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So the third prince fell down when he was only one step away from the throne.
After all, compared with those princes who blatantly hurt and betrayed him, what Master Kang hated more was this kind of son who pretended to be calm and peaceful, but actually had planned to take the throne in his heart.
Being consistent in appearance and in reality is the most basic requirement of Master Kang for his sons, although, history finally proved that this was just a joke.
Because Master Kang said that nothing should be hidden, and that he must tell him everything he knows, and he played the father-son relationship card to ask his sons to be honest with him. In fact, if any prince really ran to Master Kang and showed his true thoughts, he would definitely be doomed.
Typical cases are the eldest prince, the thirteenth prince, and the fourteenth prince.
These are the honest children who really believed in Master Kang.
Needless to say, the eldest prince is famous for his straightforwardness. He can't see through Master Kang's thoughts at all, and he has never thought about guessing the emperor's intentions. He just does things according to his own temperament. He is determined not to waste his own energy, but to create others directly... Otherwise, why is even the title given to him by Master Kang "straight"?
Because he is really too "straight", the kind that most people can't stand.
In fact, Master Kang loved his son, the eldest prince, very much at the beginning.
After all, he was the first son in his life who survived and successfully reached adulthood.
You have to know that Master Kang had lost several sons before, and none of them lived past the age of three. It can be said to be quite a blow.
Therefore, compared to a legitimate son or a child born by a concubine of noble birth, it is better to have a healthy son who can at least live to adulthood.
The eldest prince was born under such circumstances, and the child was in good health. Although he didn't look very smart, he was strong. Although he was not
good at literature, he was quite good at martial arts. He was able to accompany Master Kang on tours from a very early age, whether riding or shooting, and even accompanied Master Kang on personal expeditions.
The eldest prince brought many "firsts" to Master Kang, so Master Kang originally loved this eldest son very much.
In fact, the eldest prince was also the first prince to be conferred the title of a prince.
The title is of course "straight".
This straight prince has been very straight all his life, speaking directly and thinking directly, and he does not beat around the bush.
So no matter what he thinks in his heart, he expresses it directly. Even if it is not known to everyone, it can be easily seen. *
This eldest prince has always felt that his second brother, the crown prince Yinreng, was just lucky and was born in the belly of the empress, so he sat on the throne of the crown prince.
As the eldest brother, he is better than Yinreng in everything, but he is not much worse.
Why is he, a good eldest son, no longer a crown prince just because of this matter of birth?
It wasn't originally said that only the son of the empress could be the crown prince, right?
And the empress is gone, so it's now the former empress.
Even if the relationship between the emperor and the empress is very good, this can't happen, isn't this bullying?
The eldest prince became angrier and angrier, and the more he wanted to get rid of the crown prince - from ancient times to the present, how many crown princes have been removed?
Why can Yinreng be born as a crown prince just because his mother has a high status?
Isn't this in accordance with the rules of our grasslands, the competent one gets the job?
What's the point of relying on your mother's status and position? You, Yinreng, are a mule or a horse!
Look at your unlucky look, if you really rely on this to ascend the throne, Yinzhi will be the first one to be dissatisfied!
You are the legitimate son, and your brother is the eldest son. Moreover, your brother's biological mother is one of the four concubines, and her status is not low. The key is that she is still alive and well. Isn't a living fourth concubine more noble than the legitimate son of a dead queen?
The eldest prince has such a straightforward personality, so all the desires in his heart are written directly on his face.
The initial battle for the legitimate son was indeed a battle between these two princes.
The eldest prince felt that he was the eldest son, and his talent and military achievements were not inferior to those of the crown prince.
In fact, when it comes to military achievements, there is really no one who can compare with him. After all, he is the eldest son and the first prince to follow Master Kang to go out to fight. In this respect, he is really invincible.
However, Master Kang did not choose the crown prince based on this single criterion.
Although the crown prince had no military merit, his biological mother, Empress Hesheli, was the most beloved white moonlight in Master Kang's heart. For this reason, as long as the crown prince did not commit suicide, his position as crown prince would be stable.
Therefore, in the early stage, Master Kang openly favored the crown prince and suppressed the eldest prince.
So the eldest prince, who expressed his inner wishes directly, suffered such a tragedy - he was imprisoned by Master Kang several years before the crown prince was abolished, and he officially lost the qualification to compete for the position of crown prince.
According to historical records, Master Kang was extremely dissatisfied with the eldest prince at that time and said many hurtful words.
This shows that those who like to be straightforward and express their feelings are all deceiving.
If you don't believe it, just look at the fate of the eldest prince.
The same tragedy happened to the thirteenth prince and the fourteenth prince.
The thirteenth prince was a prince that Master Kang liked very much in the early stage. The specific performance was that Master Kang would take the thirteenth prince with him wherever he went on tour.
No other prince had this honor.
This kind of professional tour companion is not the most pampered and trusted son, and it is absolutely impossible to have such a frequency.
Simply put, you certainly won't choose a relative who makes you angry to accompany you on a tour, right?
Master Kang is of course the same.
He is even more cunning than ordinary people-he has never been a generous man, and he is very stingy in many places. This may be because he lacked his father's discipline when he was a child. Although he grew up to be a wise monarch under the personal education of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, the pattern has not been fully opened in the end.
When System 006 pushed this analysis of Master Kang to Mo Yu, it even cited a lot of psychology papers. It was really seriously studying why Master Kang had such a personality.
You know what, this makes a lot of sense.
What's even better is that it also has a lot of research on the deposed Crown Prince Yinreng, which can be saved for later when you have time.
Master Kang liked the Thirteenth Prince so much, but in the end, he turned against him all of a sudden.
Although the specific reason is unknown, it can be seen from the character of the Thirteenth Prince.
Although there has been no accurate record of the Thirteenth Prince being imprisoned in history, various experts and scholars have inferred it through other historical facts.
This is true.
It happened three years later, when the prince was deposed for the first time.
It is said that Master Kang was furious at the time and was ready to pick up a sword to chop the eldest prince - the reason was that the eldest prince said he wanted to help Master Kang "kill his relatives for the greater good" and personally chop off the deposed Crown Prince Yinreng.
A mere deposed prince actually dared to make our noble father angry, and he was so angry. It was simply treason and everyone could punish him.
Of course, maybe he also wanted to kill Yinreng completely so that he could take the throne. That was definitely possible.
A prince who doesn't want to be an emperor is not a good prince. This is simply a universal truth.
It was because this Zhijunwang was too "straight" that Master Kang became even more angry. So he stripped the eldest prince of his title on the spot, demoted him to a Beile, and imprisoned him in the Beile Mansion forever. Only then was the matter over.
It can be seen how terrible the consequences of telling the truth will be.
As for the fourteenth prince, it was the same, but it was not for the purpose of deposing the prince, but for his beloved eight brother.
At that time, the crown prince Yinreng was about to be deposed, and everyone was looking forward to the position of crown prince being vacant as soon as possible so that they could have a chance.
In particular, the eldest prince and the eighth prince were the most active, and they did not hide their determination to get to the top.
As for why the eldest prince and the eighth prince were together, it was of course because Master Kang had already stripped the eldest prince of his title at this time, which meant that the eldest prince had been sentenced to be out.
Although the eldest prince knew that he had no chance of becoming the emperor, he quickly cheered up and wanted to "follow the dragon's merit". The
one he wanted to recommend was the eighth prince.
Because the eighth prince, like the fourth prince, had a mother of low status, and was raised by the eldest prince's mother, Concubine Hui.
In the eyes of the eldest prince, this was his own brother.
As the saying goes, "good things should stay in the family", so he must team up with his eighth brother and prepare to launch another attack on the position of the crown prince.
So they began to take action frequently, and even launched a verbal attack on the crown prince at a gathering attended by all the princes.
When Master Kang was in a state of panic, he summoned all the princes to gather together to determine whether to depose the crown prince, and if so, who would be the next crown prince.
As a result, the eldest prince jumped out and said that a fortune teller had seen the eighth prince and said that he would definitely be a noble in the future.
Look, the fortune teller said that the eighth prince was destined to be a noble, and what could be more precious than the fate of an emperor?
So, the eighth prince will definitely be the next emperor, so why don't you quickly make him the crown prince?
It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned this. As soon as he mentioned this, Master Kang remembered how the Eighth Prince had been ambitious and tried to harm Yinreng.
Good fellow, you are waiting here, and you look so noble, I told you you are noble!
Master Kang was so angry that he wanted to chop the Eighth Prince with a sword on the spot, but it was the Fourteenth Prince who stopped him in the end.
It is estimated that the Fourteenth Prince said something in anger at the time, and Master Kang remembered it, which led to the fact that he went to the battlefield and didn't see the Fourteenth Prince for the last time.
Even so, some people said that Master Kang loved this son the most and was going to pass the throne to him.
This also triggered various unofficial rumors among the people that the Fourteenth Prince stole the throne from the Fourteenth Prince.
This is really...
Anyone who has studied the succession customs of the past generations knows that when Master Kang died, the four great masters were basically determined to be the successors.
The main manifestation is that the four great masters went to offer sacrifices to the heaven on his behalf that year, which is something only the crown prince can do.
Master Kang chose the four great masters to offer sacrifices to the heaven, but sent the fourteenth prince to go on an expedition, which has already made his attitude clear.
It's a pity that the public who eat melons don't understand this, and are still making all kinds of YY, which is really a bit funny.
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