History is a mirror, and there are many people who have been famous for thousands of years, and of course, there are also wicked people who have been stinking for thousands of years, and their actions have brought great disasters and shame to the country and the nation. Some of them are for personal desires, and some are for power. Their sins not only affected their time, but also affected the development of future generations. 、
The bull's ear of modern sinners - Cixi: Cutting land and paying compensation, losing power and humiliating the country.
Empress Dowager Cixi was the de facto ruler of the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and she was tyrannical, unscrupulous, profligate, corrupt and incompetent. Regardless of the danger of the country, she only cared about her own pleasure, and she adopted an attitude of opposition and repression against the Westernization Movement and the reform of the law.
For the sake of face, she launched the Sino-French War and the Sino-Japanese War, both of which ended in fiasco, and she was forced to sign unequal treaties, cede territories, and pay huge compensation, which greatly damaged the sovereignty and dignity of the Qing Dynasty.
In the end, the dignified court pinned its hopes against imperialist aggression on the Boxer Rebellion, but the foreigners could not resist, and even gave the Eight-Nation Coalition an excuse for the invasion, and even the capital Beijing was captured, and the royal family was forced to flee to Xi'an. It has also made China suffer the shame of modern times!
Qianlong: Six times to the south of the Yangtze River, labor and money; Closing the country to the outside world has caused China to fall behind the world.
Emperor Qianlong has always been more controversial, as the sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, during his reign, the Qing Dynasty reached the most extensive territory, the strongest national strength of the period, known as the "Kangqian prosperous era". However, he was also a proud, extravagant and wasteful emperor. He went to Jiangnan six times, each time with a large number of retinues and belongings, and there was a huge financial burden and people's livelihood difficulties along the way.
The lack of treasury in the middle and late Qing Dynasty was directly related to Qianlong's ruthlessness. He also implemented a policy of closing the country to the outside world and refused to carry out exchanges with Western countries, which made China miss the opportunity of the industrial revolution and gradually fall behind the world.
What's even more odious is that when he met with the British envoys, he pretended to be generous and let them go along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal from north to south, and said: Appreciate the victory of the ** Shangguo, but I didn't expect it to make the British completely see through the truth of the defeat of the entire Qing Empire. Within a few years, the Opium War began, but at that time, Qianlong had already driven west, leaving this mess to his children and grandchildren.
Zhao Gao: Forged the Zhaoshu and lost power.
Zhao Gao was a powerful minister of the Qin Dynasty, he was originally a close confidant of Qin Shi Huang, and later became a favorite of Qin II. He was ambitious, authoritarian, brutal, oppressive to the people, and framed the loyal and good. After the death of Qin Shi Huang, he forged a Zhao book, killed Qin Shi Huang's eldest son Fusu, and made Qin Shi Huang's second son Hu Hai emperor, that is, Qin II.
He also designed to kill all of Yingzheng's heirs and cut off the relatives and forces of Qin II. With the expansion of power, Zhao Gao wanted to depose Qin II and establish himself as king, but he did not succeed, and was ordered to be executed by Qin II. China, which was finally unified, and because of the existence of Zhao Gao, soon triggered the peasant uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, which eventually led to the fall of the Qin Dynasty.
Dong Zhuo: Disaster to the country and the people, burning Luoyang City.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo, who was originally the Taishou of Xiliang, took advantage of the opportunity of the Yellow Turban Uprising to lead the army into Guanzhong and control the imperial court. He supported the Han Emperor, deposed the Han Shao Emperor, was good at government affairs, brutal and murderous, extravagant, and expropriated, making the people live in dire straits. In order to consolidate his power, he also moved the capital to Chang'an and burned Luoyang City, causing countless losses of cultural relics and wealth, and also displacing the people of Luoyang, killing and injuring countless people. His atrocities caused a joint rebellion of the princes in various places, and he was later assassinated by his subordinates Lü Bu and Wang Yun, and was later beheaded by Cao Cao and displayed to the public.
Wu Sangui: Defected to the Qing army and led troops into the customs.
Wu Sangui was a general in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, he was originally the border commander of Shanhaiguan, and later because Li Zicheng's peasant army broke through Beijing, Ming Sizong committed suicide, Wu Sangui originally wanted to surrender Li Zicheng, but he didn't expect the army to start looting property in Beijing, and his father Wu Xiang was killed by mistake.
Wu Sangui officially defected to the Qing army, opened the Shanhai Pass, and led the Qing soldiers into the customs.
Although he was rewarded by the Qing Dynasty, he was not satisfied, and he launched three anti-Qing uprisings in succession, trying to establish his own regime, but all of them ended in failure. He finally died in Yunnan, and was posthumously deposed by the Qing Dynasty, and his descendants were also exterminated by the Qing Dynasty. He is regarded as the biggest thief in Chinese history and has been infamous through the ages.
Yang Guozhong: Authoritarianism misleads the country and corrupts the dynasty.
The prime minister of the Tang Xuanzong period, he was knighted as the Duke of Weiguo. He is the brother of Yang Guifei, and with the help of the Yang family's power, he has jumped from a down-and-out petty official to an important minister in the court. He was autocratic and misled the country, corrupted the dynasty, and caused the rebellion of An Lushan and Shi Siming, which is known as the "Anshi Rebellion". The war lasted for eight years, causing the Tang Dynasty to turn from prosperity to decline, people's livelihood withered, and the population plummeted. Yang Guozhong fled to Sichuan with Tang Xuanzong, and was killed by soldiers in Ma Weiyi on the way, and was posthumously deposed as a concubine, and his descendants were also executed.
Shi Jingjiao: Cut the land and ask for help, and be willing to be the emperor.
The founding emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was originally the envoy of the Hedong Festival in the Later Tang Dynasty. He was dissatisfied with the accession of the Later Tang Emperor Li Congke to the throne, so he rebelled and asked the Khitan for help. In order to get the support of the Khitan, he ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun and called himself the "child emperor", who was despised as a thief. With the help of the Khitan, he overthrew the Later Tang Dynasty and established the Later Jin Dynasty. But his regime was not stable and was under the control of the Khitan and the resistance of the Central Plains. After his death, his son Shi Chonggui succeeded to the throne, and was soon destroyed by the Khitan.
Song Huizong: "The Shame of Jingkang".
Song Huizong was an artistic genius, but an incompetent ruler. He reused traitors Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, which led to chaos in the government and government, suffering of the people, and frequent peasant uprisings. He also wanted to unite with Jin to destroy the Liao State and recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun, so in 1119 and 1120, he signed a maritime alliance with the Jin State, agreeing to jointly attack the Liao State, and after the completion of the matter, the sixteen states of Yanyun were returned to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty wanted to transfer the annual coins originally given to the Liao State to the Jin State.
But what he didn't expect was that Jin Guo was an ambitious and powerful enemy. After the Jin State destroyed the Liao State, it turned to attack the Song Dynasty, captured the Song Dynasty's capital Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng, Henan), and captured Song Huizong, Song Qinzong and other royal family members and a large number of civilians, leading to the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. This is the most tragic scene in Chinese history, also known as the "Shame of Jingkang".
An Lushan: The struggle for power and power led to the "Anshi Rebellion", and even the decline of the Tang Dynasty.
An Lushan is a mixed-race child, with Turkic, Hu, Goryeo and other bloodlines. During the period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he was greatly favored and was named the envoy of the Fan Yang Festival, and was in charge of 150,000 elite soldiers. He was very afraid of Li Linfu, but he didn't take Yang Guozhong seriously. After Yang Guozhong took over as prime minister, he repeatedly said that An Lushan had the intention of rebellion, but Xuanzong ignored it.
Yang Guozhong also asked Ge Shuhan to be the envoy of the Longyou Jiedu and the envoy of the Hexi Jiedu to contain An Lushan. In the spring of the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), Xuanzong summoned An Lushan to the court according to Yang Guozhong's intention to test whether he had the intention of rebellion.
An Lushan wept bitterly and told his loyalty, and after some acting, Xuanzong trusted him even more and planned to promote An Lushan to be the prime minister.
Yang Guozhong forcibly stopped it, and Xuanzong had no choice but to give up, only letting An Lushan shoot for the left servant. At this point, the contradiction between An Lushan and Yang Guozhong has become more acute and intense. After Yang Guozhong became the prime minister, the officials were corrupt and politically corrupt, and there were many complaints. In November of the 14th year of Tianbao (755), An Lushan and Shi Siming launched a rebellion in the name of "Zhu Guozhong and Qing Junfang", which was known as the "Anshi Rebellion" in history. This eight-year rebellion, called the eradication of Yang Guozhong, was actually a struggle for imperial power, causing the Tang Dynasty to turn from prosperity to decline.
Jia Nanfeng: The harem ** caused the "Rebellion of the Eight Kingdoms", which led to wars.
The empress of Emperor Hui of Jin and the granddaughter of Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty Sima Yan, because her father Jia Chong was Sima Yan's son-in-law, she was chosen as Sima Yan's empress. Sima Zhen is an idiot who has no talent or ambition, and only knows how to eat, drink and be merry. Jia Nanfeng took advantage of his ignorance and mastered the government, domineering, brutal and unreasonable.
In order to consolidate his position, he killed Sima Shu, the son of Emperor Hui of Jin, and also killed Sima Yan's second son, Sima Yan, Emperor Jing of Jin. She also lavishly accepted the pleasure and indulgence, and there were hundreds of beautiful men in the harem.
Her atrocities aroused the displeasure of the kings of the Jin dynasty, so the eight princes united and launched a civil war known as the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings".
This war lasted for sixteen years, causing the ** and decline of the Jin Dynasty, and also laying the groundwork for the later Wuhu Chaohua. Jia Nanfeng was eventually deposed by Sima Lun as a concubine and poisoned with gold dust wine. Her death did not save the fate of the Jin Dynasty.