But in modern times, we have to admit that the three are equally important and indispensable for success. Mohamed ben salman's becoming the Crown Prince is a good reflection of this.
So how did little Salman adapt to the weather and step by step ascend to the position of crown prince, thus demonstrating this view? It all started with the first Saudi monarch, King Ibn Saud.
Ibn Saud is the founding king of the Third Saud. "As the last descendant of the' second Saudi' royal family, he did not feel depressed during his national subjugation. Instead, after the country died in 1 1, it re-entered the battlefield to expand its territory, and finally re-established the "Third Saudi Kingdom" in 1932 and became king.
During his tenure, he formulated a unique system of succession to the Crown Prince. That is, the "brothers and sisters" system. In the 62 years after his death, the system completely dominated the inheritance orientation of the Saudi Crown Prince. In other words, only brothers are passed on to each other, not to their sons.
Based on this unique system, from the death of Ibn Saud to the appointment of Salman Jr. as Crown Prince in April six years ago, the rulers of Saudi Arabia have been the sons of the old king Ibn for 62 years, and their grandchildren have never been in power.
However, the struggle of the royal family for the reserve has been constant, which has also contributed to the emergence of the third generation crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
According to legend, King Ibn Saud gave birth to hundreds of children. After his death, according to the "brother" system, there are 43 princes who are eligible to inherit (the exact number is uncertain, but there are also 34, 35, 36 and 38 records).
As the saying goes, "Where there are people, there are gangs", which still works for the second generation of Saudi Wang Zizhong.
Forty-three princes split into two factions in the battle for the crown prince: the Sudiri Group (Ibn Saud and his wife Sudiri * *) and the Abdullah Group (members are half-brothers) composed of the remaining sons of Ibn Saud headed by Abdullah.
Salman's father, the elder Salman and six other brothers are called "the seven sons of Sudley".
Here, in order to make it easier to understand clearly in the subsequent explanation, it is very necessary to introduce the situation of "seven sons of Su Delhi" in detail:
King Fahd is the eldest son and the fifth king of Saudi Arabia since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The second child, the third child and the fourth child died one after another; Old five has no specific information; The sixth king Salman is the seventh king since the founding of Saudi Arabia; Prince Ahmed was alive two years ago, and now the information is unknown. It is said that he is in good health.
Following the abdication of King Ibn Saud's eldest son, four sons and five sons (ranked as all sons) due to dethronement, assassination and death, his sixth son King Fahd came to power according to the "brothers" inheritance system.
From the "Seven Sons of Sudari" mentioned above, we know that King Fahd is the eldest of the seven sons, so according to the inheritance system of the Crown Prince, if King Fahd is willing to tamper with the reservation, then the successor of the next Crown Prince will be born in his brother "Six Sons of Sudari".
Therefore, in order to prevent power from falling into the circle of "Seven Sons of the Soviet Union", King Fahd's half-brother Abdullah, the tenth son of Ibn Saud, founded the "Abdullah Group". Since then, Abdullah Group and Sudari Group have launched an extremely fierce political struggle.
Until 2005, King Fahd died of illness and Abdullah came to power, becoming the sixth king since the founding of Saudi Arabia.
After he succeeded to the throne, King Abdullah established the "Royal Loyalty Committee" in 2006 in order to standardize the procedure of succession to the throne in order to select qualified heirs and avoid a bloody struggle for the crown prince position within the royal family.
That is, within the family members, the prince who is eligible for inheritance votes democratically by anonymous voting. The elected person is appointed by the king, but the Committee has veto power. The introduction of this system marks the shake of the status of the "brotherhood" inheritance system.
Combined with King Abdullah's behavior, after two Crown Princes, Sultan and Naif, died nine years ago and eight years ago respectively, he quickly appointed Prince Muklin of his own group as Deputy Crown Princes seven years ago.
According to this eagerness to open a shop, the purpose is obviously that the drunkard's intention is not the wine. Because King Abdullah is the last king, his bank cannot be changed casually. Even if he dies and the next king succeeds to the throne, then the crown prince also belongs to Abdullah Group, and the kingship will eventually return to Abdullah Group.
In other words, once King Salman who succeeded to the throne was in poor health, unable to maintain state affairs or died, Prince Mukherjee would directly take over as king.
The suppression of Sudley Group is so obvious that it is staggering. But things didn't go according to people's wishes. Five years ago, on October 23rd, 65438/kloc-0, King Abdullah died at the age of 90.
Because at this time, Prince Mukhlin was only a deputy crown prince, and his successors Sultan and Naif had already passed away, at this moment, the most justified first heir fell to Salman, 79.
On October 23rd, 654381five years ago, old Salman succeeded to the throne. In the above-mentioned "Soudry's Seven Children's Table", we already know that old Salman is a member of Sudley Group. Since then, after the death of King Hurd, the regime has returned to the hands of the Sudley Group.
The first thing old Salman did after he succeeded to the throne was to appoint 69-year-old Prince Muklin as the new Crown Prince in accordance with the wishes of King Abdullah of Arabia.
Sudeli Group, which has been suppressed by Abdullah Group, has finally ushered in a political spring. After taking office, the old Salman made a series of actions, the most famous of which was the "bombing Yemen" initiated by the old Salman at 7 pm on March 25, six years ago.
In this way, old Salman abolished the position of Prince Mukhlin on April 29th, six years ago, that is, three months after he took office. It is said that one of the reasons is that Prince Muklin's mother is Yemeni.
After Prince Muklin was deposed, old Salman appointed his nephew Naif Jr. as Crown Prince. At this point, the regime completely returned to the hands of the Sudari Group, and the third generation of Saudi Crown Prince officially entered the political arena.
This time, it seems that the waste storage did not cause much condemnation, because the former Crown Prince Mukherjeeling was 69 years old when he ascended the throne and was in poor health. The youngest of Sudari's seven sons, Prince Ahmed, is over seventy. It is imperative for the Saudi royal family to establish the third heir to the Crown Prince as soon as possible.
However, the purpose of Salman Sr. is to take this opportunity to make his son Salman Jr. his successor. However, in order to block the long crowd, a nephew who is not directly related to himself can only be established temporarily.
In order to make Salman Jr. the legitimate heir and to continue to reduce the internal resistance of members of the royal family, the first step is to amend the Saudi Basic Law.
The content is roughly as follows:
1. After his death, little Salman succeeded to the throne, but little Salman could not establish his son or brother as the crown prince.
This means that little Salman can only let his grandson or brother's son or grandson be the crown prince in the future; This makes the royal family feel that the future crown prince has a chance to compete.
2. In order to make many royal families psychologically balanced and support their sons, old Salman signed more than ten king decrees, promising important rights and interests to many royal families.
After the initial goal was achieved, the old Salman planned a second plan: perfectly borrowing the powers and responsibilities of the Royal Loyalty Committee (the product of the establishment of the Sudley Group in Abdullah's era), and the old Salman asked 34 eligible members of the royal family to vote fairly and anonymously between his nephew Naif Jr. and his son Salman Jr.
The voting results show that among the 34 votes, 3 1 votes are in favor of abolishing savings and establishing new ones. After finishing these two items, on June 20, four years ago, Naif Jr. was abolished.
His own son, mohamed ben salman, became the new Crown Prince, and little Salman officially entered politics. At this point, we finally know how mohamed ben salman ascended the throne step by step. The inductive reasons are:
1, keep pace with the times, because of current events.
It is undoubtedly the right time, the right place and the right people that Salman Jr. can become the Crown Prince. Saudi Arabia's reserve inheritance system has always been: brothers and sisters.
If it weren't for the aging of the second generation of heirs, they would soon be incompetent, so it is urgent to choose the third generation of heirs to become the crown prince. Little Salman will never have a chance to inherit the crown prince. I was really born at the level of changing blood in the times.
Little Salman ascended the throne of the Crown Prince, which was not as tragic and exciting as when Chinese emperors competed for the Crown Prince. But with the help of his father, he naturally became the heir to the crown prince.
If there must be a great war, it was also a series of political means implemented by his father Salman, for example, using the Yemen war to scrap the storage, wooing other members of the royal family and using the royal vote to scrap the storage again. Because it is impossible for young Salman not to know the ultimate goal of this series of operations, he can be regarded as an accomplice.
This is much easier than when the emperors of our country fought for reserves, and it is a natural product of the second generation of political struggle in Saudi Arabia.
2. The product of political struggle.
A series of political struggles made by the old Salman for the young Salman were all completed in his own country. The country is the home court, and it is very convenient to fight at your own home court. Whether it is connections or money, the geographical advantage is obvious.
3. Father's help and the support of the younger generation
It is not difficult to see that the successor of Saudi Arabia is the second generation in 62 years, and the system of "brotherhood" established by the old king Ibn Saudi Arabia was well implemented before the old Salman. Although Abdullah tried to destroy it, it only caused a shock, but it was not completely broken.
Old Salman completely broke the inheritance system of "brothers". As can be seen from Soudry's Seven Tables, old Salman also has a younger brother, Prince Ahmed. Although Prince Ahmed was over 70 years old when Prince Mukhlin was deposed, the data recorded that Prince Ahmed was in good health until two years ago.
That is, if old Salman strictly abides by the inheritance system of "brother-in-law and brother-in-law" formulated by his father, then he should make Prince Ahmed the crown prince, not his own son.
Even if the second generation of Saudi monarchs is getting older, it is not the turn of old Salman to hold the third generation of crown prince elections.
Although the election of the third generation crown prince is imminent, it is only imminent, and it is not necessary to choose, because old Salman was 79 years old and in poor health when he ascended the throne. If Prince Ahmed's health information is true, he may really live to see old Salman abdicate.
So strictly speaking, it should be Prince Ahmed who is really qualified to recommend the third generation of Crown Prince. Although Prince Muklin is younger than Prince Ahmed, he has been disqualified. )
Therefore, if this development continues, there will be hundreds of princes in the third generation royal family who have the right to inherit. Without the support of old Salman as king, among hundreds of successors, little Salman may not be able to ascend to the position of crown prince.
Salman Jr. was only 32 years old when he was made Crown Prince. In China, he should have a successful career at the age of 32. However, in Saudi Arabia, because of the unique inheritance system, the youngest heir is 69 years old, so there is still great controversy in Saudi Arabia about the succession of little Salman to the Crown Prince.
However, some of Salman's advanced ideas have been recognized by the younger generation in Saudi Arabia, so they have won many young supporters. Young talents are the future and blood of the country, which also makes little Salman have high hopes and get the support of his father and the younger generation in China, that is, the harmony between man and nature.
Step 4: Go beyond yourself
Since ancient times, the king of any country is his best child. According to Saudi Arabia's "monogamy and four wives" system, old Salman can't be the only son of little Salman.
It is undoubtedly the best that little Salman can stand out among the sons of old Salman. If the young Salman himself is not excellent and cannot win the favor and trust of the old Salman, I believe that the position of the Crown Prince will not have anything to do with him.
To sum up, in modern times, to succeed, in addition to the weather, location, and people, Excellence is also very important. Because when the opportunity comes, we must be able to seize it.