If you want to list a Chinese emperor longevity list, the Kangxi Emperor and the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty must be on the list. However, Kangxi's son, Qianlong's father, the Yongzheng Emperor, was far from being able to compare with them, the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722) ascended the throne at the age of 8 and reigned for a total of 61 years, while the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) took the throne at the age of 24 and reigned for a total of 60 years.
As for the Yongzheng Emperor, he ascended the throne in the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1722), died in 1735, and died after only 13 years on the throne. Regarding the reason for Yongzheng's early death, there are many unconfirmed legends in the folk, and there are even claims that Yongzheng was assassinated by someone, and the person who assassinated him was only a woman. This statement is bizarre and cannot be viewed as truth.
However, we can find some reasons for yongzheng's short reign from his life before his death. Yongzheng lived for 58 years, which is not a short life expectancy among ancient emperors, after all, there are still emperors in history who have only lived for two years, and emperors who have only reigned for more than 1 month. However, Yongzheng's process of obtaining the throne was not as smooth as that of his son Hongli.
Whether Yongzheng will succeed to the throne in a justified manner or get the throne by correction is a matter of opinion and inconclusive. However, there is no doubt that the Qing Dynasty's most famous and most involved event for the throne, the "Nine Sons and Concubines", was yongyong involved. In the royal family, the pressure faced when Yongzheng was Baylor and prince should not be small, especially in terms of spirit.
It takes a lot of effort to compete for the throne, which may be one reason why Yongzheng's life expectancy is not as good as that of his father and son. However, there is also a very important reason, that is, after Yongzheng took the throne, he did not "recuperate", but desperately joined the Qing Dynasty Labor Model Competition Competition, and there was no "combination of work and leisure".
For Yongzheng, only labor is the most glorious. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was a world on horseback, successive emperors paid attention to riding and shooting, in other words, sports exercise, Kangxi often went out of the way, Qianlong also often safarid and patrolled, only the Yongzheng Emperor was generally interested in these, he threw himself into the approval of the fold, and expanded the scale of the "secret fold" system set up by the Kangxi Emperor.
In this way, Yongzheng's daily need for the Imperial Reading fold has also increased countless, according to the statistics of historical books, Yongzheng left more than 35,000 Pieces of Chinese Music Folding, more than 6,600 Manchu Folds, a total of more than 41,600 pieces, and everything must be done personally, never fake others, even if it is approved until late at night, but also insist on "doing their own things", never slacking off.
Moreover, if the minister's recital inspired Yongzheng, he would also add an impromptu composition on it, and the Zhu batch with the largest number of words in Yongzheng reached more than 1,000 words, and the annotations on the folding, the part, and the general text reached a total of 10 million words; Cao Xueqin wrote about 610,000 words of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in ten years, and Yongzheng was equivalent to writing 16 "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the number of words.
In addition, Yongzheng's rest time was also very small, he only rested a little more on his birthday, and the rest of the time was almost dedicated to the batch fold. The history books record that Yongzheng often "held the candle to the night of C, the midnight did not stop", did not work day and night, just like his strength, almost caught up with the machine, the body does not deteriorate is strange. Moreover, in his later years, Yongzheng was also fascinated by Daoist alchemy.
It may have been to improve his body, but the alchemy did not restore Yongzheng's health, and may have accelerated the deterioration of his health. The body is overdrawn because of work, and does not pay attention to exercise and diet, the short reign of Yongzheng and the bad habits of life are closely related, but many young people and middle-aged people in modern times are still often committed, do not love sports, only care about hard work, in fact, this is not advisable.