Although the old saying goes, "Xiucai rebelled, three years will not succeed", but if you look at history, you will find that almost every founding emperor of a great dynasty was a person who loved to read.
The first emperor of the ancients, Qin Shi Huang, once rushed to the crown and burned books in anger, and as a result, it was difficult to turn over the stink for ten thousand years, in fact, the first emperor did not have to be so impulsive, so light and fire, because he himself was also a person who loved to read.
As we all know, the Qin state relied on the Shang martingale transformation method to embark on the road to prosperity, so the monarch of the Qin state has always attached great importance to the works of the legalists, and Qin Shi Huang is no exception.
One day, the First Emperor of Qin Wangzheng read Han Feizi's two articles, "Lonely Anger" and "Five Beetles", and felt that every sentence had spoken to his heart, and he couldn't help but issue such a big sigh: "Oh! The widow shall see this man swimming with him, and shall not be hated in death. ”
In order to be able to "travel with Han Feizi", Qin Wang zheng urgently ordered an attack on Korea, asking Han Feizi to escort Han Feizi to the Qin capital Xianyang, and finally got his wish.
Although Mr. Qian Zhongshu said that there is no need to meet the hen that lays eggs because an egg is delicious, if someone like Qin Shi Huang tries his best to "travel" with the author because he likes a book or an article, can you say that he is not a person who loves to read?
When Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu, was born gentle and elegant when he was young, such as a good daughter of the neighbor, with a gentle and generous personality, a humble gentleman, and a typical image of a reader, and he did like to read, although it cannot be said that he was only eight buckets high, he was still well-deserved to learn five cars.
It was precisely because of his studiousness and erudition that Liu Xiu was able to study Taixue in the capital Chang'an
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At that time, the highest institution of learning, equivalent to the current Peking University or Tsinghua University), thus becoming the most highly educated emperor in Chinese history.
Later, Liu Xiu's revolution was successful, he ascended the throne as emperor, and established a new Han Dynasty, which was known as the Eastern Han Dynasty by later generations.
Liu Xiu was still enthusiastic about cultural undertakings in addition to the opportunities of Daily Reasoning, and often summoned Gongqing Langguan and other civil servants to talk about the history of history, and sometimes did not go to bed until late at night to rest.
The prince advised him to pay attention to his body and rest more, and he replied with a smile: "I enjoy myself and do not get tired." So the idiom "Enjoy it" fell to the ground and was born.
If the emperors of the past dynasties are ranked according to the index of force, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, will be ranked among the top three, but this emperor who was born as a martial artist and has a strong martial arts career is not a person with developed limbs and a simple mind, he is happy to study tirelessly when he has the opportunity, and he can be called the emperor who attaches the most importance to reading in history.
Once, Zhao Kuangyin was ordered to attack Southern Tang Prefecture and achieve victory. Someone reported to Zhou Shizong that zhao Kuangyin had been found to have returned a large chest of treasures from the Southern Tang Dynasty. Take it with you every day.
Although Zhou Shizong believed in Zhao Kuangyin's personality, he also had to send relevant personnel to do routine inspections. When the big box was opened, the prosecutor was dumbfounded, and it turned out that there were no gold jewelry shells in it, only a box full of books.
After becoming emperor, Zhao Kuangyin was obsessed with books and still maintained the good habit of reading day and night, and the emperors of the two Song Dynasties inherited this excellent tradition.
In terms of reading, Zhao Kuangyin not only set an example by himself, but also encouraged the minister of culture and military affairs to study and seek knowledge, and mentioned that the five dynasties of the late Tang Dynasty were the warriors who "came out of the gun", and the status of readers in society was very low.
Zhao Kuangyin reversed the atmosphere of light literature and heavy martial arts in society, especially in the imperial court, by advocating reading, and ensured the stability and harmony of the Song Dynasty for three hundred years.
Although Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was born into poverty, he still attended a private school for a period of time when he was a child, but fortunately after the death of his parents, he became a street child and no longer had the conditions to study, but the dream of reading in his heart has not been extinguished.
After becoming the leader of the rebel army, Zhu Yuanzhang had the opportunity to study again, and the Confucians gathered around him who often quoted scriptures and talked about the past and the present stimulated his desire to study hard.
Everywhere Zhu Yuanzhang went, he "ordered Yousi to visit ancient books and hide them in the secret house," and then he seized the time to read every day after his official duties, and worked hard to improve his cultural level.
After the establishment of the Ming Empire, Zhu Yuanzhang specially set up the Wenyuan Pavilion in the east of the Fengtian Gate in Nanjing City, "storing all the ancient and modern books, and placing university scholars." He did not do this in order to be vassal and elegant and decorate the façade, as some rich people are now, but often "ordered Hongru to enter the history of the scriptures, read them by themselves, and forget them all the time."
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At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was not only able to compose poems, but also annotated the Tao Te Ching, and wrote at a considerable level, which greatly enriched the connotation of Lao Tzu's original works.
Through reading books, Zhu Yuanzhang summed up the experience of history, learned the lessons of his predecessors, formulated a set of effective administrative systems, ensured the normal operation of the government apparatus, and extended the life of the dynasty he founded to a certain extent; otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would have collapsed long ago at the hands of Jiajing, who sought immortality and slackened his government, and Wanli would not have had the opportunity to become a freak emperor who had not been in power for thirty years.
According to the author's guess, when I see the title of this article, there will certainly be readers and friends who cite Liu Bang, who "Liu Xiang did not read books in the past," as a counterexample; although Liu Bang is not good at reading, he is not a person who does not read books, and his cultural level is not low, otherwise how can he sing the "Song of the Great Wind, which has been circulated for thousands of years and will continue to be passed down?"
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