Someone once made a very interesting statistic: from the three emperors and five emperors to the abdication of Puyi, in these thousands of years, China has produced a total of 559 emperors, of which 209 emperors with exact birth and death dates can be examined, and the average life expectancy of these 209 emperors is less than 40 years old, only 39.2 years old.
As the saying goes, the emperor has one meal, and the people have half a year's worth of food. The emperor did not worry about eating and drinking, why was the average life expectancy so short?
First, the emperor who died prematurely pulled down the average.
There are not many doll emperors in history, and some young emperors died of illness and because they killed him when they were not yet young. For example, Liu Yi, the eight-year-old Han emperor who succeeded to the throne, was poisoned by the general Liang Yi at the age of nine; Liu Long, the Han emperor who inherited the throne less than a hundred days after his birth, died of illness less than one year old. And these emperors who died early pulled down the average life expectancy of emperors.
Second, emperors are a high-risk profession.
The emperor looks quite beautiful, it can be said that in ancient times, whoever became the emperor was equivalent to having the whole world.
In this case, it is inevitable that ambitious people will risk their lives, some will directly rebel, and some will design to poison the emperor, and no matter what the situation, the emperor will inevitably die.
Speaking of which, there are still many emperors who have also been poisoned in history, and there are one or twenty of them in detail. For example, The Hanping Emperor Liu Yan was poisoned by Wang Mang, the Han Emperor Liu Wei was poisoned by Liang Yi, the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei was poisoned by Dong Zhuo, the Jin Hui Emperor Sima Zheng was poisoned by Sima Yue, the King of the East Sea, the Jin Huai Emperor Sima Chi was poisoned by Liu Cong, and so on.
Therefore, the emperor is actually a high-risk profession, if he is incompetent, it is easy to be poisoned by the ambitious ministers below; if he is faint and corrupt, coveting pleasure, the people under the sky may rise up and directly overthrow and kill the emperor.
Third, covet beauty and exhaust energy.
The emperor is a high-risk and high-reward profession, the high-risk lies in the ease of being killed, and the most direct embodiment of high return should be the three thousand beautiful ladies in the harem, except for a few emperors, the harems of other emperors have at least twenty or thirty beautiful concubines. Although the concubines of the harem did not necessarily have the beauty of the country, they were at least in line with the mainstream aesthetics of the time.
Some emperors did not hold back, and in a hurry, they were immersed in beauty every day. Although the emperor claims to be the Son of Heaven, but in the end he is only a mortal fetus, if he is immersed in beauty for a long time, he will be light and hurt his body, and if he is heavy, he will destroy the country and lose his life.
For example, Liu Xiao, the Emperor of Hancheng, was very, but in the end he died because of his beauty, and died in Zhao Hede's bed.
Fourth, eat the elixir indiscriminately.
As the saying goes, it is a three-point poison of medicine.
However, in history, some emperors in order to pursue the illusory immortality, or because of the immersion in beauty, resulting in energy loss, at this time there are some very unreliable, but thieves can fool the jianghu warlocks out to show off the so-called alchemy.
And the refining of the elixir, the elixir, which contains a large number of heavy metals, nitrates and other toxic substances, this thing eats almost like eating chronic poison, some emperors eat chronic poison every day, can live a long life is to see the ghost.
In history, there were also many emperors who died due to taking Dan medicine, and the more typical one should be Zhu Changluo of the MingGuang Sect.