It is said that ancient emperors were high-risk occupations?

Someone once said that there was an occupation in ancient China, which was very dangerous and had a very high mortality rate. This profession is the "emperor"! Emperors often die suddenly and are often killed, and six of them live less than 40 years old.

There are 427 emperors in history.

The statistics of how many emperors have been produced in the history of China are often different. Limited by space, some "short-lived emperors" or "small imperial courts" are not counted, so there are data differences. According to official historical data, the "kings" and "khans" of remote ethnic minorities such as Nanyue, Dali, Nanzhao, Gaochang, Bohai, Beiliao, Tuguhun, Karahan Dynasty, Uighur khanate and Chahetai khanate are not counted, and all regimes that have had contact with the Central Plains since Qin Shihuang are counted.

Three in the Qin Dynasty, 365,438+0 in the Han Dynasty (including emperor Liu Xuan who changed the world and emperor Liu Penzi who founded the world), 65,438+0 in Xin Mang, 65,438+03 in the Three Kingdoms, 65,438+08 in the Jin Dynasty, 65 in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, 5 in the Sui Dynasty and 22 in the Tang Dynasty (including "Wu Zhou"). Jin Dynasty/KL. There are also four in Western Liao Dynasty (Karachitan), 65,438+09 in Beiyuan and three in Nanming, including Emperor Xu Tianshou, An Lushan and his son, Shi Siming and his son, Emperor Yan Shundi, Huang Chao, Li Zicheng, Zhang, Wu Sangui, Emperor Zhao of Zhou Dynasty and Taiping.

Six of them lived less than 40 years old.

When the emperor asked his subjects to say "Long live", they hoped to live for 10 thousand years, but in fact their average life expectancy was lower than that of the poor. According to the rough statistics recorded in the year of birth and death, none of the more than 400 emperors lived to be over 90 years old, five lived to be over 80 years old (including 80 years old), 10 lived to be over 70 years old, 38 lived to be over 60 years old, 62 lived to be over 50 years old, 55 lived to be 40 to 49 years old, and 62 lived to be 30 to 39 years old.

Statistics show that less than 13% of emperors in China lived beyond 60 years old, and as high as 60% lived under 40 years old. The average life expectancy is much lower than the national average in the same period, and the mortality rate is much higher than the national average. A person is ambitious, and at the same time, he has gone through hardships to win the title of emperor, which actually means that his life has entered the countdown. The most dangerous dynasty was the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a total of *** 13 emperors. Only Liu Xiu lived to the age of 63, and Liu Xie, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, lived to the age of 54 (after the Zen position, he was favored by his uncle Cao Pi). None of the other 1 1 people lived to be 40 years old, and five people did not live to be 10 years old.

Longevity is the Qing Dynasty. There were *** 10 emperors who lived for 89 years. Kangxi, Yongzheng, Daoguang and Xuantong were all over 60, and Jiaqing was over 50. The average life expectancy of emperors in the Qing Dynasty reached more than 5 1 year, the longest in all previous dynasties.

The second longevity dynasty was the Ming Dynasty, but only Zhu Yuanzhang lived to 7 1 year. The life span of Emperor Jianwen is still under study. Judy lived to 65 years old, Wanli and Jiajing passed 50 years old, and the rest died before 40 years old. Among them, Zhu Changluo, Amin Guangzong (Taichang), lived to be 39 years old. He was the legendary emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who reigned for only one month.

The price of indulging in the emperor is not low

The "emperor" is very attractive, so some people are addicted to the emperor and are willing to die. For example, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, there was a "westward extension" by Murong Hongjian, a Xianbei nationality. From the founding of the People's Republic to its demise, it was * * *1year. In fact, it was completed in three years with seven emperors. In 386 AD alone, "Xiyan" had five emperors, and one in two and a half months. Moreover, four car owners have changed in one month this year, with an average of 7.5 days to change one, which is similar to the time to change a band-aid. According to the ratio of "emperor per capita" and "time density", Murong is definitely the gold medal winner. There is also a typical example, that is, Yu Wenhuaji, the famous soldier who killed the emperor of Yang Di, thought of indulging in the emperor after the defeat and sighed: "Life is a solid death, isn't it the emperor's day!" So he proclaimed himself emperor in Wei county, with the title of Xu and Tianshou. A few days later, Dou Jiande was "captured, beheaded with his two sons and died".

In order to "overcome the emperor's addiction", there are people who "strive to be qualified and create conditions unconditionally", such as Wu Sangui and Yuan Shikai.

More than 60 emperors in China were killed, accounting for 15% of the total number of emperors, and the final fate of most direct royal families was very tragic. For example, when the traitor "Emperor Shengwu" An Lushan proclaimed himself emperor for one year and four days, he was assassinated in bed by his son An Qingxu, and blood and intestines flowed out from his abdomen. An Qingxu immediately dug a pit several feet deep under the bed, wrapped An Lushan's body with felt and buried it overnight. "Emperor Shuntian" Shi Siming was also killed by his eldest son Shi Chaoyi and his Ministry. Before he died, he called Shi Chaoyi's name three times and said, "Just imprison me, don't kill my father!" " Ignoring all this, they tied him up and hanged him. Shi Chaoyi committed suicide in embarrassment under the pursuit of Tang Jun, which shows that being an emperor is indeed a very dangerous profession, and the price of "addiction" is not cheap.