Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, left a famous sentence in the "Harem Words": "Poor red face always has a short life." The most ruthless imperial family".
Feudal society, imperial power is supreme, the whole world can not be the royal land, the coast of the land can not be the king's subjects!
But there is only one supreme "supreme throne", that is to say, only one of the emperor's many princes can ascend to the throne, so the "war of conquest" in all dynasties is extremely dangerous, and if it succeeds, it is the lord of the world, and if it fails, it may face the disaster of killing!
There is no affection between the princes, only pure conflicts of interest, full of deceit!
Therefore, being born in the Imperial Family is not necessarily a good thing, and this truth is understood by even a child under the age of ten!
Five-year-old Wang Ye
According to the "History of the Southern and Northern Dynasties", the Southern and Northern Dynasties began with the Liu Song Dynasty, and the name Liu Song Dynasty was named Liu Song Dynasty because the founding emperor's surname was Liu. The Liu Song Dynasty has gone through nine emperors and enjoyed 59 years of the country, and is the dynasty with the strongest national strength, the widest territory and the longest existence in the Southern Dynasty!
When the Liu Song Dynasty passed to the fifth emperor, that is, the song Xiaowu Emperor Liu Jun's dynasty, a five-year-old prince named Liu Ziluan appeared.
Liu Ziluan was born in 456, he was the eighth son of Liu Jun, emperor of the Song Dynasty, and his mother was Liu Jun's cousin Yin Shuyi.
Liu Jun and his cousin Qingmei Zhuma, deep affection, after he inherited the throne, immediately put his cousin into the palace, the two gave birth to a son, for Liu Ziluan, out of the love of the cousin, Liu Jun also regarded their son Liu Ziluan as a treasure, the degree of favor is far better than other princes.
In the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 462 AD, Yin Shuyi died of illness, and Liu Jun was in pain and posthumously named her a noble concubine, after which he transferred all his love for his cousin to Liu Ziluan.
At that time, Liu Ziluan was only five years old, and he was made the King of Xin'an by Liu Jun, and after that, he successively served as the Assassin of Southern Xuzhou, the Taishou of Southern Langya, the Zhongshu Ling, the Situ, the General of Fujun, and the Assassin of Qingji Erzhou, etc., which can be said to be "an extremely popular subject".
At that time, the ministers who wanted to be promoted would try to please Liu Ziluan, as long as Liu Ziluan was happy, the promotion and wealth were just around the corner!
May the next life not enter the emperor's house
Although the dynasties and dynasties did not explicitly stipulate how many years the prince was crowned king, he was generally fifteen or sixteen years old, and the earliest would not exceed ten years old, because before the age of ten was the period when the prince received education.
During this period, generally no king will be crowned, so Liu Ziluan, a five-year-old prince, can be called "a person who has never come before and after an ancient person", which is enough to show how much Liu Jun loves him!
Of course, Liu Ziluan himself was also outstanding, talented, clever, and clever, although young, he had the dignity of a king of a country, while Liu Ziye, the prince at that time, had mediocre qualifications and was not of great use.
Therefore, Liu Jun had already had the idea of abolishing Liu Ziye and establishing Liu Ziluan, but because Liu Ziye was the eldest son of Concubine, Liu Jun did not have a good excuse to abolish Liu Ziye for a while, and the matter was delayed, laying the groundwork for future tragedies.
Although Liu Ziye's qualifications are mediocre, he is mentally sound, and he knows that Liu Ziluan is his greatest enemy, so he hates him extremely and always plots to get rid of Liu Ziluan.
In 465, Emperor Xiaowu of Song died, and according to the system of primogeniture, the crown prince Liu Ziye succeeded to the throne, which was the deposed emperor of the Song Dynasty.
The first thing Liu Ziye did after succeeding to the throne was to order the removal of Liu Ziluan, who was not yet ten years old at the time, and Liu Ziluan's brother Liu Zishi, who was executed.
Although Liu Ziluan was young, he had already anticipated the arrival of this day, so when Liu Ziye's edict was promulgated, he "calmly went to death" and left a sentence on his deathbed: "I only wish that I would not enter the imperial family in the next life"!
A sentence to exhaust the bitterness and helplessness of the imperial family, the ten-year-old child can have such an insight is also quite good, so this sentence has become a famous saying throughout the ages, and it is still often mentioned today.
brief summary:
Since ancient times, it has been the cruelest thing to turn against each other and cannibalism, but this has become the norm in the imperial family!
Hu Hai snatched and killed all his brothers and sisters, Cao Pi snatched the concubine, forced Cao Zhi to write the "Seven Steps Poem", leaving behind the ancient famous sentence "Originally born of the same root, frying He Tai anxious", Li Shimin snatched the concubine through the "change of Xuanwu Gate", it is also fratricidal, "Nine Sons seize the concubine" makes Kangxi, who is the emperor of the ancients, helpless, similar to brothers against each other, there are countless examples of cannibalism, almost all dynasties and dynasties have occurred!
History is a reincarnation, although there is no imperial family in the current society, there is no shortage of rich and noble families, and the degree of competition for family property by the heirs of these rich and noble families is probably no less fierce than that of the princes in feudal society.
So we should not always envy the rich children of those rich families, the family has a difficult scripture, you envy his wealth, but he is likely to envy you can have a warm family affection.
Life is hurried for decades, money is something outside the body, life does not bring death, enough to spend, how can money destroy the feelings between family members?
References: Seven Steps poem, harem words