In ancient historical dramas, when it comes to the story of the emperor, we often hear such a sentence. It may sound funny, but it does have a historical basis.
After all, "the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister", as the ruler of this world, it is his greatest wish to live a long life and rule the country for a long time.
In order to fulfill this wish, he spared no effort and sent messengers to find the fairyland, asking the immortals for the secret recipe for immortality.
In the 2,132 years from the beginning to the end of China's imperial era, nearly 500 emperors ascended the throne. However, there are very few emperors who live long and reign for a long time, and on the contrary, there are many emperors who die early or live a short life.
For example, Liu Long, the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was only 1 year old when he reigned, and was the youngest and shortest-lived emperor in Chinese history.
Another example is Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo, although he lived to be 38 years old, he lived in the shadow of his father Mingshenzong all his life, and died after only one month on the throne, which can be called the saddest emperor in history.
Compared with Mingguangzong, the situation of Emperor Wanyan Chenglin was even more tragic, and his reign lasted only one hour, making him the shortest reigning emperor in Chinese history.
Therefore, the emperor can be said to be a high-risk profession. In Chinese history, there were only six emperors who could serve for more than 50 years, and Li Qianshun, the emperor of Western Xia, was one of them.
He was born in the ninth year of Da'an (1083) in Western Xia, ascended the throne in the first year of Tian'an Liding (1086), and died in the fifth year of Dade (1139), reigning for 53 years at the age of fifty-seven.
Li Qianshun: A young hero of Western Xia, ending the aristocracy, revitalizing economic diplomacy, and making wise decisions. Liu Che: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, the British lord of the Western Han Dynasty, governed well, opened up territory, and was a long-lived emperor in a history of 5,000 years.
Li Renxiao, the son of Li Qianshun of Chongzong of the Western Xia, was born in the sixth year of Yuande (1124), reigned for 54 years, died at the age of 70, and tied for fourth place with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Under his leadership, many major reforms were carried out, opening a new chapter in the history of Western Xia.
During the reign of Li Renxiao, Renzong of the Western Xia, there were few wars between the three kingdoms, so they were able to fully govern domestic affairs, and the country's strength increased greatly, attracting tribute from various countries in the Western Regions, and the culture reached its peak.
His policy of administration was biased towards civilian rule, but this also led to the gradual disappearance of armaments and the weakening of combat effectiveness. In the later period, the Western Xia was repeatedly defeated and began to decline. The third place is the sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jueluo Hongli.
He was the fourth emperor after the capital of Beijing, the year name "Qianlong", born in the 50th year of Kangxi, the 13th year of Yongzheng, the 60th year of Qianlong Chan in the fifteenth son of Yanyan, although he abdicated, but still controlled the supreme power of the Qing Empire until the death of Jiaqing in the fourth year at the age of eighty-nine.
Qing Gaozong Aixinjue Luo Hongli and Qing Shengzu Aixinjue Luo Xuanye are two very famous emperors in Chinese history, both of whom had rich political and cultural achievements.
During his reign, Hongli further completed the unification of the multi-ethnic country and promoted socio-economic and cultural development. His revision of the "Siku Quanshu" and his advocacy of "**** are also widely controversial.
At the same time, he was also a talented poet, and his poetic works reached the level of "All Tang Poems". In his later years, he called himself a "perfect old man".
Xuan Ye was the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and during his reign, he stabilized the situation of the country and promoted the development of culture and technology.
He was born in the eleventh year of Shunzhi (1654) and died in the sixty-first year of Kangxi (1722), reigning for 61 years at the age of sixty-nine.
The founder of the Qing Dynasty, Qing Shengzu Aixinjue Luo Xuanye, is recognized as a great monarch, and his reign created a prosperous situation of the "prosperous era of Kangqian", and is respected as the "Emperor of the Ages".
However, in his later years, he failed to properly deal with the issue of the choice of the crown prince, which triggered a fierce "Kowloon Succession Dispute".
Together with his grandson Qianlong, he reigned for 121 years, which is more than the reign of many other dynasties, which is very rare.
In fact, he was the longest-reigning and longest-lived emperor of all Chinese dynasties. In second place was Zhao Tuo, the martial emperor of South Vietnam. He was the founder of the Nanyue Kingdom of the Han Dynasty and was born around 240 BC.
He reigned from the third year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (204 BC) to the fourth year of the founding of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (137 BC), and ruled for 67 years, dying at the age of more than 100.
He was the longest-reigning and longest-lived emperor of all Chinese dynasties. Zhao Tuo was originally a general of the Qin Dynasty, and he went south with Ren Huan to attack Baiyue, and was appointed as the commander of Longchuan in Nanhai County.
In the first year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (206 BC), Ren Huan died of illness, and he took over the post of county guard of Nanhai County.
During the period of chaos in the world at the end of the Qin Dynasty, he conveyed the instructions to the troops at the passes of Nanling to defend against danger, and took the opportunity to kill the officials placed by the Qin Dynasty in Nanhai County and replace them with his own cronies.
In the third year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (204 BC), Zhao Tuo raised troops to annex Guilin County and Xiang County, established the Nanyue Kingdom in Lingnan, proclaimed himself the "King of Nanyue Wu", and once called the emperor.
In the summer of 196 BC, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, sent his physician Lu Jia as an envoy to Nanyue, and successfully persuaded Emperor Zhao Tuowu to join the Han Dynasty and become a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, and accepted the seal of the king of Nanyue from the Han Dynasty.
Although the Nanyue Kingdom still maintained a certain degree of independence in the following period, it was called king externally and emperor internally.
However, the establishment of the Nanyue State and the implementation of the "Harmony and Baiyue" policy implemented by Zhao Tuo introduced the farming technology and advanced culture of the Central Plains, and at the same time introduced the foreign culture and maritime culture into Lingnan, so that the Lingnan region entered the era of agricultural civilization from backward slash-and-burn farming, and made a significant contribution to the development of the Lingnan region, which is indelible.