Chapter 672 Disadvantages of being an emperor
At this time, Xiang Liang was already shocked, because Qin An's words made sense. For the sake of the throne, brother-killing would definitely happen.
"Sir, what you mean is that there is more." Zhang Han said.
Qin An nodded and said, "What I just said is that the emperor's pampering of other children will lead to the prince assassinating those princes.
If this is the case, it can only be regarded as fratricide. "
"Isn't this serious?" Zhang Han couldn't help but said.
Qin An shook his head and said: "It's not serious. What's really serious is patricide. In order to become the emperor, he would choose to kill the emperor.
Especially a prince who has been a prince for more than ten or even twenty or thirty years.
Because he had been in office for too long, the prince lived in fear every day. They were afraid that one day the emperor would replace him if he was unhappy.
And he had been here for a long time, so his ambition exploded and he began to murder the emperor, his biological father.
He even rebelled and forced the emperor to abdicate.
There are countless such things in history. If I become emperor, even if I can prevent such incidents from happening in my own life, I can never guarantee that such things will not happen to my descendants.
This is just father and son killing each other, brother and sister killing each other, but this can be prevented.
But there is one thing that makes the emperor very tired, and that is dealing with official duties. As an emperor, he handles memorials as high as a mountain every day, and he only sleeps for a few hours every day.
If you don't sleep well, eat well, your life span will be very short.
Someone has made a statistics. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the average life span of emperors was only 35 years old, and it did not exceed 50 years later.
However, if I don't become an emperor, I can easily live over 60 years old. If I don't have to worry about money, I can even live a long life of a hundred years, no, more than a hundred years.
I, the longest living person in China, is rumored to be over two hundred years old, but as far as I know, there are people in the outside world who are one hundred and forty years old.
Obviously I can live for a hundred years, why should I become emperor and die so quickly? "
"You can live over sixty years old easily? You may even live to be one hundred and forty years old. Could it be that you have taken some magic elixir?" Zhang Han said.
"What kind of elixir is this? This is just an ordinary way to maintain health." Qin An said, "Ordinary people don't pay attention to any way to maintain health. Their whole life is just to eat, drink and have diarrhea.
Rich people pay great attention to health care because they have a lot of money, which can last them several lifetimes.
So I really want to live a few more years.
Hence the saying: The richer people are, the more afraid they are of death. "
Zhang Han nodded slightly and said, "Sir, what you said makes sense. It is true that the richer you are, the more you fear death.
Sir, can you tell me how to maintain good health? "
"The way to maintain good health, to put it bluntly, is to eat well, sleep well, exercise appropriately every day, and don't worry about anything, just stay calm." Qin An said.
Xiang Liang said: "Sir, is there anything else? Is there any other reason why you don't want to be emperor?"
Qin An frowned slightly and said, "Lao Xiang, you seem to be very concerned about this matter."
Zhang Han also frowned and looked at Xiang Liang.
Xiang Yu didn't seem to know that Zhang Han was explaining himself, and continued: "Sir, I am really curious. Logically speaking, everyone wants to be the emperor, but why doesn't the emperor want to be the emperor?
Just now, my husband said that being an emperor would lead to fratricide between brothers and between father and son, but there is no way to prevent it. Then you don't need to worry about this at all.
And my husband also said that dealing with too many memorials will lead to a shortened life span. However, I heard that my husband once said that the cabinet system can help the emperor deal with memorials. If this is the case, then the memorial matter is irrelevant and will never affect the emperor's life. life.
So I guess there must be something else that Mr. doesn’t want. "
"Lao Xiang, you are right." Qin An said, "There are actually many disadvantages to being an emperor.
First, you live in a palace, surrounded by eunuchs, maids, and a group of concubines.
Let’s not talk about concubines, let’s talk about eunuchs and maids, especially eunuchs. They will be involved in politics. Even if I don’t do politics this time, who can say for sure in the future.
Let's take the Ming Dynasty. The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang clearly set up a stone tablet to tell future generations that the harem should not interfere with politics. However, within a few generations, because the emperor favored eunuchs, the eunuchs became more and more powerful.
Finally, a nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine-year-old eunuch appeared, only one year older than the long-lived emperor. How much power do you think eunuchs have?
This is a case of eunuchs causing harm to the country and the people, but the responsibility lies with the emperor.
Moving on to the harem, you may not have experienced harem infighting.
The fight in the harem is actually no worse than the fight in the court.
In the harem, there is only one man, the emperor. In order to win the emperor's favor, the concubines in the harem will definitely use all kinds of martial arts to serve the emperor well.
As long as they get the emperor's approval, then everyone around the concubine can soar to the sky. As the saying goes, if one person achieves enlightenment, chickens and dogs can ascend to the sky.
Therefore, in order for the master to attract the emperor, his subordinates would try their best to help. Over time, the concubines in the harem became several forces.
These forces may form an alliance with each other and oppose another force, but no one would have thought that the teammate who had just formed an alliance would stab you in the back just to gain the favor of the emperor.
And this is nothing, the real power is the queen. The queen is the master of the harem. In order to consolidate her position, the queen will bribe the imperial doctor to give abortion pills to pregnant concubines.
Even if it is not an abortion pill, she will be given a stillbirth pill. By the time your child is born, the child will be dead.
There was a queen in the Qing Dynasty who made all the concubines in the palace unable to get pregnant. Even if you were pregnant, you would not be allowed to give birth.
In the end, he was discovered by a concubine. Instead, he took advantage of this incident and relied on the emperor's favor to get pregnant, and then his belly grew bigger day by day.
Then inadvertently, he deliberately asked the queen to tell him everything, and then deliberately asked the queen to push him, causing a miscarriage.
And everything the queen said was heard by the emperor, and all this was specially arranged by the concubine.
The purpose is to bring down the queen and become the master of the harem.
In the end, the concubine got what she wanted, and she even decided who the emperor wanted to do. "
"Did she let her child become the emperor?" Xiang Liang asked.
Qin An shook his head and said, "No, she saw through the chaos in the harem, and in the end the emperor would be killed by the women around him, so this concubine made her own child a prince and the children of other concubines became emperors.
In fact, the emperor's concubine was killed by the previous queen, so the emperor was very grateful to the concubine for avenging his mother, and later became very filial to the concubine. "
