Crown prince was both a prominent and dangerous profession in ancient times, and many princes fought for the position of prince, and some princes took the initiative to give up the position of prince. However, there are not many princes in history who can successfully inherit the throne. Most of the princes either lived the life of a prince and ascended the throne in fear, or they were demoted, and there were very few princes who could be like Zhu Biao. This article will talk to you about the ending of the founding princes of the previous dynasties (this article only talks about the founding princes of the great unified dynasty, because there are too many divisions or partial An dynasties, I can't say).
1. Qin Zhifusu
Strictly speaking, Fusu was not the crown prince of the Qin Dynasty, because Qin Shi Huang did not make a prince after he became emperor, but many ministers in the dynasty regarded Fusu as the future emperor of the Qin Dynasty.
Fusu was lenient and politically far-sighted, and once angered Qin Shi Huang by directly consulting Qin Shi Huang, so he was sent by Qin Shi Huang to Shangjun to assist the general Meng Tian in building the Great Wall and resisting the Xiongnu.
Fusu
In 210 BC, that is, the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang, Qin Shi Huang died of illness in the sand dunes, and Fusu was posthumously appointed to the throne, but Zhao Gao and Li Si tampered with Qin Shi Huang's edict, renamed Hu Hai as emperor, and forced Fusu to commit suicide, at that time Meng Tian also advised Fusu to ask for instructions, but Fusu thought that this was Qin Shi Huang's order, and committed suicide without asking for instructions.
2, Liu Ying of the Western Han Dynasty
Liu Ying was the eldest son of Liu Bangyan, born to Empress Lü, and in 202 BC, Liu Bang made Liu Ying crown prince after defeating Xiang Yu and officially unifying the world. Later, as Liu Bang increased his sons, Liu Bang liked his third son Liu Ruyi more, thinking that Liu Ying was not like himself, so he wanted to abolish Liu Ying's position as crown prince. Later, at Zhang Liang's suggestion, Empress Lü invited Shangshan Sihao, these four people were highly respected, and Liu Bang did not dare to offend easily, which prevented Liu Ying from being deposed.
Emperor Hui of Han Liu Ying
After Liu Bang's death in the eleventh year of Emperor Gao (196 BC), Liu Ying succeeded to the throne. After Liu Ying inherited the throne, he basically inherited his father's policy, and with a group of experienced ministers assisted by his father, there were no major twists and turns during his reign, but his mother Empress Lü was very strong, and Liu Ying was powerless in the face of this strong mother, and many things were decided by Empress Lü. In 188 BC, Liu Ying died of illness at the age of 24.
3. Liu Qiang of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Liu Qiang was the eldest son of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han, and his biological mother was Empress Guo Shengtong. In 26 AD, the second year of Jianwu, Liu Qiang, who was less than 2 years old, was made crown prince by Liu Xiu. In this way, Liu Qiang was the crown prince for 17 years. However, his fate also changed with the deposition of his mother Guo Shengtong as empress.
Liu Qiang's film and television image
Liu Xiu's wife was Yin Lihua, who was able to become emperor with the help of the Guo Shengtong family in Hebei, so Liu Xiu installed Guo Shengtong as empress after he ascended the throne, and their eldest son Liu Qiang was crown prince. However, in the seventeenth year of Jianwu (41 AD), Liu Xiu abolished Guo Shengtong's position as empress for no reason and replaced Yin Lihua as empress, so that Liu Qiang was not the eldest son, and then he repeatedly resigned the position of crown prince, and it was not until Liu Xiu agreed to it in the nineteenth year of Jianwu two years later, making Liu Zhuang, the eldest son of him and Yin Lihua, crown prince, and Liu Qiang was demoted to the title of King of the East Sea.
However, although Liu Qiang was deposed, his treatment was still good, and Liu Zhuang also treated his eldest brother well after he succeeded to the throne. In the first year of Yongping (58), Liu Qiang also died the year after the death of Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu at the age of 33.
4. Sima Zhi of Jin
In 265, after Sima Yan inherited the throne of Xiangguo and the title of King of Jin from his father Sima Zhao, he could not wait to force the Wei Yuan emperor Cao Huan to cede the throne to himself, so Sima Yan replaced Wei Jianjin, and Sima Yan also became the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty. In the third year of the Tai Dynasty (267), Sima Yan made his second son Sima Xin crown prince.
Sima Chen
Sima Xin was mentally retarded, and one year there was a famine, the common people had nothing to eat, and there were people starving to death everywhere. Someone reported the situation to Sima Zhi, but Sima Zhi said to the reporter: "If there is no food, why don't they eat meat porridge?" "When the people who reported listened, they couldn't laugh or cry, the victims couldn't even eat, where could they get porridge? This shows how stupid and confused Sima Cheng is. But Sima Yan still made him crown prince.
In the first year of Taixi (290), after Sima Yan's death, Sima Zhi succeeded to the throne, but he could not manage the dynasty, and was assisted by Taifu Yangjun, and later Empress Jia Nanfeng held the power of the dynasty, and during the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Sima Lun the King of Zhao usurped the throne, thinking that he was too emperor and imprisoned in Jin Yongcheng. Later, Sima Xin traveled among the princes, suffered humiliation, and died in the first year of Guangxi (307) at the age of 48.
5, Sui Zhi Yang Yong
Yang Yong was the eldest son of Yang Jian, the emperor of Sui, who crowned him crown prince after Yang Jian ascended the throne. Yang Yong was originally very favored by Yang Jian, but later Yang Yong became uncultivated in moral character, arrogant and lascivious, and gradually became unloved by his mother, Princess Wenwen, and later framed by Yang Guang and Situ Yang Su the King of Jin, and was abolished as crown prince by Emperor Wen of Sui. In the last year of Renshou (604), after the death of Emperor Wen of Sui, he was given death by the crown prince Yang Guangjiao and posthumously crowned King Fangling.
Yang Yong
6, Tang Zhili built
Li Jiancheng was the eldest son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, 10 years older than Li Shimin. In 618, after Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he canonized Li Jiancheng as the crown prince and stayed in Chang'an to assist Li Yuan in handling imperial affairs. In fact, before the origin established the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng's ability was also good, Li Yuan's march into Guanzhong, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin each led a team of soldiers and horses to the south, the battle of Huoyi, Li Jiancheng offered advice to kill the Sui general Song Laosheng, annihilating 20,000 Sui army elite; After the Battle of Tongguan, Li Jiancheng defeated the famous Sui general Qu Tutong and held Yongfengcang.
Lee Jiancheng
After becoming crown prince, Li Jiancheng stayed in Chang'an to assist Li Yuan, and at the same time she also had a group of Wen Chen military generals under her, and these people had good abilities. Unfortunately, in the ninth year of Wude (626), Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Rebellion, and Li Jiancheng and Yuanji the Prince of Qi were killed. Although he became a king and defeated, Li Jiancheng is still relatively capable, and if he can succeed to the throne, his achievements may not necessarily be stronger than Li Shimin, but they will certainly not be weak.
7, Song Zhi Zhao Heng
The Song Dynasty is more special, the first is that the Song Dynasty is not a unified dynasty in the true sense, because the Song Dynasty did not completely rule the area south of the sixteen states of Yanyun, and it was even more seriously shrunk in the Southern Song Dynasty. The second is that the first crown prince of the Song Dynasty was not the son of the founding emperor, but the son of the second emperor.
After Zhao Kuangyin established the Song Dynasty, he reigned for 16 years, but he did not appoint any of his sons as crown princes, and in the end, it was his younger brother Zhao Guangyi who inherited the throne, leaving an allusion to the "candle shadow axe" in history.
Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng
After Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne, he was originally going to make his eldest son Zhao Yuanzuo the crown prince, but Zhao Yuanzuo opposed Emperor Taizong of Song on the treatment of Zhao Kuangyin's son, and later went crazy, and was finally degraded by Emperor Taizong of Song as a commoner for various reasons. The second eldest Zhao Yuankan died inexplicably, so the position of prince was the turn of the third Zhao Yuankan.
In 995, Zhao Yuankan was canonized as crown prince by Emperor Taizong of Song, and he changed his name to Zhao Heng. After the death of Emperor Taizong of Song in 997, Zhao Heng succeeded to the throne as the third emperor of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Heng did not have particularly obvious political achievements during his reign, and one of the more famous was to sign the "Alliance of the Lanyuan" with the Liao State under the "oppression" of Kou Zhun. Then there is the Song Zhenzong Taishan Sealing Zen, and his move completely lowered the standard for the emperor to go to Mount Tai to seal Zen, so that in the next generation, no emperor went to Taishan to seal Zen for nearly a thousand years.
8. Yuan no real gold
Zhenjin was the eldest son of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, and was made crown prince in 1273. Zhenjin was deeply influenced by Han culture since childhood, and after taking office, he also became the leader of the Han Fa sect and opposed Ahmad and other financial parties. In 1285, he became depressed due to the Zen Rang incident, and died in December of the same year, and Yuan Shizu gave him the title Prince Mingxiao. In 1294, Emperor Yuan Chengzong ascended the throne and posthumously honored his father Zhenjin as emperor, with the upper temple name Yuzong and the nickname Wen Hui Mingxiao Emperor.
Real gold
9. Ming Zhizhu Biao
Zhu Biao was the eldest son of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, and was made crown prince by Zhu Yuanzhang in the first month of Hongwu (1368). If the princes in history build a group, Zhu Biao must be the most envied person, because except for Zhu Biao, the other princes are restricted in their rights to a certain extent, and Zhu Biao can be called the most powerful prince in history, because Zhu Yuanzhang released his rights to Zhu Biao, and Zhu Biao rebelled.
Since Zhu Biao was made crown prince, not only Zhu Yuanzhang groomed him as a real successor, but even the Manchu ministers of culture and martial arts recognized Zhu Biao as the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Similarly, Zhu Yuanzhang's other sons also respected Zhu Biao's brother very much and did not covet him. If it weren't for Zhu Biao's early death, Zhu Di would not have rebelled.
Zhu Biao
Just when everyone thought that Zhu Biao was the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao contracted a cold after returning from a visit to Shaanxi in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), and died soon after at the age of 37. Zhu Biao's death also made Zhu Yuanzhang begin to re-examine who should control the Daming Empire after his death. In the end, he skipped his son and chose Zhu Biao's second son, Zhu Yunjiang. His decision also changed the course of the Ming Dynasty.
10, Kiyo no Ai Shin Kyoro Yinren
Yinren was Kangxi's second son, and because Kangxi's first sons died early, Yinren ranked second among the many princes involved in the continuation of the teeth. He was the only crown prince in the history of the Qing Dynasty and the last crown prince in Chinese history.
Since childhood, he has been intelligent and studious, with both literature and martial arts, not only proficient in the classics of the hundreds of schools and poetry of all generations, but also proficient in Manchurian bow and horse riding and shooting; He grew up to be a descendant of emperors to sacrifice, and several times to oversee the country, with good achievements, and was quite famous inside and outside the court, which reduced Kangxi's burden to a certain extent.
Yinren
However, it may have been too long in the crown prince's position, and Yinren began to covet the throne, and in the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi Reign (1708), the Kangxi Emperor deposed Yinren for the first time. After Yinren was deposed, the competition among the princes for the crown prince became more intense, so Kangxi restored Yinren's crown prince.
However, after his restoration, Yinren did not change his former image, and his relationship with Kangxi became more tense, and in the fifty-first year of Kangxi (1712), Yinren was deposed again, and he was detained in Xian'an Palace until his death.
Brief summary:
Of the 10 founding crown princes, only Liu Ying of the Han Dynasty, Sima Zhi of the Jin Dynasty, and Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty succeeded to the throne and became emperors of their respective dynasties. The other seven crown princes all lost the throne for various reasons. One of the most unfortunate is Zhu Biao. If he lived a few more years to ascend the throne, the history of the rest of his life would be rewritten. It is a pity that history has no ifs, and it is precisely because of this that history becomes more exciting.