How many tyrants have there been in China since ancient times?

Speaking of tyrants in ancient China, people will think of unruly Qin Shihuang and Yang Di. Jie's violent method is now impossible to verify, and the records in various books seem to be similar to Zhou's. A word handed down may have cursed him: when will you die, sun in the sky? I would rather die with you. There are enough records about Zhou's tyranny in the history books. What is the punishment of branding? The wine pool is a forest of meat. The former is the same when Wu Zetian came to Chen Jun, and the latter seems to have it in the Han Dynasty. It is said that Lutai Elephant Gallery has been built. Lutai probably won't be more luxurious than Epang Palace built by Qin and Zhanggong Palace built by Han, and elephant gallery seems unlikely. At that time, there were elephants in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, but not too many, enough to make corridors out of ivory. Said Zhou Wang cut open the pregnant woman's belly and cut off the legs of people crossing the river, so did the governors in the Spring and Autumn Period. It's really cruel to make Jiuhou into meat sauce and dig out Bigan's heart (probably in the north of Jin and Li Wen), and some people have done it in later generations. Even if these records are true, it can't prove that Zhou is worse than other Shang kings, because this is a custom handed down from Shang Dynasty. In the workshop of Zhengzhou Mall, human bones and animal bones are industrial raw materials for making bone implements. The architectural customs handed down from the Xia Dynasty, such as building houses, building cities and digging graves, were all laid by the living. There are a large number of human sacrifices in the tombs of various periods in Yin Ruins, but there are few human sacrifices in the tombs of First and Zhou Wang. If humans use prisoners, then humans must use their own people, slaves with higher status, and even nobles. There is a clear record in Oracle Bone Inscriptions that Shang killed the leaders of other countries for human consumption. As for the accusation in the oath of Shangshu, when the war was mobilized, it seemed that it was nothing at all. Moreover, such a large-scale war and such a huge population did not exist in the Shang Dynasty, obviously after the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Regarding Zhou's crime, the most reliable statement is the "pastoral oath" launched on the battlefield before launching the battle of Waipasture. Shang Zhouwang did not let his father nurse him, nor did his father's mother's brothers and cousins become officials, but used prisoners who escaped from other countries. He listens to his wife like a hen, which is against custom and unlucky. The first of these two crimes also applies to Zhou Wenwang. Didn't Jiang Taigong come from other countries, too? Didn't Zhou Wenwang's father Wang Ji drive his two brothers Taber and Yu Zhong abroad? Shang Tang, who was called a saint by Zhou people, used Yi Yin, a prisoner who escaped from other countries. The Shang dynasty sacrificed foreigners and their ancestors together, which shows that this is the custom of the Shang dynasty itself. As for the second count, it can't be established, because in the Shang Dynasty, the status of Mrs. Shang Wang was already very high. The famous Si Muwu Dafang Ding (should be stepmother Wu) can testify. Wu Ding, who was regarded as the male master by Zhou people, also listened to his wife's words and made her a good wife (this word should be pronounced, it is her surname, and it should be her daughter and stepmother Xin) to lead troops to fight. Different customs in Shang and Zhou Dynasties are not a crime. It is said that Zhou Liwang is terrible. He was kicked out of the city and died in the wild. The Zhou Dynasty had decades of "* * * and". Sima Qian said that Zhou Gonghe was in power together, and Zhu Li said that he was a * * * uncle, and he was a regent alone. I don't know which statement is more correct. Zhou Youwang didn't say how autocratic he was. He just fainted, left a joke of the warlord and lost his mind. However, if Zhou Liwang and Zhou Youwang were really as cruel as Zhu Yuanzhang and Judy in the Ming Dynasty, how could they be driven out of the capital? It can be seen that the nobles and civilians at that time were very powerful, and Zhou Wang could not do whatever he wanted. In the Zhou dynasty, the son of heaven was the head of the Zhou people and presided over sacrifices. The civilians in the capital are from China, the residents in the suburbs are me, and the farmers in Ji Wang and vassal states are savages. China people can drive the son of heaven out and let the nobles take power, which shows the social status of the Zhou royal family. Qin Shihuang and Yang Di are the most famous tyrants in history, but Qin Shihuang is no more cruel than Qin Ershi, and Yang Di is no more vicious than Wendi. Compared with those English masters in Ming and Qing dynasties, it is simply dwarfed. They mainly abused the people's power and were overjoyed, which led to the exhaustion of national strength and social collapse. Even in this respect, Qin Shihuang didn't even do much more than Han Wudi, and Yang Di didn't do much more than Wu Zetian. The difference is that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had the reserves of the previous generation. Qin Shihuang only unified the six countries, while Wu Zetian continued to rule Zhenguan, while Yang Di only unified the north and the south. Liu bang was the first person to kill the hero. When he entered the customs, he only made three chapters for the people. After the establishment of the Han dynasty, the laws of the Qin dynasty were harsh, but the law enforcement was not as strict as that of the Qin dynasty. Emperor Han Jing is said to be a tolerant emperor, but he killed Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo, knowing that Chao Cuo was innocent, but even the other three families were destroyed together. Hong Mai said that Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty endured killing, and Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was mean and ungrateful, even more so on Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. In recent years, the excavation of Hanyang Mausoleum in Shaanxi Province has proved that Emperor Hanjing, a tolerant and thrifty emperor, was once as cruel and extravagant as Qin Shihuang. In China, the so-called tyrant, in ancient times, was a charge imposed on the defeated party by the victorious party. Otherwise, there is no excuse for the crime of hanging people. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, except for a few enlightened monarchs who occasionally appeared, most emperors were not much better. The Song Dynasty was probably the least violent of all dynasties. Needless to say, the Jurchen Jin Dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty were bloody and brutal, which was the normal state of nomadic war. In the troubled times like the Sixteen Countries in Wuhu and the turbulent times like the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties, no one in all directions of the war was kind. Huang Chao and Zhang are bandits, Hong Xiuquan is similar to Yang, Li Zicheng is a little late, and he made the same mistake when he entered Beijing. These people can be counted as tyrants. The most cruel are the saints who mastered the state power in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as Hongwu Yongle, Shunzhi Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, and the so-called Tongguang Zhongxing. The Qing dynasty issued a cruel order to slaughter the occupied areas and carried out a large-scale massacre policy against rebellious ethnic minorities. The way the Qing dynasty treated the rebels was to eradicate the roots and kill all the leaders in the middle of the year, which was rare in other dynasties.