Why do Roman emperors always die miserably? Our country saw through it 3000 years ago.

I believe that friends who know the history of ancient Rome will not be unfamiliar with this name. He is one of the most famous emperors in ancient Roman history. Constantine I ended the civil strife after Diocletian, unified the empire, repelled the barbarian invasion and rebuilt Constantinople. He also established Christianity as the state religion of his country and was honored as "the Great" after his death. However, his foolish behavior on the issue of the heir to the throne made his successors suffer the tragic fate of violent death, and the dynasty also perished.

Constantine had two half-brothers, and each of them had two sons. His four nephews are Drew matthaeus, Hannibal annas, Gallus and Wu Lin in chronological order. Constantine himself has three sons, the firstborn Constantine II, the second Constantine and the third Constantine.

Two years before his death, Constantine divided the empire into five regions, which were managed by Drew matthaeus, Hannibal Anus and his three sons. And gave Drew matthaeus and Hannibal Lee the title of "Caesar" in the anus, which means that after his death, these two men will become emperors of the empire. Constantine originally thought that Drew matthaeus and Hannibal Anus were older, and it was more conducive to the stability of the empire to pass on the throne to them. But what I didn't expect was that this laid a curse for the subsequent civil strife.

In 337 AD, Constantine died. His five heirs, except Constantine II and Constantine, all went back to Constantinople to attend his funeral. In addition to the three direct heirs, 65-year-old Gallus (438+02 years old) and 6-year-old urien (6 years old) also appeared at the funeral. The curtain of the bloody heir's civil strife began.

Just after the funeral, a bloody case occurred in the court in Constantinople. Except Constantine and his younger brothers Gallus and Wu Lin, all members of the royal family who attended the funeral, including Drew matthaeus and Hannibal Annous, were killed. Many of Constantine's cronies and senior officials were also bloodbath. The death toll exceeded 50.

Strangely, the historical data actually mentioned a mass massacre against members of the royal family and nobles. The time of the incident, the specific perpetrators, and the detailed death list were not available, and there was no mass arrest afterwards. It was only characterized as a soldier's own initiative, but no one was punished for it.

Although the party Constantine issued a statement saying that it had nothing to do with him, from the perspective of post-profit, the bloody massacre at the court was probably planned by Constantine's three biological sons and carried out by Constantine. Gallus and Wu Lin survived because they were too young to be regarded as a threat. It is precisely because of the strength of these three people that historians remain silent about this murder, leaving only a few words in historical materials.

After dealing with the aftermath of the bloody case, Constantine went to Pannonia to meet his two brothers, while Gallup and Wu Lin were under house arrest. The three brothers took back the jurisdiction of Drew matthaeus and Hannibal Anus and re-divided them. The provinces of England, Gaul, Spain and western Mauritania were all owned by Constantine II. Except the province of Thrace where Constantinople is located, the Balkans, Italy, East Mauritania in North Africa, Numidia and African provinces are all owned by Constantine. The richest eastern part of the empire was owned by Constantine.

However, things did not end there, and the world was at peace. Soon, eldest brother King Constantine regretted it. He felt that he had suffered a great loss in the split, so he asked his third brother Constantine to cede North Africa, but he was flatly rejected. The two quarreled constantly on the issue of North Africa, and the second brother Constantinople, who is famous for his prestige, was far away in the East and could not mediate in time.

Finally, big brother couldn't help it. He used his third brother's trip to Dacia to invade northern Italy. However, Constantine II's military talent is a joke. In the face of the ownerless enemy, he was defeated, shuddered and became a prisoner himself. Constantine's men won't go easy on him just because he is the boss's eldest brother, so they just ended it and threw the body into the nearby river. Constantine didn't know until afterwards that his eldest brother had attacked himself and was killed by his men.

Since then, two-thirds of the territory of the Roman Empire belongs to Constantine, and Constantine, the second brother, was busy with the Persian Sassanian dynasty and did not raise any objection. In the following ten years, the Roman Empire under Constantine was in darkness, because he fought with barbarians all the year round, leaving the internal affairs to eunuchs. Once eunuchs are in power, they can't do anything good in China or Rome.

In 350 AD, the savage general Ma Genan Tius could not bear the oppression of eunuchs and decided to rebel on his way to Paris. He contacted all the generals under the emperor and prepared to recommend a Roman bureaucrat as emperor. However, the content of their meeting was overheard by a little eunuch and told Constantine. Constantine, who learned the news, fled south overnight, but was caught up by a cavalry at the foot of the Pyrenees. Constantine was killed after being captured, and his body was abandoned in the mountains and became food for wild dogs.

After Constantine's death, Ma Genan Titus proclaimed himself emperor in Gaul, and Vitera Neo, the army chief guarding Illyria, also took the opportunity to proclaim himself emperor. Constantine, far away in the east, had to sign an armistice agreement with Persia and return to the west to suppress the rebellion. In the face of Constantine's elite soldiers, Vitera Neo surrendered without a fight, but it took Constantine three years to quell the rebellion of Manietin, and hundreds of soldiers in Constantine's period were killed in this civil strife. Many people think that this is an important reason for the decline of the military power of the Roman Empire.

Constantine, who reunified Rome again, reappeared his father's great achievements and became the only emperor of the Roman Empire. However, due to the shadow of the palace coup, with the gradual growth of Gallus and Wu Lin, Constantinos was always on the alert to repeat the mistakes of his brothers and fidgeted all the year round. When Gallus was 29, Constantine executed him on trumped-up charges. A few years later, Constantine died in the civil war with Wu Lin, who eventually died in the eastward expedition to Persia. At this point, the Constantine dynasty fell, and the Roman Empire revived by Constantine the Great had to embark on the old road of decline again.

Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, because there was never a reasonable system of succession to the throne, it was often difficult to rule the empire for more than three generations, and many emperors died of civil strife and murder. China people as far away as the East have long seen that there is no reasonable system of succession to the throne, which is the root of the unrest. The Western Zhou Dynasty established the eldest son inheritance system, and the emperor "established officials by virtue rather than virtue". Although there were many mediocre or even absurd emperors, they effectively reduced the turmoil caused by the struggle for the throne, and the state of the dynasty often lasted for hundreds of years.