Death of King Xiaowen of Qin.
For example, the death of Qin Xiaowen Wang 2000 years ago was understood by many people as a conspiracy theory, and even in the early 90s TV series "Qin Shi Huang", it was also believed that Qin Xiaowen Died after three days of reign and was poisoned by Lü Buwei, but the truth is actually not as complicated as the conspirators imagine.
Introduction to King Xiaowen of Qin.
Of course, according to the original succession order, King Qin Xiaowen's throne could not be turned over to him, because the eldest son of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, the brother of King Xiaowen of Qin, was the successor to the throne of qin, that is, the qin state of Qin.
However, due to bad luck, King Xiaowen of Qin's younger brother did not live until his father's death, which forced King Zhaoxiang of Qin to consider changing the heir to the throne, so King Xiaowen of Qin became the heir of King Zhaoxiang of Qin.
Naturally, King Xiaowen of Qin was actually the King of Qin for a year, the so-called Three Heavenly Kings, referring to the fact that King Xiaowen of Qin officially ascended the throne after the expiration of the period of filial piety, and only died after three days, after the death of King Xiaowen of Qin, his son inherited the throne, that is, Qin Zhuangxiang, the father of Qin Shi Huang.
2. Investigation of the cause of death.
In fact, instead of saying why King Xiaowen of Qin only served for three days, it would be better to think about it another way of thinking, if King Zhaoxiang of Qin reigned for another year, would King Xiaowen of Qin have a chance to succeed to the throne? The answer is definitely no.
Because, if King Xiaowen of Qin could not survive until his father died and die first, then King Zhaoxiang of Qin would still have to replace his heir to the throne, and there was no political problem in history.
In fact, King Xiaowen of Qin was deposed after only three days on the throne, for the simple reason that his life had really come to an end.
King Xiaowen of Qin's father reigned for more than 50 years, resulting in none of his eldest sons being spared. Although King Xiaowen of Qin was an elder brother, like his own brother, even if he could not live his father, after all, everyone was actually old, not to mention, when King Xiaowen was alive, his body was already overdrawn.
In that year, King Xiaowen of Qin became crown prince, and even after An Guojun, he was already in a state of wives and concubines, which actually had a very adverse effect on the body.
However, An Guojun was originally only a wild crane among the children of the Qin king's clan, and even if he had many wives and concubines, it did not have much impact on his life expectancy, but with the canonization of An Guojun as the crown prince, The work of King Xiaowen of Qin also began to be busy.
Because the old King of Qin was old at that time, many things were already inadequate, so these tasks had to be handed over to the prince to do, as mentioned above, when King Xiaowen of Qin was already not small, that is to say, the same elderly King Xiaowen of Qin also had to worry about the affairs of the Qin state.
Fatigue, coupled with excessive private life before, eventually led to problems in the health of King Xiaowen of Qin, so it is not surprising that King Xiaowen of Qin died three days after his official accession to the throne, in fact, this situation has occurred countless times in Chinese history.
Second, a similar situation.
Tang Suzong's embarrassing throne.
There are many examples of this in Chinese history, in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong's heir was Tang Suzong, who reigned for about 6 years, but few people remember that when Tang Suzong succeeded to the throne, due to the influence of the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Suzong was elected by the ministers, Tang Suzong stayed in the north as emperor, and his father Tang Xuanzong was far away in Sichuan, was the Taishang Emperor, and in this way, Tang Xuanzong inexplicably became the Taishang Emperor.
About ten days later, Tang Suzong also died of deteriorating health, which means that during this year, Tang Xuanzong died two emperors.
In fact, from another point of view, if Tang Xuanzong did not abdicate because of the impact of the Anshi Rebellion, but waited until his death and let Tang Suzong succeed to the throne, then Tang Suzong would also be the emperor who died after more than ten days of reign.
In fact, it was very normal for Tang Suzong to die, because Tang Suzong's health was not good, and even tang Suzong's situation was very difficult to survive Tang Xuanzong.
2. Ming Dynasty.
This situation was most typical during the Ming Dynasty, when there were a number of short-lived emperors who did not reign long. For example, Akihito reigned for only 10 months, for the simple reason that his father, Emperor Yongle, reigned too long and lived too long, and Akihito was in poor health, so Akihito died shortly after succeeding to the throne.
Akihito was of course lucky, after all, he inherited the throne, but his great uncle was luckier than his great uncle. Emperor Akihito's great uncle was Zhu Biao, the crown prince of Zhu Yuanzhang, who failed to survive his father Zhu Zhongba, and died before he could inherit the throne.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang later considered it again and again, or chose to let Zhu Biao's son become emperor, which is the historical Jianwen Emperor, but the Jianwen Emperor was a cowardly and absurd person, and eventually lost the throne.
Of course, more typical is the "one-dimensional Tianzi" in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Taichang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was the son of the Wanli Emperor, who reigned for more than 40 years and died only a month after he succeeded to the throne.
There were two causes of death, one was due to the abuse of various supplements after emperor Taichang ascended the throne, and the other was excessive indulgence, which seriously damaged the health of the body. Another reason was that the Wanli Emperor had been in power for a long time, which gave emperor Taichang too much mental pressure and eventually damaged his health.
There is also a saying that the death of Emperor Taichang was also poisoned by The Wanli Emperor's favorite concubine Zheng Guifei, but in fact, whether it was the Emperor of Tianqi or the Chongzhen Emperor, their attitude towards Zheng Guifei was relatively friendly.
Therefore, from this point of view, if Zheng Guifei poisoned Emperor Taichang, Emperor Taichang's two sons would definitely not give up. That's enough to illustrate the absurdity of conspiracy theories.
From these circumstances, it can be seen that the death of King Xiaowen of Qin after three days of reign is actually just a coincidence, and this situation is common in Chinese history, and it is not worth the fuss.