The financial industry has a very famous saying that "high risk means high return", and if you want to get super high returns, you have to bear unpredictable high risks, you may become a billionaire in an instant, and you may be heavily indebted in minutes. It is still reasonable to seek wealth and wealth in risk. Since it comes to wealth, what do the people of ancient China do that is most enviable, both rich and noble, and can also be worshipped? Needless to say, there is really such a job, can achieve the above requirements, but it is quite dangerous, a little careless may be killed in Huangquan, even so, for thousands of years, there are still countless people who want to do this job, why? High returns.
I believe that many friends have guessed, yes, this high-risk job is to be an emperor. In people's impressions, the ancient emperor is definitely the best profession, above ten thousand people, the power is in hand, eating, drinking and having fun do not have to worry, it is simply happy like a god. So why is the average life expectancy of such a good job only 39 years old? In my opinion, there are three main factors. First, tired. Seeing this, some people may ask, when the emperor wants to eat and eat, drink and drink, no one cares, how can he be tired? Here it should be explained that since ancient times, the emperor is divided into many kinds, of which the Ming Jun and the Di Jun are more familiar to everyone, which are two extremes.
The emperor as the representative of a country is a completely exhausting task for the Ming Jun, everything must be managed, the affairs between the countries, the affairs of the harem, the affairs of the ministers, the affairs of the people must have a scale in their hearts, the specific major policies must be decided by themselves, and they must have the ability to know and employ people, to know that a person's energy is limited, too many things can not be busy by one person, so for the sake of the country's long-term peace and stability, many historical Ming emperors have worked overtime. The more famous Tang Taizong Li Shimin killed his brother at the age of 27, forced his father, became the emperor himself, full of spirit, and as a result, he became emperor for 23 years, and he hung up at the age of 50 (there are also said that he died by taking Dan medicine, even if he took Dan medicine to do a good job). There is also the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty because he worked too hard, gave his body a complete collapse, and after 13 years as emperor, he saw his father go, and mingjun was not good, he had to work well.
Second, there is great pressure to compete for posts. The emperor is also a person, in other words, as long as it is a person, there is a chance to be an emperor, the Taiping era is fine, at most the emperor's family is fighting around, once it encounters a chaotic world, it is really "the emperor takes turns to do, next year to my house", as long as they have the ability, there are people under them, there are guys, they can taste the taste of being the emperor, as a result, this emperor just ascended the throne, the emperor came, an emperor fell, dozens of emperors stood up, and finally whoever had a hard fist was the emperor who laughed at the end. The most famous example is the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms after the Western Jin Dynasty, which fought for many years, wolf smoke everywhere, and emperors everywhere.
Third, the lonely. For the public, we all have parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, colleagues and bosses, and we basically live in this circle, and some of the people who are particularly close to each other can also give full trust. And this was basically impossible, or very little, for the emperor. In ancient times, once he became an emperor, he became the target of the people around him, because the post was too tempting, so his son wanted to do it, his grandson wanted to do it, the minister wanted to do it, and the harem also wanted to intervene, as the emperor himself did not allow this kind of thing to happen, the relatives around him became the object of prevention, and if he did not pay attention, he could be killed by his own son, his wife, the eunuch who served himself, and the minister who worked for himself, both to deal with state affairs and to guard against the people around him, saying that the emperor was alone was really appropriate.
According to statistics, from the time qin shi huang ascended the throne as emperor in 221 BC to puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, it is recognized that there have been a total of 422 people who have become emperors in China, of which more than 150 people have died unnaturally, and the mortality rate is as high as 44%, mainly due to overwork, overindulgence, psychological factors, and factors beyond the control of the outside world. And the real long life expectancy, the emperor who lived more than 80 years old in china's history only four people, namely Liangwu Emperor Xiao Yan, Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian, Song Gaozong Zhao Shuo, Qing Gaozong Qianlong, of which Liang Wu emperor was finally starved to death, Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate after depression, only Song Gaozong Zhao And Qing Dynasty Qianlong Emperor were able to live a long life, so it is said that the ancient emperor was really full of dangers, not ordinary people can do it.