Rabbits and dogs cook, birds hide with bows, this is an eternal truth. Feudal society pays attention to the family world, so in order to consolidate the imperial power, the emperor will generally eliminate the courtiers who have high merit and shock the lord and threaten the imperial power. And in history, there are indeed many emperors who killed heroes, such as Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Bang claimed that the empress had created 7 kings with different surnames, but these princes were later killed by him, and Han Xin was one of them. In the second year of Liu Bang's reign as emperor, Han Xin was charged with attempting to rebel, and after Han Xin was killed, Liu Bang also cursed the three han families. Although the companion is like a companion of the tiger, there are three famous emperors in history who have not killed a hero in their lifetime, they are Qin Shi Huang, Tang Taizong and Han Shizu Liu Xiu.
Qin Shi Huang is the first emperor in Chinese history, calling himself the First Emperor. Qin Shi Huang ended the centuries-long division of China and realized the great unification of the world, but after he ascended the throne, he knew that he could not govern the world by himself, so he did not hold all the power of the world in his own hands, but set up a system of ministers and delegated the power in his hands to the sages.
In the impression of later generations, Qin Shi Huang was a cruel king, but in fact, he did not kill any meritorious ministers, on the contrary, he appointed meritocracy and gave preferential treatment to meritorious people. For example, the famous general Meng Tian of the Qin Dynasty, it is precisely because of the existence of Meng Tian that the Xiongnu did not dare to easily offend the Central Plains, and in the face of this meritorious man, Qin Shi Huang did not suspect and doubt, but was glad that the country could get this good general, but unfortunately in the end, Meng Tian and others died at the hands of the traitor Zhao Gao.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin is a Ming emperor who has been praised throughout the ages, in addition to competing for the throne, he does not seem to have done anything particularly cruel, and as a virtuous monarch, he appointed a virtuous minister after he ascended the throne, and the Tang Dynasty under his rule was economically prosperous, militarily powerful, and the country was peaceful and peaceful, opening up a prosperous "rule of zhenguan".
Li Shimin never killed a meritorious person in his life, and the only one who died at his hands was Hou Junji, one of the twenty-four ministers of Ling Yuange, but the reason why Li Shimin killed Hou Junji was because Hou Junji tried to rebel and subvert the world. This "attempt to rebel" was not an excuse for the emperor to kill the heroes, but Hou Junji really did this, and Li Shimin only executed Hou Junji when the evidence was conclusive.
But after all, Hou Junji was the hero that Li Shimin once valued, so Li Shimin finally gave Hou Junji a decent way to die, leaving him a whole corpse. Moreover, Li Shimin did not implicate Hou Junji's faults in his family, and after Hou Junji's death, Li Shimin also deliberately appeased the Hou family's relatives so that they could live in peace, which was a rare benevolent king in history.
Liu Xiuyuan, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was a peasant, but by chance he established the Eastern Han Dynasty, and although Liu Xiu did not receive a good education when he was young, he assiduously learned how to lead soldiers to fight after joining the army, and was generous. After Liu Xiu ascended the throne, he treated the "brothers" who fought with him in the world, and treated people with lofty ideals with courtesy, and never killed a hero.
When the Eastern Han Dynasty was founded, the people of the country were displaced, many people were forced to sell themselves into slavery in order to survive, Liu Xiu in order to help the people, repeatedly ordered the opening of warehouses to help the grain, tax reduction, so it was very popular. In addition, Liu Xiu also had a wise empress Yin Lihua, and the husband and wife raised eyebrows together and accompanied each other for a lifetime. So no matter from what point of view, Liu Xiu, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, is a perfect emperor.