Chu people bow

The five chaotic China, the turbulence in the north, and the most turbulent era, the rise of the state of Yan.

After some time you killed me, I killed you, the father and son, the ruler and the minister, killed each other, and finally Murong Jun of the Yan Kingdom wiped out Ran Wei, but had a nightmare.

After the dream, Emperor Zhao Shi Hu came to bite his arm. After waking up, he always felt uncomfortable, so people dug up Shi Hu's tomb, but it turned out to be stiff, but not rotten.

Murong Jun scolded: How dare a dead man come to scare me, the living emperor!

Then let people scold Shihu's crimes in front of the zombies, then whip the corpse, and then throw it into Zhangshui.

At this time, a story was inserted into the history books.

At that time, there was a man in Zaiwei County Market who was wearing a linen jacket. He looked like a madman (mentally ill). As a result, one of Zhao's prefects arrested him and gave it to Shi Hu (strangely), and Shi Hu asked the Maju man something.

In the end, the Maju said only one sentence:

"Your Majesty shall be Your Majesty the One Pillar."

At the time, no one understood what it meant.

After Murong Jun threw Shi Hu's corpse into Zhangshui, the corpse did not sink into the water, but stuck against the bridge pillar and got stuck there.

At this time, I don't know who remembered the strange event of the year, and the cryptic language of "His Royal Highness One Pillar", and then linked the two together, so that it was recorded in the history books.

In fact, Murong Jun's state of Yan did not last forever. Since then, it has also experienced many re-established names of the state of Yan in the west, rear, south and north, and finally turned into dust.

Ming Yang Shen once wrote about the disputes at that time in "Twenty-five Histories Tanci":

 "The Shihu clan, claiming to be respected, even kills the parents and sons.
Use pure ash to cleanse the stomach, and eventually nourish the fierce children.
At the end of the year, the throne was passed to you, the young child Shi Shi.
Shi Zun came, killed the world again, and pushed Tianlun.
Don't remember, Le's last words, think about Zhou Huo deeply.
The predecessors died, the descendants slaughtered, and the retribution was clear.
Jian kills Zun, Min kills Jian, and Shi only proclaims emperor.
In two or three years, I did it all, and the death was rampant.
Stay behind, report behind you, and still hate after death.
Three hundred whips, one pillar hall, floating corpses. "

In fact, after reading the history of this period, I can understand why the Eastern Jin Dynasty can breathe, and the orthodoxy at that time concerned the south of the Yangtze River.

In the case of taking all by force, it is difficult to let the father-son inheritance enter a normal track. In fact, before Shi Le died, some ministers persuaded him to get rid of Shi Hu, but Shi Le's response was that he hoped that his sons could learn from the tragedy of suicide of the kings of the Jin Dynasty and live in harmony with each other.

How is this possible?

Even in the age of Temujin, the great Mongolian empire he had hoped for was also gradually disintegrating due to the dispute over the successor, and internal cannibalism.

Some contemporary scholars have specifically discussed the political customs of the grasslands at that time, thinking that such customs cannot be explained from the perspective of the Han region. In fact, the entire grassland has a completely different path of cultural influence. For example, the very characteristic "black felt" ceremony, and the custom of strangling the successor half to death and then asking him how long he is in power. It all means that on the grasslands, there is no such system of direct descendant succession under the culture of ritual and music.

In fact, the fundamental condition for the secret reserve establishment system established by Yongzheng to not be abused may only be the increasingly scattered heirs of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. Qianlong was the first heir to successfully succeed the throne under the secret establishment of the reserve system. But when Emperor Jiaqing arrived, he did not need to rely on the edict, but through the concession of two generations of emperors, the change of the throne was completed before Qianlong was alive. Jiaqing himself had only five sons, one of whom died young. Emperor Daoguang established an advantage early on, and his younger brothers were actually more than ten years apart from him. Emperor Daoguang was okay, there were nine sons in total, and only two of them eventually triggered the competition for succession: the later Emperor Xianfeng and his younger brother Yixin, the other brothers died of illness, and the successor was adopted. It is said that the confirmation of the right to inherit the throne was completed before his death.

However, the secret establishment of the reserve system was originally the method that Yongzheng came up with in view of the disputes between the princes in the last years of Kangxi. The most important role may be to prevent the prince and ministers from forming gangs while the emperor is still alive, and at the same time, it will not make the prince a target of great popularity like Kangxi did.

Qianlong's idea is more thorough. He wants to solve the problem completely before his death, so that Jiaqing's ascension will be smooth, and the rest may only be a careful plan between the emperor and the emperor.

There is so much to learn from history.

But predecessors have long pointed out that almost all the "good ways" of prevention have finally become the fuse of the crisis in the new dynasty.

The imperial power system under one-man dictatorship, whether it is the system of direct son succession or the competition to win, ultimately cannot escape the bottom-line cannibalism. In other words, the battle between them is that the two sides actually regard imperial power as a kind of business, and it is just a competition.

Huang Zongxi's "Yuanjun" is so emotional:

"Seeing it in terms of inheritance, who wants to acquire an inheritance, who is inferior to me? Holding a tie, consolidating the situation, the intelligence of one person cannot surpass the multitude of those in the world who want to acquire it. Those who are far away are several lifetimes away, and those who are near are as close as their body, their flesh and blood. The collapse is in his descendants. People wish that there will be no emperor's family in the world, and the princess of Yizong's words is also daily: How can I live my family! It's painful! When I think about starting a business, I want to win the world, and I want to destroy it. Depressed!"

Here lies the intoxication and danger of power.

If I have it, I will lose it.

Therefore, if the people of Chu could lose it, and the people of Chu could gain it, then there would be fewer inhuman things in the world where the flesh and blood were broken.