Chapter 694: The Crown Prince
Zhenjin is very vague in the memory of Zhao Yu's previous life, just because in a curious article talking about the emperor who was scared to death, he mentioned that he was scared to death by his father before he succeeded to the throne, so Zhenjin has such a cowardly impression in his mind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info But in this world, Zhenjin naturally came into his sight as the heir to the throne, and he also found that this kid was really not a simple character.
Kublai Khan had more than ten sons, the eldest son died early, so he regarded Zhenjin as the eldest son, and he was born to Empress Chabi, who was the eldest and the heir, if it was in the Central Plains Dynasty, it was a natural successor, but it was not necessarily in Mongolia. And his fate was good, Kublai Khan, who had not yet inherited the throne of Khan, was fighting with a group of Han Confucians, and his commander-in-chief at that time was the affairs of the Han land in Monan, and collected a large number of Han Confucians.
Kublai Khan handed over the education of Zhenjin to Yao Shu of the Han Dynasty, and ordered the descendants of the lords to study with them. Yao Shu and others edified the virtue of Zhenjin Day with the three outlines and five constants, and the aphorisms of the sages, and used the "Book of Filial Piety" as an enlightenment textbook to teach Zhenjin. Later, Yao Shu followed him to Dali, and then changed his order to Dou Mo to take over as a teacher, which was the second teacher of Zhenjin and at the same time ordered Liu Bingzhong's disciple Wang Sui to be Zhenjin's companion. Wang Sui served Zhenjin for a long time, and often instilled the three outlines and five constants, the way of learning, and the truth of controlling chaos in the past dynasties.
The year after Kublai Khan's accession to the throne, he enshrined the seventeen-year-old Zhenjin as the king of Yan and received the book to save trouble. The Privy Council was established in the fourth year of the Central Union, and the Privy Council was adjudicated with real gold. But in fact, Zhenjin only went to the Zhongshu Province twice a month, and the affairs of the Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council were handed over to Wang Xun. It can be seen that Zhenjin was deeply influenced by the Han Confucians when he was young and fully trusted them.
After Kublai Khan defeated Ali Buge and gained the right to rule the Mongols, he wanted to reform the traditional Mongolian Khan Khan Khulitai Assembly election system succession system, so that the Khan of thousands of generations would always come from his own family. As a result, Yao Shu, Zhang Xiongfei and other Hanchens who understood it suggested "building a prince and vice to Chongzuo" and "building a prince as soon as possible", that is, using the traditional primogeniture inheritance system of the Central Plains Dynasty to ensure the succession of the Khan. Kublai Khan eventually adopted Hanchen's advice.
In February of the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan issued an edict to establish his eldest son Zhenjin as the crown prince; On March 13, Boyan was dispatched to hold the festival to confer the jade book Jinbao and held a canonization ceremony. Although the text claims that the canonization of the crown prince is a legacy of Genghis Khan, it is actually a major change in the traditional Mongolian system of succession to the throne, and it is also a major achievement of Kublai Khan's observance of Han law. In September of the same year, Kublai Khan set up the "Palace Master's Mansion" for Zhenjin, and selected Confucian ministers as official subordinates, and Zhenjin was not only exposed to Han culture since childhood, but also his political future was closely related to Han Confucian ministers, which paved the way for his firm support for Han law in the future.
After pacifying Jiangnan, Kublai Khan's interest in Han law was decreasing, and he turned to reuse the Hui people Ahma's financial management, coupled with Liu Bingzhong, Shi Tianze, Zhao Bi and other important Han ministers died one after another, Hanchen's status was reduced, and he was unable to compete, so the Hanchen pinned their hopes on completing the task of escorting Ba Si Pa into Tibet, and had just returned to Dadu Zhenjin, they colluded with the Taoist priest Li Jushou to instruct him to take advantage of the opportunity of Zhai to suggest to Kublai Khan that the prince should participate in court politics, and Dong Wenzhong also advised from the side.
This matter should be the mandate of heaven, but also should be popular, Kublai Khan naturally obeyed his words, from then on Zhenjin began to participate in the government, all the Zhongshu Province, the Privy Council, the Imperial History Observatory and the Hundred Divisions, all reported to the real gold before hearing about Kublai Khan. After Zhenjin came to power, he became the leader of the Hanfa faction, forming a sharp opposition to the financial management faction led by Ahma. In the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, someone proposed that Xie Changyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who was born in the south, propose to set up a province to refute the edict, and Zhenjin knew that this was in line with Kublai Khan's idea of making his subordinates check each other to prevent treachery and deception, so he allowed it to be implemented, and intended to let the Confucian minister Lian Xixian serve as his servant.
However, due to Ahma's obstruction and disagreement within the Hanchen, the plan to establish a province was soon aborted. Soon Lian Xixian was seriously ill, Zhenjin sent Yang Jiding to visit, and Lian Xixian's last words were to eradicate "those who mislead the country and harm the people", that is, implied to get rid of Ahma. In December of that year, Jianghuai Province Zuo Cheng Cui Bin impeached Ahma's party for corruption and lawlessness, and was persecuted to death by Ahma, Zhenjin ate in the palace, and dropped his chopsticks after hearing the news, was very sad, and hurriedly sent someone to stop it, and Cui Bin had died.
Zhao Yu thought that this incident had caused the secret confrontation between the Yuan court financial faction and the Confucian faction to turn into a life-and-death battle, which induced the assassination of Ahma. In March of the 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Ahma was assassinated by the Han king and the high monk. At that time, although Zhenjin was in Shangdu with Kublai Khan, he thought that Zhenjin was still inevitably involved, after all, Ahama was Kublai Khan's most trusted minister, even if Zhenjin did not explicitly sanction it, he must have acquiesced in the assassination, otherwise who would dare to stone Ahama to death with a hammer in front of all the ministers!
Afterwards, Kublai Khan was furious, and put to death Wang Shu, Gao Monk and Zhang Yitongtong, the political affairs and privy deputy envoy of Zhongshu Province who stayed in Dadu. At the same time, a large number of Han Confucians were used as the backing, Zhongshu Province took He Wei as the senator, Xu Yan as Zuo Shilangzhong, and recruited Yang Renfeng of Luzhou and Ma Shao of Dongping, and appointed Yang Gongyi to Zhongshu Province to discuss matters, and ordered Dong Wenyong, the head of Weihui, to practice the official government and transfer to Zhongshu Province with Yang Gongyi.
Zhao Yu has always resisted the teachings of the Confucian scholars because he was worried that he would be 'badly taught' by them, because he understood the truth that Xiucai would not succeed in rebellion for ten years. These scholars are passionate and responsible. But it is also too idealistic, often unrealistic, and very extreme, looking at people and things in white or black. And when it comes to the critical moment, they hesitate, resulting in a missed opportunity.
During this period, Empress Chabi died of illness, and Kublai Khan fell into depression, drank excessively, and was tired of government affairs. What does real gold actually do? In the past two and a half years, with his care and support, the people and Lihuo Sun have mainly completed the following important tasks: first, to investigate and deal with Ahma's crimes, and confiscate Ahma's family wealth; 2. Employing former Han ministers; 3. Improve the governance of officials.
Seeing him doing this, Zhao Hao was anxious for Zhenjin, Ahama was already dead, so why rush to 'whip the corpse', did he want to prove that he was right, or did he want to prove that Ahma was wrong? Although he stole some family wealth and allowed Kublai Khan to dig up Ahama from the grave and chop it up and feed it to the dogs, he had lost points politically. He analyzed that Kublai Khan was so angry, most likely not because he was blind, but because he blamed his son for being too ignorant, so as to vent his anger and express his dissatisfaction at the same time.
In addition, Zhao Yu believes that Zhenjin can't distinguish between the importance of doing things, although using the rectification of the rule of officials as an excuse to use Hanchen is also a measure to cultivate the team, but it is still too early, and it will only lead to a confrontation between him and the old Mongolian ministers, and these people are all meritorious people, holding military power, and having the right to speak on whether they can succeed to the throne. Therefore, before ascending the throne, what to do is not to offend them, but to take them for your own use, so as to ensure that you can inherit the throne smoothly.
And Zhenjin should not have ignored Kublai Khan's thoughts, and the purpose of his financial management faction was to solve financial difficulties, so after Zhenjin defeated Ahma, the first task at this time should also be to 'collect money'. However, Zhenjin did not do that, but used the Hanchen to implement the so-called 'benevolent government', and the result was to fulfill his own benevolent name, but ignored Kublai Khan's ideas, and the result was anything that could be imagined with his feet. A son who does not grasp his own intentions and who disagrees with his own politics is not a good heir.
Real gold is politically short-sighted, and the most outrageous thing is to misestimate the situation. He attaches too much importance to his status as the crown prince, but he never thinks that if he does not inherit the throne for a day, then he is still just a chess piece, even if he has participated in the government politics, he has no power to influence the government government, and the power is finally in the hands of the shrewd and arbitrary father, who can be deprived of the power given to him at any time, which also leads him to make mistakes repeatedly.
Just last year, while Zhenjin continued to promote the policy of sinicization, he also asked Mongolian students to learn Chinese, and disagreed that he only learned Mongolian, and in October he asked for the opening of the imperial examination through Heli Huo Sun, but it was unsuccessful. Kublai Khan, who was obsessed with the financial management faction and disappointed with it, appointed Lu Shirong, a Han businessman, to manage his finances in November, and at the same time, the new Empress Nanbi of the main palace showed signs of interfering in politics, which was dissatisfied with Zhenjin and Hanchen.
After discovering that he was on the verge of falling out of favor, Zhao Yu felt that if he was in such a situation, even if he did not support it, he could not blatantly oppose Kublai Khan's decision. Instead, he should take advantage of the dissatisfaction of the magnates with Lu Shirong's financial policies to divert the contradictions between his former Mongol ministers and the Great Khan, sit back and watch them fight to the death, and then sit back and reap the benefits to reverse his unfavorable situation in the court. And Queen Nanbi has no heirs, her power is nothing more than trying to find a way back for herself, what Zhenjin wants to do is to befriend her in exchange for her support, but she is not in a hurry to confront her.
But a bunch of fools have cultivated an arrogant fool, and in such a situation, instead of taking the opportunity to avoid it, they have pushed themselves to the forefront, as if only in this way can they embody their role as a 'leader'. Lu Shirong took office less than ten days ago, and in the imperial history, Cheng Cui or "said that Lu Shirong could not be the prime minister", and was immediately dismissed by Kublai Khan with a resentful decree. Clear-eyed people can see at a glance that the Great Khan means to tell everyone that Lu Shirong is covered by me, and you can't touch him without permission.
Zhenjin didn't think so, but showed off his sense of existence, and also pointed out Lu Shirong's policy of "making progress with words" from the perspective of Confucianism, saying: Wealth is not from the sky, and it is easy to win in the year of peace. I am afraid that the people will anoint their blood and do their best. It is not only harmful to the people, but the great beetle of the country? He himself may think that he is right, a good intention, but he does not consider Kublai Khan's mood, the officials he personally selected, and the policies he promotes, but what will his son think if he takes the lead in opposing it?
Seeing that his speech did not attract the attention of Kublai Khan, Zhenjin instructed his cronies to supervise the imperial history Chen Tianxiang to impeach Lu Shirong for corruption and bad deeds in the past, and that many of the people he had done after taking power were ineffective, and recommended that he be removed from office. And Lu Shirong refused to sit still, and frequently played the resistance he suffered in his reform, and told the real gold in disguise. Kublai Khan expressed his support again, telling him that he knew and that everything he had done to him was correct. Things have developed to such a point that a wise person should have seen Kublai Khan's intentions, and should have stopped in time to avoid arousing the suspicion of the Great Khan. But Zhenjin had nothing to warn and continued to accuse Lu Shirong.
As the saying goes, when a dog is in a hurry, he jumps off the wall, and Lu Shirong, who was forced into a corner by real gold, launched a counterattack. After Lu Shirong reinstated, Ahmayu replied that Gu Asan and others had found a great opportunity to bring down the crown prince's real gold. Before this, the Nantai Imperial History once sealed and said: "The emperor is high in the spring and autumn, and it is appropriate to be located in the crown prince, and the queen is not suitable for external planning." Zhenjin knew that Kublai Khan did not want to take the throne, and was very frightened when he heard about it, and instructed Yu Shitai not to send it because of the secret. Shang Wen, who was in charge of the capital, secretly hid this recital, but the matter was already known to the Ahmad remnants, namely Gu Asan and others.
Lu Shirong asked Kublai Khan to accept the case of hundreds of officials inside and outside, called Dasuo Tianxia buried money and grain, in fact, in order to expose this recital, it was to detain the case of the imperial historian and seek to obtain this recital. Shang Wen knows that the stakes are very important, so please allow the right prime minister An Tong and the imperial historian Yuxi Timur to refuse to pay. Answer: Gu Asannai reported to Kublai Khan, think that someone wants to usurp the throne, can Kublai Khan not be angry? Immediately order Dazong Zheng Xue Qi to obtain the recital. When Zhenjin learned about this, he knew that he was scared, but he had no idea at the critical time......
Zhao Hao got the only news now, he is now relieved, Kublai Khan is already terminally ill and dying, if he burps in a fit of anger, wouldn't it be in line with his own heart. In such a situation, it is difficult to say whether Zhenjin can succeed to the throne smoothly, and when the time comes, his own forces will become a pot of porridge, and his own opportunity will come. And even if Zhenjin can succeed to the throne smoothly, his ability and prestige are thousands of miles worse than Kublai Khan's, and such an opponent is not to be feared.
Another possibility is that Kublai Khan did not die, but Zhenjin was scared to death first. Zhao Yu believed that even the stricken Kublai Khan would not live for a few more days, so even if he appointed an heir again when he was dying, I am afraid that whether such an uncultivated and lacking new emperor could smoothly come to power and control the government would not be an overnight thing, and it would also leave Zhao Hao with an opportunity.
Just as Zhao Hao was appreciating this real palace fighting drama and looking forward to the ending he wanted, a piece of information about the personnel changes in the Yuan Court sent by the Affairs Bureau made him nervous......