Since ancient times, whether it is a family business or a country, it is based on blood, followed by clan power. And many people in order to be able to attract some talented people, will accept some adopted sons or righteous sons, put their names in the clan, for example, Cao Cao has many adopted sons, and Li Keyong in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period has thirteen Taibao, Li Keyong's old enemy Zhu Wen also adopted many adopted sons, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was the righteous son of Guo Zixing, the small leader of the righteous army. And these adopted sons and righteous sons, in fact, have the right to inherit according to the clan, but there must still be a big gap compared to blood relatives, after all, no one is Xiao Tingsheng and Xiao Pingzhang in the Langya list in reality. Of course, a son like Guo Wei was killed all over the house, except for the one who passed on the throne to his adopted son.
Generally speaking, these adopted sons and righteous sons will be more sensible and will not take the crooked thoughts of taking the throne and inheritance rights without authorization, after all, although they eat in the same pot, they are different after all. And in order to support his own son, the old father often paves the way for him, and at this time, once these adopted sons or righteous sons have any bad intentions, even if they threaten the rule of the sons of the people in power, they will kill themselves. There is a very clear example here, that is, a major event that affected the history of the development of Shu Han, the murder of Liu Feng.
As we all know, Liu Bei struggled all his life and got a son late, but Liu Chan's qualifications are really congenital deficiencies, in order to pave the way for this Adou, Liu Bei can be said to be deliberate, and assigned his adopted son Liu Feng, who is a threat to the heir, to the remote Shangyong to guard the frontier, and then gave Liu Feng, who was loyal and not guilty to death, to death, in the final analysis, he was still not at ease with Liu Feng.
Liu Bei, as the founding emperor of Shu Han, was a heroic man who mixed up from the bottom of the humble family. He has gone through countless ups and downs in his life, from the small traders who sell shoes and weaving mats to the princes who dominate one side, and then to the founding emperor of Shu Han, his life is full of legends. However, among his many decisions, one was controversial, and that was that he gave his adopted son Liu Feng the death. What is the historical truth behind this decision? Let's take a look.
Liu Bei's decision to kill Liu Feng was made shortly after the Shu Han Dynasty was separated and finalized. At that time, Liu Feng had become an important general of Shu Han, with outstanding military achievements, and was deeply respected by Liu Bei. However, because of the defeat in a battle, Liu Feng was accused of "bullying the king" and was finally given death. The decision caused widespread controversy, with many arguing that Liu Feng did not need to be given death because his crimes were not sufficient to constitute a capital offense.
However, if we dig deeper into the historical background at that time, we will find that Liu Bei's decision to kill Liu Feng was not so simple. During the Three Kingdoms period, the competition between various forces was extremely fierce, and in order to maintain their dominance, monarchs often resorted to some extreme measures. Liu Bei is no exception. The reason why he gave Liu Feng to death was on the one hand to maintain his authority and dignity, and on the other hand, to prevent anyone from using Liu Feng to rebel in the future.
In addition, we also need to pay attention to the relationship between Liu Bei and Liu Feng. Although Liu Feng is Liu Bei's adopted son, the relationship between them is not as close as the relationship between parents and children. In Liu Bei's view, Liu Feng is a talented but ambitious young man, and if he is not controlled, he is likely to become a threat to himself in the future. Therefore, in order to ensure the stability and security of Shu Han, Liu Bei chose to give Liu Feng death.
Of course, we can't ignore Liu Feng's own faults. In the case of Liu Bei's death of Liu Feng, Liu Feng's crime was "bullying the king", which was regarded as a very serious crime at the time. If Liu Feng hadn't committed such a crime, perhaps he wouldn't have been given death. Therefore, Liu Feng's fate can also be said to be caused by himself.
To sum up, Liu Bei's decision to kill Liu Feng was not a simple matter of personal grievances, but involved political, military and other factors. Under the historical background at that time, Liu Bei chose to give Liu Feng death in order to maintain his dominance and the stability and security of Shu Han. Although this decision has been controversial, we cannot deny the rationality and inevitability behind it.
At the same time, we should also see what this event has to teach us. In today's society, we also face a similar problem: how to find a balance between power and responsibility? How to deal with interpersonal relationships and conflicts of interest? These are questions that require us to think carefully and **. The incident of Liu Bei's death of Liu Feng provides us with an important historical reference.
In short, the incident of Liu Bei's death of Liu Feng is a complex historical issue, which involves political, military, interpersonal relations and other factors. By gaining an in-depth understanding of the historical background and reasons behind this event, we can better understand the history and people of the time, and at the same time, we can also draw lessons from it to provide useful inspiration and reference for our life and work today.
However, with Liu Bei's example here, why are there so many cases of thrones being snatched by the righteous son in later generations?
1, Liu Yao. Liu Yao, the last emperor of the former Zhao Dynasty, and Liu Yuan, the founding emperor of the Han and Zhao dynasties, is the grandson of Liu Yuan's uncle or uncle, because he lost his father since he was a child, but he is smart and studious, and he is quite heroic, so Liu Yuan adopted him and is Liu Yuan's adopted son. Liu Yao is brave and good at fighting, skilled in bows and horses, and was cultivated by Liu Yuan and Liu Cong as confidants. Liu Yao also repaid Liu Cong's trust with his military talents, captured Guanzhong for Han Zhao, and destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty.
After Liu Cong died of illness, the Han and Zhao regimes were in civil strife, Shi Le and Liu Yao were in Hebei and Guanzhong respectively, and after Liu Yao led the army to quell the civil strife, he did not support Liu Cong's descendants to ascend to the throne, but ascended to the throne with the support of his subordinates. After Shi Le learned about it, Shi Le, who wanted to break away from the Han and Zhao regimes, was dissatisfied with Liu Yao in every way, and decisively raised troops to confront Liu Yao, and since then Han and Zhao have been divided into two, Liu Yao established the former Zhao in Guanzhong, and Shi Le established the Later Zhao in Hebei.
After Liu Yao was proclaimed emperor, he posthumously crowned Liu Yuan and others as the first emperor, made his wife Yang the queen, his son Liu Xi as the crown prince, and the rest of the sons and clans were crowned kings. repairing the temple, Sheji, and the northern and southern suburbs can be regarded as seizing the Liu family as an adopted son.
2, Ran Min. Ran Min, the fierce general of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, the founder of Ran Wei and the promulgator of the order to kill Hu, was also revered by later generations as a national hero who saved Han culture. Ran Min's father, Ran Liang, his ancestors were generals in the Han Dynasty, and then served as a general for generations, and then became a prisoner after being defeated by Shi Le. Ran Liang was brave and good at fighting, and made great achievements for Hou Zhao, and he was awarded the title of marquis.
Hou Ran Min was born, he also had a hot personality, strong force, and many military strategies, which was deeply liked by Shi Hu, who treated him as his own grandson, and then cooperated with Li Nong to make great contributions to Hou Zhao. After the death of Shi Hu, the crown prince Shi Shi ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager Liu and the prime minister Zhang Jackal dictatorship, Ran Min in order to maintain power, decided to support Shi Zun and Li Nong to support Shi Zun to take the throne, so he led the army to support Shi Zun to kill back to Yecheng and help Shi Zun take the throne, so Ran Min rose to the top, and was the governor of the Chinese and foreign military, auxiliary generals, and Lu Shang Shushi, and assisted the government.
Shi Zun was not satisfied with being Ran Min's puppet, and wanted to kill Ran Min many times. And Ran Min was not satisfied with the position of second-in-command, and wanted to go further, and the contradiction began. Later, in order to satisfy his ambitions, Ran Min found a breakthrough in the chaos, killed the monarch and became independent, and then destroyed the Shi royal family and established Ran Wei. It has promoted the development of the entire Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms.
3, Li Siyuan.
Li Siyuan was born at the bottom of the Shatuo cavalry, since he was a child, he served under the account of Li Guochang, the leader of Shatuo, because he was brave and good at fighting, and he was taciturn, he was deeply liked by Li Keyong, and was adopted by Li Keyong as an adopted son at the age of thirteen. But Li Siyuan is loyal and calm, so he is also quite popular with Li Keyong and Li Cunxuan. The most typical is the Shangyuanyi incident, Li Siyuan was seventeen years old at the time, desperately protecting Li Keyong and rescuing him in the chaos of soldiers.
But Li Siyuan is loyal, but he may not please Li Cunmiao who thinks wildly, especially Li Cunmiao leveled most of the world at a young age, a little floating, and likes to watch and sing operas, the result is that the generals who followed Li Cunmiao to fight the world did not get the rewards they deserved, plus Li Cunmiao's political strategy was not as good as that of Later Liang Zhu Wen, so the people of the Central Plains were not satisfied with Li Cunmiao's Later Tang Dynasty, and rebellions emerged one after another, which made Li Cunmiao a little bit of a snake.
Li Siyuan also suffered from Li Cunmiao's suspicion, and then Li Siyuan was on the way to quell the rebellion, influenced by his subordinates and chose to rebel, it happened that Li Cunmiao was killed because of the change of Xingjiaomen, Li Siyuan led the army into Luoyang, and after quelling the rebellion, he ascended the throne and became the emperor, and seized the inheritance as an adopted son.
4, Li Congke.
Coincidentally, Li Congke, who was born as a peasant, was robbed by Li Siyuan because his family was in trouble when he was about ten years old, and his mother was taken away by Li Siyuan and taken as a concubine. Li Congke was therefore adopted as an adopted son by Li Siyuan, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise. Li Congke's personality and ability are similar to Li Siyuan when he was young, he is cautious and steady, taciturn, and brave and good at fighting, powerful and powerful, he is a rare famous general.
Later, Li Congke assisted Li Siyuan to become the emperor, because he was named the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival, and was promoted to the throne. However, after Li Siyuan's death, the enthroner Li Conghou was particularly suspicious of Li Congke, and first lifted Li Congke's son Li Chongji's right to ban the army, changed to Bozhou Assassin History, and then summoned his daughter into the palace, for which Li Congke endured. However, Li Congke was unforgiving, and ordered Li Congke to leave Fengxiang and be reappointed as the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, wanting to transfer Li Congke from the base camp.
Li Congke knew that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he rebelled, and in the name of eliminating traitors on the side of the Qing monarch, he entered the Beijing division and seized the throne.
5, Xu Zhihe.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Yang Wu regime in the south, since Yang Xingmi's untimely death, the Yang family basically did not hold real power, and the country first fell into the hands of the powerful minister Xu Wen. After Xu Wen took power, he lived in Nanjing and asked his son Xu Zhixun to accompany King Wu in Guangling. However, Xu Zhixun was young and frivolous and did not know how to restrain himself, and offended Zhu Jin, the prince who came from the north after being defeated by Zhu Wen, and was later killed by Zhu Jin.
In the early years of the war, Xu Zhihe, the son who was adopted by Xu Wen, rushed to Guangling to quell the rebellion, and served as the deputy envoy of the Huainan Jiedu march army and the deputy envoy of the internal and external Mabu army, thus controlling the Southern Wu Dynasty and collecting the hearts of the people through a series of lenient policies, and at this time Xu Wen's other child Xu Zhixun was still young, so he could only let Xu Zhihe sit in Guangling and replace Xu Zhixun as his spokesperson in Guangling.
After Xu Wen's death, Xu Zhihe clearly let Xu Zhixun inherit Xu Wen's title, but he firmly held the power in his own hands, and when the time was ripe, he comprehensively suppressed the children of the Xu family represented by Xu Zhixun, and then successfully usurped the throne from the Yang family.
Then why did Liu Bei kill Liu Feng as an example in the past, and there were still so many people in later generations who did not guard against their adopted sons and righteous sons? In fact, the main reason is carelessness, or they don't realize that their children will be so weak, and they don't have a good grasp of the degree of employing and defending people.