In history, when he was a teenager, he led the army to fight, and there were many fierce generals who made a career. For example, Huo went to the disease, and at the age of 17, he was able to beat the Xiongnu without finding a direction. Murong Chui also counted as one. At the age of 13, he fought with his father and brother to lead the army, not only brave. His brother Murong Ke was also 15 years old and began to lead the battlefield.
As for those who eventually founded an empire, in addition to those so-called "fathers and second generations", Liu Xiu was probably the earliest one, and he was called emperor at the age of 30, more than 20 years before his ancestor Liu Bang. It was almost 10 years earlier than Zhu Yuanzhang.
And it's not just about taking a few soldiers, occupying a few territories, and then pulling a few names for yourself like a bandit. Therefore, Liu Xiu's achievements cannot be summarized in a few sentences, and he is afraid that he has really opened and hung up.
However, there is another person who is more fierce than Liu Xiu, more fierce than Zhu Yuanzhang, who began to fight at the age of 12, and established an empire at the age of 15, and it lasted for nearly 200 years! He is an Ismaili in the Middle East. His status is very similar to that of Liu Xiu when he first started his army.
Liu Bang's ninth grandson was Liu Xiu, and is the sixth ancestor of Ismaili, who was not of low status, and was a tribal chief. His mother was a princess of the dynasty, and his father was an elder of the Order. These identities would have helped his career somewhat, but his father and mother did not really intervene to help.
In 1487, Ismaili was born, and his arrival seemed to herald the end of the peacetime. A year later, the war began, his father died in the war, and after the defeat of the Order, Ismaili and his brother were captured.
When he was seven years old, the Aries Dynasty rebelled again. The rebels wanted to strike at the Aries Dynasty through the power of the Order, so they released the two brothers. But before long, they repented and immediately sent someone to hunt down and kill the two, and in order to protect his brother, his brother Ali took a hundred retinues to block the pursuing soldiers, and unfortunately, he was killed in the end.
From this point on, Ismail officially began his own path to becoming emperor. After inheriting the family status, he began to study in seclusion. At the age of ten, he returned to ask for his father's inheritance, but failed. So he went to another city by the sea to accumulate strength and develop many believers. At the age of 12, he had been embraced as an Elder of the Order, and then began his own journey of nationhood, or revenge.
Ismaili had a clear goal, after defeating Hilfan's army, he marched towards the Aries Dynasty, but he was not strong enough to shake a dynasty at that time. Ismaili turned his target to Azerbaijan, and after capturing it, he turned back to the Aries Dynasty. In 1502, he finally defeated the dynasty and was proclaimed emperor. The year the Safavid Empire was founded, it was only 15 years old.
Looking at it this way, compared with Liu Xiu, Ismaili's life opened earlier.