Seeing this topic, many people may subconsciously ask: Is this really the case? People who are a little familiar with history will slap their heads: this is true! Why is that?
Let's first give you a row of moths of the second emperor of the past dynasties: the death of the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, the rebellion of the Han Dynasty, the why didn't the Jin Hui Emperor eat meat, the Sui Emperor was extravagant and wasteful of the country, the change of the Tang Taizong Xuanwu Gate, the song Taizong candle shadow axe sound, the Ming Chengzu Jing Difficult Battle.
Basically, every dynasty after the Qin Dynasty could not escape this theorem of chaos. In fact, the Qin Dynasty was almost complied with before, but the history before the Qin Dynasty was very controversial, so it would cause some controversy.
For example, Xia Qi's successor Taikang lost his kingdom, causing the entire Xia Dynasty to fall into a period of chaos for many years, and was actually controlled by HouYi until shao recovered the country; Shang Tang's successor Taijia was exiled by the chancellor Yi Yin for various reasons; King Zhou Cheng, the son of King Wu of Zhou, was actually held by Zhou Gongdan in the early days.
From the available information, this is basically the case. Even small divided regimes cannot get rid of this law. For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, the three countries basically did not escape this law. In the Shu kingdom, Liu Bei passed on to Liu Chan, but in fact Liu Chan was in power by Zhuge Liang in the early stages, and was directly destroyed in the later period;
The State of Wu, Sun Quan began to claim the title of emperor, and his successor, Sun Liang, was deposed and replaced not long after; the State of Wei was slightly different, because Cao Pi's son Cao Rui did not have a direct problem.
But in fact, there was also a big problem - because Cao Rui ordered Sima Yi to expedition to Liaodong and handed over military power to his grandfather's most feared family, the Sima family. Sure enough, the Cao Wei regime was usurped by the Sima family.
And Cao Rui's death is also very interesting - if there is enough historical thinking, it is likely to suspect that he died unnaturally. Before he died, he especially trusted a witch who could heal the people and rejuvenate herself; but he himself suddenly fell ill, and the witch could not be saved no matter how she was treated. In the end he died.
From the perspective of the court struggle and the power struggle, there must be something wrong with his death. Therefore, it can be said that most of the dynasties since the Xia Dynasty basically could not escape the law of chaos of the second dynasty.
So why can't every dynasty get rid of the law of moths when the second emperor arrives? This makes it necessary to talk about the main factors that drive the operation of history - the struggle between monarchy and power.
In history books, and even in historical texts, there has never been a dispute between power and monarchy. Because once it is written, the books of those historians cannot be written well. However, the struggle between monarchy and power is a necessary premise for reading history, and without this premise, many histories seem to be blind people touching elephants.
The so-called phase power, in the narrow sense, refers to the power of the chancellor - in the broad sense, it refers to the power representing the bureaucracy and the bureaucratic clique; the monarchy is the set of power systems that are opposed to the phase power. This constitutes two of the three dimensions of ancient Chinese society: kings and soldiers, and the other dimension is the people. The people are ordinary people.
Since the individual power of the common people is basically equal to zero, they must rely on the king to balance with the most powerful men. Why is it said that the power of the priest is the greatest? A single soldier, that is, an official, of course, his power cannot be compared with that of the emperor.
However, the bureaucracy is a system, while the emperor has only one. Therefore, in the whole three-dimensional system, Ezekiel has the greatest power. The evolution of history and the change of dynasties are based on the wrestling between bureaucrats and emperors.
When bureaucrats have absolute superiority, they will find ways to manipulate the emperor – and the emperor certainly cannot be manipulated. So the bureaucracy would organize a change of dynasty and invest in a new emperor.
For the founding emperors, because they were entrepreneurs and held military power themselves, they were often at the absolute peak of their monarchy; on the contrary, the bureaucracy at this time would be in a relatively low period.
Therefore, almost every founding emperor, their ministers have a hard time - want to engage in money chopping, want to do things to kill the head, not to mention how uncomfortable.
As soon as the founding emperor died, the ministers came to an opportunity. When the new emperor was not yet in power, it was inevitable to create a great moth to force the new emperor to agree to their conditions and realize the retreat of the monarch.
Emperor Wen of Han made concessions to the princes and heroes; Emperor Taizong of Tang made concessions to the military cliques of Longxi and Shandong; Emperor Taizong of Song basically turned civilian officials into treasures; and Ming Chengzu made concessions to the clique of civil officials.
It is precisely because of this that they can sit firmly in the country. Specifically how to make concessions, how to overpower, we will talk about it next time.