Jiajing was also the Ming Emperor Zhu Houxi, whose father was Zhu Youxi, the Prince of Xingxian, but he was only the second son, but he inherited the throne after Zhu Houzhao's death, and the reason why he was able to do so was mainly because his brother Zhu Houxi, the Prince of Yuehuai, died prematurely, so it could only be him.
As for why after Zhu Houzhao's death, it was king Xingxian's son who succeeded him? In fact, the reason for this is not complicated.
Zhu Houzhao played himself to death, but Daming's inheritance went wrong, and he had no sons. But this problem has long been thought of by the ancients, even if it is not the father who dies and the son succeeds, then there are brothers and brothers. It is really impossible to find a family member who can't be hit by eight rods.
So since it is impossible for the father to die and the son to succeed, what about the brother and the brother? There were many brothers, his brother Zhu Houwei died early, but his cousin was a big one. After all, Zhu Houzhao's father, Emperor Xiaozong of Ming, had more than a dozen brothers, and their sons were even more.
So for Daming, heirs are not a problem at all.
However, before Zhu Houzhao died, he did not specify which brother to succeed him, so who to choose, who to choose, and how to choose? When the emperor died, Yang Ting and Empress Zhang, the first assistants of the cabinet, had the right to decide, so who to appoint to succeed them was very powerful. As for the group of ministers who only watched the drama, there was no reference at all.
Then Yang Yanhe and Empress Zhang chose Zhu Houxi, and they did so mainly because they had their own careful thoughts.
Generally speaking, as long as the minister chooses the successor, he basically does not like young people very much, and it cannot be said that the younger the better, but for them, the young people have a very advantage. It is not that they have plans to usurp the throne, the key is that it is impossible to be pro-government at such an age, so the power must still be in their hands.
At that time, Zhu Houxi was only fourteen years old, which was a very tempting age, and it was obvious that Yang Yanhe was still able to tilt his power to the opposition in nearly ten years, at least that's what he thought.
At the same time, Zhu Houxi's father also died, his brother also died, and he was alone, and the lonely shadow had no influence, and no one could help him.
Moreover, in the name of respecting Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral training, Yang Yanhe also said it with grandeur, so that people could not find loopholes. Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated the law of succession in his "Ancestral Precepts of the Emperor and Ming Dynasty": Whoever has no prince in the imperial court must be a brother and a brother, and he must be born of his mother. Born of a mother-in-law, although he could not stand for a long time.
Xingxian Wang Zhu Youshu was the fourth son of Emperor Mingxianzong Zhu Jianshen, and both of Emperor Xiaozong's brothers died childlessly, and his branch was also a queen, so it could only be the turn of the fourth elder, although King Xingxian died, but his son Zhu Houxi was still there. In ancient times, the gap between concubines and concubines was very large, and the status was very noble.
The key point is that the young Zhu Houxi is very intelligent, and he is very proficient in all the skills of poetry and etiquette. This also makes many people even more unable to fault anything.
However, what no one expected was that the Jiajing Emperor sat on the throne, his temper was still quite big, and people were also upright, and there was a dispute with the ministers, and everyone was exhausted.