Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Eight Types of the Supreme Emperor

The Supreme Emperor is also the living father of the reigning emperor.Counting the history of China in detail, the emperors have successively followed each other, and there are not a few emperors who are overlords.Roughly speaking, China's overlords can be divided into eight types. Freelancer The first Supreme Emperor in Chinese history, Liu Bang's father Liu Daddy exclusively enjoyed this honor.In the eyes of his father, Liu Bang has always been the most ineffective Liu Xiaosan. It was not until he killed the snake and rebelled that Father Liu shaved his eyes with a razor and began to focus on his son's revolutionary cause.Fortunately, seven years later, the revolution was completely successful, and Liu Bang changed himself and called him Han Gaozu (this is of course the posthumous title given to him by later generations), so he generously bestowed on his father the title of "Supreme Emperor". He ate, drank and had fun in the pension palace to take care of his life.It is a great thing for the son to become the emperor, but there is also a very serious problem: when the father and son meet, one is Lao Tzu and the other is the emperor, and it is not appropriate for anyone to kowtow to the other.In the end, Liu Bang, who felt very embarrassing, said: I am the emperor and my boss, so I won't kowtow to Lao Tzu.Seeing that I am going to surrender, I should reduce meeting to avoid embarrassment.As a result, Father Liu became the Supreme Emperor, but lost a son under his knee.

Helpless type Wei Xiaowen Emperor Tuoba Hong's father Xianwen Emperor Tuo Bahong (these two names have different pronunciations) was still a young man less than 20 years old when he became the Supreme Emperor. He had no choice but to cede the throne because His mother (not his biological mother), Empress Dowager Feng, is a strong woman with a strong desire for power and sex.Emperor Xianwen was only twelve years old when he succeeded to the throne, but he was a very capable little emperor. With the assistance of Empress Dowager Feng who was listening to the government behind the curtain, Emperor Xianwen carried out some reforms, and the national power of the Northern Wei Dynasty became stronger day by day.At this moment, the powerful Empress Dowager Feng forced him to abdicate to the only four-year-old prince Tuoba Hong, and became the titular overlord himself.There are different reasons for this. Some people think that Emperor Xianwen is getting older and does not listen to Queen Mother Feng's greetings; Killed Empress Dowager Feng's lover Li Yi.In any case, the young Emperor Xianwen was forced to become the Supreme Emperor, and was brutally poisoned to death by Empress Dowager Feng a few years later.

The famous Tang Xuanzong Li Longji also belonged to this type, but it was not his mother who forced him to abdicate, but his son. lazy type As the saying goes: I have seen shameless people, but I have never seen such shameless people; I have seen bastards, but I have never seen such bastards.These words could not be more appropriate for the emperors of the Northern Qi Dynasty. In their eyes, murder and arson were a piece of cake.In fact, the Northern Qi Dynasty only existed for more than 20 years, but there were six emperors, and each was more licentious and brutal than the other.In order to have more time to eat, drink and have fun, the fourth emperor, Wucheng Emperor Gao Zhan, simply pushed the throne to his ten-year-old son, and went into the harem to study sensuality.After becoming the Supreme Emperor, Gao Zhan indulged even more crazily. As a result, after a few months, he exhausted his energy and died in his twenties.

Coincidentally, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which stood side by side with the Northern Qi Dynasty, also had a young overlord who loved leisure and hated work. He was Zhou Xuandi Yu Wenyun.As soon as Emperor Zhou Xuan died, his son, the young Emperor Zhou Jing, was replaced by his father-in-law Yang Jian (later Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty). To make matters worse, all the men of the Northern Zhou royal family were killed by Yang Jian. lingering fear type Tang Taizong Li Shimin is naturally a good emperor, but he also has a cruel and cold-blooded side. The Xuanwumen Incident is an example.

Tang Taizong's father Tang Gaozu Li Yuan preferred the eldest son Li Jiancheng, which is also understandable, because Li Jiancheng is the prince and the future successor.Li Shimin is the second child, with an older brother and a younger brother, who happens to be in an embarrassing position where his grandma doesn't love him and his uncle doesn't love him.I don't know whether Li Jiancheng was afraid that Li Shimin, who has made great achievements, would shake his position as the crown prince, or whether Li Shimin was unwilling to be second-tier and wanted to go further. Anyway, the two brothers fought openly and secretly.As the saying goes, "no poison, no husband", Li Shimin and his civil servants and generals staged the "Xuanwumen" change in the summer of 926 AD, killing his elder brother Li Jiancheng and younger brother Li Yuanji (later Li Shimin killed both of them. son to prevent future troubles), and then went to force the palace.When Yu Chigong appeared with the heads of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, Li Yuan was on vacation in the Royal Park. Seeing the situation, Li Yuan was so frightened that he immediately announced that he would abdicate to Li Shimin, and that he shrank back to the harem to become the Supreme Emperor.

Eighty-six years later, Emperor Gaozu's great-grandson, Emperor Taizong's grandson Tang Ruizong Li Dan encountered the same danger again, and ended up becoming the Supreme Emperor just like his grandfather. rapid retreat type The "retreat bravely in the rapids" here is actually "run away when you see difficulties", and the representative figure is Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty. It is said that in 1126, after the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Gang combined forces to destroy the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom tore off the painted skin of its allies, revealing the hideous face of the invaders, and drove in for a long time, directly hitting Bianliang, Tokyo.When the news came, Song Huizong, who had been living in a land of romance and prosperity for decades, was so frightened that his old face turned pale with fright.Song Huizong, who became the Supreme Emperor, was still uneasy, so he simply went to the south for vacation and played ostrich policy.Later, when the situation improved, he returned to Beijing. Later, when the war took a turn for the worse, Jin Bing took Bianjing in one fell swoop. Song Huizong, who wanted to escape but failed, and his descendants, his Sangong Sixth Court, his emperor His relatives and his civil and military officials were taken captive to the icy and snowy Wuguo City.After suffering the humiliation of subjugated slaves, Song Huizong died in a foreign country.

Gao Wei, the son of Gao Zhan in the Northern Qi Dynasty mentioned above, also followed his father's example and became the Supreme Emperor. At that time, the Northern Zhou Dynasty was already aggressively attacking the Northern Qi Dynasty, so he should be of the "run when you see difficulties" type like Song Huizong.The Northern Qi was over soon, and in the end, Gao Wei, his son, and dozens of clansmen were all scorched to death by the peppers stuffed into their mouths. People who run when they see difficulties, no matter how fast they run, they can still run in the first year of junior high school, but not in the fifteenth day.

sickly "Good people don't live long, and wicked people live a hundred years" sounds unfair, but it was actually fulfilled in Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, who killed Yue Fei. This old guy not only occupied the throne for thirty-five years, but also He still lived to be eighty years old, but God also gave him a great retribution, that is, he will have no children for life. In the end, he had to make Zhao Min, a descendant of Song Taizu, as the prince (the descendants of Song Taizong were all killed. The Jin people went captive to the northern kingdom).Zhao Yan is a man of backbone, he firmly advocates anti-goldenism, and has united many people from the main station.Zhao Gou, the master of harmony, is getting older and older, Qin Hui, whom he has always trusted, has also died, and the influence of the crown prince Zhao Yun is getting bigger and bigger, and the voices of the people to resist the gold are getting stronger and stronger. Finally, one day, I feel powerless Zhao Gou announced that Zen was in the prince's place, and he went to take care of himself.

Song Xiaozong Zhao Yun was not young when he succeeded to the throne. After being the emperor for 27 years, he was already over sixty years old.However, Song Xiaozong's life as the Supreme Emperor was not happy, because Guangzong was a "strict wife" and was firmly controlled by his unfilial queen wife.Five years later, Xiaozong died of illness, and Guangzong still refused to attend his father's funeral on the pretext of illness. The angry ministers and the Empress Dowager Wu treated him in their own way, and let the prince Zhao Kuo succeed the "seriously ill" Guangzong as emperor. It is Song Ningzong.After becoming the Supreme Emperor, Guangzong realized his father's mood at that time, but it was too late to regret it!

Magpie's Nest Dove Occupation First of all, it needs to be explained that this type of Supreme Emperor is not the father of the reigning emperor, but a brother. In 1449 A.D., under the instigation of the bastard eunuch Wang Zhen, Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty drove himself to conquer Wala, but was captured by the enemy soldiers in Tumubao.The Vala officials also used Yingzong as a bargaining chip first, and threatened the Ming government to give in. In order to disrupt the enemy's wishful thinking, the empress dowager appointed Yingzong's younger brother Zhu Qiyu as the emperor at the request of civil and military officials. This is Emperor Jing of the Ming Dynasty. In order to save face, he respected him as the Supreme Emperor.

After Oala failed to attack Beijing, he had to negotiate peace with the Ming government and returned Ming Yingzong.A fallen phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken. Ming Yingzong, who lost his throne, was imprisoned in Nangong after returning to Beijing, and stayed there for eight years.It wasn't until 1457 that Emperor Jing of the Ming Dynasty became seriously ill due to the premature death of the prince. Ming Yingzong ascended to the throne for the second time through the "Nangong Incident".A few days after the coup, Emperor Jing died for unknown reasons. Although Ming Yingzong is listed here as the "magpie nest dove-occupied type" overlord, but in terms of historical achievements, Ming Yingzong is more like a wicked dove, and Ming Jingdi is more like a victimized magpie. retired Among the Supreme Emperors, the one with the highest reputation index was the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne at the age of 25, and after sitting on the throne for 60 years (this record can only be broken by his grandfather Kangxi), he felt that he had completed his merits and virtues and should enjoy the blessings without any worries, so he announced Abandoning the throne to Crown Prince Yongyan (later Emperor Jiaqing), he began a carefree career as the Supreme Emperor.Four years later, Emperor Qianlong died of no illness and traveled westward on a crane at the age of eighty-nine, setting a Guinness World Record for the longevity of a Chinese emperor. Emperor Qianlong's Zen position is indeed a retirement after success, but his consistent implementation of the closed-door policy has caused China to derail from the world, and its technology lags far behind Europe and the United States. When China is forced to integrate with the world half a century later, wait for her The only thing left is the fate of "being beaten if you fall behind".