"No queen is great", this is the belief of the Chinese people all along, it comes from the idea of respecting heaven and ancestors. In ancient times, staying behind was not only related to the continuation of the family, but also to whether you could enjoy cold pork head meat after death.
Therefore, even if there are no heirs, people will inherit an heir from the clan, or even raise one, to comfort their ancestors and comfort themselves. Monarchs, nobles, peddlers, pawns, people with conditions will make such a choice.
In the ancient Chinese political system, "the great sect cannot be extinguished" is a major criterion, that is, when the great sect is facing extinction, it is necessary for the suzerain to establish an heir during his lifetime or after his death, the successor of the sect will automatically become his heir, and then inherit the order of the great sect.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, disdained this, and he created the system of "succession without succession" based on the principle of inheritance based on the order of branches. This system was officially implemented in the first year of Chenghua by Zhu Junjun, the eldest son of Zhu Jiyan, the younger brother of King Chukang, and the king of Gongding of Dong'an.
Original text: Portrait of Ming Taizu So can King Zong of the Ming Dynasty have an heir? If you can have an heir, can you take the title? Due to the special status of the vassal kings, they all inherit the title according to the principle of branch order, and there is no question of establishing an heir, so we can only find the answer from the lower level of the county king.
The heir of the king of Guangchang of the Jin Dynasty attacked the prince and the Guangchang county was a small sect under the branch of the Jin domain, and the first king of Guangchang was the seventh son of Zhu Ji, the first king of Jin, King Gong of Jin.
Taiyuan Imperial Temple is the temple of the Jin Dynasty, Zhu Meijian is the second generation of the county king of Guangchang County, he selected a nephew from the Jin Dynasty as his heir, named Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu).
Zhu Meijian died two years after canonizing the concubine of King Guangchang, and failed to leave an heir for King Guangchang. Although the two princesses of King Guangchang and the beauties in the palace failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter, it is estimated that the problem lies with Zhu Meijian himself.
In May of the fifth year of Jingtai (1454), Zhu Meijian found a cousin as his heir, and Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) was the second son of Zhu Meijian. Chu died shortly after the completion of this life event, the exact time is unknown, but it will not be more than September of that year at the latest.
In September, Zhu Meijian's mother-in-law, Guangchang, mourned the princess Yang of Pingping, saying that her son had died, and their orphans and widows had nothing to rely on, and they could not even afford the funeral of their son, and asked the court to give Lu rice as usual.
Zhu Meijian established Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) as his heir, and it is estimated that he is also terminally ill and forced to be helpless.
The succession process of Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu), the king of Wenchang in Taiyuan, was complicated and tortuous, and although the Ming Dynasty agreed to give him certain treatment, his raid was shelved in both the Jingtai and Tianshun dynasties.
Until the first year of Chenghua, Zhu Meijian's biological mother Liu went to the imperial court and asked for Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) to be crowned the prince of Guangchang. However, the new emperor Ming Xianzong was relatively strict with the clan knighthood card, and only allowed Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) to inherit the Guangchang royal shrine as the general of Zhenguo on the grounds that there was no precedent.
Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) had a shorter lifespan than his adoptive father, and by May of the seventh year of Chenghua, he was no longer alive. But he left behind an heir. In the tenth year of Chenghua, the son of Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) was given the name Zhu Qize, and he also had ambitions for the prince of Guangchang.
However, Zhu Qize's uncle, Zhu Zhongxuan, the then king of Jin, came forward to play the court on his behalf and requested that Zhu Qize attack the king of Guangchang. In this regard, the Ministry of Rites believes that Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) has no precedent for an heir to be a knight, and is only allowed to be enshrined by the general of Zhenguo, and Zhu Qize naturally has no gift of attacking the lord, and is only allowed to be enshrined by an auxiliary general.
Ming Xianzong is even more ruthless, since your King Jin said that the King of Guangchang originally gave the honor guard and the seal book is still there, then take it back together, and directly cut off the expectations of Zhu Zhong (Jin Yu) and his family from the root.
Although the prince of the Ming Dynasty could adopt an heir, and the clan jade would recognize the father-son relationship between the two parties, at the political level, in order to avoid conflict with the principle of "succession without succession", the inheritance and succession would be separated.
This means that the king of the county can keep the sacrifice by adopting an heir, but he cannot continue the order, and once the county has no children, he will be expelled from the country.
In May of the first year of Tianshun, Zhu You (Tu Zhan) joined forces with Zhu You, the king of Pingyao (Tuliang), and Zhu Gongjun, the security king of the Qin domain, to the imperial court, requesting that all their folded colors be changed to their colors.
According to the provisions of the "Emperor Ming Zuxun", the age of the first county king is 2,000 stones, and the age of the heir county king is 1,000 stones, of which the ratio of folded color to true color is 1:1.
However, due to the implementation policy of "non-cashing" of treasure banknotes, which continued to depreciate in circulation, the orthodox dynasty was almost equivalent to waste paper. Therefore, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the folding color is almost equal to nothing, and the main value lies in the true color of the allocation in the form of rice.
Regardless of the financial difficulties, Ming Yingzong insisted on changing the color of the kings to his true color, which resulted in Zhu You (Tuzhan) obtaining 700 Shilu rice, and successfully obtaining two vegetable households and two coal households.
However, twenty years later, Zhu You (Tu Zhan) suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, he had become the lying King of Licheng Zhuang Hui. Because he had no heirs, he hoped to pass on his county to the throne before he died, but he couldn't wait for the procedure to be completed, and the succession matter hung in the air.
Fortunately, his kindred Guangchang Junguo gave him a new idea, and he asked the imperial court to bring his uncle, Zhu You, the third son of King Shen Kang and his cousin King of Qingyuan.
Zhu You (Tuyin) had no heirs because his younger brother Guangzong Huaijing King Zhu You (Tushu) had no heirs, and asked his grandson Zhu Xunhong to inherit the past. Zhu You's (Tuyin) move was obviously aimed at the family property of Guangzong County.
But Ming Wuzong still agreed to Zhu Xunhong's own position, that is, the auxiliary general. This triggered the incident that the counselor of the palace was ordered by Ming Wuzong to patrol and punish the crime according to the imperial history.
In the Ming Dynasty, both the prince and the prince could succeed, but for the prince level, the attitude of the Ming Dynasty was very clear, that is, the heir was not allowed. Only the heirs of the large sects and the small sects can be inherited in accordance with the principle of branch order, from near to far, from the eldest to the youngest, and they can inherit the ceremony, but they cannot attack the lord.
The inheritance principle of the Ming Dynasty clan was the order of branches, and the heirs who succeeded did not have the right to inherit the title. After the death of Ming Wuzong, Yang Tinghe and others found Xingwang Zhu Houxi to succeed him according to the principle, but asked him to abandon his biological father and call his uncle his father.
This is one of the key factors for Ming Shizong to win in the "Great Rites Discussion". Those who cling to the statement that "the succession is the heir" are incorrect, because Ming Shizong obtained the right to inherit because he was passed to Ming Xiaozong.
In fact, Zhu Zaiseng, the eldest son of Zhu Houxuan, the second son of Zhu Youbing, the sixth uncle of Ming Wuzong, was the closest son and nephew to Ming Wuzong, but Yang Tinghe and others did not choose him, but instead set up Zhu Houxi, who was 15 years old at the time.