As the eldest son of the emperor, why can he take the initiative to give up the position of the crow

During the feudal society of ancient China, the emperor was the king of a country and had supreme rights and status. Therefore, the throne is a position that many people want to ascend to after working hard all their lives. But it's a pity that many people have worked hard and finally ended up with the tragedy of a broken family.

However, there are also people who do not regard the throne as very important, because they know that their own ability is not enough, or the external conditions do not allow them to ascend to the throne, such as Liu Jiang, the eldest son of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liu Jiang is the eldest son of Emperor Guangwu, who was initially made the crown prince by Emperor Guangwu, and later took the initiative to give up the position of prince because his mother Guo Shengtong was not favored, and once wisely rejected the "rebellion" request of his half-brother, and finally got a good death.

Liu Jiang is the first child of Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Guo Shengtong, the empress, and Liu Xiu also has high hopes for him, so he will be named Liu Jiang and named the crown prince.

When Liu Jiang was young, the relationship between his parents was quite good, so Liu Jiang also received a good education. But it's a pity that when Liu Xiu's original partner Yin Lihua came back, all this changed, because Liu Xiu's love for Yin Lihua was far greater than that of his mother Guo Shengtong.

Later, Guo Shengtong's mother's power was gradually defeated by Liu Xiu, and Guo Shengtong himself was abolished as the queen and gradually came to an end. Although Liu Jiang was just a child at this time, he understood the importance of the emperor's preference, and he also knew that when he entered the circle of competition for the throne, the winning rate was not large. So, this sensual child finally chose to back down, and he often went into the palace to tell Emperor Guangwu that he didn't want to be emperor, and asked Emperor Guangwu to change his title to vassal king.

Perhaps because he was accustomed to seeing the bloody wind and rain of the palace, or perhaps because he understood that his strength was not enough, Liu Jiang told Emperor Guangwu that what he preferred was to be an idle prince and live a free life. After Liu Jiang's many efforts, Liu Xiu finally agreed, abolished Liu Jiang's crown prince, and named him the king of the East China Sea. Because Liu Yi was not deposed due to his fault, he was courteous when he went, so Emperor Guangwu allowed him to use the emperor's honor guard, and especially increased the fiefdom, "and eat Lu County, which is 29 counties".

After the death of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, he and Yin Lihua's son Liu Zhuang ascended the throne. And Liu Zhuang also has a younger brother of the same mother, this person is named Liu Jing, who is a narrow-minded person, he is very dissatisfied with his parents' arrangement, so he wants to find fault with his brother.

So, Liu Jing pretended to be the handwriting of Liu Jiang's uncle, Da Honglu Guo Guo, and wrote a letter to Liu Jiang, the king of the East China Sea. In the letter, Liu Jing claimed that Taizu Liu Bang was just a small Surabaya Pavilion Chief, who was able to establish the Han Dynasty, and Liu Jiang was now a prince, the eldest son of the first emperor. Empress Guo was deposed without guilt, and the emperor was supposed to be yours, but it was snatched away by Liu Zhuang.

If these two big revenge are not avenged, are they still a man?

But what Liu Jing didn't expect was that Liu Jiang really didn't care, not only did he not agree, but instead sent the letter to Liu Zhuang's hands. Perhaps it is precisely because of this reason that Liu Zhuang treated this abolished prince with great courtesy, and Liu Jiang also received a good death.

Because Liu Jiang has long been tired of the struggle for power and profit in the palace, he has no interest in cheating me.

Because although Liu Jiang is the crown prince, his strength is not strong, so he took the initiative to give way.

His mother lost his posteriority, and he became a concubine, and then he was the prince of the courtesy, and he proposed to retreat several times.

Because his own strength really does not allow it, coupled with the weakness of the mother clan behind him, he can only protect himself by taking the initiative to abdicate.

The first time was abolished was the elder brother in May of the 47th year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi patrolled the Saiwai, during the tour, several things happened, prompting the contradiction between Emperor Kangxi and the crown prince to intensify, and the past performance made Kangxi think that the brother Yan Prince was not filial, not envious of the dust and reuse, decided to abolish the crown prince, the second time was abolished in the 48th year of Kangxi because the eldest brother and the eighth brother failed to compete for the crown, the contradiction between the sons of the Kangxi Emperor intensified, in order to ease the situation, on the 22nd day of the first month, Kangxi reinstated Yinren as the crown prince. And since he was deposed for the first time, Yinren has been abnormal and has behaved crazy, so Kangxi has no choice but to abolish him.

The emperor's speculation led to the fact that he was now grown up, so he was guarded by his father, so this kind of thing happened.

Because he is inactive, he has a lot of negative news, he is not worthy of being a prince, and his talent is not very good.

Because the emperor died relatively late, the crown prince became the prince when the prince was very young, and many of them died young. Or they were framed and died, and some things have no talent and no power.

Because after the crown prince was born, they all lived in a comfortable environment and did not experience too many hardships, which led to their introverted and weak personalities, and the emperor had to know how to be both civil and military.

Because life expectancy was very short in ancient times. Some emperors lived a long life, and they boiled their crown princes to death. In addition, some princes, eager to ascend to the throne, plotted a coup d'état, but in the end did not succeed, but were killed themselves.

In ancient times, it was more likely that the son-in-law would inherit the throne, because in ancient times, people valued bloodline, and the concubine and concubine had a higher status than ordinary children, so the emperor generally made the son-in-law the crown prince.

Of course, it is more likely that the son-in-law will succeed to the throne. Because the ancient descendants were particularly clear about the distinction between respect and inferiority, and special attention was paid to the purity of blood.

The possibility of the son-in-law inheriting the throne is relatively large, because in ancient times, the identity of the eldest son was likely to be the concubine, and the identity of the concubine was always higher than that of the concubine, and the mother's family was strong behind the family, and it was most likely to inherit the throne.

Generally speaking, it is more likely that the eldest son will inherit the throne, because the royal rule is that the eldest son needs to be appointed as the crown prince, and although the concubine is also noble, if it is a concubine, it is difficult to compete with the eldest son

In ancient times, the son-in-law was more likely to inherit the throne, because the mother-in-law had more power and could better help her children.

It is generally the eldest son, this is because this is the first child, and this is also the first child of the real wife, so he has priority when inheriting the throne.

Because his mother was a very powerful woman and relied on the strength of the times, he relied on his mother to let the emperor make him the crown prince again.

is to appease other princes, and this is also to achieve the reunification of the motherland, and this is also a ploy of some people, so Yinren was abolished and was made the crown prince again.

In ancient times, the inheritance system of Xia and Shang already existed, and it was until the Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, this inheritance system was even written into the ritual law. The primogeniture inheritance system is mainly to establish heirs from the ritual law to solve the disputes over property inheritance and stabilize the family and the country.

On the question of whether the crown prince will inherit more after the death of the crown prince or whether the inheritance of other princes will be greater, Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty.

is the best example, the Ming Dynasty's "Ming Huidian".

Records. Fan Xuan. In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, the eldest son of the eldest son. If the eldest son has a disability, the children of the eldest son shall be established. Zeng Xuantong.

It is said that the person who inherits the ancestral inheritance is the eldest son, and the eldest son who is crippled must be established as the eldest son's descendants, and even more so if the eldest son dies, and in the regulations, the eldest grandson of the eldest son is established when the eldest grandson dies, that is, the lineage of the eldest son has always been passed on. However, the primogeniture inheritance system of the Ming Dynasty was somewhat special, because the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu was Zhu Yuanzhang.

Five years before his death, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son Zhu Biao.

died of illness in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, so Zhu Yuanzhang's primogeniture inheritance system was biased towards Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunwen.

In fact, Zhu Yunwen is not the eldest grandson, because Zhu Yunwen also had a brother before, he is already the second grandson of the lineage, and he can't stand Zhu Yuanzhang's love for him, and even in order to protect his lineage, his great-grandson and great-grandson have been written into the etiquette, and almost all the other second sons and concubines have been discharged.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the Tang and Song dynasties had different primogeniture systems

Tang: No sons-in-law and guilty diseases, grandchildren; has no grandchildren, and the second son-in-law has the same mother and brother; has no mother and brother, and has a son; has no concubines, and has the same mother and brother as grandchildren. "Tang Law Discussion".

Song: First, the eldest son is self-renowned, and the weight can be known; The two, or the death of the eldest son, take the heir or the second to inherit the father's weight, also known as the weight also. History of the Song Dynasty

The primogeniture system of the Tang and Song dynasties.

It can better reflect the difference between the eldest son, the eldest and the youngest, and the general order of inheritance during this period is the eldest son, the eldest grandson, the second son, the eldest son, the youngest son, the youngest grandson, and the eldest grandson (under the name of the eldest son).

Of course, this is only to say that in the inheritance right, if you say that the status still depends on his official title, for example, when Zhu Yunwen was the emperor's grandson, the status of the system was far inferior to that of Yan Wang Zhu Di and some other powerful imperial uncles, but after he became the emperor's grandson, it was different, and Yan King Zhu Di had to salute him when he saw him. The eldest and youngest of the concubines do not represent the level of status, but the eldest and eldest may be far higher than the younger and younger.

In the primogeniture system, if the crown prince dies, then the crown prince is the only legitimate heir, and his status is naturally higher than that of other princes.

The crown prince is the crown prince's grandson, and the status is higher. This can be seen from the succession of Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

1. After the death of the crown prince, the crown prince is not eligible to inherit, but is inherited by the prince.

2. Although there is no flute, you can choose from the remaining few people who are suitable to inherit the unification.

3, in ancient times, there was a situation where nine sons seized the heir.

Because the eldest son is generally the son of the queen, the queen's status is respected, so he is appointed as the crown prince.

In ancient times, the status of the wife and the concubine were at different levels, and the children born to the main wives were the sons-in-law, which were naturally more noble than the children born to the concubines, and in ancient times, the elders were respected, so the position of the prince was held by the eldest son with the highest status.

In ancient times, the emperor chose to establish the eldest son as the crown prince, because he was afraid that the eldest son would not obey the public, so letting the eldest son succeed to the throne could avoid children and grandchildren fighting each other!

The terrifying power of the future monarch must know that since ancient times, this prince is the eldest son, that is to say, the prince is generally not the eldest son, that is, the eldest son, no matter which is definitely the older prince among the emperor's children. Because the life span of the ancients was not long, the emperor worked hard and still wanted to covet beauty in the harem, it is generally difficult to live a long life, and the elderly prince is set up as the prince, and the country can be stable with an adult successor. Therefore, many princes have been selected as seeded players since they were young and received imperial education for more than ten years, just so that they can be on call at any time.

If the emperor dies before the prince becomes an adult, then the prince will be able to take over smoothly.

But many emperors are more good at health, such as Aixinjue Luo Hongli, who is a rich flower in the world, and he has lived to an advanced age of 89 years old, if he meets such an emperor, then his prince can work on the throne for decades and can't turn positive, think about it is enough to be aggrieved. One step away, there are thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, even if the prince is loyal and filial, it is estimated that he will have thoughts that should not be there. Even if the prince is divided, you must know that since the establishment of the prince's mansion, it has its own independent royal team, and these people are counting on the prince to take up his career to a higher level after he takes office.

Either in order to better serve the future king, or to rule out the possibility of other princes ascending to the throne, the forces behind the prince will seek benefits for the prince in the previous dynasty and compete for power.

Whether it is a decisive and wise and promising king, or a mediocre and unscrupulous king who knows pleasure all day long, he has been on the throne for a long time and has a domineering possessiveness of imperial power. At this time, the stronger the prince's power, as the emperor grew old and his physical fitness decreased, the fear in the emperor's heart can be imagined, so the strong prince and the power behind the prince are beyond the emperor's tolerance.

Maybe these emperors had great expectations for the prince in their hearts, and after they were established as princes, they were also carefully cultivated, but unfortunately this idea of family affection is not important compared to the imperial power, and their own net worth, so the princes have become a heart disease of the old emperors. The prince who can endure and have brains and be a man may finally be able to ascend to the throne, or directly seize power by force, of course, most of the princes either died in rebellion or died in the suspicion of the emperor, and it is generally difficult to inherit the throne smoothly.

Because there are many people staring at the throne, many princes were removed by stratagem before they succeeded to the throne.

Because once he becomes the crown prince, the spearhead of all brothers will be pointed at him, so it is difficult to inherit the throne smoothly.

Because the orthodoxy of the throne was very important in ancient times, in order to maintain the stability of the country, the throne will not be shaken unless the interests of all classes are undermined.