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By replacing the Crown prince in the 18th year of King Taejong's reign, the symbolic nature of Yang'nyeong/讓寧大君's status, who was declared as Crown prince by the authority of the Founder King/太祖 Taejo and the authorization of the Chinese Ming(明) dynasty, was politically dismantled. This replacement was also an act of establishing a new line of succession of the throne, designed by King Taejong himself. Yet Yang'nyeong, the eldest(嫡長子) son of King Taejong, had already been the Crown prince for 14 years, and during that time maintained the image as a person to be the next king. From a political standpoint, it was not an easy task for Taejong to nullify that kind of position of his own son. So, in the 18th year of his reign, he temporarily moved himself(移御) to Gaeseong, separated the royal family from the governmental officials, and then called the Crown prince to Gaeseong, relieved him from the seat of the Crown prince, and declared his youngest son Chung'nyeong(later King Sejong), as the new Crown prince. Then he returned to Han'yang, and relinquished his throne to the newly installed Crown prince.