Chapter 1029 The Development History of the Daji Dynasty (Part 1)

On the way, he rode non-stop and finally arrived at the political center of the Daji Dynasty after 20 days. If it weren't for the fact that some rivers on the road were flooded due to cracked ice, and boats could not pass, Wu Yi had to take a long detour, and the speed could be faster.

There is a saying that there are nine emperors in the Daji Dynasty. The Wanzai Dynasty has experienced more than nine emperors. The nine here actually refer to the nine people who have made outstanding contributions after the founding of the country.

Knowing the stories of these nine emperors, we can actually understand the growth process of the Daji Dynasty.

The first one, needless to say, is naturally the founding emperor, Emperor Wu.

Emperor Wu started his army in the east of the continent, swept across half of the continent, and became the most dazzling existence in the troubled times.

It is worth mentioning that this Taizu was born in the peasant uprising army, without the bloody court when the Taizu of other dynasties came to power, and he came to power in the most righteous way.

The second one is Emperor Wen, whose temple name is Taizong. He is the second son of Taizu (the eldest son died young and was actually the crown prince). Emperor Wen assisted Taizu at the beginning of his uprising. He led many important battles personally and made great contributions to the establishment of the dynasty. After Taizu's death, he succeeded to the throne smoothly.

However, looking at the posthumous title of Taizong, Wen, we know that when he was in office, he implemented a policy of recuperation, temporarily stopped the war, and vigorously advocated the policy of resting the military and cultivating culture, which was quite different from his practice before he ascended the throne. The few battles were fought by the other side, and they had to fight back.

In fact, recuperation may not be the real idea of ​​Emperor Wen, but he had to do it.

Taizu rose too quickly, invaded half of the world, was counterattacked by a group of forces, and was defeated in the last battle before his death. Taizu also fell ill because of this. When Emperor Wen took over the dynasty, he was in trouble both internally and externally. If he continued the war, it was very likely that the dynasty would be exhausted.

In the name of recuperation, he took the opportunity to seize the power of a group of meritorious nobles. The Daji Dynasty also became stable in the hands of Emperor Wen.

Regardless of these, anyway, in the history books, this emperor is Emperor Wen.

The third is Emperor Zhao, the son of Emperor Wen.

These three emperors were connected and ruled for nearly a hundred years. It is also a unique phenomenon among the nine emperors and the first prosperous period of the Daji Dynasty.

What Emperor Zhao did was basically to continue Emperor Wen's path, suppressing the old while promoting the new.

With Emperor Wen's recuperation to lay a material foundation for him, when Emperor Zhao was in power, external expansion was obviously much more frequent. He expanded his territory to the south and west. The Daji Dynasty reached its first peak and all nations came to pay tribute.

Emperor Zhao was a hero in his life. He was an extremely proud person. He was fearless and rarely considered the consequences. He won a big victory and lost a big defeat. Fortunately, he won more than he lost, and the dynasty was stable and progressing.

The biggest failure in his life should be that he did not establish a crown prince early. He wanted to find an heir like himself. This may also be the idea of ​​every hero.

Unfortunately, he has never found one. His wavering choice of the crown prince has ensured that his power is not lost, but it has also exacerbated the instability of the court and the country.

In addition, in order to find the most outstanding successor, Emperor Zhaodi granted fiefs to sons of the same surname, which laid the groundwork for hundreds of years of civil strife in the dynasty.

The fourth emperor was Emperor Ming, the only female emperor among the nine emperors. This posthumous title was also chosen by her for herself. The sun and the moon are in the same sky, breaking the rules, but the rules also say that hens crow at dawn? Emperor Ming didn't care about the so-called rules at all.

As mentioned earlier, after Emperor Zhaodi died, the sons fought for the throne, the dynasty was in civil strife, and the most powerful dynasty on the continent fell into a low period of hundreds of years, and its territory shrank a lot.

Almost every ten years, there were vassal kings who rebelled. Although they were successively pacified by the central government, they undoubtedly greatly restricted the expansion and advancement of the dynasty.

Emperor Ming also had brothers and sisters, but these male peers were useless, not very capable, living a life of drunkenness and dreams, and liked to fight for power and profit.

There were palace turmoil inside and vassal kings outside. It can be said that if there was no Emperor Ming, the vassal kings would have taken over the central government.

Skipping the things before Emperor Ming became emperor, it was just a multi-party operation. After obtaining the secret support of all parties, he successfully achieved the throne as a woman. Only in such a chaotic moment could such an unusual thing happen.

After Emperor Ming ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to imprison his royal brothers. After ruling for nearly 60 years, the dynasty ushered in its second peak.

In the eyes of many people in the Daji Dynasty, this peak is unprecedented in history. Yes, it is unprecedented. Even today, it has not reached the peak during the reign of Emperor Ming.

Because Emperor Ming achieved the unification of the continent, which was also the only great unification. Even today's tribal territories in the north were also dependencies of the Daji Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Ming.

Wu Yi didn't know how the Taoist sect dealt with this situation at that time, but there was no doubt that the Taoist sect would intervene when the Daji Dynasty entered a trough again in the future.

Perhaps because Emperor Ming was a woman, she was delicate and thoughtful. She was very good at handling the various factions. She could make her friends more and fewer.

Many people may not be able to imagine that during the reign of Emperor Ming, the tribes in the north were actually willing to submit to the Daji Dynasty, not relying on military conquest.

Like Emperor Zhao, Emperor Ming also encountered the difficulty of succession. In order to win over the royal family, Emperor Ming promised to find an heir among the royal family in the future, so she never married and lived alone all her life.

Without direct relatives, it is very difficult to find an heir in the royal family. You should know that since Emperor Zhao, internal and external forces have used almost every possible means to interfere with the throne.

Emperor Ming followed the ancient legacy and adapted to the trend of people's gradual enlightenment by implementing the election system, but it was not elected by the nobles, but by the lower-class people.

Specifically, the heirs who meet the requirements are sent to places where they can display their talents, often a poor county with great development potential. Finally, the local people, one person one vote, will evaluate the candidates based on their governance level.

In this way, it not only bridges the differences among the royal family, but also allows the local areas to participate in the dynasty's major events through legal means. It is indeed a good system.

However, no matter how good the system is, it is implemented by people, and the so-called good scriptures will be sung distortedly. After Emperor Ming's death, within a few generations, it completely lost its original intention and became a large-scale scene of fraud, coercion and inducement, etc., emerging one after another.

After all, Emperor Ming had no children, so he could be absolutely fair. However, the emperors of later generations were both referees and contestants, so how could they possibly enforce the rules properly?