In the 5,000-year history of China, many people or events have brought us thousands of years of regret in the continuous passage.
1 Zhao Gao Luan Qin
History played a big joke on Qin Shihuang. Aren't you looking forward to the eternal series? Let you die; Don't you fantasize about immortality? In the end, you will only get a life span of 49 years, not even half a century; Burn books to bury Confucianism, guard against the rebellion of scholars, and the iron-clad Daqin Jiangshan was destroyed by the eunuch Zhao. ...
After Qin Shihuang's sudden death, Zhao Gao coerced Reese to tamper with the imperial edict, helped the fatuous Hu Hai to be emperor, and gave Prince Fu Su the death penalty! After Fu Su's death, all the descendants of the British family were not only punished, but Hu Hai became emperor and did nothing but enjoy life. The court minister was killed at will, and Reese was not spared. In addition, he practiced more severe tyranny, which eventually led to peasant uprising.
Zhao Gao, the mastermind behind this, was not enough, and finally forced Qin Ershi Hu Hai to die.
In just three years, the powerful Qin Dynasty, which Qin Shihuang painstakingly established, was so riddled with holes and dying by Zhao Gao.
What kind of scenery would it be if Fu Su's son had not died?
No.2 Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi
Battle of Red Cliffs is a famous war in the history of our country, in which the few win the many and the weak win the strong.
Cao Cao lost in this war and never made a comeback. Since then, his power has been limited to the north, and his influence has also changed. Liu Bei and Sun Quan gained a firm foothold because of this victory. Imagine that if Cao Cao was the winner of Battle of Red Cliffs, his father and son's respect for culture and attention to talents were by no means comparable to those of Si Mazhao. If Chibi wins, the history of China will be another situation.
No.3 Jinchuan Chijun
SHEN WOO and Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, were henpecked all their lives.
Sima Yan's eldest son died young, but his second son, Sima Zhong, was a deranged man.
I feel that Sima Zhong has no ability to be the king of a country and has never wanted to make Sima Zhong a prince, while Yang insists on "preferring the eldest son to the youngest son".
Sima Yan finally decided to establish Sima Zhong as the Prince, and Sima Zhong was the later Jinhui Emperor.
Sima Zhong, an idiot emperor, was basically a waste after he ascended the throne. After a few days of peace, the imperial establishment behind Sima Zhong began to infighting, followed by the rebellion of the Eight Kings.
Not only destroyed the unified Jin dynasty, but also caused the tragedy of the five chaos.
Fourth, the anticlimactic Song Wudi Northern Expedition.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty 100 years, many northern expeditions ended in failure.
The closest thing to victory was the Northern Expedition in Yixi (AD 4 16~4 18) led by Emperor Wu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Song Xin Qi Ji's famous sentence "In those days, Jin Ge was an iron horse and swallowed Wan Li" praised the Northern Expedition.
However, like all previous Northern Expeditions, Yixi's Northern Expedition ended in a hasty way.
The shortcoming of Emperor Wu of Song is that he is too ambitious.
In order to monopolize power, he got rid of Liu Yi and Zhuge Changmin who fought alongside him.
In addition, in the process of the Northern Expedition, Chang 'an was eager to return to China to usurp the throne as soon as it was recovered, and only sent his youngest son, Liu Yizhen, to the important place.
In the end, the land in Guanzhong was recovered and fell into the hands of Xia Di Hao Lianbo. Since then, the Southern Dynasties never attacked Chang 'an again.
This also made the Chinese people lose a chance of reunification.
Fifth, Yang Guang usurped the throne.
Yang Guang is the second son of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty.
Sui Wendi Sui Wendi is a martial artist. He not only unified China, ended the opposition between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but also chased the Turks to the north. Moreover, he managed a big Sui Dynasty in an orderly way and called it "the golden age of the emperor"! The prosperity of the "golden age" is almost equal to that of the Tang Dynasty.
It's a pity that Yang Guang soon became the Crown Prince. With the help of Su Yang and others, he killed Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, and then falsely proclaimed the imperial edict and executed Prince Yong Yang.
After killing his father and brother, Yang Guang became the emperor. Now he is recruiting a large number of migrant workers to build Luoyang, the eastern capital, then digging the Grand Canal for fun and sending troops to conquer Koguryo three times.
This man lives to turn a "prosperous time" into a chaotic world where corpses are everywhere and poor people flock to it.
The Sixth Anshi Rebellion
Everyone must know about the Anshi Rebellion, but what kind of consequences can it cause? First of all, it dealt a great blow to the authority and strength of the imperial court in Li Tang. Since then, the Tang dynasty has gradually entered the period of "small court, big buffer region", and warlord forces in various places have begun to rise, people are in poverty and civil strife has continued; Secondly, during the civil strife in the Central Plains, Tubo took the opportunity to seize Anxi Prefecture, and the western regions and Hexi territories in the Tang Dynasty were completely lost; Nanzhao in the southwest took the opportunity to become a big country and formed an independent dynasty. If the Yuan Dynasty hadn't captured Yunnan, I think Yunnan would have been independent from the central dynasty like Vietnam.
At this time, the territory of the Tang dynasty was almost the same as that of the Qin dynasty, and the "fat Tang" became a "thin Tang" from then on.
Chai Rong died suddenly on the 7th.
Chai Rong, a native of Zhou Shizong, was the last ancestor of the Five Dynasties, the last second emperor and the adopted son of Guo Wei, the old superior of Zhao Kuangyin.
Chai Rong is a very talented person. Under the pressure of the invasion of Northern Han and Liao, he pushed his way through the crowd and resolutely attacked and killed it.
Chai Rong was good at running the army, and ordered the Ministry of War to compile the Art of War, which was named The Art of War in Sequence (lost), and made a plan to eliminate the separatist regime and realize reunification.
Capture the Xiqiao area and levy the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Then, in order to expel the Liao people from the sixteen states of Youyun, they began to send troops north to attack Liao countries and even several cities. The Liao people were terrified and prepared to give up the sixteen states of Youyun.
Unfortunately, in Youzhou, Chai Rong was seriously ill, moved troops back to Korea, and died soon after arriving in Tokyo. Only then did Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe add to his body, and he established a "Pingge" which was blessed but not strong and suffered a lot.
The shame of No.8 Jingkang
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Most of the rivers and mountains in the Song Dynasty were destroyed by Song Huizong. At that time, the most prosperous city in the world had a population of over one million, and the heyday of China culture disappeared and became a ruin.
Those treasures handed down from ancient times were also destroyed. For example, we can't see the handed down works of Wu Daozi, a great painter in the Tang Dynasty. Only a pair of eighty-one fairy scrolls collected by Mr. Xu Beihong in the Republic of China are considered as Wu Daozi's original works, and there is no conclusion.
Mr. Xu Beihong inscribed the word "sad life" on this painting, which shows the supreme position of this painting in Xu Beihong's heart.
However, there are as many as 93 paintings of Wu Daozi collected by the court in the Northern Song Dynasty recorded in Xuanhe Painting Manual.
These priceless treasures were plundered to the north by Jin Bing in The Shame of Jingkang and never came back.
In this way, Chinese civilization has lost a lot of incomparable precious wealth.
No.9 Chongzhen Zhongxing
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the court was corrupt and the people were poor.
After Chongzhen acceded to the throne, he began to govern in all directions. He tried to save the decline of the Ming Dynasty and promote its revival.
First, Wei Zhongxian's eunuch was eradicated, which laid the foundation for the establishment of imperial power, which was also the greatest achievement in his life.
In all fairness, Chongzhen was the ruler of the Ming Dynasty who was more responsible for state affairs than any other emperor. He has hardly slept a good night's sleep since he ascended the throne, but the sense of responsibility for governing the country diligently can't make up for his inexperience, paranoia and willfulness! These personality characteristics are directly related to the arrival of 1644. If Chongzhen were really more wise and generous, the Ming Dynasty would really be prosperous, at least not extinct.
At that time, the seeds of capitalism had appeared in the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming dynasty holds its territory, will the humiliation history of the Chinese nation for more than 100 years since the Opium War be rewritten?
10 Cixi favored
Daoguang unwillingly opened the prelude to the unequal treaties at the gunpoint of the British.
After the death of Daoguang 1850, Yining succeeded to the throne, namely Xianfeng Emperor.
During his reign, it coincided with the eventful autumn of the Qing Dynasty, and the state treasury was empty and in jeopardy.
Less than a year after he ascended the throne, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in jintian uprising, and then the Second Opium War.
It's really internal trouble and foreign invasion. Emperor Xianfeng wanted to reorganize the world, but he was unable to return to heaven. He died in 186 1 with resentment.
He ceded land to pay compensation and left his seat to his successor, who might have done more, but he left a curse, that is, his favorite Ye Henala Magnolia, which was later Cixi.
After Xianfeng's death, Cixi made no achievements in manipulating politics behind the scenes. Moreover, Cixi is an easy-going and enjoyable person. She knows how to spend money to build theaters and celebrate birthdays, but she doesn't know how to reform or increase armaments, which led to the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War in the Qing Dynasty and was invaded by Eight-Nation Alliance. She not only ceded land for reparations again, but also lost her national dignity.