The emperor who likes immortality is certainly not Qin Shi Huang alone.

For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is also one of them.

Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (156 BC - 87 BC), the 7th emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, was an outstanding politician, strategist, and poet. Born in the first year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty (156 BC). He ascended the throne at the age of sixteen. In order to consolidate the imperial power, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established the Chinese Dynasty and set up assassin histories in the localities. Create a probation system to select talents. Following the advice of his father, he issued the "Edict of Grace" to resolve the kingdom's discord and return the salt, iron, and coinage rights to the central government. Culturally, Dong Zhongshu's suggestion was adopted, "depose a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone". End the situation of "different teachers, different people, and hundreds of different schools" since the pre-Qin period. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he opened up the territory and expanded the territory, defeated the Xiongnu, the east and Korea, the south and the Baiyue, and the west Yue Lingling, conquered Dawan, laid the territory of China, opened the Silk Road for the first time, created the first era name, and Xingtaixue. Liu Che opened up the largest territory of the Han Dynasty and made achievements in various fields, and the prosperous era of the Han Dynasty was one of the three great eras in Chinese history. In his later years, he was reckless in military force, and caused the scourge of witchcraft, and Liu Che issued an edict for four years. In 87 B.C., Liu Che collapsed in Wuqi Palace, at the age of 70, called Emperor Xiaowu, temple name Sejong, and was buried in Maoling.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was born in the first year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty (156 BC), and according to the biography of the concubines in the Records of the Historian and the Book of Han, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was born in June of the seventh year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty (157 BC). Mother Wang, the middle son of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. When his mother Wang was pregnant, Emperor Jing of Han was still the crown prince. Wang dreamed that the sun entered her arms, and after telling Emperor Jing, Emperor Jing said, "This noble expedition is also." "Liu Che has not been born yet. His grandfather, Emperor Wen of Han, died. After Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, Liu Che was born, and he was also the only son of the Wang family. In the fourth year of the first century (153 BC), Liu Che was named the king of Jiaodong as a prince. In the same year, Emperor Jing's eldest son and his half-brother Liu was crowned crown prince. In the autumn and September of the sixth year of the first century (151 BC), Empress Bo, who had no children and no favors, was deposed. In the first month of spring in the second year (150 B.C.), Liu Rong, the prince of Li, was appointed as the king of Linjiang, and in the fourth month of Xia, his mother Wang was made queen, and Ding Si and Liu Che were made princes. His becoming the crown prince had a lot to do with his mother, Empress Xiaojing, and his aunt, Princess Guantao, Liu Concubine. Liu promised to marry her daughter Chen to Liu Che, the king of Jiaodong who was four years old at the time (in ancient times, calculated as a virtual age). Liu Che later married Chen as a concubine. There is no test on the time when the two got married. The first month of the third year of the Later Yuan Dynasty (141 BC). Emperor Jing died. Jiazi, the crown prince Liu Che is the emperor, the empress dowager Dou is called the empress dowager, and the queen Wang is called the empress dowager.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne. It has been more than sixty years since the Han Dynasty was established. The world is stable. The ministers of the imperial court all hoped that the Son of Heaven would hold a ceremony to worship Mount Tai and Liangfu Mountain, and change and determine various systems. The emperor also admired the doctrine of Confucianism, and recruited wise men through virtuous and upright subjects. 赵绾 (wǎn. Late), Wang Zang and others relied on their erudition to become officials, reaching the high position of ministers. They wanted to suggest that the Son of Heaven should establish a Ming Hall in the south of the city according to the ancient system, as a place for the princes of the court. The plan they had drafted for the Son of Heaven to go on patrol, seal Zen and change the calendar and dress system had not yet been completed, just in time for the Empress Dowager Dou was still advocating and believing in the Taoist doctrine of the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu, and did not like Confucianism, so they sent people to privately investigate the illegal profit-seeking and other things done by Zhao Juan and others, and summoned Zhao Juan and Wang Zang to examine them, and Zhao Juan and Wang Zang committed suicide, and the things they proposed to set up were abolished. It was not until the death of Empress Dowager Dou that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to seize power. He further weakened the power of the princes and kings, and issued a decree of tui'en proposed by the minister's father, Yan (yǎn), to promote the princes and kings to divide their sons into marquis, so that the fiefs of the princes and kings had to shrink themselves. At the same time, he set up a history of assassination and supervised the place. Strengthen the centralization of power, organize private businesses such as iron smelting, salt boiling, and brewing under the management of the central government, and prohibit the vassal states from minting money, so that the financial power is centralized in the center. Ideologically, Dong Zhongshu's suggestion of "deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" paved the way for the special status of Confucian education in ancient China, and established a special Confucian education in Chang'an, Taixue, which was the highest institution of learning at that time. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty did not lack the idea of the rule of law. While propagating Confucianism, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also used statutes and criminal laws to consolidate the authority of the government and demonstrate the status of imperial power. Therefore, sinologists believe that this should be a system in which Confucianism is the mainstay, supplemented by law, and Confucianism is external to Confucianism, preaching Confucianism and Taoism to the broad masses of the people to show the gentleness of the government, and imposing harsh criminal laws on the government to restrain ministers. After a series of economic development and people's livelihood policies such as the recuperation and recuperation of the rule of Jingzhi, the national strength of the Western Han Dynasty has been thriving. While inheriting these policies, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty actively prepared for the development of military power. Militarily, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty first quelled the turmoil in the southern Minyue Kingdom. Later, he began to replace the humiliating peace policy with military means to completely solve the threat of the Xiongnu in the north. He sent famous generals Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to attack the Xiongnu three times, collect the Hetao area, seize the Hexi Corridor, conquer the Western Regions, seal the wolf Juxu, and push the northern territory of the Han Dynasty from the Great Wall to Mobei. At the same time as the war against the Xiongnu, peaceful means and military means were adopted to bring the Western Regions countries to their knees. After the loss of the fertile and lush Monan region, the Xiongnu royal court moved to Mobei, which basically solved the threat of the Xiongnu to the Central Plains since the early Western Han Dynasty and laid the foundation for the later incorporation of the Western Regions into the Chinese territory. Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions began with the Silk Road. In the astronomical calendar, it has always been the Han Dynasty and the Qin system, and the early Han Dynasty has been implementing the Qin calendar, with October as the first year. Until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the calendar at the beginning and implemented a new calendar. The Spring Festival began with the change of the calendar at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty corrected the Shuo.

The Witch Gu Disaster in the second year of Zhenghe was a major political event that occurred within the imperial family in the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. At that time, people believed in the curse of gods and monsters, and Emperor Wu of Han was no exception. One day at noon, while he was sleeping in bed, he was awakened by a dream in which thousands of wooden men with sticks came at him, and he was startled. He thought that someone was cursing him, and immediately sent Jiang Chong to investigate. [24]

Gongsun Jingsheng, the son of Prime Minister Gongsun He, used 19 million military funds without authorization, and was arrested and imprisoned after the defeat. At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to arrest Zhu Anshi, a hero of Yangling, and Gongsun He captured Zhu Anshi and transferred him to the imperial court in order to atone for his son's crimes. Unexpectedly, Zhu Anshi wrote in prison, claiming that Gongsun Jingsheng had an affair with Princess Yangshi. Buried wooden figures on the gallop road to curse the emperor. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious, and Gongsun He's father and son died in prison, and they were beheaded all over the house. Princess Yangshi, Princess Zhuyi, and Wei Qing's son, Marquis Wei of Changping, were implicated and killed one after another. [24]

Jiang Chong led the Hu sorcerers to dig everywhere to find the wooden people, and arrested those who used witchcraft to harm people. Jiang Chong searched the rooms of Empress Wei and the crown prince Liu Ju, and took out the wooden man who had prepared the Lu in advance to frame the prince. At this time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was recuperating in Ganquan Palace and was not in Chang'an. On the afternoon of July in the second year of Zhenghe (91 BC), the prince sent someone to pretend to be an envoy to arrest Jiang Chong and others, and killed Jiang Chong. Su Wen fled to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Accusing the crown prince to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not believe this at first, and sent an envoy to summon the prince, but the envoy did not dare to go to the prince, and reported to Emperor Wu that "the prince has been completed." I want to kill the ministers. The ministers fled. Emperor Wu of Han was furious. Ordered Prime Minister Liu Quyu to lead troops to quell the chaos. The prince led people away, forcibly armed about tens of thousands of citizens of the four cities of Chang'an, and went to the west gate of Changle Palace. encountered the army led by Prime Minister Liu Quchao, and fought fiercely with the Prime Minister's army for five days, with tens of thousands of dead. There were rumors in Chang'an City that the crown prince rebelled, so people did not dare to attach themselves to the crown prince, but the prime minister's side of the army continued to strengthen, and in the end, the prince was alone and weak, and the army was defeated, so he had to flee from Chang'an. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was extremely angry, and only the three elders of Huguan Ling Gu Mao dared to write to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to avenge the crown prince. The prince fled east to Huxian (present-day Lingbaoxi, Henan) and hid in a spring. The master's family was poor, and he often knitted and sold straw sandals to support the prince. The prince had a former acquaintance who lived in Huxian County, and when he heard that he was very wealthy, the prince sent someone to call him, so the news leaked; in August (the eighth day of the first lunar month), the magistrate rounded up the prince; the prince knew that he could not escape, so he went back to his house and hanged himself; [the master died in a fight with the man who searched for the prince, and the two emperors and grandsons were also killed.] The prince has three sons and one daughter, all of whom were killed due to the witch rebellion, and Liu Jin, the son of the prince and the grandson of Emperor Shi, has a son Liu who has survived and is still in infancy, and later changed his name to Liu Xun and is Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. For a long time, there are many witches who don't believe in it. Officials and ordinary people denounced each other for the crime of witchcraft and harm, and after investigation, it was found that most of them were untrue. Shang quite knew that the prince was panicked and had no other intentions, and Gao Lang Tian Qianqiu sued the prince for injustice: "The son of the son of heaven has killed his father by mistake, so why should he stop it? So Emperor Huo Ran of the Han Dynasty woke up and immediately appointed Tian Qianqiu as the Great Honglu, and ordered Jiang Manmen to be beheaded and Su Wen burned to death on the bridge. Those who had fought against the prince were also killed one after another. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took pity on the prince's innocence, so he sent people to build a palace in Huxian County, called "Thinking Palace", and built a high platform, called "Returning to Wangsi Platform", in order to express his thoughts about the prince Liu Ju and the two grandsons, and the world was sad when he heard it.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty failed to seek immortals in his later years, and because of the scourge of witches, father and son killed each other, and the crown prince Liu Ju committed suicide, all kinds of blows made Emperor Wu disheartened and regretted what he had done in the past. After ascending Mount Tai and worshipping the Ming Hall, Emperor Wu issued the "Luntai Guilty Edict" and said, "Since I ascended the throne, I have been rebellious, making the world sad and unrepentant." From now on, those who have harmed the people and wasted the world will stop it!" to show that they admit their mistakes. As a result, the world gradually returned to harmony, laying the foundation for the prosperity of Zhaoxuan Zhongxing.

In 88 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked the painter to draw a picture of the princes of the Zhou Dynasty and gave it to Huo Guang, which meant that Huo Guang would assist his youngest son Liu Fuling as emperor. During this period of time (the specific time is unknown), Liu Fuling's mother, Mrs. Gou Yi, was reprimanded for "transgression" and died in Yunyang Palace. It is generally believed that the son is young and the mother is strong, and in order to prevent Mrs. Gou Yi from repeating the situation of Empress Lu's system, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty found an excuse to execute her. [In February 87 B.C., Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made Liu Fuling the crown prince when he was dying, and four days later, on the day of Ding Mao, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty died in Wuqi Palace at the age of seventy. In March, Jiashen was buried in Maoling. Huo Guang officially accepted the edict of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and became the auxiliary minister of Emperor Liu Fuling of the Han Zhao Emperor, and assisted the government with the general Jin Riyan, the general of the left Shangguan Ji, and the imperial historian Sang Hongyang. His successors, Emperor Zhao (actually Huo Guang was in charge) and Emperor Xuan, insisted on implementing the policy of resting with the people formulated by Emperor Wu in his later years, so in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a situation of Zhaoxuan Zhongxing, which was praised by later generations. After Liu Che died, he was called Emperor Xiaowu, and the temple was named Sejong, and he was buried in Maoling. Before the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were very strict regulations on whether the deceased emperor could posthumously honor the temple number, according to the standard of "ancestors have merit and ancestors are virtuous", the founding monarch is generally the ancestor and successor monarch who has the ability to govern the country. The Fourteen Emperors of the Western Han Dynasty, after 211 years, only four emperors had temple numbers, namely Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang, Taizong Xiaowen Emperor Liu Heng, Sejong Xiaowu Emperor Liu Che, and Zhongzong Xiaoxuan Emperor Liu Xun. (To be continued......)