Recently, a TV series called "The Knife In the Snow" is very popular, in which the Northern Liang King, played by Hu Jun, in order to help his son seek hereditary replacement, can be described as a continuous plot of power, which constitutes a major highlight of this drama. So, what is hereditary proclamation? Why is it so hard to have a hereditary replacement?
First of all, to interpret the word literally, "reckless" means "no replacement, no abolition", the so-called hereditary resignation, that is, the number of hereditary successions is unlimited, the successor inherits the original title of the inherited person, in other words, if you have a title, no matter how many generations it is passed on, your descendants will get or your title, and there will be no phenomenon of not getting or demoting. Therefore, if the Northern Liang King, played by Hu Jun in "The Sword In the Snow", helps his son to seek hereditary replacement, then this Northern Liang King can become the "Iron Hat King", not only his son, but also his eldest grandson, can also become the Northern Liang King.
However, for the emperor, he did not want to have a hereditary replacement of the foreign surname Wang Ye, in addition to not being his own family, but also because the "hereditary resignation" was really frightening. For example, the Ming Dynasty was dragged down by the "hereditary replacement".
In the Ming Dynasty, the system of "hereditary resignation" was implemented, and all the sons of the emperor except the prince were made princes, and all the sons of the princes except the sons of the princes were made county kings, and the princes and county kings were all "hereditary resignations", and they were not allowed to work and were raised by the state treasury. You know, in ancient times, there was no family planning, and these princes were born a bottomless pit, so the Ming Dynasty had a large number of princes and county kings. It is said that during the years of Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, the sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, etc. of a prince in Shanxi added up enough to make up four figures, and the funny thing is that this prince himself did not believe that he had so many heirs, so he folded his son and asked the emperor to send someone to count and count, but don't make a mistake.
According to the statistics of relevant scholars, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty imperial family actually exceeded 80,000! What should I do if there are many people? Although it is the state treasury that supports it, the national treasury really has no money. The emperor was gone, and at first he said that he would give you such a little money by implementing a quota, and then he let the clan room go to the examination and said, "You should work and make money yourself." The results were useless. These clans were really accustomed to the "pig-raising style" way of living, and reached out to the emperor for money. The emperor said, there is no money, but there is some land, so you should do it yourself. So these princes went around encircling the land, and finally made the people miserable and rebelled. The ming dynasty died in the peasant uprising, which can be said to be inseparable from this "pig-raising" hereditary resignation.
The Qing Dynasty learned this lesson from the Ming Dynasty, except for a few iron hat kings, the rest were all changed to the eldest son of the concubine to descend to the knighthood, and the remaining son was crowned the knight, so there was no trouble of the Ming Dynasty.