The supreme point of power in feudal society always hopes that I will live a little longer so that I can order the warriors of the world to let the world crawl under their feet!
Not really! Since ancient times, emperors have been able to do whatever they want to do who do not want to take it and replace it, which is the desire of people. After becoming emperor, he also had concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards for his own enjoyment, so he was not happy. So how did these emperors explore the secrets of their own immortality to ensure that these positions of power would never be extinguished?
When the average life expectancy of the ancients was only more than 30 years old and more than 40 years old, the emperors all wanted to be one out, some emperors just ignored the government and only lingered in the harem, and some emperors indulged in alchemy to ensure their immortality.
First of all, let's talk about this emperor who lingered in the harem, he is the emperor Liu Biao who has double Zhao in our history, as an emperor who enjoys both Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede sisters at the same time, the daily beauty is in his arms, and the song is not happy every day! But excessive favor damaged the emperor's body, and he finally died on Zhao Hede's bed at a young age, which was amusing to hear, and how strong the dynasty was in the hands of such people, the courtiers under the emperor's selfish pleasures were naturally not much better, so in the end his world slowly disappeared and eventually perished.
So what is the way to live for the second kind of emperor who is addicted to alchemy? This method has been prevalent since the beginning of Qin Shi Huang of the Qin Dynasty in China, when the emperor always thinks that his life is short, then go on to make his life longer, I heard that taking Dan medicine can live longer? Then let the "master" at the bottom get more to eat, and you can always live for a longer time. In the later Tang Dynasty period, this kind of custom can be said to be prevalent, first of all, Tang Taizong Li Shimin, in his later years, he loved the "longevity" elixir, the ingredient of this elixir is actually a heavy metal, eating too much is not good for the body, let alone beneficial to the body. So in the end he was given to eat to death.
There is also his descendant Tang Xianzong, also an emperor obsessed with Dan medicine, but not like his ancestor Emperor Taizong fell in love in his later years, Emperor Xianzong was aware of the importance of "immortality" in middle age, so he traveled all over the land of Shenzhou to actively search for the "elixir" medicine, although he eventually ate the so-called "immortal" medicine, but unfortunately soon he was poisoned into a coma and killed the eunuchs around him.
In any case, many of these Tang emperors after that died at a young age because of their infatuation with this "medicine" in the middle of the way. We won't explain them all.
However, there is a famous emperor in history who is obsessed with the art of "alchemy" is an exception, he is the Jiajing Emperor during the Ming Dynasty, he has never managed the imperial court much, there has been no early dynasty for more than twenty consecutive years, every day in the palace began to study "alchemy" and finally let himself take it, but this strange thing actually took the poison for so long and lived well, and finally survived for 60 years. This is also a big bug in the history of "Dan Yao"! Although this emperor had a tougher life compared with other emperors who took "medicine", his long-term disregard for the affairs of the government led to the rapid decline of the country in his hands and never returned to the past. In the end, he also took a large number of "Dan medicine" and caused chronic poisoning and eventually died in the Qianqing Palace.
Both methods are stimulants on the road to death, and how do you think the emperor is so obsessed with them that there is no cure?