From Yanhuang to today, China has gone through a total of 24 dynasties and countless emperors, and 5,000 years of historical civilization. Among them, the emperor surnamed Liu has the most, there are more than seventy, and the second is the surname of Li, according to statistics, there are fifty-eight. Today I will introduce you to these emperors surnamed Li.
The first recorded emperor surnamed Li was named Li Xian, a leader of a peasant uprising that rose to prominence in the late new dynasty of Wang Mang. In 23 AD, after the fall of the new dynasty, he proclaimed himself the King of Huainan in Lujiang County, and later in the third year after Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was proclaimed emperor and established himself, ruling over nine cities, not only with hundreds of officials, but also with more than 100,000 subordinates.
The second emperor surnamed Li was from Chenghan, one of the Sixteen Kingdoms. The founding emperor was named Li Xiong, a native of Baqi. Chenghan went through five emperors surnamed Li, namely Li Xiong, who founded the country, Li Ban, who was killed after a year on the throne, Li Qi, who was known as the deposed emperor, Li Shou, who deposed his nephew and established himself, and Li Shi, who surrendered to the country.
In 400 AD, a rebellion broke out within Northern Liang, and Dunhuang Taishou Li Kuan was not only highly powerful but also calm and generous, independent under the election of the local people, Jianxi Liang, who reigned for 17 years and ruled martial arts, was loved by people, and was known as King Wuzhao in history. However, Li Huan's lack of stamina in Xiliang regime only lasted for 21 years, and passed down the throne for three generations: Li Huan, who founded the country, Who was heavily punished, good at conquest, and liked to build palaces, to Li Xin, the lord of the harem who dragged down Xiliang, and Li Ke, who committed suicide after the fall of the country.
In 422, after Li Kuan's Xiliang was destroyed, Li's descendants and remnants fled to Yiwu and wanted to restore the kingdom, so they pushed Li Bao, The Grandson of Li Kuan, as king and established Yiwu Xiliang, also known as Hou Xiliang. Later, Xi Liang survived for 20 years, but ended up with Li Bao's return to Northern Wei. Later Xiliang had only one monarch, Li Bao, duke of Dunhuang, and was the tenth emperor surnamed Li.
In the late Sui Dynasty in 615 AD, peasant revolts occurred frequently in various places, and Li Zitong, the leader of the rebel army in Jianghuai, took more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to claim the throne in Hailing. In 619, after the fall of the Sui Dynasty, he also led troops to occupy Jiangdu County, and Yu Jiangdu was proclaimed emperor. In 617, Li Rail, a powerful and powerful clan in Hexi, showed his ambitions, and after occupying the whole of Hexi, he established himself as emperor the following year, made himself crown prince according to the old practice, and established a hundred officials of civil and military affairs, which was historically called the Daliang regime. Also in 617, Zhai Rang, the leader of the Wagang Army, gave way to Li Mi, called him the Duke of Wei, and held a ceremony to sacrifice the heavens to take the throne, sealing the official Jiandu and giving the era name Yongping.
Among the anti-Sui forces at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan was the most powerful. Li Yuan's family was prominent, a descendant of Li Huan of Xiliang, whose ancestors had been high-ranking officials for generations, and he inherited the Duke of Tang at an early age. In 618, Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, ushering in a prosperous era of more than two hundred years of hereditary 21 generations of emperors, excluding Wu Zetian of Wuzhou.
Although it was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, there were also occasional rebellions. During the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, Li Na wanted to inherit his father's official position as an envoy of Ziqing Jiedushi without approval, so he rebelled and rebelled against the other princes Tian Yue, Wang Wujun, and Zhu Tao of the three towns of Hebei. Later, the Tang court sent Li Xilie 30,000 soldiers and horses to recruit the rebels of the Four Towns Alliance, and ordered him to serve as an envoy to Ziqing Jiedushi. Who knew that he supported the army and respected himself, colluded with Li Na and led 30,000 soldiers and horses to establish himself as king. Two years later, he led troops to capture Bian Prefecture as emperor, named Emperor Chu, and the jiannian name Wucheng, but it only lasted for three years.
In the third year of The reign of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Li Ye was enfeoffed as the King of Jin, and was historically called "Tang Jin". Li Ke used Taiyuan as his capital and took full control of the Hedong area, and was in a stalemate with Zhu Wen, who was occupying Henan, and continued to fight. In 907, Zhu Wen deposed Emperor Ai of Tang and later Liang was proclaimed emperor with the era name Kaiping. At this time, Li Keyu's Jin state was strong, and in order to restore the Tang Dynasty, he followed the Tianyou Nian of the late Tang Dynasty and joined forces with other local forces to conquer Zhu Wen. There were 2 kings: Li Keyong and his son Li Cunxun.
Li Cunxun ascended the throne in 908, and only 15 years later did he establish himself as emperor in WeiZhou, still using the name of the Tang Dynasty, and later known as Later Tang. Later Tang passed on four emperors, namely Li Cunxun, the founding emperor, Li Siyuan, who was politically clear-sighted, Li Conghou, who reigned for only five months, and Li Congke, the last emperor who self-immolated and martyred the country.
At the end of the Southern Wu Dynasty, Xu Zhihuan, the king of Qi, won the hearts of the people and established a government in his jurisdiction, which was the state of Qi. In 937, he banned Yang Pu, the late emperor of Southern Wu, as emperor, and changed his name to Yuan Shengyuan and gave him the title of Daqi. Later, Xu Zhihuan claimed to be a descendant of Li Tang, so he changed his name to Li Fu and used the Tang state name to continue the Tang Dynasty, known as the Southern Tang Dynasty. There were three generations: Li Fu, the founding martyr, Li Jing, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Li Yu, the successor of the sorrow.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Huangchao Rebellion was in turmoil, tuoba Sigong, the leader of the Dangxiang clan in the northwest, was credited with quelling the chaos, and Emperor Tang gave him the name Li Sigong and appointed him as the envoy of the Dingnan Army, which was controlled by the Li family for more than a hundred years, and 12 Li clan emissaries were produced. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian, a descendant of the Li clan, united with other party members to resist the Song and stand on their own, and with the cooperation of the neighboring Liao state, they regained lost ground and their strength continued to increase. What he could not imagine was that his grandson Li Yuanhao would be able to ascend to the throne thirty-six years later and establish the Western Xia Kingdom.
Emperor Zhaozong of Tang was very attached great importance to Li Maozhen, and even gave him the title of King of Qi. After Later Liang destroyed the Tang Dynasty, he continued to use the Tang Dynasty Tianyou era name, built a mansion, set up hundreds of officials, and used royal etiquette and titles in the palace. At its peak, there were twenty prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction, and only seven were left when Houliang was destroyed. After the establishment of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Maozhen declared himself king.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a great drought in Sichuan, and the officials forced the people to rebel. Li Shun led the peasants to revolt in Qingcheng, and after occupying Chengdu, he established himself as the king of Dashu, built Dashu, and newly used the era name of Yingyun.
There is also the fact that Li Yuanhao's Western Xia Kingdom lasted for nearly one hundred and eighty-nine years, with a total of ten hereditary titles.
In 1470, during the reign of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuan gathered displaced people in Jingxiang to revolt, numbering as many as one million. Li Yuan not only proclaimed himself king, but also set up military attaches in the army, and gave himself some mixed names similar to the king of the mountain, such as "One Dragon".
In the last year of the Ming Dynasty, after Li Zicheng occupied Xi'an, he called the founding of the emperor, named Dashun Guo, Jianyuan Yongchang. Later, it was first defeated by the Qing Dynasty, and then destroyed by the Southern Ming, and only three monarchs were passed on, namely Li Zicheng, the Yongchang Emperor of the founding of the country, Li Guo, the Emperor of Dashun, and Li Laiheng, the "Little King".
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Ailao Mountains in Yunnan were affected by drought and starvation was everywhere, and the landlords and government officials not only ignored it, but also exterminated the collection of grain. Li Wenwen then led the local people to revolt against corruption officials and kill landlords, and later he was elected as a grand marshal, and successively established eight government offices, and Du Wenxiu's Dali Huimin rebel army took care of each other and rebelled against Qing rule together.
Li Shi not only left his name in the history books of ancient feudal society, but also had considerable political achievements in modern society.