If the founding emperor wants to make a meritorious career, he must be indispensable to the help of capable people and righteous soldiers, and in ancient times, it was the era of cold weapons, and the emperor needed generals who could fight good battles. Most emperors would have some civilian generals by their side.
However, if the emperor wants to expand his territory, the first thing he needs is a military general, and the role and status of military generals during wartime are much higher than those of civilian subjects. In peacetime, the courtiers helped the emperor govern the country and the world, but during the war, he was a scholar.
The emperor's jealousy is very heavy, and every founding emperor will take into account his own interests, and although the military generals can share the hardships, they cannot be rich and noble. Once the existence of the warrior makes the emperor feel threatened, the warlord will soon die, the so-called cunning rabbit dies, and the lackey cooks this truth.
Once the generals' interests were exploited, they were eradicated by the emperor for various reasons. People like Han Xin and Lan Yu were all in different places because of their high merits, but in history, there were two emperors in history, and a perfect emperor who did not kill the heroes, and the civilian and military generals around them were able to die well.
The first: Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ancient world.
The State of Qin was originally a small frontier country, located in a barbaric land, and has always been less developed than the Central Plains Dynasty, but after the Shang Martingale Transformation Law, the State of Qin has become rich and strong. After Qin Shi Huang succeeded to the throne, he pushed the status of the Qin State to the peak, and the previous Qin State that was only promised had disappeared, and now the Qin State was a powerful country that made the Six Kingdoms feared.
Qin Shi Huang put an end to the chaotic era of division and division since the weekend, and he swept through the Six Kingdoms with a tiger and wolf division, establishing the first centralized dynasty in Chinese history. Qin Shi Huang abolished the division of seals, set up counties and counties, unified writing and weights and measures, and made great contributions to the development of Central Plains culture.
Unfortunately, Qin Shi Huang has always been called a tyrant, and this emperor has borne too many insults. But no one is a sage, and Qin Shi Huang's merits are far more than his shortcomings. Some of the things that Qin Shi Huang burned books to pit Confucianism and killed the people were facts, but there were also elements that were maliciously exaggerated, at least from the matter of treating meritorious people, Qin Shi Huang was still benevolent and righteous.
Qin Shi Huang was cruel and unkind in the late period of his reign, he was obsessed with the art of immortality, and he killed the people around him at every turn, but he never killed a hero. The two brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi, Wang Qi and Wang Ben were safe and sound.
Qin Shi Huang was called a tyrant, but he was still very lenient in his treatment of meritorious men. What's more, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, the system of burial of living people was not implemented, but pottery figurines were made instead of living people for burial. Unfortunately, Fu Su, who was favored by Qin Shi Huang, did not ascend the throne, and his younger son Hu Hai did something wrong all day after he ascended the throne, and the once powerful Qin Dynasty soon died.
Second place: Emperor Taizong of Tang.
Li Shimin was a founding hero, and the establishment of the Tang Dynasty was inseparable from Li Shimin's southern expedition and northern war. In the process of the Tang Dynasty's unification of the world, Li Shimin accumulated a high prestige, which also made the crown prince Li Jiancheng always jealous of him.
Li Jiancheng's prestige in the army was far inferior to that of Li Shimin, and he was afraid that one day Li Shimin would replace him, so he joined forces with Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, to frame Li Shimin. Li Shimin had a large group of civilian and military generals under his command, such as Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Qin Shubao, and others, all of whom were Li Shimin's right and left arms. After Li Shimin launched the "Xuanwumen Revolution", he ascended the throne as emperor, and he did not kill the heroes around him, these extremely popular subjects from the Dragon Minister. The eldest grandson Wuji was in charge of the government, and Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhan, Wei Chi Jingde, and others also had great power.
Li Shimin's favorite empress dowager was the sister of changsun Wuji, and his last heir was also the nephew of Changsun Wuji, and the eldest grandson family had been favored through two dynasties. The favor of the Fang Xuanling family is not inferior, and in order to increase the status of the Fang family, Li Shimin mated his favorite Princess Gaoyang to Fang Xuanling's son Fang Yi'ai.
The third: the most perfect emperor Guangwu Emperor.
Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, was fierce, and the people who accompanied him to fight in jiangshan did not have a good end. When Liu Bang was not developed, he promised all the heroes to be crowned kings, but after he succeeded, he thought about how to eliminate the kings with different surnames. Han Xin and Yingbu were used by Liu Bang to kill chickens and monkeys, and in the later period, Liu Bang even established the rule of not naming a king with a different surname.
Compared with Liu Bang's unsympathetic face, his descendant Liu Xiuke was much more generous than him. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the people were not happy, and after the usurpation of the throne by his foreign relative Wang Mang, the Western Han Dynasty officially declared its demise. In order to restore the imperial power of the Liu family in the Kuangfu Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, a disciple of the Liu family, decided to raise an army against Wang Mang, and after decades of bloody struggle, Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty, continuing the century-old foundation of the Han Dynasty.
In the process of Liu Xiu's uprising, the Guo family contributed greatly, especially Guo Shengtong, who married Liu Xiu with a 100,000-strong army as a dowry. After Liu Xiu ascended the throne, Guo Shengtong was crowned empress, and although Empress Guo was deposed in the later period, her family and children were spared.
The emperor's suspicions were very heavy, Zhao Kuangyin was a benevolent emperor, he himself was a military general, and he became the emperor through Chen Qiaobing, so as soon as he ascended to the throne, he also revoked the status of a military general through a glass of wine. In stark contrast to Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, the group of heroes in the early Han Dynasty was slaughtered, and the military generals around Liu Bang Zhu Yuanzhang also had a miserable fate.
Summary: The military generals around the founding emperor did not have a good ending in most cases, but the people around the three founding emperors could live in peace. Qin Shi Huang, Li Shimin, and Liu Xiu were still very kind founding emperors.