Li Shimin actually took the wrong medicine and was insatiable on the issue of life and death.

He is an emperor with high IQ and emotional intelligence. It is inevitable that he also wants to live a long life, and it is best to live forever. This kind of pursuit was understandable at that time, and it was the most greedy extravagant hope of maximizing interests.

In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, Wang Xuance led an army to attack Tianzhu and brought back a foreign monk, Rona Nanpo Mei. This Luoyou Nanpo eyebrow claimed that she could live forever. She was very interested in Li Shimin, so she paid deep respect to this Luoyou Nanpo eyebrow and asked him to cooperate with the medicine for prolonging life. In order to dispense medicines, people were sent to various places to look for exotic medicines and stones, and even many people were sent to India on business trips to look for medicinal materials. Fairy medicine can't be reliable. I can only fool around for a while, but I can't get along in the end. Li Shimin didn't blame him and let him go. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, died and the prince succeeded to the throne. This buddy came to Chang 'an again, but the court let him go back.

At this time, Wang Xuance, who took him to Chang 'an, said that he regretted it: Indian monks can indeed synthesize elixir, and he said that he would succeed. It's a pity to send him back now. Li Zhi is not easy to argue. In front of Wang Xuance, he said nothing. After Wang Xuance retired from the DPRK, Li Zhi said: Where are the immortals since ancient times? They are all looking for immortals everywhere, exhausting our people, wasting people and money, and finally finding nothing. If there are immortal people, where are they now? Li Yue said: What the emperor said is. This time, the monk came to Chang 'an again, with an old face and gray hair, which was different from before. How can he master the art of immortality? Your majesty told him to return to China, which is a beautiful talk both inside and outside the court.

The foreign monk finally died in Chang 'an. It turns out that in the Tang Dynasty, the monarch and his subjects wanted to clean up the foreign monks, but they couldn't find a suitable excuse and were afraid of being laughed at by foreigners, so they had to knock out their teeth and swallow them into their stomachs.

It should be said that it is not difficult for Li Shimin to understand or absorb the experience and lessons of Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi. But I still can't avoid taking the same road and suffering the same troubles and sufferings. They are all outstanding people. On the issue of life and death, their IQ is below average, and there is only one explanation: greed.

The lesson of Li Shimin is obvious to future generations. It's another matter to see what to do when you see it clearly. Although Tang Xianzong can rationally discuss the lessons of predecessors Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi and Emperor Taizong with his lieutenants, this does not prevent him from bowing to the Buddha's bones and worshiping Buddha with his national strength. In November of the thirteenth year of Yuanhe, Xianzong appointed Liu Bi as the secretariat of Quanzhou. The thing is this: Tang Xianzong is a kind fairy, and he sent a letter to seek the elixir of life. Li, a former Hubei observer, is worried about his personal political future because of his reputation for greed and violence. In order to protect himself and cater to Tang Xianzong's eagerness to live forever and seek medical treatment, he recommended Taoist Liu Bi to Chang 'an to practice medicine.

When Liu Ying met Tang Xianzong, she told him many things: Tiantai Mountain is a place where immortals gather. There are many herbs there, although I know, but I can't do it. If I can become the governor of that place, I will try my best to work harder. Tang Xianzong listened to this letter, full of infinite longing, and immediately appointed Liu Bi as the right-knowing secretariat of Taizhou, which is equivalent to acting as the secretariat of Taizhou. My deputies tried to dissuade me: in the past, some monarchs liked alchemists to pursue immortality, but no alchemist was appointed as a local governor. Tang Xianzong's answer is actually: Why can't I bear to give up a country's manpower and material resources for the sake of the monarch's longevity? The emperor is reasonable and emotional, so shouldn't the emperor seek immortality? Shouldn't liegeman make his due contribution to the emperor's blessing and longevity? So, I have nothing to say.

Another famous allusion in Tang Xianzong is the Buddha's bone in Yingfamen Temple, and Han Yu, who criticized it, was sent to Chaozhou as punishment. In the 13th year of Yuanhe, it is said that the phalanx of Buddha Sakyamuni was hidden in the national protection tower of Famen Temple in Yu Fengxiang. According to legend, in the 30 years since the stupa opened, the people are beaming in the year of harvest, and next year will be the year when the stupa opened. Please welcome the Buddha bone. Tang Xianzong listened to this, just to his liking, and sent someone to meet him. In the first month of the fourteenth year of Yuanhe, the Buddha's bone went to Chang 'an, and Xianzong respectfully invited him into the palace for three days, and sent him to major temples for believers to pay homage.

From princes and nobles to ordinary people, they all rushed to sacrifice. In extreme cases, Han Yu is very upset when he sees it. He wrote a famous Buddhist bone theory, criticizing the emperor's excessive worship of Buddhism from the perspective of tradition and common sense. From today's point of view, the truth of Han Yu's article is extremely simple, but at that time, the argument that too much belief in Buddhism in the article was not conducive to national luck, and that most emperors famous for believing in Buddhism were short-lived was obviously hurting the emperor and greatly violating taboos. Tang Xianzong's first reaction after reading this chapter was to execute Han Yu.

Fortunately, Pei Du, the prime minister, tried his best to defend Han Yu, exhorting him that it was all because of Han Yu's loyalty, otherwise he would never have made such remarks. Many senior officials also thought that the punishment for Han Yu was too heavy, and persuaded Tang Xianzong many times, and finally reduced the punishment and demoted Han Yu, the vice minister of punishments, to a history of tide and criticism. For Han Yu, it can only be said that luck is not too bad.

Longing for a long life is understandable. In the history of China, it is not uncommon to make trouble for immortality, but to trick people. Just like a generation of English lords like Emperor Taizong, there are no exceptions. They still took the wrong medicine and the wrong key medicine. Possession of power and wealth may stimulate people's greed, and the special status of power and wealth above all people also makes the emperor's ambition and greed uncontrollable and swell to the top of the world. The emperor played the biggest joke about taking medicine. This is a tragedy for the country. The heavy price paid by the emperor for his personal preferences and pursuits may have to be paid by the whole society.