As we all know, the emperor was the supreme ruler of ancient society. In this position, even if he can't be knowledgeable, he should at least be able to read words and phrases. Otherwise, he can't even understand the courtiers' memorials. How can he manage such a big country?

However, nothing is absolute. There are always some people in this world who can break the rules with their own practical actions. For example, in the Five Dynasties, there was an illiterate emperor who created a brilliant dynasty. So, who is this emperor?

The illiterate emperor was Ming Taizu Li Siyuan of the later Tang Dynasty. Li Siyuan is not surnamed Li. Like his eldest son, Li Keyong, the cyclops, they are all Shatuo people, that is, another family besides the top ten Turkic families, and they are descendants of the Northern Xiongnu. They rose in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, and were given the title by Tang Yizong who was in a hurry.

Li Siyuan, whose real name is Miao Lie, has no surname. In the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, he was adopted by Li Keyong. Li Keyong has many adopted sons, but the most famous ones are Li of Zhuang Zong and Li Siyuan of Ming Dynasty. Both of them are the Iliad under Lao Li. Ten thousand enemies? .

Speaking of which, Li Siyuan already has it? Li hengchong? After Lao Li crossed his legs, Li Siyuan followed Li Xucun to the north, made outstanding achievements, broke the Khitan and destroyed the back beam, and established a high prestige in the army. Li Xucun, Zhuang Zong, listened to the slanderers, killed the hero, and Li Siyuan rebelled to protect himself, and was later established as king by the army. Which was the earliest? Chen Qiao mutiny? Wei, who was later killed by the mutinous soldiers, made Li in succession and changed to Tiancheng.

Although Li Siyuan has only been in office for seven years, he has made remarkable achievements, mainly in his enlightened reform, punishing corruption, people-oriented, frugality and simplicity. It is very difficult for an illiterate and basically blind minority emperor.

The following examples are enough to prove that Li Siyuan is worthy of being a generation of Ming Di. One is that he sentenced Wen Tao, a great warlord who made a living by stealing the tombs of the Tang Dynasty, to death. Wen Tao, damn it. When he was in the buffer region, he paved all the tombs of the Tang Dynasty, except Gan Ling. This man is one of the worst figures in the history of grave robbery in China, and his loss to China culture is immeasurable.

Another is that after Li Siyuan went to the Han and Tang Dynasties, he did harm to all eunuchs and ordered our local officials to kill all eunuchs. The other is that since Zhuang Zong, Li Siyuan has abolished a large number of redundant palace staff and eliminated the extravagance, leaving only a hundred imperial secretaries, which is the emperor with the least number of imperial secretaries in history.

What's more, Li Siyuan showed no mercy when punishing corrupt officials. According to historical records, Li Siyuan? Especially hate greedy goods? He killed a large number of corrupt officials and made great contributions. He also once said a very solemn statement about the protection of officials between power and money? The king is selfless, how can he be partial to his relatives? ?

In addition, Li Siyuan also contributed to the construction of ancient legal system in China, and partially realized the transformation from rule by man to legal system. Ten unforgivable sins? And then what? A heinous crime? This is the origin of this idiom. I have to say that Li Siyuan's success is related to his being born in turmoil and suffering from displacement, and he knows the hunger and suffering of people all over the world very well.

However, due to illiteracy, the memorials of the Quartet can only be read by the Tang Dynasty envoy Ann Hui Chong. Although Li Siyuan also learns Chinese every day, his cultural level has not improved much. At best, it can only be regarded as the graduation of emperor literacy class, and this defect also accompanied Li Siyuan's life.

Without culture, Li Siyuan became suspicious in his later years. He has always suspected that others forged the imperial edict and deceived him as an illiterate. In addition, he felt ashamed of himself, which led to the separation of monarch and minister, suspicion between father and son, and gradually reduced him to ignorance in his later years. He continued to punish important officials around him.

Even Ren Heng, the prime minister who made great contributions to Li Siyuan's rule of the country, and An Zhonghui, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, survived, and the brief Qingming period under the imperial power was weakened. I have to say that Li Siyuan is illiterate whether he succeeds or fails. Because he is illiterate and brave, he dares to break taboos and fetters.

At the same time, it is precisely because of illiteracy that Li Siyuan has shortcomings in governing the country. When his intuitive, spontaneous and simple administrative ideas are used up, there is nothing he can do, and then his vulgarity, simplicity and suspicion are revealed. At the end of the day, he still suffers from illiteracy, but in any case, compared with those emperors with high cultural level in history who are willing to be confused, Beowulf Li Siyuan's achievement is extremely rare.