Looking at the ancient great unification dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the two adjacent dynasties, although there are many differences, there are also many similarities, the biggest similarity is that the founding princes all died young, the Yuan Dynasty was the yuan dynasty ancestor Kublai Khan's eldest son Prince Zhenjin died young, and the Ming Dynasty is the familiar Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son Zhu Biao, who also died young, and was posthumously known as "Prince Yiwen".
After the untimely death of the founding prince, the choice of Kublai Khan and Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was surprising, that is, to choose the emperor's grandson to succeed to the throne, yuan Shizu chose the third son of Prince Zhenjin, Tie Mu'er, for Yuan Chengzong; Ming Taizu chose Zhu Yunjiao, the second son of Zhu Biao, the prince of Yiwen, for Emperor Jianwen.
The Yuan Dynasty was notoriously chaotic in the great unified dynasty, the 98th year of the State Zuo, it was only a hundred years, but the transfer of the imperial throne was quite chaotic, such as the "dispute between the two capitals" and "the change of the celestial calendar", which were all various coups that occurred in the process of imperial succession, accompanied by the emperor's unnatural death.
However, in this chaotic environment, after Yuan Chengzong, the emperor's grandson, succeeded to the throne, there was no coup d'état and was pushed off the throne, but instead sat firmly on the throne, and died after 13 years on the throne, although he died without heirs, laying the hidden danger of the imperial throne battle in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, but this is an afterthought.
The Ming Dynasty was a dynasty that strictly implemented the system of succession of the eldest son, except for the "Battle of Jingnan" in the early days of the founding of the country, the overall transmission of the throne was very smooth, and there was no major bloody coup.
However, it was in this context that the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao was pushed from the throne by his uncle Zhu Di the Prince of Yan, and from then on the imperial lineage was transferred from the first line of Zhu Biao, the eldest son of Ming Taizu's concubine, to the fourth son, Zhu Di, the Fourth Son of Yan, and the loser of Emperor Jianwen was missing, and his whereabouts became a major unsolved case in the Ming Dynasty.
So why did the founding emperor choose the emperor to succeed to the throne, the Yuan Dynasty succeeded, but the Ming Dynasty failed, today Song Anzhi said.
First of all, The Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunzhuo had a big advantage over Yuan Chengzong, that is, ming taizu Zhu Yuanzhangming determined that he was the "emperor's grandson" and was the crown prince; and after the death of the Zhenjin prince, Yuan Shizu was also hesitant about the heir to the throne, first of all, he set up a special institution of "Neishifu" for the eldest son of the Zhenjin Crown Prince, Ganmala, and later gave the seal crown prince treasure that originally belonged to the Zhenjin prince to The yuancheng emperor Tiemuer, indirectly indicating the intention of passing the throne to him, but compared with the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, in terms of clarifying the position of the crown prince, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan was clearly inferior to Emperor Jianwen zhu Yunjiao.
But why Yuan Chengzong succeeded, but the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao failed, in fact, the most critical reason is that the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao abolished the "Sai Wang Shoubian" model of his grandfather Ming Taizu, and wanted to greatly change the system of the king of the domain, but he did not have the strength to do it, and his personal ability was too poor, so he attracted a reaction and was pushed off the throne by his uncle Zhu Di, the King of Yan.
After Yuan Chengzong succeeded to the throne, although the power of the kings was limited, it was obviously limited, unlike the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao, who did not cut the domain, but killed the domain, and within a few months, he even cut the five kings, and even forced the Xiang king Zhu Bai to burn himself to die Mingzhi, as for other aspects, Yuan Chengzong did not change much, maintaining the stability of the political situation, so naturally sat on the throne.
Look at Yuan Yingzong, who was particularly ruthless in suppressing the kings, canceled the kings' year gifts, did not flood the kings, increased the binding force on the kings, adopted the Han law that the guilty descendants of the kings were not allowed to inherit the seals, etc., and reused the Han chen, causing the opposition of the conservative nobles, and as a result, he was pushed off the throne like Emperor Jianwen, but his fate was even more tragic, and he was killed in the "Change of the Southern Slope", how Emperor Jianwen said that it was also an end whose whereabouts were unknown, and it was very likely that he would escape from heaven.
Therefore, in this regard, Yuan Chengzong was very clever, knowing that the king of the clan could limit his power, but he could not suppress it too fiercely, and would grasp the measure.
Look at the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjue, who only took the throne for a few months, began to abolish the domain, and even killed the domain, leaving no way back for the king of the domain, forcing the Yan king Zhu Di to rebel, not to say, obviously has an overwhelming advantage, but the people are unknown, so that Zhu Di, who only occupies a corner of the land, actually launched a tug-of-war with the imperial army for 4 years, and finally let Zhu Di take the decapitation action, straight down to Nanjing, to the city of Nanjing, before much fighting, Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao trusted Gu Wang and Li Jinglong to open the Jinchuan Gate, so that Zhu Di successfully conquered Nanjing. Became the only king of the great unified dynasty to succeed in rebellion.
Therefore, in terms of the attitude towards the king of the domain, this is the reason why Emperor Yuan Chengzong succeeded, while Emperor Jianwen failed.
Of course, there are other factors, like Emperor Jianwen's birth mother Lü Shi, who did not have much power, and Yuan Chengzong's birth mother, Princess Zhenjin, also had a certain influence, because the Mongolian custom of "young son guarding the stove" was very biased towards the younger son Yuan Chengzong, and after Yuan Shizu's death, in the face of the eldest son of the younger son's biggest rival, Gan Ma La, he was obviously biased in favor of the younger son Yuan Chengzong, so that Yuan Chengzong succeeded smoothly, and the eldest brother had to reluctantly accept this reality.
Finally, there is another important reason, Yuan Chengzong has an advantage, in the Yuan Dynasty, he once had a general soldier to guard the north of the desert, won the support of the northern border garrison, and had influence in the army, while the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao did not have a similar experience in the Ming Taizu era, and the influence in the army was not at all the same level as his fourth uncle Zhu Di, the King of Yan.
But on the whole, in fact, the biggest difference between the two is that Yuan Chengzong understands that he has a few pounds and a few pounds, does things to a limited extent, will slowly try to figure it out, or set aside first, will not be subjected to a big backlash, and the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiao is too idealistic, his personal ability is insufficient, and he has to eat a fat man in one breath, want to once and for all, and the result is a big reaction, and eventually he is discredited, so he will not be that if he does not do it.
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