There is such an interesting choice question, as a person living in modern society, are you willing to be an ordinary person in modern society, or an emperor of ancient society? The interesting thing about this multiple choice question is that in the face of the huge difference in identity between the emperor and ordinary people, everyone is more willing to be an ordinary person.
In fact, the reason is very simple, when an emperor experiences the feeling of a handful of people above ten thousand people is indeed very good, but after such a momentary feeling has passed, he has to face a completely unfree life and all aspects of the backwardness of ancient society. What mobile phone computer TV does not exist, the only entertainment every day may be to feed the fish, and the level of medical care is low, a tetanus may be a small life on the account, so when the emperor has great power, but compared to modern people, the material conditions are also very backward, the most intuitive point is that the average life expectancy of modern people is basically seventy or eighty, and the ancient emperors rarely lived past forty years old.
Of the more than five hundred emperors we know at present, only Qianlong lived to the age of eighty-nine, the longest-lived emperor. He is completely a winner in ancient life, before he was born, his grandfather was already at peace, and when his father was in power, he filled the treasury, and what was handed over to him was the Taiping Dynasty, as long as he did not die himself, he could be the emperor of a stable and stable life. And the Qianlong in the historical records is indeed very enjoyable, when he reigned, the country was rich and the people were strong, the country had no economic crisis, he often went down to Jiangnan, leaving countless histories of wind and glory.
However, he can only be regarded as a good case, in fact, the average life expectancy of the emperor has not exceeded forty, although the average life expectancy of ancient people is only about fifty, but the living conditions of the emperor are better, should not live longer? First of all, such data is indeed somewhat inaccurate, because the ancient medical level is too backward, so the mortality rate is relatively high, which translates to a low average life expectancy.
There are also many places where the emperor can't help himself, for example, when fighting for the right to inherit, many reigning emperors will encounter various assassinations. Open guns are easy to dodge and difficult to defend, and on average, half of the princes are killed by others. Therefore, many novels describe that the emperor is very lonely, and the high place is not cold, not just a moan without illness, but a portrayal of the emperor's real life. When the emperor is not only in danger of life at any time, even if he is not killed, he is worried all day and bears great mental pressure, plus there is no trust in the person who can talk, so he lives very depressed every day.
In addition to the mental pressure given by others, the emperor has to worry a lot every day, especially the diligent emperor. It is said that the worried people get old quickly, and the mother who manages the life of the family generally looks older, let alone the emperor who manages a country.
In ancient times, the emperor got up very early, and before dawn he had to go to the upper court, listen to the ministers report on the situation in various places, give solutions, and then continue to review the recital after the next dynasty, sometimes when he saw the night, then he had to choose which concubine to go to to settle, not only the things of the former dynasty needed to be resolved by the emperor, and the various disputes in the harem also needed to be decided by the emperor, not only physically tired, psychologically more tired, but also unable to resign.
For example, Yongzheng, who is a well-known diligent emperor in history, basically only sleeps for about four hours a day, and after getting up, he is constantly working. It is reasonable to say that the emperor can find someone to help him share some of the pressure, but this means to hand over the power, most of the emperors are control freaks, naturally do not want this to happen, so they can only suffer themselves.
The last reason for the emperor's short life is the harem, and it is said that the countless beauties of the emperor sitting in the harem are the envy of men under the heavens, but every day the emperor needs to consider the rain and dew, in order to prolong the heirs, even if the physical condition is not good, they cannot rest. In the long run, many emperors were directly hollowed out by beauty, and it was impossible to make up for it no matter how many supplements they ate, so everything had a price.