From the founding of the Qin Dynasty to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, more than 500 emperors were born in the feudal society for more than two thousand years, in addition to the emperors recorded in the annals of history, there are many reckless people who have established themselves as emperors, but where the founding emperor, history will be recorded, but the emperor mentioned today has a very low sense of existence, this person is the late Sui Dynasty Zheng Emperor Wang Shichong.
Wang Shichong's original surname is Zhi, is a Hu people in the Western Regions, after the death of his grandfather, his grandmother remarried to the Zhongyuan Wang surname, and then changed his surname to Wang, Wang Shichong has shown outstanding talent since childhood, involved in a wide range of subjects, especially like to study the art of war and astronomy, frequent wars at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Shichong was awarded the title of military officer wailang for merit, and had a certain position in the imperial court, Wang Shichong was proficient in various legal regulations, using legal gaps to favoritism and fraud, clever words and sophistry no one can match.
Wang Shichong used his power to win over many fierce generals and bandits, he clearly realized that the chaotic literati were useless, and could only rely on violence to solve problems, if they helped these people of true temperament to avoid guilt, they would definitely be grateful to Dade, and the future would be a great help, during the years of Daye, he followed the Sui Emperor to inspect Jiangdu many times, flattering along the way, scavenging for rare treasures to please the Sui Emperor, and for a time became a big red man around Yang Guang.
Wang Shichong is good at speculating on the minds of others, when the Sui Emperor usurped the throne, Zhang Heng had many schemes, after the success, the Sui Emperor did not want to leave a tongue, everywhere looking for opportunities to suppress Zhang Heng, but in the end is a "hero", he is not good to start, the ministers all know that Zhang Heng has made great achievements, and no one dares to trouble him, Wang Shichong guessed the emperor's thoughts, in order to cater to the Sui Emperor alone to impeach Zhang Heng, Yang Guang took the opportunity to remove the nail in the eye and trust Wang Shichong more.
In the ninth year of Daye, the Sui Emperor sent troops to attack Goguryeo, Yang Xuangan took advantage of the domestic emptiness, started a rebellion, and then attracted people from all over the country to respond, the Sui Emperor sent troops to suppress, ordered Wang Shichong to serve as the commander, Wang Shichong took over the baton, announced that all the people and horses surrendered and did not kill, less than a month to pacify Wu County, seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Wang Shichong tore up the agreement, pit and killed more than 30,000 people, relying on the suppression of the rebel forces, Wang Shizhong achieved the defense of Jiangdu in a few years.
Wang Shichong made good use of tactics in battle, ten years of great cause, Wang Shichong took Liangshan as a stronghold, step by step, against more than 100,000 people in Qi County, Wang Shichong ordered the troops to avoid fighting, spread rumors of retreat, the enemy generals thought that Wang Shichong was a petty official, did not know how to lead the troops to fight, and later the rebels were short of food, eager to attack, Wang Shichong was fully prepared, the enemy army could not break through the defense for a while, could only divide the troops to rob the people's property, Wang Shichong knew the news, gathered soldiers to attack with all his might, killed 20,000 enemy troops, and captured more than 70,000 people.
Just when Wang Shichong was full of vigor, he met Li Mi, the first fierce enemy in his life, thirteen years after Daye, Li Mi raised an army to attack the eastern capital Luoyang, Luoyang was in a hurry, and the Sui Emperor dispatched soldiers and horses from all over the country to rescue, including Wang Shichong's Jianghuai strong brigade, the two sides fought several times, Wang Shichong was defeated, but Li Mi was unlucky, and after the first battle with Yu Wenhua, the elite troops were exhausted, Wang Shichong seized the opportunity, walked in the army and said superstitious remarks, saying that if Li Mi could not be defeated, the heavens would punish the soldiers and die of the plague. Hearing this, the soldiers were eager to try, and Wang Shichong gathered more than 20,000 elite soldiers, set up an ambush, charged Li Mi's camp with cavalry, and scattered Li Mi's team.
After this defeat in this battle, it was impossible to turn around, many generals in Wagang were recruited by Wang Shichong, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and others became fierce generals under Wang Shichong, wang Shichong's territory was also getting bigger and bigger, as his strength rose, Wang Shichong's ambitions also became more and more inflated, after defeating Li Mi, Wang Shichong opened the Taiwei Mansion, took charge of the affairs of the DPRK and China, issued notices in the DPRK, recruited civilian and military talents, and hundreds of people were looking for jobs every day.
In 619, the emperor Yang Tong was forced to make Wang Shichong a Xiangguo, and everyone at the bottom saw Wang Shichong's thoughts and persuaded Wang Shichong to take his place, Duan Da and others played the little emperor's throne, Yang Tong was very angry, and scolded: "You dream, this is the world of Gao Zu, I have not exhausted the number of Great Sui Qi, how can you say such a thing." ”
Yang Dong cried bitterly, and he also knew that he could not fight against Wang Shichong, who had a heavy army, and then Wang Shichong pretended to be Yang Tong Chan Rang and established himself as emperor.
Originally thought that there was no worry about this, as a result, the next year Wang Shichong received the wind, the Rebbe Shangshu Pei Renji and others discussed killing Wang Shichong and welcoming Back Yang Tong, Wang Shichong, in order to avoid the aftermath, decided to send someone to kill Yang Tong and posthumously named Yang Dong "Emperor Gong", when Wang Shichong was busy fighting, the situation changed dramatically.
Li Tang's forces rose, many people broke out of control and ran to serve Li Yuan, at this time, only Dou Jiande, Li Yuan and Wang Shichong were left with the three forces of Dou Jiande, Li Yuan and Wang Shichong, Li Shimin personally led 60,000 elite troops to attack Wang Shichong, Qin Qiong and other generals defected before the battle, defected to Li Tang, and Wang Shichong returned in a fiasco.
Wang Shichong saw that the army was scattered, so he indiscriminately used high-pressure means to punish the soldiers, resulting in everyone endangering themselves, coupled with the chaos of the soldiers, there were wars everywhere, Wang Shichong's troops ran out of ammunition and food, everyone changed their children and ate, after the two sides fought, although Wang Shichong occupied a favorable geographical position, he could not stop the defenders from descending without a fight, seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Wang Shichong could only come forward to seek peace, the two sides negotiated in Luoyang, and the talks collapsed, and Li Shimin fought all the way to recover the prefectures and counties in Henan.
Wang Shichong fled in defeat, he could no longer face Li Shimin alone, he could only rush to the hospital and plead with Dou Jiande, there was no other way, but after the two joined forces, they could not resist Li Shimin, and only used thousands of elite soldiers to capture Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong saw that the general trend had gone, and after getting Li Shimin's promise to keep his life, he went out of the city and surrendered, and within two years of establishing himself as emperor, the Great Zheng Dynasty was declared dead.
In 621 AD, Li Yuan counted Wang Shichong's sins, in view of Li Shimin's promise to keep his life, so he ordered Wang Shichong's family to be temporarily detained, and then exiled, the result did not wait for the day of exile, several people who claimed to be Li Yuan's emissaries, hacked Wang Shichong to death with knives, and later learned that the leader was Wang Shichong's old subordinates, in order to avenge their father, they killed Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong lost all his achievements, and a generation of tyrants died, which could have achieved a career, but because of his narrow-mindedness, it finally became a void.