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In a sense, the significance of the primogeniture system is mainly to prevent other children from competing for inheritance rights or inheriting most of the inheritance, so that a force can concentrate its existing strength to pass it on. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

However, history shows that this primogeniture system has played a role in this regard, and it may or may not have had any effect at all.

And here, the main thing is to talk about the example of negative impact.

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When the Zhou Dynasty officially developed and consolidated the primogeniture system, there was a relatively famous civil strife in the Zhou royal family. The history is known as the "Prince's Rebellion":

During the reign of King Hui of Zhou, the internal contradictions of the royal family and nobles were acute.

Zi Yuan is the son of King Zhouzhuang's favorite concubine Wang Yao, and is quite favored by King Zhuang, and King Zhuang sent Zhou Dafu to be Zi Yuan's master. After King Hui of Zhou succeeded to the throne, he seized the garden of the country to raise wild beasts, which caused dissatisfaction for the country. King Hui of Zhou also seized the house of Doctor Bian Bo of Zhou, which was close to the palace, seized the fields of Doctor Zhou's son Zhu Kneeling and Father Zhan, and recovered the land of Shi Su. Therefore, Zhou Dafu Yingguo, Bian Bo, Shi Su, Zhan's father, and Zi Yu Zhu knelt and united with the nobles Su to make a rebellion.

In the second year of King Hui of Zhou (675 BC), five doctors including the state of Ying attacked King Hui of Zhou, but they were not victorious and fled to Wen (now south of Wen County, Henan). The nobleman Su served Zi Fu and fled to defend the country. The armies of Wei and Yan attacked Cheng Zhou, and in the winter of that year, they became the son of Zhou. In the spring of the third year of King Hui of Zhou (674 BC), Duke Zheng Li mediated the royal dispute, but was unsuccessful. In the summer, Duke Zheng Li brought King Hui of Zhou back to Zheng and asked him to live in Lixin (present-day Yu County, Henan). In the autumn, King Hui of Zhou and Zheng Ligong attacked Wu (now south of Yanshi County, Henan), and then attacked Chengzhou, and took Chengzhou's treasures and returned.

The prince occupies the royal city and enjoys himself. He set up a banquet to entertain five doctors of the national rank, and played all the dance music. Zheng Ligong and Yu Gonglin's father discussed the restoration of the Son of Heaven, and then in the spring of the fourth year of King Hui of Zhou (673 BC), he summoned the princes to stand by in Mi (now Mi County, Henan). In the summer, Zheng Ligong and Yu Gong Lin's father led their troops to attack Wangcheng (now the west of the old city of Luoyang, Henan), Zheng Ligong served King Hui to enter the city from the Yuanmen, and Yu Gonglin's father entered the city from the north gate. After killing the prince and the five doctors of the country, King Hui was reinstated. As a token of gratitude, King Hui of Zhou gave Zheng Ligong the land east of the Tiger Prison (now Xingyang Bishui Town, Henan).

Zheng Ligong set up a gift to entertain King Hui in the west of the palace gate, a full set of music and dance, and King Zhou Hui gave Zheng Ligong like a queen, and gave Duke Lin Father with a bronze wine glass. The rebellion lasted three years before it ended.

Wang Ziqiu's identity is Uncle Wang, and he is actually far away from the position of heir, but at the right opportunity, Wang Ziqi finally became a short-lived Zhou Tianzi.

This can also show that although the Zhou royal family itself supports the primogeniture inheritance system, under some unexpected factors, the primogeniture inheritance system is actually not influential enough.

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And during the Warring States Period, the same thing happened to Qin Xiangong.

Duke Jian of Qin (?-400 BC), known as Mourning Son, was the monarch of Qin during the Warring States Period. The son of Qin Huaigong, the younger brother of Qin Zhaozi, and the uncle of Qin Linggong.

Qin Xiangong's father, Qin Linggong, did not do anything angry and resentful when he was in power, but this point was actually useless.

Because Qin Jiangong seized the throne, mainly on the pretext that Qin Xiangong was young at the time and was unable to take charge of national affairs, he seized the throne of his nephew.

Qin Xiangong, surnamed Ying, Qin, Minglian (a famous teacher [1]), is the son of Qin Linggong. In the thirteenth year of Qin Linggong (415 BC), Qin Linggong died, and Qin Linggong's uncle and grandfather of Gongzi Lian mourned his son and seized the throne for Qin Jiangong. At the age of ten, Gongzilian fled to the neighboring state of Wei in the east and began a twenty-nine-year exile as a precaution.

Wei was a superpower among the Central Plains countries at that time. Wei Wenhou reused Li Kui, Wu Qi, Ximen Bao and others to implement centralized power, rule the country by law, and make the country strong, laying the foundation for the century-long hegemony of Wei State. At this time, the state of Qin was weak and unstable, and the abolition of the monarch was often decided by a few chiefs.

In the 38th year of the reign of Marquis Wen of Wei (408 BC), Wu Qi defeated the Qin army one after another, and completely seized the land west of Hexi (a large area of land between the Yellow River and Luoshui in present-day Shaanxi) that Qin had occupied as early as the reign of Qin Mugong. At this time, the Qin State only occupied the Weihe Plain east of Longshan, west of the Luohe River, and north of the Qinling Mountains, and the land was narrow. In the face of Wei's aggressive offensive, Qin was in danger of extinction.

The plight and depression of the Qin state contrasted sharply with the vigorous development of the Wei state, which greatly stimulated the exiled princes in the Wei state. Thinking of the decline of the Qin State and what happened to him, Gongzilian had a strong desire to regain the throne and implement a new coup d'état. Because Gongzilian was once the deposed monarch of the Qin State who was made the crown prince, he had great political value, so the Wei State gave Gongzilian a very good treatment. On the one hand, Gongzilian studied and studied the experience of Wei as a powerful country, and on the other hand, he closely watched the situation in Qin.

In the sixteenth year of Qin Jiangong (400 BC), Qin Jiangong died, and his son Qin Huigong ascended the throne.

In the thirteenth year of Qin Huigong (387 BC), Qin Huigong died, and his son Qin Chuzi ascended the throne. Qin Chuzi was only two years old when he ascended the throne, so his mother presided over the government. Due to the fact that Qin Zhuzi's mother appointed relatives and eunuchs, and there were conflicts with the members of Qin's office, Qin's internal affairs were very tense. In order to win the hearts of the people, Qin's mother rewarded too much, which made Qin's treasury empty, and had to increase the tax rate to increase the treasury revenue, which caused strong dissatisfaction among landlords and yeoman farmers.

In the first year of the Qin Dynasty (386 BC), Marquis Wu of Wei decided to help Gongzilian seize power and establish a pro-Wei government. Wei Wuhou sent someone to tell Gongzi Lian that Wei wanted to support him to return to the country and regain the throne of Qin, which should have belonged to him, but Gongzi Lian did not immediately express his position after hearing this. He knew Wei Wuhou's intention to support his return to China. Wei has been kind to himself for nearly thirty years, and has not offered to send him back to China before, with the original intention of leaving himself on the blade to use. At this time, the international environment in which Wei was located was sinister, and it was the time to take advantage of himself. Although Gongzilian had a strong desire to return to the country to govern, he knew that Qin and Wei were mortal enemies, and if Wei sent him back, he would definitely not be welcomed by the Qin people. Moreover, because he was the monarch who obtained power with the support of Wei, he was bound to be constrained by Wei and not to the detriment of Qin. Gongzilian was unwilling to do anything detrimental to the interests of the Qin State. Gongzi even knew that he couldn't refuse Wei Wuhou. Gongzilian's value to Wei lies in his identity, and he still has a certain appeal in Qin, and Wei wants to use this to disturb Qin and reap profits. If he refuses to be the Marquis of Wei, he will become a person of no value to the Wei State, and he will probably be killed. After thinking about it, Gongzi Lian told Wei Wuhou's envoy that he was very grateful to Wei Wenhou and Wei Wuhou for taking care of him over the years, and he didn't want Wei Wuhou to scatter his forces for him anymore. Gongzilian planned to return to China alone and refused to be escorted by Wei. When Marquis Wei Wuhou saw that Gongzilian had promised to return to the country and that his goal had been achieved, he gave Gongzilian chariots and horses and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, and asked Gongzilian when he would set off and that he would be able to leave for him. Gongzi Lian said that it would take at least a year, and then he would say goodbye to Wei Wuhou. Although Wei Wuhou was not very happy, he still politely said goodbye to Gongzilian. Previously, Gongzilian also wanted to take advantage of Qin's internal political instability to regain the throne, but he was unwilling to accept Wei's help and was at the mercy of Wei Wuhou. Wei Wuhou's suggestion was neither acceptable nor rejectable by Gongzilian, but forced him to immediately begin preparations for the seizure of power.

Gongzilian let the witty and eloquent people around him enter the Qin State, contacted the ministers who were at odds with Qin Chuzi's mother, spread the news that Gongzilian was going to return to China to implement the new policy, handed over the heroic righteous men with gold, silver and jewelry, and secretly won over the generals of the Qin army. The people of Qin were very sympathetic to the experience of the prince who even took the throne by his uncle Qin Jiangong. During the reign of Qin Jiangong, the Qin government was corrupt, the national strength was weak, and the Hexi land was lost, and the Qin people were very complaining about Qin Jiangong. During the reign of Qin Huigong, the son of Qin Jiangong, the Qin State did nothing but protect itself. After the death of Qin Huigong, his two-year-old son Qin Zhuzi ascended the throne, and the Qin State entered a chaotic situation in which Qin Zhuzi's mother was in power. The Qin people were very worried about this dangerous situation in the Qin State, and hoped that there would be a successful monarch in the Qin State to lead everyone out of the predicament and regain the strength of the Qin Mugong back then. Many ministers of the Qin State were dissatisfied with Qin Zhuzi's mother's practice of reusing her own relatives, and were willing to cooperate with Gongzilian to overthrow Qin Zhuzi's mother's rule. The yeoman farmers and landlords of the Qin State were looking forward to the early return of Gongzilian after hearing that Gongzilian was going to return to China to implement the new policy.

After a year of planning, Childe Lian felt that the time was ripe and was ready to go. When bidding farewell to the Marquis of Wei, Gongzilian swore an oath to the Marquis of Wei, and Gongzilian thanked Wei for his hospitality over the past thirty years, and if Gongzilian succeeded in regaining the throne, Qin promised not to be an enemy of Wei while Wei Wuhou was alive. This oath made Wei Wuhou very uncomfortable. In the second year of Qin's son (385 B.C.), the head of Qin changed to welcome Gongzi Lian as the king in Hexi, which was for Qin. When Qin Zhuzi's mother learned about it, she ordered the army to go and eliminate Qin Xiangong and his gang. The generals of this army had already been bribed by Qin Xiangong, and persuaded his subordinates on the road to meet Qin Xiangong. Surrounded by these people, Qin Xiangong entered Yongcheng (now Fengxiang, Shaanxi), the capital of Qin, killed Qin Zhuzi and his mother, and regained the throne.

In a sense, Qin Xiangong's seizure of the throne that should have been his own once again was caused by a series of reasons caused by Qin Xiangong's mother, but in the same way, Qin Xiangong really became the monarch of Qin, and his identity as Qin Linggong's concubine was very important.

If it weren't for this identity, it would be very difficult for Qin Xiangong to persuade the generals of the Qin army to open the road or even take it under his command.

In fact, at the time of the Yin and Jin Wars, Qin Jiangong had already lost his majesty as a monarch.

If most of the records of the Yin and Jin battles are true, I am afraid that Qin Jiangong lost most of the loyalists who supported his forces at that time, and Qin Zhuzi's young age made most of the people of Qin unable to see their own hope for the future, and quickly turned into supporters of Qin Xiangong.

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And the seizure of the throne at about the same time as the restoration of Qin Jiangong incident, there is also a famous "Tian Dynasty Qi".

The Tian family itself is not a clan relative of the Jiang family's Qi State, but a family lineage that has gradually become the high-level of the Qi State.

Tian's generation of Qi, also called Tian Chen usurped Qi.

In 545 BC, Tian Huanzi, the fourth grandson of Tian Wan, joined forces with the Bao clan, the Luan clan, and the Gao clan to eliminate the Qing clan of the current state. After Tian's family, Bao's Luan's extinguishment, and Gao's second family. Tian Huanzi aligned the princes of the country with "all the sons and grandsons who have no luck, and divide them privately", and "the poor and widows of the countrymen are private and millet", and won the support of the princes and the people. When Qi Jing was in office, the office was corrupt. Tian Huanzi's son Tian Qi is Tian Xizi who lent it with a big bucket and recycled it with a small bucket, so that "the people of Qi return to it like flowing water", increasing the household registration and strength. It is said that "the public abandons its people and returns to the Tian clan". In 489 BC, the Duke of Qi Jing died, the Duke of Qi and the Gao Er clan established the son Tu, Tian Qi chased the country, the Gao Er clan, and set up another son Yangsheng, who established himself as the prime minister. Since then, the Tian clan has been in charge of the state affairs of Qi.

In 481 BC, Tian Heng (Tian Chengzi), the son of Tian Qi, killed Qi Jiangong and many other clans, and established another Qi Pinggong to further control the political power, and won the hearts of the people with "rewarding the cultivation of the public".

In the fifty-first year of Qi Xuangong (405 AD), Qi Xuangong died, and his son Lu was established as Kanggong. Tian mourning died, and Tian Heli. Loan has been on the throne for 14 years, indulging in wine and ignoring the government. Tian He moved him to the seashore, and only used one city as a food town, and the right to pay for the sacrifice of his ancestors.

In 391 BC, Tian Chengzi IV grandson Tian and abolished Qi Kanggong. In 386 BC, Tian He exiled the Duke of Qi Kang to the sea, established himself as the monarch, and in the same year, he was appointed as the Marquis of Qi by King Zhou An. In the eighteenth year of the reign of Emperor Qi Kang (387 BC), Tian He met with the Marquis of Wei Wu in Xunze and begged him to tell Zhou Tianzi on his behalf and please be listed as a prince. Wei Wenhou sent an envoy to report to Zhou Tianzi, asking Litian to be a prince, and Zhou Tianzi allowed it. In the nineteenth year of the reign of Duke Qi Kang (386 BC), Tian He officially became the Marquis of Qi and was listed in the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty. At this point, the Lu regime of the Qi State was completely replaced by the Tian clan. In 379 BC, Duke Qi Kang died, and Jiang surnamed Qi was exterminated. Tian still takes "Qi" as the country name, and is known as "Tian Qi" in history.

The success of the Tian dynasty is not too directly related to the corresponding inheritance system.

In fact, after the Duke of Qi Zhuang, the monarchy of the Qi State had already gradually declined, and when Tian Chengzi was the time, after killing the last group of Qi States who were likely to be the last supporters of the Jiang family, the authority of the Jiang Qi State completely fell into the hands of the Tian family.

Before the death of Duke Qi Kang, even if Duke Xuan of Qi reigned for more than fifty years, he could not confront the Tian family, which eventually led to the Jiang family being replaced by the Tian family and becoming one of the new Seven Heroes of the Warring States.

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At the beginning of Fusu's ascension to the throne, did he have the ability to threaten Hu Hai?

This is inevitable, because Fusu is the eldest son, and he is also the son with huge military support. (To be continued.) )

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