After the death of Kangxi, whether Yongzheng "obeyed the throne", "corrected the edict to seize the throne" or "usurped the throne without edict", leaving a huge mystery of the Qing Palace.
For a long time, there have been many opinions about Yongzheng's ascension to the throne, so it has left the "mystery of Yongzheng's ascension to the throne" of the "Eight Doubts of the Qing Palace", and its core point is on Kangxi's edict of succession.
The fourth son of Prince Yong, Yin Chan, was of noble character and deeply humbled, and would be able to inherit the great unification. After succeeding to the throne, that is, the emperor's throne, that is, obeying the public opinion system, holding the service for twenty-seven days, releasing the clothing and announcing it to China and foreign countries, xian made it known.
This is the Kangxi Edict of Succession, the content of the succession arrangement, this content can also basically negate the folk saying that the "Fourteen Brothers of the Succession" should be "The Four Brothers of the Transmission", about this, there have been many explanations, and will not be repeated here.
What we need to understand is another question, that is, whether this edict was completed before Kangxi's death or after Kangxi's death.
On November 13, 1722, the sixty-first year of The Kangxi Dynasty , Kangxi died , and on November 20 , Yongzheng ascended the throne , a period of seven days , and the Chinese part of Kangxi 's edict was also published after Yongzheng ascended the throne , seven days after Kangxi 's death.
If it was completed at the same time, why not take it out at the same time, or wait until Yongzheng ascended the throne. And the Manchu part of the existing edict has been destroyed on a large scale, so why should the complete Chinese part be preserved?
And the most puzzling thing is that Yong was sent to the Temple of Heaven three days before Kangxi's death, Kangxi died on the night of his death from the Temple of Heaven, and only hit Changchun Garden the next morning, where he went and what he did in the ten hours of "disappearing" in the middle, leaving a huge mystery, because the re-drafting of an edict completely had this time and opportunity, but the final result was that the Manchu edict was not published at the same time, and the Manchu edict was widely damaged.
It is precisely because there are so many unsolved mysteries that Yongzheng's ascension to the throne has become confusing, and it has become a mystery case of the Qing Palace that has not yet been solved.
However, I think that Yongzheng should be a normal ascension to the throne rather than a usurpation.
First, as mentioned in the previous article, Kangxi arranged for Yongzheng to sacrifice on his behalf before his death, and before that, Kangxi personally went or arranged for the earlier crown prince Yinrong to go, which shows that Kangxi has regarded Yongzheng as his successor.
Second, when Kangxi died, except for the fourteen brothers yinyu who were far away in the northwest and Yongzheng who went to the Temple of Heaven, the rest of the princes were all around Kangxi, of course, there was also an "outsider" who was Kangxi's brother-in-law, the then nine-door admiral Long Keduo, after Yongzheng's ascension to the throne, his brothers did not resist fiercely, but only adopted a "non-violent and non-cooperative" attitude, which also showed that the final process was relatively gentle, not too radical.
Of course, the role played by Longkeduo should not be ignored, and it can even be said that Longkeduo's support is the biggest guarantee for Yongzheng's smooth ascension to the throne, and its role exceeds Kangxi's last words or edicts.
On the other hand, it can also be seen that Kangxi's arrangements and considerations, that is, in the sixtieth year of Kangxi (1721), the fourteenth brother Yinyu had returned to Beijing, but after a short stay, he was re-sent to the northwest by Kangxi.
In the fifty-sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1717), the Mongol Dzungar chieftain Ceyu Alabutan rebelled, and Kangxi made Yinyu the Great General King, leading more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court to the northwest to quell the rebellion. In the sixtieth year of Kangxi (1721), Yin Yu returned to Beijing to resume his life, and after everyone at that time, including the fourteen brothers Yin Yu himself thought that after making such a great contribution, Yin Yu would inevitably be left in Beijing by Kangxi and wait for Kangxi to die and be succeeded to the throne by him, but Kangxi's final arrangement was that Yin Yu was reassigned to the northwest after a brief stay in Beijing for three months, and it was not until after Kangxi's death that He Yongzheng recalled him, and Kangxi never summoned him back to Beijing.
From this point of view, the successor in Kangxi's heart should be Yongzheng, not the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu, and it can even be said that the possibility of the Three Brothers in the capital is higher than that of the Fourteenth Brother.
Although the Fourteenth Brother had a heavy army, there was no possibility of rebellion and seizure of the throne.
First of all, at this time, Yongzheng's name had been determined, and the influence of the FourteenTh Brother was obviously insufficient.
The Fourteenth Brother Yinyu was only a general who led his troops to fight, not a warlord who divided one side, and in his army, from officers to soldiers, they all ate imperial food and obeyed the emperor's orders. Therefore, even if the Fourteenth Brother himself wants to rebel, the whole army will not fully support him, and even within his army management system, he will encounter great resistance and opposition, and it will be extremely difficult to rebel and win the support of the army.
Secondly, the Fourteen Brothers also had to face a very important opponent, that is, Nian Tangyao.
The biggest rival on the fourteenth brother's road to the capital was Nian Qianyao, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi at that time. Nian Qianyao was not only in charge of the supply of military supplies and grass for the Northwest Army, which became the biggest constraint of the Fourteen Brothers, but also Nian Qianyao was the governor and inspector of the duties, and the administrative and military powers were in his own hands, plus he was the ancestor of Yongzheng's domain, and it was even more difficult for the Fourteenth Brother to pass through Nian Qianyao and the Shaanxi-Gansu region under his jurisdiction.
Third, from the northwest to Beijing, the mountain is far away, and the Gyeonggi area is still heavily guarded.
The journey from Xining to Beijing lasted for thousands of miles, and the army had to travel at least half a year to a year, and when it arrived in Beijing, it was already sleepy and lacking, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. At the same time, even if the conquest and resistance along the way are not counted, the defensive force in the Gyeonggi area alone is difficult to overwhelm the northwest army of the Fourteen Brothers, in addition to the elite main force of the Eight Banners Army distributed near Gyeonggi, as well as the garrison forces of the capital such as the Fengtai Camp, there are more than 20,000 troops of the same age in the city, which are the elite of the elite, well-equipped, and extremely strong, which must also be insurmountable to the Fourteen Brothers.
Finally, it should not be forgotten that brother Fourteen himself went to the northwest, but his family was still in Beijing.
Therefore, at that time, the FourteenTh Brother Yinyu did not dare and would not use the way of rebellion to oppose Yongzheng and compete for the throne, even if it was really a rebellion, it was doomed to be difficult to succeed, whether it was Kangxi or Yongzheng, as well as the FourteenTh Brother Yinyu himself, they all knew it. Therefore, after Yongzheng ascended the throne, he immediately recalled the fourteen elder brothers Yinyu, and Yinyu did not make any resistance, directly returned to Beijing, and then Yongzheng seized the military power, and was assigned to guard the imperial mausoleum, thus beginning his thirteen years of decline throughout the Yongzheng Dynasty, until Yongzheng died, and the Qianlong Emperor was able to regain his freedom after he ascended the throne.