It is said that Yongzheng ascended the throne in the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, and although there was a controversial edict to justify his name, and the commander of the Nine Gate Infantry Commander Longkeduo, who was in charge of the garrison of the Beijing Division, yongzheng was still in a very unstable political environment.
The threat to the imperial power was not from the deposed crown prince Yun Rong and the long-imprisoned emperor's eldest brother Yun Yu, nor from the fourteenth brother of the Fuyuan general Yun Yu, yongzheng's biggest threat actually came from his side.
Soon after Kangxi Yan drove, Yongzheng granted the position of Minister of Prime Minister Affairs to the leading elder brother of the Eighth Master Party, Yun Yu, and also promoted him to the title of Prince of Heshuo Lian, for his eighth brother, Yongzheng was uneasy about ten thousand in his heart.
Lao Ba was once a popular superstar competing for the position of crown prince, under the leadership of Tong Guowei, the chancellor, led by Ma Qi and Orendai, recommended the Eight Sages to enter the Eastern Palace, if it were not for Kangxi's plan to restore the reserve, and in the court discussion, I am afraid that Yun Yu might have become the successor.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he felt an unprecedented threat in the face of the increasingly uncontrolled forces of the Eight Ye Party, and he once told the princely ministers more than once: Although I and Yun Yu belong to the monarch, we are brothers, but now, Yun Yu is in love with me, and the situation is like an enemy country.
After Yongzheng initially succeeded to the throne, he was eager to prove that he was the ideal successor chosen by the former emperor, so he began to improve the official rule and the provisions of the law, and even social problems such as the abolition of untouchables were also being solved.
Earlier, Nian Qianyao, who was the general of Fuyuan, and Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, cooperated with tacit understanding and ordered a multi-way army to quell the Tibetan rebellion, and the leader of the rebel army, Lobzang Tenzin, was not captured, but fled to the Dzungar stronghold in the Ili River Valley and hid.
The front-line troops have been suppressing rebellion outside for many years, Yongzheng is extremely strict in controlling military equipment, he has issued strict orders to the Ministry of Works, even the smallest work must be purchased immediately, the workload is large, or emergency objects, all must be played first, the Ministry of Works should be the first time to ask for acceptance of military equipment.
However, in the third year of Yongzheng, there was a problem with the military equipment in the arsenal of the Ministry of Works, this time the equipment was to be sent to the defense of the Dzungar front Altai ordnance, the result was found that the blade was steelless, the armor and cracks, the armor was made of coarse iron bought by the city.
Old Eight Yunyu was in charge of the Ministry of Works, he was the first person in charge, and if this ordnance did not meet the standards, he committed the crime of dereliction of duty and deliberate dereliction of duty.
Yongzheng demoted and questioned, Yun Yu took the initiative to plead guilty, and said that he was willing to pay a high price, which gave Yongzheng the feeling that the eighth brother was demolishing the stage for him, not paying attention to him, and deliberately shoddy.
Since then, the problem of ordnance quality has continued to ferment, and Yongzheng has begun to vigorously attack the forces of the Eight Masters Party.
As we all know, the old nine and ten are the core figures of the Eight Ye Party, and they are Yun Yu's right and left arm, and Yongzheng's blows to them are even more cold-blooded and ruthless.
During the period of filial piety for Kangxi, Lao Jiu Yunyu was assigned by Yongzheng to serve in front of the Xining Army, and also sent many people to monitor, and the fourteenth emperor's brother Yunyu was recalled to the capital to guard the system, Yongzheng's move was nothing more than to take up the power of Yunyu to fuyuan general, and Lao Jiu, who was one of the witnesses of Kangxi's death, was sent thousands of miles away by him, which was really a clever trick to kill two birds with one stone.
After the old fourteen worshiped the coffin of the former emperor, he was ordered by Yongzheng to study and reflect in the Jingling Tomb under the false name of the king of the county, and the old jiuyunyu, who was demoted to the northwestern front, was constantly monitored by the capital Chuzong, and if he made a slight rash move, he might be stripped of his knighthood and imprisoned.
Old Shi Yun was quite popular with Kangxi, and he was very supportive of the starling Yun Yu, which also made Yongzheng hate him to the bone, so the blow to Yun was also very direct.
In the first year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng sent the silent Mongolian living Buddha shrine back to Khalkha, and gave him a name according to the highest ceremony, and ordered Prince Dun to carry the seal to the memorial.
In April, when Lao Shiyun was staying in Zhangjiakou, he was reported by the eunuch accompanying him for his private behavior, committing a crime of great disrespect, and was detained by the knight.
However, what people did not expect was that the convicted Old Ten Yun seemed to be blessed by misfortune, and when Yongzheng was trying to find a way to punish Yun Yu and Yun Yu, as well as his brother Yun Yu, this imprisoned Old Ten seemed to be forgotten.
In the fourth year of Yongzheng, according to the emperor's will, the ministers of the Council listed the forty major crimes of the old eight yunyu, the twenty-eight crimes of the old nine yunyu, and the fourteen crimes of the old fourteenth yunyu, and issued them to the whole country.
Originally, a group of ministers asked to kill Lao Ba, Lao Jiu, and Lao Fourteen, but Yongzheng refused, and then Lao Ba and Lao Jiu were imprisoned in different places, while Lao Xi Yun yu was imprisoned for many years.
Old Ten, he escaped another disaster.
Why didn't Yongzheng severely punish Lao Shiyun? In fact, as early as the first year of Yongzheng, after the old ten were arrested and returned to Beijing and imprisoned, there was no political performance, and when Yongzheng was attacking the forces of the Eight Ye Party, this tenth brother was no longer mentioned by him.
In the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", the old eight, the old nine, and the old thirteen people jointly forced the iron hat king outside the guanwai to force the palace to yongzheng, wanting to carry out the matter of the eight kings to discuss politics, in fact, this plot is purely fabricated, and the old ten have long become Yongzheng's subordinate prisoners.
Judging from many phenomena, Yong yong deliberately hid the old ten, especially his later book "The Mystery of the Great Righteousness", which proved his brother's innocence and also provided a proof.
Whether the death of Lao Ba and Lao Jiu is directly related to Yong Zheng is still doubtful, but he has an unshirkable responsibility for the violent pawns of the two younger brothers.
Yun lived through the Yongzheng era, perhaps related to his initiative to obey, he has his own unique way of life, which also makes him a lucky person, some authors say that the reason why Lao Shi did not die is because it is related to his maternal clan, in fact, Yun's birth mother Wen Guifei and aunt Empress Xiaozhaoren had died as early as the Kangxi Dynasty, and there was no way to protect Yun.