When it comes to the struggle for the throne, it has always been bloody and violent, and under the stairs to the supreme throne, countless white bones are often buried. However, in the torrent of Chinese history, there is an emperor who was forcibly pushed to the throne, and this emperor is Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Who is brilliant in talent and is a rare talent in the poetry world, but in political history, he is a king who destroys the country.
Li Yu originally had five older brothers, according to the tradition of Chinese Li Chang Li, how could it not be Li Yu's turn to inherit the throne, but providence was unpredictable, several of Li Yu's brothers all died early, and in the end only he and his eldest brother Li Hongyi were left, Li Hongyi was an ambitious person, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he also killed his uncle who might pose a threat to the throne in advance, but li Hongyi fell ill and died before he inherited the throne, so Li Yu naturally became the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
In addition to the special case of Li Yu, there is also a king in a foreign country who was accidentally put on the throne, and this story will start from George VI and Edward VIII. Edward VIII was the son of George V and Queen Mary, with whom George VI was a brother, and according to the custom of the British royal family, the eldest son, Edward VIII, was crowned Prince of Wales.
Although England did not have the identity of the eldest son as in ancient China, George VI stuttered from an early age, and of course, the responsibility of inheriting the throne fell to Edward VIII, so Edward VIII was trained as an heir from an early age and educated by the king.
But everything that was arranged was later disrupted by Mrs. Simpson. On January 20, 1936, his father George V died, and Edward VIII became King of England, but not long after becoming king, he fell in love with Mrs. Simpson. Mrs. Simpson had two marriages, and was originally only the mistress of Edward VIII.
But Mrs. Simpson was so skillful that she charmed Edward VIII and confessed that she did not marry, and their relationship was opposed by the major British authorities. Opposition to the marriage was not only because of Mrs. Simpson's two marriage histories, but because Mrs. Simpson's friendship with the German Nazi Party aroused the suspicion of the British royal family.
Logically, the British royal family can completely imprison Mrs. Simpson as a Nazi spy, but it is because of Edward VIII's affection that they have not done anything, but that is also their biggest concession, it is impossible to let such a person who is good friends with the Nazis become the queen of the country, but Edward VIII does not love the country and loves beauty, in order to marry Mrs. Simpson, he decided to give up the throne.
On 11 December 1936, Edward VIII, who had been king for less than a year, gave way to his brother George VI. Prior to this, George VI had not received any training in the education of kings, nor had he ever imagined that he would become a king. However, the older brother did not do anything, and the younger brother had to face the difficulties, so a stuttering prince with no experience to speak of, thus stepped onto the historical stage of British politics and assumed the responsibility of the king of a country.
Because he had no experience, so George handled everything himself, not long after he ascended the throne, the Second World War broke out, the German Nazi Party attacked fiercely, the war was serious, George VI in order to appease the military, he personally went to the battlefield to encourage everyone, there were people around him who worried that he would have an accident on the battlefield, George VI replied: "If the king of a country dies, then the soldiers of this country are bound to rise up to resist, so that they can arouse their fighting spirit even more." ”
In the course of World War II, George VI was concerned about the safety of the country and advanced and retreated with the military and civilian masses, but also because of the particularity of his identity, he withstood the huge pressure of being different from ordinary people, so busy that he had no rest space, he had to borrow smoking to relieve the pressure, but after the end of World War II, he also suffered from serious lung cancer. On February 6, 1952, George VI died of illness in his sleep, and his daughter Elizabeth succeeded to the throne as the new King of the United Kingdom.