Chapter 221: Guilty of Shame
Seeing Jia Daoheng like this, he had already made up his mind to use today's feast to persuade Emperor Jingfeng to give up the idea of abolishing the elder and establishing the young, so as to make the emperor's eldest son Li Jinze the crown prince.
No wonder he didn't inform Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan of the change in the content of the lecture in advance, this kind of behavior involving the political red zone and testing Emperor Jingfeng's bottom line, the two of them must be able to agree to have a ghost.
However, no matter how surprised others were, Jia Daoheng had already spoken calmly: "King Zhao Wuling is Yingming I, but he has made a mistake in the inheritance of the throne. Gongzi Zhang is the eldest son of the first queen of King Wuling of Zhao, who occupies the title of the eldest and was established as the prince early, and should ascend to the throne in the future and inherit the Guozuo of Zhao. ”
"Gongzi He is from Wu Wa, the second queen of King Wuling of Zhao, although he is also a son-in-law, but he is younger than Gongzi Zhang, and he should not inherit the throne over his brother in any case. However, because King Zhao Wuling favored Queen Wu Wa too much, he agreed to his request before his death, abolished Gongzi Zhang's position as the prince, and changed Gongzi He as the crown prince. ”
King Wuling of Zhao abolished Chang Liyu because he favored Wu Wa, and Emperor Jingfeng also had the idea of setting up the second son of the emperor as the prince because of his favor with Liu Guifei. Ancient and modern, corresponding to each other, Gu Yunji saw that Emperor Jingfeng's face was getting heavier and heavier, and his heart became more and more worried, but he didn't dare to interrupt Jia Daoheng rashly, so he and Cheng Yan could only bury their heads as much as they could, pretending that they didn't know anything.
Jia Daoheng's heart is surprisingly good, and he can still continue to say without changing his face in this situation: "The inheritance of the elder is the norm of heaven, and if there is any violation of this principle from ancient times to the present, it will cause turmoil in the country and instability in the court. King Zhao Wuling abolished Chang Liyoung, and it was also after some turmoil that he stabilized the situation. ”
"Gongzi He is the later King Zhao Huiwen, although he was succeeded to the throne by Yue Chang, but he was also a clear ruler in history. King Zhao Wuling retired from his master father and handed over the throne to his son, if he could keep the abolition of Chang Liyu consistently, but he wavered and made the second mistake, which was also the fatal mistake that led to his miserable end in the sand dunes. ”
After King Zhao Wuling passed on the throne to Gongzi He, he saw that Gongzi Zhang, who was his elder brother, wanted to bow to his younger brother above the court, and his heart was unbearable, and he remembered that Gongzi Zhang had made great achievements in the past for Chu Shi, and he was quite disciplined in governing the government, and he felt even more guilty in his heart. Over time, he actually had the idea of dividing the territory of Zhao into two and making Gongzizhang and King Zhao divide the land and rule. ”
At that time, Zhao Wang He's ascension to the throne was stable, and the government was under control, and King Zhao Wuling's move not only caused Zhao Wang He to be dissatisfied, but also fueled Gongzi Zhang's ambitions, which directly led to the chaos of the brothers' wall. In the end, King He of Zhao won this battle and killed Gongzizhang in one fell swoop, and at the same time, he also lost his respect for his father, and besieged King Wuling of Zhao in the Dune Palace for more than three months, without food, so that he starved to death. ”
The succession of the eldest is not only an ancestral law that has been passed down for thousands of years, but also an effective means to ensure the smooth transition of the throne. The early establishment of the crown prince can not only establish the candidate for the prince, but also suppress the ambitions of the other princes, so that they can keep to themselves and avoid civil strife.
Although Emperor Jingfeng favored the second son of the emperor, he was not too mediocre after all, and he was very clear about the disasters that might be caused by abolishing the elder and the young. The stakes are very high, on the one hand, the courtiers put pressure on the eldest son, on the other hand, he really doesn't like the eldest son of the emperor, under the entanglement of the two, Emperor Jingfeng himself couldn't make up his mind for a while to make which prince to make the prince, so he had to drag it down in a daze.
There are two fundamental reasons why King Zhao Wuling came to such a miserable end as mentioned by Jia Daoheng, one of which is to abolish the elder and establish the young, and the other is to waver and unable to stick to his original intention. And these two reasons happened to hit Emperor Jingfeng with great accuracy, and he almost told him clearly: If you continue like this, the ending of King Zhao Wuling will be your future.
Feeling the heavy coercion of Emperor Jingfeng, Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan were already drenched in cold sweat with fright, their faces were pale, and they didn't care if they didn't show their scrolls, so they only struggled to shrink their heads and bow down, trying their best to reduce their sense of existence.
Emperor Jingfeng's expression was calm at the beginning, and there was no fluctuation even when Jia Daoheng temporarily changed the content of the explanation. However, at the moment, his eyes were dark, and the momentum around him was becoming more and more gloomy and low, and the whole person was like the silence before the storm, and he could not tell when the wind would suddenly thunder and rage.
Jia Daoheng was like a warrior who was not afraid of death, and he was still stunned and slammed into the knife: "Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall, after all, the things of the predecessors are the clouds of the past, and they have long dissipated in the long river of history." As future generations, we must not only know the reasons for this, but also learn lessons to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. If we only mourn and do not learn from it, it will only make future generations mourn for future generations. ”
"Bang"!
As soon as the words fell, Emperor Jingfeng was angry, slapped the table suddenly, and stabbed straight at Jia Daoheng with a sharp gaze: "Jia Daoheng, you are so bold!" ”
Jia Daoheng bowed down calmly, and his voice was calm as usual: "Weichen doesn't dare." ”
"Don't dare? If you don't dare, then what does it mean to dare? Emperor Jingfeng's eyes were red, and his expression was so hideous that he was afraid of people, "Take the opportunity of the feast to use King Zhao Wuling to satirize me and meddle in the matter of establishing a prince." Jia Daoheng, hello wow, very good! ”
Seeing that Emperor Jingfeng had already made it clear, Jia Daoheng stopped going around the bend with him, and said directly: "Wechen doesn't dare to meddle in the matter of establishing a prince, Wechen just wants to remind Your Majesty that the early establishment of a prince can make the dynasty stable." Now the queen has nothing to do, His Royal Highness the eldest prince is the eldest son of the emperor, and he should be established as the prince to go out of the cabinet to study. ”
Emperor Jingfeng was furious when he heard this: "Presumptuous! I have my own decision on the matter of establishing a prince, which prince to set up or which prince not to appoint, it is all my family matter, and it is not your turn to put the beak! ”
Jia Daoheng is neither humble nor arrogant: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, rich from all over the world, and family affairs are also state affairs. The minister Jia Daoheng is a courtier of His Majesty and a courtier, and he should consider the people and the world. Therefore, Weichen committed a straightforward admonition today, and he also had to persuade His Majesty to fight for his life: the inheritance of the elder is the law of the ancestors, and the heavens are reasonable, and it is absolutely not because of personal pleasure, giving up the eldest son and setting up the younger son, which is a move to shake the country. ”
"If Your Majesty can listen to the words of Weichen, make the emperor's eldest son the crown prince, let him go out of the cabinet to study, know the book and reason, and grow into a qualified prince. Even if the minister dies, he will not regret it. As he spoke, Jia Daoheng bowed his head heavily.
Emperor Jingfeng's face was gloomy, and he trembled with anger: "Okay...... I don't regret dying, since you want to ask for a clear name that has been passed down through the ages, then I will satisfy you! Come! ”
"Hanlin Shi preached Jia Daoheng, spoke disrespectfully, committed disobedience, and wore twenty court rods to set an example!"