Tang Taizong Li Shiming ascended the throne at the age of 28 and reigned for 23 years, why did he suddenly die at the age of 51?
The Tang Dynasty was a prosperous era in Chinese history, and Tang Taizong was also a generation of Ming Emperors. At that time, the people were able to recuperate, live and work in peace and contentment, and the general life expectancy could reach more than 60, Tang Taizong Li Shiming, as the emperor, should be dressed in fine clothes and jade food, and he had already ascended the throne at the age of 28, why did he reign for 23 years, only live to the age of 51 and die violently? This could allow some of his ministers to live much less!
Compared with his descendant Li Longji (77 years old), more than 20 years less, it is a pity.
The main reasons for this are as follows:
<h1>1. Perennial conquest</h1>
Li Shimin joined the army at the age of 16, followed Li Yuan taiyuan at the age of 19, and has since been fighting everywhere as the leading marshal of the Li clan, successively destroying fierce enemies such as Xue Renguo, Song Jingang, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande, and maiming Liu Heimin's main force.
In battle, Li Shiming always personally charged into the battlefield, took the lead as a soldier, and shared the happiness and hardships with the soldiers. Six years before his death, Li Shimin also personally conquered Goguryeo.
<h1>2. Busy government affairs</h1>
In order to govern the country well, Li Shimin can be said to have reached the point of forgetting to sleep and forget to eat. Under his rule, politics was clear, he was humble and consultative, he practiced civil rule over the world internally, and rested with the people. Opening up the territory to the outside world and being respected by all ethnic groups in the north as the "Heavenly Khan", laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty for more than a hundred years.
<h1>3. Exhausted</h1>
In the following year of Li Shi's reign, Li Tai the Prince of Wei competed with the crown prince Li Chengqian for favors, who colluded with the important minister Hou Junji to seek an opportunity to rebel, and the brothers each other in the same room, which reminded Li Shimin of his own xuanwumen change in that year, and dealt a huge blow to him.
Secondly, Li Shiming's personal conquest of Goguryeo did not achieve the expected results. When Gao Shilian, Fang Xuanling and other loyal old ministers died one after another, Li Shimin wept in pain many times and was exhausted.
<h1>4. Physical illness</h1>
After personally enlisting the Goguryeo class, Li Shimin fell ill, "on the carbuncle, the royal steps", sores, and even unable to walk. And the illness lasted for a long time, and the following year (646 AD) "was already ill to the point of temporarily not dealing with the government, and did not fully recover until 647 AD."
But in the same year, Li Shimin suffered from wind disease again. Kind of like today's stroke. In 649 AD, Li Shimin 's bitter profits increased dramatically" and was so serious that he could not make a sound.
<h1>5. Take Dan medicine</h1>
Li Shi was practicing the Dan Dao tomorrow night, in the desire for immortality, and under the seduction of a monk who claimed to be more than 200 years old, he took the so-called "Tianzhu Immortal Elixir". After taking the "Tianzhu Immortal Elixir", his originally unhealthy body was in a more and more serious condition, and within a few days, the 51-year-old Li Shimin was killed.