As long as you start another line, everyone can do first. But the people who climb to the top are not necessarily heroes. It is undeniable that in the chaotic world where everyone in the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms wanted to be the "first", Shi Le, who was born of slavery, was a well-deserved hero, but the later successor, Shi Hu, was a demon king who killed people without blinking. Regarding Shi Hu's brutality, I will not list it, in short, killing people is capricious, only unthinkable, no he can do.
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And Shi Hu's sons all inherited the "excellent" personality of the old father, and raised their knives against each other without a word. But Shi Hu loved his precious sons very much, borrowing a Liu Ruyi "like me" term from Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, probably because they were all too "like me". Therefore, it was so that Shi Hu was not ashamed to say: I really don't understand why the Sima family wants to kill each other, like our Shi family, it is simply incredible to say that I will kill my son! But soon, Shi Hu lifted the stone and dropped it on his own feet.
Shi Hu had many heirs, and in order to avoid the chaos of the sons competing for the throne, he made his eldest son Shi Xuan the crown prince, and the rest of his sons were made princes. However, Shi Hu made one of the most common low-level mistakes that emperors make, that is, "standing tall but not liking growth." For example, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, obviously made liu Ying, the eldest son of his concubine, the crown prince, but he often worried about his third son Liu Ruyi. And Shi Hu's favorite is the second son Shi Tao. Liu Bang has a set of things to do, can stabilize the overall situation, Shi Hu can "bury mines", but will not "demining." "Moreover, his sons were more violent than one, like a pile of fierce explosives, which exploded when they were on fire.
Therefore, although Shi Xuan was made crown prince, he was not happy, because he was always worried about being replaced by his brother one day, although his father did not mean a showdown. Therefore, in Shi Xuan's view, as long as his father and brother are alive, he cannot sleep peacefully. Later, when something happened, Shi Xuan could no longer hold his breath. It turned out that Shi Tao had built a new palace at the behest of his father, which was called a grand style, and the palace of Crown Prince Shi Xuan could only be described as "dwarfed" compared to it. Therefore, in Shi Xuan's view, this is a prelude to naked trespassing and replacing himself.
As the saying goes, the first hand is strong, and the second hand suffers. After Shi Xuansi thought about it, he simply did not do two things at a time, and took his father Shi Hu and his brother to a "one-pot end" so that he could ascend to the throne steadily. However, people are not as good as heaven, and Shi Xuan was captured by his father after killing his younger brother Shi Tao. What follows is an even more unsightly scene.
Shi Hu led the Wenwu hundred officials and his wives and concubines to the high platform, and tied his son Shi Xuan to a pillar under the stage. Then he ordered the people to first polish Shi Xuan's hair one by one, and then use the hook to pull out his tongue and cut it off, and finally cut off his hands and feet, gouge out his eyes, and throw them on the fire to make a "roasted whole head." ”
Of course, Shi Xuan's wives and concubines and children were not spared, and all were executed. The last to be tortured was a five-year-old son of Shi Xuan, a child who was clever and clever, and very fond of Shi Hu. Children of this age have gradually understood human affairs, so out of the instinct to survive, they cling to their grandfather's clothes, and their watery eyes are full of pleading. How he wished that Grandpa would be able to give an order and spare himself from death. But Shi Hu remained indifferent, allowing the execution eunuch to pull his grandson away, and even the child's small hand pulled his belt off.
Some people may wonder why Shi Hu did not spare his grandson's life, is it because his own power is not big enough, and it does not count? In fact, it is not, this move is completely a last resort. Because in Shi Hu's view, if you want to smoothly inherit the Later Zhao Empire regime, you must use tough means to establish a set of rules and regulations, so as to avoid brothers from killing each other at will and coveting each other. Because he himself is in an improper position, he does not allow history to repeat itself.
It turned out that Shi Le was not directly transmitted to Shi Hu. In 319, Shi Le broke away from Liu Yao's Han Zhao Empire and established the Later Zhao Empire. Shi Le reigned for 14 years and died in 333 AD. After Shi Le's death, the throne was inherited by his son Shi Hong. But only a year later, Shi Hong was replaced by his cousin Shi Hu. Therefore, Shi Hu reigned for 15 years, in fact, he stole his cousin's throne. If the name is not right, then the words will not go well, and if the words are not smooth, they will be weak-hearted. Therefore, Shi Hu could not let his sons take him as an example to follow, and it was necessary to establish his power like a "strong man with a broken wrist".
In addition, if you leave your grandson, although you are kind on the surface, you are actually laying the root cause of chaos. Although Shi Hu is not talented, he also has the same dream as Qin Shi Huang, and he also wants to pass on the Jiangshan Sheji from the hands of future generations. Obviously, when the grandson grows up, he will inevitably avenge his father, and then he will cause disasters, and the children and grandchildren will be killed and suffered. Therefore, long pain is not as good as short pain, and you can only cut the grass and remove the roots. In fact, this is the same as Li Shimin's killing of his eldest brother Li Jiancheng and his fourth brother Li Yuanji, and then beheading ten young nephews. This is the cruelty of the struggle for feudal imperial power.
Ironically, the scene before Sun Tzu's execution made Shi Hu unable to let go of his nostalgia for a long time, and he died depressed a year later. However, Shi Hu's harshness did not deter his "dynamite" sons, and a bloody battle for the throne began. After Shi Hu's death, his son Shi Shi ascended to the throne, but after only 33 days on the throne, he was killed by another son, Shi Zun. Shi Zun reigned for 183 days and was killed by his brother Shi Jian. Shi Jian ascended the throne for 103 days and was replaced by the general Ran Min, and as a result, the Later Zhao Empire began to fall.
It is worth mentioning that after Shi Jian was killed, his younger brother Shi Qi established himself as emperor in the former capital of Xiangguo (襄国, in modern Xingtai, Hebei), but was killed by his generals after only one year of support. At this time, it was only two short years after Shi Hu's death. If Shi Huquan knew about it and didn't know how to feel, I really didn't know if he would regret the fierceness of his heart!
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