In ancient society, the imperial throne was adopted as a hereditary system, which basically means that if there is no accident, the emperor will pass the throne to his son. Moreover, when the emperor reigned, the heirs would be determined early, and the eldest son was generally made the crown prince.
However, everyone wants to be an emperor, except for the eldest son, other princes want to be emperors, so naturally they cannot avoid the struggle for the throne. During the reign of Kangxi, there was a dispute between the nine kings and the concubines. In the end, it ended with the victory of the fourth prince Yongzheng, and among these people, why did the old third YinZhi not participate in the battle for the concubine, but was still put under house arrest by the Yongzheng Emperor?
The cause of the Dispute Between the Nine Kings
Let's first look at the cause of the whole incident, in fact, Kangxi made him crown prince when the second prince was two years old, because his mother was Empress Xiaochengren of the Hesheli clan. You must know that there are people behind herschel, that is, soeto and other important ministers.
Due to his mother's reasons, Kangxi and many ministers were very supportive of the second prince, and it was reasonable to say that the other princes should be out of the game. But the bad is bad in the brains of these two princes, and he who has the advantage is full of loopholes in dealing with people.
When the eighteenth prince was seriously ill, Kangxi was anxious, and here he saw that the eighteenth prince was almost dead, but the second prince was hanging high without caring about himself. This allowed the grand prince to seize the opportunity and severely criticize the second prince in front of Kangxi.
Because according to the system of concubines, the eldest prince could have been a prince, but he was taken away by the second eldest, so the grand prince has always held a grudge. In a fit of rage, Kangxi revoked the position of crown prince of the second prince, which awakened the hearts of those princes who wanted to be princes.
At this time, the princes were mainly divided into four parties, the first was the second prince's party, and there were four brothers and thirteen brothers who supported him. The second was the Grand Prince's party, but there was no prince to support him, but like the second prince, there were several important courtiers standing behind him.
The third is the Eight Brothers party, which is supported by the Nine Brothers, the Tenth Brothers and the Fourteen Brothers. The fourth was the Three Brothers, who had neither a prince nor a major subject behind him, but only some civilian officials.
The history of the Battle of the Nine Kings
After dividing into four parties, everyone opened up and relied on their own abilities. At the beginning, the first was the struggle between the Grand Prince's Party and the Second Prince's Party, although the Second Prince was removed from the position of Prince by Kangxi, but the Third Prince stood up, mobilized the power of the Wenchen, and helped the Second Prince back to the crown prince's throne.
At this time, the third prince Yin Zhi did not show his desire to take the concubine, because Kangxi had given him a task at that time, that is, to let him assist the crown prince. It can be said that Kangxi cultivated Yin Zhi as an auxiliary prince, but Yin Zhi was an ambitious person, but he did not express it for the time being.
Yin Zhi wasted some effort to let the second prince return to his original position, but the second prince himself died, and was deposed by Kangxi, and the second prince could not get up at all. Yin Zhi saw that the second prince had returned to heaven and was powerless, so he withdrew from the dispute to seize the concubine.
After the second prince returned to the position of prince, the eldest prince had already been squeezed down by Yin Zhi by means, but this matter was rarely known. At this time, the eldest prince and the second prince both collapsed, leaving only the four princes and the eighth prince to fight.
As a result, the eighth prince did not fight the fourth prince, but he did not give up the conquest, but pushed out the fourteen princes in his camp and continued to fight with the four princes, and it was their original team that supported the fourteen princes.
Speaking of which, we must mention the relationship between the four princes and the fourteen princes. That is, the two were born to a mother. Only because the four princes stayed with another queen in the early years, the two brothers did not live together, so that at this moment, fratricide occurred.
However, the fourth prince was a scheming man in the end, and he privately co-opted the thirteen brothers, and then assigned longkodo and Nian Qianyao's heavy soldiers to his camp, which made his chips more and more numerous.
When Kangxi died of illness, the fourteenth prince happened to be on a mission in the field, and Long Keduo announced the holy will, saying that kangxi had established the fourth prince as emperor, and Yongzheng soared into the sky, and even the prince did not directly become emperor.
Yongzheng ascended to the throne and eliminated hidden dangers
As soon as Yongzheng ascended to the throne, the first thing he did, of course, was to strike at the princes who had once taken wives with him one by one. The first to bear the brunt were the Eighth Prince and the Fourteenth Prince, although the Fourteenth Prince was his own brother, but Yongzheng did not have the slightest mercy and put them under house arrest.
Then there are the nine brothers and ten brothers who have supported the eight brothers, who are also under house arrest. The next thing is the second prince, and Yongzheng basically did not use any measures against him, because the IQ of the second prince could not become a climate. Not to mention the great prince, who had long since fallen.
At a glance, all that was left was the Three Brothers. However, there is a thorny problem that Yin Zhi has a particularly good attitude toward Yongzheng, and on the day of Yongzheng's ascension to the throne, Yin Zhi led the ministers to submit to Yongzheng and was very sincere.
But Yin Zhi had a good attitude, and Yong Zheng knew what he had done before. At the beginning of the grand prince and the second prince's conquest, Yongzheng initially supported the second prince, and Yin Zhi was personally sent by Kangxi to assist the second prince, and the two naturally had a period of intersection.
When the second prince was stripped of his position as crown prince for the first time, YongZheng knew how Yin Zhi had turned the tide and lifted the second prince up again. Asking himself, Yongzheng knew that at that time, he did not have the appeal and means of Yin Zhi.
Moreover, how the great prince collapsed was the hand and foot of Yin Zhi, who said a little about the great prince in front of Kangxi, and this matter was kangxi's most taboo thing, that is, the great prince formed a party for personal gain.
In fact, at that time, as long as it was a prince who took a concubine, he would do it, because it was beyond reproach to strengthen his own power. Then Yin Zhi made a big fuss through his own ability, and used facts to prove that Kangxi was furious and directly deposed the Grand Prince.
These things prove that Yin Zhi has one of the most special abilities, that is, he can accurately grasp Kangxi's psychology. This was also the place where Yongzheng was most afraid of Yin Zhi, and he could even figure out the emperor's thoughts, which was not a hand for others.
Yongzheng began to think of Yin Zhi and wanted to find a reason to get rid of him. Within a few years, Yongzheng found a suitable method, that is, Yongzheng established a new policy, that is, to crack down on cultural people.
And Yin Zhi has always been the representative of the literati, and no one dares to evaluate the newly established policies of the newly appointed emperor, and moreover, Yongzheng did this to fill the loopholes left by the Kangxi Emperor, which is also a good thing.
In this way, Yin Zhi became a victim of the New Deal. Yongzheng did not embarrass him, but disbanded his group and then put him under house arrest alone in Jingshan Yong'an Pavilion.