defend the country", this is because when fighting the country, everyone works together and advances towards a goal together. And when it comes to guarding the country, the most difficult period has passed, and there are too many stable days, and people will breed all kinds of desires.
When the heart is confused, the situation is chaotic. However, not all of the founding emperors' path to founding was very difficult, and some were relatively easy in comparison.
Qin Shi Huang was not the most difficult emperor to open the country
Many people take it for granted that the most difficult emperor to find the country must have Qin Shi Huang. Because he ended the chaotic situation in the entire Central Plains and unified the Central Plains, his merits were so great that it was bound to be the most difficult.
In fact, it is not the case that Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms is already an inevitable situation. Several Qin kings in front of Qin Shi Huang had already laid a solid foundation, and even almost succeeded!
Although there is a foundation laid by predecessors, the process is not so easy. Moreover, most of the merits of Qin Shi Huang were also completed after the founding of the country.
The emperor with the most difficulty in founding the country
In fact, there were two emperors with the most difficult founding of the country, one was Liu Bang and the other was Zhu Yuanzhang. First of all, Liu Bang's starting point was very low, and he was initially just a pavilion chief. No money, no power, no power. Later, he relied on others to destroy Qin, and gradually developed and developed in the process
Follow-up to grow their own forces. In the end, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu turned against each other, and the two fought against each other, either you die or I live. Although Liu Bang's power was not as strong as Xiang Yu's, it had at least developed to a certain extent.
And coupled with Liu Bang's cunning mind, Xiang Yu definitely couldn't play with him, so in the end Xiang Yu killed himself in Wujiang. Therefore, in this world, Liu Bang is bound to take this step by step, and the difficulties and thrills in it are difficult for him to experience without personal experience.
Let's talk about another very difficult emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang. In history, there are really few childhood experiences that are worse than Zhu Yuanzhang's. In his childhood, because of the tyrannical rule of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's family was fragmented, and he was forced to wander and beg.
It was easy to find a temple to settle down, or because the Yuan Dynasty had to leave and live a wandering life again. When he joined Guo Zixing's command, he almost died because he was too good and had political disagreements. If it weren't for his wife Empress Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang would have died at the hands of Guo Zixing!
And Zhu Yuanzhang also left Guo Zixing, and his men gathered a group of capable people, the Han people were dissatisfied with the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty for a long time, and rebel armies appeared in an endless stream everywhere. This rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the fact that the Yuan Dynasty had no time to take care of itself and took advantage of the void.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang not only had to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, but also against traitors such as Chen Youyi. This process is long and difficult, but Zhu Yuanzhang has never given up. Kung Fu paid off, and he eventually succeeded in driving the Yuan Dynasty out of the Central Plains and establishing the Ming Dynasty!
Although this process cannot be reproduced by people today, from the records of the history books, we can also infer how difficult and thrilling this process was.
The easiest emperor to conquer the country
Where there are difficulties, there are naturally simple. Although many emperors, including Emperor Qin Shi Huang, founded the country relatively easily. But there are two emperors, and the simplicity of their founding is unbelievable. The first was Yang Jian, the Sui Emperor.
Although Yang Jian was the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, his path to the founding of the country was really very easy. First of all, he did not start in vain, the Yang family was originally a powerful family of the Zhou Dynasty. If the power of the courtiers is too great, it will cause the emperor to be jealous.
Yuwen Yun also wanted to kill Yang Jian, but he was hollowed out by the wine and died in his early twenties. The Yang family had already taken control of the government and directly seized the throne from the little emperor, which was really too easy! And the other is Zhao Kuangyin. He and Yang Jian's path to becoming emperor is really too similar!
Zhao Kuangyin also holds real power in his hands and has a wide range of contacts. Even though Chai Rong arranged everything before his death to prevent someone from seizing power, he could not stand Zhao Kuangyin's cunning and excessive power. And Zhao Kuangyin also took advantage of the new emperor's young age, lack of prestige, strength and power, and took advantage of the void to seize the throne.
In a word, it was too easy for these two men to become emperors. And it can be clearly seen that it is too easy to get to hand and will not be cherished, so although Zhao Kuangyin and Yang Jian are founding emperors, their merits cannot be compared with those of other founding emperors.
In particular, Zhao Kuangyin, after he took office, he did not think at all about how to make the country develop and prosper, but how to prevent someone from using the same means to seize power. In order to prevent others from treating him in the same way, he actually opened an era of heavy literature and light weapons!
You must know that the strength of a country must have a strong military force. It is no wonder that the Song Dynasty was so weak, giving the Yuan Dynasty an opportunity to take advantage of it.