The first Emperor Taishang in China was Qin Shi Huang's father, Qin Zhuang Xiang Wang, who himself had never been emperor, and the title of "Emperor Taishang" was not obtained before his death, but was posthumously awarded by Qin Shi Huang. In 299, King Wuling of Zhao voluntarily became Emperor Taishang in his prime, passing the throne to his son King Huiwen of Zhao. Li Yuan was not so lucky, Li Shimin's "Xuanwumen Change" forced the emperor's father to abdicate and became the emperor himself.
Li Yuan used to like to go boating on the lake, and after becoming emperor Taishang, he did not live a leisure life of retired old man rowing and fishing, but was put under house arrest by Li Shimin, and what he had done was also degraded by Li Shimin to be worthless. "Blame Li Yuan for not dividing Li Tang's chambers on a large scale."
Li Yuan was trapped in the palace, Li Shimin usually did not go to see him, only met him on major holidays, Li Yuan ignored him, immersed in wine every day, and gave birth to 30 children at the age of more than half a hundred grandfathers, the youngest child was younger than Li Shimin's grandson. Although Li Shimin was not soft when he killed his brother Li Jiancheng, which made him controversial, but now that he has become the emperor, there is no need to hurt the killer again, find a fishy body, and separate these younger brothers and sisters, the farther away the better, can endure.
Qianlong was an emperor of the Qing Dynasty who waited exceptionally well, and in the era of an average life expectancy of 5 or 60 years in ancient times, he lived to the age of 89 before he died, and no emperor in the Qing Dynasty lived longer than him. In 1796, Qianlong was 85 years old, his body was still tough, but he took the initiative to give way to his son Jiaqing and voluntarily lived the life of emperor in the Yangxin Hall.
It turned out that his grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor, ascended the throne at the age of 8 and died at the age of 69, serving as emperor for a total of 61 years. Kangxi often took him hunting when Qianlong was young, and once he used a musket to beat a bear to death, and he wanted Qianlong to win the honor of "winning the bear in the first siege" and let Qianlong make up another shot.
Who knew that Qianlong had just walked over, and the bear opened his mouth and ran toward him, and Kangxi's eyes were fast, and he fired another shot at the bear. Qianlong Xiongkou escaped from danger, was very impressed by this matter, and regarded the brave Kangxi as his idol, in order to show his respect for Kangxi, he did not want to be longer than his time as emperor, and took the initiative to take the throne as emperor for 60 years.
Although Qianlong retired, he still held power for 3 years in the days when he was emperor, and still regarded himself as "Degenerate", Jiaqing always came to ask him about any major state events, and the ministers had to prepare two copies, one for Jiaqing and one for him. Qianlong himself said: "After returning to power, how can we ignore all the major affairs of the military and the state and the major aspects of the employment of personnel and administration?" "Jiaqing does small things like sacrifices, meetings, and ceremonies.
In the Spring Festival of 1796, the Forbidden City was in a festive and peaceful atmosphere, Qianlong had a little cold, no one cared too much, he was still thinking about the White Lotus Sect uprising, wrote a "Wangjie Poem", hoping to bring the good news of the great victory on the front line as soon as possible, but Qianlong did not wait for this day, and died with regret on the third day of the New Year.
Jiaqing really sat on the throne after Qianlong's death, and Qianlong's corpse was not cold, so he began to investigate and deal with the big corrupt official He Yan, who had long been unpleasant, and presumably he had held his breath in his heart for a long time in the past 3 years.