In Chinese history, the emperor system has lasted for more than 2,000 years since the founding of Qin Shi Huang, and there have been nearly 500 emperors. Among them, there are heroes and heroes who are eloquent and strategic and dominate the world, and there are also sad and sad monarchs who have died in the country.
In addition, although some people did not actually ascend the throne as emperors during their lifetimes, they were posthumously crowned emperors because of their outstanding achievements in politics and military affairs, such as Cao Cao.
Do you know who was the youngest emperor in Chinese history when he ascended the throne? Many people may immediately think of the last emperor, Pu Yi, who ascended the throne at the age of three and is widely known for being the last emperor in Chinese history.
I'm telling you that the answer is not him. In fact, if these hundreds of emperors are ranked according to their age when they ascended the throne, Pu Yi may not even be able to enter the top five, and there are many people who ascended the throne younger than him in history.
Among them, the first place is Liu Long, the emperor of the Han Dynasty in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Emperor of Han set two records: he was the youngest when he ascended the throne and the youngest when he died.
Liu Long: The legend of life, ascended the throne in 100 days, and passed away at the age of one. Liu Long, the youngest emperor in the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ascended the throne as emperor at the age of only 100 days, and said goodbye to the world at the age of one.
His short life was legendary.
Why did all the princes in front of Liu Long die young? Historians have found that the reason may not be due to the prince's poor health or the plague, but may have been murdered by the eunuchs and relatives at the time.
This strange fact reveals the instability of the ancient imperial succession.
What a strange historical anecdote! As the emperor, Emperor Han He was helpless about this situation, so he could only swallow his anger and send his sons born later to the palace for foster care.
If it weren't for this arrangement, it might have been difficult for Liu Long to live until the day he ascended the throne. The reason behind this is that the eunuchs and relatives in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty were so powerful that even in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, even the emperor had to be at their mercy, for example, Emperor Ling of Han claimed that the eunuch was his biological father.
Zhang Changshou is his father, and Zhao Changshou is his mother. This is really a sigh of complexity and wonder of history.
Liu Long was able to ascend to the throne because his father, Emperor Liu Zhao of Han and Emperor Liu Zhao, died early, and his elder brother Liu Sheng was unable to inherit the throne because of a strange illness. Empress Deng at that time chose Liu Long as the emperor, perhaps because she thought that a baby emperor would be easier to control the government.
However, the infant emperor who ascended the throne in 100 days died after less than 200 days of reign, which completely exceeded Empress Deng's expectations.
1.He became the youngest and shortest-lived emperor in Chinese history, a record that has not been broken until today, a thousand years later. The middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty was a unique period.
For the average history buff, the first half of the Eastern Han Dynasty is more familiar, because the story of the founding emperor Liu Xiu is so legendary that he has always been called the "son of the plane".
The legend of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty is well known, and the story of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty is even more well-known. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a famous ** that almost all illiterate and literate people in China have read, and its related stories are known to women and children.
Maybe you don't know much about the story of the middle Eastern Han Dynasty, especially the middle and late periods, because there seems to be nothing worth mentioning in this part of history. Cai Lun's invention of paper and Zhang Heng's manufacture of geokinetic instruments are the most famous events of this period.
However, the story of the emperors of this period is a story of a nest, and they even had to rely on eunuchs to rule the country.
As much as I try to change this, the truth is helpless. The reasons for this situation are very complicated, mainly because the power of relatives and eunuchs in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty was too strong for me to control.
The root cause of this situation lies in the untimely death of most of the emperors in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty. From the Hundred Days Emperor Liu Long to the Han Shao Emperor Liu Bian, there were a total of eight emperors. The longest-lived was Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty, who was thirty-six years old when he died.
The shortest was Emperor Ying of Han, who was just over a year old when he died.
1.The emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty reigned for a short time and was unable to solve internal and external troubles, resulting in excessive power of the eunuch group. 2.The chaotic court caused the entire country to be in turmoil and unable to maintain normal order.
3.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the court was still in chaos, the emperor could not control the situation, and relatives and eunuch groups fought with each other.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne at the beginning, and within a few months, the eunuchs staged a coup d'état to eradicate the Dou family's foreign relatives group, and the ten permanent servants took control of the government. The eunuchs wantonly sold their officials and lords, and the court was smoky.
After the death of Emperor Huan, Empress He took over, and her brother He Jin was the general at the beginning of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
He Jin originally wanted to eliminate the eunuchs and monopolize power, but the matter was revealed, and he was killed by the eunuch instead. In order to save himself, he summoned Dong Zhuo of the Western Liang Army to Beijing, which directly led to the collapse of the court.
At the same time, the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Army Uprising hastened the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the chaos of the Three Kingdoms era began. In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, institutional problems were the source of chaos, and the only way to select talents, namely filial piety and honesty, caused various problems.
The emperor relied on only two factions of relatives and eunuchs to govern the government.
Before the advent of the imperial examination system, the emperor mainly relied on eunuchs or relatives to govern the country. After thousands of years, this situation finally changed with the advent of the imperial examination system.
The imperial examination system gave people from the poor a chance to become the best, and gradually formed a civil official group. Compared with the first two, the civilian clique was clearly better at governing the country, and its talent was significantly higher than that of eunuchs or relatives.
This is also one of the reasons why, after the emergence of the imperial examination system, although the Central Plains experienced a change of dynasty, it still maintained a great unification on the whole. If you want to know more, you may wish to click to follow.