Prior to this, what the Fourteen Elder Brothers yinyu had done in front of Kangxi had only left Kangxi with the impression of being honest and reckless.
This is especially evident in the plot of "Hundred Officials Recommending the New Prince".
Kangxi and Tong Guowei sang a "double reed", with Long Keduo as a pawn, staged a "bitter meat plan", not only to find out the layout of the eight brothers' power in the dprk, but also to give him a heavy criticism and reprimand in public, so that his face was gone. It can be said that Kangxi's blow to the Eight Brothers was quite heavy, and could even be described as fatal, and this also corresponds to the sentence, "If you want to let it perish, you must first make it crazy", and when almost all the officials of the Manchu Dynasty voted for the Eight Brothers, it also marked that the Eight Brothers finally had to be hated by Kangxi.
It can be said that at this time, Kangxi had already expressed his intention very clearly by deposing Tong Guowei, reprimanding the Eight Brothers Yin, punishing Ma Qi, and praising and praising Yongzheng, the Thirteenth Brother Yinxiang, and Zhang Tingyu, that is, he was determined to restore Yin Rong as crown prince, and would never consider Yin Yu's succession.
However, even under the circumstance that such an ending had been decided, the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu dared to stand up for the Eight Brothers Yinyu.
In front of all the princes and courtiers, the Fourteenth Brother first called Yinrong the "Prince of Kaiqi", and at the same time humiliated Yongzheng and the Thirteenth Brother Yinxiang as the "dog" of the Crown Prince Yinrong, and then fought with Yinxiang, and the fight was inseparable, until Kangxi arrived, he refused to give up, and finally was forced apart by Zhang Wuge and Tu Lichen and others.
However, even so, the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu still kept on his mouth, on the one hand continued to humiliate the crown prince Yinrong and the thirteenth Brother Yinxiang, on the other hand also expressed great dissatisfaction with Kangxi's approach, which can be described as a big fuss, which made Kangxi attack his heart for a while, and almost killed him, kangxi finally did not come up with a breath and fainted.
And when Kangxi woke up, he looked at Yin Yu, who had been tied up by Concubine De at this time, and for such a son, Kangxi could be said to love and hate.
He said "love" him because the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu, whether he openly recommended the Eight Brothers Yinyu or cried out for the Eight Brothers outside the Qianqing Gate, even did not hesitate to provoke Kangxi, and these were the "truths" of the Fourteen Brothers, although this would cause Kangxi to be displeased, but at least it was an act of being upright and daring to put it in front of people, which was always more worthy of Kangxi's admiration than the conspiracy and trickery of the Eight Brothers. Moreover, kangxi had already given Zhang Wuge a "big face" because of his "telling the truth", and now he could not be too harsh on Yin Yu.
He said "hate" him because the Fourteenth Brother was indeed too politically minded, and he did not think what Kangxi thought, and when Kangxi had just stabilized the situation, he once again put the crown prince Yinrong on the fire and roasted it, which Kangxi did not want to see very much, and this was also completely against Kangxi, or even "fighting in the ring".
Therefore, Kangxi's evaluation of the fourteen brothers was also stereotyped, the courage to tell the truth and the recklessness of recklessness, so Kangxi placed it in the military department and concentrated on training troops to resist the enemy, after all, such a character is still better to deal with the enemy, than to treat his own people.
However, what Kangxi did not expect was that a letter from the FourteenTh Brother Yinyu put Kangxi in a dilemma.
Kangxi restored Yin Rong's position as crown prince, so he took Zhang Tingyu and others on a tour of the south, and arranged for Yin Rong to supervise the country, but Yin Rong's performance was greatly disappointing.
He first used a vengeful mentality and method to severely and harshly punish the courtiers who had previously supported the Eighth Brother Yin, and even yongzheng and the thirteenth brother who supported the prince were not spared, and they were also reprimanded by Yin. After this, he was even more desperate, colluding with Ren Bo'an, who had already been deposed, in an attempt to use the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" to blackmail the officials of the DPRK and China in order to maintain his position, but in the end, due to the obstruction of Yongzheng and the thirteenth brother Yinxiang, the prince did not succeed.
Just when the crown prince was constantly attacking for the sake of his own position, the eighth brother Yin Yu also wanted to take the opportunity to move back to the situation, and then to overthrow the prince Yin Rong again, and Yin Yu and others also waited for such an opportunity, that is, by buying Gao Fu, a servant of the Yongzheng family, they obtained a handwritten letter written by Prince Yin Rong to Ren Bo'an.
After consulting with Yin Yu and others, it was decided that the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu would send the letter to Kangxi in the name of the head of the military department, Brother Ah, and at the same time let the Fourteenth Brother not write a word, but only submit the letter.
However, in this way, a huge problem was handed over to Kangxi.
First of all, this is an important evidence that Prince Yinrong colluded with Ren Bo'an in an attempt to seize the hundred officials' deeds in order to blackmail hundred officials, and Prince Yinrong's crime can also be confirmed, but at this time, Kangxi still has lingering feelings about the previous "false hand instruction" incident in Rehe, and he does not understand the truth or falsity of this matter, the degree of Prince Yinrong's participation, and the whole incident, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of Kangxi's decision-making.
Secondly, if the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu put this letter together with his own opinions and propositions, or even the impeachment of the crown prince, then Kangxi could still press the matter according to the fact that the prince and the Eight Ye Party had a festival, or waited for the investigation to be clear. Now the FourteenTh Brother is equivalent to generaling Kangxi's army, which means to see whether Kangxi has taken a stand on this matter, because as long as he expresses his position, it shows Kangxi's acquiescence to the prince's crimes, and the crown prince will once again usher in the end.
Third, at this time, Kangxi did not know how many people, in addition to the members of the Eight Brothers Yinyu and other members of the Eight Masters Party, knew about the existence of this letter, nor did they know whether everyone knew that the "Hundred Officials' Narrative" was related to Prince Yinrong, and once it was not handled well, it would still cause Kangxi to fall into a huge crisis of public opinion.
It can be said that the Fourteenth Brother Yinyu used such a way to "blackmail" Kangxi to a certain extent, forcing Kangxi to make a series of actions that were unfavorable to Yinrong, which was in stark contrast to the previous Gengzhi and recklessness of Yinrong, so Kangxi would have the feeling that "Yinyu also learned to move his mind", which is not a praise-style praise, but more of a disappointment and complaint.
At this time, while Kangxi was evaluating the Fourteen Brothers Yinyu, he was also increasingly resentful of the Eight Brothers Yinyu.
When Kangxi received this recital of only Yin's handwritten letters, his first reaction was that the matter must be closely related to the Eight Brothers Yinyu.
On the one hand, out of Kangxi's understanding and understanding of Yin Yu, the Fourteen Elder Brothers Yin Yu, who did not care about Kangxi's emotions and thoughts outside the Qianqing Gate, and who made a big fuss and made a big fight, were people who had a straight talk, and they would certainly not leave only a letter and not say a word, but even more in the name of the letters of the military department to cover up and cover up. These things can't be done by Yin Yu, but not necessarily by The Eight Brothers Yin Yu.
On the other hand, Kangxi thought of the previous behavior of Yin Yu, in order to force Yin Rong to fall, even at the expense of using kangxi's name to lure Xiao Guoxing, and even force Kangxi to force him to make a decision by such a despicable means, only a person like Yin Yu could do it. Moreover, the relationship between Yin Yu and Yin Yu and others is already a well-known thing.
Therefore, instead of saying that Kangxi is saying that "Yin Yu learns to use his mind", it is better to say that Yin Yu still has not learned the previous lessons, and still wants to use the conspiracy and trickery behind his back to mutilate Yin Rong, which also makes Kangxi even more disgusted with him.
And the final plot development also proves this, the behavior of the Eight Brothers Yin Yu is undoubtedly "lifting a stone to drop his own feet", although the prince Yin Rong was prepared to commit a rebellion because of the stimulation of Kangxi's reply, and was eventually suppressed, and the second and last time he was deposed as the prince, but Yin Yu's position in Kangxi's heart also fell to the bottom, and finally only fell into Kangxi's extremely negative evaluation:
"The Eight Brothers learned everywhere, but they did not learn everywhere, and he ruled the country with generosity, and he bought people's hearts with generosity; he was already too indulgent, and he was even more indulgent than Yuan. Even if his leniency were true, it would only destroy the country and mountains of the patriarchs due to indulgence. ”
And he himself was defeated in the "Nine Sons and Concubines" and could not get on the throne, at the same time, the deepening of his contradictions with the FourteenTh Brother Yinyu also affected the overall strength of the Eight Ye Party group, and finally made Yongzheng's smooth succession to the throne the final winner.