stjorthotic Chapter 298: The Eldest Son Inheritance System Has Almost Become A Decoration Throughout The Ages [P
Chapter 298: The Eldest Son Inheritance System Has Almost Become A Decoration Throughout The Ages [P
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard what Yan Changqing said about the future, Zhu Gaochi died of exhaustion and illness only ten months after he succeeded to the throne. He immediately glared, slapped Zhu Di on the forehead, blew his beard and said:
"Do more work in the future and don't make our grandson Gao Chi so tired!!!"
"Did you hear me?!!"
Zhu Di touched his head, lowered his head and replied:
"I understand, father.
After teaching Zhu Di a lesson, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes fell on Yan Changqing, and he said with a greedy look:
"Mr. Yan, can you deduce the future of other people?!!"
Yan Changqing shook his head decisively and said:
"My ability is limited. If I continue to deduce His Highness King Yan's future in the future, I can still do it."
“But if we conduct the deduction again with another His Highness as the core, I am still unable to do so.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked dissatisfied and said:
"But if you don't let us see the future of other children, how can we know who is more suitable to take over our position in the future?!!"
Although Zhu Di's achievements in this future deduction are very shocking, Zhu Yuanzhang does not think that the other children are inferior.
Not to mention anything else, at least the prince Zhu Biao, whom he has always placed high hopes on, in his opinion, Zhu Biao is the child who has the most hope of surpassing himself!!!
If Zhu Di can become an emperor through the ages, then Zhu Yuanzhang thinks that Prince Zhu Biao should be able to achieve more or less achievements that are not inferior to Zhu Di!
Yan Changqing sighed helplessly and said:
"Didn't His Majesty say before that he has decided to select a worthy successor?!!"
"Then, among all your highnesses, just choose the most virtuous one to succeed you."
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said with disdain:
"Sir, don't tell us that you don't know the advantages of the eldest son inheritance system and the disadvantages of the merit-based succession system!!!"
“Implement the eldest son inheritance system and determine an heir in advance, so that when the emperor passes away, Yi Yi can immediately succeed to the throne smoothly.
"This prevents the royal brothers from fighting each other, avoids the turmoil of fighting for power, and ensures the peaceful transfer of the emperor's imperial power!"
"But if the succession system is based on merit selection, it means that there will be multiple successors to the emperor."
"Once there are more choices for the emperor's successor, it will inevitably lead to many courtiers lining up with different princes in order to mix up the merits of the dragon."
"If there are more courtiers taking sides, they will naturally be divided into different princely factions."
"Different princes' factions are fighting together, and the courtiers of different princes who are on different sides will attack and criticize each other to death for the merit of following the dragon.
"At that time, major national affairs will no longer be debated on the basis of benefiting the country and the people, but on each prince!"
"Any suggestion put forward by the prince who is on his own side is right, and all suggestions put forward by other princes are wrong!"
"At that time, the country's political affairs will begin to deviate from the general direction, and if things go on like this, they will fall into endless internal strife and consumption.
"How can the country continue to develop in this way?!!"
"Moreover, when selecting a worthy person to succeed to the throne, how should the worthy person be judged, or who should make the decision?!!"
"Shouldn't it be for a group of civil servants and generals under the princes to stand in their own ranks, and then the emperor will listen and judge?!!"
"But once a group of civil and military ministers speak, the final result is often that their respective civil and military ministers speak to their respective princes, and no one can convince anyone."
"In the end, nine times out of ten, it will be a situation where swordsmen are fighting each other and brothers are killing each other!!!"
At the end of his speech, Zhu Yuanzhang gradually became angry.
Originally, the eldest son inheritance system he set was good, but it was because Yan Changqing taught "Dragon Slaying Skills" that fueled the ambitions of Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di, and Zhu Biao took the initiative to give in.
This led to the current merit-based succession system!
But when he thought of the many shortcomings of the merit-based succession system, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but get angry.
In his opinion, the merit-selection and succession system is a rubbish system that makes the descendants of his old Zhu family fight against each other!!!
Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang calmly, shook his head and said:
"Your Majesty only talked about the advantages of the eldest son inheritance system, but did not talk about the shortcomings of the eldest son inheritance system. Isn't it a bit too biased?!!"
"First, the emperor's succession status is determined too early, and it is uncertain whether the successor can grow up smoothly as expected; if the eldest son is a waste, or is a stupid and immoral person, the consequences will be even more disastrous.
"For example, Li Chengqian, the eldest son of Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, is one of them."
"Second, the succession of the emperor is relatively certain, and it is easy to cause conspiracy and frame-up. It is said that as long as the prince is killed, then I will be the prince. Such things are not uncommon."
"For example, Yang Guang, the second son of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty Yang Jian, is one of them."
"Third, if the emperor's successor is determined early, then if the emperor lives too long, it will easily arouse the suspicion of the father and son.
"Once the prince wants to take the throne, but the emperor is unwilling to give up the throne, it will be a human tragedy."
"Yang Guang, the second son of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty Yang Jian, and Li Chengqian, the eldest son of Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, are both representatives of this, but the former succeeded and the latter failed."
"Fourth, even if the heir to the emperor can grow up healthily and smoothly, and is of good character and has certain abilities, he will still attract the jealousy of other princes."
"If the abilities of other princes are average, that's fine, but if the abilities of other princes are compared to the prince, it can be said to be overwhelming.
"Then even if he is established as the prince, he still cannot hold the position of prince!"
"For example, Li Jiancheng, the eldest son of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, grew up successfully and had considerable abilities."
"However, compared to Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, it is still far inferior. In the end, his position as prince was still taken away by Emperor Taizong of Tang."
"In addition, Your Majesty said that the eldest son succession system is conducive to preventing royal brothers from fighting each other, avoiding the turmoil of fighting for power, and ensuring the peaceful transfer of the emperor's imperial power. This is not necessarily true.
"."The Han, Tang, Song, and Yuan Dynasties all implemented the eldest son inheritance system.
"But among the twenty-nine emperors of the Han Dynasty, only five inherited the throne from their eldest sons.
"Among the twenty-one emperors of the Tang Dynasty, only six were succeeded by the eldest son."
"Among the eighteen emperors of the Song Dynasty, only two were succeeded by the eldest son."
"Among the fifteen emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, only four were succeeded by their eldest sons."
"There are a total of eighty-three emperors in the four major dynasties. Among them, there are only seventeen emperors succeeded by the eldest son, which is only about one-fifth!!!"
"For those emperors who are not the eldest sons who succeed to the throne, does Your Majesty think they will be in peace when they succeed to the throne?!!"
"And now, does Your Majesty still think that the eldest son succession system is really useful?!!"
In Yan Changqing's view, the eldest son inheritance system does have its benefits.
And if it can be truly implemented, it will indeed be a system that will help prevent royal brothers from fighting each other, avoid the turmoil of fighting for power, and ensure the peaceful transfer of the emperor's imperial power.
But the biggest problem with the eldest son inheritance system is that it is too idealistic! Knowledge!
The eldest son inheritance system must ensure that the eldest son has descendants from generation to generation, and that the eldest son of the eldest son of Zhao Ji also lives a smooth and healthy life.
And every eldest son must have good conduct, high moral cultivation, and his own ability far exceeds that of other legitimate sons and concubines, and is enough to overwhelm other legitimate sons and concubines.
Only by meeting these requirements can the eldest son succession system play its greatest role and ensure the stability and peaceful transfer of the emperor's imperial power.
But the problem is that it is too difficult to achieve these points!!!
Once any of the above points cannot be achieved, the eldest son inheritance system will become a decoration.
What then resulted was that other princes, or other civil and military ministers, and relatives would fight for each other and criticize each other endlessly in order to help their favorite prince win the throne of emperor.
Even a sword fight!
Therefore, in Yan Changqing's view, although the eldest son inheritance system sounds good, in actual implementation it is just a decoration.
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