In the long river of history, there have been wise monarchs, but what is more remembered are those cruel monarchs. In Zhang Nan's eyes, they are all a group of mentally abnormal patients.

Everyone feels more or less physically or mentally wrong.

The overall quality of life in the emperor group is poor and the survival pressure is huge, so the chance of personality abnormalities, psychopathy or even schizophrenia is much higher than that of ordinary people.

Through the records of "Twenty-Four Histories", it is not difficult to see that nearly one-quarter of the emperor's biography records the manifestations of personality abnormalities, psychopathy and even schizophrenia.

The sixth emperor of the Song Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the former deposed emperor Liu Ziye, was extremely debauched. He hated the hero Liu Yigong, so he cut off Liu Yigong's body, cut open his belly, picked his eyes, and marinated it with honey, which was called "Ghost Mind Zong". He founded an exclusive palace brothel, recruited many princesses and princesses, and ordered the honorable ministers and officials to hold a royal sea and sky feast with them on the spot.

These women are his elders or sisters. If they don’t follow them, they will be killed immediately without any mercy. If you get tired of playing this game, he also asked the palace maids to mate with monkeys, sheep, and horses, and he observed them from the side.

He raised his uncle Liu Yu, the king of Xiangdong, naked in the pit, asked him to eat from the wooden trough, and called him "Pig King": "I used a wooden trough to serve rice, mixed with omnivore food, digging the ground into a pit, and actually used mud and water to enter the pit, so that he could eat it with his mouth and use it to be happy."

These are all recorded in "Zizhi Tongjian".

The deposed emperor was like this in the past, and the deposed emperor was even better than that. The deposed emperor Liu Yu was extremely violent and violent when he went out for a trip and encountered a person blocking the road, no matter whether it was a human or an animal, he ordered his servants to kill him. This made the capital Jiankang, and every household was closed during the day and the roads were extinct.

He ordered the guards around him to hold needles, hammers, chisels, saws and other torture tools at any time. If the subordinates violated their ties, they would torture them in the head, hammer, and cut off the caesarean heart. There were dozens of people who were punished every day. He enjoyed this and would feel depressed if he didn't see anyone bleeding for a day.

The condition of Emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Dynasty was pathological passion. He suspected that his favorite concubine Xue had an affair with the ministers, so he cut off Xue's head and hid it in his arms to attend the banquet. During the banquet, he took out Xue's head and placed it on a plate. Everyone present was shocked.

He asked someone to take Xue's body, dismember it in public, take out Xue's thigh bones, make a pipa, play, drink, cry, sigh, "It's hard to get a beautiful woman again", and it's painful. Finally, he disheveled his hair and cried, burying Xue's thighs, using the grand ceremony of concubines.

These behaviors cannot be defined as "dandy", and these people suffer from schizophrenia.

Compared with these perverted behaviors, Gao Wei, the late emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, liked to be a beggar, Xiao Baojuan, the deposed emperor of Qi, captured rats, slept in, and drove away the people. The 20 years of Emperor Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the twentieth year of Emperor Hongwu's killing of meritorious officials, the paranoid Emperor Jiajing, and the indulgence of Emperor Tianqi's indulgence in carpentry work are not horrible.

This is the emperor himself. As for the emperor's harem and the emperor's children, Zhang Nan looked at it from the perspective of a later generation. The emperor was simply the most miserable person in the world.

As a wise ruler, you cannot abuse your power. You must restrain yourself and abide by your duties at all times. Otherwise, you will be advised by loyal ministers. Among the emperors of all generations, only a small part of those who have performed their duties well, and only a small part of them are in the face of the "saint kings" who basically comply with Confucian moral norms are rare.

There are only a dozen successful emperors of all generations commemorated and admired by later generations, and there are many mediocre masters, tyrants, and tyrants, accounting for more than 90%. If you are a tyrant, you will be quite happy, but you have left a reputation for eternity. No matter how you look at it, it is not a good business.

The emperor calls himself a widow, that is not a joke, that is a real widow.

"I'm right. I think so too, so I pay so much attention to my body. It's just that Qingquan, you only have a thorough understanding of this power. Few people will be like you."

Although Zhang Nan didn't know if Li Er believed what he said, for Zhang Nan, he really had no interest in the throne.

"I just can't understand, Qingquan, how are you not moved by this power?" Li Er said in confusion.

Hearing Li Er’s doubts like this, Zhang Nan couldn’t help but become alert in his heart.

"Old man, Lao Li is not suspicious of being sick, right? He may be suspicious of me wanting to usurp the throne." Zhang Nan immediately thought about it in his heart. After all, if you look at it from Lao Li's perspective.

If he really intends to usurp the throne, or supports a prince to take the throne, then he will definitely be able to do so. After all, he is a man who can take it out at any time and doesn't know what it is.

When Zhang Nan thought of this, he also began to guess why he had been to the Tang Dynasty for so long, and Lao Li tried his best to win him over instead of killing him as soon as possible.

After guessing, Zhang Nan finally guessed only two willings.

The first reason is that he is too useful. Lao Li is a person who loves talents very much. In the eyes of Comrade Lao Li, as long as his talent is higher than his shortcomings, as long as he does not make principled mistakes, he can be forgiven, so Lao Li has never attacked him.

The second reason is that Zhang Nan believes that Lao Li must have been inflated. As an extremely narcissistic person, Lao Li naturally believes that his personality charm is enough to conquer the world's talents. However, the Hou Junji incident taught Lao Li another lesson, so at this special moment, when Lao Li asked Zhang Nan such a sensitive question, Zhang Nan had to be cautious.

"Your Majesty, what you said, you wouldn't have ambushed more than a dozen knives and axe drivers in the dark. If you say something wrong, you'll throw the cup as a sign, and then suddenly more than a dozen knives and axe drivers will come out and chop me into meat paste." Zhang Nan said with a giggle.

Originally, Zhang Nan was a joke, but he didn't expect that after hearing this, Old Li's face changed. When Zhang Nan saw Li Er's appearance, he knew that Comrade Li Er was prepared, but Zhang Nan naturally would not point it out.

After all, Lao Li is the emperor, and he doesn't even believe in his father and son in his life. He is a foreign minister who has just come to the Tang Dynasty for a few years. Zhang Nan thinks it is not easy to gain such trust.

If Lao Li can truly believe in this life, I am afraid that Empress Changsun is the only one who is the one who can be trusted in his life.

Zhang Nan also felt that living a living person was quite sad. After all, he didn’t even have a close friend, which would be too desolate.

"Qingquan, what are you talking about? How could the emperor do such a thing?" Empress Changsun saw that the atmosphere was a little awkward, so she immediately started to smooth things over.

Zhang Nan also smiled and said, "Of course I know. I just saw that the atmosphere was too awkward, so I just wanted to liven up the atmosphere."
Chapter completed!