In Chinese history, the emperor has always been a supreme person, and there are naturally many people who want to be emperors, if their father is an emperor, then the son must first be the prince. If the father did not die and the son became the emperor, the father became the emperor. However, the emperor has always been a lifelong system, who would be willing to delegate power? So how many emperors have there been in history?
Li Yuan
First of all, let's talk about the first Taishang Emperor, that is, Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. In 626, Li Shimin launched a mutiny, because he was only a second son, it was basically impossible to become emperor, and he still had an older brother. So it was Xuanwumen who mutinied and killed his brother and brother, and he became the only prince, but simply became the emperor. At this time, Li Yuan, who was still playing in the palace, did not know that he had mutinied. Suddenly the soldiers entered the palace, and Li Yuan, who had just become emperor, learned that Li Shimin had already mastered the military power, so he had to issue a letter of abdication and voluntarily became the first emperor in history.
Lee Long-ki
Still in the Tang Dynasty, in 710 AD, Li Longji, the king of Linzi, sent troops into the palace to kill Tang Zhongzong's empress, and immediately supported his father Li Xian as emperor, that is, Tang Ruizong. However, Li Dan, who had been emperor for three years, was also very knowledgeable, knowing that this emperor was given by his son, so he simply gave way to Li Longji, and also very voluntarily became the emperor of Taishang.
Lee Hum
Li Longji's father volunteered to become Emperor Taishang, and soon his son Li Hum also made him Emperor Taishang. In 755 AD, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and Li Longji, who had been emperor for 45 years at the age of 71, had to flee for his life. However, he did not take the initiative to abdicate the throne, but in order to fight against the rebels, the crown prince Li Hum held his own enthronement ceremony in Suzhou. After quelling the rebellion, Li Longji saw that it had become a fact, and he had no choice but to become the emperor.
Emperor Huizong of Song Zhao
In the two Song Dynasties, there was also the Taishang Emperor, in 1125 AD, the Jin soldiers to the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Huizong Zhao Yao forced his son Zhao Heng to become the emperor on the grounds of his lack of ability, and he also became the Emperor of Taishang happily. However, the Jin Kingdom did not change because the emperor changed his master. By 1127, jin bing took emperor Taishang and the emperor captive together, which is the shame of Jingkang in history, and the two emperors eventually died in the Jin kingdom.
Zhao Heng
Later, Zhao Zhuo became emperor, and since he had never had his own son, he had to choose one of the imperial relatives to become the crown prince. This person was Zhao Chun, who was the seventh grandson of the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin, because Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Guangyi took over his brother's emperorship, and Zhao Kuangyin's clan subsequently became a prince for nearly 200 years. This time, returning the throne to his own clan is still somewhat criticized in the DPRK. In the end, Zhao became the emperor soon after he became crown prince, which had to be said to be a political necessity.
Zhao Zhao
After being an emperor for 27 years, this Zhao Chun felt powerless in the face of various pressures from the people, and finally learned from Zhao Zhuo to become the Emperor of Taishang, which was 26 years, which was the longest time to be an emperor in history.