What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Zhu Qiyu was originally the emperor who was supported by everyone, and he made great contributions to the defense of daming rivers and mountains. At the same time, he was emperor for 8 years. Ancient kings generally did not have a long lifespan. Being able to be emperor for 8 years has actually been quite a long time. In general, when emperor for such a long time, the throne is quite stable. However, Zhu Qiyu's throne was easily taken away. What's going on here?
(Zhu Qiyu stills)
Some people may say that this is because Zhu Qiyu has no sons.
Indeed, Zhu Qiyu's lack of sons was an important reason for his seizure of the throne.
Because Zhu Qiyu had no son, when he became seriously ill, he faced no successor. Without a successor, the future direction of the country is very uncertain. Of course, if it is an ordinary people, this kind of unclear direction is actually indifferent, whoever becomes the emperor has to grind his bones and raise intestines. But for the ministers in the imperial court, the situation was different. Because the ministers had to live according to the emperor. If you are a close confidant of the emperor, if you are a credit to the emperor, you will definitely soar. But if you are not a close confidant of the emperor, then it may be extremely difficult to become an official, and your life may be ruined. So the minister did not like this state of uncertainty.
It was in this situation that Shi Heng, Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang and others would risk their lives to support Zhu Qizhen and seize the throne as emperor. Once Zhu Qizhen became emperor, the throne became clear, and the future of Shi Heng and others was bright.
However, even so, this responsibility should also be borne by Zhu Qiyu.
Why? Because although Zhu Qiyu did not have a son, he could also implement the heir as soon as possible. Perhaps Zhu Qiyu wanted to wait until he had a son before implementing the prince. In fact, folklore also said that Zhu Qiyu had a concubine who was pregnant at that time, and Zhu Qiyu was hopeful. However, if he was already very ill and could not wait for this son to be born, Zhu Qiyu should think of a way as soon as possible.
Song Renzong and Song Gaozong had the same experience, and they also wanted to pass the throne to their sons, but they never had children. So they found a prince to raise as their son, and they were not immediately sure that this son was the prince, but only as a spare tire. If you can have children, then let your own son be the prince. If you have not been fertile, use this spare tire. As a result, they never had children, and eventually made this spare tire the heir.
(Zhu Qizhen stills)
The advantage of having a spare tire is that it can reassure ministers. Even if the emperor dies suddenly, this spare tire can be quickly lifted up. But Zhu Qiyu did not prepare a spare tire, how could the ministers not panic in their hearts?
In addition to this problem, in fact, Zhu Qiyu was emperor for 8 years, and the throne was still easily overthrown by others, and there were two important reasons.
The first reason is that the hidden dangers have not been removed.
This hidden danger is Zhu Qi Town. At that time, Zhu Qizhen was the Emperor Taishang, but this Emperor Taishang, his role was very awkward. The average Emperor Taishang is the emperor's father, and very few of the emperor's brothers are emperors. Therefore, emperors such as Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozong of Song, and Taigong Liu could not seize the throne of his son. But Zhu Qizhen was easy to seize the throne. Because he was the emperor's brother, and he was also the emperor, he only lost the throne under special circumstances, and his heart was very unwilling.
In short, this Emperor Taishang was a huge hidden danger for Zhu Qiyu. Zhu Qiyu must properly handle this hidden danger.
Of course, Zhu Qiyu also dealt with it, but his handling methods were quite unsophisticated. He just put Zhu Qizhen in the Nangong and surrounded the Nangong with a high wall, leaving only a window to deliver food. At the same time, the trees around the Nangong were cut down to avoid accidents. All of this makes people feel that the intention is too obvious, the means are too inferior.
In fact, zhu Qiyu wanted to eliminate this hidden danger, it was not impossible, as an emperor, he had a hundred ways to make Zhu Qi town non-existent, and let Zhu Qi town not exist, others could not catch his handle. There have been too many such practices in history. Zhu Qiyu did not harm Zhu Qizhen, but after Zhu Qizhen seized the throne, Zhu Qiyu died soon after, and no one dared to say that Zhu Qizhen killed him.
(The Change of The Door)
The second reason is that there are no dead parties.
The emperor should also have a dead party. Only with a dead party can we get support. Even if they are in a dangerous situation, the diehards will protect themselves.
We can take Huang Taiji as proof. The crown prince also died suddenly without establishing an heir. However, although Huang Taiji died suddenly, a large part of the two yellow flag people, such as Ao Bai and Sonny, were huang Taiji's nemesis. They desperately wanted to support the descendants of Emperor Taiji as emperors, so they fought resolutely with the two white flags of Dorgon and finally won victory.
If Zhu Qiyu also has a dead party, then even if Zhu Qiyu is seriously ill, these dead parties will protect Zhu Qiyu. But in fact, on the contrary, no one protected him.
When Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill, he called Shi Heng to the bedside. But after Shi Heng came out, he immediately organized a "change to seize the door". It can be seen from this that Shi Heng is not Zhu Qiyu's nemesis at all. It was not Zhu Qiyu's nemesis, what did Zhu Qiyu do when he was seriously ill and called him to the hospital bed! In addition, when the "change of seizing the door" occurred, there was not a single minister in the court who "died" for Zhu Qiyu. It can be seen that Zhu Qiyu really does not have any dead party.
Although Zhu Qiyu had been emperor for 8 years, he actually did not have much of his own things, and how could his throne be stable.