Most scholars consider him to be the most enlightened and greatest monarch in ancient China. There is almost no doubt that he occupied this position, and he was a strategist, politician, calligrapher and poet.
As the real founding king of the Tang Dynasty, his ability to use troops is comparable to that of any ancient strategist, and his ability to govern the country is unparalleled. During his short reign, he not only opened up territory to solve the problem of Turkic aggression, but also quickly restored the ruined economy in the late Sui Dynasty, becoming a "prosperous time" for countries to surrender, countries to come to Korea, roads to be picked up, and households to stay up all night.
The number of people sentenced to death in the country has dropped to more than 20, and he has also been sincerely praised as "Tiankhan" by people of all ethnic groups. He also wrote "Emperor Fan", which became a model of governing the country for later generations and reigned for 23 years. At the age of 52.
2. Xiang Yu:
Ji Xiang, Yu Zi, the first valiant soldier in ancient China, was one of the twelve biographies of Sima Qian in Historical Records, and became the first person to enter this subject as a non-emperor in the official history of China. Xiang Yu, who was not ambitious, was able to raise the tripod and said to himself, "Although the sword is one enemy, he lacks knowledge, so he can learn from ten thousand enemies." There is also a poem that says, "There is no limit to pulling up mountains, and it is indisputable to be angry." He only started from Jiangdong with 8,000 troops, and later recruited hundreds of thousands of soldiers, known as the "overlord of Chu".
3. Li Mu
His great achievement is A Record of Xiongnu. Li Mu is a native of Zhao, who has been threatened by Xiongnu. Zhao Jun was repeatedly defeated by Xiongnu, so that King Wuling of Zhao rode and shot in Khufu, knowing shame and being brave. Zhao Jun learned from Xiongnu in equipment and tactics, and established cavalry units that shocked the six countries. Li Mu really only fought with Xiongnu once, but only this time, he fought with Xiongnu for almost ten years and didn't dare to go south.
4. Qin Shihuang
In 22 1 year BC, Qin Shihuang unified China, which had been divided for hundreds of years, and established centralization of authority, which has an influence to this day. The first iron-fisted emperor taxed the people and built water conservancy and civil engineering.
He also unified national weights and measures and writing. The name of the powerful Qin Dynasty spread abroad, and foreign countries called China "Qin". He was the first politician in China whose reputation shocked the whole world. He was the king of China at the peak of ancient times and the most successful emperor of China.
5. Liu Che, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty
History books say that "a strong Han flourished in the Tang Dynasty", and the Han Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty was undoubtedly the two most outstanding empires in ancient China established by the Han people. Li Shimin was the first emperor in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and China people have always been called Tang people. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, on the other hand, is the entrepreneurial king of the strong Han Dynasty. Our nation has been called Han nationality since then, and our language has been called Chinese since then.
He conquered the Huns, wiped out Fujian and Vietnam, Ouyue, South Vietnam, Yelang and ancient Korea, cut through the western regions and opened up an unprecedented vast territory. Together with the Roman Empire at that time, it became the largest country in the world, laying the foundation for the later territory of the Chinese nation.
6. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin
He was an extraordinary military and political commander-in-chief, who fought and ruled the country, ending the division since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Although the territory is small, it has unified the whole country, and "relieving the military with a glass of wine" has strengthened centralization of authority and avoided local separatism. Moreover, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, culture, science and technology were developed, and reforms were carried out in the fields of imperial examinations and political power distribution. In his later years, he was neither arrogant nor impetuous, which was also commendable among emperors in previous dynasties.
7. Yue Fei
There is an old saying among the Khitans that jurchen is invincible with less than 10 thousand. This proves the strength of Jurchen's fighting capacity. But this myth was broken by a China man named Yue Fei. Who said that Jurchen was invincible? Hundreds of Jin Jun was beaten to death in front of Yuegujun, and it was Jurchen's best field battle. Yuegujun's participation in the war was far less than Jurchen's.
It is hard for people today to imagine what it was like for Yue Fei to fight against Japan at that time, and it is even harder for people today to imagine how the brilliant victory of 20,000 Yue Jiajun over Jurchen was written.
That's the clank of iron for China people to bravely resist foreign aggression, and that's the voice of China people's powerful country after enduring foreign oppression for nearly a hundred years! Jin Wushu, the general of Jin Dynasty, lamented that "I have never met such a strong team in my 20 years in the army." Jurchen even sang sadly in folk songs, "It is easy to shake the mountains, but difficult to shake the Yue family."
8. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty
He was the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the emperor with the highest academic record in ancient China. He is skilled and versatile. He can play chess, calligraphy and painting. He was also a military genius in ancient China. He wiped out all the heroes and re-established the Han Dynasty. He is a famous "Lord of ZTE". He reigned for 33 years and died at the age of 63.
9. Lin Zexu
Lin Zexu was a patriotic politician, thinker and poet in Qing Dynasty. Historians call him "the first person who opened his eyes to see the world" in modern China. During the Opium War, he advocated the prohibition of opium, resisted the aggression of western capitalism, persisted in safeguarding China's sovereignty and national interests, seized and burned a large amount of opium, crushed many armed provocations by the British invaders, and showed great patriotism. ?
In 40 years, Lin Zexu traveled all over 14 province with 400,000 troops. In the end, he was penniless and penniless, just as he said in the book "Analysis of Family Property Self-determination" in his later years: "The discount of agricultural land property is zero" and "There is no cash at present!"
It's admirable, admirable! All this, as the motto of the calligraphy hanging in the hall of his former residence shows: "All rivers run into the sea, with great tolerance;" The wall stands thousands of miles, and there is no desire. "
10, Yuan Taizu Genghis Khan
He and his descendants created an unprecedented grassland empire, which had a great influence not only on the history of China, but also on the history of the world. It has caused the biggest change and reorganization in the history of the global map, and made many declining countries disappear from the earth. Because of them, the world has become smaller.