On April 16, Boss Shady summoned the prince, the great companion of Taidi, and said, "Although I lack the ability to know people, I have been following Taidi for many years, knowing that you are wise and filial, and I wanted to pass it on to you many years ago. Today I can realize my wish. " After hearing about it, the great companion prince postponed it again and again, but the Emperor Emei decided to give way. In this way, for the sake of Emperor He Chun (Emperor Heisei died on July 7 of the following year, and the situation of "one emperor and two emperors" only lasted for more than a year), Prince Gaoyue was replaced by the Crown Prince's companion Prince on the same day.
The doddering emperor originally intended to make Prince Yong, born of Emperor He Chun and Prince Takauchi (who died at this time), as the Crown Prince, but Prince Yong refused. The doddering emperor made Heng the Crown Prince mainly because his mother, Prince Gao Yuan, was the daughter of Hehe. In other words, Prince Gao Nei is the sister of the half-emperor who is senile, and her blood is absolutely pure. When Emperor Kanmu was alive, Prince Andian (Emperor Heisei), Prince Jian Ye (Emperor Emei) and Prince Osaka (Emperor He Chun) all married their daughters. It can be said that it has always been Emperor Kanmu's wish to have a grandchild with pure blood.
Since the Eternal Prince didn't want to be the Crown Prince, and Emperor He Chun didn't insist on it, on April 18, Prince Liang Zheng, who was born of an elderly emperor and an orange princess (the only queen who was born in an orange family, was later called Queen Lin Tan because of the establishment of the Lin Tan Temple), became the Crown Prince. On April 27th, Emperor He Chun officially held a ceremony of accession to the throne (to avoid the emperor's taboo, the big companion was changed to companion).
On the day he abdicated, Emperor Emei said to the new emperor He Chun, "Before today, I treated my brother like a son. After today, I will be like a child. " After the treacherous emperor abdicated, he asked He Chun to abolish the title of "the emperor's father". He Chun did not accept this request, but adopted a flexible form, that is, He Chun himself announced the title of "Tai Shang Huang" to the treacherous emperor. As a result, the title of the emperor's father came into being automatically when he abdicated, which was given by the new emperor. In this way, the emperor's father became the servant of the new emperor in name. "After abdication, the doddering emperor learned the lesson of the Emperor of Peace and did not directly intervene in state affairs. On the surface, he completely withdrew from the political arena, but in the royal and aristocratic society at that time, the awkward authority still existed. "
In addition, Emperor He Chun also posthumously awarded the Empress Fujiwara of Emperor Heisei as the Empress Dowager, the doddering Empress Yoshihiko Orange and her biological mother Fujiwara as the Empress, and the mother of the Eternal Prince, Prince Takauchi, as the Empress. On the one hand, the above practice of Emperor He Chun may be to cater to the elderly emperor; On the other hand, "it is very likely that he is preparing for the future by giving way to Prince Liang Zheng and setting up his son Prince Hengshi as the Crown Prince."
However, the 22-year-old Emperor Yongli, who had high hopes from He Chun, died suddenly in May of the third year of Tianchang (826). In this way, Emperor He Chun can only pin his hopes on Prince Heng Zhen, who was born to him and his niece Prince Naoko (the daughter of Emperor Emei and Michiko Orange). In August of the fourth year of Tianchang (827), Crown Prince Zhengfang and his concubine Junko Fujiwara (the daughter of Fujiwara Dongsi) gave birth to Prince Daokang. In the same year, Masako, the mother of Prince Liheng of He Chun, became the queen. In terms of bloodline, Prince Hengzhen is undoubtedly superior to Prince Daokang. I'm afraid He Chun's purpose as queen is to further highlight the orthodox status of Prince Heng Zhen.
On February 28th, the 10th year of Tianchang (833), He Chun, who had been in office for ten years, abdicated, and the Crown Prince Liang Zheng made an agreement for Ren Ming. As a result, the situation of "one emperor and two emperors are too high" has been formed. On February 30th, Ren Minglichun and Prince Zhen became Crown Princes, forming a situation in which the throne was "alternately established" among brothers' children. On March 2nd, Emperor Ren Ming made his grandmother Orange Kachko the Empress Dowager. On March 6, Ren Ming officially acceded to the throne.
The system of imperial succession established by Xie lasted for nearly 30 years. During this period, everyone gave in to each other, and there was no struggle for imperial power. Emperor Akihito may not have made Junko Fujiwara queen, lest he openly challenge the status of Prince Heng Zhen. But Haruko Fujiwara, Junko Fujiwara's brother, is still bent on making Prince Dokang, born to his sister, the Crown Prince. In this situation, the nobles gradually began to divide into two factions. Prince Heng Zhen, who didn't want to get involved in the whirlpool of political power struggle, repeatedly expressed his intention to resign from the post of Crown Prince to his father He Chun and his uncle Cragginess, but was repeatedly discouraged by the emperor Cragginess, and failed to do so.
On May 8th, the 7th year of He Cheng (840), Emperor He Chun died at the age of 55, ending the political situation of "one emperor and two emperors". From the eighth year of He Cheng (84 1), the senile emperor began to get sick. On July 15th, the ninth year of He Cheng (842), the cragginess emperor died (at the age of 57), so the Crown Prince Heng Zhen lost a strong backing. The success of overlapping inheritance is mainly due to the existence of the doddering emperor and the chunhe emperor. Once the doddering emperors and Chun and Chun passed away one after another, the political balance relationship was broken, the overlapping inheritance relationship could not be maintained, and the peace situation between the brother emperors collapsed.
On July 17, two days after the death of the crappy emperor, Prince Po, the emperor of Pingcheng, secretly sent a report to the Imperial Concubine Orange to the effect that: "On July 10th, the ninth year of He Cheng (842), in the Spring Palace Square, accompanied by Jian Cen and Ma Danquan, the orange princess Yi Shi thought that the crappy emperor was dying. Wang Baoqin once saw his younger brother, Crown Prince Gao Yue, abolished in the "dressing change" and he was exiled to Taizai. After the death of Emperor Heisei, Prince Po was allowed to return to Beijing. The descendants of Prince Po and the descendants of the Prince were given the surname "Zaiyuan courtiers" by the emperor (Zaiyuan became the fourth courtier after Yuan, Ping and Orange). Empress Dowager Katsuhikawa was shocked when she saw Prince Paul's secret submission, so she immediately summoned Sun Yat-sen Fujiwara's good room and conveyed the secret submission of Prince Paul to Ren Tomorrow Emperor through him.
Ren Ming immediately arrested and tortured his companions Jian Cen and Orange Yi Shi, and ordered Liuwei Mansion to impose martial law on Ping 'an. On July 23, Major General Yoshio Fujiwara (Fujiwara's younger brother) led soldiers in the guard room to surround the residence of Crown Prince Heng Zhen. At the same time, he arrested Dainayan Fujiwara Aifa (who had been the Tibetan head of Emperor He Chun and married his daughter to Prince Tsunehiro), Nakanayan Yoshino Fujiwara (who had been the Tibetan head of Emperor He Chun) and Doctor Akitsu of the East Palace. Although the companions Cen and Orange strongly denied it, they were still characterized as a large-scale rebellion centered on Zhonggong Square and were convicted of rebellion. Although Prince Heng Zhen had nothing to do with the incident, he was also implicated and was deposed as the Crown Prince. In the end, his companion Cen was exiled, Orange was exiled to Izu (died in exile), and 28 people, including Dainayan Fujiwara Aifa, Nakayama Fujiwara Yoshino, and the Senate office Akitsu, were either demoted or left-leaning, leaving their names. At the same time, more than 60 junior officials who served Prince Heng Zhen in the East Palace and Spring Palace Square were also punished. The above-mentioned political struggle event is called "peaceful change".
In fact, there is not enough evidence about the conspiracy of Lian Jiancen and others except the informant of Prince Po. "A noble with low official position and little power, such as orange Yi Shi, companion Jian Cen and orange Yi Shi, is old and sick, so it is difficult to hold the crown prince hostage to usurp power." There's another interesting place about Orange Jun. According to Records of Wende, in the third year of Wende's reign (850), there was still an inscription of Orange Yi Shi on the plaque of Gongmen. The reason is undoubtedly related to the fact that he is a famous calligrapher who is also called "three strokes" with Konghai and Emei emperors. However, as a rebellious sinner, his inscription has never been replaced, which is a bit incredible. Moreover, since then, because of the rumors of the resentment of Orange Escape, Emperor Wende has restored his reputation and posthumously conferred his rank. To say the least, even if the evidence of rebellion is conclusive, it has nothing to do with Prince Heng Zhen. After Prince Heng Zhen was made the Crown Prince, he went to the table again and again, expressing his unwillingness to be the Crown Prince. To say the least, even if all this was approved by Prince Heng Zhen, going to Dongguo was only to avoid disaster, not rebellion. In addition, there is a strange phenomenon of "commutation", that is, no criminal has been sentenced to death.
From then on, Prince Heng Zhen, whose crown prince status was abolished, fled into an empty net and became a disciple of Prince Zhen Rufa (Prince), whose dharma name was "Hengji", so he was called "Prince Heng Ji Fa". According to the biography of Prince Heng Zhen, Fujiwara later abolished Yozei, and asked if Prince Heng Ji could come out of the mountain to inherit the throne. Prince Heng replied, "I only heard that many people gave up the throne and became monks, but I didn't hear that they gave up becoming kings."
At a glance, the biggest beneficiary of "the change of peace and harmony" is Fujiwara Liang Fang. Therefore, it is generally believed that the "peaceful change" was a premeditated coup launched by Fujiwara to crowd out other clan forces. Fujiwara Liang Fang not only succeeded in making his nephew Prince Daokang the Crown Prince (He Chengjiu August), but also dealt a heavy blow to Bancroft, Tang Shi and other clans, and let Fujiwara's competitor Fujiwara Aifa fall. All this laid the foundation for Yoshihara Fujiwara to enter the center of power (later promoted to Da Yanna and Right Minister) and eventually become a regent as a vassal.
In addition, on the issue of abolishing Prince Heng Zhen as the Crown Prince, Ren Tomorrow Emperor is consistent with Haruhara Fujiwara, that is, Ren Tomorrow Emperor is also the beneficiary of the "peaceful change". After the "Yong bian", the overlapping system of the two lineages of Emei Emperor and He Chundi was terminated, and the succession of the throne was unified into the Emei Emperor-Ren Ming Emperor system. Since then, Emperor Wende-Emperor Qinghe-Yozei succeeded to the throne smoothly according to the principle of direct inheritance. It is worth noting that in order to avoid the incident of abolishing the Crown Prince and the Queen Mother, "after the Ming Dynasty, there was no practice of chasing the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother. Although the above practice was revived after the Xiaoguang Dynasty, it was only an accidental phenomenon. "
Like the Fujiwara family, the Orange family also actively expanded its power by using its spouse's identity. Therefore, it is a little puzzling that the queen mother of Katsuhikawa is not only from the same clan as Orange Yi, who is considered guilty of treason, but also that the abandoned Crown Prince Hengzhen was born to her favorite Naoko Prince. Why should she believe the rumor? Even the women of ordinary clans take praying for the prosperity of clans and the happiness of their children as their first priority, but why does Empress Dowager Tai do the opposite? The author believes that perhaps in the view of Empress Orange, the direct inheritance of imperial system may be more important than the above two. Of course, the Empress Dowager Orange Island still kept some members of the Orange Island family, such as her brother Mr. Orange Island, who just lost the post of General Right Guard (replaced by Ji Chuan's original Fujiwara) and was later promoted to two right ministers.
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