As we all know, extravagance and waste have always been the style of emperors, whether in ancient China or in ancient foreign countries. However, you should know that there really is such a "best Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" in history. He was very thrifty all his life. Even before he died, he told his men that he would only wear paper clothes for himself, not funerary objects and grave keepers. Even the coffin was made of tile, not wood. Who is such a good emperor? I'll introduce it to you today.
In fact, he was Guo Wei, the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Guo Wei was born at the grassroots level and was a gangster. Later, I met Chai Shi, the widow of the late Tang emperor who was sent back to his hometown. Chai Shi fell in love with Guo Wei at first sight and soon recovered. Guo Wei is young and not sensible, Chai knows wisely, and he is also a wife and sister to him. Under the influence of Chai Shi, Guo Wei became an ambitious man.
After entering the DPRK, Guo Wei rose in rank because of his bravery, and became a general of the later Han Dynasty during the Liu Zhiyuan period, which made great contributions to the later Han Dynasty. However, after the new emperor came to power, because he was too young, he could not help but be persuaded by the treacherous court official. He thought that Guo Wei had mastered the military power and would probably rise up and rebel, and planned to plot to get rid of Guo Wei and Guo Wei.
However, someone in the DPRK leaked the news to Guo Wei. Guo Wei was serving his country outside at this time, but he heard that all his family, old and young, had died at the hands of the king. From this, he felt sad and became angry, and carried out a sharp military attack on the capital, eventually overthrowing the later Han Dynasty and standing on his own feet for the later Zhou Dynasty.
Guo Wei is known as the best Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in China. Why? First of all, Guo Wei is very kind. Even if the emperor killed his whole family, old and young, he didn't retaliate, just killed the emperor. Secondly, during Guo Wei's reign, he devoted himself to governing the country, changed a series of policies that were not conducive to people's livelihood since the Tang Dynasty, cracked down on corruption, distributed land to the people, reduced taxes, and prohibited many cruel tortures from being used again. People who have been in turmoil for a long time in troubled times can finally live a stable life.
Moreover, Guo Wei is very frugal with himself, unlike other emperors, Kerry 3,000, who eat, drink and be merry. Guo Wei has only one queen and three concubines, all of whom are widows. As soon as he entered the palace, he laid hands on me, broke all the gold and silver utensils, and ordered himself to live in the old palace instead of building a new one. Moreover, local officials are not allowed to give themselves food, treasures and beautiful women. He once said to the Prime Minister: I was originally a common people, and I was lucky enough to become an emperor by chance. Now how dare I covet wealth and let the people suffer for me again?
Guo Wei arranged a place for himself before his death, but his arrangement was very special. He ordered that there was no need to build a mausoleum, just a simple earth slope made of bricks, no need to wear fine clothes, only clothes made of paper, and no coffin made of precious wood, as long as it was made of tiles. You don't need to arrange a grave keeper to guard yourself, and you don't need stone lions and statues of stone men in front of the tomb. If you put him in a magnificent mausoleum against his will after death, you will not bless future generations. What a rare emperor!