"Since ancient times, it has been taboo to be a master of high merit, even sons."

"Li Yuan wants to take back Li Shimin's military power, but the border is restless, so he has to rely on Li Shimin, a military wizard, to conquer the Quartet for him."

"The crown prince Li Jiancheng felt more and more the pressure brought to him by Li Shimin, so he moved to kill, he awarded a fierce horse to Li Shimin, in a vain attempt to kill him, but Li Shimin, who had experienced a hundred battles, tamed the fierce horse, and the prince's plan failed."

The emperor's suspicion is also getting heavier. The struggle between the King of Qin and the crown prince also entered a white-hot stage, and in the face of the prince's murder plans one after another, Li Shimin finally made up his mind to resist. ”

Liu Xiu: Who is the best choice, isn't being the emperor just looking forward to his son's achievements! Why is this still fighting?

Zhu Di: Do you think everyone knows the rules like you!

Sima Yi: I don't think it's a problem, it's because I don't like this son!

Liu Bang: The descendants, the widow still wants to say about you, since ancient times, the emperor has followed the thousand-year-old principle of "standing long and not young", to choose a successor, the eldest son is the first choice, you have forgotten your ancestors for the sake of women!

Liu Xiu: Taizu, don't you see that the Tang Dynasty is also like this, the capable live there, Liu Zhuang's ability is stronger than Liu Jiang, is it the importance of the ancestral training or the continuation of the Han Dynasty!

Wu Zetian: There are good and bad, Emperor Guangwu should be regarded as "the son is valued by the mother", and it is not the abolition of the elder system.

Liu Bowen: It's hard to say this, isn't the Western Jin Dynasty just a good start.

Yang Jian: There are indeed big problems with this enactment, although it is conducive to preventing power struggles within the royal family, but it also causes huge problems.

"Let me talk about this problem, the problem of establishing a successor was abolished in the Ming Dynasty, whether it is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty or Emperor Guangwu, it comes from "the son is precious by the mother". ”

"Let's talk about this system, the people who can occupy a high position in this harem are all prominent people in the family, and this kind of family can only be stable, and the succession is also because of control, to be honest, this system is too much for me."

Because the principle of the system is "to establish a descendant to be long not to be virtuous, to establish a son to be noble but not to be long", it is impossible to guarantee the meritocracy of the next monarch, and even the demmented and paralyzed people can ascend to the throne, which directly leads to the demise of the dynasty. ”

"The first example, the earliest dynasty that quickly perished because of the implementation of the primogeniture inheritance system was the Western Jin Dynasty, and the eldest son Sima Zhen succeeded to the throne, Sima Zhen was an idiot emperor, and as a result, the power was manipulated by Yang Jun, Jia Nanfeng, etc., which eventually led to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and soon the Western Jin Dynasty perished."

"Another example is the Southern Qi, which was the shortest-lived dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, and the important reason for this was to adhere to the primogeniture system."

"Emperor Wu is an excellent emperor of Southern Qi, but he trained Xiao Changmao as his heir before he died, but Xiao Changmao died earlier than himself, and after that, Emperor Wu of Qi appointed Xiao Changmao's eldest son Xiao Zhaoye as his heir."

In fact, Xiao Ziliang, the second son of Emperor Qi Wu, is a better candidate to succeed him, Xiao Ziliang has served as Huiji Taishou, Danyang Yin, Yangzhou Thorn Shi, Situ and other positions, and has rich political experience; He is good at recruiting talents, and he is surrounded by talented people such as Shen Yue, Wang Rong, Xiao Yan, and Fan Yun. ”

"However, Emperor Wu of Qi insisted on letting Xiao Zhaoye succeed to the throne, and as a result, after his death, Southern Qi was in civil strife, and it was completely destroyed after 10 years."

"There are many examples like this, in my case, this system is actually not optimistic, it mainly depends on what everyone thinks, if it is me, I will definitely choose the ability."

Zhu Di: I suggested abolishing the elder system.

Qin Shi Huang: Now the widow has no anxiety about this, and he also has to think about future generations.

Li Shimin: This system depends on the environment you are in, which one has just ascended the throne, and you don't have much power in your hands, so you have to think about this problem!

"You can think about this question, we are continuing the topic just now, why Li Yuan can't tolerate Li Shimin, does he really dislike this son?"

"Although it is said that the eldest is the crown prince because of system problems, it is not that he doesn't like his second son, on the contrary, Li Yuan loves this son very much, he is not worthy of love, and he is afraid."

Lis: Afraid? Lao Tzu is afraid of his son?

Liu Bang: What are these words? Still afraid of your own son?

Yongzheng: Li Shimin is not as virtuous as the world says, and his ambition is not small.

Zhu Youzhen: Tang was able to establish and raise troops against the Sui, and Li Shimin contributed a lot.

"This statement is also true, Li Shimin's ambition is greater than imagined."

"What is the son like, can he not know what Lao Tzu is?"

"The reason why Li Shimin's ambition is the greatest of the Li family is because the earliest Taiyuan army was actually Li Shimin's idea, not Li Yuan's idea."

"As a left-behind guard in Taiyuan, he didn't want to rebel in his heart, but Li Shimin insisted on taking the opportunity to raise troops to fight the world."

"On the one hand, he was secretly recruiting troops and recruiting talents from all over the world, and on the other hand, he planned the route and strategy of raising troops, but he didn't tell Li Yuan, because Li Shimin knew that his father was a general, and he didn't want to be a thief, because once he raised troops, it would really be a rebellion."

"And Emperor Yang of Sui and Li Yuan are still relatives, they are aunts, Li Yuan's mother is Empress Yuanzhen, Yang Guang's mother is Empress Wenwen, and the two queens are sisters, so Emperor Yang Guang of Sui has to call Li Yuan a cousin according to the relationship."

Meng Tian: It's quite close.

Kangxi: If you don't want to say it, why Li Yuan doesn't want to rebel, it can be regarded as his own family being the emperor, which is sorry for the ancestors and ancestors underground.

"So Li Yuan didn't dare to oppose at all, it was Li Shimin's strategy that made Li Yuan have to rebel."

"If Li Yuan rises up against Sui, it will be equivalent to making his cousin rebel, and doing so will definitely be infamous, so Li Yuan resolutely disagreed with the rebellion at the beginning, so Li Shimin had to come up with some tricks to force him to rebel."

"This trick is to find Pei Lone, the eunuch of Jinyang Palace, and then Pei Lone finds a palace maid."

"Everyone, pay attention, this palace maid is the emperor's maid, this is an important premise, but that day Pei Lin accompanied Li Yuan to drink, and after Li Yuan was brought up, he arranged for the two palace maids to sleep with Li Yuan, Li Yuan was extremely shocked after waking up, because the two palace maids are strictly speaking, they are the emperor's women, and the minister's sleeping with the palace maid is itself a violation of etiquette and a capital crime."

Li Yuan was frightened on the spot, thinking that he had made a big mistake because he was confused for a while, but at this time, Pei Lian, who was envoy by Li Shimin, jumped out to enlighten Li Yuan, saying that you have committed the capital crime of fornicating with the palace maid anyway, and sooner or later it will be a death, it is better not to do two things and directly rebel, if you take over the world, you will naturally not have to die again."

(End of chapter)