In the ancient history of the mainland, dynasties have been constantly replaced, often all of them are entrepreneurial and pioneering countries, and then with the efforts of several emperors, the national strength will be pushed to the peak, and then the national strength will begin to decline until it perishes, so do you know who the monarch of each dynasty is in its heyday?
1. Qin Dynasty - Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng
Qin was originally a small country canonized by the Zhou Dynasty in the bitter cold land of the northwest, after hundreds of years of efforts by the monarch of the Qin State, in the middle and late Warring States period, the Qin State has the tendency to unify the world, after the succession of the Qin King Yingzheng, on the basis laid by several ancestors, the six countries of Shandong were destroyed to unify the world. The Qin Dynasty also became the first great unified dynasty in the history of the mainland, but unfortunately the Qin Dynasty II died and only existed for 14 years in history, so the monarch of the Qin Dynasty in its heyday was Qin Shi Huang himself.
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2. Western Han Dynasty - Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun
The comprehensive quality of the Western Han Emperor is relatively high, after the efforts of the previous emperors, finally in the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has the ability to take the initiative to attack the Xiongnu, under the management of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the territory of the Western Han Dynasty has expanded greatly, but the national strength of the Western Han Dynasty reached its peak in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's great-grandson Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun.
Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun
After Liu Xun succeeded to the throne, he first cleared the power of the Huo family in the imperial court, and then took the overlord and miscellaneous as the policy of governance, rectified the rule of officials, strengthened the imperial power, abolished harsh laws, appeased exiles, resumed production, faced with the civil strife of the Xiongnu, allowed the Huhan evil single to return to the Han Dynasty, and eliminated the threat of the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty; Under his governance, the Western Han Dynasty was politically clear, socially harmonious, economically prosperous, and the comprehensive national strength reached its peak, which was known as the rule of filial piety in history. However, Liu Xun did not choose a successor, he knew that the crown prince Liu Zheng was not suitable, but thinking of Queen Xu, he still chose to let Liu Zheng become the successor to the throne, and as a result, the Han began to decline after Liu Zheng succeeded to the throne, and one generation was not as good as the next, until he was usurped by Wang Mang.
3. Eastern Han Dynasty - Han Dynasty and Emperor Liu Zhao
Liu Zhao was the fourth emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and succeeded to the throne at the age of 10. Four years later, Liu Zhao united with Liu Qing, the king of Qinghe, and his minister Ding Hong to launch a coup d'état, hunt down the Dou family and his henchmen, and then take the government pro-government.
The Eastern Han Dynasty in the efforts of the previous emperors, the national strength has been developing upward, and after Liu Zhao took power, he sent Ban Chao to defeat Guishan, so that more than 50 countries in the Western Regions submitted, and sent Gan Ying to the Roman Empire to return to the east coast of the Mediterranean, causing the coastal countries 40,000 miles away to send an envoy to Nagong. Xihai County was established and Qinghai Lake was included in the territory.
Emperor Liu Zhao of the Han Dynasty
Under the governance of Liu Zhao, the Eastern Han Dynasty Qi people increased, the land was wide, Li Yuan Ningkang, the concord of all nations, the national strength reached its heyday, the people of the time praised "the crown of the past, the dying of all countries", the history of Yongyuan Long, Yongyuan is Liu Zhao's year name. Papermaking was also invented during the reign of Liu Zhao.
It's a pity that since Liu Zhao, most of the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty ascended the throne at an early age (although Liu Zhao also ascended the throne at an early age and died at the age of 27, his ability was top-notch), and most of the emperors became puppets and even killed by ministers, and finally the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, and the Eastern Han Dynasty went to extinction.
4. Western Jin—Jin Wu Emperor Zhi 马炎
The Western Jin Dynasty has a bad reputation in history, because of the improper position, in 265 AD Sima Yan forced Wei Yuan Emperor Cao Huan to establish the Jin Dynasty, and in 280 destroyed the Eastern Wu and unified the country. At the beginning of Sima Yan's succession, he reformed politics, revitalized the economy, practiced frugality, promoted the rule of law, and promoted population growth, making the economy and society prosperous. The national strength of the Western Jin Dynasty also reached its peak.
Sima Yan
It is a pity that Sima Yan was in the reign of the kings, and chose the intellectually worrisome Sima Zhen to become the successor, as a result, after Sima Zhen succeeded to the throne, it caused the rebellion of the eight kings, and the Western Jin Dynasty, which had just been unified, fell into civil strife.
5, Sui Dynasty - Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian
Since the beginning of the rebellion of the eight kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the land of China has entered a chaotic situation, during which it has experienced five chaotic China, confrontation between the north and the south, and it was not until 589 A.D. that the Sui Dynasty destroyed the southern Chen to complete the unification, during which the division lasted for nearly 300 years.
After Yang Jian usurped the power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty, he carried out a series of reforms, established the system of three provinces and six ministries, and changed the local three-level system of prefecture, county and county to two-level system of state and county, thus consolidating the centralization of power, pacifying Lingnan, building the Sui Daxing City, and creating the imperial examination system. The law of Kaihuang was formulated, and many tax cuts were made to reduce the burden on the people, promote agricultural production, and stabilize economic development, and the rule of Kaihuang appeared in the Sui Dynasty under his rule. The Sui Dynasty became a political model and cultural center in East Asia.
Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian
It is a pity that after Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty succeeded to the throne, due to his eagerness for quick success, he implemented a series of major projects to dredge the Grand Canal. The construction of the eastern capital Luoyang and the three conquests of Goguryeo seriously overdrew the national and popular strength, which eventually led to chaos in the world and the fall of the Sui Dynasty.
6. Tang Dynasty - Tang Xuanzong Li Longji
The Tang Dynasty is a dynasty comparable to the Han Dynasty in history, first Li Shimin created the rule of Zhenguan, the first prosperous era in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and then under the continuous relay of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, Wu Zetian and others, after Tang Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, he set things right, appointed Yao Chong, Song Jing and other virtuous ministers, made great efforts, and created the extremely prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty - the prosperous era of Kaiyuan. As the great poet Du Fu said in his poem: Recalling the heyday of Kaiyuan in the past, Xiaoyi still hides thousands of rooms. The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant.
Tang Xuanzong Li Longji
Unfortunately, after making great achievements, Tang Xuanzong also began to become arrogant and complacent, lazy and lazy, reusing eunuchs, favoring traitors Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong, etc., pampering Yang Guifei, coupled with policy mistakes and reusing An Lushan and other foreign ethnic groups to try to stabilize the Tang Dynasty's frontiers, which led to the Anshi Rebellion that lasted for eight years, laying the groundwork for the Tang Dynasty's decline from prosperity. Since then, more than a dozen emperors of the Tang Dynasty have never recovered to the national strength of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.
7. Northern Song Dynasty - Song Huizong Zhao Ji
Strictly speaking, the Northern Song Dynasty was not a great unified dynasty, but it has an important place in history, so I will talk about it here. And you may not expect that the heyday of the Northern Song Dynasty was actually during the reign of Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
Although the Northern Song Dynasty said that it reached a prosperous era during the period of Song Renzong, but later the national strength was still improving, and during the reign of Song Huizong, the financial revenue was about "more than 50 million guan." "More than the previous emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty. In addition, during this period, the population of the Northern Song Dynasty also experienced rapid growth, and by the fourth year of the Great View of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty (1110), the number of household registrations nationwide reached 21 million, and the total population exceeded 100 million. Zhang Zeduan's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" reproduces the prosperous scene of Bianjing City at that time.
Song Huizong Zhao Ji
Externally, in the north of Qinghai, the right capital of Longyou was protected, and the seven states of Youyun were redeemed with heavy money, plus the three states of Guannan that Zhou Shizong led the army to the north to recover more than 100 years ago, and the sixteen states of Youyun that were ceded by Shi Jingjiao of the Jin Dynasty after five generations were in the hands of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, most of them returned to the Central Plains Dynasty, and the long-cherished wish of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty was finally realized in the era of Fengya Huizong, who had no ancients before and no one after him.
However, Song Huizong was obsessed with art, and the ability to govern the country was really lacking, and the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, Toto, commented on the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty when compiling the "History of the Song Dynasty", and once said such a sentence: "Song Huizong can do everything, but he can't be the king's ear." As a result, the Northern Song Dynasty soon perished under the rule of Huizong, and the Second Emperor of Huiqin was captured and became a prisoner.
8, Yuan Dynasty - Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty
The Yuan Dynasty came from the Great Mongolia founded by Genghis Khan, and after winning the battle for the Khan throne with Ali Buge, Kublai Khan changed the name of the country to Dayuan in 1271, and the Battle of Yashan eliminated the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty and completed the unification of the country. He recruited Confucian scholars of the Han nationality, rectified the military and political affairs, successively reused Ahma, Lu Shirong, and Sange to manage finance, established various systems, including the provincial system, strengthened control over the frontiers, paid attention to agriculture and mulberry, and advocated the establishment of schools, so that the social economy could be restored and developed.
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However, since Kublai Khan, the succession to the throne of the Yuan Dynasty was very chaotic, and the ability of foreign tribes to govern the Han land was relatively lacking, and the entire Yuan Dynasty was in a state of chaos for most of the period, and finally a peasant uprising broke out, and Zhu Yuanzhang drove him to Mobei.
9. Ming Dynasty—Ming Cheng Ancestor Zhu Tang
The Ming Dynasty is the last dynasty established by the Han people in history, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty after the great effort, originally intended to be the prince Zhu Biao, but unfortunately Zhu Biao died early, disrupting Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunwen was renamed as the emperor's grandson. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne, but he was eager to cut the domain, which led to Zhu Di, the king of Yan, launching the Battle of Jingnan, and four years later Zhu Di seized the throne and became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Di
After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he dredged the Grand Canal, built the Forbidden City in Beijing, moved the capital to Beijing, made five expeditions to Mongolia, built the "Yongle Grand Canon", and occupied Annam. Hamiwei has been set up in the northwest, and Guizhou has been set up in the southwest to declare the political envoy department, which has actively operated the South China Sea region and implemented the policy of integrating government and religion with Tibet. Diplomatically, he also appointed Zheng He to go to the West to strengthen friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries. It created a situation in which all countries came to the dynasty, and was known as the prosperous era of Yongle in history.
The successive emperors after Zhu Di, although there was no shortage of capable people, but their achievements during their reign were obviously not as good as Zhu Di, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty was also seriously shrunk later, and finally in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, a peasant uprising broke out, and then perished.
10. Qing Dynasty—Qianlong Emperor Hong历
Everyone knows more about the history of the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty was governed by Kangxi and Yongzheng, and after Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he further completed the unification of a multi-ethnic country on the basis of the cultural and martial arts of the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties, and further developed the social, economic and cultural development. Hongli attaches great importance to social stability, cares about the people, and exempts the world's money and grain five times, and exempts the grain of eight provinces three times, which reduces the burden on the peasants and plays a role in protecting agricultural production, so that the Qing Dynasty's treasury is increasingly enriched, and the Qing Dynasty reaches the highest peak since the prosperous Kangqian era in the middle of its reign.
Emperor Qianlong
It is a pity that Emperor Qianlong was also a person who was very happy, and in the later period of his reign, he began to build a large number of buildings, travel in the mountains and rivers, spend a lot of money at will, and spent a lot of national funds, and the Qing Dynasty began to decline. The emperors after Qianlong were not as good as the other, and later they were constantly invaded by foreign powers, ceded land and paid compensation, and finally perished in 1912.