History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
When it comes to the emperor's reign time, everyone may think of Kangxi and Qianlong, these two grandchildren can be regarded as ruling the Qing Dynasty for half the time, Kangxi reigned for 61 years, and Qianlong also reigned for 60 years, these two can be called the longest reigning emperors in history. However, when it comes to the emperor who reigned for the shortest time, everyone may think of the Hongxian Emperor Yuan Shikai, who was mixed in the Qing Palace when he was young, after the Xinhai Revolution, after the North and South Negotiations, in order to let him protect the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen abdicated, Yuan Shikai became the president of the Republic of China, in 1916 Yuan Shikai could not control the ambition to claim the emperor, brazenly restored the imperial system, changed the era name to Hongxian, and later had to abdicate under the pressure of the Patriotic Movement, reigning for only 83 days.
It seems that Yuan Shikai's time as emperor is not relatively short, but it is not the shortest, and there are many people in history who have reigned shorter than him. For example, prince Baby Qin (the third and last monarch of the Qin Dynasty) only took 46 days from the time he ascended the throne to surrender.
But this is not a short time, Ming Guangzong only took 29 days from the ascension to the throne to his death, but it is not the shortest, the ninth emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu He, reigned for only 27 days, and was known as the King of Changyi, which is the prototype of the foolish emperor in the Oolong Affair Pass.
Although twenty or thirty days seems to be short, there are still shorter than this, for example, an emperor before Tang Xuanzong in the Tang Dynasty named Li Chongmao, who reigned for only 17 days, was ousted from the throne by Li Longji and Princess Taiping, and the most distraught should be said that the late Jin Emperor Finished Yan Chenglin, just ascended the throne, was attacked by the Song army to break through Nancheng, the previous emperor hanged himself, and this emperor also gave his predecessor a nickname "Emperor Waizong", not knowing that he was living for at most one or two more hours. In the end, the sub-city was broken, and the last emperor led an army to meet the enemy and died in the rebellion. This is really the shortest, and it will take no more than half a day to die.
These emperors are not in an era, and this kind of emperor is also a rare encounter in a hundred years. But this dynasty
However, in just over half a year, there have been several emperors, and it can be regarded as a rare encounter in a thousand years to meet together. This dynasty was Later Zhao, the dynasty established by Shi Le in the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and Shi Hu died of illness shortly after the death of his five-year-old grandson. Thirty-three days after his death, his son Shi Shi ascended the throne and was killed by another son, Shi Zun. Shi Zun ascended the throne for one hundred and eighty-three days, and was killed by another son, Shi Jian. Shi Jian ascended to the pole for one hundred and three days, and was killed by his general Ran Min. Three consecutive emperors were killed for power, and the dynasty came to an end. Since ancient times, people have thought that the emperor is good, but they don't know that some emperors are not as good as the commoners.