Is it good to be an emperor? Someone often thinks about this question, and someone will definitely answer:"Of course it's good to be an emperor, above 10,000 people, with monstrous power, you can do whatever you want. ”
Don't be in a hurry to answer yet, what if the price of the emperor is not to live to be forty years old? Are you still willing to be an emperor? Extrapolating from the Qin Dynasty onwards, China has experienced a total of 83 dynastiesThere were more than 500 emperors, but their average lifespan was no more than 40 years.
There are six main reasons for their short life, do you know which six points?
If you want to be a good emperor, you need to pay a lot of time and energyFor example, Yongzheng, the fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, can be called a "workaholic", and there are few emperors like him in history.
Because after he became the emperor, he got up at five o'clock in the morning every day, worked all day, and then went to bed at twelve o'clock in the morning, and sometimes went to bed later when he worked a lotHowever, in order not to affect the next day's work, I still woke up at five o'clock in the morning.
There are only three days off in a yearAn emperor like Yongzheng is really very rare in history, and there is not even an emperor who works as hard as him.
But this kind of routine is destined to lead to his very unhealthy healthStaying up late every day, coupled with high-intensity work, caused his body to have problems early.
But don't look at his high-intensity work and staying up late, he has exceeded the average living age of the emperor, reaching the age of fifty-eight years old, if it weren't for his dizziness in the later period,Looking for some secret recipe for longevity, he finally ate the poisonous pill and finally died, otherwise he would definitely live for a few more years.
And the pill is also one of the reasons why the emperor does not live long.
Speaking of pills,This is a popular saying that began during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, and it was also at that time that Qin Shi Huang began to mobilize the power of the royal family to start looking for alchemists who could make alchemy, so that they could refine an elixir that could live long for the emperor's use.
This practice of Qin Shi Huang also caused later generations to follow suitWith the addition of Qin Shi Huang, there are four emperors in Chinese history who died early after taking longevity pills.
Speaking of which, there are still some feelings, the pursuit of the secret recipe for longevity, but because of this secret recipe led to an early death, which can't help but make people feel embarrassed.
However, this is also the choice of these emperors, but as long as they are less ambitious, they will not be affected by longevity, because if these alchemists can refine the elixir of longevity,Why don't they eat it themselves? But for the emperor to refine?
No matter how great the emperor's power is, with this kind of thaumaturgy, I believe that many people will choose to follow this alchemist, because even if the emperor has great power, he is an ordinary person after allAnd an alchemist who can refine the elixir of longevity is obviously beyond common sense and is no longer an ordinary person.
Ordinary people and non-ordinary people, you can know which person to be loyal to when you compare the two, the emperor gives you only worldly things after all, and the alchemist can give you a chance to live a long life.
So the emperor is too ambitious, so he was deceived by the scene in front of him, thinking that he could live a long life, after all, every time he went to the court, the ministers would shoutThe slogan "My Emperor, Long live, Long live, Long live", the emperor just wanted to turn this slogan into reality.
But longevity is still a legend after allMaybe people in the future can do it, but at the current level, human beings will not be able to live a long life, let alone backward ancient times.
As mentioned above, the backwardness of ancient times, especially the backwardness of medical technology, after thousands of years of development, China's medical technology has undergone earth-shaking changesThere is an obvious contrast between many terminal illnesses in ancient times, and now there are plans that can be used.
At that time, as long as there was an infectious disease, it was common to be killed immediately, and the corpse was burned to prevent the virus from infecting more people.
In modern times, thoughThe advent of antibiotics saved the situation, and people no longer had to worry about the appearance of infectious diseasesThere is no need to worry about being killed immediately if you get an infectious disease, and the advent of antibiotics can be said to have saved the vast majority of people.
The backwardness of medical skills is also one of the reasons why the emperor can't live for a long time, because once there is a mistake and the emperor dies, then this doctor has a few heads that are not enoughEven family members will be affected, so many imperial doctors will not risk giving the emperor **, only in the case of nine out of ten**.
In addition to these reasons, there is also a very important reason, and that is that many "emperors" are not really "emperors", the reason why they are not real emperors,Because they did not have the rights of the emperor during their reign, the imperial power was controlled by the powerful ministers of the court.
As long as the emperor does not listen to them, they will depose the emperor, or even create an accident, let the emperor "die" and then replace it with an obedient emperor to listen to them. There are still many such cases in history, and this kind of emperor is also called a "puppet emperor".
The more famous puppet emperor is Sima Rui, the emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although he is the founder of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but he can establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty and rely on Wang Dao,If it weren't for Wang Dao helping him, he wouldn't have been able to become an emperor at all.
Therefore, in order to thank Director Wang for his help,After he became the emperor, he reused Wang Dao, but this was also the practice he regretted the most in his life.
After Wang introduced the dynasty, he relied on his kindness to Sima Rui, so he had considerable power in the court, and he bit by little encompassed the relationship between the ministers of the courtIn the end, Sima Rui's rights were set aside little by little, and finally Sima Rui became a famous puppet emperor in history.
There are many puppet emperors like Sima Rui in history, and some of them didn't even have time to become puppet emperors, and they were even killed just a few days after they ascended the throne.
What's more, as the king of a country, of course, it is impossible to do everything, because the country is too big, and it starts from the dynasty to convey orders downwardWhen I arrived in a remote village, it was estimated that it would take several months, and even the meaning had changed.
Therefore, there are many emperors who do not have this meaning, but when they get to the bottom, they change their meaning, and once these orders are not good for the local people, they will be badThen this hatred will be recorded on the emperor's head, so the emperor will face not only the threat of ministers, but also the prevention of assassination of the people everywhere.
The last two reasons are the diet and the color of wineThe reason why these two are said together is because they are deeply linked.
In many film and television dramas, we can see the emperor drinking wine and eating meat over and over again, and appreciating the beauty dancing over and over again, which is the emperor's way of leisure and entertainmentHowever, it is generally the more pedantic kind of emperor who does this.
But in that ancient time when there were no mobile phones and the Internet,It seems that I can't think of any more interesting entertainment, so watching beautiful women dancing has become one of the entertainment methods of the ancients.
And in ancient times, they didn't pay attention to any dietary rulesAnd what is delicious, what is good is always eaten, which leads to the emperor's figure is generally relatively obese.
And not all emperors are the same as Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youzhang, who only married one wife in his life, without concubines and other lovers, and truly achieved the behavior of loving only one person in his life.
Almost all emperors have several, dozens, or even hundreds of concubines, and the emperor's harem even has three thousand beauties in the harem, and the emperor is just an ordinary personIt is naturally unbearable for him to deal with so many people, not to mention that there is wine destroying the body, and Emperor Liu Biao of the Han Dynasty is a model emperor who died on a woman's belly.
In summary,The reason why the ancient emperors did not live long has a lot to do with these six reasons, after reading it, do you still want to be an emperor? If you have ideas, please leave them in the comment section.