Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 2592
The imperial study room fell into silence, and occasionally the burning candle wick made a slight "beep" sound. His Majesty Li Er sat behind the desk, his face sinking like water, and it took him a long time to pick up the teacup and take a sip of tea.

Fang Jun stood with his hands down, not daring to show his air.

His words actually pointed directly at the heart of His Majesty Li Er. All along, His Majesty Li Er wanted to depose the prince by using methods that were secretly fueling the flames, but on the surface he said, "It's not that I want to depose the prince, it's really that the prince does not want to." Competitive" look.

Maybe it was to maintain his image as a wise king and loving father, or maybe he really couldn't bear the prince. In short, His Majesty Li Er has never shown his intention to be easy to store in front of others.

Sometimes things are like this, even though everyone knows His Majesty Li Er's thoughts, everyone is still willing to follow His Majesty Li Er's wishes without saying a word, acquiescing to his "prince's failure to live up to expectations".

You can still be friends whether you see through or not...

However, Fang Jun always felt that this was unfair to Li Chengqian.

In the history books, Kong Yingda, Zhang Xuansu and other Confucian scholars were ordered by the emperor to teach the prince about Li Chengqian's ability to belittle him. As a result, the prince spent extravagantly and did not listen to dissuasion. Petting "Xingxin", when His Majesty Li Er heard about it and bestowed Xinxin to death, Li Chengqian completely ignored his father's warning, not only married his dead male favorite in the palace, let the palace people pay homage day and night, A monument was erected for this male favorite, and he was bestowed with an official position, crying and crying day and night.

He even "introduced Turkic groups into the palace privately", pretending to be a Turkic person, messing up the palace...

How much of these evil deeds "recorded in the history books" are true or false, and how much was ordered by His Majesty Li Er or Gaozong Li Zhi to discredit the reputation of Prince Li Chengqian?After all, this kind of thing has long been familiar to the royal family of the Tang Dynasty. Back then, His Majesty Li Er's Xuanwu Gate turned against him and became emperor. In this way, all of Li Jiancheng's achievements were written off, and countless notorieties were framed to show the world that Li Jiancheng was "a heinous crime. Unworthy to be king."

Taking a step back, even if some of these things really existed, why did Li Chengqian become like this?

You must know that Li Chengqian was an extremely qualified prince for a long time after he was canonized as the prince. He was "smart in nature", "specially sensitive", "gracious and handsome, benevolent, filial and pure", and he was deeply loved by His Majesty Li Er.

And His Majesty Li Er also spared no effort in cultivating the prince, and successively selected many very powerful gentlemen for him, such as Li Gang, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and other famous officials in the early Tang Dynasty, all of whom had been teachers of the prince.

It can be seen from the literature records that the prince also respected these teachers very much in the early years.For example, when Li Gang served as Li Chengqian's teacher in the early years of Zhenguan, he was over seventy years old. Those who forget to be tired....Every time he speaks, he speaks generously and has an invincible ambition. The prince is not without respect."

After Li Gang passed away in the fifth year of Zhenguan, Cheng Qian personally erected a monument to commemorate him.

In addition, His Majesty Li Er also paid great attention to the cultivation of the prince's ability to govern. When he was 12 years old, he asked the prince to accompany Fang Xuanling in Shangshu Province, trying to handle some government affairs.In the ninth year of Zhenguan, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan passed away. During the funeral, His Majesty Li Er entrusted political affairs to the prince, and the prince handled it well.

From then on, as long as Taizong went out, the prince stayed behind to supervise the country.

All this seems to indicate that Li Chengqian, as a qualified prince, will steadily study and govern, train his team, and one day he will successfully inherit the empire and push this old empire to a higher peak!

But suddenly one day, everything changed...

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who had always been a role model for the Crown Prince, seemed to have suddenly changed into a different person. More and more negative records about the Crown Prince began to appear in documents and rumors.These records are not only negative, but also full of absurdity, as if a well-behaved baby with excellent character and learning turned into a crazy lunatic overnight.

Apart from pampering men, he often imitates the behavior of Turkic people in the East Palace, imagining himself as a Turkic Khan on the grassland, "braiding sheep and fur while shepherding sheep in the palace, making five wolf-headed banners and flags, and setting up dome huts, The crown prince sits in it by himself, collects the sheep and cooks them, draws his saber and cuts up the meat"...

What's more, the royal family's "Living Notes" records that the prince once said to people: "I am the son of heaven, and I should do whatever I want. If there are people who advise me, I will kill them. Killing 500 people is not certain."...

This is not just an image of a crazy tyrant, but a complete fool. Has there ever been a prince in the world who dared to say such crazy things when the emperor was still in power?
Xia Jie and Shang Zhou had never been so "unrestrained"...

So here comes the question, what made the crown prince Li Chengqian change from an excellent prince template to a crazy rebellious, usurper and rebellious lunatic?

Fang Jun has always believed that even though the bad deeds recorded in these historical books and folklore really exist, Prince Li Chengqian's mental journey must have undergone such a diametrically opposed and completely different change under heavy pressure.

As a prince, he was already cautious and under great pressure. When the emperor above his head was a wise, martial, intelligent and martial emperor like His Majesty Li Er, the pressure suddenly doubled; With Yi Chu's thoughts in mind, and intending to change his brother to be the crown prince, the pressure on the prince will be multiplied by ten!
Even for Li Chengqian, a "mabao boy" who has never known the sufferings of the world, has been spoiled since he was a child, and has had a smooth journey, this pressure may be multiplied by one hundred!
It is enough to cause a sudden change in personality and a collapse in life...

There was a long silence, His Majesty Li Er was waving his teacup with his fingers, leaning his upper body slightly back on the back of the chair, staring at Fang Jun with a pair of falcon-like eyes, which made Fang Jun's head sweat and his mouth dry. dry.

After a while, His Majesty Li Er said quietly: "What exactly do you want to say? Are you accusing me of not treating one more favorably than another, let alone having a heart of easy storage?"

Fang Jun hurriedly said: "I dare not!"

His Majesty Li Er's expression was gloomy, and he said word by word: "You are my subject, not the crown prince's subject. No matter what my intentions are, you should obey my will and do your best! What kind of benefits the crown prince has promised you, can you actually drive me away? You ran in front of me to boss me around and accuse me?"

"Pfft!"

Fang Jun knelt down on the ground and said in a loud voice: "I will never die, I dare not have such a rebellious heart! Only the state-owned heir, the country is stable, and the ministers can assist His Majesty to expand the territory and achieve the grand plan of an emperor through the ages. If the crown prince is uneasy, the court will definitely be shaken, and how much power will be wasted in internal friction, which will inevitably make His Majesty's great achievements difficult to accomplish and his meritorious deeds to be compromised!"

His Majesty Li Er was silent for a while, and said slowly: "After all, your heart is still for the crown prince."

Fang Jun was sweating profusely. Although His Majesty Li Er has always been very fond of and tolerant of him, the position of the crown prince is related to the future of the empire. Maybe Li Er Majesty will kill him in anger...

But now, how can he seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and stay out of it?

His heart fluttered, his eyes closed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, the Duke of Zhou made rituals and music, and began to implement the eldest son inheritance system. Since then, there have been 800 years of the Zhou Dynasty! The consensus is that if the name is right, the words will be right, and if the words are right, things will come true. Your Majesty was persecuted back then, and had no choice but to fight against under the Xuanwu sect, and he was able to inherit the great rule and make it known to the world. Deposing the crown prince and setting up another crown prince is tantamount to telling your descendants that the position of emperor is never granted by heaven, so you can work hard to fight for it! Your Majesty, if such a situation really happens, the royal family will definitely fight against the wall , Brothers and feet mutilate each other, the country falls, and the country falls!"

The eldest son inheritance system, "Establishing the eldest son instead of the virtuous" is the core of Zong's succession and the main purpose of a stable inheritance. The word "virtuous" will not be recognized uniformly, unless it is a sage recognized by the world such as Confucius, Mencius, Laozhuang, etc. It is difficult for ordinary people to be recognized by everyone regardless of ability and morality If there is a mistake, who dares to call him a virtuous person?If the selection of successors is based on the condition of "virtuous", it will inevitably lead to a situation of disputes every time the power is transferred. After all, no one is perfect, and it is always possible to pick out mistakes and it is difficult to convince the public.

But "di" is not the case. The son born to the main wife is the son, and the head of the sons is the elder. This is a clear definition, so the eldest son inheritance system can avoid the possible turmoil during the transfer of power to the greatest extent. Dissatisfied, the bloodline identity is here and cannot be changed.

(End of this chapter)