The year 1921 was a very special year for the future Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.
This year he was very sad, because his father had died less than three years ago, and he had not yet recovered from the grief of "three years of filial piety", but a "pie" that fell from the sky fell on his head, making him "sad and happy".
This "pie" was the biggest pie in ancient times – the throne.
Then Zhu Houxi was just the son of the king of the clan at that time, how could he be so lucky?
This also starts from the inheritance system of China's feudal dynasties. As we all know, in principle, China implemented the "primogeniture inheritance system" in ancient times, and this system has two main points, the first is "establishing a concubine to be long rather than a virtuous, and establishing a son to be noble is not to be long", and the second is "brother to brother and brother".
The first of these two points, it is estimated that everyone is not unfamiliar, the essence of this point is: the inheritance of the throne, in principle, can only be passed to the bloodline, and between the bloodline, in principle, can only come in the order of the teeth of the year. If the emperor does not play cards according to the routine when passing the throne, the ministers can argue on the basis of reason, and the idle emperor generally does not dare to mess around.
Although Zhu Di snatched his nephew's job bowl that year, when he became the prince himself, he also had to pinch his nose and stand up zhu Gaozi, who had flaws on his body. Although Li Shimin dared to kill his brother and bully his father, the two princes he had set up did not dare to touch the high-voltage line...
So what if the emperor didn't have a queen? In principle, it can only be "brother and brother". However, the "brother and brother" here may not be the same as everyone thinks. Ordinary people may think that if the eldest in this family is the emperor, and when he dies, he happens to be dead, then the second eldest of the family can become the emperor, so what if the second eldest is also dead?
Is it possible that the third elder can get this "pie" in his hand?
Not really. Although the eldest has no descendants, but the second eldest may not have none, if the second eldest still has children, then the inheritance of the throne must also go through the procedures in the descendants of the second eldest, if the second son is gone, the third can become the emperor smoothly? It is not okay, it must reach the second family and there is no bloodline, your third has a chance, in case the second elder has a grandson, then the third elder can only stand on the side.
The reason why Zhu Houxi was able to become emperor was because after his three uncles were extinct (his father was the fourth oldest), his eldest brother died early, so he could carry this piece of heavenly "pie" into his arms in the envious eyes of his uncles.
However, when 15-year-old Zhu Houxi came to Beijing from Hubei, he suddenly found that the "pie" in his arms was not fragrant. Because according to the arrangement of Yang Tinghe, the minister in charge at that time, he came to be emperor without conditions, you must give up your original father, and you must recognize the dead uncle Ming Wuzong as a father.
Ordinary people may be "fathers with cakes", but Zhu Houxi is not an ordinary person, he first strongly refused, succeeded to the emperor as the "crown prince", and then changed the very ambiguous era name "Shaozhi" (this era name has the meaning of inheritance) to Jiajing. If the Jiajing Emperor had only blindly hardened his ministers, he would not have been called "the wisest emperor of the Ming Dynasty" later.
At that time, after fighting for certain interests, he pinched his nose and approved of the edict 'entering the Sect Ofe' (with the meaning of succession). Probably the average person sees this and doesn't pay much attention. Because the average person may think that this is just a child's mood and finally being surrendered by adults.
But from Jiajing's resume, this teenager was "brilliant", 13 years old can carry the whole side of the palace, you want to say that his 15-year-old behavior is just a child's emotions, do you feel possible? If this upright and rebellious child makes a fuss, do you feel that you can suppress it? So just by looking at this record, we know that Jiajing is definitely not a good stubble.
At that time, half of the people above the court were only Yang Ting and Ma Shou, and the other half, although their knees were not so brittle, but no one dared to do the sound of fighting horses. Jia Jing was not a fool, so after sitting on the dragon chair, he noticed this problem, and it was likely that he found out earlier.
So what to do? If Jiajing had been so "easy-going", he would not have used the throne to blackmail Yang Tinghe and "obey", so let Yang Tinghe be brought down? People Yang Tinghe is deeply rooted and does not say, there is also the merit of Yingli, you Jiajing is not familiar with life, if you are really with old Yang Ganggang, maybe you will put yourself into it.
It can neither lie flat nor hard, if it were you, what would you do?
If you have any ideas, you can leave a message, let's see how Jiajing is doing it today.
At that time, after Jiajing ascended the throne, there was always a problem that made him grumble, that is, Yang Tinghe did not want him to continue to treat his father as his father in name, but strongly advocated that he "obey" the dead emperor. The two have been fighting openly and secretly for this matter.
At this moment, a 48-year-old newcomer named Zhang Xuan (who was only admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 47) suddenly wrote a book, and he quoted the scriptures to write a "Great Ritual Shu", which contained a lot of content, but the core was actually only one: Your Majesty the Emperor, you are not fighting alone, I want to stand on your side, I and Yang Tinghe are not in the same group!
Although Emperor Jiajing had never heard the secret of our party's united front work: "Make the enemy few and make many friends," he must have known that the emperor also needed black gloves, so Jiajing took advantage of zhang Xuan's small flame and began to ignite the raging fire of the "great etiquette" dispute. On the surface, this fire is a dispute between "etiquette" and "filial piety", but in fact, it is Jiajing who is setting up a banner, and he wants to win more "allies" in the chaos.
The result of the final battle was that Jiajing smoothly made his own father his own father, and "excavated" a group of sensible people like Zhang Xuan, while Yang Tinghe was stripped of his post for the people in the midst of this chaos.
After Emperor Jiajing was emperor for 17 years, almost ten years after Yang Tinghe's death, Jiajing, who was in power in his hands, proposed a "moth", he wanted his father to welcome into the Taimiao Temple, it is reasonable to say that this is not a big deal, after all, you have achieved the "final victory", but the ministers did not happily agree, why?
Because the location of the Temple is fixed, in principle, only 9 emperors' tablets can be placed, and if you want to put your father in, you must take out a tablet of your ancestors. And under normal circumstances, the order of replacement is also from far and near, but Zhu Yuanzhang's family is already Ming Taizu, according to relevant policies, the tablet that has been called "ancestor" cannot be moved out of the Taimiao Temple. So Jiajing wanted to retreat to the second place and get out the person who had robbed his nephew of his seat.
However, the ministers said that everyone has taken the lead in "guarding the gate of the country", and the family members have done a good job, and it is immoral for us to do so. Jiajing saw that this matter could be discussed, but he had to choose the right person, so he turned his attention to the fat man who had only been a year old, and the ministers saw that this master was indeed suitable for moving, so they removed the tablet that wrote Akihito, but this operation crossed Ming Taizong, and it was not good to not express it, so they honored him as Ming Chengzu.