Chapter 323 Honghuge, Sun Quan is luckier than Liu Bang
Pan Shu replied: "It is human nature for your Majesty to dote on your young son. It is not a big deal. I have also heard people say that Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, who founded the Han Dynasty for four hundred years, also liked his young son Liu Ruyi very much."
Logically speaking, the emperor is a human being and the people are also human beings. The emperor's feelings towards his children are the same as those of the people.
The emperor has property, and the people also have property. Although the amount of property is different, the handling of property issues and methods should be the same.
But why does the emperor prefer the eldest son, while the people prefer the youngest? But it is precisely in the inheritance of property and emotional styles that the emperor and the people are different.
Let’s talk about property inheritance first. Does the emperor have a lot of property? Needless to say, in the whole world, is it the royal land, is it the shore of the land, is it the royal ministers. The emperor’s property is so much that we can’t even imagine it.
Logically speaking, having so much property is a happy thing. On the contrary, for the emperor, it is a troublesome thing.
We have heard a saying: "The palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are all flesh." It means that we must be fair and just to our children. However, in the emperor's case, we must not be fair and just to our children.
If we talk about fairness and justice and divide the property equally, it means that the country will be divided and wars will break out. Therefore, the property can only be concentrated in one person, and this person is the heir to the throne, the prince.
So, who should the emperor choose as the successor to the throne? According to the general understanding, it should be the most worthy person. However, this problem will be very troublesome. Because who is the most worthy person? Different standards will lead to different results.
Also, some princes can disguise themselves, making it harder to tell them apart. If you let them take turns to practice, you wouldn't dare. If the prince wants to become emperor early, he may lose control.
Therefore, a rule needs to be set. It is the rule of eldest son inheritance.
Why should we choose the eldest son inheritance system? First, there is a sequence. The wife married first is called the first wife, and the son of the husband is called the eldest son.
Sitting in rows and eating fruits, the first to come is the king, and the second is the bandit. This is a rule that has been agreed upon by everyone since ancient times.
The second is the eldest son, or the eldest son, because he is born early, so we can focus on cultivating him. The prince is the foundation of the imperial country. Only by establishing a prince as early as possible can the imperial country be stable. Therefore, those who are born early have more time to cultivate.
The people's property is much less, and it is very likely that they may even have no property. In this case, the people naturally want to pursue fairness. The property is already small, and it is not fair. Isn't that looking for trouble?
Besides, it is impossible for the sons of the common people to have a military background like the emperor's prince, and other princes would not dare to resist. If the common people are unfair, how can their sons not resist?
If the people themselves have no property, in that case, they still have to consider the issue of providing for their old age in the future.
If he is unfair, which son will support him in the future? At the same time, in Chinese tradition, the eldest son leaves early to establish a new family, and the task of providing for the elderly is mainly completed by the last Yaoer. Therefore, the people love Yaoer.
Let’s talk about the way of emotions. The emperor and his sons actually rarely have father-son emotions. Why do you say this?
First, the emperor had many children and he had little contact with them, so it was difficult to establish emotions.
Second, there were political conflicts between the emperor and his sons. They were suspicious of each other and did not trust anyone. There were too many cases in history where emperors and sons killed and fought with each other. The fundamental reason was that there was no normal relationship between them.
Emotion and trust.
Since the emperor had little affection for his sons, the issue of succession was more of a political consideration than his own preferences.
The common people are different. The emotions between the common people and their children are the emotions of normal people.
Between the eldest son and the youngest son, the eldest son usually lives in the period when people are starting their own business. Because the material conditions are not rich enough in all aspects, the conflicts between the two parties are also great.
And Yao'er usually appears during the people's glorious period, when their material conditions are much better and there are far fewer conflicts with each other.
In addition, as we said before, because Yao'er lived with his parents the longest, and the people eventually needed Yao'er to raise him, the people's feelings for Yao'er were much deeper than for their eldest son.
If the emperor was born into an imperial family, this would probably be the case, but Cao Mengde and he were considered the founding monarchs of the country, and their backgrounds were not very high. It is understandable that some people generally love Yao'er.
After all, Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, who was born in a pavilion in Surabaya, also had the idea of raising a young son, but he could not do it because of the great power of Empress Lu.
Liu Bang's desire to depose Liu Ying is a typical failure example of deposing the elder and establishing the younger. He was the first emperor in the Han Dynasty who wanted to depose the crown prince.
Liu Bang originally made his eldest son Liu Ying the crown prince, but later his beloved woman, Mrs. Qi, also had a son, so she wanted to depose Liu Ying. But in fact, we all know that Liu Bang's attempt to depose the crown prince ended in failure.
Liu Bang has always disliked Liu Ying and felt that Liu Ying was too kind and weak, so he was looking for an opportunity to depose him and let Mrs. Qi's son become the prince. This idea did not change despite the persuasion of the court officials, but it was changed during "Shang Dynasty".
Shan Sihao" These four people immediately changed their minds after they appeared.
In the twelfth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang was accidentally shot by an arrow during an expedition. However, Liu Bang was unwilling to see the doctor and slept in bed for many days. Mrs. Qi and her son accompanied him.
One day Liu Bang felt in good spirits and asked Liu Ying to come over and talk to him.
Liu Ying felt relieved when she saw that her father's illness had improved a lot. When Liu Bang summoned him, she immediately went to see him.
Along with Liu Ying, there were four masters with gray hair and childlike faces. Liu Bang was surprised when he first saw them. After a brief introduction, Liu Bang knew their identities, namely Mr. Dongyuan, Mr. Jiaoli, and Qi.
Li Ji, Xia Huanggong.
Liu Bang was surprised. He had been looking for them for a long time, but they were unwilling to help him, but now they chose to follow his son. The appearance of the four masters made Liu Bang, who originally wanted to replace the crown prince, shaken.
This involved interested parties and ministers in the DPRK. Liu Bang abolished his eldest son and established a younger one. The eldest son was Liu Ying, and the younger son was Liu Ruyi. Liu Ying was born to Empress Lu, and Liu Ruyi was born to Mrs. Qi. From this, we can see that Liu Bang had a deep love for the two.
There are different degrees of pampering.
Liu Bang doted on Madam Qi and always stood by Madam Qi. He always wanted to depose and establish the crown prince. He did not pay attention to Empress Lu nor the intentions of the ministers. This shows how much he doted on Madam Qi's mother and son.
If something hadn't happened in the end that put Liu Bang under great pressure, he probably wouldn't have given up on deposing the crown prince.
What these four old men brought was not only the recognition of the prince by the four old men, but also the public opinion of the world that the prince Liu Ying should govern the world. This shows that the prince has won the hearts of the people, and the most rare thing in governing a country is the hearts of the people. Liu Bang
He compromised, and finally expressed in a song "Honghu Song" that the prince had full wings and crossed the ocean, and he could no longer stop him.
Of course, he also knew that his queen was behind all this, but he could no longer stop it. But fortunately, today was different from the past. He was much luckier than the Liu Bang who dominated the world when it came to deposing the crown prince.
Thinking of this, Sun Quan sighed with emotion: "Although I am not capable of unifying this troubled world, I am still much luckier than Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty in establishing a crown prince!"
Then he casually chanted the Honghu song:
“The swan flies high and flies thousands of miles.
The feather feathers are already there, spanning the whole world.
Across the world, what can be done?
Even though I have to pay a lot of money, I still give it to you."