In the feudal monarch system implemented in ancient China, the Son of Heaven was a figure at the top of the power pyramid, and some royal relatives and famous generals would also be given official titles in accordance with the knighthood system at that time. Among them, there is a kind of prince who is called "a word side by side king", how lofty is the status of this kind of official? Let's find out today.
During the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Tianzi was the co-lord of the world, and the feudal princes under him were in charge of a territory and all things, and were called "kings", which could be inherited and had absolute right to speak within the feudal state. After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang positioned his title as "emperor" in order to show his supremacy, and since then, there has only one supreme ruler in the country, and the title of "king" has disappeared. Later, after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he believed that the important reason for the fall of the Qin Dynasty was because Qin Shi Huang abolished the feudal system, so he once again used the old practice of feudal feudalism and divided his descendants and relatives to various places to be crowned kings. Since then, it has become a common reward to give the royal family children and meritorious heroes the king, and although these "kings" are called "princes" in the title, but in fact, according to the name and title can also be separated from relatives, among them, the status of the king of one word is generally higher than the status of the king of two words, such as "King Yan" and "King Jing" belong to the king of one word, and "Prince Yan" and "King Linhuai" belong to the more estranged and lower status of the king of two words.
And because of the addition of the word "side by side", "side by side" has become the highest status among the kings. "Side by side" as the name suggests is to be able to be compared with the emperor, the meaning of the same, that is to say, the person who is named "the king of the word side by side" can be almost equal to the emperor in terms of power and status, and in history, few emperors will be willing to divide half of their supreme power and reward it to others, so in history, it can really be named "the king of the word side by side" can only be said to be rare, it can be said that only Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, really did it, But his arrogant actions eventually led to the "Tianjing Incident", which brought the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from vigorous to decay.
It can be said that now we are so familiar with the title of "the king of one word side by side", most of which is because of the merits of the ** family and writers. In the folk storytelling stories, there are two people who are known as "the king of one word side by side", one is Luo Cheng in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the other is Xue Rengui in "Xue Rengui's Expedition to the East". But in fact, although Xue Rengui in history was reused by Tang Gaozong, he was never crowned king in his life; As for Luo Cheng, he is just a fictional character of the ** family, and there is no trace of him in history.
Therefore, "the king side by side" refers to the prince who can sit on an equal footing with the emperor, and is the highest rank among the princes, but it is precisely because the power position of this title is so high that almost no one in history can get such a reward.