In the "Yongzheng Dynasty", when the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, became the final winner of the nine sons and sat on the throne of God, it was the third son of the emperor Yin Zhi who was the first to kneel down to the Yongzheng Emperor, which was of great significance, which meant that the eldest of the Kangxi Emperor's sons (the eldest son of the emperor who was trapped and the second son of the emperor were not counted) took the lead in recognizing the Yongzheng Emperor, and made no small contribution to the Yongzheng Emperor's control of the situation at that time, and with the submission of Yin Zhi, the princes at the bottom also expressed their submission.
Based on this, Yin Zhi received a gift of "no kneeling before the imperial court" and got a good death, but this is only Yin Zhi in the "Yongzheng Dynasty", in fact, the historical Yin Zhi did not get any good ending, his ending was really not good, the Yongzheng Emperor took the throne, he shot at this brother, did not care about any family affection.
In the final analysis, the so-called brotherhood and brotherhood basically do not exist in the royal family, once contaminated with power, it is basically impossible to retreat from the whole body, even if it does not touch that position, it is difficult to retreat from the whole body in terms of its identity alone.
Among the nine sons, the third son of the emperor, Yin Zhi, is relatively the most virtuous existence, he has always been low-key, but because of the identity of the third son of the emperor, many things cannot bypass him, such as the nine sons of the concubine, Yin Zhi, who has no intention of the position of prince, is involved, and can no longer stay out of the matter.
As far as the 24 princes who grew up in Kangxi, Yin Zhi ranked third, always known as the third son of the emperor, and above him there was kangxi's eldest son, that is, the emperor's eldest son Yin Chan, followed by Kangxi's eldest son, that is, the emperor's second son Yin. When Yin Rong was two years old, he was made crown prince by the Kangxi Emperor, which was enough to see Kangxi's love and respect for this son.
After that, Kangxi began to cultivate this future successor, and under Kangxi's cultivation, Yin Rong was indeed excellent in all aspects, completely in line with the behavior of a qualified crown prince.
Then, when Yin Rong was thirty-five years old, the father and son inevitably had a very deep contradiction, although this contradiction was caused by outsiders, it was not necessarily a contradiction between the two people, that is, Kangxi was at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the crown prince Yin Rong was rich and powerful, and such contradictions in history caused tragedies abounded, and naturally they were not much better here.
In the matter of the execution of Soetu, Yin Rong seems to have a great change of temperament, and his various unusual performances make Kangxi very dissatisfied, Kangxi believes that Yin Rong is infected with a mad disease and is controlled by ghosts, and then he gives Yin Rong to ruin.
The abolition of the crown prince this time is a major event in the history of the Qing Dynasty, originally the emperor's eldest son Yin Zhen was not convinced of Yin Rong as the crown prince, so he proposed that the eighth son of the emperor Yin Yu be the crown prince, and other princes also entered the scene, so everyone began to focus on the position of prince in the open and secret, and there was the famous nine sons who took the concubine.
The third son of the Emperor, Yin Zhi, who originally had no interest in the position of prince, was also involved, and the reason why he came in was because he had always had a good relationship with Yin Rong, so he stood up on the matter of Yin Rong's abolition and helped Yin Rong find the black hand behind the scenes, it turned out to be the emperor's eldest son Yin Zhen privately the prince of Weizhen, he told the Kangxi Emperor about this matter, and the Kangxi Emperor also chose to re-establish Yin Rong as the prince after the investigation was clear.
Although Yin Rong became the crown prince again, many things have changed, the distrust between the emperor and the prince, and the struggle between the prince and the prince are intensifying, so Yin Rong was deposed again soon after he was restored as the prince, and it is interesting that this time Yin Rong was deposed, and it seems that no one has stood up to speak for the prince anymore.
Everyone saw very clearly that they really had no connection with that position, and the princes began to do everything in their power to compete for the position of prince. At the beginning, after Yin Rong was first deposed, in addition to Yin Rong standing up to find out the truth, there was also Yin Rong who stood up and said good things for Yin Rong. In a sense, Yin Zhi and Yin Chan's performance in the Nine Sons and Concubines is very similar.
Both of them showed little interest in the position of crown prince, both had great kindness to Yin, were very low-key, and both were pandering to the Kangxi Emperor. But Yin Chan was more about accumulating strength, and Yin Chan was really not interested in that position, but this kind of disinterest seemed to Yin Chan to be the same as his purpose.
After being encircled with Yin Rong, there were no concubines among the sons of the Kangxi Emperor to be princes, so if the sons were ranked by age, Yin Zhi was the most qualified to be the prince, and his ability was very much in line with the position of prince, so even if the Ninth Son was later divided into two camps, namely the Fourth Master Party and the Eight Ye Party, and Yin Zhi stayed out of the matter, Yin Zhi never ignored Yin Zhi, and he always felt that Yin Zhi was a huge obstacle to him.
Yin Zhi was also highly regarded by the Kangxi Emperor at that time, but in addition to completing his own work, his favorite thing to do was not to fight with the princes, but to be obsessed with compiling books, and when everyone was in full swing, Yin Zhi presided over the compilation of two works, "The Origin of the Law Calendar" and "Ancient and Modern Book Integration", and for this reason, Yin Zhi was called a scientist.
In terms of all aspects of knowledge, Yin Zhi was one of the most outstanding sons of the Kangxi Emperor, and for this reason, Yin Chan always regarded Yin Zhi as a political enemy.
Even if Yin Zhi no longer participated in the dispute after Yin Rong was deposed for the second time, it did not mean that others could allow him to stay out of it, after all, his identity as the third son of the emperor was there, the eldest and the second eldest were trapped, he was the biggest one, such a person chose to stay out of it, and it was impossible for anyone to believe that he did not have the slightest ambition.
In Yin Chan's view, as long as he did not stand on his side and support him, it was to fight against him, and the other party was still such an excellent brother, naturally even more different, so after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, although Yin Zhi did not oppose him or make enemies with him, he was still arranged by him to guard the tomb for Kangxi, which was the beginning of the Yin Zhi disaster.
A year later, his eldest son, Hongsheng, was stripped of his position as the son of the world. After another four years, Yin Zhi asked Su Keji for a bribe, and the defendant arrived in front of Yongzheng, where he was stripped of his title and imprisoned in his own palace, while his son Hongsheng was imprisoned by the Zongren Mansion. He was later made a prince.
However, two years later, in 1730, this year Yin Xiang died, and the Yongzheng Emperor was deeply sad, and Yin Zhi was late to Yin Xiang's funeral and had no sorrow at the funeral, and then was once again stripped of his title by the Yongzheng Emperor and imprisoned in the Yong'an Pavilion in Jingshan, until his death in 1732, there was no freedom in between.
It can be said that after Kangxi's death, Yin Zhi no longer had a free body, either in the tomb, or confined in his home, or imprisoned in the Yong'an Pavilion, and these things that happened to Yin Zhi, Yong Zheng could find a reason to punish him every time, Yin Zhi could only complain, and nothing else could be done.
After all, his other younger brothers were not much better, and Yongzheng was indeed very weak and widowed at this point, but it was precisely because of this lack of affection and widowhood that the Yongzheng Emperor did not have civil unrest in the past, causing any turmoil.