Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 318: Exploiting loopholes and harming the interests of the Jiangdong clan
Chapter 318: Exploiting loopholes and harming the interests of the Jiangdong clan
Pan Shu said softly: "I would like to thank Your Majesty for your compliments. I am still so young and Liang'er is still young. Aren't Your Majesty worried that I will do something like the heroine's coming to court in the future?"
Sun Quan replied: "I believe that Shu'er will not be like this. Shu'er does not have this ability. What's more, this Jiangdong is not only my Jiangdong, but also the Jiangdong of those Jiangdong families!"
Pan Shu thought that she did not have the ability to participate in politics, but uniting with Princess Quan gave her a glimmer of hope.
After the death of Emperor Zhang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Queen Dou of Emperor Zhang came to the court, followed by Queen Deng of Emperor He, Queen Yan of Emperor An, Queen Dou of Emperor Huan, and Queen Ling of Emperor He, etc., so that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were "six queens who came to the court". Female
In order to achieve the goal of long-term power, the Lord often supports young Lords. The so-called "covet children to perpetuate their political power".
From the resurgence of Guangwu to the deposed Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were twelve emperors, all of whom died in 196 years. Among them, there were as many as nine emperors who ascended the throne under the age of sixteen, accounting for three-quarters of the total.
Moreover, since Emperor He, emperors have all ascended the throne at a young age. This has become another big oddity in the politics of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in addition to the exclusive power of relatives and the interference of eunuchs in politics.
Except for Emperor Guangwu (Liu Xiu), Emperor Ming (Liu Zhuang), and Emperor Xian (Liu Xie) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, all others died before the age of thirty-six.
Among them, except for the three emperors An, Zhi and Huan who ascended the throne as members of the Liu clan, the rest followed the inheritance principle of "pass from father to son, family to the world".
Although the emperors had many concubines and got married early, due to immature physical development, excessive indulgence would undoubtedly affect their own health, causing many of their offspring to be weak and die young. If it involves court competition for favor, dethronement, and ancient medical technology
The country is backward, and there are not many princes who can reach adulthood, so the scope of choices for the crown prince is even smaller.
The first emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty all died young, so the surviving princes must be relatively young. However, as long as the previous emperors had heirs, they had to be established. There were many young emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This was a chronic disease that the feudal system could not cure in its lifetime.
There are so many young emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are also accidental reasons. On the contrary, most of the emperors in the Eastern Han Dynasty were short-lived, but their mothers or empresses all lived a long life, and "the master is young and the mother is strong."
The Han Dynasty also established the legitimate status of the empress. When the emperor was young, weak, mediocre, or the heirs were interrupted, the empress dowager could supervise as a guardian, select a successor, and even take the throne.
In order to satisfy their own desire for power, some empress dowagers abolished the elders and established younger ones. For example, Empress Dowager Deng, the former empress of Emperor He, refused to establish her eldest son Liu Sheng on the grounds that he had a chronic illness, but instead favored the youngest son Liu Long, who was only a hundred days old.
He died young soon after he was established, and he was succeeded by Liu Zhen, who was only twelve years old.
A queen mother actually created two young emperors, and she controlled the government for sixteen years. The situation of the harem intervening in politics in the Eastern Han Dynasty is a typical epitome of the immaturity of the queen system and even the harem system in the Han Dynasty, which allowed the heroine to easily take advantage of the loopholes.
But when he came to Sun Quan, he wasn't too worried about this matter. Even if the monarch of the Wu Kingdom was weaker a hundred years after him, there were still those Jiangdong nobles who he was quite helpless about. They would never tolerate a female protagonist sitting on top of them.
The one who gives orders,
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were many concubines in the emperor's harem. The huge harem needed a person who respected his status to help the emperor manage the harem and maintain order in the harem.
The establishment of the queen system has determined the status of the queen's harem manager. The queen's status in the harem is the most noble. The emperor is responsible for the government affairs of the previous dynasty and rules the subjects of the world. The queen controls the six palaces to assist the emperor.
In order to ensure that the queen handles the affairs of the harem smoothly, the queen has a series of palace officials. These officials are subordinate to the queen and are responsible for announcing the queen's will.
Although there were changes in the setting and management of these palace officials of the queen during the Han Dynasty, their main responsibilities were to help the queen handle the size of the harem, enforce the harem regulations, and maintain the order of the harem.
Under normal circumstances, the queen only presides over the harem and does not interfere in the government affairs. However, when the emperor dies before the crown prince is established and there is a power vacuum, the queen of the former emperor often takes charge of the overall situation, elects a new emperor, and even takes the throne.
The above items are the positive effects that the queens of the Western Han Dynasty played on the politics of the Han Dynasty, but the queens sometimes also had a negative impact on politics.
First of all, in order to obtain the supreme position of the queen, the concubines in the harem launched a fierce struggle and struggle.
The first queen of the Han Dynasty, Empress Lu became jealous of Mrs. Qi. After Liu Bang's death, Empress Lu brutally mutilated Mrs. Qi and turned her into a "human pig".
To sum up, in the development process of China's queen system, there are two periods that require special attention, one is the founding period of the Western Han Dynasty, and the other is the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In the process of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty pacifying the world and establishing the Western Han Dynasty, due to Lu Pheasant's unusual character, outstanding political talents and contributions, coupled with Liu Bang's urgent need to stabilize the rear when he was pacifying the world, and at the same time facing Lu Pheasant's
The feeling of guilt made Lu Fei become the first queen with a clear identity in the history of our country, and she played an irreplaceable role in the unified political structure.
It should be said that when Liu Bang made Lu Fei his queen, it was not mainly out of careful consideration of the political structure, but it laid a good foundation for the subsequent establishment of the queen system.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the emperor who perfected the unified autocratic system constructed by Qin Shihuang. Consciously incorporating the symbol of the queen into the political structure was an important part of Emperor Wu's improvement of the autocratic system. Therefore, there was a complete set of queens.
The emergence of the system.
Due to its important supplementary role to the unified autocratic regime, after the establishment of the queen system, it was inherited and developed by subsequent dynasties. Almost every emperor in the past dynasties had a queen. Just as a country cannot be without an owner for a day, the queen cannot be vacant for a long time.
When a queen is deposed or dies, the emperor has to appoint another queen. The same is true now. Both Wei and Shu have always had queens.
But Sun Quan has always strangely left the post vacant. In the past few decades, no living person has ever sat on it. On the one hand, it was because of the constraints of the ministers, and on the other hand, Sun Quan was not determined enough to stand up.
Strong, but the means are not strong enough.
Looking for the reason, the difficulty in establishing a queen is not in the establishment of the queen itself, but in the distribution of interests after the establishment of the queen. If a woman from a rich local Jiangdong family is established as the queen, like the Xie family or the Bu family, then what they have in their hands will be
The benefits will be distributed again, and no one will be willing to do so.
The rule of Soochow is based on the major clans in the south of the Yangtze River, represented by Gu Lu, Zhu Zhang of Wu County and Yu Wei Kong Xie of Kuaiji County. They occupy the Soochow court and have absolute say.
Especially after Lu Xun defeated Liu Bei, the clan's prestige increased greatly. They would never allow a person from Jiangbei to ascend to the supreme post of Soochow.
But if they choose a woman from a wealthy family in Jiangdong to be the queen, they will be heartbroken and unwilling to accept it. I am afraid they will all oppose it as before.
It would be easier for them to choose a small family from Jiangdong or even the daughter of a guilty minister to be the queen. After all, if you want to get more of the pie, you need to have strength. If it is in name only, then who is willing to give an extra point? Woolen cloth?
Throughout the thirty years since Sun Quan became king, it can be seen as a microcosm of his struggle with the Jiangnan clan.
It can also be used as a lens through which he changed from being enterprising to being thoughtful in his later years. From being controlled by others to being dictatorial, it took him nearly thirty years.
If you add in the twenty-two years he ruled Jiangdong, this is more than half a century of struggle. There is no denying that Sun Quan's attack on the noble families was also beneficial. However, this struggle greatly damaged the vitality of Soochow, and the originally relatively harmonious co-governance situation was destroyed. Sun Quan forcibly broke it,