In China's feudal dynasty, with the development of monarchical centralism, the power of the emperor became greater and greater, that is, under the yellow sky, only I was exclusive. And because the imperial power is not restricted, the throne has been coveted since ancient times, and this covetous throne is not only hostile forces, but also ambitious people within the clan.
Because the temptation of imperial power is too great, there has been no shortage of royal family roommates since ancient times, especially several dynasties that have been divided in a big way, such as the Rebellion of the Seven Kings of the Western Han Dynasty, the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Difficulty of Yijia of Liu Song, and the Battle of Jingnan in the early Ming Dynasty.
Royal infighting
And those emperors who usurped the throne by relying on their roommates were not all ambitious people, and they had no real talent and practical learning, nor did they have the ability to govern the country, such as Sima Lun, Zhu Youzhen, Liu Yu and other generations, who would seize the throne by conspiracy and trickery, but brought the country to the road of national subjugation.
There are negative teaching materials, naturally there will also be positive images, but those who can usurp the throne successfully are naturally not incompetent, so some of these emperors have also achieved very good results, and some can even be called as a generation of heroes, creating a great prosperity and achieving extraordinary achievements.
Then we will briefly introduce those promising kings in history who have succeeded in usurping the throne by relying on the same roommates.
The Han Zhao regime during The Reign of Liu Cong
1. Emperor Zhaowu Liu Cong
The Han Zhao regime, established by Liu Yuan of the Xiongnu Tiefu Department, sounded the death knell of the Fall of the Western Jin Dynasty and also unveiled the history of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms. Liu Yuan, who was both literate and intelligent, took advantage of the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty to lead a large army to rise in the Hetao region, then went south, occupied a part of Hebei, and later occupied the hezhou region, and then began a career of division, and later founded the country as emperor and established the Han regime.
Subsequently, the Han Zhao regime launched a major attack on the Western Jin Dynasty after exerting great efforts to govern, and just as Han Zhao was rising, Liu Yuan suddenly died of illness. After Liu Yuan's death, the crown prince Liu He took the throne, Liu He and Liu Yuan have many similarities, they have read a lot of books, they look majestic and resolute, their appearance is magnificent, the only difference with Liu Yuan is that Liu He's heart is far inferior to Liu Yuan,Good suspicion, can not tolerate people.
Liu Yuan's fourth son, Liu Cong, is also complete in both literature and martial arts, and what is even more outstanding is that Xiao Yong is superhuman, decisive in killing, and decisive in handling things. After Liu He ascended the throne, he listened to Hu Yanyou's words and planned to clean up the many princes of the clan who had heavy troops. And Liu Cong, who has an army of 100,000 in his hands, has naturally become the primary target.
Shortly after Liu He ascended the throne, he immediately sent liu rui the prince of Xichang to lead Liu Anguo, Ma Jing, and Liu Qin to attack Liu Cong and others, and later, jealous of several of his clans, killed Liu Anguo, Liu Qin, Liu Long, and Liu Yu, who was Liu Yuan's son, not Liu Yu of the Southern Dynasty.
Liu Cong held an army of 100,000, naturally it was impossible to easily obey, and then rebelled, defeated Hu Yanyou, invaded the imperial palace, beheaded Liu He in the west room of the Guangji Temple, and then captured Hu Yanyou, Liu Cheng, and Liu Rui, and beheaded them all, and since then sat on the emperor's throne, and then Liu Cong began to launch a war to destroy the Western Jin Dynasty.
Liu Cong reused Shi Le and Liu Yao, and during his reign, he sent troops to attack Luoyang and Chang'an, destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, and then opened up territory and took a large area of land in Shandong and even Henan in Jinyang. During Liu Cong's period, the territory of the Han Zhao regime reached its peak and basically unified the north, and at the peak of Han Zhao, only Youzhou Xianbei Duanbu and Liangzhou Zhang clan were divided in the entire north, and thousands of miles of land belonged to Han Zhao.
Liu Cong's literary and martial arts were complete, and Xiao Yong was good at war, destroying the Western Jin Dynasty and changing dynasties, which can be regarded as some achievements.
Jian Jian
2. Former Qin Jianjian
Jian Jian, a generation of heroes who pushed Former Qin to the peak, created Former Qin, Wenchang Wusheng, Guanlong Qingyan, and the people's Fengle, creating a rare 20-year prosperous era in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, known in history as the rule of Xuanzhao. Looking at the entire ancient history, Jian Jian is definitely the number one person. It can be said that it is a rule of the country and security, the expansion of the territory and the opening up of the territory, the destruction of countless countries, and the realization of the great unification of the world.
However, such a male lord is not a succession to the throne, everyone knows that the founder of Former Qin was the leader of the Former Qin clan, Zhi Hong, and the founder of Former Qin was the male lord of the Yu clan, And Jian Jian's father was the younger brother of Jian Jian, and the official was the former Qin Grand Chancellor. In other words, Jian Jian was Jian Jian's nephew. After the death of his father Gong Xiong, Jian Jian inherited the title of King of Donghai, and after Jian Jian's death, his son Zhi Sheng took the throne.
Former Qin during the Jian Dynasty
Gongsheng was a king with extremely strong military strength, and when he resisted the Huanwen Northern Expedition, Zhisheng was the vanguard general. However, the extremely brave Anderson was not good at governing the country, and the government was cruel and unkind, and it was difficult for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and everyone in the clan was in danger. Later, Zhisheng killed a number of ministers in succession, and later wanted to kill the brothers Jian Jian and Zhi Fa, the two trembled and trembled, fearing day and night, and finally rebelled when they could not bear it.
Taking advantage of the night, Jian Jian took advantage of the night to lead his soldiers into the palace, captured the drunken emperor Alive, deposed him as the King of Yue, and usurped the throne. Former Qin also ushered in more than twenty years of stability with the ascension of Former Qin, who reused Wang Meng, developed education and culture, suppressed the nobility and the powerful, built water conservancy, persuaded peasants to teach sang, lightly dispensed with thin endowments, developed industry and commerce, reused Han officials, and ushered in the rise of Former Qin trapped in Guanzhong, and finally broke through The Former Liang in the west, and bashu in the south, the grassland in the north, and the former Yan in the east, accounting for seven of the world.
In the chaotic Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, Jian Jian was able to create a peaceful and prosperous north, and civilization and scholarship were above the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the rule of Xuanzhao, and the diversity of the nation, which can be described as extraordinary achievements.
Liu Jun
3. Emperor Xiaowu of song, Liu Jun
Emperor Xiaowu of Song, Liu Jun, the fifth emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty, was originally the third son of Emperor Wen of Song, Liu Yilong, and was initially established as the King of Wuling. At the end of Liu Yilong's reign, because the crown prince Liu Shao often disagreed with his opinions, the relationship between the two was relatively tense. Later, Because Liu Shao was dissatisfied with his father Liu Yilong, he secretly abused the art of witchcraft, and later because the matter was not secret, he was discovered by Emperor Wen of Song. So Liu Shao preemptively launched a coup d'état, killing Emperor Wen of Song, that is, taking the throne as a king, Liu Shao claimed that the empress dowager made a series of measures to stabilize the world, lightly dispensing with small gifts, encouraging reclamation, or some small deeds.
Liu Jun, who was in Jingzhou at that time to eliminate bandits, learned of the real situation, so he privately gathered his army and united with the kings of various towns to prepare for a rebellion, and Liu Shao also felt the threat from Liu Jun, so he secretly ordered his confidant Shen Qingzhi to kill Liu Jun and seize his military power.
At this time, Shen Qingzhi was more optimistic about Liu Jun, who had an elite army in his hands and won the hearts of the people, so he turned around and voted for Liu Jun, helping him recruit troops to issue a letter, planning to raise troops, and when everything was ready, Liu Jun raised an army in Jiangzhou, with Liu Yuanjing as the forward, and went down the east of the river to attack Jiankang.
Liu Song
However, Liu Shao did not take the initiative in time to defeat Liu Jun and shock the princes of the world with the superior troops. Instead, he sat in Jiankangtai City and waited to die, and was finally surrounded by the princes of Duolu, and finally defeated and killed.
Liu Jun immediately ascended the throne as Emperor Xiaowu, and implemented the Guijue and the school rent to suppress the clan and strengthen the monarchy. Some of the maladministrations of the late Yuan Jia period were reformed, suppressing the clan and reusing close subjects, which alleviated this maladministration of Liu Song and slightly avoided further clan strife in Liu Song.
On the other hand, Liu Jun encouraged horse breeding and actively responded to threats from the Northern Wei in the north. Internally, restricting the sealing of mountains and waters and changing the minting of coins has achieved good results for the economic development of Liu Song. Although Liu Jun was extravagant and flashy in his later period, it led to the gradual decline of Liu Song. However, it has to be said that Emperor Xiaowu of Song was still good on the whole, and he was an accomplished emperor, much better than the later Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty.
Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu
4. Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu
Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, a member of the Lanling Xiao clan, the top gatekeeper of the Southern Dynasty, was originally a member of the Southern Qi imperial family, and his father was the younger brother of Xiao Daocheng, the Emperor of Qi. Because the lintel was tall and talented, he was appreciated by the Wei general Wang Jian at that time, and has since made steady progress. Later, Xiao Luan of the Southern Qi Clan took power, and Xiao Yan was heavily used because of his talent, and later helped plot Xiao Luan to ascend the throne as emperor, and was appreciated by Xiao Luan, and was promoted to The Yellow Gate Attendant and made a close vassal of the emperor.
Xiao Luan died of illness after only four years on the throne, because he was not a descendant of Xiao Daocheng, and in order to ensure the stability of his son Xiao Baojuan's throne, he wantonly slaughtered the clan. After Xiao Baojuan ascended the throne, he also massacred the heroes and killed Xiao Yan's brother Xiao Yi. Xiao Yan then joined forces with Xiao Baorong, the emperor of Southern Qi, to rebel, and finally the rebellion was successful, and Xiao Yan, after stabilizing the overall situation, then supported Xiao Baorong to take the throne, and then had great power. Then depose Xiao Baorong and establish himself as emperor.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang
During the reign of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu, the Southern Dynasty achieved great development, cultural prosperity, people living in peace, no war for more than 40 years, unprecedented economic development, urbanization, rapid population growth, steady improvement in people's lives, and Jiankang became a large city with a population of one million. However, in the later period, the Buddha led to the prosperity and decline of southern Liang.
However, Xiao Yan's achievements are very good, and they have played an extremely important role in the development and development of Jiangnan.
5. Northern Qi Gao performance
Emperor Xiaozhao of Northern Qi, a rare good emperor of Northern Qi, the son of Gao Huan, in the second generation of Northern Qi, should be second only to Gao Cheng and Gao Yang, but his diligence and love for the people can be regarded as a good emperor.
Gao Yan, after Gao Yang established Northern Qi, was crowned as the King of Changshan, because of his handsome appearance, and superior intelligence, and more open-minded, and the eldest brother Gao Cheng is very similar, so he is very happy with his mother Lou Zhaojun, remember this, it is very important for him to be able to successfully usurp the throne as emperor in a coup later, in addition, Lou Zhaojun has a deep influence on the history of Northern Qi, to a certain extent, affected the trend of the Northern Qi Empire.
High performance rebellion
In the Gao Yang era, Gao Yan was entrusted with heavy responsibilities by Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang because of his good judgment, and he got a lot of government training and accumulated a considerable amount of experience. After Gao Yang's death, Gao Yang's son Gao Yin was still young, and because Gao Yang was ugly, and had a deep heart, he did not like to talk, and had a city government, so he did not like his mother Lou Zhaojun. And Gao Yin, because of Gao Yang, did not like Lou Zhaojun, coupled with his youth and relatively willfulness, so Lou Zhaojun thought of replacing Gao Yin with Gao Yan as the Emperor of Northern Qi.
Subsequently, at the behest of Lou Zhaojun, Gao Yan raised an army to attack the imperial palace on the grounds that the Qing Emperor had killed the Northern Qi chancellor Yang Yan, and then after a series of political operations, under the leadership of Lou Zhaojun, deposed Gao Yin and killed him, and Gao Yan ascended to the throne. However, because Gao Yan's level of government affairs was relatively high, among the Emperors of Northern Qi, his achievements were extraordinary. His selection of talents, concern for the people's livelihood, the release of slaves, the vigorous tun of the fields, the extensive setting up of granaries, stabilized the grain prices of Northern Qi, played a very important role in the stability of Northern Qi in the middle period, and can also be regarded as a Ming Jun, but he reigned for too short a time and died of illness in less than two years.
The Battle of Jing
6. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
The famous emperor who usurped the throne in history and achieved the highest achievements by his own family must belong to Comrade Zhu Di of Ming Chengzu. Zhu Di, Zhu Yuanzhang's son, ranked fourth. In his early years, he went out with the army and was quite a general, and after Zhu Yuanzhang established Daming, Zhu Di was made the King of Yan and stationed in Dadu. Together with Zhu Yuanzhang's other sons with military talents, they were stationed in the north, such as the King of Ning, the King of Dai, and the King of Jin.
Later, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, because he loved his eldest son Zhu Biao, he resolutely passed the throne to Zhu Biao's son, Zhu Yunjiao, who was still young at the time, when Zhu Biao had already died. In order to ensure that Zhu Yunzhang could sit firmly in jiangshan, Zhu Yuanzhang killed almost all the martial generals who could fight in his later years, leaving behind some Confucian ministers such as Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, and Fang Xiaoru, who were full of learning, but in fact, they were more capable of being more ordinary people.
After Zhu Yunzhang ascended the throne, Huang Zicheng immediately encouraged Zhu Yunzhao to start cutting the domain, and successively dealt with the King of Qin and several other princes. Finally, it was Zhu Di's turn, Zhu Di first pretended to be crazy and stupid, then Taoguang raised obscurity, and finally after three years of preparation, he finally rebelled. Under the joint action of Tianshi and manpower, he successively defeated hundreds of thousands of troops commanded by Li Jinglong, and finally, in the case of being surrounded and blocked, he used a strange strategy to bypass Emperor Jianwen's heavy defensive line with light cavalry and directly attacked the capital of Daming, Ying Tianfu, achieving miraculous results, and finally attacked Jinling, robbed his nephew Zhu Yunjiao of the throne and ascended the throne.
After Zhu Di ascended the throne, his achievements were also extraordinary, dredging canals, attacking Tatars, conquering Annam in the south, Zheng He going to the West, cultivating the Yongle Canon, Anduning martial arts, few people in ancient times and the present can match. The relocation of the capital to Beijing has influenced china's history of more than 500 years.